Today's News: September 20, 2021

Swiss Citizens Revolt, Install Tables Outside in Front Bars, Restaurants to Ignore Vax Passports

Throughout Europe, despite their heads of state promising otherwise, countries have begun to roll out vaccine passports. Under the tyrannical measures, citizens must present proof of vaccination, usually on a smartphone, before being allowed in places like bars, restaurants or social events. Naturally, this attack on the freedom to travel and socialize has sparked massive backlash by those who do not wish to submit to tyranny.

Last month, when these announcements were made and the passes rolled out in Europe, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in France, Switzerland, and Italy. Many of the protests turned violent as police clashed with the modern freedom fighters.

Other protests, however, did not turn violent and in some instances, police even joined in with the protesters in an ostensible effort to end up on the right side of history.c

Pentagon Admits Drone Strike Killed Afghan Civilians as Victims’ Families Demand Probe

he Pentagon acknowledged Friday the U.S. drone strike that killed 10 civilians, including seven children, in Afghanistan in the final days of the U.S. withdrawal was a “tragic mistake.” The Pentagon previously asserted the strike prevented an imminent threat by ISIS-K fighters, but investigations quickly revealed the victims were instead aid worker Zemari Ahmadi and his family members. Ahmadi’s family is demanding a probe into the killing. This is his brother, Romal Ahmadi.

Romal Ahmadi: “They should accept and pay their damages. They should come to me and apologize and offer their condolences. They should pay blood money. We are innocent. They should evacuate us.”

In Washington, D.C., lawmakers said they would investigate the deadly strike, while activists renewed calls for an end to U.S. drone warfare.

U.S. developing plan to require foreign visitors to be vaccinated, official says

The Biden administration is developing a plan to require nearly all foreign visitors to the United States to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of eventually lifting travel restrictions that bar much of the world from entering the United States, a White House official told Reuters on Wednesday.

Pfizer says COVID vaccine safe for children 5 to 11 years old

Pfizer and BioNTech have said trial results show their COVID-19 vaccine is safe and produces a robust immune response in children aged five to 11, adding that they would seek regulatory approval shortly.

Joe Biden’s Multitrillion-Dollar Domestic Agenda Faces Major Setbacks as He Pivots to U.N.

President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda faces major setbacks in Congress, as Democrats debate the timing and level of spending for his second budget reconciliation spending bill.

The House Budget committee will not mark up Biden’s $3.5 trillion proposal this week, according Punchbowl News, which means it will not be ready in time for to pass the House in unison with the president’s bipartisan infrastructure package.

Surge in migrants headed to US: ‘No choice but to keep on’

A record-breaking 70,000 migrants have crossed the Darien Gap from South America to Central America this year. The dangerous trek is laden with snakes and bandits – but in a bid for a better life in the U.S., many feel they have no choice but to face the risks.

Senate Parliamentarian Says Dems Cannot Use Spending Bill to Create Pathway to Citizenship

The Senate parliamentarian ruled Sunday Democrats cannot create a pathway to citizenship for millions of people as part of their $3.5 trillion spending bill. Democrats were hoping to pass the measure — which could grant citizenship to immigrants with temporary protected status, or TPS, essential workers, farm workers, and those brought to the U.S. as children — by passing the package through reconciliation, without Republican support. Democrats say they will keep fighting for comprehensive immigration reform.

80yo Army Vet Facing Fines, Jail for Butterfly Garden He Planted in His Front Yard

In the Land of the Free, as TFTP frequently reports, attempting to use your own property in a manner that suits you but not the government, can and will land you in hot water. Dennis Moriarty offered up his life to preserve the ostensible freedom in this land yet he is now finding out that “freedom” under tyranny is not freedom at all. His “crimes” in this new tyrannical world? Planting a flower garden in his own yard.

Moriarty, an 80-year-old Army veteran who loves butterflies, spends his days looking out from his porch into his 1,500 square foot garden in his front yard. He loves this garden as he’s spent countless hours planting native plants to attract butterflies.

The garden consists of milkweed, coneflowers, culver’s root, buttonbush, and other native flowers that aid in attracting bees and butterflies. As KansasCity.com points out, however, this beauty comes with a price — thanks to government.

In-Car Cameras Are Now Watching Every Little Thing You Do

Gone are the days where you could hop in your car and escape to somewhere for a little privacy.

That’s because cameras that were put in cars to catch drivers falling asleep are now catching…well, everything.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have now developed a smart-car camera system that can “figure out exactly what a driver is doing,” according to a new Gizmodo report.

And already the camera is being positioned as “potentially improving the safety of semi-autonomous driving features” and a feature that could help drivers in semi-autonomous vehicles pay attention to the road.

The “appeal” of these points is what prompted the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation to come up with a camera that uses AI powered image recognition to construct a digital sketch of the driver – which then, in turn, provides enough details for the system to guess what the driver is doing. The system can determine things like when a driver is sipping a cup of coffee or looking at their phone.

The vehicle can then make a determination if the driver is paying attention, prompting a semi-autonomous system to determine how distracted they could be.

Eventually, researchers want to expand the system to be able to recognize when a driver points to a certain direction in situations like automated parking.

Thousands of Women Report Period Delays After COVID-19 Vaccination, Calling for More Research

COVID-19 vaccines seem to be responsible for delayed or heavier-than-usual periods for thousands of women.

In the U.K. more than 30,000 women said their menstrual cycles were somewhat disrupted after getting a COVID-19 vaccine, Sky News reported last week. The changes were reported by recipients of all three available vaccines in the country: Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca.

Similar side effects have been reported in the U.S. as well. The National Institute of Health has granted a total of $1.67 million to five institutions to research how the COVID-19 vaccines affect menstrual cycles.