Unattended Baggage Episode #154: Can’t we just be the neglected kids in America’s messy divorce?
Unattended Baggage Show Notes
7/9/2022
Episode #154: Can’t we just be the neglected kids in America’s messy divorce?
Alex’s Uber stories keep getting weirder, anger and distrust in American way of life becoming zeitgeist, China uses AI mind reading to ensure party loyalty, Georgia Guidestones are no more, Somali Muslims and Alt-Right Christians find common ground, Florida man beats neighbor’s cock, and don’t park in your own driveway.
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Time for a divorce, America?
Confidence in U.S. Institutions Down; Average at New Low
https://news.gallup.com/poll/394283/confidence-institutions-down-average-new-low.aspx
64% of Gen Z don’t know who America fought for independence - 34% say Indians
https://www.studyfinds.org/americans-cant-spell-independence/
Record-low number of US adults proud to be American, poll finds
https://nypost.com/2022/07/04/record-low-number-of-us-adults-proud-of-america-poll-finds__trashed/
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh Forced to Escape DC Steakhouse Through Back Due to Protestors
Seething anger again boils over into streets
Uneasy US tries to fete a July 4 marred by parade shooting
Illinois has 6th most restrictive gun laws in nation, 2nd most mass shooting. California is #1 in both restrictive gun laws and number of mass shootings.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/mass-shootings-by-state
https://www.everytown.org/states/
Russia vs China
Russian Scientist Held on Charges of Spying For China
https://www.asiafinancial.com/russian-scientist-held-on-charges-of-spying-for-china
Second Russian scientist from Siberian city detained on treason charges
China May Be Plotting Moon 'takeover' As Part Of Its Military Space Programme, Says NASA
COVID
How Pfizer Won the Pandemic—in Profit and Influence
The omicron subvariant now dominating the U.S. is ‘the worst version of the virus that we’ve seen’
The Cassandra Trigger DFC
This AI algorithm supposedly predicts big-city crime before it happens. Is that a good idea?
Chinese researchers claim they have AI capable of reading minds - using it to “enhance political quality and ideological thought” of party members
https://nypost.com/2022/07/04/chinese-researchers-claim-they-have-ai-capable-of-reading-minds/
The Georgia Guidestones: Built by impotent arrogance, Destroyed by righteous ignorance
Georgia monument dubbed ‘America’s Stonehenge’ damaged by explosives
‘Satanic’ Georgia Tablets Despised by Conspiracy Theorists Bombed
https://autos.yahoo.com/satanic-georgia-tablets-despised-conspiracy-173851943.html
What did the Guidestones say?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
Who built them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucian_Order
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Barnard_Jr.
Who inspired bombing?
Kandiss Taylor was the gubernatorial candidate who got 3.4% in the GOP primary, then refused to concede due to “election fraud”
Autism: Epidemic or Evolution?
Autism among American children and teens surged 50% in three years from 2017, with one in 30 kids diagnosed with the disorder by 2020
Damn Racists
Rep. Ilhan Omar booed, told to ‘get the f–k out’ at Minnesota concert appearance
https://nypost.com/2022/07/04/rep-ilhan-omar-booed-at-minnesota-concert-appearance/
The government and the people suck
Couple fined $1,500 for parking in own driveway
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/couple-fined-1500-parking-driveway/story?id=86181089
Residents call for city code change, could face jail time for parking work trucks at home
What does Adrian think about this
Apple Announces 'Extreme' Privacy Mode for Targets of Government Spyware
This Is the Code the FBI Used to Wiretap the World
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7veg8/anom-app-source-code-operation-trojan-shield-an0m
Oh He is running
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans Utah fundraiser with GOP megadonors, signaling possible presidential run
Florida Man
Florida Man: Jacksonville man arrested after police say he killed neighbor’s pet rooster
Florida man refuses police order to “DROP THE HOT DOG!” Charged with meat-byproduct battery on and officer
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/florida/hot-dog-battery-742038