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August 29, 2020

US Marshals find 39 missing children in Georgia during 'Operation Not Forgotten'

Source: CNN.com

By Alaa Elassar, CNN
Updated 12:06 PM ET, Sat August 29, 2020

(CNN)Authorities have found 39 missing children in Georgia during a two-week effort to rescue endangered minors.

The US Marshals Service Missing Child Unit led the search, dubbed "Operation Not Forgotten." It collaborated with the agency's Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and state and local agencies.

The operation resulted in the rescue of 26 children and safe location of 13 others, US Marshals said in a news release on Thursday.

"The US Marshals Service is fully committed to assisting federal, state, and local agencies with locating and recovering endangered missing children, in addition to their primary fugitive apprehension mission," US Marshals Service Director Donald Washington said in a statement. "The message to missing children and their families is that we will never stop looking for you."

FBI related Tweet: https://twitter.com/FBIAtlanta/status/1299062751898279936

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/29/us/georgia-missing-children-us-marshals-trnd/index.html



What flummoxes me about this is that they lumped in Parental Kidnappings with actual Sex Traffickers, Pedophiles etc, and likely waited till some PR influenced opportune time to take action.

WTF: If at any time they know someone is holding a child and sexually exploiting them, you send in the fucking calvary right the fuck now! You don't wait till you have some PR worthy event or a Round UP.

I'm probably missing something here buy my Spidey sense is tingling.

What am I missing?
August 19, 2020

750 million genetically engineered mosquitoes approved for release in Florida Keys

Source: CNN.com

A plan to release over 750 genetically modified mosquitoes into the Florida Keys in 2021 received final approval from local authorities, against the objection of many local residents and a coalition of environmental advocacy groups. The plan had already won state and federal approval.

"With all the urgent crises facing our nation and the State of Florida — the Covid-19 pandemic, racial injustice, climate change — the administration has used tax dollars and government resources for a Jurassic Park experiment," said Jaydee Hanson, policy director for the International Center for Technology Assessment and Center for Food Safety, in a statement released Wednesday.
Now the Monroe County Mosquito Control District has given the final permission needed. "What could possibly go wrong? We don't know, because EPA unlawfully refused to seriously analyze environmental risks, now without further review of the risks, the experiment can proceed," she added.

Approved by the Environment Protection Agency in May, the pilot project is designed to test if a genetically modified mosquito is a viable alternative to spraying insecticides to control the Aedes aegypti. It's a species of mosquito that carries several deadly diseases, such as Zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/health/gmo-mosquitoes-approved-florida-scn-wellness/index.html



What could possibly go wrong right?

Does anyone care that we in the midst of 2020?

I admire the stated intentions/goals but I'm nervous. No, actually I scared shitless
August 7, 2020

Intelligence community's top election official: China and Iran don't want Trump to win reelection

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/07/politics/2020-election-russia-china-iran/index.html

(CNN)The US intelligence community's top election security official said in a statement Friday that China "prefers" an outcome where President Donald Trump is not reelected in November and Russia is working to "denigrate" former Vice President Joe Biden's White House bid.


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So I guess that means we're going to war with China China China.

craps pants
August 2, 2020

Report: Kushner's Covid-19 testing plan 'went poof into thin air'

Source: CNN.com

Erin Burnett Out Front

VIDEO at link

According to a Vanity Fair report, White House senior adviser, Jared Kushner, was working on a secret national testing plan in the spring to help bring the spread of Covid-19 under control.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/07/31/kushner-national-testing-plan-white-house-coronavirus-vanity-fair-report-ebof-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/



The fact a plan existed is amazing.

That they killed it is while not surprising is quite insane and very damaging for Trump imo.

But if it was killed for the reasons stated in the report, then THIS should END TRUMP.

Pay attention to the White House Spokesperson's response. She never once said there was NOT a plan. What a political gold mine this is imo.

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