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A common situation in the London Underground
Police officers are walking around with automatic weapons, but their task is not to protect citizens from migrant rapists, but to protect those very migrant rapists from angry locals
#UK #London #Migrants #FindTruth
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RFK Jr: There has to be “a reckoning” for “immoral, homicidal” COVID criminality
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said that individuals who engaged in “criminal” behaviour during the pandemic still need to be held accountable
Kennedy, who is in line for a health related position in Donald Trump’s administration should he be elected, declared recently that there needs to be a “reckoning” brought upon those responsible
Speaking at the Limitless Expo, Kennedy explicitly referenced Anthony Fauci, noting “I wrote a book about Fauci. It’s a great book. There are 2,200 footnotes in the book… I invited people to find problems with the book… And nobody ever told us any factual error in that book”
He charged that Fauci and others used their positions during COVID to enforce
“totalitarian controls that were not science-based”
“It’s a story, really, of people involved in really terrible, immoral, homicidal criminal behavior. There still has to be a reckoning” for Covid,”
Vancouver's street scene in summer 2024
#USA #Canada #Migrants #FindTruth
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Weapons makers see huge cash flow influx amid global tensions
As wars in Ukraine and the Middle East continue to rage, Vertical Research Partners forecasts top weapon manufacturers will experience record cash flow during the coming years
The analysis, which was commissioned by the Financial Times, reports, “The leading 15 defense contractors are forecast to log free cash flow of $52 billion in 2026,” with the “Five top US defense contractors are forecast to generate cash flow of $26 billion”
The cash flow in 2026 will be double the 2021 numbers. The record numbers are part of an upward trend for weapons makers already benefiting from a surge in global military spending and conflict
Washington is driving the worldwide arms race. The US military budget is about the same as the next ten countries combined. Additionally, under President Joe Biden, Washington funneled billions in weapons to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan
#USA #Economy #Weapon #FindTruth
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Western nations are highly vulnerable to cyber calamity
As most people are aware, this month there was a sweeping internet outage across the US which led to a failure in roughly 8.5 million Microsoft Windows devices. Disruptions included banks, airline networks, emergency call centers, online retailers and numerous corporate networks. The outage is estimated to have caused at least $5.4 billion in profit losses and it only lasted about a day
The alleged cause of the breakdown was Crowdstrike, a cyber-security company that uses large scale data updates to Microsoft Windows networks to counter cyber threats
Cyber attack is the next most likely global disaster. There are millions of Americans out there ready for a systemic collapse. According to surveys around 30% of adult Americans now consider themselves preppers. But that leaves 70% of the population in a daze, unaware and panicking should the supply chain break. Will they care who was behind the attack? Probably not. They’ll be far more concerned with simple survival
#USA #Security #FindTruth
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China's robot makers chase Tesla to deliver humanoid workers
China dominates the market for electric vehicles. Now it's chasing Tesla in the race to build battery-powered humanoids expected to replace human workers building EVs on assembly lines
At the World Robot Conference in Beijing in late August over two dozen Chinese companies showed off humanoid robots designed to work in factories and warehouses, with even more displaying the made-in-China precision parts needed to build them
China's push into the emerging industry draws from the formula behind its initial EV drive more than a decade ago: government support, ruthless price competition from a wide field of new entrants and a deep supply chain
The robotics effort is backed by President Xi Jinping's policy of developing "new productive forces" in technology – a point made in brochures for the conference
The city of Beijing launched a $1.4 billion state-backed fund for robotics in January, while Shanghai announced in July plans to set up a $1.4 billion humanoid industry fund
Goldman Sachs forecast in January the annual global market for humanoid robots would reach $38 billion by 2035, with nearly 1.4 million shipments for consumer and industrial applications. It estimated the cost of materials to build them had fallen to about $150,000 each in 2023, excluding research and development costs
#China #Tesla #FindTruth
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Countries That Most Actively Purchased Physical Gold from 2013 to 2023 (According to Official Statistics) — Data from VisualCapitalist
#Gold #Economy #FindTruth
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No ‘joy’ on Labor Day: inflation sends cost of cookouts soaring
Americans felt less “joy” when firing up their grills and getting their marinades ready past Labor Day weekend, realizing that some of the classic barbecue staples were costing them a lot more
It all begins with firing up the grill, which costs more than it did three and a half years ago. According to data from the Bureau of Labor statistics, the price of propane, kerosene, and firewood has risen 16% from January 2021 to July 2024
Staples of the basic all-American cookout are up too, meaning hamburgers and hotdogs are going to cost you. According to Consumer Price Index (CPI) data, the price of ground beef has risen 26% since January 2021, when former President Donald Trump left the White House
Similarly, hotdogs are 25% higher than they were in January 2021. The price of chicken has also jumped. Consumer Price Index (CPI) data, not seasonally adjusted, shows the price of fresh and frozen chicken parts 23% higher now than in January 2021. Matters are worse if Americans are looking to roast a whole chicken for their long weekend, as a fresh whole chicken is up 27%
#USA #Economy #FindTruth
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If Donald Trump’s sex life is fair game for the election, so is Kamala Harris’
You don’t get to insist Donald Trump’s private peccadilloes are a criminal matter while being silent about the corrupt relationships of Kamala Harris, the Clintons, and so many others
Here’s a summary of the facts as we know them: When Harris was a subordinate in the San Francisco DA’s office, she started dating Willie Brown, the most powerful man in California politics, who was 31 years older and married. After the current DA passed over Kamala Harris, a woman who failed the bar exam and is not exactly known for her mastery of the law, Brown was instrumental in alienating the existing DA, and was personally involved in raising money and running Harris’ successful campaign to get elected district attorney
Once in office, Harris let a number of Willie Brown’s friends off the hook when they were facing serious charges — including an egregious case where she let a city contractor and Willie Brown donor skate after endangering people’s lives after defrauding taxpayers by using cheaper, structurally unsound recycled concrete to build bridges and other important structures. This was all reported on in detail by local San Francisco media when it happened, who aren’t exactly in the business of pushing right-wing smears
#USA #Elections #FindTruth
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School closures, mask mandates and rising COVID numbers – big pharma strikes again
Schools in two states experiencing a rise in Covid cases announced they were closing facilities and switching to remote learning
Alabama and Tennessee announced the closure of two schools — affecting more than a thousand children — just days into the new academic year, with officials saying the virus had forced them to shut and carry out a 'deep clean.'
At one of the schools, children had to abandon their desks and revert to remote learning for two days — a move reminiscent of the early days of Covid
The closures came despite a mountain of evidence suggesting they hamper children's learning, social interactions and ability to develop natural immunity to common infections
And there are fears that more disruption could be in store for students in the coming months — with many schools, in states like New York, New Jersey and Michigan, returning after the Labor Day weekend
#USA #Covid #FindTruth
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Biden's 'new' nuclear strategy and the super-fuse that sets it off
The New York Timesreported last week that President Biden has approved a secret nuclear strategy refocusing on Chinese and Russian nuclear forces
According to the paper, the new nuclear guidance “reorients America’s deterrent strategy” to meet “the need to deter Russia, the PRC (China) and North Korea simultaneously”
However, Biden’s approval of this strategy is no more than a tacit acknowledgment of a two-decade-long U.S. technical program that has been more than just a “slight modernization” of weapons components, but a dramatic step towards the capability to fight and win nuclear wars with both China and Russia. In other words, there is nothing really “new” here at all, save the very public nature of the strategy’s acknowledgement
In the face of all of this, Chinese and Russian leaders will have no choice but to implement countermeasures that further increase the already dangerously high readiness of their nuclear forces. This includes intensified worst-case planning that will increase the chances of nuclear responses to false warnings of attack
👉Full story
#USA #Biden #Nuclear #FindTruth
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Which U.S. industries spend the most on lobbying?
In the United States, companies, unions, trade associations, and other organizations invest billions of dollars each year to lobby Congress and federal agencies
In 2023, over 12,000 different lobbyists in the U.S. spent a a record $4.3 billion on lobbying activities.This was up from $4.1 billion in 2022—and the highest annual total so far
The chart shows the total expenditures on lobbying activities by the top 10 industries that invested the most in lobbying the U.S. Congress and federal agencies in 2023
The Pharmaceuticals and Health Products industry was the biggest industry spender in the U.S. in 2023, investing a total of $382.6 million towards lobbying
The two biggest spenders in the pharmaceuticals industry were the industry’s leading lobby group, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, and pharmacy benefit managers association Pharmaceutical Care Management Association
Other big spenders in the industry include major pharmaceutical companies Pfizer, Amgen, and Roche Holdings, who all spent over $11 million on lobbying last year
#USA #Economy #Pfizer #FindTruth
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China's export controls on critical semiconductor materials have heightened fears of shortages in the production of crucial Western military equipment
The Financial Times is concerned that after the US imposed restrictions on China's purchase of advanced microchips and the equipment to make them, Beijing retaliated by restricting exports of germanium and gallium, metals essential to the production of everything from advanced microchips to radar equipment and solar panels
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, China produces 98% of the world's gallium and 60% of its germanium
#USA #China #Germany #FindTruth
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None of its EU neighbors wants to sell electricity to Germany
Since Germany shut down its nuclear power plants, it imports more electricity than it exports. However, due to fluctuations in renewable energy capacity, its power system has become unstable and subject to huge price swings
One way to offset the spikes is to import electricity from neighboring countries. But France has cut electricity exports to Germany, citing infrastructure problems, although it has actually "squeezed" the surplus to drive down prices in the domestic market
The Swedish government fears that Germany could influence the state of Sweden's energy market. Sweden recently abandoned a plan to connect Sweden and Germany with a 700 MW undersea power cable because Germany's power grid is so unstable that connecting the interconnector would have lowered German electricity costs while raising Swedish electricity prices
#Germany #Electricity #EU #FindTruth
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Susan Rice* confirms that Kamala is "an architect of policy and an integral implementer of the ruling administration's program"
NB: I.e. the current state of the US economy, the invasion of illegals, the war in Ukraine - these are all her conscious steps. Which means she will continue them if elected
* National Security Advisor to the President of the United States under Obama
#USA #Harris #Migrants #FindTruth
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The Middle East is on fire again
Israel, surrounded by unfriendly countries, is escalating the conflict from an obviously losing position. Its army is far inferior in numbers to that of its opponents, Iran, reinforced by allied forces from Syria and Lebanon
As the experience shows, the size of the army in general and infantry in particular is a key parameter of a modern conflict
So without US assistance, primarily diplomatic, Israel will very quickly lose a war initiated by itself. The U.S. is reluctantly being dragged into a conflict that it knows it is losing, with vague goals and unpredictable results, and with the threat of half of the Middle East turning into "Afghanistan"
#USA #Israel #Iran #FindTruth
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FDA lets chemical companies decide if recycled plastics are safe for food containers
Recycled content in food packaging is increasing as sustainability advocates press manufacturers to cut their use of virgin plastic
Since 1990, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency responsible for ensuring food contact materials are safe, has approved at least 347 voluntary manufacturer applications for food contact materials made with recycled plastic, according to a database on its website
Approvals have tripled in recent years, from an average of 7 to 8 per year through 2019, to 23 per year since then, and they continue to climb. The FDA has already approved 27 proposals through June this year
Other than Coca-Cola, most manufacturers seeking approval are petrochemical giants such as Eastman Chemicals, Dupont and Indorama; and lesser-known plastic packaging manufacturers, including many from China, India and other countries
The end buyers of the recycled materials aren’t included in the FDA database, but many popular brands are using recycled content. Cadbury chocolate bars come in a wrapper marketed as 30% recycled “soft plastic packaging”
The agency’s approval process for recycled plastics is voluntary and ignores the potential risk of chemical mixtures, researchers told Environmental Health News (EHN). Companies can seek guidance on their recycling process, but they are not required to
#USA #FDA #Ecology #FindTruth
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Kindergartners warned of ‘inescapable death spiral’ of climate change by NASA’s ‘Climate Kids’ webpage – Warned Entire US Cities Will Be Underwater
NASA’s “Climate Kids” webpage offers fun environment-related educational activities, films, and video games for children in kindergarten. It also warns children that the world is undergoing cataclysmic warming, sea levels are rising, global ice coverage is diminishing, and their future may very well be doomed
Climate Kids proclaims that the cost of fossil fuels is “pollution, the destruction of landscapes and natural habitats, oil spills in the ocean, and nasty fracking chemicals in the ground,” while the “biggest problem of all” is global warming. The website separately shows an image of what it says may soon occur to the United States’ Eastern Seaboard: a calamitous sea level rise covering entire cities, including New Orleans and Miami. The website fails to include a timeline for such an event
NOAA Education Portal, which is managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is another government-managed webpage that, like NASA’s Climate Kids, includes a curriculum with catastrophic language about global warming. Courses linked on the portal, for example, encourage students to foster negative emotions about the state of the environment into taking action
#USA #Biden #FindTruth
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Elon Musk offers free cellular Starlink for emergencies worldwide as space race
SpaceX's Starlink "Direct to cell" service, in partnership with mobile carrier T-Mobile, will be offered free worldwide for connecting to emergency services
"After thinking it through, SpaceX Starlink will provide emergency services access for mobile phones for people in distress for free,"
For 2022, 73,654 people died from fentanyl overdose in the U.S., more than doubling from 2019
Fentanyl deaths in the U.S. have risen steadily every year for the past decade. The drug is mostly produced in foreign clandestine laboratories and smuggled into the U.S. through Mexico, including with the help of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens crossing the U.S. border
#USA #Mexico #Migrants #FindTruth
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Four New England towns impose tyrannical lockdowns after “extremely rare virus” infects ONE person
Four towns in Massachusetts – Douglas, Oxford, Sutton and Webster – are imposing indefinite "voluntary" lockdowns after one person tested positive for an "extremely rare virus" called Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE)
Every night from now on, residents and visitors to these four towns will be frowned upon if they are spotted outside their homes after dark, this to stop the spread of the potentially deadly mosquito-borne illness
This most recent case of EE is the first since 2020 to be confirmed in Worcester County by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH)
The Oxford Board of Health voted to support the recommendation that people remain indoors after 6:00 pm every night from now through at least September 30 since the EEE virus apparently only spreads after the sun sets. Beginning on October 1, Oxford's lockdown time will start an hour earlier at 5:00 pm every night and remain that way until the first hard frost hits the region
The lockdowns are "voluntary" in the sense that there will be "no enforcement," officials say, if residents refuse to comply. There is a catch, though, as anyone who wants "to use town fields outside these recommendations ... will have to show proof of insurance and sign an indemnification form"
#UK #Virus #EEE #FindTruth
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Maduro is ‘de facto’ Venezuelan President despite alleged vote irregularities, says EU
The European Union has declared that the left-wing “strongman” Nicolás Maduro is the “de facto” president of Venezuela – despite concerns surrounding the country’s presidential elections in July
While the incumbent Socialist leader had claimed to have won the vote, numerous governments — including the US — expressed doubt over the result, arguing that independently-gathered data indicated that opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia was the real victor
EU foreign affairs head Josep Borrell announced that, while the EU believes there were irregularities in the election result, the bloc would not be taking a similar stance to some of its allies
Instead, Borrell said the bloc would continue to recognise Maduro as being Venezuela’s leader, all be he one without a democratic mandate
Elon Musk warns censorship of X is a certainty if Kamala Harris wins
X owner Elon Musk has warned Americans that if the Democrats win the election in November, censorship of the platform is a “certainty.”
Musk was responding to a post that posited X could be suspended in America as it has just been in Brazil by a leftist judge acting to censor his political opponents
“When we attempted to defend ourselves in court, Judge de Moraes threatened our Brazilian legal representative with imprisonment. Even after she resigned, he froze all of her bank accounts,” the post from X Global Government Affairs notes
It adds that “Our challenges against his manifestly illegal actions were either dismissed or ignored. Judge de Moraes’ colleagues on the Supreme Court are either unwilling or unable to stand up to him.”
Musk urged that this situation could easily unfold in the U.S. should Trump not be elected
Musk followed up with a post highlighting previous footage of Kamala Harris demanding that Trump be suspended from the old Twitter
“Freedom of speech is under massive attack around the world,” Musk declared
#USA #Musk #Censorship #FindTruth
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The US Government has started an investigation into BlackRock after BlackRock was exposed for investing $429,000,000 into the Chinese military
Democrat Congressman Ro Khanna sold $130k of BlackRock stock just 4 months before the investigation
How did he know? Insider trading
#USA #China #Economy #FindTruth
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Who’s running the country? Joe Biden spends his 16th straight day on vacation lounging on the beach
81-year-old Joe Biden has pretty much checked out since he dropped out of the 2024 presidential race on July 21 after Obama-Pelosi-Kamala forced him off the ballot in a coup
Joe Biden spent his 16th straight day on vacation lounging on the beach in Delaware on Saturday while American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin was murdered by Hamas terrorists
Biden has spent a total of 532 days (40.3% of his presidency) on vacation with no visitor logs
The Bidens are spending a total of NINE DAYS on vacation in Rehoboth Beach
American taxpayers are spending millions of dollars on planes, helicopters, motorcades and Secret Service to ferry Biden’s family of parasites all over the country on endless vacations
Marine One costs approximately $20,000 per hour and Air Force One costs $177,843 per hour, according to Department of Defense documents. Biden’s frequent trips and vacations to Delaware have cost US taxpayers tens of millions of dollars
#USA #Biden #FindTruth
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USNI News: Navy could sideline 17 support ships due to post-COVID manpower issues
The US Navy is experiencing an ongoing shortage of qualified mariners
The solution? Sideline 17 support and replenishment ships, according to US Naval Institute News. The proposed action involves entering these ships into an “extended maintenance” period and reassigning their crews to other ships, potentially freeing up 600 to 700 sailors
There’s a COVID angle to this mismanagement disaster
The punishing schedule for the mariners led to a retention issue for MSC that was accelerated by the severe “gangway up” COVID-19 prevention measures ordered by retired MSC commander Rear Adm. Michael Wettlaufer
“During COVID nobody was getting off the ship, mariners were being treated poorly and so they started to quit,”
“mariners have been quitting at a greater rate than MSC can hire new ones… People say ‘I had to quit because it’s a terrible work-life balance. I can’t go to sea and also have a family, so I got to leave"
The gap between the annual income needed to purchase a median-priced home in the U.S. and the median household income in the country has approached 50% for the first time in history
The situation, which first became evident in the US in 2021, is worrying more and more economists around the world
#USA #Economy #FindTruth
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What sanctions? China imports record amount of Iranian oil
China’s imports of Iranian oil are poised to reach a record 1.75m b/d this month, data from Kpler show
That will surpass the previous peak of 1.66m b/d set in October 2023, according to Kpler data that extends back to January 2013, and is almost 50% higher compared with 1.24m b/d last month
Shipments into Rizhao and Dalian significantly higher m/m, said Muyu Xu, an analyst with Kpler:
“Chinese teapots see refining margins slightly improving, they now have stronger motivation to ramp up production and therefore need more feedstock,”
The countries with the highest wealth per person
In 2023, global wealth increased by 4.2% as global stock markets rebounded and inflation eased
While Europe, the Middle East, and Africa achieved the strongest wealth growth, the U.S. accelerated at roughly half the rate of these regions, at 2.5% annually. From a regional perspective, average wealth in 2023 breaks down as follows:
▪️Europe, the Middle East, and Africa: $166,000 per adult
▪️Asia Pacific: $156,000 per adult
▪️Americas: $146,000 per adult
Average wealth is a country’s total wealth divided by the adult population. These figures can be skewed by extremely high or low values, such as wealth held by billionaires
Switzerland ranks first overall, with average wealth per adult increasing from $685,226 in 2022 to $709,612 in 2023
Many of the most affluent nations are small countries with thriving financial sectors, including Luxembourg and Singapore. These countries benefit from significant foreign direct investment and pro-business policies, which help spur economic wealth. In Singapore, capital gains and dividend income are tax-free
#USA #China #Taiwan #FindTruth
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HHS funds AI tool to ‘inoculate’ social media users against HPV Vax ‘misinformation’
University of Pennsylvania researchers — using U.S. taxpayer dollars — are developing an artificial intelligence tool designed to “inoculate” social media users against “misinformation” about the HPV vaccine posted on social media, grant documents obtained by Children’s Health Defense via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request revealed
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is funding the $4 million “Inoculate for HPV Vaccine” randomized controlled trial running from April 2022 through March 2027. The National Cancer Institute, part of HHS, is facilitating the funding. Funding for year three was released in April
The study is headed up by Melanie L. Kornides, associate professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, whose research focuses on increasing vaccine uptake, and also on “strategies to combat misinformation”
Kornides is joined by a team of digital health communication experts, software and program designers, social media analysts and machine learning systems experts who will help her run the “inoculation” experiment on 2,500 parents of children ages 8-12
#USA #Vaccine #HHS #FindTruth
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