Notices by Steve Herman (w7voa@journa.host), page 4

The departure of Edmundo González Urrutia from Venezuela “is the direct result of the anti-democratic measures that Nicolás Maduro has unleashed on the Venezuelan people, including against González Urrutia and other opposition leaders, since the election.” — Statement from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

“Let’s require safe storage of firearms. I know I have mine locked up. How could you not have an assault rifle, a weapon in a house, not locked up and knowing your kid knows where it is? You gotta hold parents accountable if they let their child have access to these guns,” says President Biden in Westby, Wisconsin.

DoJ - US federal grand jury indicts six computer hackers from Russia for targeting the Ukrainian government, as well as US government computers and those of other NATO countries. https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/stigal_et_al._superseding_indictment.pdf

Liz Cheney, who was a GOP member of Congress and is the daughter of a Republican former VP, says she’s voting for Kamala Harris. https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/09/duke-university-liz-cheney-voting-for-kamala-harris-presidential-election-donald-trump-threat-to-democracy-election-security

US Attorney General Merrick Garland warns that not only Russia, but China and Iran are also trying to influence this November's US general election.

US sanctions top RT editors alleging, according to the US Treasury Department, a "nefarious effort to covertly recruit unwitting American influencers in support of their malign influence campaign," using a front company to disguise its own involvement or the involvement of the Russian government in content. https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20240904

DoJ - Two RT employees indicted "in a $10 million scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging." https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-rt-employees-indicted-covertly-funding-and-directing-us-company-published-thousands

Update: "It does not look we're going to do a rescue," but Acela 2173 will stand by until it is determined whether two spare engines can be attached to Amtrak NE Regional 175, with 200+ passengers aboard, which has broken down 48 miles NE of Baltimore.

I'm on Amtrak's Acela 2173 which has backed up and, we are informed, is about to pull alongside a stranded train to "rescue" some 200 passengers near Newark, Delaware.

The Walz motorcade was involved in a crash in Milwaukee this afternoon. “A staff member in our press van appears to have a broken arm and is being treated by medics. Everyone else is shaken but appears to be in okay condition,” replays pool reporter Jazmine Ulloa of the NY Times. “We were violently thrown forward, as our van slammed into the one in front of us and was hit from behind.”

Politico- Washington DC startup pitched as a service to integrate AI into lobbying is covertly run by a pair of well-known, far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons who are using pseudonyms in their new business. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/02/jacob-wohl-jack-burkman-ai-lobbying-pseudonyms-00176917

“Our CBS security team today got to the man first to rip him off the riser near our live shot location. Not local police, USSS, or private security at the venue. Another security lapse at a Trump rally.” - Campaign reporter Jake Rosen

Police taser a Trump rally attendee in Pennsylvania who stormed the media riser moments after the former president complained about his press coverage. https://apnews.com/article/trump-rally-arrest-taser-media-68fe78b79ae65556c4efc850e142998c

Elon Musk's X banned in Brazil after its owner refused a judge’s orders to suspend certain accounts. And Brazilian Supreme Court justice have also frozen the finances of SpaceX's Starlink. https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2024/08/moraes-determina-derrubada-no-brasil-do-x-de-elon-musk.shtml

CDC - A total of 9 people in the US have now died after eating listeria-infected Boar’s Head brand meats. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/s0828-listeria-outbreak-deli-meats.html

If Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg “does anything illegal…he will spend the rest of his life in prison — as will others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election,” Donald Trump threatens in a new book. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/28/trump-zuckerberg-election-book-00176639

"After a month-long pause due to President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw his candidacy, the Decision Desk HQ Forecast model is back. ... As of our relaunch on August 26th, the presidential model shows Kamala Harris with a 55% chance of winning the presidency. This compared to the 56% chance our previous model gave Donald Trump to defeat Joe Biden when Biden dropped out of the race." https://elections2024.thehill.com/forecast/2024/president/

NPR - Two members of Trump's campaign staff had a verbal and physical altercation Monday with an official at Arlington National Cemetery, where the former president participated in a wreath-laying ceremony, https://www.npr.org/2024/08/27/nx-s1-5091154/trump-arlington-cemetery

More than 200 Republicans who previously worked for either former President George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. or Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president in an open letter obtained by USA Today. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25071901-bush-mccain-and-romney-alumni-for-harris-statement

Belarus, under the guise of exercises, is concentrating a significant number of military personnel and weaponry, including special forces, tanks, artillery and anti-aircraft missiles, near the northern border of Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian foreign ministry. https://mfa.gov.ua/en/news/zayava-mzs-ukrayini-shchodo-nedruzhnih-dij-respubliki-bilorus