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Gang Violence in Denver

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Shock Videos: Venezuelan Gangs with Guns Takeover Apartment Complexes in Colorado

August 30, 2024 BizPac Review and InfoWars 8

Large groups of armed Venezuelan men, believed to be members of the Tren de Aragua (TDA) prison gang, have invaded entire apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, which is less than 10 miles from Denver. Denver is a Democrat-run ‘sanctuary city’ that has a population of 710,000 people. Denver has welcomed over 44,000 illegal aliens over the past two years and many are spilling over into neighboring cities and towns. The armed Venezuelan men have been alleged to have committed kidnapping, human trafficking, sex trafficking, home invasion robberies, carjackings and armed robberies of stores, including 3 gun shops. A 99-unit apartment house was shut down. A shootout reportedly left one man with life-threatening injuries.While Denver Police said that they were “not aware” of any apartment complexes being taken over by TDA, there are reports that a gang leader from TDA has given the “green light” to shoot police officers.

 

 

 

 

 

Video footage has emerged of armed criminal alien gang members freely moving about in a Colorado apartment complex in Aurora.

The footage, seen below, adds to the evidence that a violent Venezuelan prison gang even more hardcore than MS-13 has taken over in the Denver metropolitan area, including in Aurora.

The armed gang members seen above are believed to be part of the Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang, which, as previously reported, has seized several apartment complexes in the Aurora area.

Speaking with Fox News, Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky said that “without a doubt that there is sex trafficking now going on” in the area thanks to the gang’s presence.

“This is organized,” one former apartment dweller added. “They patrol the property with guns visibly, like they’re not trying to hide them. There’s no repercussion. These are ghosts.”

The former apartment dweller, a woman, just made it out of her overtaken apartment building on Wednesday thanks to help from Jurinsky and congressional candidate John Fabbricatore.

“I literally had to borrow from everybody I know to get into a new place,” she said. “And it’s every bit of money I had.”

Below is a video of a local resident complaining about how criminal aliens have taken over the Denver metropolitan area:

 

 

Part of the problem is that the police appear to be missing in action. When questioned by the New York Post, Denver police union boss Marc Sears claimed it’s “absolutely inaccurate” to say the gang is taking over the city.

“They’re not any different than any other documented gang that we have,” he claimed. “I can tell you that the officers, is there a concern about this quote-unquote ‘green light’ that they have on officers. Sure, there’s a concern about it, but in my opinion, as the union president, I feel that we have been green-lighted since 2020.”

By the “green light,” he meant reports that TDA members have been given a “green light” to open fire on the police.

Speaking with a local Fox News affiliate, the Denver Police added on Wednesday that they were “not aware” of any apartment complexes being taken over by TDA.

The female resident wasn’t surprised by this denial of reality.

“There’s no safety net for you because the police are not coming,” she said. “They say, ‘Stay inside and lock your doors.’ I have to work! I was paying rent. These people haven’t been paying rent at all. I’ve been paying rent every month for years.”

“I hope [the police] do something because they could have helped me get out. Literally. Their answer for me was, ‘You ever think about moving?’ That’s what they told me when I was like, and I started crying. There’s no help coming for any of us. The police have checked out. They’re not on our side,” she added.

Even Jurinsky wasn’t surprised by the police’s attitude.

“In the entire Denver metro area, it has been like pulling teeth to get anyone, the media, other elected officials, to get anyone to acknowledge the presence of this trend and to acknowledge that there is even a problem,” she said.

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What is Happening to the Children?

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DHS: Nearly 300,000 Children Missing Under Biden/ Harris. The Minors May Have Been Trafficked

August 28, 2024 Lifesite News 3

A new report from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reveals that as of May 2024, ICE has not served a Notice to Appear in immigration court to more than 291,000 unaccompanied migrant children (UCs). Nor has ICE followed up on UCs who did not appear in court as ICE says it has “resource limitations” and “limited” oversight capabilities. The report admitted that without the ability to monitor the children, they are at risk for trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor.

Kamala Harris was officially tasked with stemming the migration to our southern border by President Joe Biden on March 24, 2021. Since that time, Customs and Border Protection has recorded about 10 million encounters with illegal immigrants across the country..

A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report issued last week reveals that nearly 300,000 illegal immigrant children are unaccounted for under the Biden administration’s immigration enforcement, which has been headed by now-presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

The DHS report explains that as of May 2024, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) has not served a Notice to Appear (NTA) in immigration court to more than 291,000 unaccompanied migrant children (UCs). Nor has ICE “developed a formal policy or process to follow up on UCs who did not appear in court,” the report notes, adding that ICE has “resource limitations” and “limited” oversight capabilities.

“Without an ability to monitor the location and status of UCs, ICE has no assurance UCs are safe from trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor,” the report admits.

 

 

The report has raised concerns about Harris’ role in the effort to “ste[m]” migration to the U.S. southern border, a goal she was officially tasked with by President Joe Biden on March 24, 2021. Under Harris, Customs and Border Protection has recorded about 10 million encounters with illegal immigrants across the country and more than 8 million encounters at the southwestern border alone.

In addition, “Encounters at official ports of entry have exploded, from just under 20,000 in January 2021 to more than 117,000 in June 2024” under Harris, the New York Post reported. The news outlet considered the numbers to be unsurprising considering that in 2015, Harris declared, “[a]n undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.”

ICE has not made progress in tracking unaccompanied children despite new guidance issued in December 2023 aimed at confirming the location of children who did not show up to their court hearings. This month’s DHS report found that “ICE often neither followed this guidance nor issued corresponding guidance for its officers in the field.”

The immigration enforcement arm is reportedly still short-staffed and suffers from resource constraints that “can limit officers’ time and ability to check the location or immigration case status of migrants.”

“ICE must take immediate action to ensure the safety of UCs residing in the United States,” the DHS report concludes, noting that “UCs who do not appear for court are considered at higher risk for trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor.”

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from:    https://needtoknow.news/2024/08/dhs-nearly-300000-children-missing-under-biden-harris-the-minors-may-have-been-trafficked/

The Problem of De-Banking

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Pushing Back Against ‘De-Banking’ Due to Discrimination by Banks of Certain Viewpoints

August 14, 2024 Real Clear Markets 2

Large national banks lead a trend of ‘de-banking’ business and individual accounts due to discrimination against certain viewpoints, with little warning, and virtually no explanation. In response, Florida and Tennessee enacted consumer protection laws that prohibit big banks from canceling customer accounts based on their constitutionally protected speech and religious exercise. The Tennessee law applies to banks with at least $100 billion in assets—which includes both Regions and Bank of America. Bank of America was exposed for working with the US Department of Treasury to profile people and label them domestic terrorists when they made purchases from Bass Pro Shops or buying “religious texts”. The US Treasury has now spoken out in opposition to these state-level attempts to protect the God-given freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment. The Treasury cannot profile half of America as domestic terrorists, institute Orwellian financial surveillance, and then hide behind the fig leaf of national security when the states push back.

On paper, Zulfat Suara and Steve Happ don’t have much in common.

One, a Muslim woman, immigrated to the U.S. from Nigeria in the 1990s and now serves on the Nashville City Council. The other, a Christian man, is a Memphis native with a background in software who began a ministry partnering with Ugandan non-profit charities that care for orphaned and at-risk children in 2015.

But they do have at least one thing in common: Both were canceled by large national banks with little warning and virtually no explanation.

Suara, who like Happ, is also involved in non-profit work, received a vaguely worded notice of cancelation from Regions Bank earlier this year, giving her 30 days to find a new bank. Happ’s cancelation by Bank of America came in 2023 shortly before he made a trip overseas—forcing him to scramble for solutions and delay hard-earned paychecks to Ugandans.

Happ’s notice said he was operating in the wrong “business type.” As we reported in this year’s report for our Viewpoint Diversity Score Business Index, which measures corporate respect for free speech and religious liberty, these problematic policies are present in at least 69% of the country’s largest financial institutions.

Incidents like these are a small sample of a larger trend of viewpoint-based discrimination in financial services—known as “de-banking”— which has also affected firearms and fossil fuels because of radical net zero emissions commitments and government initiatives like Operation Choke Point. It has also garnered the attention of both sides of the political aisle.

These incidents propelled Tennessee lawmakers to adopt a landmark legislative solution aimed at curbing this dangerous weaponization of the financial system. Like a similar law that recently went into effect in Florida, the legislation is a first-of-its-kind consumer protection bill that prohibits big banks from canceling customer accounts based on their constitutionally protected speech and religious exercise.

The Tennessee law applies to banks with at least $100 billion in assets—which includes both Regions and Bank of America—the latter of which has also been exposed by U.S. House oversight as working hand-in-hand with the U.S. Department of Treasury to profile as domestic terrorist threats my organization, Alliance Defending Freedom, and everyday Americans who committed the sin of shopping at Bass Pro Shops or buying “religious texts.” It should come as no surprise that this same government entity has now spoken out in opposition to these state-level attempts to protect the God-given freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment.

In a recent letter lauded in these pages by Hispanic Leadership Fund president Mario H. Lopez, the Treasury makes a series of false assertions about Tennessee and Florida’s laws. Chief among these specious claims is that the laws prevent Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) from dealing with money launderers and terrorist threats.

There’s no need to provide a nuanced answer to this accusation. It’s simply untrue. Twenty state attorneys general recently responded to this letter and rightly observed that the standards the Treasury is attacking in the state laws are the exact same standards the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency proposed—and the Treasury did not object to—only a few years ago.

Likewise, Lopez’s reactionary appeal to free market principles fails. Banks don’t operate in a free market. ESG is avowedly anti-free market. And the market is not free if access depends on your political and religious views.

First, banks are highly regulated. But in exchange for those regulations, they benefit from a wide spectrum of government subsidies. Those include bailouts, tax credits, property tax abatements, and grants at the state and federal levels. Since 1998, for example, JPMorgan Chase has received over $1.7 trillion from American taxpayers in the form of subsidies.

Second, ESG activists, and even government regulators, are introducing non-financial and subjective factors into decision-making by classifying groups like mine as domestic terrorist threats and denying service to ministries that support orphans and widows for being the wrong “business type.” Someone should explain how these groups, or those of Christian broadcaster Lance Wallnau or U.S. Ambassador Sam Brownback, present national security threats. Of course, one of the features of the state laws is that customers like Wallnau and Ambassador Brownback can demand a written explanation from the banks.

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from:    https://needtoknow.news/2024/08/pushing-back-against-de-banking-due-to-discrimination-by-banks-of-certain-viewpoints/

Ah, The Evil Twins

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Kamala Harris Picks Radical Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as Her VP Running Mate

August 8, 2024 Redacted and Reason 0

Kamala Harris’ VP choice, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, is a leftist who was a COVID tyrant. He supported a hotline for snitches, fines for violating lockdowns and social distancing, and mandatory masks. Walz allowed 2020 Black Lives Matter riots to burn Minnesota businesses and homes for days on end. Walz supports extreme LGBTQ policies such as removing children from their parents’ custody if the parents oppose their child transitioning into the opposite sex. He is pro-mass migration. Minnesota has the largest population of Somali immigrants and is now a blue Democrat state. Walz panders to the Somali population. Walz signed a law to provide driver’s licenses for illegal aliens. Walz was accused of embellishing his military record by saying that he was a “retired Command Sergeant Major’, but he was reduced in rank months after retiring, leaving him as a master sergeant.

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From Reason:

Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. Walz was a moderate Democrat when he served in the House of Representatives but veered left during his two terms as governor. He referred to socialism as synonymous with neighborliness, pursued an extremely progressive governing agenda, and earned an F from the Cato Institute on fiscal policy.

Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. Walz was a moderate Democrat when he served in the House of Representatives but veered left during his two terms as governor. He referred to socialism as synonymous with neighborliness, pursued an extremely progressive governing agenda, and earned an F from the Cato Institute on fiscal policy.

Another notable thing about Walz is that he served as governor during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is thus possible to parse his approach to the virus—and that record is extremely disturbing. Indeed, Walz’s coronavirus policies were extremely heavy-handed and restrictive; under his leadership, the state endured the pandemic in a fundamentally anti-libertarian fashion.

When the coronavirus was first spreading, Walz was an enthusiastic promoter of social distancing rules. He described the crowds in public, outdoor spaces as “a little too big.” He even defended Minnesota’s ridiculous hotline for COVID-19 snitches. That’s right: Walz’s government maintained a method for people to report their neighbors for failing to abide by social distancing rules. Walz insisted in a recent interview that “one person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness”; denouncing one’s neighbors as insufficiently loyal to government policies is a fundamental aspect of socialism, however.

When asked by Republicans to take down the hotline, Walz responded: “We’re not going to take down a phone number that people can call to keep their families safe.”

And though Walz instructed police to merely issue citations to people caught violating stay-at-home orders—which is still bad enough—he also maintained the right, via executive order, to issue $1,000 fines and send violators to jail for 90 days. His government maintained that private, indoor gatherings should be limited to 10 people. Outdoor gatherings were arbitrarily capped at 25 people. On July 23, 2020, Walz declared a statewide mask mandate for most indoor spaces and even some outdoor spaces.

“If we can get a 90 to 95% compliance, which we’ve seen the science shows, we can reduce the infection rates dramatically, which slows that spread and breaks that chain,” Walz said at the time. “This is the way, the cheapest, the most effective way for us to open up our businesses, for us to get our kids back in school, for us to keep our grandparents healthy and for us to get back that life that we all miss so much.”

What followed was the implementation of one of the stupidest COVID-19 rules: Diners at restaurants had to wear masks while walking to their table and moving about the establishment but were allowed to go maskless as long as they were eating and drinking.

Later, in November and December of 2020, Walz issued and extended orders for restaurants, gyms, and other businesses to shut down. This included outdoor dining service for eating establishments. Over 150 businesses formed the Reopen Minnesota Coalition and urged the governor to relent, but Walz was unmoved.

By the spring of 2021, vaccines were widely available for the most at-risk groups, and people who wanted to protect themselves from the risk of severe disease and death were able to exercise that option. It was only at this point that Walz partly relented and allowed widespread reopening; however, he kept capacity limits in place for many businesses.

These nonsensical policies—the efficacy of which is now doubted by top U.S. health officials—are not unique to Minnesota; in fact, they were commonplace in blue states. But Walz was as vigorous an enforcer of them as any of his Democratic peers.

He was also one of the foremost defenders of a monstrous COVID-19 policy choice: sending sick, elderly patients back to nursing homes where the infection often spread to other vulnerable people, causing a disproportionate number of coronavirus deaths in such settings. A cover-up of nursing home deaths in New York brought an end to the political ambitions of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who lied about his involvement in this policy. But Walz was a fellow practitioner; in fact, Walz said that it was “not a mistake” to release sick people back to nursing homes. That statement alone reflects poor enough judgment as to be disqualifying for the pursuit of higher office.

from:    https://needtoknow.news/2024/08/kamala-harris-picks-radical-minnesota-governor-tim-walz-as-her-vp-running-mate/

What Goes Up….

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Nearly $2 Trillion Wiped Out from Stock Market as Fears of Global Recession Spark Panic Among Investors — Warren Buffett Dumped Nearly Half of Apple Stake and Holds $277 Billion in Cash Reserve

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The first Monday in August has arrived with panic sweeping through the finance sector, as nearly $2 trillion was wiped out of the S&P 500 at market open. Investor anxiety over a looming global recession triggered a selloff that sent U.S. stock futures plummeting and raised urgent questions about the Biden’s administration’s economic policies.

As trading began on August 5th, a staggering $1.93 trillion was wiped out from the S&P 500, with stock index futures taking a massive hit. S&P 500 futures fell more than 4.4%, while Dow futures were down 3%, translating to a loss of 1,212 points. The Nasdaq 100 futures fared even worse, plummeting over 5.2%, according to Watcher.guru.

The Nasdaq has never been down by that amount in its history.

WATCH:

In a striking move, investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway dumped nearly half of its gigantic Apple stake last quarter, according to CNBC.

Buffett’s recent actions have raised eyebrows across Wall Street; the 93-year-old investment titan has been on a massive selling spree, offloading over 75 billion** in equities during the second quarter alone. This aggressive liquidation has raised Berkshire’s cash reserves to an unprecedented **277 billion, an all-time high for the conglomerate. Notably, Buffett also began selling his second-largest holding, Bank of America, in July.

 

According to Quartz:

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has $234.6 billion worth of short-term investments in U.S. Treasury bills, the massive conglomerate’s second-quarter earnings report Saturday showed.

Buffett has always been a fan of U.S. Treasury bills (also known as T-bills). At the annual Berkshire conference in May, the 93-year-old investor called them “the safest investment there is.”

Treasury bills are short-term securities issued — and backed — by the U.S. government. They are issued in maturities ranging from four weeks to 52 weeks, at a minimum purchase amount of $100. The bills then increase in value to pay off their entire face value at maturity.

With Berkshire buying up $229.5 billion in T-bills and fixed maturity securities in the first six months of the year, it surpassed the Federal Reserve in its investment into the securities. The Federal Reserve reported last week that it holds $195.3 billion in the bills.

 

Elon Musk weighed in on Buffett’s strategy, stating, “He [Buffett] is clearly expecting a correction of some kind or otherwise simply cannot see better investments than Treasury bills.”

“The Fed needs to drop rates. They have been foolish not to have done so already,” he added.

 

Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s senior economic advisor, Gene Sperling, resigned on Monday after stocks tumbled around the world.

from:    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/economic-crisis-looms-2-trillion-wiped-stock-market/

Is Your Home On the Chopping Block???

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Quiet Backroom Deal Just Approved – 40,000,000 Homes to be Seized

June 28, 2024 John Williams 12

This month, the Federal Housing Finance Agent (FHFA) and Freddie Mac will begin offering second liens on homes. It will start small with $2.5 billion that will expand into a $3 trillion loan program, which could involve 30% of all 144 million homes in America. The loans are capped at $78,000 and most will be for far less than this amount. Even a small loan will result in the FHFA or Freddie Mac being named on the title. By autumn, Freddie Mac is projected to loan $2 trillion. If the homeowner defaults, the second lienholder could make a deal with the first lienholder to foreclose quietly and FHFA and Freddie Mac will be enabled to take over the houses. Williams says the housing market will continue to be inflated, and property tax and homeowners insurance will continue to rise. New laws to force green energy systems and upgrades in homes are planned. 

Note: Any investment advice in this video is not endorsed by Need To Know News as we simply report on the news.

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from:    https://needtoknow.news/2024/06/quiet-backroom-deal-just-approved-40000000-homes-to-be-seized/

Hey, IRS Employees —Time to Pay Up!!!!

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IRS Audit Report Reveals that IRS Employees Owe $50 Million in Back Taxes: ‘Double Standard’

July 30, 2024 Washington Examiner and Senator Joni Ernst 3

A report, requested by Republican Senator Joni Ernst and conducted by the Treasury Inspector General, found that while 96% of employees were compliant with tax obligations, over 5,800 IRS and contractor employees owed nearly $50 million in overdue taxes! Only 20 of the agency’s employees who were failing to pay taxes were terminated. The IRS also knowingly rehired individuals who committed criminal and sexual misconduct. Ernst is introducing the Audit the IRS Act that would require regular tax audits of agency employees and prohibit the IRS from hiring or continuing to employ tax evaders.

Ernst wrote: “There is absolutely nothing fair about forcing hardworking Americans to pay the salaries of tax evading tax collectors while the IRS targets lower-income and middle-class Americans with nearly two-thirds of the new audits.” She said any repeat employee offenders should be referred to the Justice Department to be subjected to the same imprisonment and fines that are listed as punishments for tax evasion on the IRS’s website.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) is pushing for a regular audit of the Internal Revenue Service after a new inspector general report found that nearly 6,000 employees owe nearly $50 million in back taxes.

The July 24 report, requested by Ernst and conducted by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, found that while 96% of employees were compliant with tax obligations, over 5,800 IRS and contractor employees owed nearly $50 million in overdue taxes, and only 20 of the agency’s employees who were failing to pay taxes were terminated.

“When IRS auditors can’t even pass my audit, it’s clear they can’t be trusted by the taxpayers,” Ernst said in an exclusive statement to the Washington Examiner. “Between their tax evasion and rampant misconduct, the Biden-Harris administration’s army of IRS agents can’t even clear the most basic of hurdles. I’m working to end the double standard and hold these bureaucrats accountable to the same rules they enforce on hardworking Americans.”

Ernst is introducing the Audit the IRS Act on Monday afternoon, which would require regular tax audits of agency employees and prohibit the IRS from hiring or continuing to employ tax evaders, according to bill text obtained by the Washington Examiner. The junior Iowa senator asked the agency to support the bill in a letter sent to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel on Monday.

“I would also like to know what actions you are taking to ensure 100 percent tax compliance by IRS employees and contractors,” Ernst wrote to Werfel. “To hold the IRS accountable and to demonstrate the agency takes its own warning that ‘tax evasion is a serious crime,’ I would strongly urge you to routinely check the tax status of every employee and fire every employee and contractor who is delinquent on their taxes and not enrolled in a payment plan.”

Washington Examiner:    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/taxes/irs-audit-report-finds-employees-owe-50-million-in-back-taxes-double-standard/ar-BB1qQdcW

Senator Joni Ernst:    https://www.ernst.senate.gov/news/press-releases/ernst-exposes-massive-tax-evasion-at-irs-demands-an-audit-of-the-auditors

from:    https://needtoknow.news/2024/07/irs-audit-report-reveals-that-irs-employees-owe-50-million-in-back-taxes-double-standard/

You’ve Been CrowdStruck

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Was Global Microsoft IT Outage, Caused During CrowdStrike Update, a Trial Run for The Great Reset?

July 22, 2024 Press for Truth, Mashable, RT and Washington Post 8

A glitch with Microsoft Windows is said to have caused computer systems to crash around the world, including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, India, Japan, and the UK, and shut down air travel systems, street lights, credit card payment systems, banks, broadcasts, 911 calls, supermarket registers and more. Experts attributed the failures to a recent update of CrowdStrike anti-virus cyber security software that caused computers to crash.

CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 by two former McAfee executives, the company sells cybersecurity software to Fortune 500 companies and federal and state agencies. Its first product, Falcon, an update of which was cited for Friday’s outage, detects security breaches in Windows or Mac computers.

Max Blumenthal called CrowdStrike “the shady firm hired by the DNC to find Russia responsible for hacking its server.” In 2016, CrowdStrike was hired by the Democratic National Committee to investigate the hacking of DNC computers a year earlier.

Dan Dicks of Press for Truth said that BlackRock and Vanguard are the top owners of CrowdStrike. The World Economic Forum (WEF) predicted in 2023 that geopolitical instability would lead to a catastrophic cyber event within 2 years and they provided a “solution” and called for a global response and cooperation. He said that this outage was a trial trial run in preparation to take out global supply chains or it was used implanted code to be utilized for a larger cyber attack to kick off The Great Reset. He warned against central bank digital currency CBDC and recommended tangible assets and exiting the globalist system.

 

Link for video:      https://www.bitchute.com/video/upl5pp05Igbm

Links that were recommended in the Video

Bracing For “Cyber 9/11” With James Corbett:     https://altcensored.com/watch?v=PtvWdtujmww

The Next FALSE FLAG Will Be A CYBER ATTACK ON GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS!! Cyber Polygon EXPOSED!!!:     https://pressfortruth.ca/the-next-false-flag-will-be-a-cyber-attack-on-global-supply-chains-cyber-polygon-exposed/

“Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2023” Plans For A Cyber Attack To Take Out Global Supply Chains!!!:     https://pressfortruth.ca/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2023-plans-for-a-cyber-attack-to-take-out-global-supply-chains/

Ending Anonymity: Why The WEF’s Partnership Against Cybercrime Threatens The Future Of Privacy:      https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/07/investigative-reports/ending-anonymity-why-the-wefs-partnership-against-cybercrime-threatens-the-future-of-privacy/

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From Mashable

If your Windows computer is currently serving you the Blue Screen of Death, take heart in the fact that you aren’t alone. Windows outages are being reported across the globe, apparently caused by a CrowdStrike issue.

And if your banking app is down or doctor’s appointment was canceled, well, you’re not alone there either.

The problem first arose overnight for the East Coast of the U.S.

“CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows hosts related to the Falcon Sensor,” the cybersecurity company wrote in an alert confirming the outage at 1:30 a.m. ET on Friday. CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor is software designed to prevent computer systems from cyber attacks.

“Symptoms include experiencing a bugcheck\blue screen error related to the Falcon Sensor,” CrowdStrike’s alert continued. “Our Engineering teams are actively working to resolve this issue and there is no need to open a support ticket.”

Though the CrowdStrike issue is specifically causing Windows to crash, the problem seems to be having further reaching implications. Considering that Windows is an incredibly popular operating system and CrowdStrike an incredibly popular cybersecurity company, companies and services worldwide have had massive issues all of Friday.

Microsoft acknowledged the issue as well. “We’re aware of an issue affecting Windows devices due to an update from a third-party software platform. We anticipate a resolution is forthcoming,” a Microsoft spokesperson says.

Around midday on Friday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella issued a statement on the outages as the world continued to reel with the ramifications.

“Yesterday, CrowdStrike released an update that began impacting IT systems globally,” Nadella wrote on X. “We are aware of this issue and are working closely with CrowdStrike and across the industry to provide customers technical guidance and support to safely bring their systems back online.”

The outages are global, and massive. Here’s what’s affected

Reports of outages have rolled in from several countries around the world, including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, India, Japan, and the UK. As of writing, crowdsourced outage monitor DownDetector is indicating a spike in issues across a slew of platforms and businesses in the U.S. as well, including Instagram, eBay, Visa, ADT, and PlentyOfFish.

Mashable’s Alex Perry broke down, in detail, six of the biggest industries and services experiencing problems, but here are the broad strokes.

“This is a very, very uncomfortable illustration of the fragility of the world’s core internet infrastructure,” Ciaran Martin, the former chief executive of Britain’s National Cyber Security Center, told the New York Times.

Airline outages

Several U.S. airlines, such as American, Delta, and United Airlines, have been grounded due to communications issues, seemingly also the result of the outage. Thousands of flights have been canceled across the globe.

UK’s Ryanair announced that their booking and check-in system is currently down.

The Federal Aviation Administration said on X it was “closely monitoring a technical issue impacting IT systems at U.S. airlines, with updates available at fly.faa.gov.

Emergency services

A number of hospitals and emergency services were affected by the outage. Boston hospital Mass General Brigham, for instance, said early Friday that “all previously scheduled non-urgent surgeries, procedures, and medical visits are canceled today.” Alaskan State Troopers reported on Facebook that “many 911 and non-emergency call centers are not working correctly across the State of Alaska.” Worries were so widespread that other locales, such as New York City and Miami-Dade, put out statements that their emergency services were not affected.

As the day wore on, it became clear that countless hospitals across the country were forced to cancel non-emergency appointments while, thankfully, 911 and emergency services seemed to be operation in most places. A total of three states — Alaska, Oregon, and Arizona — had areas that had issues with 911 or emergency response systems, the New York Times reported.

Other affected businesses

Supermarkets, banks, airlines, telecommunications companies, and TV broadcasters are among the businesses impacted, with shoppers in Australia reportedly unable to pay for groceries due to electronic payment systems being down. A look at DownDetector shows a spike in outages across nearly all industries. Visa, Starbucks, Chase, TD Bank, Bank of America, Walmart, UPS, and countless other businesses appeared to be having issues. Even shipping services, like UPS and FedEX, said that deliveries would be delayed due to the outages. The problem is so widespread it is difficult to understand its scope, but it appears to be one of, if not the largest, outages in history.

Voting systems

Authorities in Arizona’s Maricopa County, where Phoenix is located, reported issues in some early voting locations for the state’s primary elections.

“Due to the global tech outage, Maricopa County Elections is also experiencing an outage at some voting locations,” wrote the Maricopa County Elections Department in a statement.

How to fix the CrowdStrike Windows BSOD issue

Fortunately, CrowdStrike has since announced at 2:30 a.m. ET that it has identified the update causing the issue and rolled it back. The company also offered a workaround for anyone having problems:

  1. “Boot Windows into Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery Environment
  2. “Navigate to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory
  3. “Locate the file matching ‘C-0000029*.sys’, and delete it.
  4. “Boot the host normally.”

Of course, having to do this for every single computer in multiple companies across the globe is still likely to take some time.

 

from:    https://needtoknow.news/2024/07/was-global-microsoft-it-outage-caused-during-crowdstrike-update-a-trial-run-for-the-great-reset/

AI, Who Is the Biggest Power Hog in The World? OH, IT’S YOU!!!

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Needs So Much Power It Is Straining the Electrical Grid

July 29, 2024 The Conversation 1

The US electrical grid in many areas in the US is already operating at capacity. Due to the wild popularity of artificial intelligence (AI), especially large language models such as ChatGPT, there has been a great increase in energy demand. At 2.9 watt-hours per ChatGPT request, AI queries require about 10 times the electricity of traditional Google queries. Emerging AI capabilities such as audio and video generation will add to this energy demand. Energy companies are seeking ways to produce more electricity and are even considering restarting a nuclear reactor at the Three Mile Island power plant, site of the infamous disaster in 1979. With the advent of AI, many countries are having trouble adhering to their ‘decarbonization’ goals (note: global warming is a manufactured problem used to control the energy supply)..

The artificial intelligence boom has had such a profound effect on big tech companies that their energy consumption, and with it their carbon emissions, have surged.

The spectacular success of large language models such as ChatGPT has helped fuel this growth in energy demand. At 2.9 watt-hours per ChatGPT request, AI queries require about 10 times the electricity of traditional Google queries, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, a nonprofit research firm. Emerging AI capabilities such as audio and video generation are likely to add to this energy demand.

The energy needs of AI are shifting the calculus of energy companies. They’re now exploring previously untenable options, such as restarting a nuclear reactor at the Three Mile Island power plant, site of the infamous disaster in 1979, that has been dormant since 2019.

Data centers have had continuous growth for decades, but the magnitude of growth in the still-young era of large language models has been exceptional. AI requires a lot more computational and data storage resources than the pre-AI rate of data center growth could provide.

AI and the grid

Thanks to AI, the electrical grid – in many places already near its capacity or prone to stability challenges – is experiencing more pressure than before. There is also a substantial lag between computing growth and grid growth. Data centers take one to two years to build, while adding new power to the grid requires over four years.

As a recent report from the Electric Power Research Institute lays out, just 15 states contain 80% of the data centers in the U.S.. Some states – such as Virginia, home to Data Center Alley – astonishingly have over 25% of their electricity consumed by data centers. There are similar trends of clustered data center growth in other parts of the world. For example, Ireland has become a data center nation.

Along with the need to add more power generation to sustain this growth, nearly all countries have decarbonization goals. This means they are striving to integrate more renewable energy sources into the grid. Renewables such as wind and solar are intermittent: The wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine. The dearth of cheap, green and scalable energy storage means the grid faces an even bigger problem matching supply with demand.

Additional challenges to data center growth include increasing use of water cooling for efficiency, which strains limited fresh water sources. As a result, some communities are pushing back against new data center investments.

Better tech

There are several ways the industry is addressing this energy crisis. First, computing hardware has gotten substantially more energy efficient over the years in terms of the operations executed per watt consumed. Data centers’ power use efficiency, a metric that shows the ratio of power consumed for computing versus for cooling and other infrastructure, has been reduced to 1.5 on average, and even to an impressive 1.2 in advanced facilities. New data centers have more efficient cooling by using water cooling and external cool air when it’s available.

Unfortunately, efficiency alone is not going to solve the sustainability problem. In fact, Jevons paradox points to how efficiency may result in an increase of energy consumption in the longer run. In addition, hardware efficiency gains have slowed down substantially, as the industry has hit the limits of chip technology scaling.

To continue improving efficiency, researchers are designing specialized hardware such as accelerators, new integration technologies such as 3D chips, and new chip cooling techniques.

Similarly, researchers are increasingly studying and developing data center cooling technologies. The Electric Power Research Institute report endorses new cooling methods, such as air-assisted liquid cooling and immersion cooling. While liquid cooling has already made its way into data centers, only a few new data centers have implemented the still-in-development immersion cooling.

Flexible future

A new way of building AI data centers is flexible computing, where the key idea is to compute more when electricity is cheaper, more available and greener, and less when it’s more expensive, scarce and polluting.

Data center operators can convert their facilities to be a flexible load on the grid. Academia and industry have provided early examples of data center demand response, where data centers regulate their power depending on power grid needs. For example, they can schedule certain computing tasks for off-peak hours.

Implementing broader and larger scale flexibility in power consumption requires innovation in hardware, software and grid-data center coordination. Especially for AI, there is much room to develop new strategies to tune data centers’ computational loads and therefore energy consumption. For example, data centers can scale back accuracy to reduce workloads when training AI models.

Realizing this vision requires better modeling and forecasting. Data centers can try to better understand and predict their loads and conditions. It’s also important to predict the grid load and growth.

The Electric Power Research Institute’s load forecasting initiative involves activities to help with grid planning and operations. Comprehensive monitoring and intelligent analytics – possibly relying on AI – for both data centers and the grid are essential for accurate forecasting.

On the edge

The U.S. is at a critical juncture with the explosive growth of AI. It is immensely difficult to integrate hundreds of megawatts of electricity demand into already strained grids. It might be time to rethink how the industry builds data centers.

The Conversation:      https://theconversation.com/ai-supercharges-data-center-energy-use-straining-the-grid-and-slowing-sustainability-efforts-232697

from:    https://needtoknow.news/2024/07/artificial-intelligence-ai-needs-so-much-power-it-is-straining-the-electrical-grid/

What Is Going On With Disney?

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O’Keefe Media Group Exposes Disney for Racial Discrimination and LGBTQ Agenda for Children

July 14, 2024 O’Keefe Media Group 

O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) released three undercover videos recently that exposed corruption within the Disney corporation that provides entertainment for children. Michael Giordano, a Vice President of Business Affairs, reveals in the first video that Disney is discriminating against white males in hiring for middle management, and writing and acting jobs. Sohrab “Dave” Makker, Walt Disney Television’s Director of Production/Finance revealed in the second video that only white Jewish males are promoted to upper level executive management jobs. The last video report is about internal documents that show that Disney promoted Pride events for children that involved naked men.

Michael Giordano, a Vice President of Business Affairs

Senior Vice President at The Walt Disney Company details discriminatory hiring practices: “Nobody else is going to tell you this, but they’re not considering any white males for the job,” says Michael Giordano, a Vice President of Business affairs, “there’s no way we’re hiring a white male.” Giordano reveals Disney uses “code words and buzzwords” to avoid legal action and even mentions a candidate being rejected for not looking black enough. Giordano also admits Disney gives bonuses to executives for practicing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), agreeing that “diversity helps with financial incentives.” Giordano further claims he’s been denied promotions due to his race.

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Sohrab “Dave” Makker, Walt Disney Television’s Director of Production/Finance

Walt Disney Television’s Director of Production/Finance, Sohrab “Dave” Makker reveals Disney won’t hire anyone who’s not a white Jewish man for C-Suite roles, confirming discriminatory hiring practices detailed in OMG’s ‘The Disney Tapes: Part 1.’

Makker pointed out that the tech industry is run by Indians and the entertainment business is run by white Jewish men.

Makker says Disney prioritizes LGBTQ stories for children, stating, “We insert diversity when it’s not really organic to the story,” admitting shows have “flopped” because “the audience didn’t connect” to forced diversity.

He calls Disney CEO Bob Iger “corrupt,” saying, “He just wants to stay in power.” He proceeds to criticize Elon Musk, calling him a “narcissist” driven by attention, yet agrees with Musk’s call for Iger’s firing.

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Amit “Genie” Gurnani, Walt Disney’s Creative Marketing Director

‘It’s the unspoken thing for children to see LGBTQ content,’ says Walt Disney’s Creative Marketing Director, Drag Queen Amit “Genie” Gurnani, into OMG’s hidden camera.

Gurnani adds, “I’d love to get a drag queen at Disneyland,” furthering, “I’m sure that would happen at some point.”

Gurnani insists, “Bob Iger is not axing LGBTQ content at all,” supporting concerns that Disney is ramping up their LGBTQ content, influenced by DEI hiring practices and the inclusion of forced diverse storylines.

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An insider source at Disney has provided OMG with startling internal documents and communications. These documents reveal Disney’s promotion of Pride events for children that involve naked men, maps of Disney-sponsored pride parades nationwide, Disney’s covert partnership with “Zebra Youth,” a program supporting LGBTQ youth ages 13-24, and messages about polysexual virtual hangouts.

from:    https://needtoknow.news/2024/07/okeefe-media-group-exposes-disney-for-racial-discrimination-and-lgbtq-agenda-for-children/