A conservative legal organization has launched seven investigations into Vice President Kamala Harris’ record of service in California state government.  “The American people deserve to know the facts about Kamala Harris’ time in California government,” a spokesperson for America First Legal told The Daily Signal.  Harris, now the presumed 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, served in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office in the 1990s. In 2004, she was elected district attorney of San Francisco before being elected attorney general of California in 2010, a role she served in until being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2017.  Over her more than 25 years in California government, “America First Legal’s research and information, based on public reporting, reveals evidence of alleged malfeasance and misconduct,” according to the Washington, D.C.-based legal group.  “Each step up the ladder of her career appears marked by improprieties or scandal,” Dan Epstein, America First Legal vice president, said of Harris in a statement.  With a pledge to “fight for transparency,” America First Legal has filed Freedom of Information Act requests seeking information on Harris’ record with the California Office of the Attorney General; the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office; the Oakland, California, Board of Supervisors; the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board; the California Department of Health Care Services; and the California Fair Political Practices Commission.  “Should the government fail to turn over these records, we will be left with no choice but to consider pursuing legal action to obtain them,” the group’s spokesperson told The Daily Signal.  Each of the seven investigations examine a “failure” of Harris’ during her long service in California government.  ‘Failure to Comply With Federal Law Protecting Donor Privacy’ During Harris’ tenure as attorney general, California required organizations receiving donations to “file copies of their federal IRS Form 990 tax forms,” according to an America First Legal news release announcing the seven investigations.  “These forms include a list of all donors who contributed at least $5,000 to the charity in a given year,” the legal group explains. But, in 2021, the Supreme Court held in the case of Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta that mandatory disclosures were a violation of the First Amendment.  America First Legal says it believes that Harris may have “sought donor information about her political enemies without complying with federal law designed to protect donor privacy.”  ‘Failure to Enforce Federal Immigration Laws’ In 2012, while serving as attorney general, Harris issued a bulletin to law enforcement in California regarding an Immigration and Customs Enforcement program called Secure Communities that enables ICE to detain and deport criminal illegal aliens. In the bulletin, Harris told law enforcement that they were not required to fulfill individual ICE immigration detainers but could instead “make their own decisions” about detainer requests.  “As California attorney general, Kamala Harris interfered with the enforcement of federal immigration laws,” according to America First Legal, adding that “as California’s top cop,” Harris may have “failed to enforce immigration laws and used her office to push a political agenda paid for by taxpayers.” ‘Failure to Pursue Equal Justice Under the Law’ In 2004, black gang member David Hill shot and killed San Francisco police officer Isaac Espinoza. Harris, who was the district attorney of San Francisco at the time, did not pursue the death penalty.  America First Legal says it is concerned that “Kamala Harris failed to do justice when cop killers and gang members were members of minority groups.” ‘Failure to Disclose Conflicts of Interest’ While Harris was serving as a prosecuting attorney in Alameda County in the 1990s, she was in a romantic relationship with California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown. America First Legal holds that the relationship was a “conflict of interest.”  The group “is concerned that Kamala Harris benefited from political favoritism and is investigating whether Harris properly recused herself or otherwise disclosed conflicts of interest to the appropriate ethical authorities.” ‘Failure to Address Evidence of Misconduct’ In 2015, Harris began a criminal investigation into corruption inside Orange County’s jails.  “Clear evidence existed that deputy sheriffs in the county had misused informants in a manner that violated the rights of criminal defendants,” according to America First Legal. “Four years later, no charges were filed.”  The legal group believes Harris may have “ignored clear evidence of misconduct over a penal entity under her jurisdiction.”  ‘Nature of Probes by California Fair Political Practices Commission’ The California Fair Political Practices Commission determined in 2015 that Harris had not violated state law when she received “gifts from a company owned by San Francisco interior designer Ken Fulk,” according to America First Legal.  But the legal group is “concerned that former Attorney General Harris may have been subject to numerous probes by the California Fair [Political] Practices Commission and is committed to ensuring the public is educated about such investigations.” ‘Failure to Address, and Potential Cover-up of, Evidence of Misconduct’ While Harris was serving as California attorney general, it came to light that state prosecutors had committed “outrageous government misconduct” in the case The People (of California) v. Efrain Velasco-Palacios, according to the California appeals court.  Prosecuting attorney Robert Murray falsified a confession from the defendant. After it was revealed that the confession was fake, the judge dismissed the charges against the defendant. Harris, however, appealed the case, arguing that the insertion of the false confession was not prosecutorial misconduct because it did not involve physical brutality. Harris’ handling of the Velasco-Palacios case and others has led America First Legal to be “concerned that Kamala Harris intentionally ignored or covered up misconduct by prosecutors under her watch as well as her own close political aides.” The post Legal Group Launches 7 Investigations Into Kamala Harris’ Record of ‘Failure’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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When Liz Wheeler first heard about the hugely popular homesteading influencer Hannah Neeleman, more commonly known as Ballerina Farm, she didn’t pay much attention to the hype, as it seemed to revolve around inconsequential matters, such as Neeleman competing in a beauty pageant 12 days postpartum. But in the wake of the Sunday’s Times recent defamatory article “Meet the queen of the ‘trad wives’ (and her eight children),” Liz has gleefully hopped on the Ballerina Farm bandwagon. “I'm all about this woman,” she says, lambasting the author of the Times piece, Megan Agnew, as a “bitter, agenda-driven, man-hating, disrespectful, derogatory feminist.” And when you read even a handful of the remarks Agnew made about Neeleman and her family, it’s easy to see that Liz’s anger is righteous. EXPOSED: The WORST Thing That Happened at Ballerina Farm www.youtube.com The author “deliberately, falsely portrayed Hannah as unhappy, falsely portrayed her marriage as unequal, falsely portrayed her children as annoying, falsely portrayed her life as unfulfilled, her life as fake because Hannah's life is family. And there is nothing feminists hate more than family,” says Liz. In the article, Agnew took jab after jab at Daniel Neeleman, Hannah’s husband, painting him as the domineering alpha-male type. Liz cites the following excerpt as an example: “Our first few years of marriage were really hard, we sacrificed a lot,” she says. “But we did have this vision, this dream and —” Daniel interrupts: “We still do.” What kind of sacrifices, I ask her. “Well, I gave up dance, which was hard. You give up a piece of yourself. And Daniel gave up his career ambitions.” I look out at the vastness and don’t totally agree. Daniel wanted to live in the great western wilds, so they did; he wanted to farm, so they do; he likes date nights once a week, so they go (they have a babysitter on those evenings); he didn’t want nannies in the house, so there aren’t any. The only space earmarked to be Neeleman’s own — a small barn she wanted to convert into a ballet studio — ended up becoming the kids’ schoolroom.” The passage captures the tone of the entire article. “Cultural hegemony” is what Liz sees when she reads Agnew’s insults. First coined by Marxist Antonio Gramsci, founder of the Italian Communist Party, cultural hegemony refers to how a governing body captures various institutions in order to shape and control the culture, the end goal being that the governing class’s worldview becomes the cultural norm. “The Marxist left cannot stand if a man and a woman are happily married, if they are fulfilling traditional gender roles — the woman is having babies, the husband is providing and running a business — if they're homeschooling their children, if they are happy,” says Liz. If you need further proof, look no further than Agnew’s brazen acknowledgement of her irritation at not being able to get Hannah Neeleman alone. “I can’t, it seems, get an answer out of Neeleman without her being corrected, interrupted or answered for by either her husband or a child. Usually I am doing battle with steely Hollywood publicists; today I am up against an army of toddlers who all want their mum and a husband who thinks he knows better.” “What an absolutely nasty article,” says Liz in disgust, adding that the piece proves that “feminism is a pernicious fraud that hates women.” “When women choose to be feminine — like Hannah Neeleman — choose to be wives, choose to be mothers and actually like it, feminists' heads explode.” “Nobody will more viciously gut a happily married mother — who's happy with those choices — than a feminist who thinks nobody should be allowed to be fulfilled by doing what God created women to do,” Liz condemns. To hear more of her analysis, watch the clip above. Want more from Liz Wheeler?To enjoy more of Liz’s based commentary, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Kyle Seraphin has always been a "bit of a contrarian" — a trait that fueled him as a special agent, pushed him to be a whistleblower, and later put a target on his back courtesy of a weaponized and woke Federal Bureau of Investigation."I'm kind of this sort of sarcastic dude," Seraphin, 42, of Williamson County, Texas, said in an extensive interview with Blaze News.Seraphin finds that sarcasm — and a quick wit — comes in handy. After battling the bureau over heavy-handed COVID rules and authoritarian vaccine mandates, Seraphin became a protected whistleblower, taking his concerns to Congress. That eventually led to being targeted — set up, really — in a an apparent bureau effort to drive him out. Seraphin transitioned from his life doing surveillance work for the FBI to broadcasting a daily podcast — "The Kyle Seraphin Show" — covering politics, current events, and yes, the FBI."I consider myself a husband and father first and American second, and then distant — whatever job it is now — podcast host. But obviously, former FBI. A recovering FBI agent, so that's part of it." When he joined the U.S. military, he was 27. Most of his basic-training mates were barely out of high school. "I was the grandpa of the group, if you will, the oldest age you could go through," Seraphin said. "So I've definitely kind of marched to a different drummer most of my life."When he got out of the service, Seraphin spun through a range of jobs: movie-studio financial analyst at Warner Bros, restaurant manager, paramedic, ad salesman at a CBS affiliate — even selling ergonomic office furniture for a manufacturer from Piscataway, New Jersey."I was in the military for just shy of four years," Seraphin said. "Got out of my first enlistment, worked for a hospital. I was a paramedic. I was an air-traffic controller. And I was trying to figure out — I’ve got these skill sets I learned. What am I going to do? And I applied to the FBI."'That’s the part that has been the hardest for me is to have my livelihood stripped.'Seraphin joined the bureau in 2016, drawing his first assignment just after the historic presidential election that saw Donald J. Trump defeat Hillary Clinton. "So one of my first really official duties was walking around in the crowd at Trump's inauguration," he said. "It was also my first interaction with the Secret Service." CORRUPTION: FBI Knowingly Suspends WRONG Agent for Info Leak youtu.be From almost the get-go, Seraphin found his expectations didn't match with what he was assigned to do."As I joined the FBI, I was immediately disillusioned in my first assignment that what we were doing was not what I was sold," Seraphin said. "I was told that it was an elite organization. That's not my experience. I was told that it was the best job in the world. And that was also not my experience."Seraphin's first assignment was in counterintelligence."I inherited investigations that were eight years old, into Americans with no allegation of criminality," he said. "That was not what I was signing up to do." Suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O'Boyle with former special agents and Suspendables Kyle Seraphin and Steve Friend.—Photo courtesy of Kyle Seraphin, used with permission"The reality of counterintelligence investigations in the FBI is that it's very slow," he said. "It's a pace that is meant for seasoned investigators that have a lot of time under their belt that want to kind of take a step back and work slow, long-term investigations."Seraphin found himself shoulder to shoulder with Secret Service agents at the White House after violent police-brutality protesters got so near to the White House that President Trump was taken to an underground bunker for safety."I was on front lines the day after they put him in the bunker," he recalled. "My entire surveillance team drove down in covert vehicles that we had to take the license plates off so that, you know, the Antifa types didn't recognize us. And we stood the line with Secret Service because they ran out of people in the uniformed division."Seraphin's role as a whistleblower grew out of the 2020 COVID pandemic, when a highly contagious virus drove hundreds of millions of people into self-isolation, followed by a massive government push for a largely untested "vaccine." Seraphin asked for a religious accommodation to the mandatory vaccine, concerned in part because the shots were developed using cell lines obtained from aborted babies. In spring of 2022, Seraphin was suspended under the guise of an investigation for doing target practice with his service weapon at a shooting range on federal land in New Mexico. The sound of the shots had apparently prompted calls to local police from a nearby school. 'It appears that there is a political vendetta against your organization.' The police officer who made contact with Seraphin at the range concluded that Seraphin did nothing wrong. The officer left the scene without taking any action, Seraphin said. The land was often used by the public for target practice. Even before the unsettling incident in New Mexico, Seraphin had already begun networking with like-minded FBI agents in an online group he set up on the encrypted app Signal. Concern was high over the vaccine mandate. He figured at least 10% of bureau employees felt strongly enough to be conscientious objectors. One of them turned out to be Special Agent Garret O'Boyle, attached to the FBI's Kansas City field office."We'd never worked together. We’d never met in person," Seraphin said. "We simply were part of the same chat group that I was sending out inspirational messages to and letting people know, 'You're not alone.'”The men discovered that each of them had concerns about the bureau beyond the heavy-handed COVID mandates. They connected on the Signal group and each learned the other was primed to go to Congress with concerns about conditions inside the bureau — including a climate not tolerant of those with conservative views."I said, 'Yeah, I'm going to Congress, and I gave them four pages of handwritten notes of what is going on that is wrong in the bureau for the time that I've been there," Seraphin recalled. "And he said, 'I’ve been doing the same thing. I've also been trying to get my member of Congress interested. And I've got some other stuff.'”Seraphin then did something that O'Boyle would later be blamed for. He contacted the crusading Project Veritas, led by James O'Keefe III. The investigative journalism organization became an FBI target in 2021 after it was provided with the diary of Ashley Biden, the president's daughter. The FBI response included SWAT raids on the homes of O'Keefe and some of his associates.Seraphin discovered the unique way the bureau was treating the Veritas case. Soon he was doing an interview wearing dark shades and a hoodie from a darkened set with his voice disguised."It appears that there is a political vendetta against your organization," he told O'Keefe. "We don't see a lot of investigations into news organizations. That's not common. The ones that are, are almost specifically tied to threat countries that we'd be investigating for intelligence purposes.""To see a criminal investigation, particularly one categorized as this one, is alerting, and it's surprising based on the public information that is provided," he said.Seraphin told how the FBI had classified the Veritas investigation as a "SIM," or sensitive investigative matter, and classified in FBI records as related to federal election crimes. Seraphin believed the public — and many within the bureau — would like to know what a news story about the Biden diary had to do with elections.Based on how the FBI classified the Veritas case, "They're saying that nobody would consider these people journalists, and nobody would consider them news media," Seraphin said. "And I know that to be false, because I'm looking at the document. So I made a decision. This is not the way that our country is supposed to work." It turned out the methods Project Veritas used to disguise Seraphin's identity were easy pickings for the bureau. It did not take long for the FBI to unmask the voice and determine that Seraphin was the disguised whistleblower.It would be natural to think that Seraphin would be the target of FBI investigators in the Veritas case, but that's not what happened. O'Boyle, who had raised objections within his resident FBI agency office about the tactics being used to investigate January 6 cases, would soon be blamed for the "leaks" to Project Veritas.O'Boyle had just decided to take a new job within the bureau to join an elite new surveillance unit based in Washington, D.C. He and his wife, Heidi, who had just delivered their fourth daughter, sold their home in Wichita, Kansas, shipped their belongings to a new home in Virginia, and thought they were on the way to a new life.On the day O'Boyle was to start his new assignment, he was ushered into a conference room and told to surrender his FBI credentials and his service weapon. His security clearance was suspended. He was accused of being the Project Veritas leaker.There was just one problem. He wasn't the leaker. He knew it. Seraphin knew it. And most significantly, the FBI knew it. And yet injustice in the case moved along like a runaway train.The homeless special agentO'Boyle's life suddenly turned upside down. The family's belongings were in storage awaiting the move into their new home. Their approved mortgage was canceled. He and Heidi returned to their native Wisconsin without their belongings — and without O'Boyle's FBI salary.The O'Boyles were suddenly a homeless family of six. They sought shelter in a camper parked in a relative's driveway, just as the Wisconsin fall tumbled into winter.“That’s the part that has been the hardest for me is to have my livelihood stripped,” O'Boyle said in 2023. “My ability to take care of my family just taken.""And, you know, I’m sure people would say this is too extreme, but I don’t think it is. In the modern era, when you take a man’s livelihood away from him, and you tell him he can’t have another one, that’s a death warrant. And you’re going to say, ‘You quit. We’re not going to fire you. You quit.’"'It’s absurd to me on every level. It defies credulity.'While Seraphin has left the FBI and pursued his search for the truth in the world of podcasting, O'Boyle is still a suspended special agent without pay, forbidden from seeking or taking work to support his family.In July 2024, Seraphin went public with the story and his belief that the FBI has opened a grand jury investigation in retaliation for his actions as a whistleblower.“They went after Garret simply because we were connected together, we were good friends,” Seraphin said. “My belief is they lined it up because they knew we both had gotten into that COVID group that I started on Signal, which had 300 FBI employees.”Seraphin is determined to see his friend's name cleared and the FBI forced to reinstate O'Boyle with back pay. He cheers on the work done by Empower Oversight, a support organization seeking to get justice for O'Boyle and other whistleblowers. Former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin (left) interviews suspended Special Agent Garret O'Boyle on the April 26, 2024, episode of "The Kyle Seraphin Show." Both men are FBI whistleblowers. Kyle Seraphin/Rumble, used with permission "What they revealed at Empower Oversight — which is something obviously I've known — is that I did that interview, not Garret," Seraphin said. "Which is a big deal because I know that they suspended my friend. And the other big deal is, is that the FBI knew it wasn't Garret."Seraphin made headlines for exposing the FBI's interest in investigating the supposed threat presented by parents who went before local school boards to protest COVID lockdowns, the introduction of woke classroom materials, and the fight against placement of explicit homosexual materials in school libraries.A few weeks after submitting his request for a religious accommodation for the COVID shot, Seraphin was tipped off about the effort to monitor local schools.Terrorist parents?"I'm walking through the office, and I get this supervisor who's working intelligence stuff. He's an intel analyst," Seraphin said. "And he said, 'Did you see that email?'" Seraphin had no idea what the supervisor was talking about, but he soon received an email explanation."Again, I feel like God's plan is sort of like these crooked lines that make a straight path," he said. "So I got the email, and I opened it up, and I immediately took a walk and made an appointment to go talk to my member of Congress — because the email came from two places: the FBI’s Criminal Division and the FBI’s assistant director of counterterrorism."'That's a no-brainer for me. That looks like perjury.'They had plans to introduce a threat tag — "EDU officials" — to track investigations of parents threatening local school officials."I knew that [Attorney General] Merrick Garland had just gone in front of Congress, not five days earlier, and said that the FBI would not be using resources to investigate parents at school board meetings, using specifically counterterrorism resources," he said."Here we are seeing an email suggesting that the counterterrorism division is involved in this because the AD of counterterrorism signed it," Seraphin said. "That's a no-brainer for me. That looks like perjury.""My allegation was never that the FBI can investigate parents," he said. "I don't want them to, but they can. I mean, I'm a parent. But there has to be an interstate nexus. There has to be a federal nexus for a federal violation of crime."Seraphin took another case to Congress — a memo from the Richmond field office that described so-called "radical traditionalist Catholics" as potential terror subjects. It proposed infiltrating Catholic churches as some sort of threat mitigation.'I'm going home. I'm going back to my father.'That disclosure led the House Committee on the judiciary to open an investigation and issue a subpoena to FBI Director Christopher Wray. The bureau eventually withdrew the memo after a huge public uproar.Documents obtained by House investigators showed the FBI "singled out Americans who are pro-life, pro-family, and support the biological basis for sex and gender distinction," according to a December 2023 House report.Dean of the SuspendablesSeraphin's post-FBI life has taken him in new directions. He founded the Suspendables, an honor society of current and former FBI employees who are veterans of the weaponized bureau. The group has a website, a logo (an FBI badge turned upside down), and a catalog of merchandise.He helped to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to support O'Boyle and Marcus Allen, an FBI analyst who also had his security clearance suspended and was in danger of losing his house. Seraphin is the dean of the Suspendables, using his podcast platform to keep the issues before the public.He might well have learned the skills for the new role watching his father, Charlie Seraphin, a career radio broadcast journalist and station manager who later transitioned into vice president of marketing for the Texas Rangers and Kansas City Royals.In 1993, Charlie Seraphin did radio interviews with cult leader David Koresh, the messianic leader of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. As the station manager at KRLD-AM radio in Dallas, he made the difficult decision to air messages from Koresh after the FBI made the request. It led to the release of eight children from the heavily armed building, weeks before an FBI raid and massive fire consumed the grounds.Charlie Seraphin did a live interview in March 1993 with Koresh, who had been wounded in a firefight with federal authorities. After speaking with the cult leader off the air for 45 minutes, he put him on live, with the FBI's approval."I've been shot. I'm bleeding bad," Koresh said. "I'm going home. I'm going back to my father."The younger Seraphin continues the broadcast tradition of his father with a daily show covering hot-button issues like the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago compound, the failure of the FBI to arrest the person who planted two pipe bombs in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, and the ongoing prosecutions of more than 1,470 Capitol protesters.The contrarian continues in this new role as an observer and critic. Noting that more than three and a half years after Jan. 6, the FBI has not made an arrest in the pipe bombs case, Seraphin said: "The fact that they didn't catch the most terroristic person on that day — that will forever live in infamy. It’s absurd to me on every level. It defies credulity."Seraphin has been a whistleblower, calling attention to abuses inside the agency, but his former employer does not recognize him in that role."Democrats have said, 'Your agency has done an investigation and determined that you're not a whistleblower. So we don't recognize you as a whistleblower,'” he said."So let me say that in a different way: 'The government has investigated the government and found that the government did nothing wrong.'""Take that for whatever that's worth."In response to a request for comment, the FBI National Press Office told Blaze News: "The FBI does not have any comment."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A subset of alarmists is convinced that to curb so-called global warming, they must block out the sun, at least partially. David Keith, founding faculty director at the University of Chicago's Climate Systems Engineering Initiative, is among them. Keith, a multimillionaire who was previously at the University of Calgary and Harvard University, seeks to pollute the stratosphere ultimately with millions of tons of sulfur dioxide. Blasting aerosols and other reflective substances, such as diamonds or aluminum dioxide, into the atmosphere, roughly 12-16 miles above the Earth, might replicate the effects of volcanic eruptions in blocking sunlight and lowering global mean temperatures. The 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, which injected 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, resulted in a rapid half-degree drop in global temperatures. According to NASA, this drop lasted or two years until the sulfate dropped out of the atmosphere. Without the guidance of Ivy League technocrats or the help of volcanoes, the species unwittingly found another way to lower global temperatures and scatter solar rays: using fossil fuels. Emissions from cars, homes, and industry have long mixed in with low-altitude clouds, causing them to brighten and bounce more sunlight, resulting in a cooling effect. However, climate alarmists' ongoing campaign against the use of affordable energy — again, to supposedly curb global warming — might diminish this secondary benefit, thereby exacerbating global warming. "I think most people are aware that there's a greenhouse gas effect that warms climate," Sarah Doherty of the University of Washington's Marine Cloud Brightening Program told the Weather Channel earlier this year. "But what most people aren't aware of is that the particles that we've also been producing and adding to the atmosphere offset some of that climate warming," continued Doherty. "So, the overall effect is one of climate warming, but it would be a lot more without that particulate pollution." Extra to reducing this low-hanging particulate pollution released by a productive society, Keith wants to release his alternative pollutant with a "purpose-built fleet of high-altitude aircraft." In a February paper in the MIT Technology Review, he co-authored with Harvard Kennedy School research fellow Wake Smith, Keith noted that "offsetting a substantial fraction of global warming — say, 1 °C of cooling — would require platforms that could deliver several million metric tons per year of material to the stratosphere." "Neither rockets nor balloons are suitable for hauling such a large mass to this high perch. Consequently, full-scale deployment would require a fleet of novel aircraft — a few hundred in order to achieve a 1 °C cooling target," said the paper. "Procuring just the first aircraft in the manner typical of large commercial or military aircraft development programs might take roughly a decade, and manufacturing the required fleet would take several years more." While Keith acknowledged his scheme's current technological limits and cautioned against near-term deployment, he nevertheless advocated for policymakers to consider the possibility of deployment "earlier than is now widely assumed." On the basis of his calculations, Keith, who made roughly $72 million off the sale of his carbon capture company to Occidental Petroleum, recently suggested to the New York Times that following through on his scheme would not only lower temperatures but might also change the hue of twilight. Of course, orange twilight is far from the only possible side effect of such efforts to meddle with the sun and sky. Numerous scientists have indicated that solar geoengineering might lead to humanitarian and ecological disasters. In recent years, hundreds of scientists have signed an open letter calling for an international non-use agreement on solar engineering, stressing that "the risks of solar geoengineering are poorly understood and can never be fully known. Impacts will vary across regions, and there are uncertainties about the effects on weather patterns, agriculture, and the provision of basic needs of food and water." Blaze News previously reported that a 2017 study published in Nature Communications indicated that aerosols released only in the northern hemisphere might increase droughts, hurricanes, and storms elsewhere. "This is a really dangerous path to go down," Beatrice Rindevall, chairwoman of the Swedish Society for Nature, told the Times. "It could shock the climate system, could alter hydrological cycles and could exacerbate extreme weather and climate instability." Oxford University atmospheric physicist Raymond Pierrehumbert has characterized solar geoengineering as a threat to mankind. "It's not only a bad idea in terms of something that would never be safe to deploy," said Pierrehumbert. "But even doing research on it is not just a waste of money, but actively dangerous." "There certainly are risks, and there certainly are uncertainties," Keith told the Times. "But there's really a lot of evidence that the risks are quantitatively small compared to the benefits, and the uncertainties just aren't that big." While still a professor at Harvard, Keith attempted to run an experiment, possibly over Arizona. Unable to find a partner to launch a high-altitude balloon and met with objections by Indian groups and other critics, Harvard contracted the Swedish space corporation to run the test. That test was similarly met with controversy and aborted. After his experiments were foiled, Keith pledged not to be "open in the same way" with future endeavors. He also left Harvard for the University of Chicago, which the Times indicated is permitting him to hire 10 new faculty members and kick off a new $100 million geoengineering program. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A new technique to capture data through HDMI cables is becoming more accurate and easier to decipher.This technique allows savvy data thieves to spy on your screens, monitors, and, of course, smart TVs if they are in the right area or can capture signals.While it is not exactly a remote operation for a would-be hacker, individuals may be able to take passwords, data, or anything else transmitted to your screen through an HDMI cable, with greater accuracy than previously thought.Uruguay's University of the Republic told TechSpot that this method is already being used and thatT governments are aware of it.'A new avenue for governments and criminals to spy on your data.'Hackers could potentially steal data from government sources by planting a discreet signal-capturing device within a building or target area to gather electromagnetic signals. Alternatively, a radio antenna could capture signals from HDMI cables outside a government installation.The HDMI signals leak some electromagnetic radiation transmitted between the source and the display, and then hackers capture those signals, extract the data, and decipher it.The Uruguayan research team trained an artificial intelligence model based on existing samples of electromagnetic radiation to decipher intercepted signals. This resulted in reconstructing the HDMI signals to 70% completion, which was reportedly good enough to read what was on the screen."Your HDMI being hacked is a new avenue for governments and criminals to spy on your data," said Return's managing editor, Peter Gietl. "Although it remains to be seen how effective this attack will be, there is a wide variety of ways for nefarious actors to access your private information. Unfortunately, if the NSA really wants your data, they will most likely be able to get to it."Return has previously published "The ultimate Return guide to escaping the surveillance state" to give readers easy solutions to protect your privacy.Believe it or not, it has historically been much easier to steal signals during the era of analog video. Video cables had even greater amounts of leakage in previous generations, but with the advent of HDMI, those signals became more contained and more difficult to decipher when captured.Lead researcher Federico Larroca claimed "governments are worried about" HDMI data extraction but added that data-sensitive agencies likely already shield their facilities against such exploitations related to electromagnetic signals.It's worth it, Larroca concluded, even if it comes with a significant cost.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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