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Submission + - Declassified Files Ignite New Scrutiny of Fauci, COVID Origins and CIA Coverup (legalinsurrection.com)

An anonymous reader writes: A little over a week ago, outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released new evidence of long-standing U.S. government funding of more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries (including Ukraine).

Gabbard's release of information related to biological research funded by the U.S. government continued this Friday, after she declassified a cache of documents outlining Dr. Anthony Fauci’s involvement in the COVID-19 response, including records indicating that federal officials shielded him from a whistleblower complaint alleging he misled Congress about “gain-of-function” work after publicly advancing a natural-origin theory for a pandemic that ultimately claimed millions of lives.

The documents and whistleblower testimony appear to show that Fauci influenced intelligence assessments on COVID-19 origins, denied such involvement under oath in 2024, and benefited from close ties to the intelligence community that limited scrutiny. They further claim a pattern of retaliation against dissenting intelligence officials and suppression of alternative viewpoints regarding the virus’s origins.

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements pic.twitter.com/ZMdliW4zyS

- DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) June 19, 2026

In her announcement, Gabbard broke down Fauci's actions related to COVID-19 into three main areas:

First, Dr. Fauci funded dangerous gain-of-function coronavirus research linked to Big Pharma and their pursuit of universal vaccines. Worth trillions of dollars.

Second, Dr. Fauci was the behind-the-scenes advisor who, alongside his handpicked so-called experts, pushed the intelligence community to endorse a natural animal origin to hide his dangerous gain-of-function research that he funded using taxpayer dollars—all of this in a deliberate attempt to cover up the truth and shift the blame and attention away from Fauci's own actions.

Third, Dr. Fauci became the nation's pandemic pundit and he publicly pushed lies and disinformation and censorship using every platform available.


Comment Questions for KC officials ... (Score 2) 37

What is the "Function Creep" policy? How does the city guarantee that the technology will not be used for purposes other than its stated intent (e.g., used for tracking political protesters, immigration enforcement, monitoring homeless populations, or general surveillance) in the future?

What are the performance benchmarks? Has the technology been tested for accuracy across different demographics (race, sex, age)? Can the city provide third-party, independent audit results showing the error rates of the software?

What is the escalation protocol? If the system provides a "match," what is the mandatory human review process before any law enforcement action is taken? Who is held accountable if the system produces a false positive that leads to a wrongful interaction?

What is the automated deletion policy? For data where no match is found, is there an automated, instantaneous deletion process? Or is that data stored, even briefly, in a "temp" file that could be accessed or subpoenaed?

What is the retention period? If data is kept for a period after a "no match," what is the specific retention period, and where is the policy document that outlines this?

How is the data "purged"? When data reaches the end of its retention period, is it cryptographically erased, or is it merely archived in a way that could still be recovered?

Who owns the data? Is the data owned by the city or the third-party software vendor? Does the contract grant the vendor the right to use the footage to "train" their AI models or improve their algorithms?

What is the data-sharing policy? Is there a database "interoperability" requirement? Does this system automatically share data with federal agencies (like the FBI or DHS), other state agencies, or private organizations? If so, what oversight do local officials have over those agencies' use of this data?

Are there non-disclosure agreements? Are there any clauses in the city's contract with the vendor that prevent the city from disclosing how the technology works, its error rates, or its limitations to the public?

Where is the public-facing policy manual? Is there a comprehensive, publicly available "Surveillance Impact Report" or "Privacy Impact Assessment" that was conducted before the contract was signed?

What is the community oversight mechanism? Will there be an independent civilian oversight board with the power to subpoena records or shut down the use of the technology if it is found to be used improperly?

Submission + - Paper: Being Out Of Shape Is Far More Likely To Kill You Than Smoking (studyfinds.com)

schwit1 writes: In a Nutshell
  • Very low cardiovascular fitness is associated with a roughly 400% higher risk of death than high fitness levels, dwarfing the mortality risk linked to smoking.
  • Current US and UK physical activity guidelines are built around minimum thresholds, not optimal health outcomes, and a Cambridge researcher argues they need a full overhaul.
  • Protein recommendations in the UK haven't been updated since 1991 and were never designed to help people thrive, only to prevent deficiency.
  • Higher protein intake is linked to better muscle mass, healthier aging, improved fat loss, and potentially better pregnancy outcomes, but current guidelines fall well short of what the science supports.

Comment Re:taxing unrealized gains is problematic (Score 1) 286

Pretty easy to put lower limits on that sort of thing or even exclude a primary residence

The Florida property tax headline-grabbing concept of No More Property Taxes!** ultimately got reduced to an **only-the-first-$250K footnote on the back page of a voting ballot scheduled four months from now.

Florida will now wait and see if even that bullshit footnote, passes a supermajority vote to become more than just political fodder.

And this is in a solvent State infamous for no State tax due to their local lottery earnings. Which the (now-legal) $200 billion dollar “speculative” scratch-off market in a country that illogically still keeps bookies in Federal prison, confirms those revenue gains.

Turns out it’s actually not “pretty easy”.

Comment Re:We need a max wealth cap in America. (Score 1) 286

Once you hit 10 billion dollars, the government sends you a gold dollar plaque all future wealth over 10bn at 100%..We'll throw in a "You won the American Dream" flag plaque.

(Joe Sixpack) "Shiiiit, if I had ten billion dollars I KNOW I would have WON me dat 'Murican Dream!"

* cracks beer *

(Cleetus) "Hey man. Yer Tindurr dinged. She said you're still only a 6 because 'eleven billion, loser.'"

Comment Re:Lack of fiscal faith (Score 1) 186

You don't have objections to the government straight up confiscating 50% of a corporation? Really? You ok when they come and take 50% of your company?

You OK when AI technologies take 50% of human jobs, along with the mass chaos, violence, and death that instability will bring upon a society controlled by governments we already know won't react fast enough to prevent or even control that harm?

Bigger picture, is a LOT bigger than your semi-valid excuse. Understand that. This isn't taxing a corporation. This is forcing those who should be funding UBI, to actually fund the fucking thing.

Comment Re:Wait a minute (Score -1, Troll) 67

See the thing to remember is those people is that what they accuse the other side of doing, just blind ideology.

It's just a variation of the Goebbel's playbook, which the Trump administration loves to follow - "accuse the other side of the thing you yourself are guilty of".

- Try to rig the upcoming election while yelling loudly about how the other party consistenly cheats - and without evidence, of course.

No evidence, you claim? The entire fucking country of India, would like to have a word with LA county regarding how to count votes effectively. Lear anything yet about evidence, or do I need to say the words “California healthcare audit” again?

Tell you what. Let’s put 100 liberals against 100 conservatives in political debate. There’s only one rule. When any participant is caught lying or dismissing blatant fact, the moderator gets to punch them in the face.

First topics up for debate will be addressing why only Democrats assume minorities are too stupid/incapable to obtain ID cards to vote in Federal elections, but for everything else in society they’re mandatory and defended. Then we’ll move on to auditing the shit out of healthcare programs funded by taxpayers. Not even libtarded girl math will help dismiss the look of a lying Democrats face after that. And the battered faces in debate will be the receipts.

The media lets Republicans act like children? Should I schedule a quick media event with former President Dementia so the media can ask about fucking ice cream flavors, or should they ask Vice President Word Salad instead to cackle out another 74 reasons to schedule Democrat Punchfest SummerSlam, sponsored by Mike Tyson? See what I mean about libtards being fucking delusional and hypocrites? Ain’t no way you’re gonna factually claim the liberal leftist-dominated MSM lets conservatives “get away” with shit. The only time they let off the lie pedal is when a legal court order forces them to. (You know, like when The View is forced to read a legal apology on air again, to avoid being sued and/or fired.) The mainstream media, is literally how President Autopen and Vice President Didn’t Earn It, got elected. But don’t ask me to prove that. Ask their ratings instead.

Are Republicans innocent? Not hardly. They’re just not nearly as brain dead when it comes to acting like the true child in the room. Adults, sit down and debate. Children run off and refuse to, while playing victim Olympics. When liberal Democrats can start actively debating conservatives on issues that actually affect the majority, THEN they can make claims about integrity and election fraud.

Heres a simple fact. Raising the voting age in America, would only affect one political party. But it would benefit an entire Nation. Now go ahead and tell me why America should lower the voting age. Because that’s almost assuredly the Democrat play, since America isn’t dumb enough to elect an Open Border Czar again so lying libtards can try and win elections, and there isn’t quite enough homeless votes for Democrats to buy.

And by the way, it’s not Republicans being against climate change. It’s being against corrupt Democrats grifting taxpayers for that problem, while doing NOTHING to fix it. Count the number of homeless taken off California streets and high speed rails operating for evidence. We KNOW how Democrats will fund climate change. It’s becoming obvious with every audit long past due.

Comment Data mining; the failsafe business model. (Score 1) 25

The money runs out or they get lucky and trip over an actual business model.

It's not hard to 'trip' over a business model in the 21st Century when your business involves harvesting the shit out of human data.

From sonic-based imaging helping detect cancerous tumors to military use involving next-gen 'brown sound' weapons. There's always a buyer for a data whore.

Comment Re:taxing unrealized gains is problematic (Score 3, Insightful) 286

They have no problem taking out loans on unrealized assets so if they are worth it to the banks, they can pay taxes on them.

Be careful of this kind of rhetoric.

Billionaire trickle-down-fuck-YOU-pay-for-it-pleb economics will ensure retired homeowners on a fixed income end up losing their homes, because tax the shit out of those 'urealized gains' called home equity..

Submission + - Meta lobbies Congress for protection from child-harm lawsuits (aol.com)

schwit1 writes: Meta Platforms has lobbied the U.S. Congress for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to social media products such as Instagram, as it faces thousands of lawsuits from young users and their families, according to a source familiar with the matter and proposed legislative language reviewed by Reuters.

If adopted by lawmakers and passed into law as part of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) under consideration in the U.S. Senate, such a provision could undermine thousands of lawsuits against Meta and other online platforms over harms to children. Meta and Google's YouTube face a combined $6 million in damages after they lost the first case at trial early this year.

While legislators have given no indication of adopting the language, the lobbying effort shows the kind of legal protections Meta is seeking amid the biggest attempt to regulate online platforms in the U.S. since the 1990s.

Submission + - We Could Have Had Cell Phones 40 Years Sooner (rodmartin.org) 2

schwit1 writes: The holdup was not technology, but government. What else do we not have because of Washington?

The basic idea of the cellphone was introduced to the public in 1945 – not in Popular Mechanics or Science, but in the down-home Saturday Evening Post. Millions of citizens would soon be using "handie-talkies," declared J.K. Jett, the head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Licenses would have to be issued, but that process "won't be difficult." The revolutionary technology, Jett promised in the story, would be formulated within months.

But permission to deploy it would not. The government would not allocate spectrum to realize the engineers' vision of "cellular radio" until 1982, and licenses authorizing the service would not be fully distributed for another seven years. That's one heck of a bureaucratic delay.

Comment How failure, becomes predictably human. (Score 1) 219

Congressional Insider Trading, is now a fucking job perk. Instead of Common F. Sense realizing how horrifically harmful that can be to the key market in US Capitalism and condemning it immediately it was defended, and is now unofficially known as Pelosis Law.

Gambling, a known and recognized concept that can easily create horrific addiction, got re-branded into "speculative markets". Which grew into a massive industry now in business with professional sports. Instead of Common F. Sense remembering why bookies are still rotting away in Federal prisons, we'll end up trading Robux as a fucking fiat currency because GenBet suddenly needs a re-defined retirement plan.

OnlyFans took prostituting oneself to the next level, normalizing amateur porn as some kind of logical career stepping stone for 17-year old social media hottie attention whores turning actual whores. Instead of Common F. Sense remembering the many reasons the worlds oldest profession never really went mainstream, 21st Century liberalism re-branded it into "modern" feminism which demanded All D. Accountability be sacrificed by a divorce court firing squad in the endless pursuit of Oprah-approved hypergamy happiness, making Fathers rare creatures. With disastrous results.

This might be how the world assumes it "works", but much like girl math it often doesn't add up. This is how stock market crashes happen. Again. This is how Recessions happen. Again.

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