And Now… The Blade-Less Swiss Army Knife
May 7th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge:
Victorinox Chief Executive Officer Carl Eisner told Swiss paper Blick on Monday that its Swiss Army Knife will soon be available without a blade due to mounting regulations in European and Asian countries amid a surge in violence.
“We are concerned about the increasing regulation of knives due to the violence in the world,” Elsener said, citing new laws in the UK and Asian countries that only permit knife-carrying for work or outdoor activities.
Eisner said, “In some markets, the blade creates an image of a weapon.”
Victorinox told Bloomberg, “The increasing regulation of knives in various countries represents a major challenge for the company.”
Unsafe & Ineffective
May 7th, 2024Via: Aubrey Marcus:
Finally.. a film about COVID-19, vaccines and our societal response that isn’t one sided, conspiratorial or condescending. Let’s look back with 2020 vision at the largest medical intervention in human history. @benjosephstew #COVID19 #SafeAndEffective #ChakarunaMedia pic.twitter.com/B4R075SZqi
— Aubrey Marcus (@AubreyMarcus) April 30, 2024
How Attackers Can Decloak Routing-Based VPNs For a Total VPN Leak
May 6th, 2024I’ve been advising Cryptogon readers not to trust VPNs for a couple of decades, but not for this reason.
My guess is that a lot of VPN admins are checking their configurations right now.
Even if this DHCP exploit is mitigated, it doesn’t change the fact that the VPN provider can see every site you visit* and it’s an act of faith on your part that the provider is not storing your activity.
*Unless you’re running Tor over it as well.
Via: Leviathan Security Group:
…there are ways an attacker who is on the same network as a targeted user might be able to become their DHCP server…
Where Unsold EVs Go To Die: Belgium’s Ports Drowning Under Glut Of Chinese Imports
May 6th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge:
You probably need to see it to appreciate the challenges the automobile industry faces in transitioning to electricity. You also need to come here to understand how the Chinese industry’s overcapacity has flooded the European market.
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Imported vehicles are seriously piling up at European ports, turning them into “car parks.” Automakers are distributors are struggling with a slowdown in car sales as well as logistical bottlenecks that make it hard to alleviate the buildup of new, unsold vehicles.
Some Chinese brand EVs had been sitting in European ports for up to 18 months, while some ports had asked importers to provide proof of onward transport, according to industry executives. One car logistics expert said many of the unloaded vehicles were simply staying in the ports until they were sold to distributors or end users.
Israel About to Use “Extreme Force” in Southern Gaza, Kicks Out Al Jazeera
May 6th, 2024Via: Al Jazeera:
Israel’s military orders Palestinians to move out of eastern Rafah, warning it is about to use “extreme force” in southern Gaza.
Related: Israel Kicks Out Al Jazeera
CDC Tried to Hide Deaths Caused by Covid Vaccines
May 5th, 2024Via: Totality of Evidence:
Citizen investigator John Beaudoin Sr. is an engineer by training and concerned American who FOIA’d (Freedom of Information Act) the government in search of the truth about the real carnage of COVID-19 and that of the COVID-19 vaccines following their rollout in his home state of Massachusetts, then several other states. This page will capture what he discovered.
The CDC uses computers to “read” cause-of-death certificate (death certificate) word entry, to assign an international cause of death code (ICD-10) and convert this data to underlying cause of death. It appears John is one of the few humans to actually read the information contained on death certificates. He has been shocked to find that deaths have been fraudulently reported as COVID-19 and many deaths (inflated numbers) following COVID-19 vaccine administration have not even been considered as a vaccine death, making death by vaccination seriously under reported.
JavaScript Pilot in Microsoft Flight Simulator
May 5th, 2024Via: Pomax:
…we’re writing a web page that can control an autopilot running in JS that, in turn, controls a little virtual aeroplane. And by “little” I actually mean “most aeroplanes in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020” because as it turns out, MSFS comes with an API that can be used to both query *and set* values ranging from anything as simple as cockpit lights to something as complex as spawning a fleet of aircraft and making them fly in formation while making their smoke pattern spell out the works of Chaucer in its original middle English.
Flashback 2021 – Bill Gates: “We Just Need to Mess Around”
May 5th, 2024Update: New RNA Vaccines Coming:
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Bill Gates: "For every disease that we don't have vaccines, we will try mRNA".
"We just need to mess around. There's a lot of lipid nanoparticles, and some are very self assembling."
"We'll be able to build factories worldwide that can make $2 vaccines with even less lead time… pic.twitter.com/GXcEDpGtgn
— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) May 4, 2024
Via: USA Today:
He believes mRNA vaccines hold great promise beyond COVID-19, but it will take time for them to get there. They require precise lipid nanoparticles to enter cells so they can replicate and trigger the immune response. They also require cold temperatures that are expensive to support.
That, Gates expects, will change quickly. It shouldn’t take longer than five years for the technology to mature, he said.
“We just need to mess around,” he said. Cheap, quickly-developed mRNA vaccines are coming that hold the potential to “fill in missing vaccines” to fight diseases like HIV, malaria and tuberculosis that have long stymied researchers.
“A lot of our bets for the Gates Foundation and others who care about global health will be mRNA-focused. We’ll use these for every disease that we don’t have vaccines for,” he said.
Natron Energy: Lithium-Free Sodium Batteries Enter U.S. Production
May 3rd, 2024These have no supply chain constraints; made in U.S.
They are for stationary applications only.
Via: New Atlas:
Two years ago, sodium-ion battery pioneer Natron Energy was busy preparing its specially formulated sodium batteries for mass production. The company slipped a little past its 2023 kickoff plans, but it didn’t fall too far behind as far as mass battery production goes. It officially commenced production of its rapid-charging, long-life lithium-free sodium batteries this week, bringing to market an intriguing new alternative in the energy storage game.
Not only is sodium somewhere between 500 to 1,000 times more abundant than lithium on the planet we call Earth, sourcing it doesn’t necessitate the same type of earth-scarring extraction. Even moving beyond the sodium vs lithium surname comparison, Natron says its sodium-ion batteries are made entirely from abundantly available commodity materials that also include aluminum, iron and manganese.
Furthermore, the materials for Natron’s sodium-ion chemistry can be procured through a reliable US-based domestic supply chain free from geopolitical disruption. The same cannot be said for common lithium-ion materials like cobalt and nickel.
An Oil Price-Fixing Conspiracy Caused 27% of All Inflation Increases in 2021
May 3rd, 2024Diabolical.
Via: BIG by Matt Stoller:
Last Sunday, I wrote a piece alleging that U.S. shale oil producers colluded with the Saudi government from 2021-2023 to drive up gas prices. That essay was based on some reporting I had done, as well as a complaint from a savvy Kansas City class action law firm, Sharp Law, with special expertise in oil. The theory was that American producers, after a bitter price war from 2014-2016, got tired of competing on price with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or the OPEC oil cartel, and at some point from 2017-2021, decided to join the cartel and cut supply to the market. This action had the affect of raising oil prices, costing oil consumers something on the order of $200 billion a year.
Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission released evidence confirming that collusion played a serious role in hiking oil prices at that time. Pioneer Natural Resources CEO Scott Sheffield, a leader in the fracking field, “exchanged hundreds of text messages with OPEC representatives and officials discussing crude oil market dynamics, pricing and output.” Sheffield was explicit about his goal, saying that “if Texas leads the way, maybe we can get OPEC to cut production. Maybe Saudi and Russia will follow. That was our plan,” he said, adding: “I was using the tactics of OPEC+ to get a bigger OPEC+ done.” He talked to shareholders, publicly threatened rivals, and ultimately achieved output cuts across the industry regardless of price. “Even if oil gets to $200/barrel,” he said, “the independent producers are going to be disciplined.”
