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Darktrace and Cybereason: The intelligence front companies seeking to subjugate the world with the AI singularity

Johnny Vedmore
Unlimited Hangout
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 06:41 UTC
darktrace
We have all been dreaming, a dream where you can float or glide across your dreamscape effortlessly. This leads to the feeling of trepidation, as though you have the ability to let go, and if you do let go, you'll either soar or fall.

We're now at a point in history where either the coming events will be studied for thousands of years, or it will be remembered as the point where we lost our humanity completely. Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) technology has entered a new phase over the past several years, where instead of the A.I. algorithms learning from humans, they are now teaching themselves, changing their own algorithms as they learn. We are on the cusp of letting go of control entirely, so early on, because of a few small companies who have quietly been given free reign under the guise of "protecting" our digital lives, all within a tech sector that is moving so fast that we can no longer see what's just around the bend.

The entire free thinking population of Earth would love a little more time to discuss such epochal change. However, the technocrats and scientists, supported by venture capitalists, are already putting into action the future before the masses have a chance to even consider discussing its consequences. With very little legislation governing A.I. technologies on the books, our governments are eager to get every tech pioneer inventing whilst there is no accountability for any resulting harm. We're not talking major societal disruption, we're talking about a potential extinction level event of our own creation. Where we should be taking cautious baby steps, instead we're expecting to fly just by letting go.

Comment: See also: Meet Cybereason: The Israeli intelligence cyber-security front company that has been "simulating" the cancellation of the 2020 election

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Hospitals and ICUs NORMAL, Leaked NHS Data Show

Will Jones
Lockdown Sceptics
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 23:49 UTC
Witless and Unbalanced
Witless and Unbalanced defend their Graphs of Doom to MPs
In the midst of the clamour for a new lockdown with frantic warnings of the NHS being overrun and MPs voting later today, a bombshell dropped last night: leaked NHS documents that show hospital and ICU occupancy are normal for the time of year. The Telegraph has the details.
Hospital intensive care is no busier than normal for the majority of trusts, leaked documents show, raising more questions about whether a national lockdown is justifiable.

An update from the NHS Secondary Uses Services (SUS) seen by the Telegraph shows that capacity is tracking as normal in October with the usual numbers of beds available that would be expected at this time of year - even without extra surge capacity.

An NHS source said: "As you can see, our current position in October is exactly where we have been over the last five years."

The new data shows that even in the peak in April, critical care beds were never more than 80% full.

Although there has been a reduction in surge capacity since the first wave, with the closure of the emergency Nightingale Hospitals, there is still 15% spare capacity across the country - which is fairly normal for this time of year.

The documents show there were 9,138 patients in hospital in England as of 8am on November 2nd, although had since fallen to 9,077.

It means COVID-19 patients are accounting for around 10% of general and acute beds in hospitals. But there are still more than 13,000 beds available.

In critical care, around 18% of beds are still unoccupied, although it varies between regions.

But even in the worst affected areas such as North West, only 92.9% of critical care beds are currently occupied.
How welcome - finally - to have this information in the public domain, and just in time for MPs to vote (not that it is likely to make much difference with Labour pledged to support the lockdown and few Tories looking like rebelling). But why did it have to be leaked? Why is this crucial data not routinely made public? Why have all requests to release it from journalists and researchers been turned down or pointed towards making an FOI request (which takes weeks)?
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Video suggests they're invalidating Trump votes in Arizona through very simple means, AZ Secretary of State corrects record

Brandon Morse
RedState
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 09:30 UTC
Ballots rejected/accepted
© AP Photo/Lynne Sladky
According to Fox10, Arizona's Secretary of State has made it clear that ballots marked with Sharpie pens will be counted and that ballots are purposefully offset so that the ink doesn't bleed through and interfere with other ballots:

Not many can believe that Arizona went blue and that something was odd. Indeed, something was odd. They were calling the state long before it had any right to be called over at Fox, but I digress.

It seems that there were some very odd things happening on the ground in Arizona and one video making the rounds on Twitter shows something that could be an attempt at voter suppression.

User "dowhatlightsyou" shows a video being filmed by a man talking to a woman. According to him, they were invalidating votes by handing out sharpie pens to people when ball-point pens are the only valid way of filling out a ballot. According to the woman, a man came out and yelled at her three times to stop handing out the ballpoint pens, allowing only sharpies to be used. The Twitter user also claimed that she, too, was handed a sharpie when she went to vote as well.

Comment: Arizona election officials claim that Sharpie use will not invalidate ballots. They will still be counted, even if they are not readable by the computers. But still, after hundreds of complaints, the Arizona AG is investigating whether or not any ballots filled in with Sharpies have been invalidated. Meanwhile:



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Best of the Web: Yes, Democrats are trying to steal the election in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania

John Daniel Davidson
The Federalist
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
election in michigan
In the three Midwest battleground states, vote counting irregularities persist in an election that will be decided on razor-thin margins.

As of this writing, it appears that Democratic Party machines in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania are trying to steal the election.

As reporters and commentators went to bed early Tuesday morning, all three states were too close to call, but President Trump led former Vice President Joe Biden by comfortable margins — far beyond what had been predicted in the polls. None of the networks called these states because enough mail-in ballots remained uncounted that it could swing either way, but Trump's position looked good.

Then, something strange happened in the dead of the night. In both Michigan and Wisconsin, vote dumps early Wednesday morning showed 100 percent of the votes going for Biden and zero percent — that's zero, so not even one vote — for Trump.

In Michigan, Biden somehow got 138,339 votes and Trump got none, zero, in an overnight vote-dump.


Comment: Trump is understandably calling all of Michigan's vote count into question by filing a lawsuit:
President Donald Trump's campaign says it has filed a lawsuit in the Michigan Court of Claims seeking a court order to halt the counting of ballots until it is given "meaningful access to numerous counting locations to observe the opening of ballots and the counting process."

In a statement published Wednesday, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien claimed the campaign "has not been provided with meaningful access to numerous counting locations to observe the opening of ballots and the counting process, as guaranteed by Michigan law."

"We have filed suit today in the Michigan Court of Claims to halt counting until meaningful access has been granted," Stepien said. "We also demand to review those ballots which were opened and counted while we did not have meaningful access."

The Associated Press reported that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden currently leads Trump in Michigan by 45,000 votes. Outstanding absentee and mail-in ballots are still being counted in the state.



Comment: And in Detroit TENS OF THOUSANDS OF BALLOTS were dropped off in USPS boxes at the Detroit Absentee Ballot Processing Center after 3:30 AM - after the election:
[...]

In news that will likely cast further doubt on the election results, tens of thousands of absentee ballots arrived in large U.S. Postal Service boxes at the TCF Center in Detroit, Mich. on Wednesday morning at 3:30 am. The TCF Center, formerly Cobo Hall, is ere the absentee ballots are counted for Wayne County, which is the home of Detroit.

Former Michigan state senator Patrick Colbeck wrote that the total number of ballots dumped on the counting board totaled 38,000:

Before the ballots showed up mysteriously at 3:30 am, no ballots had arrived at the TCF Center for over six hours, and many poll workers in the facility sat around with no work to do while getting paid hundreds of dollars by the state of Michigan.


According to Michigan election law, all of these mail-in and absentee ballots had to be submitted before 8pm on Tuesday night in order to be lawfully accepted and counted for the election. This means the city of Detroit potentially sat on these ballots for hours. The white van that arrived had the name of Detroit city clerk Janice Winfrey emblazoned upon it as well as a logo and a phone number. Last month, Winfrey set the stage to drag out the process in an interview with ABC 7 News.

"We're back in control, and we know that we will have nearly 10,000 poll workers that will be working with us to process ballots on election day, or election week is what we're calling it now, because we know we're going to be slow," she said, adding that she was not going to let "outside influencers" get in the way of her election day schemes.

That entire interview with Winfrey can be seen in its full context here:


The ballots were kept away when they could have otherwise been taken to the TCF Center in smaller, more manageable batches. Countless taxpayer dollars were wasted and many poll challengers were disenfranchised because delivery took so long. The ballots being in limbo for such a lengthy period of time also increases the potentiality for fraud as well.

[...]
In an attempt to sound victorious, Biden made the following statements today:
[...]

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says "it's clear that we're winning enough states to reach 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency."

Biden stopped short of claiming victory outright, but pointed out his margins in Wisconsin, Arizona, Michigan, the popular vote lead, and confidence about winning Pennsylvania based on the rate of mail-in ballots he's been winning.

Standing alongside his running mate Kamala Harris, who did not speak, Biden urged Americans to "unite, to heal, to come together as a nation" and not treat opponents as enemies.

Biden promised he would govern as a president for all Americans, not as a Democrat. However, his speech also contained a warning, presumably aimed at the Trump campaign's challenge to some of the voting results, that "No one's going to take our democracy away from us - not now, not ever."

[...]
But Trump is still fighting, and stated:
[...]

Claiming Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, Trump said his campaign had a "big" lead in all three. "Additionally, we hereby claim the State of Michigan if, in fact, there was a large number of secretly dumped ballots as has been widely reported!" he tweeted.

Twitter immediately slapped a warning label on the president's post, noting that "Official sources may not have called the race when this was tweeted."

The second tweet, about the "large number of secretly dumped ballots" also got flagged as "disputed and might be misleading."


Media outlets entrusted by social networks to make election calls have not yet called any of those states for either candidate, aside from Michigan which was declared for Biden moments prior to Trump's announcement.

In a press conference in Philadelphia, the president's campaign claimed to have evidence of widespread irregularities concerning the counting of mail-in ballots, millions of which have been cast in this election.

Republican observers said they were not allowed to attend the counting in several Democrat urban strongholds, thanks to whose votes Biden claimed lead in Michigan and Wisconsin.

"We're going to win this election! We've actually won it, it's just a matter of counting the votes fairly," said Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, speaking on behalf of the president's campaign in Philadelphia.

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The US inability to count votes is a national disgrace - and dangerous

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 21:46 UTC
mail voting
The richest and most powerful country on earth — whether due to ineptitude, choice or some combination of both — has no ability to perform the simple task of counting votes in a minimally efficient or confidence-inspiring manner. As a result, the credibility of the voting process is severely impaired, and any residual authority the U.S. claims to "spread" democracy to lucky recipients of its benevolence around the world is close to obliterated.

At 7:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, the day after the 2020 presidential elections, the results of the presidential race, as well as control of the Senate, are very much in doubt and in chaos. Watched by rest of the world — deeply affected by who rules the still-imperialist superpower — the U.S. struggles and stumbles and staggers to engage in a simple task mastered by countless other less powerful and poorer countries: counting votes. Some states are not expected to finished their vote-counting until the end of this week or beyond.

The same data and polling geniuses who pronounced that Hillary Clinton had a 90% probability or more of winning the 2016 election, and who spent the last three months proclaiming the 2020 election even more of a sure thing for the Democratic presidential candidate, are currently insisting that Biden, despite being behind in numerous key states, is still the favorite by virtue of uncounted ballots in Democrat-heavy counties in the outcome-determinative states. [One went to sleep last night with the now-notorious New York Times needle of data guru Nate Cohn assuring the country that, with more than 80% of the vote counted in Georgia, Trump had more than an 80% chance to win that state, only to wake up a few hours later with the needle now predicting the opposite outcome; that all happened just a few hours after Cohn assured everyone how much "smarter" his little needle was this time around].


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Bad Guys

Democrats projected to retain House majority

Cristina Marcos
Th Hill
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 21:46 UTC
Pelosi
© Patrick Semansky/APSpeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
Democrats are projected to maintain their House majority in Tuesday's elections, but so far appear to be falling short of expectations that they would significantly expand upon their gains in the suburbs from two years ago.

Most of the competitive House races had not yet been called as of midnight Wednesday.

But multiple networks projected that Democrats would keep the lower chamber on Tuesday night.

At the same time, the first competitive House races to be called indicated that Republicans were managing to defend seats in top battlegrounds and unseat numerous Democratic incumbents. House Democratic leaders, meanwhile, had predicted a net gain of as much as 15 seats in recent days.
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Documenting the steal - 'VERY STRANGE' - Trump: I watched my lead 'magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps' counted

Amanda Prestigiacomo
The Daily Wire
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 20:42 UTC
Donald trump
© Sarah Silbiger/Getty ImagesDonald Trump
UPDATE: The tweet Twitter censored from Matt Walsh concerning an influx of 138,339 Biden votes in Michigan has now been clarified by Decision Desk HQ as an "error."


Comment: The vote-rich northern states were seized on immediately:

Wisconsin:

AP has declared the state went to Biden, but there's plenty to dispute The Gateway Pundit reports on the late, massive dump of mail-in ballots totalling over 100,000, which inexplicable (wink, wink) were 100% for Biden:
Overnight Wisconsin had a huge dump of votes all for Biden, notice the blue line below:
biden vote fraud wisconsin
© FiveThirtyEight/ABC
Overnight Joe Biden crept to a lead in Wisconsin but one Internet sleuth showed that this was due to fraud:

The Trump team could not let that stand, and called for a recount, citing 'reports of irregularities':
Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien has said in a statement the president is "within the threshold to request a recount" in the key battleground state of Wisconsin, where the Elections Commission has declared a victory for Biden.

According to calculations by most US media, Wisconsin is still too close to call, with less than a one percent margin between the candidates and over 98 percent of votes counted.


However, Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe told NBC News that "all of the ballots have been counted" in the state. Biden won the state by 20,697 votes, according to NBC's tally.

Michigan:

Michigan is also embroiled in controversy with reports of mysterious drops being made to polling stations. From Gateway Pundit:
This morning a poll watcher in Detroit sent us this in the last hour:

Several Republicans were called to Detroit this morning to poll watch.

From our source Detroit:
Last night at TLC (formerly Cobo Hall) where absentee ballots for Wayne County (Detroit) are being counted, a Ferrari, a van and a Chrysler 300 (I think) all pulled up into facility (large garage doors) with ballots inside vehicles. All three of them had out of state plates. This is an ANONYMOUS tip.

Also, they're counting military ballots now. I heard around 7k.

Every military ballot has to be duplicated (re-written). I don't know why. This is very concerning.

Yes. The part about the vehicles.

They're saying Trump has no chance of winning here. Also, John James does have a chance.

I'll be in touch.

Make sure you say allegedly. I got the intel from ************ and a GOP Challenger who was here all night.

It should be accurate. Lawyer says someone took photos of Ferrari and Chrysler.

No one took photos or recorded info on van!!!!!!!

Like front lic plate number.

The van pulled in so you couldn't see their back plate. Could've had a MI plate on back.

We don't have front plates in MI so it's possible they had a MI plate on back of van. More likely they didn't want anyone to record it.
So that means another huge case ballot-dumping being alleged:
President Trump had a significant lead in Michigan late last night.
michigan election steal trump Biden
© The Gateway Pundit
Then all of the sudden Joe Biden jumped up 200,000 votes and has the lead over President Trump.
200,000 VOTES!


UPDATE - Officials are calling it a "typo".

This latest iteration of America's political circus is a long way from being over folks. In fact, it's only just getting started. Buckle up. UPDATE 04/11/2020: Twitter has suspended Derek Duck's account (@duckdiver19). Can't be letting too many facts get out there.

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Preliminary data shows Trump wins highest share of nonwhite vote for GOP in 60 years

Andrew Mark Miller
Washington Examiner
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:33 UTC
BidTrum
© The Georgia Sun/Marketwatch/Getty Images/KJNRace to the Finish
Polling data from Tuesday night suggests President Trump earned the highest share of the nonwhite vote for any Republican candidate since 1960.

Political strategist Adrian Gray posted preliminary data showing Trump earning 26% of the "non-white" vote, which would register as the highest share since 1960, with many states across the country still tallying votes.

NBC exit polling shows Trump winning 26% of the nonwhite vote compared to 72% for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

If that polling holds, Trump will have secured more nonwhite voters than any Republican since President Richard Nixon's 32% haul in 1960, when he lost to President John F. Kennedy.

Florida exit polling shows a similar trend, with Trump winning three out of 10 nonwhite votes, an increase from two out of 10 in 2016, according to Reuters.

Comment: It's white knuckle time for the results with a few states left unreported. However, the stats so far for Trump show his ability to increase America's diversity percentages:


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The Russia-China Vote

Pepe Escobar
The Unz Review
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
PutinTrumpXI
© Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump • Russian President Vladimir Putin • Chinese President Xi Jinping
Whatever the geopolitical and geoeconomic consequences of the spectacular US dystopia, the Russia-China strategic partnership, in their own slightly different registers, have already voted on their path forward.

Here is how I framed what is at the heart of the Chinese 2021-2025 five-year plan approved at the plenum in Beijing last week.

Here is a standard Chinese think tank interpretation.

And here is some especially pertinent context examining how rampant Sinophobia is impotent when faced with an extremely efficient made in China model of governance. This study shows how China's complex history, culture and civilizational axioms simply cannot fit into the Western, Christian hegemonic worldview.

The not so hidden "secret" of China's 2021-2025 five-year plan - which the Global Times described as "economic self-reliance" - is to base the civilization-state's increasing geopolitical clout on technological breakthroughs.

Comment: See also:

Can you smell what China is cooking?

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Pelosi claims Amy Coney Barrett 'an illegitimate Supreme Court justice'

Joe Concha
The Hill
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 02:12 UTC
Pelosi Barrett
© news.yahoo.com/Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images/KJNSpeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi • Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called Amy Coney Barrett "an illegitimate Supreme Court justice" during an Election Day news conference on Tuesday, just one week after Barrett was confirmed as President Trump's third Supreme Court pick.
"The president is installing an illegitimate Supreme Court justice just one week before the election, after 60 million Americans have voted, who will dismantle the ACA, and won't say, either way, when asked, by Sen. [Dianne] Feinstein [D-Calif.], do you think Medicare is constitutional? She said she really couldn't say."


Comment: The Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on November 10 in a case that could overturn part or all of the Affordable Care Act. The justices are expected to release their opinion sometime in the first six months of 2021.


Comment: Here's what else snippy Pelosi had to say:
The House speaker also snapped at a reporter who asked whether she expects the next Congress to be her last term serving as speaker, which would honor a pledge she made in 2018 to House Democrats who opposed her bid for speaker.

"That's the least important question you could ask today," Pelosi responded. "The fate of our nation, the soul of our nation is at stake in this election." Pelosi said the conversation was about
"plans for our country for our future, for our children, not about my plans. One of these days I will let you know what my plans are, when it is appropriate and when it matters. It doesn't matter right now."
The Supreme Court could also end up deciding Tuesday's election should close swing state results or absentee ballot controversies end up before the justices.


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