90 Miles From Tyranny

Thursday, January 4, 2024

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #2314

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,

from the beautiful to the repugnant,

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,

you could be inspired, you could be appalled.

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.

You have been warned.

Visage à trois #1996

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The millions of migrants who have crossed into the country in recent years could be bringing the recently resurfaced infectious diseases with them.

Successful public health campaigns and medical advances have enabled the United States to conquer a range of disfiguring and damaging diseases. Polio, which paralyzed thousands of Americans annually, was wiped out by widespread vaccinations. In 1999 the nation’s last hospital for lepers closed its doors in Louisiana. A global campaign eradicated smallpox, while lethal tuberculosis, the “consumption” that stalked characters in decades of literature, seemed beaten by antibiotics. Measles outbreaks still occur from time to time, but they are small, local, and easily contained.

Recently, however, some of these forgotten but still formidable infectious diseases have begun to reappear in the U.S. For two years running, polio has been detected in some New York water samples, and this fall, leprosy reemerged in Florida, where cases of malaria have also been recorded.

Health officials say they are not sure why these and other infectious diseases are resurfacing. One distinct possibility, which officials are loath to discuss, is that the millions of migrants who have crossed into the country in recent years could be bringing the scourges with them, since many are from countries where such rare diseases persist and vaccination programs are not robust.

“The recent polio and leprosy cases are almost certainly imports to the U.S.,” said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a physician and scientist at Stanford University, one of the most outspoken critics of official Covid-19 narratives in the last pandemic that later proved flawed.

And the Biden administration, an aggressive promoter of often mandatory vaccination last time, now is offering little public comment on the connection between disease and the porous borders with which its immigration policy has become widely identified.

Neither the Centers for Disease Control nor the Department of Homeland Security would discuss the issue with RealClearInvestigations. Legal immigrants are required to receive vaccinations for a host of diseases, but the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged it does not have vaccination records for the millions who have entered the U.S. since the Biden administration relaxed border controls upon taking office in January 2021.

“It’s not like there is some Typhoid Mary out there, but this is something people are seeing and thinking about, even if they don’t want to discuss it publicly,” said Art Arthur of the Center for Immigration Studies, which opposes the Biden administration’s border policies.

The reticence of federal agencies has not stopped some local officials, however, from raising public health alarms over massive immigration. New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan warned in April that at least half of the migrants who have poured into the city had not been vaccinated against polio. The potentially paralyzing and life-threatening virus remains endemic in two countries in the world, Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to the World Health Organization. Since President Biden ordered what proved to be a chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, an estimated 90,000 Afghans have come to the U.S. under the terms of Operation Allies Welcome.

It is not clear if those migrants met the polio vaccination requirement. DHS did not respond to a question about whether medical histories were reviewed in the fast-tracked entry of Afghans who got out of their country before the Taliban reimposed its control.

Vasan’s warning pointed directly to the southern border, which has seen record-shattering arrivals on the Biden...

Visage à trois #1995

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Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #1534

Visage à trois #1994

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Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #1534

Elon Musk is Right

Elon Musk is presently the richest man in the world.

He may also be the smartest.

In an interview with the British prime minister, Musk warned about the dangers of AI (artificial intelligence).

He said, "There will come a point when no job is needed – you can have a job if you want for personal satisfaction, but the AI will be able to do everything."

Breitbart.com has added a new category to its menu: AI danger.

Here you can read some of what Musk has concluded:

Google has replaced its ad sales employees with AI
An L.A.-based company, Channel 1, claims it will become the first news network to utilize AI-generated news anchors starting next year
H&R Block launches AI Tax Filing assistant
Wendy’s is implementing AI powered by Google to take customers’ drive-thru orders- (actually , this may be a good thing, based on my disappointing experience.)

Elon Musk may be a technological genius and he understands the dire consequences of a world consumed with how easily artificial creations can duplicate human labor.

But AI can be even more devastating to our lives right now due to our ignorance of its potential to create a world of fake images.

The images of celebrities are presently being used to perpetrate fraudulent advertising that will allow access to customers’ data and bank accounts. Video ads showing Oprah Winfrey and Jennifer Garner giving away cookware and deluxe mixers free of charge except for a small shipping fee are all fake. In addition, internet ads show Elon Musk inventing all kinds of devices such as small heaters, electrical plugins and mosquito killers and offering them for only that same small shipping charge. Yesterday, I saw one with Musk promoting a weight loss product)

I admit to being just as ignorant and one time even falling for these scams because I hadn’t yet known that AI had been implemented with realistic videos. I had become good at recognizing when a picture had been manipulated by Adobe's Photoshop program but this was quite different. At this very moment, it is obvious that one can no longer trust one’s eyes even when looking at a site that one has been visiting without any previous problems in the past, such as Instagram and Facebook. AI can replace any face on a subject with one of a celebrity and completely change the expression on their faces.

Naturally, the Trump-deranged Democrats will be using AI to plant negative fake images of Trump and others to influence the 2024 presidential election. It appears this is already happening. I’ve just watched such image that was an attack on our former president. Several real videos that I saw were distorted and showed the persons, including Melania Trump, standing next to Trump making weird faces as if they smelled something awful. After all the fake videos aired, the narrator intoned seriously, “Is this who we want for president?” But I watched his inauguration and Melania certainly did not have anything but an adoring and proud expression as she watched her husband assume the presidency. Now...

The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #1605

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