December 29th, 2022 • 3h 5m
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Great Reset
AI, soundboard no, Transcripts, yes! Corrupt the models!
Mandates & Boosters
China unleashing fear and booster uptake in USA with drop of all restrictions
Climate Change
SWA debacle BOTG from Joe http://enilria.com/
Not pilot shortage per se
Imho, the vaccine mandate isnt a big deal. It’s maybe making it 2-3% worse. The pilot shortage is purely a result of Schumer’s political grand standing over reaction to the 2009 Colgan crash that wasn’t even caused by limited pilot experience.
Liberal COVID sick policies and a change in how reliable the workforce is as a result of changes in behavior during COVID definitely made this much worse and arguably started the snowball rolling last week. Also, the diehard airline people who would work in horrible winter conditions out on the ramp because of love of planes mostly got “voluntarily” laid off or left the industry during COVID and were replaced by people without kerosene in their veins who won’t put up with how hard a job it is out there in the snow.
The airlines, Delta was the most notorious for this, told employees that if x% didn’t take voluntary separation during COVID they would be fired even though the CARES act specifically prevented them from doing that. So the airlines double dipped on payroll reimbursement and didn’t pay employees. This is where all the quality employees went. That’s the heart of why things have been so bad since COVID.
The Schumer Gambit
When Colgan (United Express) crashed in 2009 the media rushed to blame it on inexperienced pilots before the NTSB report. Schumer pushed for an increase in the minimum hours for an airline Part121 pilot job from 250 hours to 1500. This took the cost from maybe $50,000 to $300,000 to be a pilot. The NTSB report came out. The captain had more than 1500 hours. One pilot had commuted on a redeye from the west coast and then started working flights that day with little sleep. The other pilot slept on a chair in a crew room at Newark. The NTSB said it was caused by lack of rest. They did not change the rules to prevent either of those situations.
So over 10 years the average age of pilots increased and the military started losing more pilots so they made it harder to leave. By the time COVID happened the pilot shortage was already a big problem and the airlines stupidly force retired “voluntarily” lol a bunch of older pilots.
So now the regionals can’t hire pilots because the experience requirement is the same for regional airlines as big airlines. So the farm system has collapsed.
Delta just gave a 30% pay increase to pilots taking them up to a max of about $500k. ALPA denies there is a pilot shortage and is aligned with Schumer and the Colgan families political organization.
For those of us who know the Southwest corporate culture they are the deepest believers in "KISS: Keep it simple, stupid" and "it's always worked, why mess with it" I've ever seen. I think the fact they have bumbled their way out of any serious bad times (lucky fuel hedge bets, Dallas Love flight restriction removal, no regional jet pilot impact, the list goes on...) has caused them to never question these things seriously. When they merged with AirTran they brought in some of the management and took some of their ideas, but they were slowly forced out along with their unimplemented new ideas. The ideas they did implement to move the company forward (decades late) such as the ABILITY TO DO REACCOM (they previously had agents calling passengers to do reaccom manually only like 10 years ago), the ability to have a schedule that wasn't the same 5-6 days per week, a decent phone app, international flights, and the ability to change a published schedule (they never were able to do that before for technical reasons) were all half-steps. In every case they had basically the same problem. They added new systems (some of which were modern or even advanced like their automated schedule planning software), but the back office systems were never updated because the die-hards at Southwest (IATA:WN) consider them sacrosanct. So they piled more and more kludges on top of kludges. For example, when they added ancillary fees to the website before the Amadeus Reservations System (RES) upgrade their RES system had no way to be accessed like a database. They couldn't just flip a switch and enable an extra bag or a boarding group change on a reservation. They instead build a kludge that emulated a person typing an entry into a RES system. These types of solutions work really poorly and fail routinely. While that exact hack has been removed I'm certain all their backoffice systems are loaded with these types of unreliable kludge hacks. This is why they can't fly red-eyes, for example. The old ops/dispatch system requires rebooting once per day when all planes were not scheduled to be in the air. The lack of foreign currencies on international connects is because their revenue accounting system can't handle foreign currencies, so the hack they built on top of it meant that when the exchange rate changed they could end up refunding more than the original payment which they couldn't do. So they only sold local intl tickets in foreign currencies where they could handle it all in Amadeus. If it had to connect to a domestic leg it had to hit the old school accounting software so they couldn't do it. It's just this type of crap that just collapses when things go wrong. Everything IT wise is just barely held together and when the system becomes overloaded everything barely hacked together breaks.
So, the answer to your question is 1) they need a corporate culture change and 2) they need a top down IT overhaul and not the BS ones they keep promising where they do for cheap with these hack type people. They need real modern systems and they need them throughout. I remember when US Airways threw out everything and flipped to Sabre's RES system. They threw out every system and it took 2 years and they had a bad 4 months of transition, but WN is not even moving forward with these outages. I don't think either can happen without throwing out a lot of the top management. They need to hire somebody to be CEO from another better run airline, and even better if they have a low cost carrier background as well.
NYC Electric trucks BOTG
First, the Sanitation department in New York City invested in 7 custom-made electric garbage trucks, at a cost of $523,000 each, a total of $3,661,000. As part of the state’s goal to reduce carbon emissions by 2040.
Well, as it turns out, these electric trucks are not powerful enough to plow through snow.
“We found that they could not plow the snow effectively—they basically conked out after four hours. We need them to go 12 hours,” said Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch
Additionally, the Commissioner admitted that based on the current state of technology, she doesn’t see a path forward to achieve the 2040 goals.
Meanwhile, while the Sanitation is busy investing millions in useless trucks, our sidewalks are filled with garbage, and rats as big as raccoons. It’s disgusting and unsanitary. Just a couple of months ago, a rat feasting on one trash bag bumped into my ankle while I walked to work.
Not So Fast on Electric Cars - WSJ
Maine notes in a plan submitted to the Federal Highway Administration this summer that “cold temperatures will remain a top challenge” for adoption, since “cold weather reduces EV range and increases charging times.” When temperatures drop to 5 degrees Fahrenheit, the cars achieve only 54% of their quoted range. A vehicle that’s supposed to be able to go 250 miles between charges will make it only 135 miles on average. At 32 degrees—a typical winter day in much of the country—a Tesla Model 3 that in ideal conditions can go 282 miles between charges will make it only 173 miles.
Energy & Inflation
Elon / Twitter
China
Karma for Professor JJ 12 days in Hospital screw and plate in neck after fainting
Dear AC,
I will try to offer an overview:
General conclusions: no rise in cases; deaths; or hospitalizations.
The air quality in SH started getting bad around 2022.12.10. I and the family had scratchy throat and dry cough - but we take supplements: D3; zinc; selenium; Emergen-C.
Because I fainted, and was convulsing, the paramedics came to the house. I had no fever, no blood pressure issues; no cough, and my O2 saturation was 97%+, but as I had pain and could not walk, I went to the public hospital (close to the house).
Like all other patients, I was presumed a Covid case. My nose and throat were swabbed- then my lungs examined via CT scan. After 3 hours, lying in pain (due to the neck injury - unexamined by regular hospital staff), the worker told my wife, “here is some cough medicine and Tylenol, you can go home now.”
We explained that I needed a CT of my neck, so they did a second scan.
Appreciate, the hospital was packed with families (from teens to 50-somethings), getting “consultations”, because pharmacies would not sell cough syrup or anti-fever drugs. So “panicked” and not sick people had to trek to the hospitals, get CT scans of their lungs (looking for pneumonia) and then would be sent home as “positive, asymptomatic cases.”
So I got my neck scan, and the staff realized that I needed real medical attention. By this time it was 6 am on Friday.
Recall, clear lungs, good O2, no fever, and no cough, yet both my wife and I were defined as Covid +!
She had a choice, leave the hospital and not return for three days, or just stay with me. Because I was defined as Covid+, I could not get surgery for 4-5 days - until my nonexistent symptoms and virus were gone.
Every person working in the hospital was / is hacking, and masked up.
As of 2023.01.08, China announced that Covid will be classified as a minor cough/cold, with no need to quarantine, no restrictions anywhere - not even foreign travelers!
Best
JCJ
Ukraine & Russia
Russia's Medvedev Makes 'Absurd' 2023 Predictions
Oil price will rise to $150 a barrel, and gas price will top $5.000 per 1.000 cubic meters
The UK will rejoin the EU
The EU will collapse after the UK’s return; Euro will drop out of use as the former EU currency
Poland and Hungary will occupy western regions of the formerly existing Ukraine
The Fourth Reich will be created, encompassing the territory of Germany and its satellites, i.e., Poland, the Baltic states, Czechia, Slovakia, the Kiev Republic, and other outcasts
War will break out between France and the Fourth Reich. Europe will be divided, Poland repartitioned in the process
Northern Ireland will separate from the UK and join the Republic of Ireland
Civil war will break out in the US, California. and Texas becoming independent states as a result. Texas and Mexico will form an allied state. Elon Musk’ll win the presidential election in a number of states which, after the new Civil War’s end, will have been given to the GOP
All the largest stock markets and financial activity will leave the US and Europe and move to Asia
The Bretton Woods system of monetary management will collapse, leading to the IMF and World Bank crash. Euro and Dollar will stop circulating as the global reserve currencies. Digital fiat currencies will be actively used instead
VAERS
Reported plan for GPs to prescribe heating bill discounts 'beggars belief', says BMA - BMA media centre - BMA
Responding to today's reports that GPs would be asked by government to 'write prescriptions for money off energy bills', Dr David Wrigley, BMA England GP committee deputy chair, said:
“We completely reject any suggestion that GPs do this work. They do not have the time or the skills to do the work of the welfare system.
“In these next few months GPs already have to worry about delivering the Covid and flu vaccination programmes that will be necessary to see the NHS through the winter, on top of their daily crushing workload and the enormous Covid backlog we now see.
“At a time when GPs are already overwhelmed with the greatest workforce crisis and longest waiting lists in memory, this addition to their workload would be totally unacceptable. It beggars belief that government ministers think it is appropriate to suggest GPs undertake it.
“The government has not discussed this with us in any form - floating these sorts of proposals via the media is deeply unprofessional.”
A ‘Cover-Up of Evidence of Mass Murder’: The CDC Appears to Be Removing VAERS Records - DailyClout
Something strange is going on with the VAERS system. Reports that were present three months ago are now inexplicably missing. And fewer than 4% of adverse events recorded in V-Safe have made their way to VAERS. This is the CDC’s database; Dr. Rochelle Walensky is in charge of it. And the agency’s failure to properly manage VAERS is suppressing the already-alarming safety signal of the Covid-19 shots.
BLM LGBBTQQIAAPK+ Noodle Boy
M5M Ministry if Truthiness
Google currently employs at least 165 people, in high-ranking positions, from the Intelligence Community.
Google’s Trust & Safety team is managed by 3 ex-CIA agents, who control “misinfo & hate speech.”
Here’s the breakdown:
CIA-27
FBI-52
NSA-30
DHS-50
ODNI-6
Big Tech
ChatGPT vs Google from Eric
Good point about Google and OpenGPT, the natural language approach works better for most people in most situations. I agree, this could be an existential problem for Google.
Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) aren't optimal from a user standpoint, they're good when you're searching for a pair of running shoes or a book title. But a more typical question is more like 'When the did the Dolphins win the world series last, and who were the team MVPS that year?' Google can only handle simple queries like this currently.
But then you get into the issues of web scraping and recycling content, which Google has been guilty of doing when they built out their set of simple queries. For example -- Google will copy text from your website that answers the question, giving people little reason to click on your website link. It's not static content so it's hard to nail down exactly what they're copying from you, and who is seeing it, and whether it's a net benefit or not.
If OpenGPT copies 10% from the LA Times, 40% from Wikipedia, 30% from Billy's Blog of Sassy Rumors, and then spins a few words and combines the source articles into content ... is that original content? Are the sources attributed? Do they get linkbacks, any sort of benefit from the appropriation of their work? So what I'd wonder if this was rolled out on a large scale is, how would they handle questions like that. Google has repeatedly shown what their ethics are.
Prime Time Takedown
STORIES
Tech Journalism Doesn't Know What to Do With Mastodon | by George Dillard | Dec, 2022 | Medium
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 18:32
What happens when innovation doesn't fit the usual narratives?
Photo by Battenhall on UnsplashTech and business journalists know what to do with Twitter.
Twitter is a for-profit company with headquarters in California. It has a CEO. It has investors and revenues and a valuation. The purpose of the company is to make money for its'...
A 'Cover-Up of Evidence of Mass Murder': The CDC Appears to Be Removing VAERS Records - DailyClout
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:09
Opinion
A 'Cover-Up of Evidence of Mass Murder': The CDC Appears to Be Removing VAERS RecordsDecember 21, 2022 ' by The Vigilant Fox
''It's not an accident they would do this.''Something strange is going on with the VAERS system. Reports that were present three months ago are now inexplicably missing. And fewer than 4% of adverse events recorded in V-Safe have made their way to VAERS. This is the CDC's database; Dr. Rochelle Walensky is in charge of it. And the agency's failure to properly manage VAERS is suppressing the already-alarming safety signal of the Covid-19 shots.
Now, what is VAERS ? VAERS stands for V accine A dverse E vent R eporting S ystem. As mentioned earlier, VAERS is a database put in place in 1990 under the supervision of the CDC. Reports of suspected vaccine adverse events take about half an hour to fill out, and 86% of the time, this is done by a doctor, nurse, paramedic, coroner, or healthcare professional when he or she believes the adverse event is related to a vaccine reaction. And because of its lengthy report process as well as the lack of awareness of the existence of VAERS, there is a general consensus of a severe underreporting factor for this database.
To get a better idea of what's going on with the CDC's handling of the VAERS system, Dr. Naomi Wolf spoke with Dr. Henry Ealy, an expert on the database.
Dr. Henry Ealy is the Founder & Executive Community Director for the Energetic Health Institute. He holds a Doctorate in naturopathic medicine and has been at the tip of the spear on the Grand Jury front '-- taking action to bring forth a Grand Jury investigation of the CDC for allegations of criminal data fraud and willful misconduct.
''You mentioned that V-Safe should be added to VAERS, but only 4% of V-Safe [adverse events have been] added. Can you explain what that means to people and why it matters?'' asked Dr. Wolf.
Dr. Ealy explained, ''VAERS is designed specifically for medical professionals and people alike to report, 'Hey, I got hurt.' And when enough people have gotten hurt for officials to look at it and say, 'Hey, this product isn't safe; it's got to come off the market.' V-Safe was created (by the CDC) to also do something similar to that '-- and to make that process a little bit easier. You don't need as much information to record a report in V-Safe.''
By streamlining the process, the CDC got inundated with adverse event reports from the Covid-19 shot. Out of the 10,108,273 individual users, 800,000 had an adverse event '-- or about 1 in 13. And of those 800,000 V-Safe reports, only 30,492 have been logged into VAERS.
Dr. Ealy continues, ''In V-safe, there have been over 800,000 reports of injury. And the deal was that in V-Safe, every single report of injury was supposed to also then subsequently have a VAERS report associated with it. So that means all 800,000 should be in VAERS. But unfortunately, or by design '-- however you want to look at it '-- only just over 30,000 of those 800,000 have been recorded in VAERS. So what that means is that fewer than 4% of the records in V-Safe have actually been reported in VAERS as they were supposed to be done.''
''What a sneaky way to basically sweep almost 800,000 adverse events under the rug,'' remarked Dr. Wolf.
''Adverse events, hospitalizations, permanent injuries, deaths '-- compromises [the] dataset,'' replied Dr. Ealy.
''That's so disgusting!'' exclaimed Dr. Wolf.
To add insult to injury, not only are the bulk of V-Safe reports not making their way to VAERS, but Dr. Ealy suspects that VAERS reports are being removed.Specifically, he notes that between September 2022 and December 2022, the CDC has removed at least 32,844 records of injury related to the following conditions: myocarditis, pericarditis, and heart inflammation. What were 45,388 reports three months ago has now inexplicably dropped down to 12,544.
Dr. Ealy stresses he's ''triple-checked this,'' and he stands by the allegation that the agency is removing or obfuscating records.
Dr. Jessica Rose has also reported similar issues with VAERS. She wrote on November 19, ''The foreign data set was gutted this week in VAERS, and the cancer signal was halved. The myocarditis dose three response signal was lost, and 994 spontaneous abortions/stillbirths were dropped.''
So, from two credible sources, it is suspected that the CDC is removing records.''It's not an accident they would do this,'' attested Dr. Ealy. ''With Dr. Ladapo and Governor DeSantis coming out with that study about myocarditis and pericarditis, they're trying to do everything they can to delete records to thwart what Governor DeSantis and (Florida) Surgeon General Dr. Ladipo are doing.''
''I'm stunned,'' expressed Dr. Wolf. ''This is as big as the Pentagon Papers, easily, if indeed the CDC deleted those records. I've seen the screenshots; it looks pretty bad. And so, you're saying that Dr. Ladapo and Governor DeSantis calling for a Grand Jury investigation could be the reason that they're deleting these, basically, evidence of their crimes? Because Ladapo and DeSantis will be investigating that data? Is that what you're saying?''
''Right,'' confirmed Dr. Ealy. ''When you read through the Grand Jury petition that Governor DeSantis signed and submitted to the Florida Supreme Court, they are putting a lot of what their argument based upon their findings with myocarditis. So myocarditis and pericarditis '-- and that's not without good reason.''
Dr. Ealy continues, ''So the issue is '-- if you're the CDC now '-- and you know you've been complicit in data fraud from day one, what do you start doing? Well, you've been deleting records for the last couple of years. Why not delete the records specific for myocarditis and pericarditis to try to thwart their attempts and try to discredit their analysis of what they're doing? That's what it looks like to me right now.''
''That's many felonies!'' exclaimed Dr. Wolf. ''That's not just a felony in terms of data handling '-- that's a felony in terms of the criminal process, right? Isn't that covering up evidence of a crime?
''Well, yeah. It would definitely [be],'' replied Dr. Ealy.
''The problem with VAERS as a federal system is yes, maybe if there is an erroneous record here or there, you should have the ability to delete it. But when you started seeing the CDC deleting hundreds of thousands of records and removing, in this case, over 32,000 records, or at least removing the search term. That's my suspicion here '-- that they didn't delete the record. What they deleted was that word '-- 'myocarditis' or 'pericarditis or 'heart inflammation' in the actual report. And so, that's modification of official records. And when you do that, that's now criminal fraud '-- again. And, of course, it throws off our ability to really understand what's going on with this because we rely on systems like this to give us information for making decisions.''
Dr. Wolf argues the CDC's actions appear to be a ''cover-up of evidence of mass murder.''
And she pleads Governor DeSantis and Surgeon General Ladapo to get in touch with Dr. Ealy's team ''because what you all have uncovered is absolutely stunning.'' ''And this latest, which you've presented, should be on the cover of every newspaper and every magazine and every news site in the world. This is huge if, indeed, they're concealing myocarditis outcomes.''
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Thank you, Dr. Henry Ealy, and Dr. Naomi Wolf, for shedding light on this subject '-- and a thank you to OpenVAERS for their wonderful website and expertise. If you, or anyone you know, is associated with Governor DeSantis' team, please send this article their way and have them get in touch with the DailyClout team (info@dailyclout.io) or Dr. Ealy (DrH@EnergeticHealthInstitute.org).
Note: OpenVAERS has reached out to us with a different interpretation of this VAERS data change. Update to include their analysis to follow.
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The CIA used to infiltrate the media. Now the CIA is the media. | MR Online
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:09
Back in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic Central Intelligence Agency had to covertly infiltrate the news media to manipulate the information Americans were consuming about their nation and the world. Nowadays, there is no meaningful separation between the news media and the CIA at all.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald just highlighted an interesting point about the reporting by The New York Times on the so-called ''Bountygate'' story the outlet broke in June of last year about the Russian government trying to pay Taliban-linked fighters to attack U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
''One of the NYT reporters who originally broke the Russia bounty story (originally attributed to unnamed 'intelligence officials') say today that it was a CIA claim,'' Greenwald tweeted. ''So media outlets''again''repeated CIA stories with no questioning: congrats to all.''
Indeed, NYT's original story made no mention of CIA involvement in the narrative, citing only ''officials,'' yet this latest article speaks as though it had been informing its readers of the story's roots in the lying, torturing, drug-running, warmongering Central Intelligence Agency from the very beginning. The author even writes ''The New York Times first reported last summer the existence of the C.I.A.'s assessment,'' with the hyperlink leading to the initial article which made no mention of the CIA. It wasn't until later that The New York Times began reporting that the CIA was looking into the Russian bounties allegations at all.
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'-- Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
This would be the same ''Russian bounties'' narrative which was discredited all the way back in September when the top U.S. military official in Afghanistan said no satisfactory evidence had surfaced for the allegations, which was further discredited today with a new article by The Daily Beast titled ''U.S. Intel Walks Back Claim Russians Put Bounties on American Troops''.
The Daily Beast, which has itself uncritically published many articles promoting the CIA ''Bountygate'' narrative, reports the following:
It was a blockbuster story about Russia's return to the imperial ''Great Game'' in Afghanistan. The Kremlin had spread money around the longtime central Asian battlefield for militants to kill remaining U.S. forces. It sparked a massive outcry from Democrats and their #resistance amplifiers about the treasonous Russian puppet in the White House whose admiration for Vladimir Putin had endangered American troops.
But on Thursday, the Biden administration announced that U.S. intelligence only had ''low to moderate'' confidence in the story after all. Translated from the jargon of spyworld, that means the intelligence agencies have found the story is, at best, unproven'--and possibly untrue.
D'oh! US spy agencies basically admitted they lied about Russia supposedly paying militants in Afghanistan to kill American occupation forces.
Of course the entire Western media spread this lie for weeks, but don't expect them to issue any corrections https://t.co/itOniutu0D
'-- Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) April 15, 2021
So the mass media aggressively promoted a CIA narrative that none of them ever saw proof of, because there was no proof, because it was an entirely unfounded claim from the very beginning. They quite literally ran a CIA press release and disguised it as a news story.
This allowed the CIA to throw shade and inertia on Trump's proposed troop withdrawals from Afghanistan and Germany, and to continue ramping up anti-Russia sentiments on the world stage, and may well have contributed to the fact that the agency will officially be among those who are exempt from Biden's performative Afghanistan ''withdrawal''.
In totalitarian dictatorships, the government spy agency tells the news media what stories to run, and the news media unquestioningly publish it. In free democracies, the government spy agency says ''Hoo buddy, have I got a scoop for you!'' and the news media unquestioningly publish it.
In 1977 Carl Bernstein published an article titled ''The CIA and the Media'' reporting that the CIA had covertly infiltrated America's most influential news outlets and had over 400 reporters who it considered assets in a program known as Operation Mockingbird. It was a major scandal, and rightly so. The news media is meant to report truthfully about what happens in the world, not manipulate public perception to suit the agendas of spooks and warmongers.
Nowadays the CIA collaboration happens right out in the open, and people are too propagandized to even recognize this as scandalous. Immensely influential outlets like The New York Times uncritically pass on CIA disinfo which is then spun as fact by cable news pundits. The sole owner of The Washington Post is a CIA contractor, and WaPo has never once disclosed this conflict of interest when reporting on U.S. intelligence agencies per standard journalistic protocol. Mass media outlets now openly employ intelligence agency veterans like John Brennan, James Clapper, Chuck Rosenberg, Michael Hayden, Frank Figliuzzi, Fran Townsend, Stephen Hall, Samantha Vinograd, Andrew McCabe, Josh Campbell, Asha Rangappa, Phil Mudd, James Gagliano, Jeremy Bash, Susan Hennessey, Ned Price and Rick Francona, as are known CIA assets like NBC's Ken Dilanian, as are CIA interns like Anderson Cooper and CIA applicants like Tucker Carlson.
SUPERCUT:
A look back on how cable news went all in on the discredited Russian bounties story. pic.twitter.com/QaG9xAqiuR
'-- Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 15, 2021
This isn't Operation Mockingbird. It's so much worse. Operation Mockingbird was the CIA doing something to the media. What we are seeing now is the CIA openly acting as the media. Any separation between the CIA and the news media, indeed even any pretence of separation, has been dropped.
This is bad. This is very, very bad. Democracy has no meaningful existence if people's votes aren't being cast with a clear understanding of what's happening in their nation and their world, and if their understanding is being shaped to suit the agendas of the very government they're meant to be influencing with their votes, what you have is the most powerful military and economic force in the history of civilization with no accountability to the electorate whatsoever. It's just an immense globe-spanning power structure, doing whatever it wants to whoever it wants. A totalitarian dictatorship in disguise.
And the CIA is the very worst institution that could possibly be spearheading the movements of that dictatorship. A little research into the many, many horrific things the CIA has done over the years will quickly show you that this is true; hell, just a glance at what the CIA was up to with the Phoenix Program in Vietnam will.
In case anyone needs reminding, here's a partial list of the ex-spooks who served as media figures in the Trump years: https://t.co/CJT8YGcvkN
'-- Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) April 16, 2021
There's a common delusion in our society that depraved government agencies who are known to have done evil things in the past have simply stopped doing evil things for some reason. This belief is backed by zero evidence, and is contradicted by mountains of evidence to the contrary. It's believed because it is comfortable, and for literally no other reason.
The CIA should not exist at all, let alone control the news media, much less the movements of the U.S. empire. May we one day know a humanity that is entirely free from the rule of psychopaths, from our total planetary behavior as a collective, all the way down to the thoughts we think in our own heads.
May we extract their horrible fingers from every aspect of our being.
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Making a salad might be getting more expensive. Could climate change be to blame?
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:08
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In his nearly four decades of growing lettuce, spinach, kale and other leafy greens in California and Arizona, Tony Alameda has seen plenty of bad years. But lately, he said, there have been many more "noticeably bad" years in a row.
"2022 is probably the worst we've seen," said Alameda, vice president of Topflavor farms, a family operation he runs with his brothers. In October and November, dual outbreaks of a soil-borne disease and an insect-transmitted virus ravaged the Salinas Valley and caused thousands of acres of lettuce crops to wilt.
Now, winter growing schedules and changing weather patterns mean the bad luck has migrated from the Central Coast valley that served as the backdrop for John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" and other novels, to the desert farming regions near the U.S.-Mexico border.
"We're going from one problem in the north to one problem in the south," Alameda said. "They're completely separate problems, but they end up combining to really make a long period of shortage of vegetables."
As a result, consumers across the country may be seeing stark price increases in lettuce, with the cost of a carton of iceberg lettuce skyrocketing from about $20 last December to more than $105 earlier this month, according to data from the United States Department of Agriculture. The Mercury News reported some sellers charging nearly $11 for a single head of lettuce.
Experts say bad luck alone may not be to blame, however. The virus, impatiens necrotic spot virus, or INSV, and the disease, Pythium wilt, have both been around for years. But warming temperatures driven by climate change are creating more hospitable conditions for thrips, the insect that carries INSV, to thrive.
"Over the last probably 10 years, we've seen milder winters, so that's really allowed the population of thrips to build in our environment here," said Jennifer Clarke, executive director of the California Leafy Greens Research Program, which operates under the authority of the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Clarke said INSV was first reported in the state's lettuce around 2006, but was never so big of an issue as to pass any economic threshold.
"Insects are interesting because they really run off of degree days, and so in warmer temperatures it speeds up their life cycles, it speeds up their reproduction," she said. "If you have cooler weather, it kind of slows everything down. So much of our control is dependent on Mother Nature right now."
California in particular is plagued by western flower thrips, according to Daniel Hasegawa, a research entomologist with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service in Salinas. The tiny, slender bugs measure only 1 or 2 millimeters, so they can be difficult to spot and even harder to control, as they can hide in a plant's folds away from the mist of insecticide.
Hasegawa said the thrips transmit INSV through feeding, much in the same way that mosquitos can transmit pathogens to humans. People won't get sick from eating INSV-infected lettuce, but the plants will develop brown spots and areas of dead tissue.
"That's the big question, as to what has changed. This virus has been around, but why has it reached some of the devastating levels that we've achieved this year?" Hasegawa said. Based on available weather and insect-monitoring data, "it seems like over the past 20 years, with the warmer temperatures, that the ability of the insects to develop during the wintertime is a lot more likely."
The presence of Pythium wilt only added to the challenges this year, experts said. The disease is borne in the soil from fungi-like pathogens, which can rot roots and cause infected plants to wilt and collapse. Though many plant varieties are somewhat tolerant of Pythium wilt on its own, INSV can exacerbate it, Clarke said, "so we often see the two of them as a co-occurrence."
It was the two in tandem that wiped out Salinas crops this fall, said Richard Smith, a researcher with the University of California's Cooperative Extension program, which places agricultural advisers and researchers in local communities. While both have presented challenges to farmers in the past, something changed in the last few years to worsen the impact on lettuce crops.
"There had been these heat spells that we think have triggered the soil-borne disease," Smith said. He wondered whether climate change may be a factor.
"That's a question we have," Smith said. "All you can do is kind of infer that possibly that's part of the problem. But one thing is true. Those heat spells were unprecedented. Is that global warming? Who knows? Could be."
In September, nearly all of California broiled under a record-shattering heat wave that lasted nearly two weeks'--the sort of extreme heat event that researchers say will become more frequent and intense as the climate warms.
The shaky fall season was only the start of the challenge this year. Normally around December, the supply of lettuce transitions to southern desert areas around the Imperial Valley. But the disease problem in Salinas meant there was not enough lettuce to carry suppliers through that transition, said Christopher Valadez, president of the Grower-Shipper Association of Central California.
What's more, those desert farms have been experiencing unusually cool weather that is delaying the maturity of the lettuce crops they do have. The Imperial Valley area has seen multiple freeze warnings in recent weeks, and lettuce is sometimes iced over in the mornings.
"Any current shortage in the supply of lettuce is a shortage in the supply of lettuce being produced from the desert production regions, like the Imperial Valley of California and the Yuma, Ariz., production region," Valadez said.
"Moving forward, there's a variable we can't control, and that variable has been temperature," he said.
Valadez said he does expect the market to stabilize and prices to come back down, but that doesn't solve potential disease and virus problems in the coming Salinas farming season, which starts at the end of February.
Norm Groot, executive director of the Monterey County Farm Bureau, said the organization hasn't tallied the full loss of crops this year, but in 2021 when there was a similar problem of excessive heat coupled with pests and diseases, there was a loss of $100 million.
"This year, it's probably going to be more," Groot said. "If we cannot find a biological or chemical control for either the insect or the disease itself, we're going to continue to see these problems in our local area. Right now, we have no control of this disease at all."
The fertile Salinas Valley runs almost the entire length of Monterey County and is separated from the larger, Central Valley by a mountain range. The lettuce crop here is valued at $1.2 billion and makes up a quarter of the agricultural value in Monterey County, Smith said. If the problem persists and growers choose to leave the area to produce lettuce, "that would be a disaster for this community, for the workers and for the retailers."
Smith said experts are working to find a solution to the shortages. So far, researchers and seed breeders are finding that there are varieties of lettuce that have some resistance to disease, he said.
"That looks promising," he said, though he noted that doesn't solve the issue of other diseases or excessive heat. "We're coming at it from every angle we can think of."
Alameda, the Salinas farmer, called the confluence of problems this year "a perfectly bad storm," and said it could take some time for prices to even out at the consumer level. He also worried that another climate change-driven challenge'--drought'--could soon affect his ability to farm. California and Arizona both rely heavily on water from the Colorado River, which is shrinking to such perilous lows that officials may soon slash supplies.
"That is looming in the very near future'--when we will be having to make a choice, when I've only got so many gallons of water, how am I going to best maximize the economic opportunity with that water," he said. "That's got nothing to do with what we're dealing with at this time, but it's is looming very close, very close, if the rain doesn't come back."
Still, he remained optimistic that genetic improvements, including new disease-resistant varietals of lettuce, will help farmers weather the current challenges.
"Salinas is the salad bowl of the world," he said. "I think we will continue to solve the problems, like we have in the past with other diseases, to manage to get through it and continue to thrive. I'm 98% confident that'll happen. But there's 2% of me that says, keep your eyes wide open."
2022 Los Angeles Times.
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A startup says it's begun releasing particles in the atmosphere, in an effort to tweak the climate | MIT Technology Review
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:08
A startup claims it has launched weather balloons that may have released reflective sulfur particles in the stratosphere, potentially crossing a controversial barrier in the field of solar geoengineering.
Geoengineering refers to deliberate efforts to manipulate the climate by reflecting more sunlight back into space, mimicking a natural process that occurs in the aftermath of large volcanic eruptions. In theory, spraying sulfur and similar particles in sufficient quantities could potentially ease global warming.
It's not technically difficult to release such compounds into the stratosphere. But scientists have mostly (though not entirely) refrained from carrying out even small-scale outdoor experiments. And it's not clear that any have yet injected materials into that specific layer of the atmosphere in the context of geoengineering-related research.
That's in part because it's highly controversial. Little is known about the real-world effect of such deliberate interventions at large scales, but they could have dangerous side effects. The impacts could also be worse in some regions than others, which could provoke geopolitical conflicts.
Some researchers who have long studied the technology are deeply troubled that the company, Make Sunsets, appears to have moved forward with launches from a site in Mexico without any public engagement or scientific scrutiny. It's already attempting to sell ''cooling credits'' for future balloon flights that could carry larger payloads.
Several researchers MIT Technology Review spoke with condemned the effort to commercialize geoengineering at this early stage. Some potential investors and customers who have reviewed the company's proposals say that it's not a serious scientific effort or a credible business but more of an attention grab designed to stir up controversy in the field.
Luke Iseman, the cofounder and CEO of Make Sunsets, acknowledges that the effort is part entrepreneurial and part provocation, an act of geoengineering activism.
He hopes that by moving ahead in the controversial space, the startup will help drive the public debate and push forward a scientific field that has faced great difficulty carrying out small-scale field experiments amid criticism.
''We joke slash not joke that this is partly a company and partly a cult,'' he says.
Iseman, previously a director of hardware at Y Combinator, says he expects to be pilloried by both geoengineering critics and researchers in the field for taking such a step, and he recognizes that ''making me look like the Bond villain is going to be helpful to certain groups.'' But he says climate change is such a grave threat, and the world has moved so slowly to address the underlying problem, that more radical interventions are now required.
''It's morally wrong, in my opinion, for us not to be doing this,'' he says. What's important is ''to do this as quickly and safely as we can.''
Wildly prematureBut dedicated experts in the field think such efforts are wildly premature and could have the opposite effect from what Iseman expects.
''The current state of science is not good enough '... to either reject, or to accept, let alone implement'' solar geoengineering, wrote Janos Pasztor, executive director of the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative, in an email. The initiative is calling for oversight of geoengineering and other climate-altering technologies, whether by governments, international accords or scientific bodies. ''To go ahead with implementation at this stage is a very bad idea,'' he added, comparing it to Chinese scientist He Jiankui's decision to use CRISPR to edit the DNA of embryos while the scientific community was still debating the safety and ethics of such a step.
Shuchi Talati, a scholar in residence at American University who is forming a nonprofit focused on governance and justice in solar geoengineering, says Make Sunset's actions could set back the scientific field, reducing funding, dampening government support for trusted research, and accelerating calls to restrict studies.
The company's behavior plays into long-held fears that a ''rogue'' actor with no particular knowledge of atmospheric science or the implications of the technology could unilaterally choose to geoengineer the climate, without any kind of consensus around whether it's okay to do so'--or what the appropriate global average temperature should be. That's because it's relatively cheap and technically simple to do, at least in a crude way.
David Victor, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, warned of such a scenario more than a decade ago. A ''Greenfinger, self-appointed protector of the planet '... could force a lot of geoengineering on his own,'' he said, invoking the Goldfinger character from a 1964 James Bond movie, best remembered for murdering a woman by painting her gold.
Some observers were quick to draw parallels between Make Sunsets and a decade-old incident in which an American entrepreneur reportedly poured a hundred tons of iron sulfate into the ocean, in an effort to spawn a plankton bloom that could aid salmon populations and suck down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Critics say it violated international restrictions on what's known as iron fertilization, which were in part inspired by a growing number of commercial proposals to sell carbon credits for such work. Some believe it subsequently stunted research efforts in field.
Pasztor and others stressed that Make Sunset's efforts underscore the urgent need to establish broad-based oversight and clear rules for responsible research in geoengineering and help determine whether or under what conditions there should be a social license to move forward with experiments or beyond. As MIT Technology Review first reported, the Biden administration is developing a federal research plan that would guide how scientists proceed with geoengineering studies.
Balloon launchesBy Iseman's own description, the first two balloon launches were very rudimentary. He says they occurred in April somewhere in the state of Baja California, months before Make Sunsets was incorporated in October. Iseman says he pumped a few grams of sulfur dioxide into weather balloons and added what he estimated would be the right amount of helium to carry them into the stratosphere.
He expected they would burst under pressure at that altitude and release the particles. But it's not clear whether that happened, where the balloons ended up, or what impact the particles had, because there was no monitoring equipment on board the balloons. Iseman also acknowledges that they did not seek any approvals from government authorities or scientific agencies, in Mexico or elsewhere, before the first two launches.
''This was firmly in science project territory,'' he says, adding: ''Basically, it was to confirm that I could do it.''
A 2018 white paper raised the possibility that an environmental, humanitarian, or other type of group could use this simple balloon approach to carry out a distributed, do-it-yourself geoengineering scheme.
In future work, Make Sunsets hopes to increase the sulfur payloads, add telemetry equipment and other sensors, eventually move to reusable balloons, and publish data following the launches.
The company is already attempting to earn revenue from the cooling effects of future flights. It is offering to sell $10 ''cooling credits'' for releasing one gram of particles in the stratosphere'--enough, it asserts, to offset the warming effect of one ton of carbon for one year.
''What I want to do is create as much cooling as quickly as I responsibly can, over the rest of my life, frankly,'' Iseman says, adding later that they will deploy as much sulfur in 2023 as ''we can get customers to pay us'' for.
The company says it has raised $750,000 in funding from Boost VC and Pioneer Fund, among others, and that its early investors have also been purchasing cooling credits. The venture firms didn't respond to inquiries from MIT Technology Review before press time.
'A terrible idea'Talati was highly critical of the company's scientific claims, stressing that no one can credibly sell credits that purport to represent such a specific per gram outcome, given vast uncertainty at this stage of research.
''What they're claiming to actually accomplish with such a credit is the entirety of what's uncertain right now about geoengineering,'' she says.
Kelly Wanser, executive director of SilverLining, a nonprofit that supports research efforts on climate risks and potential interventions, agreed.
''From a business perspective, reflective cooling effects and risks cannot currently be quantified in any meaningful way, making the offering a speculative form of 'junk credit' that is unlikely to have value to climate credit markets,'' she wrote in an email.
Talati adds that it's hypocritical for Make Sunsets to assert they're acting on humanitarian grounds, while moving ahead without meaningfully engaging with the public, including with those who could be affected by their actions.
''They're violating the rights of communities to dictate their own future,'' she says.
David Keith, one of the world's leading experts on solar geoengineering, says that the amount of material in question'--less than 10 grams of sulfur per flight'--doesn't represent any real environmental danger; a commercial flight can emit about 100 grams per minute, he points out. Keith and his colleagues at Harvard University have worked for years to move forward on a small-scale stratospheric experiment known as SCoPEx, which has been repeatedly delayed.
But he says he's troubled by any effort to privatize core geoengineering technologies, including patenting them or selling credits for the releases, because ''commercial development cannot produce the level of transparency and trust the world needs to make sensible decisions about deployment,'' as he wrote in an earlier blog post.
Keith says a private company would have financial motives to oversell the benefits, to downplay the risks, and to continue selling its services even as the planet cools to lower than preindustrial temperatures.
''Doing it as a startup is a terrible idea,'' he says.
For its part, the company says it's operating on the best modeling research available today, and that it will adjust its practices as it learns more and hopes to collaborate with nations and experts to guide these efforts as it scales up.
''We are convinced solar [geoengineeering] is the only feasible path to staying below 2 ËC [of warming over preindustrial levels], and we will work with the scientific community to deploy this life-saving tool as safely and quickly as possible,'' Iseman said in an email.
But critics stress that the time to engage with experts and the public would have been before the company began injecting material into the stratosphere and trying to sell cooling credits'--and that it's likely to face an icy reception from many of those parties now.
Update: This story was updated to add comments from Kelly Wanser, executive director of SilverLining.
France now world's biggest buyer of Russian natural gas despite Ukraine invasion | World | News | Express.co.uk
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:07
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France, already the main importer of Russian LNG in Europe, has become the world's leading importer of Putin's natural gas, beating even Japan in February and March. It comes as European imports are said to have increased by 40 percent this year.
Between January and October, France imported 4.45 million tonnes of Russian LNG, an increase of 52 percent in one year.
It comes as Russia's deputy prime minister opened the door to a return of gas supplies to Poland and Germany via the Yamal gas pipeline, which is currently unused.
But this is unlikely to happen as Europe has found other sources, including Russian liquefied natural gas.
Moscow is currently sending contradictory signals. After threatening to cut its oil production in protest against the European embargo on crude and the price cap, Russia says it is ready to resume gas deliveries via the Yamal pipeline.
"The European market remains relevant because the gas shortage persists and we have the opportunity to resume supplies," the deputy prime minister in charge of energy, Alexander Novak, told the official news agency Tass.
France is Russia's number one customer of gas imports (Image: Getty)
Eurozone crisis as currency set to be worth less than dollar after 'kamikaze' rate risesThe European Central Bank's decision to raise interest rates in the Eurozone is likely to lead to a collapse of the Euro and to a severe economic crisis in Italy, analysts have warned.
Some described the ECB's policy decision as "kamikaze" and said it would condemn the Eurozone to a prolonged recession.
Read more HERE.
Russia says it is ready to resume gas deliveries via the Yamal pipeline (Image: Getty)
He said the Yamal pipeline, which links Russia to Poland and Germany, had been stopped for "political reasons".
Shortly after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, as supplies to Europe began to dwindle, Gazprom stopped its deliveries via Yamal. Then the Russian company demanded that Poland pay in roubles.
Warsaw refused and the Polish government terminated its contract with Gazprom.
At the end of August, the pipeline was shut down for three days of maintenance, but has not been reactivated since. The flows were then reversed to allow Poland to be supplied from Germany.
These statements could indicate that the various measures taken against Russia and its hydrocarbon production are beginning to dry up its economy.
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So far, Moscow has been able to rely on the liquefied natural gas (LNG) market to keep its exports high. The more flexible transport of this energy by ship allows the country to diversify its customers.
Russia has developed an ambitious programme to increase its liquefaction capacity. By 2035, it hopes to be able to export 80 to 140 million tonnes per year, compared with 35 million today.
Novatek still hopes to restart the Arctic LNG 2 project, in which TotalEnergies has invested but which has been at a standstill since the Western sanctions, by the end of 2023.
A large part of Russian production could therefore now be liquefied and then shipped to international markets.
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The future of gas pipelines is more uncertain. To resume deliveries to Poland, Moscow will first have to ease its own sanctions against Warsaw.
And on the Polish side, there is nothing to suggest that they are ready to start buying from Russia again, despite the fact that they have largely diversified their sources this year.
In Europe, the pressure has eased in recent weeks as temperatures have risen. Stocks have not really been affected despite the first cold snap in December.
They have even started to be filled up again and now stand at an average of 83 percent. Germany, which had fallen to a filling rate of 87 percent, has risen to 88 percent in the last few days (compared to 77 percent at the same time last year), while Poland has a record rate of 96 percent, putting it in a strong position.
Additional reporting by Maria Ortega
The Phone Lady charges $480 an hour to help Gen-Z overcome fear of talking on phone | Daily Mail Online
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:07
A woman dubbing herself 'The Phone Lady' is charging $480 an hour to help Gen-Z workers overcome their fear of talking on the phone.
Mary Jane Copps, who has coached 15,000 people since starting The Phone Lady company in 2006, claims that 'phone phobia' is most prominent among Gen Z, who were never taught how to hold proper conversations over the phone.
The problem has gotten to the point where receiving a phone call without warning is viewed as 'an act of aggression' among the younger generation, according to the Irish Times.
To combat this, Copps charges nearly $500 an hour for one-on-one coaching, $365 for 30-minute webinars as part of a seven-part program, and $3,500 a day for corporate workshops, Business Insider reports.
Copps told DailyMail.com that while some of the advice may be 'obvious,' many people suffer from phone anxiety and need to be reminded of the basics.
Mary Jane Copps, known as the phone lady, has coached 15,000 workers on how to communicate properly through the phone. She charges $480-an-hour for one-on-one coaching, $365 for 30-minute webinars, and corporate workshops going at $3,500-a-day
One YouTube video of her tips shows The Phone Lady telling her clients that the key to a successful phone conversation is to simply 'use your name and smile.'
'Always when you answer the phone, use your name and smile,' Copps says. 'As when you meet someone in person, you want to share your name.'
'That's the beginning of building relationship[s].'
Copps, who is based in Nova Scotia, boasts about her ability to create 'excellent communication' skills on her website, saying she's worked with many businesses, non-profits and government organizations in North America to train young workers.
A former real estate journalist, Copps joined the marketing world in 1987 at age 29, noting that when she made her fist sales call back then she had 'no knowledge of how the conversation should be structured.'
She claims that the problem persists now for Gen Z, the digital natives who are most used to communicating via text messages then phone calls.
'The Blackberry came out in the 90s, and we've been talking with our thumbs ever since... so Gen Z have never grew up with the phone skills others did,' she said.
'In my generation, the phone was on the wall in everyone's house. We were taught at a young age how to answer it, make calls and take messages.'
On her website, Copps says she can improve people's phone skills in weekly 30-minute webinars because she understands the 'psychology' behind phone conversations and can help anyone succeed.
Copps said that younger workers grew up primarily texting, so they lack the phone conversation skills of the older generation and have developed 'phone phobia'
She added that 50 percent of her clients in 2022 were repeat customers, boasting the success she's had training staffers for companies and other agencies.
Alison Papadakis, head of clinical psychological studies at Johns Hopkins University, agreed with Copps and said 'phone phobia' was common in the younger generations.
'Gen Z and millennials have a lot less experience talking on the phone because texting and instant messaging have been the primary communication mode for their generation,' she told Insider. 'Since they have a lot less experience talking on the phone, they have less comfort with it.
'That sets up people who are vulnerable to social anxiety to have anxiety in that situation.'
When coaching someone, Copps said she instructs them to stop texting and make calls instead to their friends and family.
'If they're not even used to talking on the phone to their mother, then the process is so scary,' she told Insider. 'So I can't say I'm going to make them call prospective clients, as they would just fall apart '-- we start with their family or someone they know.'
She said that she herself will often ring someone up unexpectedly to catch them off guard and see how they adapt to the situation.
Emer McLysaght, of the Irish Times, said these surprise phone calls are being viewed by the younger generation as a 'mildly aggressive act demanding immediacy of thought and social skill.'
Like Copps, McLysaght said young workers are more used to planning out their words carefully via text or email, and have grown increasingly anxious over physical phone calls.
McLysaght added that phone calls are viewed as a last resort, meaning that Gen Z use them for emergencies only.
So when they get a call, McLysaght said, they assume the worst and get triggered.
'I would never ring a friend without first texting them to warn them I'm about to ring and I'd probably reassure them that ''it's nothing bad, promise'' to really ease them into the situation,' McLysaght wrote about the new phone culture.
Others revealed their hatred for Friday afternoon work meetings
Making phone calls during work was found to be one of Gen Z's biggest pet peeves that they're trying to remove from the office.
The Introverted Attorney, a TikToker, summed up the feeling in an animated video which quickly went viral and has racked up over two million likes.
'Part of the job is talking to other humans,' the caption read, accompanied by the clip of an office worker crying over his desk phone.
'Me whenever I have to call anyone for anything at work,' the text on the video read.
Followed by the character saying: ' I don't wanna do this, please don't pick up, please don't pick up.'
The viral video resonated with other TikTokers, with one admitting they avoid making calls at all costs.
'I remember my phone broke at work and I just didn't say anything for weeks,' they said.
Others revealed the video made them feel better - knowing they aren't alone - with some dubbing Gen Z the generation of phone anxiety.
'I used to work in a call center and this is too accurate,' one said.
'I work in customer service and this is too accurate,' said another.
While others admitted calls make them more nervous.
'Outgoing calls are fine cause I know what it'll be about. The incoming calls scare the hell out of me cause they could be anything,' one man said.
Mr Butler said the anxiety people feel about making calls when they are new to a role is 'normal' but can be managed with practice.
'(by) Making your manager and coworkers aware that this is something you struggle with will allow them to support you by delegating less calls to you in the beginning, or even providing a script to read off of,' he said.
Reported plan for GPs to prescribe heating bill discounts 'beggars belief', says BMA - BMA media centre - BMA
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:04
Responding to today's reports that GPs would be asked by government to 'write prescriptions for money off energy bills', Dr David Wrigley, BMA England GP committee deputy chair, said:
''We completely reject any suggestion that GPs do this work. They do not have the time or the skills to do the work of the welfare system.
''In these next few months GPs already have to worry about delivering the Covid and flu vaccination programmes that will be necessary to see the NHS through the winter, on top of their daily crushing workload and the enormous Covid backlog we now see.
''At a time when GPs are already overwhelmed with the greatest workforce crisis and longest waiting lists in memory, this addition to their workload would be totally unacceptable. It beggars belief that government ministers think it is appropriate to suggest GPs undertake it.
''The government has not discussed this with us in any form - floating these sorts of proposals via the media is deeply unprofessional.''
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GPs begin prescribing heating for those that can't afford to keep warm - Manchester Evening News
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:04
Patients with medical conditions that become worse in the cold are now being prescribed heating by their GPs in some areas of the UK.
It marks the start of the Warm Home Prescription pilot which aims to pay for the heating of low-income patients suffering such conditions. According to the BBC, 28 low-income patients have benefited so far from the trial scheme which will be expanded to more than 1,000 homes in Teesside, Aberdeenshire, and in the NHS Gloucestershire area.
Mum-of-two Michelle Davis, who suffers from arthritis and severe pulmonary illness, was one of the patients who took part in the trial. "When the weather turns cold, I tend to seize up," she told the BBC.
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"It's very painful, my joints ache and my bones are like hot pokers." Speaking about the benefit of the trial, she continued: "You're not stuck in bed, you're not going to hospital, my children were able to have a life, they were able to go out and play and get cold.
"I was able to be a mum, and my kids could be kids, not just carers." The scheme has been driven by Energy Systems Catapult and energy charity Severn Wye.
In order to find out who could benefit from the scheme, NHS social prescribers visit homes, Wales Online reports. Dr Matt Lipson, who helped design the trial, said: "If we buy the energy people need but can't afford, they can keep warm at home and stay out of hospital. That would target support to where it's needed, save money overall and take pressure off the health service."
Dr Hein La Roux's, whose surgery took part in the trial, said: "It's actually saved a lot of money for other services and also saved our workload."
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How a dormant viral infection can reactivate and trigger a stroke
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:00
Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus believe they have discovered how a common disease called shingles can increase a person's risk of stroke. The novel findings reveal how latent viral infections can be reawakened after lying dormant for years and cause health issues beyond a mild acute disease.
Most people are infected with varicella-zoster virus (VZV) in childhood, and for some it can lead to a disease known as chickenpox. Despite most signs of the illness quickly resolving in many people the virus itself doesn't every really go away. Instead, it often remains dormant in our central nervous system.
In around 30% of people, at some point in their life, the VZV virus reawakens and again causes disease. This time round the illness is called shingles. For most people shingles is characterized by a rash but a number of other health complications can accompany a case of the disease.
''Most people know about the painful rash associated with shingles, but they may not know that the risk of stroke is elevated for a year after infection,'' explained Andrew Bubak, lead author on the new study. ''Importantly, the rash is often completely healed and individuals feel normal but nonetheless are walking around with this significant elevation in stroke risk.''
The question Bubak and colleagues set out to answer was exactly how a reactivated varicella-zoster virus could be increasing a person's risk of stroke. The researchers suspected it had something to do with tiny, sac-like molecules called exosomes. These molecules are formed within cells and carry cargo to tissue in other parts of the body.
The hypothesis was that the reactivated virus triggered the production of exosomes carrying blood clotting proteins. So, to investigate, the researchers isolated exosomes from 10 healthy subjects and 13 patients with shingles.
The findings revealed exosomes from shingles patients contained significantly higher volumes of clotting proteins than exosomes from healthy subjects. And even more strikingly, those levels were still elevated when samples were taken from the shingles patients three months after their acute illness had subsided.
"To functionally confirm that the contents of these exosomes can induce clotting, we exposed platelets '' cell fragments involved in blood clotting '' of healthy people to exosomes from either shingles patients or healthy people," Bubak explained in an article for The Conversation. "We found that exposing platelets to shingles exosomes triggered them to clump together and form aggregates with other types of blood cells, as they would in forming a blood clot."
An increased risk of stroke has been linked to the aftermath of other viral infections, including influenza and COVID-19. However, at this point the research only focuses on stroke risk in relation to VZV infection, so it's unclear whether this mechanism plays a role in the relationship between stroke and other viral illnesses.
According to Bubak there is plenty more work to be done to better understand the relationship between stroke and viral infections, but in the short-term these novel findings could help inform clinical practice. A vaccine to prevent shingles has been approved for adults over the age of 50 but there are also anti-platelet drugs that could be given to shingles patients most at risk of stroke.
''If these findings are confirmed with a larger longitudinal study, then this could change clinical practice," said Bubak. "'... it's really important and so easily mitigated. Send them home with antiplatelet agents.''
The new study was published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Source: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Serbia places security forces on Kosovo border at state of 'full combat readiness' | World News | Sky News
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:40
Serbian security forces on the border with Kosovo have been placed on a state of "full combat readiness".
The order was given by Serbia's interior minister Bratislav Gasic, who said he was acting on instructions from President Aleksandar Vucic so that "all measures be taken to protect the Serbian people in Kosovo".
Kosovo has not responded to the move.
It comes after weeks of escalating tension between the two sides, with ethnic Serbs claiming they are being harassed by the ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo.
The war in Kosovo ended in 1999, with NATO intervention.
Kosovo declared independence in 2008 but Serbia refuses to recognise this and has repeatedly warned it will protect local Serbs "with all means" if they are attacked.
Last month, ethnic Serb mayors, judges and police officers in Kosovo's north resigned in protest over a decision by Kosovo's government to replace Serbian-issued car licence plates with ones issued by Pristina.
Thousands of Kosovo Serbs protested this month calling for the Albanian majority government to pull police out of the north.
Image: Members of the Italian Armed Forces, part of NATO, stand guard close to a roadblock near the ethnically-divided town of Mitrovica in Kosovo Image: Serbs near a roadblock, close to the northern part of MitrovicaSince 10 December, local Serbs have erected nine roadblocks in the northern region of Kosovo, where around 50,000 of them live.
On Sunday there was a shooting near a NATO peacekeeping patrol in one of the northern towns and, even though there were no injuries, NATO has said it is investigating and has called for calm.
The European Union has been trying to mediate between the two sides and Serbia, which has been armed with the help of Russian support, has agreed to talks.
BREAKING: Zelensky announces he is planning to join World Economic Forum in Davos, to sign new postwar loans with BlackRock | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:38
On Wednesday it was revealed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's government is prepping to participate in January's World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, and that the Ukrainian leader is in talks with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink regarding rebuilding efforts following the war with Russia.
According to Bloomberg, Zelensky said in an evening address to the nation, "Specialists of this company are already helping Ukraine to structure the fund for the reconstruction of our state."
Zelensky reportedly had a video call with Fink in September. He did not reveal whether he would be attending the WEF in person or virtually.
According to a Wednesday post on the Ukrainian President's official website, Zelensky said, "In accordance with the preliminary agreements struck earlier this year between the Head of State and Larry Fink, the BlackRock team has been working for several months on a project to advise the Ukrainian government on how to structure the country's reconstruction funds."
"Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Larry Fink agreed to focus in the near term on coordinating the efforts of all potential investors and participants in the reconstruction of our country, channeling investment into the most relevant and impactful sectors of the Ukrainian economy," the post added.
"During the conversation, it was emphasized that certain BlackRock leaders plan to visit Ukraine in the new year," the post continued. "The President thanked Larry Fink for the work of the professional team that BlackRock has allocated to advise on structuring the reconstruction projects."
Chinese beggar goes cashless through WeChat Pay | Inquirer Technology
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:09
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Chinese beggar goes cashless through WeChat Pay | Inquirer TechnologyA beggar collects and accepts alms via WeChat Pay. Image: Facebook/Fazil Irwan
Instead of receiving just the typical spare change, a beggar in China has been accepting alms through a quick response (QR) code, connected to a Chinese multi-messaging app.
Cheah Chyuan Yong, a Chinese businessman, was apparently out having dinner with some friends in Beijing when a beggar approached them and asked for some spare change. Yong took a photo of the occurrence.
Fazil Irwan, Yong's friend, posted Yong's photo on his Facebook account last Friday, Nov. 27.
''In my previous post, I spoke about how almost everything is transacted through WeChat in China,'' Irwan said.
A lady friend of theirs told the beggar that she did not have any cash to give, but ''(the) beggar said it's ok, you can pay through WeChat.''
The beggar presented her QR code and the woman then gave her money via WeChat Pay.
WeChat Pay is a feature in the messaging app where users can send and receive money through their smartphones. According to the app's website, the QR codes could be scanned through the users' phone camera.
WeChat Pay also has QR Code Payments, In-App Web-Based Payments, Quick Pay and Native In-App Payments designed for other digital payment transaction.
The trend for cashless forms of money transfer has been going strong in China.
New systems which require only face recognition are also being tested and could make even QR codes seem outdated soon. JB
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NYC Electric Garbage Truck Plans Hit Wall After Trucks "Conked Out" Plowing Snow After Just Four Hours | ZeroHedge
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:06
In a move that absolutely nobody could have seen coming, New York City is scrapping its brilliant idea for electric garbage trucks after finding out the truck simply "aren't powerful enough to plow snow".
The pipe dream of converting the city's 6,000 garbage trucks from gas to electric in order to try and limit carbon emissions (because there's no other problems that need to be dealt with in New York City right now) is "clashing with the limits of electric-powered vehicles," Gothamist wrote this week.
The city's current trucks run on diesel and can be fitted with plows in the winter.
Despite the shortcomings, the city Department of Sanitation' has already ordered seven electric rear loader garbage trucks, custom-made by Mack, the report says. Those trucks cost an astonishing $523,000 each and are to be delivered this spring.
Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch told the NYC city council earlier this month: ''We found that they could not plow the snow effectively '' they basically conked out after four hours. We need them to go 12 hours. Given the current state of the technology, I don't see today a path forward to fully electrifying the rear loader portion of the fleet by 2040."
''We can't really make significant progress in converting our rear loader fleet until the snow challenges are addressed,'' she continued.
Many other cities don't use their garbage trucks to plow snow, the report notes. Places that get a lot of snow, like Denver, have their own committed light duty trucks outfitted with plows, which operate more efficiently.
New York City, however, has committed to plowing each street and doing so by putting the city's 2,100 trucks to work to clear the "equivalent of 19,000 miles of street lanes".
In addition to...well, not being able to get the job done, charging has also been a holdup with electric trucks, Tisch said: ''..this charging infrastructure requires additional space and often new electrical utility connections that can require substantial capital investments."
Harry Nespoli, the president of Teamsters Local 831 union representing sanitation workers also isn't sold on the idea: ''How much power do they have? Can they run 12-hour shifts without a charge? I don't know.''
Sanitation spokesperson Vincent Gragnani concluded: ''''With current technology, full electrification isn't possible now for some parts of our fleet, but we are monitoring closely and really hope it will be.''
Let us know how that turns out, Vinny.
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Airlines Hit By US Rules On Negative Covid Test For China Travelers - TheStreet
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:03
Passengers flying from China will need a negative Covid test before entering the United States, health officials indicated Wednesday.
U.S. airline stocks slumped lower Wednesday following an updated from health officials that indicated travelers from China will need a negative Covid test before entering the United States.
The new testing requirements, set to take effect on January 5, will include travelers directly from China as well as those who visited the country ten days before their departure to the United States. Health officials will require either a negative antigen or PCR test, according to reporters briefed by the government.
China, which began relaxing many of its "Covid Zero" health policies in November, has loosen nearly all of its restrictions over the past week, including quarantine requirements for foreign travelers. Hong Kong followed suit Wednesday in scrapping PCR tests for new arrivals while ending limits on public gatherings and other business restrictions put in place during this year's surge in infections.
The gradual, yet definitive steps towards a reopened China economy have boosted commodities prices and lifted investor sentiment heading into the final trading days of the year, although concerns over the pace of new infections, and the ability of China's health authorities to contain them continue to unsettle observers.
China's top health authority estimated earlier this week that infections may be spreading at a rate of 1 to 2 million people a day,
U.S. airline stocks were moving sharply lower following the travel policy update, with American Airlines AAL falling 1.8% to $12.30 each and Delta Air Lines DAL down 2.55% at $32.06 each. United Airlines UAL was marked 2.25% lower at $37.38 each.
Dec. 29 - Russia Prepares for World War - henrymakow.com
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 13:52
(Viewer- It is remarkable in which the way government states-man and military officials addressing its constituencies, honest, open, transparent and with a no-nonsense approach. If only western political institutional representatives and policymakers could do the same!)
Please send links and comments to hmakow@gmail.com
The Saker - Russia is Preparing for World War
Medvedev--"Alas, there is nobody in the West we could deal with about anything for any reason (..) is the last warning to all nations: there can be no business with the Anglo-Saxon world because it is a thief, a swindler, a card-sharp that could do anything." Makow - This statement leads me to believe this war is another Cabalist scam. Medvedev is a Jew. There is nothing "anglo saxon" left in the so-called "anglo saxon" world. For all the "honesty" the Russians project, they still won't acknowledge that the Cabalist Jewish Rothschilds control the West and the uni-polar world Russia opposes is essentially Jewish Satanism.
The Saker -- " I realize that is is hard to believe in the idea that a nuclear superpower like the US is run by a gang of incompetent and ignorant thugs, but that IS the reality and simply denying it won't make it go away.
I submit that the fact that the US ruling class is seriously contemplating both a "limited" use of "tactical" nukes and "decapitating strikes" is a very good indicator of the fact that the US is running out of Wunderwaffen and that the Neocons are desperate.And to those who might be tempted to accuse me of hyperbole or paranoid delusions I will say the following:
This war is NOT, repeat, NOT about the Ukraine (or Poland or the three Baltic statelets). At its absolute minimum this is a war about the future of Europe. Fundamentally it is a war about the complete reorganization of our planet's international order. I would even argue that the outcome of this war will have a bigger impact that either WWI or WWII. The Russians clearly understand this (see video above if you doubt that).
And so do the Neocons, even if they don't speak about it.
The current situation is much more dangerous than even the Cuban missile crisis or the standoff in Berlin. At least then both sides openly admitted that the situation was really dangerous. This time around, however, the ruling elites of the West are using their formidable PSYOP/propaganda capability to conceal the true scope what is really going on. If every citizen of the US (and EU) understood that there is a nuclear and conventional cross-hairs painted on his/her head things might be different. Alas, this is clearly not the case, hence the non-existent peace movement and the quasi consensus about pouring tens of BILLIONS of dollars into the Ukrainian black hole.
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-- Historians Confirm Karl Marx Was Employed By The Rothschilds
Historians have confirmed that Karl Marx was not only related to the Rothschilds, but was also employed as their agent in order to subvert democracy and corrupt the Socialist movement.
https://theirishsentinel.com/2020/06/01/historians-confirm-karl-marx-was-employed-by-the-rothschilds/--
Reader--"I just recently watched a documentary that I thought you'd appreciate. It's about the social conditioning that was the civil rights movement, culminating in the modern BLM. It comes from a black perspective so you'd have to have serious chutzpah to call it white supremacist rhetoric. It outlines the communist/satanic ties to these movements and all but points a finger at some tribe members. In any case, I rarely watch a full length anything these days, but found this to be very compelling."
https://rumble.com/v21v9jw-uncle-tom-2-an-american-odyssey.html--MUST WATCH! Here's how Soros-funded & WEF-directed tyrant Justin Trudeau terrorized Canada during the Covid shutdowns.
http://stateofthenation.co/?p=151809--
Dr. Sherri Tenpenny Predicts the Worst is Yet to Come with the Fallout from the COVID Shots https://healthimpactnews.com/2022/will-2023-be-a-tsunami-of-regret-dr-sherri-tenpenny-predicts-the-worst-is-yet-to-come-with-the-fallout-from-the-covid-shots/
-- Sailing the Marquesas Islands, Nuku Hiva and Hiva Oa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DssOYOZqA4
This seems like the best answer to a world gone insane --sail around the world.
This young couple demonstrate how we define ourselves and grow as human beings by undertaking challenging projects.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEQ2Ne-LLmyo6pvp66KSi_g?app=desktop
-- Teen hockey player dies after suffering stroke caused by rare disorder
(called an "adverse reaction")
-- "I'm never going to take another vaccine in my life, nor trust another doctor"
https://gab.com/BeachMilk/posts/109585362822808271
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--VAXXED Airline Personnel Calling In Sick Caused The Unprecedented Thousands Of Flight Cancellationshttp://stateofthenation.co/?p=151890NOT TRUE - Computer system broke down "Rumors on media are floating that there is a lack of crews and pilots are staging sick calls. Absolutely not true at all. This is a computer system meltdown. Thousands of crew members are sitting in hotels and airports with nowhere to go. This airline has failed miserably."
https://gab.com/Spacecowboy777/posts/109594008731905864--
Here, various CHABAD rabbis explain why the CHABAD godhead (Satan) is about to "totally destroy" both America and Europe, first by cultural genocide and then by actual genocide: https://www.bitchute.com/video/Z2zKk1l6DiPg/https://www.bitchute.com/video/ynU1ewidfIt2/https://www.bitchute.com/video/JlC2cljN9WPq/https://www.bitchute.com/video/j46wBGhtJG0V/
"When Jews openly call for white genocide, of course Big Brother does not deem that "hate speech" so it "naturally" does not merit being banned from YouTube. Big Brother's actual definition for "hate speech" is MUCH MORE SERIOUS, because such "hate speech" essentially means disagreeing with the opinion of any Jew, which, in the Talmudic "new" world order, is defined as a VERY SERIOUS CRIME INDEED." --
Makow -- Can't people add 2+2?The Talmud tells the Jews to kill "even the best of the goyim."
The vaccine promotion is run by globalist Jews and their flunkies in politics and big pharma..
And these vaccines are good for you? 5
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The German Catholic Church is against Christ, says Hungarian archbishop
"In a multicultural, mixed society, the individual loses his own identity, sense of identity, culture, faith, language, practically everything," said retired Hungarian Archbishop yula Mrfi https://rmx.news/religion/the-german-catholic-church-is-nearly-anti-christ-says-hungarian-archbishop/--
2 foot long "clot" pulled from a living person is the new normal if you are vaccinated
I'm consistently hearing stories of very long clots being pulled from people, but so far, nobody wants to go on the record about this. Here's the latest story I heard.
I talked to a nurse with 23 years of experience and she never heard about clots longer than a few inches in her career until the vax came along. Now, we are seeing blood clots in kids as young as 8 -12 years old, but only if they've been vaccinated.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/2-foot-long-clot-pulled-from-a-living?utm_source=substack --
Dr. Wilson Chin: Australia physician who faced backlash for injecting kids and causing severe adverse reactions, dies suddenly;https://thecovidblog.com/2022/12/28/dr-wilson-chin-australia-physician-who-faced-backlash-for-injecting-kids-and-causing-severe-adverse-reactions-dies-suddenly-plus-a-second-abc-news-usa-producer-died-suddenly-last-week/
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Social Engineering in Germany - E. Michael Joneshttps://www.bitchute.com/video/Ox3W4P9N7Vpi/ Viewer comment- Germany has undergone a full on Niggerization programming. The Cities have all been black washed and within one decade, most traces of true German culture has been replaced.You can walk for hours in Berlin and not see one German owned shop or restaurant. Arabs run all the business, blacks handle the drug sales-Google Goerlitzer Park, Berlin. You think you are in downtown Nairobi. It is no exaggeration. Streets are named after Weimar jews, and radicals like Rosa Luxemburg who attempted to overthrow the government and was executed for treason.There is Karl Marx Avenue, Karl Marx Square, Karl Marx Street. Merkel has done more damage to Europe than any other leader.The new spineless males of Germany are useless.
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Bob Marley's fully vaccinated grandson Joseph Mersa Marley died "suddenly and unexpectedly" on Tuesday after suffering a massive heart attack. He was just 31 years old.
https://newspunch.com/bob-marleys-fully-jabbed-grandson-dies-suddenly-and-unexpectedly-at-31/--
Was the sexual revolution a government psy-op?
Masturbation has long been seen as a political soporific BY Matthew CrawfordAnti masturbation movement--"their vital energy has been dissipated and colonized by a culture, and an industry, of pornography that is predatory and dehumanizing."
https://unherd.com/2022/12/the-politics-of-masturbation/--
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"Extremely Irresponsible" China Reopens Borders, Milan Sees 50% Of Arrivals Infected With COVID | ZeroHedge
Wed, 28 Dec 2022 18:02
Bloomberg reports that Italian health authorities will begin testing all arrivals from China for Covid after almost half of the passengers on two flights to Milan were found to have the virus.
Additionally, in Germany, health authorities are ''closely watching'' the situation in China, according to Health Ministry spokesman Sebastian Guelde.
China's National Health Commission announced on Dec. 26 that the country would end all quarantine requirements for inbound travelers from Jan. 8, 2023.
Travelers will need to obtain a negative PCR test within 48 hours of departure, it said. Currently, travelers entering China need to undergo five days of mandatory quarantine in an approved facility, followed by three days at home.
The health body added that outbound tourism, which plummeted to almost nothing during the pandemic, will resume in an ''orderly'' fashion.
It also removed the cap on the number of international flights to and from China.
Crucially for the rest of the world, as The Epoch Times reports, data from travel sites show that Chinese residents are rushing to book overseas trips.
Chinese travel platform Tongcheng Travel released data on Dec. 27, showing that the number of searches for visas to go abroad increased by 10 times, and the search volume of international air tickets soared by 850 percent.
Japan, Thailand, South Korea, the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and the UK were among the most searched destinations.
Sean Lin, a virologist and former lab director at the viral disease branch of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, said that the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) opening up of the country is actually a strategy to get everyone infected not only within China, but around the world.
''When they can't control the outbreak, they push it to the whole world. Just like when COVID first broke out in Wuhan, people who had been infected in Wuhan were allowed to travel around the world. The strategy is the same now as before,'' he said.
Lin pointed to the regime's lack of transparency amid the latest outbreak, a consistent behavior over the past three years during the pandemic.
''The CCP is not sharing data, and the international community doesn't know how many different virus variants are spreading in China, and whether there are other compound infections,'' he said.
''Under such circumstances, it is extremely irresponsible for the CCP to let the people out of the country which is a huge epidemic area. Put another way, it has a very treacherous purpose and is very malicious.''
Bloomberg notes that Italy is now sequencing those tests to see if there are new variants coming from China, the Health Ministry said in a statement. If a new strain is found, officials may impose stricter curbs on travel from China.
''We have no indication that a more dangerous mutation has developed in China that would give rise to a declaration of a virus variant area, which would result in corresponding travel restrictions,'' he added.
Finally, the critical question for the world's liberal globalists - will it be xenophobic again to block Chinese visitors?
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This mad lad claims Bitcoin farming saved the Texas energy grid during this latest cold snap and I thought he was crazy but now I believe him 𤯠| Not the Bee
Wed, 28 Dec 2022 16:24
This is the wildest story I never saw coming. Either the simulation is broken or we really live in amazingly weird times.
Yeah, I had to share the JP retweet because otherwise you'd just think I'm a nut job who's rambling about random posts on the internet.
But this guy Dennis Porter has a point. The TL;DR version?
A bunch of people and companies that "mine" cryptocurrency using power-hungry computer processing "farms" moved to the state, recently which significantly ramped up Texas' power demands.But these crypto miners often shut down their operations during a big storm because flatlining a room full of computers in the middle of calculating blockchain calculations isn't great for said computers, leaving a ton of excess slack in the usual demand that allows for increased heating needs during a cold snap.Check it out:
I'm gonna be honest: The idea of computers trying to crack complex mathematical equations that "mine" data in order to turn them into money still goes over my head a bit.But the idea of said crypto miners saving the great state of Texas from rolling blackouts during a polar vortex is next-level.I have no idea how true this man's claims are, but like JP said, it's very interesting. We live in the best and craziest of times.What a time to be alive!
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Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:42
THREAD: After reading this judges order in detail, it is a useless exercise to try to counter it with evidence, because he didn't use any to come to his decision. What an absolute disgrace it truly is.
clerkofcourt.maricopa.gov/home/showpubli'... https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1607367709620142080 So, instead, lets talk about what the order DID NOT address, which is much more indicative of willful ignorance on the part of the judge, who even was stunned at some of what was presented, as evidenced by his reaction in open court. How you leave any of this out is beyond me.
For the purposes of this thread we are going to use the judges interpretation of the law, which as
@barnes_law points out, is inherently flawed. I know
@KariLake attorneys are working on the appeal now. I am NOT an attorney, but I am going to give it a go.
We are going to analyze Day 1 testimony. We are going to start with Stephen Richer, the Maricopa county recorder. He testified that when early ballots leave polling centers, no one knows how many there are. (This is a problem with their process, clearly)
Richer is asked if he recalls sending an email stating he couldn't reconcile the SOS listing of votes with the amount of votes Maricopa received. Remember, they were throwing out numbers of ballots with confidence in the press.
He is then asked if he had anyone from his office call Runbeck asking them how many ballots they processed. He waffles at particular terminology'-- standard wriggling.
He is then asked whether or not he knows if the AG has opened up an investigation into the 2022 election. He replies a resounding ''No.'' That's interesting given a letter that went out asking many questions in re: to this election. They stop questioning him then
The above is taken from the motion to Quash his subpoena, and just goes to show how smarmy and shady these people are. If I had an INKLING I may need to testify in a trial like this, I would've packed CLOTHES for it, or at least a nice top.
clerkofcourt.maricopa.gov/home/showpubli'...They immediately start in with trying to shift blame for non-responsive public records requests.
He then is asked about the process for counting early votes, and why they can not be counted before they go through the process of vetting. (All of this is important, we are getting foundation down right now.) Remember, this is cross exam, Plaintiffs called him as a witness.
He is then asked about COS for these ballots. He walks through the process AS IT SHOULD happen. This isn't what happened, as we will learn in just a bit. Also, he says a ''bipartisan'' team. As Adam Carter who was with me through the stream said, ''bi-partisan is Page and Strzok.''
I am going to assume he meant one from each party, but that is being generous with the way these folks use words. You want a PARTISAN team - one Democrat and one Republican etc, otherwise you end up with Richer, who calls himself a Republican but starts an anti-Lake PAC.
Then, Defense asks Richer his party affiliation, even though I don't know how it is relevant, but they brought it up, and asks him directly if he purposefully sabotaged the election. I am sure that if he did, he would've told us all just then. Also, THEY bring up printer issues.
We produce records because ''it's the appropriate thing to do and we have nothing to hide.'' (It stands to reason then, that if they DID NOT produce records, it would be because THEY DID have something to hide'...More on this in a moment.)
He asks one more time about the printers. And, we are on to redirect. Redirect is where the Plaintiff (they called this witness) can ask a few follow up questions in regards to the testimony given in cross examination to clean up and hammer down anything they want.
On redirect, Richer is asked if he opposed Lake for governor. Richer doesn't answer. Then he is asked about the PAC he started to spend money opposing Lake. He states it is 100% false that he started said PAC. Oh really?? Let's unpack this a bit.
Exhibit ''A.'' We will get to the ''generous donors'' in a moment.
And now to the ''generous donor'' Pro-Democracy Republicans top donor was a man named Francis Najafi.
transparencyusa.org/az/pac/pro-dem'... Who else did he donate to?
He spent about $174k this cycle, a lot of it going to none other than
@katiehobbs and ActBlue, and the AZ Democratic Party.
transparencyusa.org/az/donor/franc'... Is perjury a thing anymore, or'....
Back to testimony. Next Plaintiff calls Robert Jarrett, the ''co-elections director'' responsible for tabulation, and all in-person voting, as well as warehousing, training poll workers, etc.
Jarrett is the man responsible for logic and accuracy testing and programming of the tabulators etc, as well as training. This is the guy.
Seems like a very extensive process to make sure tabulators are working. Jarrett says thousands of test ballots through the equipment to make sure they are accurately programmed to tabulate the ballots. He will get into that in more detail now.
Because Maricopa county moved to vote centers, all 12k of the potential ballots need to be ready to be printed depending on what voter is voting. They call this ''ballot on demand''
Jarrett testifies that they performed logic and accuracy testing before Election Day. This testimony is important.
This is VERY important. The question asked is ''What would happen if a ballot was printed out of a ballot on demand printer at the vote center if it was printed with a 19'' image on 20'' paper and run through the tabulator?''
READ THE QUESTION CAREFULLY.
Jarrett dodges the question, and Defense comes in to rescue. Defense actually states that to answer he would have to SPECULATE. We know this to be false now, he doesn't have to speculate, and Jarrett knows that.
'''...the timing marks on the ballot matter'...''
''There was no 19-inch ballot images installed on ballot on-demand printers''
People with nothing to hide generally don't try THIS hard to pretend there weren't problems.
Less than a minute after this he will contradict himself. He states now:
''I don't recall ballots '-- issues with ballots being rejected''
That is implausible.
Here he contradicts the answer he had just given. This large portion of testimony is about their process for forecasting turnout on Election Day, and whether or not they factor in potential issues, etc. But I would like to keep focus on the 19/20'' ballot image discrepancy.
Again, here is an opportunity to address the image issue, and instead he pretends the ONLY printing issue were some dark marks being printed on ballots that the tabulators picked up. He doesn't think these printer issues could be ''couched'' as a disruption.
This isn't believable
In fact, it is SO unbelievable, that Plaintiff spends a significant amount of time trying to get Jarrett to acknowledge what even his boss said about the issues on Election Day in Maricopa County. He is testifying in complete denial. It's overt. It's patently absurd.
''Did you hear of any reports of a 19'' ballot image being printed on a 20-inch paper?'' (My emphasis added)
A: ''I DID NOT.''
Q: ''If that occurred would that be a failure'...''
A: ''I'M NOT AWARE OF IT OCCURRING, AND I'D BE SURPRISED'...''
Save this. Bookmark it. File it.
NOTE: I have an appointment.. I am not finished with this thread by a long shot, and I will continue today until I am. Short intermission, will be back ASAP.
Thread continued: Jarrett again doubles down. The wording here is very important. Take note of what I UNDERLINE in RED. Plaintiff asks ''If a 19-inch BALLOT IMAGE was put on a 20'' paper'...''
Jarrett: '''...asking me to speculate about things.. no knowledge of occurring.''
Jarrett is then cross examined by the Defense, which is interesting because they will also be calling him as a witness. This is one of the first times that the ''horror'' of voting ON ELECTION DAY is introduced to the court.
I didn't understand this line of questioning then, and still think it was meant as obfuscation. I have been very careful to highlight specific words being used when questions are asked. Plaintiff was very SPECIFIC, MULTIPLE times- a 19'' IMAGE on a 20'' ballot. (CONT)
This is the Defendant attempting to conflate two things. No one was alleging that a 19'' ballot WAS DESIGNED for this election, and both of them know that. They acknowledged they knew the difference in their answers to the questions. This is a weak attempt to create confusion.
On redirect, the Plaintiffs take the ''Election Day'' voter insinuation and prove that it was immaterial anyway, because the forecast and the voters who showed to vote were adequate. And I am going to take an aside here for a moment as well: (cont)
The idea that voting ON ELECTION DAY is to blame for problems at the polls is SO utterly contemptuous it literally infuriates me. It isn't the first time defendants did this, and it needs to be stomped down. ELECTION. DAY. It's just preposterous they'd attempt to criminalize it
We are again going to get the 19/20'' debate down and codified. This is probably one of the most important pieces of evidence at trial, and the spin placed on it needs to be addressed properly and made to go viral. I am going to do that succinctly at the end, but also in course.
Plaintiff wanted to get on the record that the ballot definition resides in a central location, on a laptop connected to the printers. Very important, and is one of the things this judge ignored. There's no excuse for it. You'll see why as we get into Clay Parikh now.
I am not going to thread out Clay Parikh's testimony as it relates to his extensive experience, technical knowledge, security clearances, and current and former positions. However, this portion is the first time in the trial that we hear the words ''root cause analysis''
Parikh has done root cause analysis often in the past, including for the Army. Some of his work has been used in criminal cases.
I want to make sure everyone is paying close attention to the testimony from here forward, INCLUDING in cross examination. If you are following this thread remember these next several tweets. Here is how Mr. Parikh chose the ballots he wanted to examine. Read this.
Parikh chose ballots from SIX vote centers, and was forced to look at duplicated ballots in some instances. This is where a lot was lost in confusion, purposefully IMO during cross from the Defense.
In his order, the judge made a lot of noise about how Parikh ''admitted'' that problem votes were, in fact, tabulated.
He ignored the reason for the problem in the first place, and COMPLETELY glossed over the fact that Parikh testified that they LOST the duped ballots!
This is not only a huge issue with vote totals and issues there, it is a MASSIVE DEAL with Chain of Custody'-- And the judge just COMPLETELY ignored it. Not just the judge; I'll show you where else there was an attempt to muddle this.
So here we have an expert witness who inspected the ballots as per court order, testifying that NOT ONLY was there an issue with the ballots themselves (we will get there) but there is ALSO a HUGE problem with chain of custody, another count in the lawsuit
AND THE JUDGE IGNORES.
Here Parikh testifies that because of the issues with finding ballots and time constraints, he didn't get to do everything he wanted and was tasked to do. (This should be setting off alarm bells to any honest broker out there)
And we get our first loud objection from the defense. 48 of 113 ballots (spoiled ballots) had a 19'' inch image printed on a 20'' paper.
A 19'' image printed on a 20'' paper, with no COS for the tabulated ballot.
That isn't all. He asks for spoiled ballots as well as originals.
Remember, this was IMPOSSIBLE and could never happen, as per Jarrett. As a matter of fact, he had not heard of this happening even ONCE, anywhere, ever. Unheard of. Speculative, impossible, would be surprised if it ever occurred. Remember that.
Fourteen of fifteen duplicated ballots were 19'' images printed on 20'' paper. 14/15, with the only remaining ballot being slightly torn and not 19'' on 20'' paper. Remember, there exists NO chain of custody for the duped ballots. There's no way to know WHAT they were voted.
Indeed, it does misstate the testimony, and Liddy remembers clearly because it was the moment he realized his witness was in the midst of perjury and they would need gymnastics to clean it up. Jarrett said ''that would be a mistake'' and he was coached to use that word.
See, ''mistakes'' aren't intentional. They are just a big ''WHOOPS'' on a consequential and hotly contested mid term election for Governor, US House, SOS, AG, etc, so on and so forth. Whoops!
''Would there be any way for this to happen by accident?''
A: ''NO SIR''
Q: Why?
A: ''I reviewed the evidence and the printers are configured by script''
FULL STOP.
This was COMPLETELY ignored in the Judge's order. As though it never happened.
Parikh testifies that this would likely cause a paper jam error, even if there was no paper in the machine. He interviewed a tech who experienced this very thing.
Again, and again- could this have been an accident? Could it be a mistake? On and on'-- the answer is always a very firm and definitive NO. It could not be an accident, or a mistake. It was intentional. He also testified he witnessed many more like this as ballots were shuffled.
Is there any way you could be wrong about this?
A: No sir, there are only two ways it could happen, and I would need to forensically examine to figure out which of the two it was.
We move to cross examination'....
I would like to get to the heart of the matter with cross, but would be remiss if I didn't mention that first Parikh was questioned about who paid him, then about the Lindell cyber symposium, and then about the fact that he referred to a state records request as a FOIA (cont)
'...incorrectly, and that somehow means he doesn't pay attention to detail.
Defense is asking about the lack of duplicated ballots for the 19'' image ballots- please NOTE he was talking DIRECTLY to Jarrett about this. The same Jarrett who said this didn't happen. This is unbelievable.
Here is where it all goes south with the misrepresentation, and Plaintiffs object as such. Defense won't let him finish his statement. He obviously means here that the dupes should be there, I don't recall him ever testifying Jarrett said it would take 6 hours, and this is a mess
Here Parikh attempts to explain what he meant, and Liddy interrupts him mid sentence so that he can not. He wants to obfuscate the Chain of Custody issues here as much as possible. I don't know where he got this ''6 hours'' thing- he testified he was told a week.
And this is where we begin to see the ''shrink to fit'' explanation Maricopa comes up with for the thing that never happened ever, the 19'' image on a 20'' paper. Parikh explains why this isn't plausible, and how even if it were it would break their procedure and protocol.
This interaction we are about to thread is the ONLY thing the judge took from the testimony we have reviewed so far. It's absurd, because Parikh already testified there was no COS for the duped ballots.
There is a back and forth between Liddy and Parikh here, and it gets complicated. Liddy is asking Parikh to answer a question whose premise isn't technically possible, and Parikh can't answer it.
Cross examination ends this way. Redirect is next, and then I am going to move to Day two and Jarrett on the stand again.
The 19/20'' ballot issue is the most important thing, IMO, and while Ms. Honey's testimony is VERY important, this issue here is the massive one.
Redirect focuses first on the INTEGRITY of a ballot. The defense was attempting to minimize a duplication- it isn't a small thing. You are relying on someone to accurately transpose YOUR vote onto a new ballot because of THEIR mistake, and they didn't even keep COS on them.
Now Plaintiff clears up the ''you didn't ask for dupes'' line of questioning.. It technically was already spelled out in the process, it was all supposed to have been handled. He DID ask for the dupes, but Liddy didn't let him finish. He asked Jarrett and..
''You heard Jarrett testify there was NO WAY a 19'' image could be on a 20'' paper, right?''
A: Yes
''There is no way those could have been tabulated, right?''
A: ''There is no way a 19 inch image on 20'' paper would be accepted by a tabulator''
IGNORED by the judge.
Parikh examined early votes as well. There were NO 19'' images on 20'' paper with early voting. It didn't happen. Only with Print on Demand.
ð¨ð¨ð¨This was the most IMPORTANT testimony of it all so far, because it COMPLETELY obliterates their ''fit to page, shrink to fit'' excuse. If there is ONLY a 20'' ballot image, and ONLY 20'' paper, shrinking the 20'' ballot image to fit a 20'' paper WOULD HAVE DONE NOTHING.
The only other way their explanation would be possible, is by malfeasance.
I am now going to move to the Day 2 testimony of Jarrett, and we are going to place his Day 1 and Day 2 testimony side by side. I am going to end with this, because it sums up everything. You should be able to just share these tweets and make a CLEAR and convincing argument.
People who have nothing to hide don't lie on the witness stand. People who have nothing to hide don't neglect to share information that would be helpful to testimony WHEN DIRECTLY ASKED.
Jarret on Day 1, Vs. Jarret on Day 2.
He neglected to say anything about this, they are in the middle of a root cause analysis, they didn't inform the public, they didn't admit it under direct questioning, and committed perjury on the stand.
The 19'' ballot image on a 20'' paper disenfranchised more than 17 thousand voters in Maricopa county, and there was no way it could have happened if it wasn't intentional. The judge glossed over this completely. I am awaiting the appeal.
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ADDENDUM: I wanted to point out that Jarrett also testified that this issue of 19'' on 20'' paper happened in the last two elections as well, because as Jarrett said, it never happened and he'd have to speculate to opine about what it would mean if it did. ð
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Elon Musk Says 100 Starlink Terminals "Active" In Iran Amid 100 Days Of Unrest | ZeroHedge
Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:39
More than a hundred days since the Iranian anti-government protests began, the longest since the 1979 Islamic revolution, SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk announced Starlinks are operational in the region.
On Monday, Musk tweeted, "Approaching 100 Starlinks active in Iran." He tweeted at Wall Street Silver, who posted a video showing Iranian women walking around without hijabs.
Streets of Iran now ... more freedom for the women to choose whether they cover their hair or not.ð--ð² pic.twitter.com/pytzEzDbr9
'-- Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) December 26, 2022In September, Musk said he would activate Starlink terminals in Iran. At the time, he responded to the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's tweet that the US would "advance internet freedom and the free flow of information" to Iranians.
Starlink satellite broadband service -- already in use across Ukraine -- would allow Iranians to circumnavigate the government's authoritarian control over the internet and social media platforms amid widespread social unrest.
The government has blocked YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Telegram, Snapchat, and Medium for fear these Western social media platforms could support continued uprisings and spread information that acts like a megaphone. But with Starlink terminals, access to the outside world is now possible.
Over the years, especially during the Arab uprisings a decade ago, social media played a critical role in mobilizing young protesters -- some referred to the unrest as Facebook or Twitter revolutions.
Reuters nor any other Western media outlet questioned who or what organizations were operating the terminals and for what purpose. If we had to guess, one logical assumption might be the terminals are used by anti-government groups with support from Western nations to disseminate information from the outside world and help organize protests to overthrow the government.
And this could be true.
It's clear Elon Musk is coordinating with the White House in its regime-change scheme targeting IranStarlink is not a tool of "free speech"; it's a weapon of hybrid warfare to destabilize a sovereign state (like the CIA's fake Twitter in Cuba, ZunZuneo)https://t.co/vRpF07nnOl
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Use Clean Energy Charging on your iPhone - Apple Support
Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:27
With iOS 16.1, your iPhone can try to reduce your carbon footprint by selectively charging when lower carbon-emission electricity is available.
Learn about Clean Energy ChargingWhen Clean Energy Charging is enabled and you connect your iPhone to a charger, your iPhone gets a forecast of the carbon emissions in your local energy grid and uses it to charge your iPhone during times of cleaner energy production.
Clean Energy Charging is available only in the United States and is on by default when you set up your iPhone or after you update to iOS 16.1. To turn off the feature, go to Settings > Battery > Battery Health & Charging and turn off Clean Energy Charging.
Some settings need to be turned onClean Energy Charging works together with Optimized Battery Charging to learn your charging habits. Clean Energy Charging engages only where you spend the most time and regularly charge your iPhone for long periods of time, such as your home and place of work. The feature doesn't engage if your charging habits are variable or you're in a new location, such as when you travel. Because of this and to get the carbon-emission forecast for your area, some location settings must be turned on for Clean Energy Charging to activate. Your iPhone doesn't send any of the location information that it uses for this feature to Apple.
Check the settings needed for Clean Energy Charging:
Go to Settings > Battery > Battery Health & Charging and make sure that Clean Energy Charging is on.Go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services and make sure that Location Services is on.Go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services > System Services and make sure that System Customization is on.Go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services > System Services > Significant Locations and make sure that Significant Locations is on. If you need to override Clean Energy ChargingWhen Clean Energy Charging suspends charging, a notification on the Lock Screen says when your iPhone will be fully charged. If you need to have your iPhone fully charged sooner, touch and hold the notification and then tap Charge Now.
Published Date: October 24, 2022
From Dollar's Collapse To Musk As US President: Russia's Medvedev Makes 'Absurd' 2023 Predictions | ZeroHedge
Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:23
Former Russian president and current deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev took to Twitter and Telegram Monday night to post his own predictions for 2023, in an unusual move from a former head of state, especially given a number of them are not just bizarre but most readers will receive them as incredibly unlikely - at least given the mere one year timeline.
Describing that "many practice futuristic hypotheses," he said he would add his insight into the mix while "competing in the proposal of the most unexpected and even absurd" predictions. "On New Year's Eve, everybody's into making predictions," he began of his top ten predictions thread for 2023 which includes a coming civil war in the United States, the disintegration of the dollar, the crash of the IMF and World Bank, and the total collapse of the European Union, following a major war among competing powers in Western Europe - including war between Germany and France.
When I wondered where Musk would find ''his Medvedev'''--a sycophantic nobody'--to be Twitter CEO, I should have included Medvedev himself. Although who is more the sycophant here is unclear. https://t.co/jtzyObefip
'-- Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) December 26, 2022Medvedev's thread caught the attention of Twitter and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, as among the predictions is that after a devastating internal US conflict, Musk would emerge as the new American president, to which Musk responded sarcastically "Epic thread!!"
...And to be expected, a number of MSM pundits who happen to have large followings took Musk's reaction literally, missing that it was clearly said in mockery.
On the New Year's Eve, everybody's into making predictionsMany come up with futuristic hypotheses, as if competing to single out the wildest, and even the most absurd ones.
Here's our humble contribution.
What can happen in 2023:
'-- Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) December 26, 2022* * *
Below is Medvedev's full Twitter thread on "What can happen in 2023":
Oil price will rise to $150 a barrel, and gas price will top $5.000 per 1.000 cubic meters
The UK will rejoin the EU
The EU will collapse after the UK's return; Euro will drop out of use as the former EU currency
Poland and Hungary will occupy western regions of the formerly existing Ukraine
The Fourth Reich will be created, encompassing the territory of Germany and its satellites, i.e., Poland, the Baltic states, Czechia, Slovakia, the Kiev Republic, and other outcasts
War will break out between France and the Fourth Reich. Europe will be divided, Poland repartitioned in the process
Northern Ireland will separate from the UK and join the Republic of Ireland
Civil war will break out in the US, California. and Texas becoming independent states as a result. Texas and Mexico will form an allied state. Elon Musk'll win the presidential election in a number of states which, after the new Civil War's end, will have been given to the GOP
All the largest stock markets and financial activity will leave the US and Europe and move to Asia
The Bretton Woods system of monetary management will collapse, leading to the IMF and World Bank crash. Euro and Dollar will stop circulating as the global reserve currencies. Digital fiat currencies will be actively used instead
* * *
It appears Medvedev himself meant the admittedly "absurd" thread as a playful and comedic exercise in sarcasm for the new year, given he also ended it with a tweet writing, "Season greetings to you all, Anglo-Saxon friends, and their happily oinking piglets!"
As for Musk and his "epic thread" comment, he later wrote that "those are definitely the most absurd predictions" he had ever come across, and said they demonstrate an "astonishing lack of awareness of the progress of artificial intelligence and sustainable energy." Musk additionally commented, "Remind me of this in one year."
Medvedev has long been the most hawkish public voice in the Kremlin, throughout the Ukraine war often making over the top statements - such as issuing nuclear threats. Some of the more bellicose statemetns out of Medvedev might be things Putin is thinking, but that wouldn't come directly from a sitting head of state. In his latest more 'serious' commentary, Medvedev wrote in the state-owned newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Sunday about how Russia should handle US-led western sanctions. "We are entitled to do whatever we consider appropriate based on our law with their assets." He continued: "One can only sympathize with ordinary citizens of the EU countries. Their fiery slogans about solidarity with Ukraine will not warm the house, they will not fill the gas tank of the car."
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What Did Nancy Pelosi Know and When Did She Know It? 'º American Greatness
Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:09
The January 6 select committee finally released its long-delayed report late on December 23 after most Americans had happily turned away from politics to enjoy the Christmas weekend with family and friends. The Friday night news dump, a common tactic when government officials want to bury something controversial, was not exactly a vote of confidence in the panel's ultimate work product.
As expected, the bulk of the 845-page document spun a well-worn tale that portrayed Donald Trump as the sole villain in a so-called ''insurrection'' the committee wants us to believe was engineered to keep him in the White House. Page after page included dramatic interpretations of snippets from witness testimony intended to bolster the committee's preconceived conclusions.
Analysis of how law enforcement and intelligence services failed to prepare for the ''attack,'' a promise made by the committee in its original sell job to the public, is buried in a relatively brief appendix at the end. And despite confirmation the government was aware violence might occur'--the FBI used a threat tag, ''CERTUNREST2021,'' purportedly to categorize in advance information related to January 6'--federal and local agencies did not prevent what the Biden regime branded a terror attack comparable to 9/11. (FBI Director Christopher Wray's name is not mentioned once in the report and it appears unlikely he sat for a transcribed interview.)
Even so, in the face of extensive evidence that those agencies were on high alert, committee members still faulted Trump: ''Few in law enforcement predicted that the President of the United States would incite a mob attack on the Capitol, that he would send them to stop the joint session knowing they were armed and dangerous, that he would further incite them against his own vice President while the attack was underway, or that he would do nothing to stop the assault for hours,'' the report dishonestly stated.
Another official who escaped accountability in the report is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the lawmaker mainly responsible for protecting Capitol grounds. Committee members avoided any criticism of Pelosi, instead allowing her to write the foreword. (It's also unclear whether committee investigators interviewed the speaker.)
For two years, Pelosi has played the role of victimized bystander in the events of January 6 rather than being recognized as the incompetent steward of public safety she is'--or worse, someone who was complicit in manufacturing the entire spectacle. After all, her filmmaker daughter just happened to be on site as the historic event, one usually considered a pro forma ceremony, went down.
But a competing report also released last week by a handful of Republican House members did not let Pelosi off the hook; to the contrary, ''Security Failures at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021'' presented new disclosures about how Pelosi's staff spent weeks ostensibly preparing for the electoral certification vote that afternoon. ''[Then] House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving'--who served on the Capitol Police Board by virtue of his position'--succumbed to political pressures from the Office of Speaker Pelosi and House Democrat leadership leading up to January 6, 2021,'' the report authored by Representatives Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), James Banks (R-Ind.) and others revealed. ''He coordinated closely with the Speaker and her staff and left Republicans out of important discussions related to security. Irving only provided information to Republicans after receiving instruction from the Speaker's office. In one case, Irving even asked a senior Democratic staffer to 'act surprised' when he sent key information about plans for the Joint Session on January 6, 2021 to him and his Republican counterpart. The senior Democratic staffer replied: 'I'm startled.''' (Jordan and Banks were appointed to the January 6 select committee before being bounced by Pelosi.)
According to records obtained by House Republicans, Irving maintained constant communication with two of Pelosi's top aides'--Terry McCullough, her chief of staff, and Jamie Flood, a shared staffer for Pelosi and the House Administration committee'--about January 6 in early December 2020.
On December 11, 2020, McCullough emailed Irving's team to request a meeting to discuss ''choreography and safety for the opening day and electoral college events.'' That meeting took place four days later; no Republicans were present.
Irving and his office met three more times with Democratic staffers before January 6 and once on the morning of January 6 without Republican lawmakers in attendance. Now, perhaps there's an innocent explanation as to why Irving intentionally prevented Republicans from being involved in those discussions'--except for more alarming disclosures in the report.
On Monday, January 4, 2021, Irving met with Pelosi in her office. While the specific nature of the meeting isn't addressed in the report, Pelosi and her aides were furiously working on new COVID protocols to strictly limit the number of lawmakers and staff on the House floor on January 6; a letter to Congress explaining the new rules was sent out the afternoon of January 5.
But that's not all that happened on January 5. The day began with a ''walkthrough'' for the joint session attended by Irving, Stenger, Capitol Police, McCullough, and Democratic staffers at 8:30 a.m.. Irving scheduled another walkthrough for his staff at 1:15 p.m.. Shortly thereafter, Stenger, who reported to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) conducted a separate walkthrough, apparently without inviting Republican lawmakers or staffers.
And in one of the oddest events of the day, despite repeated assurances the threat for violence was ''remote,'' Irving led a walkthrough of Congress' evacuation plan with unnamed participants at 2:30 p.m.; almost 24 hours later to the minute, the joint session recessed and lawmakers were evacuated from the Capitol creating one of the most dramatic images of January 6.
This also happened at the same time Irving and Stenger repeatedly brushed off requests by Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund for extra protection in the form of National Guardsmen, a process both sergeants-at-arms continued to hamstring throughout January 6. (Sund later testified that Irving expressed concerns about the ''optics'' of guardsmen surrounding the Capitol.) The guard did not arrive until after 5 p.m., shortly after the disturbance ended.
The exchanges detailed in the House GOP report contradict the narrative that congressional security officials were unprepared for the events of January 6. So, too, does the appendix buried in the January 6 select committee document. Not only was the FBI allegedly collecting scary posts before the Capitol protest, Pelosi's underlings engaged in deep discussions and planning efforts weeks beforehand without the involvement of Republicans. What exactly those conversations entailed, the public still does not know.
Regardless, as of January 7, 2021, Irving, Stenger, and Sund were out of a job, forced to resign at the demands of irate lawmakers. Were they the fall guys in a carefully ''choreographed'' operation to permanently oust Trump from office and subsequently criminalize his movement? Did they willfully participate or were they duped? Why didn't the January 6 committee cover this as extensively as House Republicans?
The answer is obvious. The January 6 select committee never intended to act as a truth-seeking mission but rather perform a cover-up for what actually happened, which is becoming more obvious every day. House Republicans produced a more serious report that requires rigorous follow-up next year.
PfizerGate: Tragic Truth behind COVID Vaccines: 50k Brits have Died Suddenly in 8 Months due to Vaccination causing a 5-Month Countdown to Death '' The Expose
Tue, 27 Dec 2022 20:36
Breaking News As the death toll rises, a dark shadow has been cast over Britain.
Official data reveals that since April 2022, 407,910 deaths have occurred, with 47,379 excess deaths against the 2015-2019 five-year average.
As the investigation deepens, it has become increasingly clear that the Covid-19 vaccines are the most likely cause of the unprecedented loss of life in Britain. The evidence is damning, with a startling correlation between the rollout of the vaccines and the spike in deaths.
We were told the vaccines would bring hope and healing in the midst of an alleged global pandemic. But now, it seems that they have instead brought even more devastation and pain.
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The Office for National Statistics has released weekly figures on deaths registered in England and Wales, and the most recent data reveals a troubling increase.
In the week ending on December 11th, there were 11,694 deaths, with 687 excess deaths against the 2016-2019 + 2021 five-year average and 999 excess deaths against the 2015-2019 five-year average.
While Covid-19 is often blamed for such increases, this time the numbers tell a different story. Out of all the deaths, only 326 were attributed to the alleged disease '' a mere 2.8%.
So what is causing this surge in fatalities?
Meanwhile, according to Public Health Scotland (PHS) , Scotland suffered 1,257 deaths in the week ending 27th November, resulting in 127 excess deaths.
According to the Office for National Statistics, excess deaths have been occurring in England and Wales on a weekly basis since April 2022. To uncover the full extent of this tragedy, we dug into the data, analyzing the weekly number of deaths over the past six months and comparing them to the five-year average. What we discovered was a disturbing trend, as the chart below reveals.
As we delve deeper into the mystery of the excess deaths occurring in England and Wales, a disturbing possibility comes to light: the Covid-19 vaccines may be to blame.
According to the Office for National Statistics, excess deaths have been occurring on a weekly basis since April 2022, and while the data initially seemed to point to other causes, closer examination reveals a startling correlation between the rollout of the 2021 winter ''Booster'' shot and the spike in fatalities.
To uncover the full extent of this tragedy, we dug into the data , analysing the weekly number of deaths over the past eight months and comparing them to the 2015-2019 five-year average.
The chart reveals a disturbing trend, with excess deaths occurring in all but two weeks since April 2022. These two exceptions, it turns out, coincide with the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee and funeral, which would have caused delays in death registrations due to the bank holidays.
But even taking these weeks into account, the data shows an average of 1,268 excess deaths every single week.
The following chart is taken from Public Health Scotland's Covid-19 Dashboard , and it shows the weekly number of deaths compared to the 2015-2019 five-year average ''
Because the chart doesn't reveal the true picture, we downloaded the death data from the Public Health Scotland Covid-19 Dashboard, which you can also do so here, and calculated the total number of deaths between week 16 and week 47 of 2022.
According to the data, there were 34,316 deaths during this period in the 2015-2019 five-year average and 38,611 deaths during this period in 2022.
This means Scotland has suffered 4,264 excess deaths against the five-year average over the past 34 weeks.
The following chart shows the overall number of deaths and excess deaths in England, Wales & Scotland ''
The five-year average number of deaths in Britain over these 8 months equates to 360,531. Meanwhile, the total number of deaths in 2022 in Britain over these 8 months equates to 407,910. Therefore, Britain has suffered 47,379 excess deaths since the middle of April 2022.
Could it be that the Covid-19 vaccines, which we were told would bring hope and healing, are instead causing unimaginable tragedy?
Well, as our investigation into the excess deaths in the UK deepened, a disturbing pattern emerged.
An analysis of official ONS data reveals that approximately five months after each dose of the Covid-19 vaccine is administered, the mortality rates among the vaccinated rise significantly compared to the unvaccinated in each age group.
The following charts were created using data extracted from table 1 of the Office for National Statistics dataset on 'Deaths by vaccination status (Jan 21 to March 22)' which can be accessed on the ONS website here, and downloaded here .
The first chart shows the age-standardised mortality rates per 100,000 person-years by vaccination status between the 1st January 2021 and the 30th April 2021 ''
As you can see, mortality rates were highest among the unvaccinated each month. However, by the end of April 2021, five months after the first Covid-19 injection was administered in the UK, things started to even out among each vaccination group and the unvaccinated.
But look what happened in the following four months.
The first chart shows the age-standardised mortality rates per 100,000 person-years by vaccination status between the 1st May 2021 and the 30th August 2021 ''
The mortality rate among the vaccinated began to surpass the mortality rate among the unvaccinated significantly. By the end of August 2022, the mortality rate per 100,000 among the unvaccinated was the second lowest among each vaccination group.
Unfortunately, a follow-up report published by the ONS on 6th July 2022, proves that things did not improve for the vaccinated population.
In fact, things got so bad that by the end of May 2022, mortality rates were lowest among the unvaccinated in every age group in England, and highest among those who received one, two, or three doses of the vaccine.
Click to enlargeClick to enlargeA more detailed analysis of the data contained in the above charts can be read here ,
But the pattern doesn't stop there. The data shows that not only does this pattern persist in all-cause deaths, but each dose of the vaccine also causes a significant increase in Covid-19 deaths.
Between March and July 2021, the vaccinated accounted for the majority of Covid-19 deaths in England, with the one-dose vaccinated accounting for 66% of those deaths.
The pattern repeated itself over the next five months, with deaths nearly tripling, and the two-dose vaccinated accounting for the majority of deaths at 83%.
And in the five months between January and May 2022, deaths again increased, with the triple vaccinated accounting for the majority at 82%.
The evidence is clear and undeniable: the vaccines have been and are still killing people, with the deadly consequences being fully realised approximately five months after each vaccination.
This is a tragedy of epic proportions,
Russian sausage tycoon Pavel Antov dies in Indian hotel fall - BBC News
Tue, 27 Dec 2022 13:44
Image source, Pavel Antov/VK Image caption, Antov had set up the Vladimir Standard company in the 2000s and became a well-regarded lawmaker in the city of Vladimir
Russian sausage tycoon Pavel Antov has been found dead at an Indian hotel, two days after a friend died during the same trip.
They were visiting the eastern state of Odisha and the millionaire, who was also a local politician, had just celebrated his birthday at the hotel.
Antov was a well known figure in the city of Vladimir, east of Moscow.
Last summer he denied criticising Russia's war in Ukraine after a message appeared on his WhatsApp account.
The millionaire's death is the latest in a series of unexplained deaths involving Russian tycoons since the start of the Russian invasion, many of whom have openly criticised the war.
Reports in Russian media said Mr Antov, 65, had fallen from a window at the hotel in the city of Rayagada on Sunday. Another member of his four-strong Russian group, Vladimir Budanov, died at the hotel on Friday.
Superintendent Vivekananda Sharma of Odisha police said Mr Budanov was found to have suffered a stroke while his friend "was depressed after his death and he too died". The Russian consul in Kolkata, Alexei Idamkin, told the Tass news agency that police did not see a "criminal element in these tragic events".
Tourist guide Jitendra Singh told reporters that Mr Budanov may have "consumed a lot of alcohol as he had liquor bottles".
Pavel Antov founded the Vladimir Standard meat processing plant and in 2019 Forbes estimated his fortune at some $140m (£118m) at the top of Russia's rich list of lawmakers and civil servants.
He played an important role at the legislative assembly in Vladimir, heading a committee on agrarian policy and ecology. The assembly's deputy chairman Vyacheslav Kartukhin said he had died in "tragic circumstances".
Late last June he appeared to react to a Russian missile attack on a residential block in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv that left a man dead and his seven-year-old daughter and her mother wounded.
A WhatsApp message on Antov's account described how the family were pulled out of the rubble: "It's extremely difficult to call all this anything but terror."
The message was deleted and Antov then posted on social media that he was a supporter of the president, a "patriot of my country" and backed the war.
The WhatsApp message had come from someone whose opinion on the "special military operation in Ukraine" he strongly disagreed with, he insisted. It had been posted accidentally on his messenger and was a highly annoying misunderstanding, he said.
Several high-profile Russian tycoons have died in mysterious circumstances since the war began.
In September the head of Russia's oil giant Lukoil, Ravil Maganov, apparently fell from a hospital window in Moscow.
Donald Trump accused of multi-part conspiracy over 6 January attack - BBC News
Tue, 27 Dec 2022 13:39
Image caption, Vice-President Mike Pence shelters at a loading dock at the Capitol during the riot
By Kayla Epstein & Mike Wendling
BBC News
The congressional panel investigating last year's attack on the US Capitol has accused former President Donald Trump of a "multi-part conspiracy" to overturn his election defeat three months earlier.
The panel has released its final 845-page report on the attack.
It places the blame for the 6 January 2021 storming of Congress squarely on the former president.
It also recommends barring Mr Trump from public office in the future.
He did not co-operate with the panel and declared the final report a "witch hunt" after its release.
Over 18 months, the committee held 10 public hearings and interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses, including Trump administration officials and staff, Trump family members, Capitol police officers, rioters, militia members, and more.
On Monday, the panel of seven Democrats and two Republicans recommended the justice department investigate Mr Trump - who is mounting another White House campaign - for aiding an insurrection and three other federal crimes.
The Democratic chairman of the select committee, Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, wrote in a foreword to the eight-chapter report that it was once "unimaginable" that the president of the United States would incite a mob to march on the Capitol.
Here are the six key findings, which were released on Thursday night:
1) Trump made false claims which aides told him were untrue
The committee said that Mr Trump's decision to falsely declare victory on election night 2020 was "premeditated", and that only his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, supported this action. The former president soon began making unfounded claims of widescale voter fraud, and continued to do so with more frequency after the election was called for Joe Biden.
The committee points to their interviews with several advisers and lawyers close to Mr Trump, who say they did not believe these claims of fraud or could find no evidence of the phenomenon.
Most notable among those voices was former Attorney General William Barr, who told the committee during a deposition: "I made it clear that I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which I told the president was [expletive.]"
The president continued to sow election conspiracies over the coming weeks, though top Trump administration officials testified they informed him the claims were not true.
Media caption, Watch dramatic new footage of police under attack at the Capitol riot
2) Trump's rhetoric brought rioters to Washington
The committee makes the argument that the attack on the Capitol was sparked by Mr Trump himself.
In addition to Mr Trump's repeated fraud claims, the committee points to a 19 December 2020 tweet, in which the former president wrote: "Big protest in DC on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!"
In depositions and court documents, rioters and militia members who were present at the Capitol that day cited Mr Trump's tweet as their rationale for coming to Washington. The committee cited men like Robert Morss, who was found guilty of assaulting officers during the Capitol breach. Mr Morss "believed January 6th stood for the moment when '1776 Will Commence Again' because President Trump asked them to 'Be there, Will be Wild'", the report states.
The committee also cites Secret Service warnings that people were planning to come to Washington on January 6 and threatening to "be wild".
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3) Trump failed to act during the riot
The committee argues that Mr Trump did not take action as the January 6 attack commenced, and that he ignored warnings coming from Congress that a serious attack was unfolding.
Some of their conclusion rests on the testimony of former White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson, who appeared in a dramatic hearing earlier this year and also gave depositions about the chaos she says she witnessed in the White House that day.
According to a transcript of her testimony released on Thursday, a former White House ethics lawyer had attempted to coach Ms Hutchinson before she gave evidence to the committee: "The less you remember, the better."
The committee also cites communications between lawmakers trapped in the Capitol and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who was receiving an increasingly desperate barrage of pleas from members of Congress who were forced into hiding.
Texts from Hope Hicks, one of Mr Trump's most loyal aides, summed up the dismay among staff at the White House.
Ms Hicks texted Ivanka Trump's chief of staff, Julie Radford, after the riot saying "we all look like domestic terrorists now".
She also texted a White House lawyer: "I'm so upset. Everything we worked for wiped away."
4) Far-right groups planned - then acted
Tips about armed groups targeting Washington and even the Capitol specifically started coming in December 2020. The report notes that the FBI was sent messages circulating on groups run by the far-right Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.
"There is only one way. It is not signs. It's not rallies. It's [expletive] bullets," said one.
Capitol Police and Secret Service agents - who are responsible for protecting the president - received similar messages from insiders and others. Some specifically named the Capitol as a focus for potentially violent activity.
Some of the chatter came from private encrypted chat apps, but other messages were publicly visible on pro-Trump websites and Twitter.
Members of the far-right groups ended up among the crowds inside the Capitol on 6 January.
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Image caption, Members of the Oath Keepers were seen at the Capitol riot
Alongside the report, the committee released dozens of raw transcripts of testimony provided by witnesses in closed-door sessions. Several of Mr Trump's biggest supporters on the far-right fringes - such as Alex Jones and white nationalist Nick Fuentes - refused to answer questions, citing their constitutional right to avoid self-incrimination.
But testimony from others - including Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio - indicated mutual suspicion, infighting, and conspiratorial thinking among the far-right factions involved in the riot.
Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy and other charges last month and potentially faces decades in prison, while Mr Tarrio is currently on trial.
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Image caption, A Trump bust being held up during the day of the riot at the US Capitol
5) Trump tried to pressure his vice-president to overturn the results
Part of Mr Trump's plan to remain in office revolved around a controversial reading of the US Constitution, which he believed allowed Vice-President Mike Pence, who would preside over the election certification, to declare him the victor.
On 6 January, Mr Trump attempted to call Mr Pence, shouting at aides to get him on the phone, the report states. The former president then falsely told Mr Pence he had the power to intervene in the certification.
Witnesses told the committee that at one point, Mr Trump called the vice-president a "wimp" and said he was "not tough enough".
Addressing a crowd on 6 January, Mr Trump said he hoped Mr Pence would "do the right thing". Later, in the midst of the attack, rioters would chant "Hang Mike Pence" as they stormed the Capitol.
6) Trump should be barred from holding public office
The panel has made 11 recommendations as a result of its investigation.
One cites the constitution, which states an individual who has taken an oath to support the US Constitution but has "engaged in an insurrection" or given "aid or comfort to the enemies of the Constitution" can be disqualified from office.
Mr Trump was referred to the Department of Justice for assisting or aiding an insurrection.
The Devastating New History of the January 6th Insurrection | The New Yorker
Tue, 27 Dec 2022 13:37
The New Yorker is publishing the full report of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, in partnership with Celadon Books. The edition contains a foreword by the magazine's editor, David Remnick, which you'll find below, and an epilogue by Representative Jamie Raskin, a member of the committee. Order the full report.
In the weeks while the House select committee to investigate the insurrection at the Capitol was finishing its report, Donald Trump, the focus of its inquiry, betrayed no sense of alarm or self-awareness. At his country-club exile in Palm Beach, Trump ignored the failures of his favored candidates in the midterm elections and announced that he was running again for President. He dined cheerfully and unapologetically with a spiralling Kanye West and a young neo-fascist named Nick Fuentes. He mocked the government's insistence that he turn over all the classified documents that he'd hoarded as personal property. Finally, he declared that he had a ''major announcement,'' only to unveil the latest in a lifetime of grifts. In the old days, it was Trump University, Trump Steaks, Trump Ice. This time, he was hawking ''limited edition'' digital trading cards at ninety-nine dollars apiece, illustrated portraits of himself as an astronaut, a sheriff, a superhero. The pitch began with the usual hokum: ''Hello everyone, this is Donald Trump, hopefully your favorite President of all time, better than Lincoln, better than Washington.''
In his career as a New York real-estate shyster and tabloid denizen, then as the forty-fifth President of the United States, Trump has been the most transparent of public figures. He does little to conceal his most distinctive characteristics: his racism, misogyny, dishonesty, narcissism, incompetence, cruelty, instability, and corruption. And yet what has kept Trump afloat for so long, what has helped him evade ruin and prosecution, is perhaps his most salient quality: he is shameless. That is the never-apologize-never-explain core of him. Trump is hardly the first dishonest President, the first incurious President, the first liar. But he is the most shameless. His contrition is impossible to conceive. He is insensible to disgrace.
On December 19, 2022, the committee spelled out a devastating set of accusations against Trump: obstruction of an official proceeding; conspiracy to defraud the nation; conspiracy to make false statements; and, most grave of all, inciting, assisting, aiding, or comforting an insurrection. For the first time in the history of the United States, Congress referred a former President to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution. The criminal referrals have no formal authority, though they could play some role in pushing Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, to issue indictments. The report certainly adds immeasurably to the wealth of evidence describing Trump's actions and intentions. One telling example: The committee learned that Hope Hicks, the epitome of a loyal adviser, told Trump more than once in the days leading up to the protest to urge the demonstrators to keep things peaceful. ''I suggested it several times Monday and Tuesday and he refused,'' she wrote in a text to another adviser. When Hicks questioned Trump's behavior concerning the insurrection and the consequences for his legacy, he made his priorities clear: ''Nobody will care about my legacy if I lose. So, that won't matter. The only thing that matters is winning.''
Trump has been similarly dismissive of the committee's work, going on the radio to tell Dan Bongino, the host of ''The Dan Bongino Show,'' that he had been the victim of a ''kangaroo court.'' On Truth Social, his social-media platform, he appealed to the loyalty of his supporters: ''Republicans and Patriots all over the land must stand strong and united against the Thugs and Scoundrels of the Unselect Committee'.... These folks don't get it that when they come after me, the people who love freedom rally around me. It strengthens me. What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.''
Experience makes it plain that Trump will just keep going on like this, deflecting, denying, lashing out at his accusers, even if it means that he will end his days howling in a bare and echoing room. It matters little that the report shows that even members of his innermost circle, from his Attorney General to his daughter, know the depths of his vainglorious delusions. He will not repent. He will not change. But the importance of the committee's report has far less to do with the spectacle of Trump's unravelling. Its importance resides in the establishment of a historical record, the depth of its evidence, the story it tells of a deliberate, co¶rdinated assault on American democracy that could easily have ended with the kidnapping or assassination of senior elected officials, the emboldenment of extremist groups and militias, and, above all, a stolen election, a coup.
The committee was not alone in its investigation. Many journalists contributed to the steady accretion of facts. But, with the power of subpoena, the committee was able to uncover countless new illuminating details. One example: In mid-December, 2020, the Supreme Court threw out a lawsuit filed by the State of Texas that would have challenged the counting of millions of ballots. Trump, of course, supported the suit. He was furious when it, like dozens of similar suits, was dismissed. According to Cassidy Hutchinson, who worked directly for Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, Trump was ''raging'' about the decision: ''He had said something to the effect of, 'I don't want people to know we lost, Mark. This is embarrassing. Figure it out. We need to figure it out. I don't want people to know that we lost.'''
In large measure, this report is the story of how Trump, humiliated by his loss to Joe Biden, conspired to obstruct Congress, defraud the country he was pledged to serve, and incite an insurrection to keep himself in power.
The origins of the committee and its work are plain: On January 6, 2021, thousands marched on the Capitol in support of Trump and his conspiratorial and wholly fabricated charge that the Presidential election the previous November had been stolen from him. Demonstrators breached police barricades, broke through windows and doors, and ran through the halls of Congress threatening to exact vengeance on the Vice-President, the Speaker of the House, and other officeholders. Seven people died as a result of the insurrection. About a hundred and fourteen law-enforcement officers were injured.
Half a year later, the House of Representatives voted to establish a panel charged with investigating every aspect of the insurrection'--including the role of the former President. An earlier attempt in the Senate to convene an investigative panel had met with firm resistance from the Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, who called it an ''extraneous'' project; despite support from six Republican senators, it failed to get the sixty votes required. It was left to the Democratic leadership in the House to form a committee. The vote, held on June 30, 2021, was largely along party lines, but the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol officially came into existence.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi then asked the Republicans to name G.O.P. members to join the panel. The House Minority Leader, Kevin McCarthy, responded by proposing some of the most prominent election deniers in his caucus, including Jim Jordan, of Ohio, who had attended ''Stop the Steal'' demonstrations and was sure to behave as an ardent obstructionist. Pelosi, who had named Liz Cheney, of Wyoming, to the panel, rejected two of McCarthy's five recommendations, saying, ''The unprecedented nature of January 6th demands this unprecedented decision.'' After conferring with Trump, McCarthy refused to provide alternatives, and abruptly withdrew all of his proposals, gambling that doing so would derail or discredit the initiative. Pelosi, in turn, asked a second Republican who had, with Cheney, voted to impeach the President on a vote held on January 13th'--Adam Kinzinger, of Illinois'--to serve on the committee. Both Cheney and Kinzinger accepted.
Cheney, a firm conservative and the daughter of former Vice-President Dick Cheney, had made her judgment of Trump well known. ''The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack,'' she said not long after the insurrection. ''Everything that followed was his doing.'' She knew that by opposing Trump and joining Kinzinger and the Democrats on the committee she was almost sure to lose her seat in Congress. She didn't care, she said later, declaring her work on the panel, on which she served as vice-chair, the ''most important'' of her career. The G.O.P. leadership was unimpressed with this declaration of principle. In February, 2022, the Republican National Committee censured both Cheney and Kinzinger.
In deciding how to proceed with its investigation, the committee's chairman, Bennie G. Thompson, of Mississippi, along with Liz Cheney and the seven other members, looked to a range of similarly high-profile investigative panels of the past, including the so-called Kefauver Committee, which investigated organized crime, in 1950-51; the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, known as the Warren Commission, in 1963-64; the Senate Watergate hearings, in 1973; the Iran-Contra hearings, in 1987; and, particularly, the 9/11 Commission, in 2002-04. The committee hired staff investigators who had worked in the Department of Justice and in law enforcement, and they conducted more than a thousand interviews. Teams were color-coded and tasked with making ''deep dives'' into various aspects of January 6th. The division of labor included a ''blue team,'' which examined the preparation for and the reaction to events by law enforcement; a ''green team,'' which examined the financial backing for the plot; a ''purple team,'' which conducted an analysis of the extremist groups involved in the storming of the Capitol; a ''red team,'' which studied the rally on the Ellipse and the Stop the Steal movement; and a ''gold team,'' which looked specifically at Trump's role in the insurrection.
Committee members also insisted on inquiring into whether Trump planned to use emergency powers to overturn the vote, call out the National Guard, and invoke the Insurrection Act. Was Trump's inaction during the rioting on Capitol Hill merely a matter of miserable leadership, or was it a deliberate strategy of fomenting chaos in order to stay in the White House? ''That dereliction of duty causes us real concern,'' Thompson said. In this way, an inquiry into a specific episode broadened to encompass a topic of still greater significance: Had the President sought to undermine and circumvent the American system of electoral democracy?
Not So Fast on Electric Cars - WSJ
Mon, 26 Dec 2022 16:30
Toyota's CEO delivers a timely warning, and many states echo it.
Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda recently caused the climate lobby to blow a fuse by speaking a truth about battery electric vehicles that his fellow auto executives dare not. ''Just like the fully autonomous cars that we were all supposed to be driving by now,'' Mr. Toyoda said in Thailand, ''I think BEVs are just going to take longer to become mainstream than the media would like us to believe.'' He added that a ''silent majority'' in the auto industry share his view, ''but they think it's the trend, so they can't speak out loudly.''
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Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda recently caused the climate lobby to blow a fuse by speaking a truth about battery electric vehicles that his fellow auto executives dare not. ''Just like the fully autonomous cars that we were all supposed to be driving by now,'' Mr. Toyoda said in Thailand, ''I think BEVs are just going to take longer to become mainstream than the media would like us to believe.'' He added that a ''silent majority'' in the auto industry share his view, ''but they think it's the trend, so they can't speak out loudly.''
The Biden administration seems to believe that millions of Americans will rush out to buy electric vehicles if only the government throws enough subsidies at them. Last year's infrastructure bill included $7.5 billion in grants for states to expand their charging networks. But it's a problem when even the states are warning the administration that electric vehicles aren't ready to go mainstream.
Maine notes in a plan submitted to the Federal Highway Administration this summer that ''cold temperatures will remain a top challenge'' for adoption, since ''cold weather reduces EV range and increases charging times.'' When temperatures drop to 5 degrees Fahrenheit, the cars achieve only 54% of their quoted range. A vehicle that's supposed to be able to go 250 miles between charges will make it only 135 miles on average. At 32 degrees'--a typical winter day in much of the country'--a Tesla Model 3 that in ideal conditions can go 282 miles between charges will make it only 173 miles.
Imagine if the 100 million Americans who took to the road over the holidays were driving electric cars. How many would have been stranded as temperatures plunged? There wouldn't be enough tow trucks'--or emergency medics'--for people freezing in their cars.
The Transportation Department is requiring states to build charging stations every 50 miles along interstate highways and within a mile of off-ramps to reduce the likelihood of these scenarios. But most state electrical grids aren't built to handle this many charging stations and will thus require expensive upgrades. Illinois, for one, warns of ''challenges related to sufficient electric grid capacity, particularly in rural areas of the state.''
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Charging stations in rural areas with little traffic are also unlikely to be profitable and could become ''stranded assets,'' as many states warn. Wyoming says out-of-state traffic from non-Tesla electric vehicles would have to increase 100-fold to cover charger costs under the administration's rules. Tesla has already scoped out premier charging locations for its proprietary network. Good luck to competitors.
New Mexico warns that ''poor station maintenance can lead to stations being perpetually broken and unusable, particularly in rural or hard to access locations. If an EV charging station is built in an area without electrical capacity and infrastructure to support its use, it will be unusable until the appropriate upgrades are installed.''
Arizona says ''private businesses may build and operate a station if a grant pays for the first five years of operations and maintenance'' but might abandon the project if it later proves unprofitable. Many other states echo this concern, noting that federal funds could result in stranded assets.
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The administration aims to build 500,000 stations, but states will likely have to spend their own money to keep them running. Like other federal inducements, these grants may entice states to assume what could become huge financial liabilities.
Federal funds also come with many rules, including ''buy America'' procurement requirements, which demand that chargers consist of mostly U.S.-made components. New Jersey says these could ''delay implementation by several years'' since only a few manufacturers can currently meet them. New York also says it will be challenging to comply with the web of federal rules, including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, and a 1960 federal law that bars charging stations in rest areas.
Oh, and labor rules. The administration requires that electrical workers who install and maintain the stations be certified by the union-backed Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program. New Mexico says much of the state lacks contractors that meet this mandate, which will reduce competition and increase costs.
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Technical problems abound too. Virginia says fast-charging hardware ''has a short track record'' and is ''prone to malfunctions.'' Equipment ''previously installed privately in Virginia has had a high failure rate shown in user comments and reports on social media,'' and ''even compatibility with credit card readers has been unexpectedly complicated.''
A study this spring led by University of California researchers found that more than a quarter of public direct-current fast-charging stations in the San Francisco Bay Area were unusable. Drivers will be playing roulette every time they head to a station. If all this weren't disconcerting enough, Arizona warns cyber vulnerabilities could compromise customer financial transactions, charging infrastructure, electric vehicles and the grid.
Politicians and auto makers racing to eliminate the internal-combustion engine are bound to crash into technological, logistic and financial realities, as Mr. Toyoda warned. The casualties will be taxpayers, but the administration doesn't seem to care.
U.S. Steps Up Raids Against Islamic State Militants in Syria - WSJ
Mon, 26 Dec 2022 15:25
Operations result in capture, death of operatives but increase risks for American forces
WASHINGTON'--The Pentagon said it has stepped up raids against Islamic State in Syria, conducting nearly a dozen risky helicopter and ground operations to kill or capture top militant operatives.
In December, the military said it had conducted at least 10 operations and raids, according to officials at U.S. Central Command, responsible for U.S. military operations in most of the Middle East. That included three operations Tuesday with the Syrian Democratic Forces, the U.S.'s ally in Syria, that led to the detention of six Islamic...
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WASHINGTON'--The Pentagon said it has stepped up raids against Islamic State in Syria, conducting nearly a dozen risky helicopter and ground operations to kill or capture top militant operatives.
In December, the military said it had conducted at least 10 operations and raids, according to officials at U.S. Central Command, responsible for U.S. military operations in most of the Middle East. That included three operations Tuesday with the Syrian Democratic Forces, the U.S.'s ally in Syria, that led to the detention of six Islamic State operatives, a spokesman for the command said.
Those raids netted what the military said was an Islamic State provincial senior official named al-Zubaydi. Eight other raids, including seven earlier this month and another one in early October, killed or nabbed other Islamic State operatives, military officials said.
U.S. officials acknowledged that Central Command has carried out additional raids in Syria, but command officials declined to provide details on any of the other raids.
Ground raids and other operations keep Islamic State on its heels, officials said. But it isn't without risk. In one recent raid, for example, U.S. forces were on the ground for about three hours as they engaged in extensive gunfire and ultimately detained individuals and collected intelligence at the site. Each operation is planned carefully and takes into account the perils of such raids after making assessments on ''reams and reams'' of intelligence, Col. Joe Buccino, a spokesman for Central Command, said.
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In all, the raids are removing from the battlefield regional or local leaders who military officials believe play roles in planning and conducting attacks, mostly in rural areas against local security forces in the region, the military said. But the raids alone cannot stop the terror group's expansion in Syria, particularly during an acute economic crisis and a stalled political settlement to resolve the nearly 12-year war, experts and former U.S. officials warned.
The U.S. is ''doing more strikes because they have to,'' said Andrew Tabler, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a former White House and State Department official who oversaw Syria policy in the Trump administration. ''The reason why the threat is growing is the economic problems and the lack of the settlement. [The U.S.] is ignoring the first part, and relying instead on strikes as a sort of drone therapy.''
The group grew inside Iraq and Syria following the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq in 2011. Islamic State, which lost most of its territory by 2017, has maintained the ability to conduct terrorism operations in Syria and Iraq with as many as 1,800 fighters in Syria and more than 8,000 in Iraq, according to unclassified assessments and military officials. The sophistication of the group's attacks has diminished over time, and since 2019 the group is using fewer improvised explosive devices, military officials said.
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But the problems posed by Islamic State remain acute. Syria is home to nearly 30 detention facilities housing thousands of imprisoned fighters. Nearby camps hold about 56,000 people, mostly women and children associated with the imprisoned fighters, who remain vulnerable to infiltration by Islamic State for radicalization, officials have said.
And the terror group still is capable of carrying out attacks on U.S. forces and allies, as well as mobilizing fighters.
''While ISIS is significantly degraded in Iraq and Syria, the group does maintain the capability to conduct operations in the region,'' Army Gen. Erik Kurilla, who heads Central Command, based in Tampa., Fla., told reporters Thursday. ''And we know the group has the desire to strike outside the region.''
Despite the growing regional threat, the terror group doesn't pose an imminent threat to the U.S., officials said. But, they noted, the last time ISIS emerged as a major threat, in 2014, it happened very quickly, over a matter of weeks.
''When the instability in the Middle East begins to seep out and impact our interests and other areas, that's when we are at a different point,'' said Ret. Gen.
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Joe Votel, who led Central Command from 2016 to 2019.
The U.S. maintains about 1,000 U.S. service members at different locations inside Syria. Rocket attacks and other attacks are a regular reminder of the dangers posed by the group, officials have said.
Other raids, which are typically at night using special-operations forces in helicopters, included six operations Dec. 8, which led to the detention of five Islamic State operatives, military officials said. One more raid on Dec. 11 resulted in the deaths of two ISIS officials, they said.
Yet another raid, on Oct. 6, near the village of Qamishli, in northeast Syria, targeted and killed an Islamic State official deemed to be a smuggler of weapons and fighters known as Rakkan Wahid al-Shammri. On Nov. 30, Central Command announced the death of
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Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, identified as an Islamic State leader in what officials said was ''another blow to ISIS.''
The raids do reflect an increased tempo of operations, but they are not the result of a more aggressive strategy to go after Islamic State, said Col. Buccino. ''There are also several factors that allow us to conduct these raids without significant risk of civilian casualties or damage to infrastructure,'' Col. Buccino said. ''All these elements must come together for us to be able to launch these raids.''
Such raids have long been considered risky, putting U.S. special operations forces in situations in which they could be ambushed or otherwise attacked. The death of a U.S. service member in Syria would raise questions from Congress and inside the government about the value of targeting Islamic State operatives who typically are quickly replaced with other individuals.
No U.S. forces have been killed or injured in any of the raids, nor were any civilians killed or wounded, the U.S. military said.
Gen. Kurilla maintains the authority to conduct these kinds of raids against Islamic State in Syria, according to U.S. military officials. Following the strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, last summer that mistakenly killed 10 civilians, seven of them children, the White House took back the authority for such strikes, which had been held by commanders on the ground in Afghanistan.
At the time, however, Central Command got a ''carve out'' that allowed Central Command to retain the authority to strike as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, the name for the mission against Islamic State, officials said.
However, some operations, such as an Aug. 23 strike on bunkers in Deir Ezzor, Syria, required President Biden's signoff, in this case because it was targeting infrastructure used by groups associated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, officials said.
The strikes come as Syria confronts both economic instability and a political stalemate.
The country is suffering the worst fuel crisis it has faced since the start of the war in 2011, leaving much of the country frustrated and at a standstill. That, coupled with a stalled political settlement between President Bashar al-Assad and opposition groups to end the war, has created enough instability for ISIS to grow, said Mr. Tabler.
There is enough volatility for ISIS ''to survive as a terrorist organization to regenerate into something else,'' he said.
Write to Gordon Lubold at gordon.lubold@wsj.com and Nancy A. Youssef at nancy.youssef@wsj.com
Twitter data breach: 400 million user data hacked, including Salman Khan and Sundar Pichai - TechStory
Mon, 26 Dec 2022 15:08
Data breaches in one of the biggest social media platforms Twitter has resulted in the selling of the personal information of around 400 million Twitter users.
It is one of the largest data leaks that have recently been published on the dark web, according to reports. The horrifying information was made public soon after the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) began an investigation concerning the most recent Twitter privacy breach, which allegedly affected 5.4 million users. This was discovered in late November.
The stolen data incorporates crucial data such as users' names, email IDs, and phone numbers of users among additional details.
To prove the hack was legitimate, the hacker released an example of the data on his sites as evidence. The hacker even included some of the profiles of famous personalities and organizations that include:
Alexandria Ocasio-CortezSpaceXCBS MediaDonald Trump Jr.Doja CatCharlie PuthSundar PichaiSalman KhanNASA's JWST accountNBAMinistry of Information and Broadcasting, IndiaShawn MendesSocial Media of WHO In his post, the hacker writes, ''Twitter or Elon Musk if you are reading this you are already risking a GDPR fine over 5.4m breach imagine the fine of 400m users breach source. Your best option to avoid paying $276 million USD in GDPR breach fines like Facebook did (due to 533m users being scrapped) is to buy this data exclusively.''
The hacker states he is open to the 'Deal' going through a middle man, ''After that I will delete this thread and will not sell this data again. And data will not be sold to anyone else which will prevent a lot of celebrities and politicians from Phishing, Crypto scams, Sim swapping, Doxxing and other things that will make your users Lose trust in you as a company and thus stunt the current growth and hype that you are having also just imagine famous content creators and influencers getting hacked on twitter that will for sure Make them ghost the platform and ruin your dream of twitter video sharing platform for content creators, also since you Made the mistake of changing twitter policy that got an immense backlash.''
While further threat actors have not ascertained the data yet, Alon Gal in his LinkedIN post noted that ''The data is increasingly more likely to be valid and was probably obtained from an API vulnerability enabling the threat actor to query any email/phone and retrieve a Twitter profile, this is extremely similar to the Facebook 533m database that I originally reported about in 2021 and resulted in a $275,000,000 fine to Meta.''
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Well-being: These countries are looking beyond GDP and economic growth
Mon, 26 Dec 2022 05:24
"The need for a new economic model has never been clearer," Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told CNBC. "Which I think is why we're seeing such growing interest in the well-being economy approach, both here in Scotland and around the world."
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LONDON '-- For a small but growing network of countries, the world's go-to metric of economic health is no longer fit for purpose.
Mostly led by women, Finland, Iceland, Scotland, Wales and New Zealand are all members of the Wellbeing Economy Governments partnership. The coalition, which is expected to expand in the coming months, aims to transform economies around the world to deliver shared well-being for people and the planet by 2040.
That means abandoning the idea that the percentage change in gross domestic product is a good indicator of progress, and instead reframing economic policy to deliver quality of life for all people in harmony with the environment.
"The need for a new economic model has never been clearer," Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told CNBC. "Which I think is why we're seeing such growing interest in the well-being economy approach, both here in Scotland and around the world."
Encouraging other policymakers to consider an economic approach centered on well-being, Sturgeon said multiple global crises, such as the climate emergency, biodiversity loss and the cost-of-living crisis, "raise fundamental questions about what we value '-- and what our economies are actually for."
"Building a wellbeing economy is a huge challenge for any country, at any time, and the current crises we are facing make it harder '-- but they also underline why we need to make this transformation as a matter of urgency," Sturgeon said. "We've made progress over the past five years, but we still have much more to do."
I often say that we need to shift from power, profit and patriarchy to people, planet and prosperity.
Sandrine Dixson-Decl¨ve
Co-president of the Club of Rome
In just the last few months, New Zealand published its first national Wellbeing Report; the European Union recognized the need to shift to a well-being economy; and the World Health Organization launched an initiative that calls for well-being to be at the heart of economic recovery.
Australia, Canada and Costa Rica are among some of the countries to have worked closely with the Wellbeing Economy Governments partnership in recent months, and "post-growth" advocates believe it is just a matter of time before more countries embrace the well-being movement. A post-growth society is one that resists the demand for constant economic growth.
'Building the plane as we fly it'Dominick Stephens, chief economic advisor at the Treasury in New Zealand, hailed the country's first well-being report as a "landmark moment," saying it aims to provide lawmakers with a big-picture view of what life is like in the South Pacific nation.
"We want to look beyond GDP to understand progress, but we don't have a singular measure of wellbeing '-- so we need to look across a range of indicators and evidence to understand progress in this broader sense," Stephens told CNBC.
"This helps us all to understand where New Zealand is doing well, where we are lagging and how wellbeing is experienced differently for different people in our country."
Among the findings published on Nov. 24, the report highlighted the wide and growing gap between the well-being of older citizens and that of younger citizens, with older citizens faring better on a range of metrics.
Mostly led by women, Finland, Iceland, Scotland, Wales and New Zealand are all members of the Wellbeing Economy Governments partnership.
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The Treasury identified three priority areas in need of improvement: mental health; educational achievement; and housing affordability and quality.
Stephens said that while the report would not be the final word, it's now up to New Zealanders to decide on the extent to which they are concerned about those issues and the actions needed to address them.
"We do not have a silver bullet in New Zealand on how to do Wellbeing Reporting well," Stephens said. "Different countries have taken different approaches. We are, in some ways, building the plane as we fly it."
"More countries trying different approaches to integrating wellbeing analysis into policy means more opportunities for New Zealand, and other countries, to learn from the experiences of others," he added.
The 'Limits to Growth' '-- 50 years onThe gathering momentum for a transformation of the current economic system comes half a century after the Club of Rome think tank published its groundbreaking "Limits to Growth" report.
The 1972 book warned that the planet's resources would not be able to support the exponential rates of economic and population growth and would therefore collapse before the end of this century. Broadly speaking '-- and following a sharp backlash to its dire predictions at the time '-- the world has gone down the path that the book's authors predicted it would.
Academics and economists told CNBC that an ultimatum from the world's top climate scientists about the dangers of exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius of global heating '-- a critically important temperature threshold beyond which dangerous tipping points become more likely '-- underscores the need to end an obsession with growth at all costs.
"If they hadn't realized it 50 years ago that we already needed to shift, I think now is the time because we are confronted with a polycrisis," Sandrine Dixson-Decl¨ve, co-president of the Club of Rome think tank, told CNBC via telephone.
The term "polycrisis" refers to crises that occur in multiple global systems and become entangled in such a way that they produce harms greater than those crises would in aggregate.
"Not only is our planet sick from continued growth scenarios, because we have gone way beyond a healthy use of natural resources, but our people are getting increasingly sick, and our young people are making less and less money," Dixson-Decl¨ve said.
When asked whether that means she believes there is no alternative to a well-being strategy, Dixson-Decl¨ve replied, "Yes, absolutely. I often say that we need to shift from power, profit and patriarchy to people, planet and prosperity."
Just how important is GDP?U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy once said a country's GDP measures everything "except that which makes life worthwhile."
Critics of GDP, which represents the total value of goods and services over a specific time period, argue that the indicator is misleading because it measures "the good, the bad and the ugly" of economic activity and calls it all good.
GDP does not, for instance, take into account unpaid work, nor does it distinguish between economic activity which contributes positively or negatively to the health and well-being of people and the natural environment.
I think it just shows our lack of imagination. We can't even imagine an economy that is better than growth.
Katherine Trebeck
Co-founder of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance
In the U.K., Rishi Sunak said in his first speech as prime minister that his predecessor Liz Truss was not wrong to want to improve economic growth in the country. "It is a noble aim," Sunak said outside Downing Street on Oct. 25.
Three months earlier, opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said Britain needed three things to fix its broken social contract. "Growth. Growth. And growth."
"I think it just shows our lack of imagination. We can't even imagine an economy that is better than growth," said Katherine Trebeck, co-founder of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, a network of academics, businesses and social movements.
"The best we can do is put some nice adjectives in front of growth '-- sustainable growth, green growth, inclusive growth, shared growth '-- but we are almost not allowed to entertain the prospect that a growing economy is a 20th-century recipe," she added.
"High-income nations have got enough in overall terms but there are huge profound inequalities within the richest countries. So, what they need to do is think about how to share and cherish those resources," Trebeck said.
"I use the phrase that they need to recognize that they've arrived. The job of growth has been done and they need to now move to a second project which is about making themselves at home."
Trebeck described well-being economics as a "picnic blanket term," which encompasses movements such as "degrowth," "doughnut" economics or circular and regenerative models rather than an alternative policy.
"I think there is a profound moral obligation [on high-income countries] because they are taking up more than their ecological fair share which is implicitly saying that countries around the world that don't have enough to meet the basic material needs of their citizens are effectively going to stay there," Trebeck said.
"It is about really saying how do we live fairly on this one finite planet?"
'GDP is not a way to measure richness'The push to look beyond economic growth comes at a time of growing calls to end fossil fuel production worldwide.
"Basically, with a growth commitment, you have a commitment to more energy and material use which then consequently results in environmental impacts '-- and it makes decarbonization harder," Julia Steinberger, ecological economist at the University of Lausanne, told CNBC via telephone.
"What you need to do for decarbonization is you need to stop using all fossil fuels and replace energy demand with renewable or low or zero-carbon energy sources and that is harder to do [and] it is going to take longer to do if we have constantly growing energy demand," Steinberger said. "That's the climate case for it."
The South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu last month became the first country to use the U.N.'s annual climate summit to push for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. The European Parliament, the Vatican and WHO have all backed the proposal.
But only a handful of small countries have endorsed the initiative to date, and the fossil fuel industry has typically sought to underline the importance of energy security in the planned transition to renewables.
The burning of fossil fuels '-- such as coal, oil and gas '-- is the chief driver of the climate emergency.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently called out what he described as the "massive public relations machine raking in billions to shield the fossil fuel industry from scrutiny."
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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also recently joined a chorus of voices calling for GDP to be dropped as the world's go-to indicator of economic growth, pushing instead for policymakers to shift to a circular economy.
This refers to an economic system that is based on the reuse and repair of materials to extend the life cycle of products for as long as possible and moves away from the world's current "take, make, throw away" model.
"We need to change course '-- now '-- and end our senseless and suicidal war against nature," Guterres said at a major international environmental meeting in early June.
"We must place true value on the environment and go beyond Gross Domestic Product as a measure of human progress and wellbeing," Guterres said. "Let us not forget that when we destroy a forest, we are creating GDP. When we overfish, we are creating GDP. GDP is not a way to measure richness in the present situation in the world."
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The electrical engineer, who's now 73, tells CNBC Make It the dream began when he saw an airplane boneyard on TV when he was 15 years old. He decided he wanted to live in one.
In 1999, Campbell decided he would follow through but had no idea how to go about it, so he hired a salvage company to find him a plane.
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Campbell paid $100,000 for it, and the plane was flown from Greece to Oregon to prepare it for him to take ownership. Once the aircraft was ready, it was towed to Campbell's land through the streets of downtown Hillsboro. That process included removing the engines and other elements that make it so the plane can never fly again. It cost a total of $120,000.
"When you live in a structure like this, you feel a little more fulfilled with your life," he said. "And if you're an engineer, scientist, or anyone who appreciates the elegance and beauty of aerospace technology, it's just a happier place to live."
Campbell's plane was originally owned by the late shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
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In place of a stove, Campbell has a microwave and a toaster oven, which he barely uses. "I'm a nerd. I don't cook, so it's a minimal kitchen area," he said.
Next to the kitchen area, Campbell has his futon sofa, which doubles as his sleeping area, and his workbench.
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Campbell spends most of his time working on restoring old computer systems and giving people a tour of his airplane home.
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"I have no regrets about pursuing this vision. In my experience with my guests, I believe that humanity will embrace this vision wholeheartedly in enough proportion that we can utilize every jetliner which retires from service," he says.
Because he mostly splits his time between the U.S. and Japan, his hope is to one day have a plane home there, too. "It's intended to put a home which I love in a land I love and with people I love," he says. "If I can simply regain my youth, everything will be fine."
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VIDEO - (18) Liz Churchill ' ð¨ð... on Twitter: "''Pfizer warns that vaccinated men to NOT have intercourses with child-bearing aged women'...and if they do'...to USE 2 FORMS OF CONTRACEPTION'...'' -Dr. Naomi Wolf with @ManInAmericaUS regarding the PFI
Wed, 28 Dec 2022 17:39
Liz Churchill ' ð¨ð... : ''Pfizer warns that vaccinated men to NOT have intercourses with child-bearing aged women'...and if they do'...to USE 2 FO'... https://t.co/oOAHmzih7M
Wed Dec 28 08:09:56 +0000 2022
Justified007 : @liz_churchill8 @ManInAmericaUS https://t.co/xyQu84Dhig
Wed Dec 28 17:37:43 +0000 2022
ciaochan : @liz_churchill8 @ManInAmericaUS What can happen if unvaccinated men sex with vaccinated woman?
Wed Dec 28 17:26:44 +0000 2022
Harry May : @liz_churchill8 @ManInAmericaUS What have they done ð
Wed Dec 28 17:24:24 +0000 2022
Emma : @liz_churchill8 @KingdomBooksUK_ @ManInAmericaUS I wondered from the time the vaccines came out whether the vaccina'... https://t.co/MSYCwu6nfR
Wed Dec 28 17:16:56 +0000 2022
Randal Stevens : @liz_churchill8 @ManInAmericaUS Interesting https://t.co/eRUm8zTTfm
Wed Dec 28 17:15:21 +0000 2022
Fight Back ð¬ð§ : @liz_churchill8 @roseyshade @ManInAmericaUS Let's see them as they must be out there if you know
Wed Dec 28 17:14:29 +0000 2022
Pete : @liz_churchill8 @ManInAmericaUS So they sell stuff to give you a hard on then tell you not to do it?? ð
Wed Dec 28 17:10:52 +0000 2022
