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, 2024Bill 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.”
The Censorship-Industrial Complex: How Top Biden White House Officials Coerced Big Tech to Censor Americans, True Information, and Critics of the Biden Administration
May 3rd, 2024I doubt any of this will come as a surprise to you, but there’s 881 pages of it at the link if you’re interested.
Via: U.S. House of Representatives:
This interim report details the monthslong campaign by the Biden White House to coerce large companies, namely Meta (parent company of Facebook), Alphabet (parent company of YouTube), and Amazon, to censor books, videos, posts, and other content online. By the end of 2021, Facebook, YouTube, and Amazon changed their content moderation policies in ways that were directly responsive to criticism from the Biden Administration.
While the Biden White House’s pressure campaign largely succeeded, its effects were devastating. By suppressing free speech and intentionally distorting public debate in the modern town square, ideas and policies were no longer fairly tested and debated on their merits. Instead, policymakers implemented a series of public health measures that proved to be disastrous for the country. From unnecessary extended school closures to unconstitutional vaccine mandates that forced workers to take a newly developed vaccine or risk losing their jobs, the Biden Administration and other officials needlessly imposed harm and suffering on Americans across the country.
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Big Tech Changed Their Content Moderation Policies Because of Biden White House Pressure.
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The Biden White House’s Censorship Campaign Targeted True Information, Satire, and Other Content that Did Not Violate the Platforms’ Policies.
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The Biden White House’s Censorship Campaign had a Chilling Effect on Other Speech.
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The White House had Leverage Because the Companies had Other Policy Concerns Involving the Biden Administration.
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The Biden White House Pushed Censorship of Books, Not Just Social Media.
Russia Displays Destroyed Western Military Vehicles
May 3rd, 2024Via: Reuters:
Western tanks and military hardware captured by Russian forces in Ukraine went on display in Moscow on Wednesday at an exhibition the Russian military said showed Western help would not stop it winning the war.
Long queues of people formed on what was a sunny May Day public holiday at the entrance to the exhibition, entitled “Trophies of the Russian Army,” which is being held outside a museum celebrating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.
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State TV’s Channel One said the star of the show was a captured American M1 Abrams battle tank, which it said had been taken out by Russian forces in eastern Ukraine using a guided rocket and kamikaze drones.
H.R.6090 – Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023
May 3rd, 2024Via: Paul Watson:
‘Huff and Puff’ Exercises Lower Risk of Premature Death
May 3rd, 2024Via: StudyFinds:
People with high fitness levels had a 41 to 53-percent lower risk of premature death from any cause compared to those with low fitness. Each incremental increase in fitness of 1 MET (a measure of exercise intensity) was associated with a seven to 51-percent lower mortality risk, depending on the cause of death. The protective effects were applicable to deaths from cardiovascular disease, cancer, and sudden cardiac events.
“The message is quite simple: if you do a lot of ‘huff and puff’ exercise, then your risk of dying early or developing diseases in the future is reduced. If you avoid exercise your health may suffer,” says senior study author Grant Tomkinson, a professor at the University of South Australia, in a media release.
High fitness was also linked to a 37 to 69-percent reduced risk of developing chronic conditions like hypertension, heart failure, stroke, atrial fibrillation, dementia, and depression. Even in people already diagnosed with heart disease, cancer, and other chronic illnesses, those who were more fit had a significantly lower risk of dying.
