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TYFYC. I’m behind, still listening to 1499, but I finally heard it… The “Crowning Jeff” Pegues clip had a certain sound to his usually strained voice. The running joke is always funny, but then I realized what might be going on. Googling, I found out it became publicly known last year that he has spasmodic dysphonia, the same disorder that RFK Jr has.

Like the Anderson “Pooper” running joke, the Crowning Jeff gag doesn’t have to end, but I wanted to share the reason in case a caveat to future joking is due just because.

And I caveat that I’m an episode behind in case someone else heard the same thing and wrote in.

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Sir Brian, Baron of the Connecticut River Valley

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I was troubled by the RSV report from the last show.

About a decade ago, I worked for a pharmacy named Caremark Specialty Pharmacy, since bought out by CVS and now named CVS Health.

Every RSV season, we dispensed a medication named Synagis for RSV. I'm well versed in it as it was my job to train all the temps we hired each season specifically for dispensing RSV. We primarily dispensed it for premature babies because antibodies are not transferred from mom to baby until the last few weeks of pregnancy. At least, that's what we were taught from the science back then. Synagis was NOT given to all children as not all children needed it.

Arbitrarily giving a vaccine to ALL pregnant moms for RSV is concerning as not all babies NEED protection. Only premature babies who do not get the chance to receive antibodies from mom need help. Most other babies and children simply receive a cold and are able to fight it off themselves. I'm sure there are exceptions to this, but for the most part it's the premature babies that really need the antibody help.

Big Pharma has so lost their way it's scary. I'm so glad I don't work in the industry anymore as my conscience certainly couldn't handle it.

RSV stats

RSV death rate for kids under 1 is 2.4 per 100k. Survival rate is .999976.

Mastodon signups - general confusion

Why not bring back rooms and topics?

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Wait times in Canadian emergency rooms have been 13 hours for over 2-1/2 years now since the C19 maysures

And the only other problems we have is staff shortages because of fully vaxxd staff being constantly out with the Coof

CDC softens guidelines for doctors prescribing opioid painkillers

The previous guidance succeeded in reducing inappropriate and dangerous prescribing, some experts say. But they also were seen as a barrier to care, with some pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions as doctors wrote them.

The new guidelines are designed to ensure that patients get compassionate and safe pain care, CDC officials said.

A draft released in February received 5,500 public comments. Some modifications were made, but several main changes stayed in place, including:

The CDC no longer suggests trying to limit opioid treatment for acute pain to three days.

The agency is dropping the specific recommendation that doctors avoid increasing dosage to a level equivalent to 90 milligrams of morphine per day.

For patients receiving higher doses of opioids, the CDC is urging doctors to not abruptly halt treatment unless there are indications of a life-threatening danger. The agency offers suggestions on tapering patients off the drugs.

Covid vaccination proof still required to enter America in 2023 | Daily Mail Online

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Travelers flying into the United States will still need proof of Covid vaccination in 2023 '-- making the US the only country in the West to stick by the failing policy.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has extended the rule, which only applies to non-US citizens, until at least January 8 next year to 'limit the risk of Covid-19, including variants of the virus'.

But there has been a growing acceptance among experts that Covid vaccines - while highly effective at preventing severe illness - do not stop infections very well.

Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), admitted earlier this year that shots 'can't prevent transmission anymore'.

Yet since November 2021, non-US citizens entering America have had to provide proof of Covid vaccination.

The CDC defines fully vaccinated as having had an accepted single-dose vaccine, or both doses of an accepted two-dose series, at least two weeks ago. A booster dose is not needed.

Most major Western nations such as the UK, France and Germany, have already dropped these types of recommendations.

The countries still requiring Covid vaccination to enter are: China, Angola, Libya, Ghana, Cameroon, Liberia, Yemen, Indonesia, Pakistan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.

The TSA announcement said it was renewing the policy to 'limit the risk that Covid-19'... is introduced, transmitted, and spread into and throughout the United States'.

As shown by the graph above, introducing proof of vaccination for travelers on November 8, 2021 did not stem the influx of Covid cases from the Omicron variant during winter last year

The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said travelers will need to prove their Covid shot status in order to 'reduce the spread of Covid-19', even though the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control has released guidance which treats unvaccinated and vaccinated people the same

The TSA's renewed policy will run until January 8 next year, and could be extended beyond that

The document reads: 'Together with the Presidential Proclamation and the CDC Order, these policies are intended to limit the risk that Covid-19, including variants of the virus that causes Covid-19, is introduced, transmitted, and spread into and throughout the United States, potentially overwhelming United States healthcare and public health resources, endangering the health and safety of the American people, and threatening the security of our civil aviation system.'

Getting a flu vaccine lowers your risk of a STROKE years later, Getting a flu shot might be more important than ever '-- a study indicates it also lowers the risk of a stroke years later.

Researchers say health officials should push harder for everyone to get routine influenza vaccines rather than just the most vulnerable.

The study analyzed the health records of more than 4million adults in Alberta, Canada, over a 10-year period.

Results showed people who had a flu shot either once a year or every flu season over the 10-year span reduced the risk of stroke by more than a fifth on average.

The protective effect was even more sharp in men and younger people.

Researchers did not investigate specifically why getting a flu vaccine considerably lowered the risk, but the reigning hypothesis is a simple one.

The vaccine lowers the risk of catching and falling ill with influenza, which is a known risk factor for stroke.

This is at odds with the CDC's own guidance, published in August, which no longer differentiates between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.

Estimates indicate the Covid vaccines prevent about 30 to 40 per cent of infections in the three to six months after immunization. But this falls to virtually zero after that.

But the shots reduce the risk of severe disease or death by up to 90 per cent in the months after inoculation.

Dr Walensky summed it up in January this year when she said: 'Our vaccines are working exceptionally well.

'They continue to work well for Delta with regard to sever illness and death. They prevent it... what they can't do anymore is prevent transmission.'

The shots have become increasingly weaker at preventing transmission as Covid has mutated.

The updated bivalent vaccines were supposed to enhance protection against Omicron and its subvariants which are dominant world-over.

But there are doubts about whether the vaccines actually work better than the original, as reported by DailyMail.com this week.

The Biden Administration and CDC dropped the requirement for international travelers to the US to provide a negative Covid test in June, but will not budge on the need for Covid shots.

This means vaccinated people can fly even if they are testing positive for the virus.

Over 80 per cent of the US has received at least one dose of the Covid shot, and 69 per cent are double-vaccinated.

But uptake of booster doses has been sluggish, with only 26.3million taking up the bivalent shots.

Dr William Schaffner, Professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told DailyMail.com the extended policy was a 'puzzle'.

He said: 'There are several reasons that it is a puzzle that travelers entering the US must continue to demonstrate their Covid vaccination status.

'First, Covid is abundant and is being widely transmitted in the US, so we are not protecting our population from an infection that is not here. Second, the vaccines are only modestly effective in preventing transmission. Indeed, vaccinated persons can be infected and transmit the virus to others.'

He added: 'Lastly, in dealing with any highly contagious respiratory virus, it has clearly been shown that travel restrictions of any kind are not very effective in keeping new viruses out of a country'--and Covid is no longer new.'

And Dr Doug Badger, senior research fellow at the center for health and welfare policy at The Heritage Foundation, told DailyMail.com the requirement is 'out of step with science and with the policies of other countries'.

He added: 'Neither the European Union nor Canada imposes such a requirement. Vaccines reduce the risk that an infected individual will develop severe illness, but they do not prevent transmission. The administration should follow the science and rescind this policy.'

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Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black AmericaDirected byRonald Dalton Jr.Written byRonald Dalton Jr.Produced byRonald Dalton Jr.Edited byCarl JacksonDistributed byAmazon Prime VideoRelease date

20 December 2018 ( 2018-12-20 ) Running time

208 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$8,000[1]Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America is a 2018 film directed by Ronald Dalton Jr. The movie is based upon a Black Hebrew Israelite book of the same name. Critics say that the film is filled with antisemitic tropes,[2] Holocaust denial,[3] and claims of an International Jewish conspiracy. The film is presented as a documentary.

Synopsis The film promotes Black Hebrew Israelite beliefs that some people of color, including Black Americans, "are the true descendants of the biblical Israelites." One of the ideas shared in the film is that the Jews of today are not actual Jews and they culturally appropriated the religious heritage of Black people and then covered it up.[4]

Critics of the film have said it is filled with antisemitism, including claims of a International Jewish conspiracy which aims to oppress and defraud Black people. The film includes many antisemitic tropes, including claims of Jewish power and greed, claims that Jews control the media[4] and claims of Jewish Satanic worship.[5]

The film claims Jesus was not Jewish and that different races are not equal. The film also uses quotes from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Henry Ford's The International Jew, Holocaust denial, attacks on Zionism, and conspiracy theories about the Rothschild family. The film also includes quotes attributed to Adolf Hitler that appear to be fabricated.[4] Another example is that the movie falsely attributes a quote to Harold Wallace Rosenthal about a Jewish conspiracy to control the media; the quote is from a fabricated interview with Rosenthal in the discredited pamphlet ''The Hidden Tyranny''.[6]

Controversy In October 2022, Brooklyn Nets NBA basketball player Kyrie Irving tweeted a link to Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America.[7] On November 3, 2022, Irving was suspended without pay for his refusal to apologize for tweeting about the film. Irving then tweeted an apology and agreed to donate "$500,000 to unspecified causes and organizations that combat hate".[8] The Anti-Defamation League rejected Kyrie Irving's $500,000 donation.[9]

On November 4, 2022, the American Jewish Committee petitioned Amazon to stop distributing the film on its platform. On Amazon, the film could be purchased for $40 or rented for $11. The book that the movie was based on became a No. 1 seller in Amazon's religion and spirituality category.[10]

See also African American''Jewish relationsReferences ^ Schwartzel, Erich (November 4, 2022). "How an Amateur Documentary Got Onto Amazon Prime and Led to Kyrie Irving's Suspension". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 2022-11-06 . ^ Deb, Sopan (2022-10-30). "Kyrie Irving Defends Antisemitic Documentary and Conspiracy Theory". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-11-05 . ^ Reynolds, Tim (November 5, 2022). "Nike splits with Kyrie Irving amid antisemitism fallout". ABC News . Retrieved 2022-11-05 . ^ a b c "Hebrews to Negroes: What You Need to Know". Anti-Defamation League. 3 November 2022 . Retrieved 4 November 2022 . ^ Saul, Derek (November 5, 2022). "Kyrie Irving Antisemitism Controversy: Nike Latest To Drop NBA Star". Forbes . Retrieved 2022-11-06 . ^ Koreen, Eric (November 1, 2022). "Kyrie Irving needs to be held accountable for promoting anti-Semitism: Koreen". The Athletic . Retrieved November 6, 2022 . ^ Burke, Minyvonne (29 October 2022). "Nets owner says he is 'disappointed' after Kyrie Irving appeared to promote antisemitic film". NBC News . Retrieved 31 October 2022 . ^ Ganguli, Tania (4 November 2022). "Nets Suspend Kyrie Irving Indefinitely After Antisemitic Movie Post". The New York Times . Retrieved 4 November 2022 . ^ Reed, Alex (3 November 2022). "Anti-Defamation League is rejecting Kyrie Irving's $500k donation". USA Today . Retrieved 5 November 2022 . ^ Brooks, Khristopher (4 November 2022). "American Jewish Committee urges Amazon to pull antisemitic film Kyrie Irving promoted". CBS News . Retrieved 5 November 2022 . External links IMDb Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black AmericaVideo interview with author Ron Dalton

Switzerland blocks German shipment of ammunition to Ukraine

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35mm FLAK rounds used by the German Gepard anti-aircraft defence system, scheduled to be delivered to Ukraine. Switzerland will block the transfer of this ammunition, critically needed to protect Ukraine from aerial attack. Credit: Derwatz/Wikimedia Commons

Switzerland has blocked Germany from sending its Swiss-made ammunition to Ukraine on Wednesday. The ammunition was destined to equip Ukrainian anti-air defence vehicles which Germany is planning to deliver to Kyiv.

Ukrainian authorities have stated that they are in desperate need of anti-air equipment, especially in light of drone and rocket attacks against Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

''There is still no reason to respond favourably to Germany's request to send Swiss war material to Ukraine,'' said Guy Parmelin, Swiss Minister of Economy in a letter to German Defence Minister, Christine Lambrecht. The Swiss official cited Switzerland's neutrality and legislation on the deliveries of war materials in its official refusal.

The German Gepard 1A2 anti-air tank. Germany will transfer 15 of these vehicles to help protect Ukrainian airspace. Credit: Hans-Hermann B¼hling/Wikimedia Commons

Switzerland has specifically prevented the delivery of 12,400 35 millimetre rounds intended for the German Gepard twin-cannon anti-aircraft tracked defence system, which Ukraine has requested to help shoot down enemy cruise missiles and kamikaze drones.

''The equal treatment coming from the law of neutrality does not allow Switzerland to approve a request for the transmission of war material or Swiss origin to Ukraine as long as this country is involved in an international armed conflict,'' the minister underlined in a press release.

Double standards?This has not stopped Swiss weaponry and ammunition from appearing in war zones across the world in the past.

While Switzerland bans the sale of arms to countries in conflict, as well as preventing countries from selling Swiss equipment to third parties, a joint investigation by various Swiss public broadcasters, NZZ am Sonntag, and NGO Lighthouse Reports has demonstrated that Swiss weaponry is still being actively used in war zones in Afghanistan and Yemen, even against civilians.

Swiss-made military aircraft have ended up in Afghanistan, and later in the hands of the Taliban. Swiss Sig Sauer 551 assault rifles are being used by Saudi Arabian forces against Houthi rebels in Yemen; and in 2021 the Swiss parliament rejected a total ban on arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

''Swiss legislation suffers from a double hypocrisy,'' Swiss politician Baptiste Hurni told RTS in February. ''Saudi Arabia wasn't considered a war zone, although we knew it was extremely unstable'... The second hypocrisy is what I call the 'baseball bat syndrome'. If you sell ten baseball bats to a criminal group, do you know if they are going to play baseball with them?''

Related News Multinationals still in Russia forced to assist with army mobilisation 'Moralwashing': Major companies fail to leave Russian market Some accuse Switzerland of merely turning a blind eye to shipments to convenient conflicts. However, in the case of Ukraine, likely under pressure from politicians from Switzerland's ruling far-right SVP party who oppose 'excessive' material support for Ukraine, Swiss authorities have clamped down on the export licence.

In Switzerland, the debate on Ukraine and long-standing Swiss neutrality has grown increasingly louder. On Wednesday, the Swiss government announced that it would grant $100 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine to supply drinking water and the reconstruction of damaged energy infrastructure before the winter period.

The Swiss Federal Council's decision to join European sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine has reignited this debate. The far-right maintains that Switzerland is undermining its neutrality in supporting Ukraine. President of the Confederation and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ignazio Cassis has argued that Switzerland's support for Ukraine does not breach the country's neutral foreign policy.

As of August, Swiss authorities have transferred over $106.2 million in humanitarian aid. This includes 135 tonnes of medical and sanitary equipment and 3,500 tonnes of relief supplies to Ukraine and neighbouring countries.

With Twitter in chaos, Mastodon is on fire | CNN Business

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In the week since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the number of people signing up for a small social network called Mastodon has surged.

You may not have heard of Mastodon, which has been around since 2016, but now it's growing rapidly. Some are fleeing Twitter for it or at least seeking out a second place to post their thoughts online as the much more well-known social network faces layoffs, controversial product changes, an expected shift in its approach to content moderation and a jump in hateful rhetoric.

There may be no clear alternative to Twitter, a uniquely influential platform that is fast-moving, text-heavy, conversational and news-oriented. But Mastodon scratches a certain itch. The service has a similar look to Twitter, with a timeline of short updates sorted chronologically rather than algorithmically. It lets users join a slew of different servers run by various groups and individuals, rather than one central platform controlled by a single company like Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.

Unlike larger social networks, Mastodon is both free to use and free of ads. It's developed by a nonprofit run by Mastodon creator Eugen Rochko, and is supported via crowdfunding.

Rochko said in an interview Thursday that Mastodon gained 230,000 users since October 27, when Musk took control of Twitter. It now has 655,000 active users each month, he said. Twitter reported in July that it had nearly 238 million daily active monetizable users.

''It is not as large as Twitter, obviously, but it is the biggest that this network has ever been,'' said Rochko, who originally created Mastodon as more of a project than a consumer product (and, yes, its name was inspired by the heavy metal band Mastodon).

Mastodon's new sign-ups include some Twitter users with big followings, such as actor and comedian Kathy Griffin, who joined in early November, and journalist Molly Jong-Fast, who joined in late October.

Sarah T. Roberts, an associate professor at UCLA and faculty director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, started using Mastodon in earnest on October 30, just after Musk took over Twitter. (She had created another account years ago, she said, but didn't really get into it until recently because of the popularity of Twitter among people in academia.)

Roberts, who worked at Twitter as a staff researcher earlier this year while taking a leave from UCLA, said she was inspired to start using Mastodon due to concerns about how Twitter's content moderation may change under Musk's control. She suspects some newcomers are simply sick of social media companies that capture lots of user data and are driven by advertising.

And she pointed out that Twitter users may migrate to Mastodon in particular because its user experience is pretty similar to Twitter's. A lot of Mastodon's features and layout (particularly in its iOS app) will look and feel familiar to current Twitter users, though with some slightly different verbiage; you can follow others, create short posts (there's a 500 character limit, and you can upload images and videos), favorite or repost other users' posts, and so on.

''It's about as close as it gets,'' she said.

I've been a Twitter user since 2007, but as a growing number of the people I follow on the social network began posting their Mastodon usernames in recent weeks, I got curious. This week, I decided to check out Mastodon for myself.

There are some key differences, particularly in how the network is set up. Because Mastodon users' accounts are hosted on a slew of different servers, the costs of hosting users is spread among many different people and groups. But that also means users are spread out all over the place, and people you know can be hard to find '-- Rochko likened this setup to having different email providers, like Gmail and Hotmail.

This means the entirety of the network isn't under any one person or company's control, but it also introduces some new complications for those of us used to Twitter '-- a product that has also been criticized over the years for being less intuitive than more popular services like Facebook and Instagram.

On Mastodon, for instance, you have to join a specific server to sign up, some of which are open to anyone, some of which require an invitation (you can also run your own server). There is a server operated by the nonprofit behind Mastodon, Mastodon.social, but it's not accepting more users; I'm currently using one called Mstdn.social, which is also where I can sign in to access Mastodon on the web.

And while you can follow any other Mastodon user, no matter which server they've signed up with, you can only see the lists of who follows your Mastodon friends, or who your Mastodon friends follow, if the followers happen to belong to the same server you're signed up with (I realized this while trying to track down more people I know who recently signed up).

At first, it felt as if I was starting over, in a sense, as a complete newcomer to social media. As Roberts said, it is quite similar to Twitter in terms of its look and functionality, and the iOS app is easy to use.

But unlike on Twitter, where I can easily interact with a large audience, my Mastodon network is less than 100 followers. Suddenly I had no idea what to post '-- a feeling that never nags me on Twitter, perhaps because the size of that network makes any post feel less consequential. I got over it quickly, though, and realized the smaller scale of Mastodon can be calming compared to Twitter's endless stream of stimulation.

I'm not quite ready to close my Twitter account, though; for me, Mastodon is a sort of social-media escape hatch in case Twitter becomes unbearable.

Roberts, too, hasn't yet decided if she will close her Twitter account, but she was surprised by how quickly her following grew on Mastodon. Within a week of signing up and alerting her nearly 23,000 Twitter followers, she has amassed over 1,000 Mastodon followers.

''It might be pretty soon that people don't want to be caught on Twitter,'' she said.

In some ways, starting over can also be fun.

''I thought, 'What's it going to be like to start over again?''' she asked. ''It's kind of interesting: Oh that person is here! Here's so-and-so! I'm so glad they're here so we can be here together.''

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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey speaks out after mass layoffs

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey addresses students during a town hall at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India, November 12, 2018.

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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey apologized Saturday for growing the company "too quickly," a day after the company laid off approximately half of its employees under new owner Elon Musk.

"Folks at Twitter past and present are strong and resilient. They will always find a way no matter how difficult the moment," Dorsey wrote in a tweet. "I realize many are angry with me. I own the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation: I grew the company size too quickly. I apologize for that."

As of June 30, 2013, shortly before the social media company went public, Twitter had approximately 2,000 employees, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. By the end of last year, the company reported more than 7,500 full-time employees.

After Tesla and SpaceX CEO Musk took ownership of Twitter on Oct. 28, the company embarked on a steep reduction in its workforce. Twitter informed employees Thursday evening that it would begin laying off staff members, according to communications obtained by CNBC.

The cuts affected a total of 983 employees in California, its home state, according to three letters of notice that the company sent to regional authorities, which were obtained by CNBC.

Musk wrote in a tweet on Friday afternoon, "Regarding Twitter's reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day. Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required."

Twitter's reduction in force extended beyond California, and CNBC could not immediately confirm whether Musk's description is accurate. A loss of $4 million per day at the company would represent an annual loss around $1.5 billion.

Dorsey co-founded Twitter in 2006 alongside Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams. Dorsey held the top job twice throughout leadership changes and stepped down as CEO last year. The company's then-chief technology officer Parag Agrawal succeeded Dorsey as CEO before leaving as part of Musk's takeover.

Dorsey has since shifted his focus to solely managing his payments company Block, formerly known as Square. He has been an outspoken advocate of Musk's takeover, writing in a tweet that "This is the right path... I believe it with all my heart."

'--CNBC's Lora Kolodny and Jonathan Vanian contributed to this report.

CDC softens guidelines for doctors prescribing opioid painkillers

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The nation's top public health agency on Thursday softened its guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone and other opioid painkillers.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new recommendations are an update to 2016 guidelines that added momentum to a decline in opioid painkiller prescriptions.

Opioids painkillers can be addictive '-- even when used under doctors' orders '-- and were identified as a big reason for a rise in U.S. drug overdoses that began more than two decades ago. Other drugs have overtaken them in overdose statistics, and illicit fentanyl is now the biggest driver of deaths.

The previous guidance succeeded in reducing inappropriate and dangerous prescribing, some experts say. But they also were seen as a barrier to care, with some pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions as doctors wrote them.

The new guidelines are designed to ensure that patients get compassionate and safe pain care, CDC officials said.

A draft released in February received 5,500 public comments. Some modifications were made, but several main changes stayed in place, including:

The CDC no longer suggests trying to limit opioid treatment for acute pain to three days.The agency is dropping the specific recommendation that doctors avoid increasing dosage to a level equivalent to 90 milligrams of morphine per day.For patients receiving higher doses of opioids, the CDC is urging doctors to not abruptly halt treatment unless there are indications of a life-threatening danger. The agency offers suggestions on tapering patients off the drugs.

Should you save a dying stranger if you know they eat MEAT? | Daily Mail Online

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Letting meat eaters drown is ethical because of the suffering they cause to animals, an Oxford University academic has controversially argued.

Dr Michael Plant, a philosopher focusing on happiness, who eats meat himself, claims that, according to some moral philosophies, it can be justifiable to let people like himself die.

His argument stems from a conflict of what he says are two commonly held beliefs.

The first is human beings have a duty to rescue each other when doing so comes at a trivial cost. For example, jumping into a pond to save a drowning child but ruining your clothes in the process.

The second belief, Dr Plant claims, is it is wrong to eat meat because of the suffering animals can experience in factory farms.

Livestock, like chickens, can often be kept in cramped, dirty conditions before they are slaughtered.

He says this conflict leaves people who subscribe to the second belief in a morally interesting position if they encounter someone who eats meat drowning in a pond, and that allowing them to die might, in fact, be the lesser evil.

Dr Michael Plant (pictured here) has previously said he is not a vegetarian himself but tries to only eat animals that have had happy lives

Dr Plant has argued that some moral philosophies allow people to ethically not save meat-eaters in life-or-death situations due to the cruelty their diet inflicts on animals in factory farms

Such farms, where animals like chickens are kept in cramped dirty conditions, often in pain for months of their life before being slaughtered are controversial

Trendy raw vegan diet loved by Gwyneth Paltrow and Demi Moore might do more harm than good, warns dietary expert The raw vegan diet loved by Gwyneth Paltrow and Demi Moore can do more harm than good in the long run, an expert has warned.

While going vegetarian or vegan has become popular recently, some are taking it to the extreme and only eating raw plant foods that can be consumed without cooking.

There are claims that ingredients can lose important nutrients and enzymes in the cooking process '' and having raw plant food will improve energy levels, prevent disease and boost overall health.

But Dr Laura Brown, a senior lecturer in nutrition at Teesside University, warned the diet could cause more harm than good if followed for a long time.

On The Conversation website, she said some vegetables actually provide a greater nutrient content when cooked, as the process helps break down cell walls and allows nutrients to be released.

For example, when spinach is cooked it becomes easier for the body to absorb the calcium it contains.

Asparagus, mushrooms, carrots, broccoli, kale and cauliflower are also more nutrient-dense when cooked, she wrote.

'It seems universally accepted that doing or allowing a harm is permissible '-- and may even be required '-- when it is the lesser evil,' he wrote in the Journal of Controversial Ideas.

'I argue that, if meat eating is wrong on animal suffering grounds then, once we consider how much suffering might occur, it starts to seem plausible that saving strangers would be the greater evil than not rescuing them and is, therefore, not required after all.'

Dr Plant compares this to a pond scenario where, instead of a child, a person sees a cruel dictator known for torturing their populace drowning.

To save the dictator would allow them to continue inflicting suffering, so, similar to a meat eater, allowing them to drown might be the lesser evil.

He acknowledges most readers will consider this argument 'preposterous'.

But he counters that since a year of a person eating meat is roughly equivalent to five years of chickens suffering in abominable conditions, the total 'negative wellbeing' created by that person over time is quite large.

Dr Plant also acknowledges some might argue that saving the meat eater's life is permissible if you convert them to being a vegetarian upon rescuing them.

But, the moral merits of this could vary on if the person is successfully converted, he adds.

'It seems most likely they would assume your request was mad and ignore it, ''You won't believe what happened to me today. I fell in the pond and would have drowned if someone hadn't pulled me out. But that wasn't the weird thing. The person who pulled me out then asked if I ate a lot of chicken and demanded I stop.'',' he said.

'The reason we seriously countenance not saving the drowning dictator is that, while the best outcome would be if you saved him and then successfully convinced him to stop doing bad things, we recognise this outcome is not at all likely.'

Dr Plant concludes his argument by saying there is a 'deep and underappreciated tension' between the beliefs of saving lives and not eating from factory farms.

'While we would not normally consider these beliefs to be relevant to each other, I pressed the straightforward problem that, if we have those animal welfare concerns then, when we account for them, it reduces, and may remove, the obligation to rescue others. I consider this surprising and disturbing,' he said.

Dr Plant has previously described himself as a 'welfatarian' - someone who eats animals only if the creature has experienced a happy life prior to their death.

He does not specifically address in his article if welfatarians should be saved in life-or-death situations.

Government tests energy blackout emergency plans as supply fears grow | National Grid | The Guardian

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The government has ''war gamed'' emergency plans to cope with energy blackouts lasting up to seven days in the event of a national power outage amid growing fears over security of supply this winter.

The Guardian has seen documents, marked ''official sensitive'', which warn that in a ''reasonable worst-case scenario'' all sectors including transport, food and water supply, communications and energy could be ''severely disrupted'' for up to a week.

They show that ministers will prioritise getting food, water and shelter to the young and elderly people, as well as those with caring responsibilities, if the country experiences blackouts, with the Met Office warning that Britain faces a higher risk of a cold winter.

Whitehall officials are currently stress-testing Programme Yarrow, the confidential plan for coping in the event of a power outage, and have held a series of exercises with government departments and councils across the country in recent days.

The cross-government blueprint was first drawn up in 2021, before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, to improve planning and resilience in the event of a major technical fault on the National Grid. It is unrelated to the energy outlooks published by the National Grid for this winter.

However, concerns over the impact of a blackout have grown as a result of the war, with government insiders admitting the planning exercises had taken on a new urgency as a result of the resulting energy crisis, which has seen household energy bills spike.

Ed Miliband, the shadow climate secretary, said: ''All governments do contingency planning for worst-case scenarios but the truth is that we are vulnerable as a country as a direct consequence of a decade of failed Conservative energy policy.

''Banning onshore wind, slashing investment in energy efficiency, stalling nuclear and closing gas storage have led to higher bills and reliance on gas imports, leaving us more exposed to the impact of Putin's use of energy as a geopolitical weapon.''

The type of technical fault envisaged by government planners includes flood damage or a lightning strike on a substation, but could also cover an attack by a hostile state on sub-sea power cables, following Russian attacks against the Nord Stream energy pipelines.

The leak comes after a warning from Tom Tugendhat, the security minister, on Monday that Britain had become ''more vulnerable'' in recent years as countries seeking to do it harm had ''levelled the field'' by investing time and money into new technologies.

In the worst-case scenario outlined in the plan, only analogue FM radios would work, with just BBC Radio 2 and 4 broadcasting, and uncertainties around local radio as some stations only have a few hours of backup generator cover.

The Guardian revealed last month that the BBC has prepared secret scripts that could be read on air if energy shortages cause blackouts or the loss of gas supplies this winter.

One source said: ''The government doesn't want any publicity on Yarrow, as they don't want it to be seen as linked to Ukraine, energy supply and the cost of living. But we need to think about how we can help people in advance. The fact they're talking about it now means they have a real concern it could happen.''

Cabinet Office sources said they did not recognise the claim, as planning was unrelated to events in Ukraine.

Programme Yarrow prepares for a situation where power is unavailable, without any pre-warning, to all premises without backup generators during winter. It envisages that 60% of electricity demand will be met ''between day 2 and day 7'' when households and businesses will be given ''intermittent access'' to ration supply.

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''All sectors will be severely disrupted, including communications, transport networks, energy supply, food and water supply,'' one document said.

The Yarrow plans prepare for a more severe situation than that outlined by National Grid last month, which warned that Britons could face three-hour rolling blackouts under a worst-case scenario if temperatures drop sharply and Russia cuts off gas supplies to Europe.

Under the electricity supply emergency code, households and businesses will be given 24 hours' notice of a planned outage, and the plan could be published up to a week ahead on a rolling basis.

The ''rota disconnection plan'' is designed to cut power evenly across the country. The power cuts should initially only take place once a day for three hours, although it could take up to an hour to reconnect after that. However, the frequency of cuts will depend on the severity of the energy supply shortages.

Jan Rosenow, Europe director at the Regulatory Assistance Project, an energy thinktank, said: ''There are so many things coming together at the same time: the gas shortages, high prices, the problems with electricity generation from nuclear plants in France. That's what causes the concern in government. It is prudent [to plan for outages]. It's a shame it takes a crisis to have this conversation.''

A government spokesperson said: ''As a responsible government, it is right that we plan for all potential scenarios and work with industry to prepare and exercise robust contingency plans. This work is ongoing continuously and is an important strand of our national resilience planning.

''Local and national exercises are a part of this ongoing work and ensure we are able to effectively respond to any of a wide range of scenarios, no matter how unlikely they may be.''

Elliott warns of hyperinflation and worst financial crisis in 70 years | Fortune

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The world's worst financial crisis in decades may be right on our doorstep.

Rising inflation and the largest interest rate hikes globally in two decades have set the stage for the biggest economic upheaval since World War II, according to Elliott Management, a major hedge fund that manages nearly $56 billion in assets.

A unique and ''extraordinary'' set of economic conditions is steering the globe toward a crisis worse than any of the stock market crashes or energy shocks of the past 70 years, Elliott warned in a recent letter to clients, the Financial Times reported Wednesday.

The letter acknowledged, however, that the dire situation isn't guaranteed. But some degree of economic downturn beginning next year is looking increasingly likely as central banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve, have responded to rising inflation with aggressive interest rate hikes that international institutions including the World Bank and the UN have warned could trigger a global recession.

But the outcome could be even worse than that, according to Elliott, which claimed central banks sparked the inflation crisis when they loosened monetary policy in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The result of this looming economic spiral could even lead to ''global societal collapse and civil or international strife,'' according to Elliott.

Elliott declined Fortune's request for comment.

Central banks in the spotlightIn its letter, Elliott accused policymakers of being ''dishonest'' about the real cause behind rising inflation, and of not taking responsibility for the part central banks played in creating it.

In 2020, many central banks'--including the Fed, the U.K.'s Bank of England, and the European Central Bank'--all lowered their interest rates to record lows of near-zero in an attempt to spur growth, after interest rates had already spent a decade at historical lows following the 2008 financial crisis.

That ultra-loose monetary policy countered the economic drag created by stay-at-home orders and business closures. But interest rates staying too low for too long can create additional economic risks if they ignite excessive growth and uncontrolled inflation.

The long-term consequence of the low-rate era could set the world on a ''path to hyperinflation,'' Elliott wrote, a rate of inflation that is rapid, self-sustaining, and largely uncontrolled, commonly defined as a monthly inflation rate of at least 50%.

Hyperinflation is extremely rare globally, as a monthly 50% inflation rate would translate to an annual rate of 12,875%, well above the current annual U.S. inflation rate of 8.2%.

High-profile economists including Mohamed El-Erian, president of Queens' College, Cambridge, criticized the Federal Reserve last year in a Washington Post op-ed for keeping interest rates at near-zero for too long.

Low interest rates were ''once needed and effective,'' El-Erian wrote, but by the middle of 2021 they risked becoming ''increasingly counterproductive for the economy'' and could fuel a ''perfect storm'' of high inflation, slow growth, and financial instability.

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has also criticized the Fed's monetary stance, warning last year that the central bank was at risk of ''dangerous complacency'' over inflation owing to the protracted period of record-low rates.

Both El-Erian and Summers warned that if rates were kept low for long enough, runaway inflation could force the Fed into a knee-jerk monetary tightening stance that could severely hurt the economy.

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True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht delivers message from prison after refusing to reveal confidential source | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

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True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht delivered an audiotaped message from prison on Wednesday to thank all of her and True the Vote investigator Gregg Phillips' supporters for their ''prayers and kind messages of support.'' They are currently in jail on contempt of court charges stemming from a defamation suit brought by Konnech CEO Eugene Yu. Yu was

arrested for storing US voting data on servers in China after a tip from Phillips.

Yu brought the suit after he was charged in Los Angeles for violating the company's contract with LA County because Konnech, which makes software to manage payroll and scheduling for election workers, had allegedly been storing data about US elections on servers in China. Yu's arrest came from a tip from Phillips, and he and Engelbrecht were told by the court to reveal the source that led them to make that tip to law enforcement.

Federal Judge Kenneth Hoyt held the pair in contempt of court after they refused identify that confidential informant who helped them obtain information that led to evidence that the E. Lansing,

Michigan-based election software company Konnech was allegedly storing

election-related data on servers in

China.

Konnech CEO Eugene Yu was released on a $500,000 bond, is currently under house arrest until his next hearing, which is set for Nov. 17. Yu was called a ''flight risk'' by a Michigan prosecutor and ordered to wear an ankle monitor and remain in Los Angeles County.

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office has accused Yu of stealing the personal identifying information of poll workers and that the stolen data was stored on servers in China, in violation of Konnech's contract with Los Angeles County. Yu is now

suing Engelbrecht and Phillips for defamation.

Engelbrecht and Phillips made the documentary 2000 Mules which used geotracking data to uncover multiple alleged massive ballot-harvesting operations in several key states across the US for the 2020 presidential election.

Gateway Pundit obtained Engelbrecht's message from prison, in which she said that they are appealing their cases to the Fifth Circuit Court and are praying for a good result. She also asked that Americans remain focused on the upcoming election and encourage everyone they know to vote and ended her message by saying, ''God bless America. And I'll see you soon'...''

True the Vote also called for the immediate release of the duo on Truth Social, saying: ''founder Catherine Engelbrecht and contractor Gregg Phillips, who were jailed for contempt on October 31st for refusing to deliver to Konnech the name of the third party who was present at a presentation of evidence of Konnech's wrongdoing''.

''This evidence was initially provided to the Federal Bureau of Investigations in Q1 of 2021. In Q3 2022, information was provided to the LA District Attorney's office in their investigation of Konnech, which resulted in the arrest of CEO Eugene Yu.''

"True the Vote attorneys are expediting an appeal seeking to have Engelbrecht and Phillips released. Catherine Engelbrecht said, "Trust, honesty, and respect will always be our highest values regarding both our work and our lives. As a result, we will be held in jail until we agree to give up the name of a person who was not covered under the terms of the judge's TRO. We ask that you keep us in your prayers. Thank you to those who continue supporting and believing in us and our mission to make elections safe for all parties and for all people.''

The Next OPEC-Like Cartel Could Be In Battery Metals | OilPrice.com

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Large nickel producer Indonesia sees merit in the formation of an OPEC-like cartel for battery metals. Indonesia has not yet contacted other nickel-producing countries to discuss the idea of a cartel. An Indonesia-led cartel for battery metals would likely face opposition from the EU, and the U.S. The world's largest nickel miner, Indonesia, is considering the idea of forming a cartel to manage the supply of nickel and some other key battery metals, similar to what OPEC does for oil. As demand for battery metals such as nickel, lithium, copper, and cobalt is expected to soar in the coming decades to meet the surge in battery demand for electric vehicles and energy storage, the idea that some resource-rich countries would take advantage of their mineral deposits and look to control part of the future market doesn't sound outrageous.

''I do see the merit of creating Opec to manage the governance of oil trade to ensure predictability for potential investors and consumers,'' Indonesia's Investment Minister Bahlil Lahadalia told the Financial Times in an interview published this week.

''Indonesia is studying the possibility to form a similar governance structure with regard to the minerals we have, including nickel, cobalt and manganese,'' Lahadalia added.

Indonesia has not yet contacted other nickel-producing countries to discuss the idea of a cartel, the investment ministry told FT, adding it was still working on a governance structure of a future alliance that it could propose to other producers.

Easier Said Than Done

Yet, replicating an OPEC-like cartel for the so-called energy transition metals is easier said than done. Unlike the oil resources of OPEC's producers, the mining operations in Indonesia and other major nickel producers are controlled by various private companies or Chinese entities. Moreover, the biggest producers and holders of nickel deposits are a diverse group of countries with very different political and market conditions and unlikely to have common ground and interests in forming a cartel. Apart from Indonesia, producers of nickel include Russia, Canada, Australia, and the United States, although the U.S. doesn't have a lot of resources or output compared to Indonesia, the Philippines, Russia, or Australia.

Indonesia and Australia hold the world's largest nickel reserves , each with around 21 million tons, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Indonesia, however, is the top nickel producer, followed by the Philippines and Russia.

But Russia accounts for almost 20% of the global supply of Class 1 nickel, which is the grade needed for batteries, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Nickel is found primarily in two types of deposits '' sulphide and laterite. Sulphide deposits '' mainly located in Russia, Canada, and Australia '' typically contain higher-grade nickel which is more easily processed into Class 1 battery-grade nickel. Indonesia, as well as the Philippines, have the laterite deposits of nickel, which is lower-grade and requires additional energy-intensive processing to become battery-grade nickel, the IEA said in a July 2022 report , Global Supply Chains of EV Batteries.

''Although Indonesia produces around 40% of total nickel, little of this is currently used in the EV battery supply chain. The largest Class 1 battery grade nickel producers are Russia, Canada and Australia,'' the IEA said.

Indonesia aims to develop its downstream nickel industry and banned exports of nickel ore in 2020. This move prompted an EU complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against Indonesia's decision to ban exports of raw materials used in the production of stainless steel.

Imagine what reaction an Indonesia-led cartel for battery metals would receive in the EU, the U.S., Canada, and Australia, for example.

The Indonesian ban has also prompted Chinese firms to invest in Indonesia's nickel supply chain. Chinese companies have invested and committed some $30 billion in the Indonesian nickel supply chain, with Tsingshan's investments in the Morowali and Weda Bay industrial parks being the most prominent examples, the IEA said in a report on the role of critical minerals in the energy transition.

Unlike OPEC producers, it's not one state-owned entity in Indonesia that controls the production of nickel. Tsingshan of China and Brazil's Vale are major producers of nickel in Indonesia.

Moreover, a unit of China's battery giant CATL signed earlier this year a $6 billion agreement with Indonesian firms to cooperate on the Indonesia EV Battery Integration Project, which includes nickel mining and processing, EV battery materials, EV battery manufacturing, and battery recycling.

Environmental Concerns

Indonesia and its policies will be pivotal for the quality and quantity challenges in nickel supply, according to the IEA.

Most of the nickel production growth in the coming years is set to come from the regions with vast amounts of laterite resources, such as Indonesia and the Philippines, according to the IEA. These resources need more energy and emission-intensive processed to produce battery-grade nickel. High Pressure Acid Leach (HPAL) is gaining traction as a way to produce Class 1 products from laterite resources, and several such projects are being developed in Indonesia. But such projects have track records of large cost overruns and delays and require additional costs for acid production facilities.

There are also concerns about the environmental impact of HPAL as it often uses coal or oil-fired boilers for heat, thus emitting up to three times more greenhouse gas emissions than production from sulphide deposits, the IEA says.

Due to concerns over the environmental impact of the nickel industry in Indonesia, dozens of U.S. and Indonesian environmental organizations sent in July an open letter to Elon Musk and the shareholders of Tesla, urging them to ''Terminate Tesla's planned investment plan in Indonesia's nickel industry due to potentially devastating impacts on the environment and the lives of Indonesian people.'' By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com

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MASSIVE ANTI-RUSSIAN 'BOT ARMY' EXPOSED BY AUSTRALIAN RESEARCHERS - Declassified Australia

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A team of researchers at the University of Adelaide have found that as many as 80 percent of tweets about the 2022 Russia-Ukraine invasion in its early weeks were part of a covert propaganda campaign originating from automated fake 'bot' accounts.

An anti-Russia propaganda campaign originating from a 'bot army' of fake automated Twitter accounts flooded the internet at the start of the war. The research shows of the more than 5-million tweets studied, 90.2 percent of all tweets (both bot and non-bot) came from accounts that were pro-Ukraine, with fewer than 7 percent of the accounts being classed as pro-Russian.

The university researchers also found these automated tweets had been purposely used to drive up fear amongst people targeted by them, boosting a high level of statistically measurable 'angst' in the online discourse.

The research team analysed a massively unprecedented 5,203,746 tweets, sent with key hashtags, in the first two weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from 24 February this year. The researchers considered predominately English-language accounts, with a calculated 1.8-million unique Twitter accounts in the dataset posting at least one English-language tweet.

The results were published in August in a research paper, titled ''#IStandWithPutin versus #IStandWithUkraine: The interaction of bots and humans in discussion of the Russia/Ukraine war'', by the University of Adelaide's School of Mathematical Science.

The size of the sample under study, of over 5-million tweets, dwarfs other recent studies of covert propaganda in social media surrounding the Ukraine war.

The little-reported Stanford University/Graphika research on Western disinformation, analysed by Declassified Australia in September, examined just under 300,000 tweets from 146 Twitter accounts. The Meta/Facebook research on Russian disinformation reported widely by mainstream media, including the ABC a fortnight later, looked at 1,600 Facebook accounts.

Reports on the new research have appeared in a few independent media sites, and in Russia's RT, but not much else, so revealing the burial of stories that don't fit the desired pro-Western narrative.

This ground-breaking study, exposing a massive anti-Russia social media disinformation campaign, has been effectively ignored by the mainstream Western establishment media. It's become almost routine during the Russia-Ukraine war.

The disinformation blitz krieg

The Adelaide University researchers unearthed a massive organised pro-Ukraine influence operation underway from the early stages of the conflict. Overall the study found automated 'bot' accounts to be the source of between 60 to 80 percent of all tweets in the dataset.

The published data shows that in the first week of the Ukraine-Russia war there was a huge mass of pro-Ukrainian hashtag bot activity. Approximately 3.5 million tweets using the hashtag #IStandWithUkraine were sent by bots in that first week.

In fact, it was like someone had flicked a switch, when at the start of the war on 24 February, pro-Ukraine bot activity suddenly burst into life. In that first day of the war the #IStandWithUkraine hashtag was used in as many as 38,000 tweets each hour, rising to 50,000 tweets an hour by day three of the war.

By comparison, the data shows that in the first week there was an almost total absence of pro-Russian bot activity using the key hashtags. During that first week of the invasion, pro-Russian bots were sending off tweets using the #IStandWithPutin or #IStandWithRussia hashtags at a rate of only several hundred per hour.

Graph showing the hourly frequency of the selected 'StandWith' hashtags. The anti-Russia #IStandWithUkraine hashtag pushed mainly by automated bots flooded Twitter in the first week of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Image: University of Adelaide)Given the apparent long-range planning for the invasion of Ukraine, cyber experts expressed surprise that Russian cyber and internet responses were so laggard. A researcher at the Centre for Security Studies in Switzerland, said: 'The [pro-Russian] cyber operations we have seen do not show long preparation, and instead look rather haphazard.'

After being apparently left flatfooted, the #IStandWithPutin hashtag mainly from automated bots, eventually fired up a week after the start of the war. That hashtag commenced appearing in higher numbers on 2 March, day 7 of the war. It reached 10,000 tweets per hour just twice over the next two days, still way behind the pro-Ukraine tweeting activity.

The #IStandWithRussia hashtag use was even smaller, reaching only 4,000 tweets per hour. After just two days of operation, the pro-Russian hashtag activity had dropped away almost completely. The study's researchers noted the automated bot accounts 'likely used by Russian authorities', were 'removed likely by pro-Ukrainian authorities'.

The reaction against these pro-Russian accounts had been swift. On March 5, after the #IStandWithPutin hashtag had trended on Twitter, the company announced it had banned over 100 accounts using the hashtag for violating its 'platform manipulation and spam policy' and participating in 'coordinated inauthentic behaviour'.

Later that month, the Ukraine Security Service (SBU) reportedly raided five 'bot farms' operating inside the country. The Russia-linked bot operators were reportedly operating through 100,000 fake social media accounts spreading disinformation that was 'intended to inspire panic among Ukrainian masses'.

The war of the 'bot armies'. Ukrainian security forces unearthed a pro-Russian automated 'bot army' operating out of an apartment in March 2022. The raid found 100 sets of GSM-gateways, left, and 10,000 sim cards, right, operating 100,000 fake bot accounts. (Photos: SBU)Unfiltered and independent research

The landmark Adelaide University research differs from these earlier revelations in another most unique and spectacular way.

While the Stanford-Graphika and Meta research was produced by researchers who have long-term deep ties to the US national security state, the Adelaide University researchers are remarkably independent. The academic team is from the university's School of Mathematical Science. Using mathematical calculations, they set out to predict and model people's psychological traits based on their digital footprint.

Unlike the datasets selected and provided for the Stanford/Graphika and the Meta research, the data the Adelaide University team accessed didn't come from accounts after they've been detected for breaching guidelines and shut down by Meta or Twitter.

Joshua Watt is one of the lead researchers on the university team, and is a MPhil candidate in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from the university's School of Mathematical Sciences.

He told Declassified Australia that the dataset of 5-million tweets was accessed directly by the team from Twitter accounts on the internet using an academic license giving access to the Twitter API. The 'Application Programming Interface' is a data communication software tool that allows researchers to directly retrieve and analyse Twitter data.

The fake tweets and automated bot accounts had not been detected and removed by Twitter before being analysed by the researchers, although some were possibly removed in the March sweep by Twitter. Watt told Declassified Australia that in fact many of the bot accounts behind the 5-million tweets studied are likely to be still up and running.

Declassified Australia contacted Twitter to ask what action they may have taken to remove the fake bot accounts identified in the University of Adelaide research. They had not responded by the time of going to press.

Critical tool in information warfare

This new research paper confirms mounting fears that social media has covertly become what the researchers call 'a critical tool in information warfare playing a large role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine'.

The Adelaide University researchers tried their best to be noncommittal in describing the activities of the fake Twitter accounts, although they had found the vast majority '' over 90 percent '' were anti-Russian messages. They stated: 'Both sides in the Ukrainian conflict use the online information environment to influence geopolitical dynamics and sway public opinion.'

They found the two main participating sides in the propaganda war have their own particular goals and style. 'Russian social media pushes narratives around their motivation, and Ukrainian social media aims to foster and maintain external support from Western countries, as well as promote their military efforts while undermining the perception of the Russian military.'

While the research findings concentrated on automated Twitter bots, there were also findings on the use of hashtags by non-bot tweeters. They found significant information flows from non-bot pro-Russian accounts, but no significant flows from non-bot pro-Ukraine accounts.

As well as being far more active, the pro-Ukraine side was found to be far more advanced in its use of automated bots. The pro-Ukrainian side used more 'astroturf bots' than the pro-Russians. Astroturf bots are hyper-active political bots that continuously follow many other accounts to increase follower count of that account.

Social media role in boosting fear

Crucially, the University of Adelaide researchers also investigated the psychological influence the fake automated bot accounts had on the online conversation during those early weeks of the war.

These conversations in a target audience may develop over time into support or opposition towards governments and policies '' but they may also have more instant effects influencing the target audiences' immediate decisions.

Word clouds for 'angst', left, and 'motion', right, demonstrate the frequency of words in particular linguistic categories, that were used in the 5-million tweets studied. (Image: University of Adelaide)The study found that it was the tweets from the fake 'bot' accounts that most drove 'an increase in conversations surrounding angst' amongst people targeted by them. They found these automated bot accounts increased 'the use of words in the angst category which contains words related to fear and worry, such as ''shame'', ''terrorist'', ''threat'', ''panic''.'

By combining the 'angst' messaging with messages about 'motion' and geographical locations, the researchers found 'the bot accounts are influencing more discussion surrounding moving/fleeing/going or staying'. The researchers believe this effect may well have been to influence Ukrainians even away from the conflict zones to flee from their homes.

The research shows that fake automated social media 'bot' accounts do manipulate public opinion by shaping the discourse, sometimes in very specific ways. The results provide a chilling indication of the very real malign effects that mass social media disinformation campaigns can have on an innocent civilian population.

Origins of the Twitter bot accounts

The researchers report that the overwhelming level of Twitter disinformation that was anti-Russian was from bots 'likely [organised] by pro-Ukrainian authorities'.

The researchers asserted no further findings about the origin of the 5-million tweets, but did find that some bots 'are pushing campaigns specific to certain countries [unnamed], and hence sharing content aligned with those timezones'. The data does show that the peak time for a selection of pro-Ukrainian bot activity corresponded with being between 6pm and 9pm across US timezones.

Some indication of the origin and the target of the messages, could be deduced from the specific languages used in the 5-million tweets. Over 3.5-million tweets, or 67 percent, were in the English language, with fewer that 2 percent in Russian and Ukrainian.

In May 2022, National Security Agency (NSA) Director and US Cyber Command chief, General Paul Nakasone, revealed that the Cyber Command had been conducting offensive Information Operations in support of Ukraine.

'We've conducted a series of operations across the full spectrum: offensive, defensive, [and] information operations,'' Nakasone said.

Nakasone said the US has been conducting operations aimed at dismantling Russian propaganda. He said the operations were lawful, conducted through policy determined by the US Defense Department and with civilian oversight. Nakasone said the US seeks to tell the truth when conducting an Information Operation, unlike Russia.

US Cyber Command had deployed to Ukraine a 'hunt forward' cyber team in December to help shore up Ukraine's cyber defences and networks against active threats in anticipation of the invasion. A newly formed European Union cyber rapid response team consisting of 12 experts joined the Cyber Command team to look for active cyber threats inside Ukrainian networks and to strengthen the country's cyber defences.

The US has invested $40 million since 2017 in helping Ukraine buttress its information technology sector. According to US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, the investments have helped Ukrainians 'keep their internet on and information flowing, even in the midst of a brutal Russian invasion'.

Wars and lies in our pockets

With the rise of the internet, war and armed conflict will never be the same again. Others have noted that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has ushered in 'a new digital era of military, political and economic conflict' being manipulated by 'laptop generals and bot armies'.

'In all dimensions of this conflict, digital technology plays a key role '' as a tool for cyberattacks and digital protest, and as an accelerator for flows of information and disinformation,' wrote one.

'Propaganda has been a part of war since the beginning of history, but never before could it be so widely spread beyond an actual conflict area and targeted to so many different audiences.'

Joshua Watt, one of the lead researchers on the University of Adelaide team that conducted the landmark study, summed it up. 'In the past, wars have been primarily fought physically, with armies, air force and navy operations being the primary forms of combat. However, social media has created a new environment where public opinion can be manipulated at a very large scale.'

'CNN brought once-distant wars into our living rooms,' another stated, 'but TikTok and YouTube and Twitter have put them in our pockets.'

We are all carrying around with us a powerful source of information and news media '' and also, most certainly, disinformation that's coming relentlessly at us from influence operations run by 'bad actors' whose aim is to deceive.

Biden Admin Renews Public Health Emergency Over Monkeypox | ZeroHedge

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Biden administration on Wednesday renewed the public health emergency determination for monkeypox.

Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services speaks during a press conference at the HHS headquarter in Washington, on June 28, 2022. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra said in a statement that his decision to renew the public health emergency was ''a result of the continued consequences of an outbreak of monkeypox cases across multiple states.'' He had consulted with public health officials before renewing the determination.

The Biden administration first declared monkeypox a public health emergency this year on Aug. 4. It would have expired Wednesday, Nov. 2, if it was not renewed.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky previously said the declaration would provide more ''access to resources'' and will ''enable personnel to be deployed to the outbreak'' in some areas. The emergency will also ''further raise awareness'' and encourage testing for monkeypox.

The latest U.S. renewal of the public health emergency comes after the World Health Organization announced that its emergency committee had likewise determined monkeypox as a global health emergency. The determination was made following a meeting of the committee on Oct. 20.

As of Wednesday, the CDC has recorded 77,573 monkeypox cases globally and 38 deaths. It has recorded 28,492 cases of monkeypox in the United States, with the death toll at 8.

Rep. David N. Cicilline (D-R.I.), chair of the LGBTQ+ Equality congressional caucus, praised the renewal of the public health emergency determination, saying it will ensure continued support to address the outbreak.

''Thanks to vaccination efforts across the country, the contraction and spread of MPV has decreased significantly. However, MPV continues to spread and is disproportionately impacting people of color. We must bolster support and resources'--including by appropriating sufficient funds'--to help these communities and end this outbreak,'' Cicilline added.

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Ukrainian Starlink units go dark over funding issues '' media '-- RT Russia & Former Soviet Union

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Kiev is concerned about losing access to Elon Musk's internet service if the US or UK doesn't step in to pay

Some 1,300 Starlink satellite terminals went offline in Ukraine last week due to a failure to pay the military's internet bills, deepening fears that the country will no longer be able to afford the pricey satellite service, two sources familiar with the situation told CNN on Friday.

The terminals, all part of a consignment purchased from a British company in March, began to go dark on October 24 due to lack of funding, causing a ''huge problem'' for Kiev's military.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, aware of the dues and its inability to pay, asked the UK for $3.25 million to cover the monthly cost and rotated the terminals out of use to avoid blackouts at crucial times. However, the request was turned down.

Starlink parent company SpaceX alerted the Pentagon in September that it could no longer pay the full cost of Ukraine's Starlink usage, asking Washington to pick up the bill, according to CNN.

With approximately 25,000 Starlink terminals in Ukraine, Musk estimated the military's use of the service would cost nearly $400 million over the next 12 months. Fewer than 11,000 were being paid for at the time he wrote to the Pentagon.

Musk then appeared to change his mind about footing the bill for the service a few days later, tweeting ''We'll just keep funding Ukraine for free.''

However, a senior defense official told CNN that SpaceX has continued negotiating with the Pentagon, adding that officials are eager to get Musk to commit resources in writing because they fear he will change his mind.

He has reportedly refused to operate Starlink in Crimea, fearing this would invite an escalation from Moscow, while Western media have accused him of hindering the network's operation by Ukrainian troops in Russian-controlled areas, which Musk denies. Last month, he warned that even though the company has ''diverted massive resources toward defense'' as the Russian military attempts to take the system out, ''Starlink may still die.''

Moscow believes Starlink is a legitimate target, reasoning that the US and its allies have been using ''elements of the civilian space infrastructure, including commercial, for military purposes.'' Because this ''essentially constitutes an involvement in military action through a proxy,'' the ''quasi-civilian'' satellite network is fair game, Russian diplomat Konstantin Vorontsov told the UN last month.

Midterm spending projected to near $17 billion, shattering previous record | The Hill

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Midterm election spending is likely to far exceed the record set in 2018, with projections reaching past $16.7 billion.

Spending in federal elections has already surpassed the inflation-adjusted previous record of $7.1 billion, stretching beyond $7.5 billion as of Tuesday, according to the Federal Election Commission.

Campaign finance watchdog OpenSecrets expects that number to grow to $8.9 billion, while state elections are projected to raise $7.8 billion.

Federal elections in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and Wisconsin are costing the most as five of the tightest races.

''No other midterm election has seen as much money at the state and federal levels as the 2022 elections,'' said OpenSecrets Executive Director Sheila Krumholz.

''We're seeing record-breaking totals spent on elections up and down the ballot.''

The largest spenders this election season are congressional super PACs, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) Senate Leadership Fund, the House Congressional Leadership Fund backed by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), the Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)-affiliated Senate Majority PAC and the House Majority PAC, aligned with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)

McConnell's group has spent more than $205.4 million on the midterm elections thus far, while the Congressional Leadership Fund has spent more than $188.1 million, both numbers as of Monday.

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Outside groups as a whole, including super PACs and other organizations, have far surpassed 2018's inflation-adjusted spending record of $1.6 billion, reaching around $1.9 billion by Monday.

Republican groups have spent more on their candidates during this midterm cycle, while Democratic campaigns have raised more outside money.

Nike suspends ties with Kyrie Irving, cancels next shoe release | Reuters

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Nov 4 (Reuters) - Nike Inc. on Friday suspended its relationship with Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving and canceled its next Irving-branded shoe release in the aftermath of his promotion of an anti-Semitic documentary.

The Nets had already suspended Irving at least five games after he stopped short of fully disavowing the documentary on two occasions. Irving later issued a more fulsome apology late on Thursday for promoting a project he said contained "false anti-Semitic statements."

But the apology was not enough to stop Nike from suspending ties with Irving.

"At Nike, we believe there is no place for hate speech and we condemn any form of antisemitism. To that end, we've made the decision to suspend our relationship with Kyrie Irving effective immediately and will no longer launch the Kyrie 8," Nike said in a statement.

"We are deeply saddened and disappointed by the situation and its impact on everyone," the statement said.

Several media outlets have reported the shoe deal to be worth $11 million, but Reuters could not confirm that.

The Nets will also not pay him during his suspension. He is on a $36.9 million contract this season, after having earned nearly $195 million in his previous 11 seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Boston Celtics and the Nets, according to Basketball-Reference.com.

The Nets had said he would be suspended no less than five games and until he undergoes a series of unspecified "remedial measures."

Oct 19, 2022; Brooklyn, New York, USA; Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) reacts during the second quarter against the New Orleans Pelicans at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY SportsIrving has faced heavy criticism since posting a link on Twitter last week to a 2018 commentary and defending the post over the weekend. The seven-time All Star has since deleted the Twitter post.

Posting on Instagram Thursday, he apologized to those "hurt from the hateful remarks made in the documentary," and said he took full responsibility for his decision to share the content with his followers.

Irving said the film "contained some false anti-Semitic statements, narratives, and language that were untrue and offensive to the Jewish Race/Religion."

"I want to clarify any confusion on where I stand fighting against anti-Semitism by apologizing for posting the documentary without context and a factual explanation outlining the specific beliefs in the documentary I agreed with and disagreed with," Irving wrote.

The controversy comes at a fraught moment for Jews in the United States. The FBI warned on Thursday there was a credible threat to synagogues in New Jersey, a state that lies just across the harbor from the New York City borough of Brooklyn, which has one of the densest populations of Jews in the world.

Irving's suspension and apology follow a controversy generated by Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who was suspended by social media platforms last month for posts that online users condemned as anti-Semitic.

Irving's social media posts are not the first time that he has courted controversy in the NBA.

He played in just 29 of the Nets' 82 regular season games for the 2021-22 season after refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine despite a mandate by the city of New York.

Reporting by Daniel Trotta in Carlsbad, Calif.; Editing by Michael Perry

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Paintballs to be shot at Dutch wolves in bid to make them less tame - BBC News

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Wolves in parts of the Netherlands can be shot with paintballs in a bid to make them less tame, authorities say.

There are fears that wolves are becoming so unafraid of humans that they could become a serious danger.

The decision by the provincial government in Arnhem comes after a video posted on social media shows a wolf strolling past a family in the region's Hoge Veluwe national park.

Paintballs have been chosen so that rangers can see which have been hit.

It is hoped that it will also encourage wolves to stay at least 30m (100ft) away from people.

A spokesperson for the province told DutchNews that one of the wolves in particular appeared to be looking for people.

Environmental organisation Faunabescherming has accused park officials of feeding the wolves because if they become too tame they can be classed as "problem animals" and culled.

DutchNews reported that the park's owner, Seger Emmanuel baron van Voorst tot Voorst, denies the allegation but has previously said that wolves have no place in the Netherlands.

According to a report published in June there are around 20 adult wolves living in the country.

The announcement from the local government does not mean that anyone with a paintball gun can head to the park and start firing at wolves. No date has yet been given for when the measure will start and it will be carried out by people authorised to do so.

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David Icke Has Just Been Banned From 26 European Countries

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The Dutch government has banned the controversial British conspiracy theorist David Icke from entering the Netherlands and basically all of the EU over concerns he poses a threat to public order, officials announced on Thursday.

Icke, a former footballer and sports broadcaster who is one of the world's most high-profile conspiracy theorists, had been scheduled to speak at a ''peace'' rally by a conspiracist movement in Amsterdam on Sunday protesting the Ukraine war, the Dutch government and energy prices. Dutch news service RTL Nieuws reported that the decision had been made following consultations between the Dutch immigration service, police and the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism.

Icke confirmed the ban, posting a scan of a 5-page letter from the Dutch immigration service to his website. The letter stated the entry ban extended to the entire Schengen visa-free area of 26 European countries, for two years. The letter stated that the ban was due to concerns his presence at an Amsterdam rally planned for Sunday could lead to ''a disturbance of public order.''

Icke, who since the pandemic has emerged as a key voice in the global COVID conspiracist ''freedom'' movement, had been scheduled to deliver the keynote speech at a demo organised by Samen Voor Nederland (Together For The Netherlands), a group which emerged in opposition to coronavirus-related restrictions.

Ciaran O'Connor, a senior analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, said the group had become known for ''promoting many baseless and false conspiracy theories and claims about the Great Reset, COVID-19 or the invasion of Ukraine.'' He said the group regularly promoted far-right politics and conspiracy ideologies, and regularly referred to Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as a dictator.

The letter from Dutch immigration authorities announcing the ban also referred to the anti-Semitic overtones of Icke's defining conspiracy ideology '' that the world is secretly controlled by a global elite of shape-shifting, child-sacrificing reptilians.

''According to critics, the reptiles are a metaphor for a (partly Jewish) elite that forms an all-powerful secret world government and is active in all ranks of society,'' the letter read.

Not all of the elites named by Icke as supposed reptilians are Jewish, such as members of the British royal family, but many are. He has repeatedly insisted he is not anti-Semitic, and claims he is not campaigning against any particular human group, but instead a class of alien-descended reptilians merely posing as humans.

But experts who monitor conspiracy movements say Icke's ideology strongly echoes centuries-old libels against Jewish people.

They say it's an ideology that's found a growing audience since the start of the pandemic, which has led to an explosion in conspiracy beliefs about supposed global elites seeking to bring about a New World Order, most notably the QAnon conspiracy theory, which holds that elites are torturing children to harvest a chemical called adrenochrome from their blood.

Joe Ondrak, head of investigation for Logically, an organisation that combats online misinformation, said that since the pandemic, Icke's profile was ''higher internationally than it ever has been.''

Since the outbreak of COVID, Icke had been ''instrumental in setting the scene for the UK conspiracy milieu,'' he said, finding a receptive new audience for his narrative of ''vaguely-euphemistic antisemitism, global control through fakery, anti-vax, and human enslavement.''

Despite his interviews being taken down from YouTube early in the pandemic, he had carved out a role as a ''central node in the global anti-COVID-vaccine, anti-lockdown, and now generally conspiratorial 'freedom' network.'' Icke regularly spoke at demos across the anti-vax, COVID truther scene; his son, Gareth Icke, has followed in his footsteps, running an online media outlet, Ickonic, which pushes conspiracist narratives.

On Thursday night, Gareth Icke tweeted his disbelief at his father's entry ban from the Netherlands. ''The old man is banned from entering the Netherlands. Zero convictions, zero crimes committed. Banned by the government. Wow.''

But experts said the danger posed by Icke's conspiracy ideology was clear.

''Given Icke's turn towards various forms of COVID conspiracies since the start of the pandemic, the potential for his claims to have lasting harm in the Netherlands is very real,'' said O'Connor.

Ondrak said the ban reflected a growing awareness by governments of the threat posed by volatile conspiracy movements.

''While some conspiracies are harmless and the ability to entertain such beliefs is indicative of a healthy society, Icke's brand of stealthily antisemitic speculative fiction functions as an easy on-ramp to harder and more extreme views,'' he said.

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Kabinet weigert omstreden complotdenker Icke toegang tot Nederland | RTL Nieuws

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Beeld (C) ANP Foto De omstreden complotdenker David Icke mag Nederland niet inreizen. Dat heeft het kabinet besloten, melden Haagse bronnen aan RTL Nieuws. Hij zou komende zondag spreken op een demonstratie in Amsterdam.

Icke wordt geweerd op grond van het 'risico voor de openbare orde', dat zijn optreden met zich mee zou brengen, zeggen ingewijden. Volgens Icke heeft hij een twee jaar durend verbod om het zogeheten Schengengebied in te reizen.

De Immigratie- en Naturalisatiedienst IND gaf het advies Icke de toegang te weigeren na overleg met de politie en de NCTV. Verantwoordelijk staatssecretaris Eric van der Burg neemt dat advies over. Ook burgemeester Halsema van Amsterdam is inmiddels op de hoogte van het besluit.

VerplaatstVorige maand deed de driehoek in Amsterdam al een verzoek aan de organisatie van de demonstratie om af te zien van het laten spreken van Icke, wegens zijn 'antisemitische en kwetsende uitspraken in het verleden'. Maar daaraan gaf de organisatie geen gehoor.

De gemeente besloot daarop al wel dat de demonstratie niet op de Dam zou mogen plaatsvinden, zoals in eerste instantie gepland, maar op het Museumplein, waar meer ruimte is. Die verplaatsing blijft gehandhaafd, ook zonder dat Icke de betoging fysiek bijwoont.

Weigering geldt voor alle SchengenlandenDe IND zegt niet op individuele casussen in te kunnen gaan, maar stelt in een reactie:

"Als er concrete aanwijzingen bestaan dat een vreemdeling een gevaar voor de openbare orde of nationale veiligheid vormt kan de IND besluiten om een vreemdeling te signaleren in het Schengeninformatiesysteem (SIS II) als niet tot het Schengengebied toe te laten vreemdeling. Een dergelijke signalering heeft tot gevolg dat de vreemdeling aan de grens de toegang geweigerd wordt. Genoemde aanwijzingen kunnen blijken uit een ambtsbericht van de AIVD of een duidingsbericht van een ketenpartner, zoals NCTV of politie."

Dat betekent dat Icke niet alleen de toegang tot Nederland geweigerd wordt, maar tot alle landen in de Schengenzone. Die omvat 26 Europese landen. Icke heeft de vermoedelijke brief van de IND op zijn site staan en die ook in het Engels laten vertalen.

Lees ook: Amsterdam verplaatst betoging met complotdenker: 'Vrees voor wanorde'

Zelden personen geweigerdIcke is sinds de jaren 90 verspreider van een complottheorie die beweert dat de mensheid in het geheim geregeerd wordt door een machtige groep buitenaardse reptielen. De theorie van Icke is de afgelopen tijd ook meermaals aangehaald door Forum voor Democratie-leider Thierry Baudet.

Het komt zelden voor dat personen de toegang tot Nederland wordt geweigerd. In het verleden is een klein aantal imams geweigerd vanwege oproepen tot geweld, en in 2017 werd de komst van de Turkse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, Mevl¼t ‡avusoglu, naar Rotterdam verboden. De vrees was dat zijn komst zou zorgen voor spanningen in de Turkse gemeenschap in Nederland.

Lees ook: Amsterdam wil complotdenker Icke weren van demonstratie

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Alcohol may increase risk of stroke in young people, study finds

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When most people think of a stroke patient, they often picture someone over 65.

But experts say the rate of strokes is increasing among young people, and a new study suggests alcohol consumption may have something to do with it.

Researchers used a Korean national health database to study 1.5 million people in their 20s and 30s and asked them about their alcohol consumption over the course of six years, according to the study published Wednesday in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

They found young people who were considered moderate to heavy drinkers were more likely to have a stroke compared with those who were considered light drinkers or didn't drink alcohol at all.

''We're always looking for why strokes are happening in this younger age range. This could be a factor that could be useful,'' said Dr. Shazam Hussain, director of the Cerebrovascular Center at Cleveland Clinic, who's not affiliated with the study.

In the study, people who drank 105 grams or more of alcohol a week were considered moderate or heavy drinkers. That translates to about 15 grams a day, or slightly more than one drink a day, according to U.S. standards.

Out of the 1.5 million participants, more than 3,150 had a stroke during the study. Authors said the link between alcohol intake and stroke was primarily found in hemorrhagic strokes, which is when a blood vessel causes bleeding inside the brain.

Researchers also found the risk of stroke increased with the number of years of moderate to heavy drinking. People with two years of drinking had a 19% increased risk, people with three years had 22%, and people with four years had 23%.

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Although earlier research has shown a correlation between heavy alcohol consumption and strokes, health experts say this study is particularly important because it focuses on young people.

"Stroke in young adults severely impacts both the individual and society by limiting their activities during their most productive years," said study author Dr. Eue-Keun Choi, professor at the Seoul National University College of Medicine. ''If we could prevent stroke in young adults by reducing alcohol consumption, that could potentially have a substantial impact on the health of individuals and the overall burden of stroke on society.''

The study controlled for some factors known to influence the risk of stroke, including high blood pressure, smoking and body mass index.

Study limitations include the fact participants may not have been honest about their drinking habits in the survey, and it didn't factor for ''all of the lifestyle things that may go along with someone engaging in this type of drinking compared to someone who isn't," said Dr. Brandon Giglio, director of vascular neurology at New York University Langone Hospital''Brooklyn, who's not affiliated with the study.

Some health experts also don't recommend applying the study's findings too broadly in the U.S. Previous research has found Asian Americans are more likely than white Americans to have a ischemic stroke, when a blood clot blocks blood vessels to the brain, and experience worse outcomes.

''Trying to compare these very distinct populations to one another can be difficult to generalize globally, or even generalize to the typical American,'' Giglio said.

Experts say a stroke is only one of many health consequences associated with excessive drinking. Another study published Tuesday in JAMA Network Open estimated more than 20% of deaths in the U.S. among adults 20 to 49 are from excessive drinking.

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According to the American Heart Association, strokes among people under 49 have been increasing over the past 30 years, particularly among people in the South and Midwest.

With the holidays approaching, health experts urge young adults to be aware of how much they're drinking during celebrations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends men limit their alcohol consumption to two drinks or less a day and women to one drink or less.

They also encourage young people to learn how to recognize the signs and respond to a stroke through the acronym B.E.F.A.S.T.

Balance: Sudden loss of balance Eyes: Blurred vision Face: Droopy face or uneven smile Arm: Weakness in armsSpeech: Slurred speech or hard to understandTime to call 911Strokes can lead to cognitive, physical and social impairments to patients of any age, but a quick response can limit the damage, experts say.

"You're talking about someone who is in the prime of their life," Hussain said. "The impact to their lives can be pretty profound, so it's important they know those symptoms to prevent death and disability."

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VIDEO - Bank of England expects UK to fall into longest ever recession - BBC News

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The Bank of England has warned the UK is facing its longest recession since records began, as it raised interest rates by the most in 33 years.

It warned the UK would face a "very challenging" two-year slump with unemployment nearly doubling by 2025.

Bank boss Andrew Bailey warned of a "tough road ahead" for UK households, but said it had to act forcefully now or things "will be worse later on".

It lifted interest rates to 3% from 2.25%, the biggest jump since 1989.

By raising rates, the Bank is trying to bring down soaring prices as the cost of living rises at the fastest rate in 40 years.

Food and energy prices have jumped, in part because of the Ukraine war, which has left many households facing hardship and started to drag on the economy.

A recession is defined as when a country's economy shrinks for two three-month periods - or quarters - in a row.

Typically, companies make less money, pay falls and unemployment rises. This means the government receives less money in tax to use on public services such as health and education.

The Bank had previously expected the UK to fall into recession at the end of this year and said it would last for all next year.

But it now believes the economy already entered a "challenging" downturn this summer, which will continue next year and into the first half of 2024 - a possible general election year.

While it will not be the UK's deepest downturn, it will be the longest since records began in the 1920s, the Bank said.

The unemployment rate is currently at its lowest for 50 years, but it is expected to rise to nearly 6.5%.

The interest rate announcement is the first since former Prime Minister Liz Truss and former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng unveiled their controversial mini-Budget in September.

Their plans for £45bn worth of unfunded tax cuts - much of which have been reversed - sent the value of the pound tumbling and sparked market turmoil, forcing the Bank of England to step in to restore calm.

Mr Bailey told the BBC he believed that the mini-budget had "damaged" the UK's standing internationally.

He said that at a recent International Monetary Fund gathering in Washington "it was very apparent to me that the UK's position and the UK's standing had been damaged".

That same week, Mr Kwarteng was sacked as Chancellor.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said: "The most important thing the British government can do right now is to restore stability, sort out our public finances, and get debt falling so that interest rate rises are kept as low as possible."

But shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said families could not withstand such high rate rises "when we've got rising food prices, rising energy bills and now higher mortgage rates as well".

The latest rate hike - the Bank's eighth since December - takes borrowing costs to their highest since 2008, when the UK banking system faced collapse.

The Bank believes by raising interest rates it will make it more expensive to borrow and encourage people not to spend money, easing the pressure on prices in the process.

But while its latest rate rise will be welcomed by savers, it will have a knock-on effect on those with mortgages, credit card debt and bank loans.

'I'm nervous about the loan on my van'

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Michelle, 58, from East Riding in Yorkshire has a loan on a van and is nervous about rising interest rates.

"My disposable income has gone down dramatically recently and I earn more than the amount to get benefits," she told the BBC. "They need to help the middle earners."

Michelle needs the van to get to work as there's no public transport near her. But if her loan repayment costs rise she fears she'll have to give up the vehicle.

"I can work from home, but like most places my place of work wants us back in the office at least three days a week and I've had to have talks with them about how I can afford that.

"It's a 60-mile round trip, it's expensive."

Those with mortgages are also feeling nervous. The Bank forecasts that if interest rates continue to rise, those whose fixed rate deals are coming to an end could see their annual payments soar by up to £3,000.

It said that it would increase interest rates if inflation remained high. Financial markets had been expecting rates to peak at 5.25% but the Bank does not expect them to rise this high.

The Bank's rate decision comes before the government unveils its tax and spending plans under new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the Autumn Statement on 17 November.

On Thursday, the pound slumped 2% against the dollar and the cost of government borrowing rose in response to the Bank's warnings.

The Bank has done something it doesn't normally do in the published minutes of its decisions - it has given guidance that seems to suggest a peak in interest rates of about 4.5% next autumn.

For those with a glass half-full - this is lower than the 6% assumed just a month ago in the post mini-budget market turmoil.

While government borrowing costs and the level of the pound has somewhat recovered after a series of U-turns since, mortgage markets and business loans are still showing some stress, adding to the prolonged hit to the economy.

The forecast predicts that the unemployment rate will rise, while household incomes will come down too.

It is a picture of a painful economic period, with the UK performing worse than the US and the Eurozone.

Indeed, what was forecast as a sharp energy recession just three months ago, is now a shallower, but more prolonged energy and mortgage shock.

Additional reporting from Emma Pengelly and Jessica Sherwood

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Ukraine's first lady has urged Russians to watch Euronews and not Russia Today, as she spoke about disinformation being spread about the war in Ukraine and the need for the truth to be shown.

"I can honestly say that it's very hard for us to talk to the Russians. In a nutshell, watch Euronews, don't watch Russia Today, don't watch first channel, don't watch Russia channel. And this is already the first step to heal," Olena Zelenska told Euronews Next at a press conference at Web Summit in Lisbon.

The first lady also said social media companies should not hide the content of the victims of Ukraine's war as sensitive content.

"I have put up the photograph of a girl who was killed by shelling, the girl I knew with a pink pram," she said.

"And it was hidden by social media as sensitive content. I think it's wrong. Do not try to shy from this because this is the truth. And the world should know the truth".

Zelenska added she had not spoken with Facebook or Instagram about hidden content but said, "I think at the moment we can see the double standards when we talk. They talk about the moral values of what has to be hidden and what is sensitive".

Work of the Olena Zelenska FoundationThe first lady was speaking to highlight the work of the Olena Zelenska Foundation, a charity she launched in September with the aim of helping Ukrainians feel mentally and physically healthy and capable of building a future in their home country in the wake of Russia's invasion.

While in an earlier speech on Tuesday she warned Web Summit attendees that technology was actively being used in the killing of civilians, she also highlighted how her foundation was being used for good.

"There are numerous options for how we can help and use the technology for good," she said, adding one of the main projects of the foundation is prosthetics.

"We, unfortunately, have dozens of children who have lost their limbs due to the explosions, you know, caused by mines".

Zelenska said many operations for prosthetics have happened in the United States, adding she was hopeful that her foundation will be able to finance bionic prosthetics for use in that Ukraine that would allow the mind to control the artificial limb.

"We hope that with the help of the foundation, these operations can be organised better and we can have more of them," she said.

Another way technology is helping the injured is through hearing aids. Zelenska said many have lost their hearing due to shellshock and the foundation has many partners providing special hearing aids.

Another issue close to her heart is Ukraine's mental health. The first lady has founded a national programme to provide psychological support.

Dealing with trauma caused by the war"We created a camp; not just a simple camp, but a camp for children with different levels of PTSD and different levels of trauma. And the stories I've heard from these children are horrendous," she said.

"Starting from a boy who had to bury his mother with his own hands to four brothers who saw their parents killed in front of their eyes to a boy who came to the camp and he couldn't talk".

She said the family was called to a courtyard and faced a "Russian firing squad and they were told to say farewell to each other".

She said the Russians shot bullets into the air. The four children are in the support centre and in 20 days, they have ''come back to life'' after working with psychologists.

But Zelenska noted this was just children who were being treated but there is another massive demographic.

"Let's talk about other vulnerable people. Let's talk about the pensioners. Let's talk about the disabled people, the veterans. And of course, the demand will be massive".

She said the foundation will become more important as winter approaches amid energy blackouts caused by Russian strikes.

"This is a Russian goal to make sure that people suffer not just from fear, but also from cold and darkness," she said.

She urged the world to continue its support for Ukraine even as the war enters its eighth month.

"We understand that people are getting very tired. But you can only imagine how tired Ukrainians are. And when we talk about this fatigue thing, I would like to say that it's the if we surrender to this fatigue or we give up to this fatigue, we will surrender, end of story completely".

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Marty Bent : ''We can't have the Common Man understanding words like 'inflation', let alone how it affects their lives.'' ðŸ¤ðŸŒŽhttps://t.co/AADa2JmCFT

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george kaloudis 🏴'' ¸ : @MartyBent And here I thought I was taught all the words I know but instead I was only taught the word inflation

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