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warc | 202143 | The rugs add value to the kitchen making the rooms more beautiful, comfortable, minimizing noise and contributing to thermal insulation.
The use of rug is common in both commercial and residential environments. Do you know “What rugs are best for kitchens?”
Here are the top 3 rugs that best for kitchens: Gourmet Club Anti-Slip Printed Kitchen Rug
To make your kitchen more fun, Kapazi’s Gourmet Eat rug has a pattern with pictures of household items and also helps to maintain safety with its non-slip base.
Made with 100% polyamide material and based on polypropylene and polyurethane, it is much more durable and resistant.
Measuring 80 cm in length and 50 cm in width, it is a great option to leave close to the sink or stove.
Seavish Anti Fatigue Kitchen rugs
If you are looking for a sophisticated and high-quality model, Seavish Anti Fatigue Kitchen rugs set has three beautiful pieces that are washable and stain-resistant.
Produced in polypropylene, they have a non-slip base to prevent slips and accidents.
The rug has two pieces 41 cm wide by 60 cm long and a treadmill 41 cm wide by 160 cm long and has a beautiful overlock finish.
Kitchen Rug Set, LEEVAN Kitchen Floor rugs
Developed especially for the most demanding customers, Colorful. The creative rug set has modern and colorful prints with beautiful geometric shapes.
The rugs have a non-slip base and are produced in polyamide, which makes them safer and more resistant.
This game has two pieces 40 cm wide by 60 cm long and a treadmill 40 cm wide by 120 cm long.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of a kitchen rug?
The kitchen rug offers numerous advantages. They help to highlight your kitchen floor without giving up security, as many models have non-slip bases.
In addition, they are cheaper when compared to other types of rugs.
However, there are some disadvantages to note. Depending on the material, they cannot be taken to a washing machine.
In models without a non-slip base, there is a risk of slipping and falling and when the material is not waterproof, they have less durability.
It is not for nothing that the rug lining is one of the elements capable of adding value to a property.
The beauty and functionality of this type of coating result in numerous benefits to spaces.
Superior comfort, high visual appeal and safety are some of the main advantages associated with its use.
The rug makes the rooms more welcoming. The immense variety of designs results in a wide choice for aspects such as color and texture.
Because it is a soft floor, the rug helps to insulate the environment. Homes with children, elderly people, and people with reduced mobility find the rug one of the most suitable flooring options to increase safety.
See the table below:
Advantages They help to make your kitchen floor stand out Most kitchen rugs offer non-slip bases They are cheaper than other types of rugs Disadvantages Depending on the material, they cannot be machine washed. Models without a non-slip base are at risk of slips and falls Non-waterproof material models have less durability. | 3,113 | 1,433 | 6,671.334962 |
warc | 202143 | Abstract
This paper addresses an adaptive super twisting control for a dual-rotor flight system subject to uncertainties. The system can perform vertical take-off and landing, roll and yaw movements. The dynamical model is described under the Euler-Lagrange approach, where a characterization of the thrust and the torque of the rotors is included. However, uncertainties such as friction and unmodeled dynamics remain. To overcome these problems, a class of adaptive sliding mode control is designed, which is robust to bounded uncertainties and external perturbations, offers reduced chattering, and not overestimate the control gain. Furthermore, the closed-loop stability is analyzed. Finally, simulation and experimental validation, and a comparison versus other standard control approaches illustrate the feasibility and usefulness of the proposed controller.
Original language English Pages (from-to) 2251-2259 Number of pages 9 Journal International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems Volume 19 Issue number 6 DOIs State Published - Jun 2021 Bibliographical noteFunding Information:
The authors thank to CONACYT, Tecnologico de Monterrey and Universidad de Sonora for support through scholarship to develop this project.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, ICROS, KIEE and Springer.
Keywords Adaptive sliding mode control UAS UAV flight systems | 1,366 | 793 | 2,330.640605 |
warc | 202143 | Our pick
In our tests, the Vornado VH200 surpassed almost every other space heater in speed and total power, delivering an immediate temperature increase that built steadily and evenly across the room over the course of an hour. The VH200 is also quieter than most other ceramic heaters we’ve tried, emitting only a soft, fanlike whir, and it’s compact enough to tuck away in a corner. It’s also one of the safest heaters we tested, featuring overheating and tip-over protection, and a plastic exterior that stays relatively cool to the touch—so you can warm yourself without having to worry. The VH200 does get mixed reviews from some owners who find it slow to heat a particularly cold space or have problems with the airflow from the fan (the heat only blasts in one direction, and while the fan
should help to circulate the air around the room, the heat blast can be a little overwhelming). Fortunately, Vornado tends to respond to these critical reviews more reliably than other manufacturers do. Runner-up
The Vornado AVH10 is a lot like the VH200, with a few added features, such as a digital display, a convenient cord-wrapping post for easy storage, and a countdown clock when you turn it off, for added safety. In our tests, the AVH10 was the absolute hottest room heater model we tested, warming the room more quickly and to a higher temperature than the VH200. However, the AVH10 didn’t distribute its hot air as evenly throughout the space as the VH200, and it also tends to cost between $30 and $50 more. Still, it’s a great alternative to our top pick if you find it for a good price, or if you prefer its extra features.
Budget pick
This effective portable heater works quickly and lasts for years. But its narrow stream of hot air doesn’t feel as comfortable as the heat from models that warm a whole room, and it lacks some safety features.
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*At the time of publishing, the price was $27.
We’ve recommended the Lasko 754200 Ceramic Heater since 2013, and it’s still one of the cheapest and most reliable space heaters you can find. It warms up faster than most fan heaters we tested, and it has a compact, lightweight body that’s about the size of a loaf of bread. The heat is a focused stream of hot air, which warms the area directly in front of the space heater. But it isn’t as comfortable as the broad, room-filling heat we preferred from the Vornado models. The Lasko struggles in larger spaces as a result, but it’s perfect for warming a home office or for quickly heating up a small bedroom. The 754200 has had consistently positive owner reviews for years, and many Wirecutter staff members have owned one for multiple winters with few complaints. It lacks an automatic tip-over kill switch, a safety feature included in our top pick, and it’s not the best-looking option, but it does feature overheat protection.
Also great
Oil-filled radiators are silent but slow. The TRD40615T is the best of its type because it’s sturdier than competitors, with an exterior that stays cooler to the touch.
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*At the time of publishing, the price was $168.
Most space heaters can deliver quick heat to a single person, but oil-filled radiators are better for heating a whole room for a longer duration, and the De’Longhi TRD40615T is the best of its kind. Like most oil-filled radiators, the TRD40615T warms up much more slowly than a ceramic heater, but it also retains its heat for longer, making it more energy-efficient. With a burly, all-metal construction that’s more durable than the builds of our other, plastic-clad picks, this De’Longhi model is sturdier and more attractive than any other oil-filled radiator we tested, and it’s also cooler to the touch.
Also great
This attractive obelisk has all the heating prowess Vornados are known for, plus the ability to oscillate, which helps the heat to spread more evenly around the room.
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*At the time of publishing, the price was $110.
The Vornado OSCTH1 stands out not only for its stylish appearance, but also because it’s the rare Vornado that oscillates instead of blasting the heat straight ahead and hoping the airflow fills the room eventually. While it won’t warm you up quite as quickly as our other Vornado picks, the steady arc of motion means a more comfortable and uniform heating throughout your space. It also just looks great, in a subtly sci-fi sort of way, with easy-to-use digital touch screen controls and all the same safety features we usually look for, like a tip-over switch and overheat protection.
The 3½-foot-tall Lasko FH500 All Season Comfort Control Tower Fan & Heater in One is easily the tallest space heater we tested—but it doesn’t actually take up that much floor space for a room heater. In our tests, it warmed the room swiftly and consistently to the temperature we dialed in on its digital display, and then it steadily held that temperature until the end of the hour. The FH500 is full of thoughtful details, including an easy-to-navigate control panel and a matching remote control. It also has a medium heating option (in addition to the standard high and low settings found on most other space heaters), as well as a timer and an “auto eco” setting for better energy efficiency. While we’ve had concerns about the longevity of tower fans in the past, the Lasko has held up well after a year of continuous use (though we’ll continue to keep an eye out). Speaking of fans—the Lasko also has a built-in cooling feature, which is a nice bonus.
Also great
The VHEAT’s solid heating performance is secondary to its delightful design, which makes it a great choice if you’re more concerned with aesthetics.
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*At the time of publishing, the price was $150.
The Vornado VHEAT Vintage Heater heats well enough and looks good doing it. With a solid metal construction and wonderfully retro knobs, it’s simply the best-looking electric space heater we’ve found that doesn’t sacrifice (too much) functionality. Though the VHEAT delivers a steady stream of air that quickly heats whatever’s right in front of it, it wasn’t as good at spreading that heat around the room, resulting in a 10-degree difference in the temperature measurements we took from different parts of the room during our tests. The fact that it was able to heat part of the room enough to create a 10-degree difference was still pretty remarkable, however. Some space heaters we tested couldn’t even warm a room by 5 degrees. Overall, we think the VHEAT is a great choice for anyone interested in aesthetics as well as comfort.
Also great
If you absolutely need to have an electric heater in the bathroom (or somewhere else where it can get wet), the Lasko CD08200 is the only one we’d recommend to do the job safely.
The Lasko CD08200 bathroom heater is the most effective and — more importantly — safe way to bring some infrared warmth to your bathroom. Generally speaking, you should try to keep electricity (especially something as powerful as a space heater) far, far away from any situation where it might get wet. While you might be tempted to bring our other picks into the bathroom with you, the Lasko is only one equipped with the proper safety features to mitigate the risk of electrocution (though you should still try to keep it far away from the water). It’s also quick to warm the room and incredibly easy to use, with one large button on the top that automatically defaults to a one-hour heating timer. That should give you enough time to shower and build up the courage to leave the comfort of the warm rushing water — but even if it doesn’t, the Lasko has the normal high and low heating settings as well.
Whichever space heater you choose, there are some common safety concerns that many people overlook: You can’t use any space heater with an extension cord, and you shouldn’t leave a heater unattended. And most heaters can’t be used in a bathroom, unless they’re specifically designed for it. We go over these and other considerations in detail in our section on space-heater care, maintenance, and safety.
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warc | 202143 | A little more than a year ago, when the PC craze was just beginning, I had the good fortune to be introduced to a machine I would call the Mac Pro.
I remember how the device looked and felt and, at the time, was something of a rarity in a market dominated by the likes of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon and the Asus ZenBook UX303.
While the ThinkPad is a high-end machine that can handle a few gigabytes of memory, the X1 was a small powerhouse that felt more like a laptop than a desktop.
While I was not able to test out a few configurations, I did spend a little time with the machine.
It was a solid, well-built machine, but not one I could count on for many years.
So, as time wore on, I was impressed with the new Intel Core i7 processor, the latest version of the CPU that Intel has released.
But even as I started to think about the future of my own computer, I realized that the PC would soon overtake the Mac in terms of computing power and that the time was right for a small desktop to be able to compete with the MacBook Pro, Dell Inspiron Book, and other high-performance PCs.
But, as the year came to a close, it became clear that the Mac would not have enough power to take over the world.
While Apple is no longer able to deliver the power that its products used to, it is still able to provide the most powerful laptops on the market.
As an example, the new Mac Pro comes with a Core i5-4300U processor that is a significant upgrade over the Core i6-4320U processor used in the previous generation of the Mac.
This is an upgrade over Intel’s Core i3-4130U processor, which is also available for $499.
The price difference between the Core I5-4200U and Core i4-4350U processors has gone down to $99 in the latest MacBook Pro model.
This makes the Mac much more attractive for business customers, who want a desktop processor with enough performance to meet the demands of their business.
But it does not make it the most power-efficient machine available.
A lot of the improvements in the MacPro range come from a new design and a new architecture.
While some users have praised the design, it has some significant limitations.
The new architecture is the same as the previous version of Intel’s Haswell microprocessor family, but with one significant difference: the i5 processor has been replaced by the i7-3770K.
As the name implies, this new chip has four cores and eight threads, compared to the two cores and four threads used in previous generations.
This means that the new MacBook Pro is now equipped with a whopping 40 percent more cores and 24 percent more threads than its predecessor.
The chip is also a bit larger.
As a result, the MacBookPro Pro is noticeably heavier than its predecessors.
But if the design of the new laptop is anything to go by, the overall weight is not as important.
The bigger improvement comes in the form of better battery life.
The MacBookPro has the same battery as the last-generation MacBook Pro.
However, the battery life has been increased from the previous-generation model by a whopping 30 percent.
This helps the device reach 60 percent battery life in our lab tests.
This extra battery capacity helps make up for the loss of the smaller processor in the MacBook Pros lineup.
It’s worth noting that the battery capacity increase is not a significant part of the upgrade over previous-gen chipsets, so it does make the Mac even more attractive.
But let’s not forget the price.
The Apple MacBook Pro comes in two different configurations: an ultraportable configuration that has two 15.6-inch, 1080p displays, and a compact configuration that comes with one 15.4-inch display.
In terms of features, the ultraportables and compact configurations have very similar configurations.
Both have a USB Type-C port, which has been made much more efficient.
The display has been updated to a new panel technology, IPS technology, which means that there is no need to use a glossy coating.
Both configurations have USB 3.1 Type-A ports, but only the ultra-portables have USB-C.
These ports are the same type that Apple uses for Thunderbolt 3.
They have been made slightly thicker and wider, and they have been upgraded to support Thunderbolt 3 for the ultraPortables.
The ultraPortals also have a built-in webcam, as well as a microSD card slot.
However the ultraComponents don’t have an extra USB port, so you’ll have to buy an extra adapter to use these devices.
The laptop comes with an Intel Core M5 processor, a slightly faster version of that chip that was introduced in 2016.
The CPU supports the latest Intel HD Graphics 5000 graphics, which allows the machine to achieve higher frame rates. | 4,723 | 2,129 | 10,320.054486 |
warc | 202143 | “I just could never keep up with these trends.”
“Being stylish never came easy to me.”
“Putting THAT amount of attention in what you wear is just superficial, anyway!”
To many of us, the statements above will sound extremely familiar. And often, it is not because we have heard them being said by the people around us – but because these are the sentences we use as excuses to get away with being too lazy about our OOTD.
However, to a big chunk of the population, these statements are not mere excuses. It is a scientific fact that some people are truly gifted when it comes to putting together an outfit –Curating a flawlessly chic look is a talent that some people are simply born with.
Even so, it is not to say that the ones who do not have it naturally cannot learn the skill. Like cooking a delicious dinner or playing ice hockey, dressing to impress is a skill that can be mastered very well – only if you are willing to put in the effort. Plus, with us on the job, you need not despair!
Dressing well does not always have to cost you an arm and a leg and a full day of shopping in the mall. In fact, with Leather Skin Shop, you can now get your hands on the trendiest styles, all from the comfort of your home. Read on to discover how you can revamp your style and become a fashion inspiration for those around you – and stay within a budget all the while.
When you aim to dress to impress, always remember the first rule of fashion: the right fit can bring you to the limelight. If you have been making fashion purchases without actually trying on the piece or reading the size chart thoroughly, you need to change your habits. The same piece of clothing that made you look like an eyesore can work wonders if the fit is perfect.
However, we often fail to find clothes that fit us just right. If the shoulders are snug, the possibility is that the sleeves will be too long. In the event that the sleeves end just where they are supposed to, the length of the body will be the one causing issues! An easy fix to all of these issues is getting your clothes altered or customized.
Talking about the right fit for your winter leather jacket, Leather Skin Shop has got your back! With the freedom to choose your design, color, type of leather, and cut – the customizable leather jackets available at Leather Skin Shop are every fashionista’s dream come true! Adding your personality to the outfit will revamp your style like nothing else.
Fashion is an industry where trends change overnight. Coming to an unpleasant surprise that the dress shirt you got just last month has already gone out of style can be extremely frustrating. This gets even more annoying when the piece that is now being shunned by the fashion-forward cost you a whole fortune.
This is why it is important to always have a few staples in your closet. Though fashion is fickle and keeps you on your toes, some trends just refuse to wear out! Leather is one such timeless classic that has been fashionable since forever and is here to stay.
Whether it is a classic black leather jacket like the one shown above, some sexy Oxford boots, or a chic handbag – the leather will lift up your look like nobody’s business! Invest in some classic leather pieces at the Leather Skin Shop to instantly amp up your entire outfit.
In order to look good, many of us buy clothes that don’t make us feel ourselves. Though experimenting and stepping a little outside of your comfort zone can often be a good idea and lead to fantastic discoveries, the most important thing to remember is that your outfit is more for yourself than for anybody else. The question arises, is it sane to keep going for a style or a garment that feels alien to you?
Being confident about yourself is the sexiest thing ever. And this confidence comes when you are comfortable in your skin and are not trying too hard to be somebody else. This comes before making a bold fashion statement and is way up above in the list than what others think of you. The best way to revamp your style and stand out is to be unapologetically yourself.
Leather Skin Shop allows fashion enthusiasts from all over the world to get their hands on quality and chic products that truly define them. Apart from the ability to customize your leather jacket, it also stores a massive collection of the trendiest pieces so everyone can find something that they like. What’s more is, with the attention to detail that the manufacturers at Leather Skin Shop pay to each product, you are guaranteed that the material will be so soft and cozy that you will never want to take it off again.
So, there you go. Incorporating some basic tips when putting together your outfit for the day can have you looking like a million bucks. These tips and more are being followed by the biggest influences in the fashion industry today.
Don’t believe us? Go on and Google some childhood pictures of a few models. Many of our favorite fashion girls and boys who are telling us what to wear today could not differentiate between a golf cap and baker boy hat before they stepped foot into the fashion industry. With us at your back, you, too, can revamp your style to be a style icon and make all heads turn as you cross the street to grab yourself a morning coffee from Starbucks!
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Choosing the perfect outfit is always a priority for people, but don't forget that choosing the perfect pair of shoes for the occasion is just as important. Wearing the right shoes can elevate your outfit and can make you stand out among others whereas wearing wrong shoes can blemish your overall look.
This guide is a must read to help you choose perfect shoes for every occasion and how to select custom shoes for men.
Can't wait to style your outfits so that all eyes will be drawn to you? We certainly can't! Don't forget to enjoy and celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with your close friends and family before the snow falls and the Christmas bells ring.
Thanksgiving is all about gathering together, spreading love, and celebrating life with a positive mind and attitude.
In this blog we'll help you suggest a few style inspirations that will help you develop a statement outfit this holiday season. | 6,332 | 2,948 | 13,364.214383 |
warc | 202143 | Yes, for most women, carrying a toddler while pregnant with baby number two is totally fine. But there’s a trick to it that you should know: When you do pick him up, lift with your legs so you don’t strain your back in the process. You’ll probably be most comfortable holding him on your hip, …
The reason is simple: Symptoms caused by the hormonal and physical changes of pregnancy speed up the loss of fluids and electrolytes. When we lose fluids and electrolytes too quickly, we become dehydrated. The body’s increased water needs during pregnancy add to the challenge of maintaining fluid balance. Is feeling dehydrated a sign of pregnancy? …
With the Additional Child Tax Credit, up to $1,400 of the 2020 credit is refundable meaning that if it exceeds your income tax liability for the year, the IRS will issue a refund check for the difference. Don’t assume you can’t qualify for the refundable credit just because you didn’t qualify in prior years. How …
Aside from the menthol varieties, studies show that they are safe to use on babies who are suffering from common cold symptoms. Since vapor rubs are only designed to be palliative, make sure you also seek out treatment to cure your baby’s cold from his or her pediatrician. Is menthol safe for babies to inhale? …
The non-custodial parent can claim the child as a dependent if the custodial parent agrees not to on their own tax return. However, you must obtain a signed IRS Form 8332 or similar written document from the custodial parent allowing you to do so. What happens if non-custodial parent claims child on taxes? 2. If …
At this point, your baby might recognize your face, but he can still only see what’s 8-12 inches in front of him. However, his attention span might have gotten longer. Up until now, Baby might have stared at your face for only a few seconds. Can 3 week old babies see color? Young babies are …
Do you burn more calories when pregnant? Yes, you burn more calories when you are pregnant because of the increase in weight and body surface area. At baseline, your body has to burn calories just to keep your heart pumping, brain functioning, blood flowing, and muscles working. How many extra calories does your body burn …
Your child can begin eating solid foods at about 6 months old. By the time he or she is 7 or 8 months old, your child can eat a variety of foods from different food groups. These foods include infant cereals, meat or other proteins, fruits, vegetables, grains, yogurts and cheeses, and more. How much …
Food particles left in your child’s mouth will attract bacteria. Sulfur is released by the bacteria as it accumulates on the bits of food left in between the teeth and mouth. This causes the foul odor on your child’s breath. Why does my baby smell fishy? Fish odor syndrome (trimethylaminuria) is a genetic disease; symptoms …
Generally speaking, it’s all right to allow your pet near your new baby, as long as the pet is well behaved and you are there to supervise. It’s common for a pet, who has until recently been the focus of the family’s attention, to become jealous of a new baby. Can dog hair harm a … | 3,256 | 1,624 | 6,265.394089 |
warc | 202143 | COHS is an online high school diploma and career certification program available through the Los Angeles Public Library. This program offers free enrollment to a limited number of qualified adult students.
COHS is an online high school diploma and career certification program available through the Los Angeles Public Library. This program offers free enrollment to a limited number of qualified adult students.
Residents who are at least 18-years-old and wish to earn their high school diploma. It is recommended that the applicant have attended the 9th grade. Minors should pursue their high school education through existing high school programs.
Program applicants must have a public library card or be willing to apply for a library card.
Program applicants who have already received a standard high school diploma, or a high school equivalency certificate, are not eligible for this program.
No. This is not a GED® (General Educational Development) program. Graduates earn a high school diploma and a career certificate through an accredited high school.
While both the GED and the high school diploma are important, there are several differences between them: among the most significant is the fact that some colleges, institutions, and organizations require a high school diploma and may not accept the GED. In addition to a high school diploma, with COHS, you can also earn a career certificate and complete additional job preparation documents and training.
*Prepares students to obtain the industry credential
To prepare you with the tools you need to find a job, you will learn how to create important documents, such as your resume and a cover letter.
Yes. The courses are 100% online.
You can use a desktop computer, laptop, tablet, or iPad for all coursework. You can access your courses using smartphones, but we recommend the previous devices for the best learning experience.
Yes. Currently, all coursework is available in English only.
No.
You have up to 18 months to complete the program, which consists of 18 credits. You may transfer up to 14 credits from former accredited high schools. Depending on how many credits you transfer, the program can be completed in as few as five months.
COHS was founded in early 2010 and accredited as the world’s first online private school district in February 2011.
Yes. COHS is accredited by Cognia, the national commission that confers the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI), North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI), and the Northwest Accreditation Commission (NWAC) accreditation seals.
Because the high school diploma is Cognia/SACS/NCA/NWAC accredited, it should be accepted by many colleges and universities. However, admissions requirements are always up to an individual college. Also, if you are interested in pursuing post-secondary education within your state you should check with your state to understand the requirements. States may impose requirements for receiving state financial aid. For example, an online high school diploma may not be recognized by some colleges and universities within your state to receive financial aid. We recommend you check with the institution for any specific restrictions—this is particularly important for residents of New York and New Jersey.
We are committed to the success of our graduates as they advance into the workplace or pursue postsecondary education and training. COHS alumni who have questions about their transcripts or meeting college admissions requirements can call 1-866-999-7853 or email enrollment@shcoe.org for support.
Yes, all COHS instructors and academic coaches are state certified. Staff have regular office hours from 9:00am–5:00pm CT as well as evening hours at least one day a week.
The library is committed to helping people meet their education and job preparation needs. The library encourages you to visit your nearest branch and speak to the staff to help you find a local agency or resource that will best fit your needs.
Complete the short online “Are You Ready?” survey. After you have successfully finished the survey, you will be prompted to enroll in the prerequisite course. Upon successful completion of the course, you will be contacted by the library to discuss your application into the program.
After you complete the two-week prerequisite course and enroll in the full Career Online High School program, you should request that your high school transcripts and/or GED® transcripts be sent to the Office of the Registrar for evaluation. The registrar will review your transcripts and apply credits for any coursework you’ve previously completed that fulfills our credit transfer requirements. | 4,827 | 2,134 | 10,775.926898 |
warc | 202143 | Whether you sell to consumers or to businesses, if you're not using lead generation software, you could be wasting a lot of time. As businesses continue to get access to more customer data, the whole process of marketing and lead generation gets more tedious than before. According to a report by Marketing Charts, 17% of marketers spend 15+ hours a week on lead generation. That is a whole lot of time to be solely occupied by the lead generation process. Just think of all the things you can accomplish and work you can do within this time frame. Despite wasting so much time on lead generation, 63% of companies still think that lead generation is one of their top marketing challenges . In the old days, B2B salespeople generated leads by making cold calls or sending sales letters; B2C companies generated leads by advertising on TV, on the radio and in print publications. Today, however, lead generation has moved to the web, since most searches for products and services begin online. That's where lead generation software comes in.
Organizations can leverage on the low hanging fruits of the automated lead generation software. Lotus Analytics offers lead generation software tools that make a good addition to your business’s marketing and sales strategy. Let’s discuss why automated lead generation software is becoming an integral part of marketing
• Lead Generation Software Ensures More Leads In Lesser Time:
Generally, sales professionals have to go through the tedious chore of acquiring referrals, recommendations, visit seminars and trade shows, and more to generate leads. Then there’s a whole process of cold calling, which is so dreadful that sometimes it ends up being a painful experience for both the parties. On average a salesperson makes 8 dials per hour and prospects for 6.25 hours to set 1 appointment. Think of the all-time that you wasted which could be used for something more productive. And this is where lead generation software enter. These software tools generate leads automatically by processing a lot of important data and prospect’s actions. The beauty of lead generation software lies in their ability to accurately discern the actions and take into account how you are interacting with your customers. This helps you to focus on productive leads already generated by the software and meanwhile, the lead generation software will automatically nurture more leads.
• Lead generation software keep your data updated:
The most common problem inflicting the marketers is the overabundance of outdated and irrelevant data. First, the sales professionals spend ages in gathering data about their prospects, and after a few days only, it turns out that a lot has been changed because as the time goes on so much information may become irrelevant. Therefore, managing data is important According to a research report:
75 businesses will change addresses
75 phone numbers change
30 company gets acquired or merged
30 new businesses are formed
20 CEOs leave their job
These constantly changing business atmosphere nullifies a huge amount of your data. And this is where lead generation software makes their presence known. Lead generation software can be integrated with your CRM and help you spend less time researching and mining your data, resulting in accurate data as well as saving up more time that can be spent on building more connections with decision makers.
• Lead generation software automatically nurtures the leads:
Unfortunately, many sales professionals inject maximum energy in generating leads while overlooking the importance of nurturing those leads. According to a report, 73% of all B2B leads are not sales-ready. If nothing else, this data at least articulate that sales professionals need to engage with those leads in a way or the other to move them down the sales funnel. This stat also indicates that the leads went cold somewhere after talking with you, before actually entering the buying funnel. These are the leads that sales professionals fail to re-engage with. So, a large majority of B2B leads are not ready for Sales. This is where lead generation software come into play. These automated lead generation software very efficiently track and score those leads that have the potential to later get converted into customers. With these software tools, it becomes easier to nurture unqualified and distinguish between casual leads and qualified leads.
• Lead generation software helps you in lead scoring:
Lead scoring is one of the most important assets of lead generation software. The whole process of going through all the information about the leads and then juxtapose it with your own customer profile to give each lead a score based upon their value can be very tiring. However, notwithstanding the difficulties and efforts, every effective sales professional strives hard to distinguish qualified leads and prospects from casual leads that are less likely to generate a sale. A lead generation software can make this arduous task a whole lot easier as they have the ability to score leads and keep track of all the information regarding the leads. The automated lead generation software not only helps to score leads but also automate the sales process, ensuring that leads are not ignored or forgotten. Plus, these software tools automates lead nurturing activities such as email campaigns and follow-ups resulting in an optimized sales cycle. Due to the automated process, sales reps can now focus more on well-qualified leads.
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warc | 202143 | “Why do you feel that is happening?” I ask my client.
“I think it’s because…” Her voice trails off as I watch her mind pick up then discard possible answers. I ask her to pause, redirect her to what she “feels” and the answer comes clearly and promptly.
It’s another reminder of how connecting to the feeling of something will always get you to someone’s truth far more quickly than any reasoning activity.
Our minds are powerful tools that can construct a hundred well-reasoned arguments, positions, interpretations and case scenarios about any event – this is why psychology and psychiatry flourish as necessary professions. But, relying on the mind and reason alone is doing the human race at best a disservice and at worst, for our young people in particular, making people feel more disconnected than ever before.
Those who know me well will say I loathe the word “mindfulness” because for me it misses the point. I am far more interested in helping people connect to their truth than reason their way through a mind-constructed quagmire. Focusing solely on the mind, watching the mind, being mindful is quite frankly a waste of time if what you really want is to connect to the truth of who you are and what is right for you.
I feel the same sense of irritation when I hear people say they need to control themselves better when it comes to their emotions. Let’s be clear, control is a construct that isn’t serving you because you’re not a machine with an on/off switch. You are a human being and if, like me and my clients, you are a sensitive person, trying to ‘control yourself’ in a way that suits others will put you on a winning streak to nowhere.
On the other hand, learning how to manage how you feel, how you connect with others and how you connect to yourself will benefit you far more than any solely mindful or control constructed approach.
I sometimes strike resistance when I suggest to parents that we should teach children to check in with themselves about what feels right when it comes to decision-making. Some feel very uncomfortable and respond with comments like, “But they’re not mature enough to make their own decisions. I need to help them with that because I am their parent and that’s my job.”
To a point, they are right. However, they are also not right. If we show young people how to connect into what is right for them from an early age and to trust that instinctive knowledge we all hold inside us, they are likely to make better decisions when the parent is not around later for guidance.
The ability to connect to your truth can also help young people hugely when it comes to managing anxiety.
For example, choosing subjects for school or deciding on a university degree is a big anxiety-inducing activity for a lot of young people. Their minds over-think with questions like, “Will I get a job out of this? What do my parents think I should do? Will I know anyone else in the course? Will I be any good at it? Will I get in?”
The pressure of their choices feels overwhelming and can result in incredible amounts of stress, anxiety, tears, anger, frustration, despair and other roller-coaster emotions.
What if it didn’t have to be that way?
Would this help young people to avoid scenarios where they say, after the fact, “I knew I shouldn’t go with them or do that thing but…”?
If they had trusted that “knowing”, even if on the surface everyone else said a situation was perfectly fine, would they achieve a different outcome?
I believe they would.
Many sensitive young people struggle with decision-making, anxiety and over-thinking because they have never been shown how to connect to themselves. Instead they are told to reason things through, do a pros and cons list, ask for advice and so on. There are numerous examples of how this approach is not working well for sensitive young people.
Our reasoning mind does not have all the answers. It never did.
Lucretia helps people to understand, manage and channel their sensitivity as a super power in their lives. She has a particular interest in helping young people and women to trust themselves and live their purpose on the planet. Please get in touch if you would like to chat about Lucretia’s services by emailing lucretia@lucretiaswords.com
I’ve been thinking about integrity – the line we each have within us that we don’t want to cross. It’s a line that marks who we are; our honourability in a world that often feels increasingly dishonourable.
There will be times for all of us when we will be tempted to breach our line of integrity. Some of us will do so – we will cross the line, feel the discord within ourselves and quickly reverse our path. Others will cross the line and keep going because they feel it is too difficult to turn back.
It is your ability to understand where your integrity line is, and adhere to it, that is a sign of your courage and fortitude. Sticking to this line is difficult in a world where you’re told you must conform, you must keep the peace and you must keep other people happy.
When you cross your integrity line to appease others, you are compromising yourself and often the well-being of others. We only have to scan the global horizon right now to see how a lack of integrity by some, is compromising the health of many and leading to the death of others. Terrible things happen while good people do nothing.
Integrity doesn’t mean taking the easy or most expedient path. It doesn’t mean acting from a place of fear or anger. It means having character, being honest about your own actions and motivations, and then acting in accordance with what you know in your gut is right.
Integrity. I can’t help but think we need more of it. What do you think?
I have a fear that gnaws away at me sometimes. It’s the fear that once everything opens up again, nothing will really have changed. Or more specifically, people will choose to go back to the way things were and not make any fundamental changes at all.
I understand that many of us are saying, “I just want my life back. I just want my freedom back.” Lord knows, as a single extrovert who lives alone, I’d love the chance to date, have sex, go out with friends and physically touch another human being. I get it.
But I also understand this moment in time, with all its attending death, trauma and upheaval, is a chance for individuals to choose something different when the world opens again. It is not a call to simply return to the way things were – it is the opposite. It is a call to choose differently when you have the chance.
But will you choose differently?
I help people connect to their Soul’s Purpose and live a life that embodies their calling. I love what I do and when I see the transformation that is possible, I am honoured to do this work.
But even now, when the Universe has sent us a very clear message that life is short and you need to choose wisely, I can see people are still choosing to stay stuck and will no doubt, make the same choices when lockdown is over.
Many are chafing under the current restrictions yet refusing to use this time to reassess what is really important to them. I see others still hesitating to back themselves and continuing to turn their backs on a life that would provide them with more personal joy and satisfaction. I watch others continue to stay in relationships that are unhealthy and stifling.
This period had been incredibly difficult but if you don’t choose differently when it’s over, then you’re missing the opportunity of a lifetime. You will pass over the chance to step into something greater and far more fulfilling than you’ve had before. Now is not the time to chicken out and continue accepting that you can’t have what you really want. Now is the time to do the work on yourself, face your shadows, call on your personal courage and step forward.
The uncomfortable understandings that are bubbling up within you aren’t supposed to be shoved back into a box when all this is over. Instead they are here to show you where you are out of alignment with your purpose. They are showing you there is another way if only you will choose it.
Now is the time to leave behind those patterns and situations that no longer fit you and choose to reset your life – leave that relationship, do that course, apply for the job you really want, start your business on the side, invest in yourself, change your career, write that book and create the art you love.
Make a clear and definite decision right now to not go back to the old normal. Instead consciously choose to move into alignment with who you truly are and what will make you happy. Make the tough choices, back yourself and if you need support to traverse the road ahead, find someone like me to walk beside you and help you find your way.
Because the very worst thing you could do, is go back to a normal that was never what you wanted anyway.
If you’ve found this post then you’re someone who wants to create change in the world. You want to live differently to the way your parents and other people you know have lived. You have a vision or maybe just an inkling of doing things differently.
Have you ever shared your desire, your dream, your vision with someone you thought would have your back? Maybe you opened up just a little and trusted them.
You wanted their support and understanding but instead, all you heard was something like:
“Oh look that sounds a bit like a dream to me and not very realistic”
“I really think you need to be a bit more practical”
“I think that’s something you can do on the side. But for now you should finish your degree and get a really good job”
“We never had these opportunities when we were young and we wanted to make sure that you have them. So don’t waste them. Get a good job and get paid well. Forget all that other stuff because it’s not very realistic. Just go out and achieve, achieve, achieve.” (This may come from your parents if they didn’t have a lot of opportunities.)
When you get this type of negative or “realistic” feedback about what you want to create, it can be really hard to keep your focus and maintain your faith in your ability to make your dreams real.
But there are things you can do to make sure their stories and negative feedback doesn’t take you off track and stop you from living your purpose.
Understand their response is about THEIR STORY NOT YOURS.
We all tell ourselves stories about what is possible and what is not. These are based on our experiences, beliefs and interactions with others.
But if you share your desire or dream with someone and their story negatively influences their response, you potentially enter a danger zone. If you are not feeling really grounded and centred in yourself, you will take their story on as your truth. This is dangerous for you because it’s not the truth. It is just a story they believe and they are projecting it onto you.
It’s possible their dreams were squashed when they were young and they lost hope that they could do anything different. This led them to conform and do what their parents, community and friends wanted them to do. So your idea to do something that bucks the system will confront their beliefs and the story they’ve been telling themselves about what their life can, could or should be.
I’m not trying to invalidate their perspectives because those experiences will be real for them. But that’s their story, NOT YOURS. You’re here to create your own story.
Yes, you need to be able to support yourself financially, look after and be responsible for yourself. But that doesn’t mean you have to live the same kind of life that other people think you should live.
ALL OR NOTHING THINKING can stop you before you start
Sometimes we also have all or nothing thinking and this stops us from moving forward. You will be worrying that if you make the wrong decision now, you might screw everything up. This leaves you feeling indecisive and sometimes you avoid making any decisions at all.
But whatever you’re doing when you’re aged 20, 22, 25, 27, etcetera, YOU WON’T BE DOING THOSE THINGS IN ANOTHER 10 YEARS. Nothing stays the same for that long so you’re better off taking a chance in this moment, doing what feels right for you and moving forward. Otherwise you will be waiting for the perfect time and a guaranteed outcome (neither of these exist!!).
One particular decision is rarely going to make or break your entire life. Waiting for other people to “get it”, and understand and support your decisions is also wasting time.
If other people don’t agree with your life choices, that is not your problem.
Yes, we all want people to like us. But you cannot put yourself into a box to help other people feel more comfortable with their life choices. That’s not your job.
What other people think of you is none of your business. You need to focus on what you think of you!
Focus on what you feel is the next right step for you and trust yourself. When you do that, you are moving forward with your life purpose and life path. You will meet other people along the way who will get what you are trying to do. They will understand what you’re trying to create and will support you. But there will be others who will test your faith in yourself.
You need to make the best decision for you right now and understand that not everyone is going to agree with you, and that’s okay. Sure, sit back and question yourself a little but then ask yourself “Okay, what feels like the right thing for me?” then follow that and know it’s all going to work out. It probably won’t look like you think it will – life never works out the way we think it should. But it’s going to work out beautifully and in the best possible way for you.
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Have you ever noticed how the things you want to get away from, will keep following you? No matter how many times you swear, “I’m never going to be in this situation again!” you will somehow find yourself back there for another round. It could be your new partner sucks you into a dysfunctional relationship (just like the last one!) or you get a new job and the work never really feels fulfilling (just like the last one!).
Often these patterns will jump across various parts of our lives. You have a boss who bullies you and a family member and a boyfriend who does the same? What a coincidence.
But the truth is, it’s not a coincidence. Unfortunately. And when you realise that you are the common denominator in all these repeating situations, you also have to face another crushing truth – you need to change something in you to break the repeating patterns in your life.
In my case, does that mean I deserved to be disrespected by men repeatedly in the past? Um, no.
Does that mean I deserved to have bosses who bullied me overtly and covertly? No.
But it sure as heck meant that I needed to do something differently to stop it from happening again.
As you become more self-aware and self-accountable, these types of realisations are difficult to avoid along with the understanding that, despite all the red flags, we still rush headlong into the very situations we want to avoid – until we change something in us.
In my case, I dealt with a repeating pattern by learning how to set healthy boundaries and then maintain them. I won’t say it was easy (actually it was kind of scary for me) but once I did it a few times the pattern stopped.
I still have other patterns to deal with (we all do) but once you can identify them, develop an effective strategy to do something differently, then implement it consistently, the pattern stops being an issue.
I confess this all sounds fine and very practical but it is also incredibly annoying because I can’t play the victim for long periods of time anymore. After all, you can’t be a victim if you played a role in putting yourself there in the first place.
Drat!
As you grow in self-awareness you have to deal with your ‘stuff’ and it’s not always fun or comfortable. But it’s the trade-off we make if we want to evolve and, in my case, break a pattern of bullies and dysfunctional relationships.
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There is a dim glow of golden starlight at my desk tonight. I know I can write anywhere but to have stars surrounding me is a special treat and it makes my office feel a little magical.
I can see a faint pale smudge through the curtains and when I pull them back, the moon sneaks through; a pale half crescent sideways.
I’ve been thinking about discomfort and new beginnings today, and when I bought the strings of stars from this morning, my goal was to help create a new beginning for myself and a new environment to work in.
Over the past couple of months, I’ve definitely had my share of discomfort and happenings that I did not seek and were quite frankly, unwanted. More than once I’ve felt like I’ve entered the swinging doors of a saloon, got caught in a gunfight and then been ejected unceremoniously out the doors on the other side of the bar where I’ve fallen face first into the muddy street.
My ego has been bruised, my self-confidence tested, and the Universe has called on me to let go of places where I felt comfortable, people I cared about and a pet I adored. And all this within a matter of weeks with losses and disappointments sometimes occurring within days of each other.
It’s been a trying time, to say the least.
I’ve wondered if there has been an energetic clearing happening as I’ve watched friends go through their own rather dramatic challenges and changes. It’s almost like the Universe has decided, “Nope you’re in the wrong place and if you’re not going to move then I will force you to shift.” Other people have jumped first when they’ve seen the Universal writing on the wall or faced harsh truths they have been avoiding before finally taken some action.
Whatever the Universe’s method, many now find themselves in places they didn’t plan to be in 2018.
Of course, it is our mind’s often obsessive need to control our journey and then pick the destination that makes these changes to our planned trajectory even more difficult. And when you add in your thwarted heart’s desires, the discomfort level increases and sometimes makes things almost unbearable.
I believe that human beings are genetically programmed to resist change, even when the outcome will be beneficial for us. I have no scientific evidence to back this up. However, when I look around, it seems that so many of us would rather stay in terribly uncomfortable, unsatisfying and sometimes downright unhappy situations and relationships simply because the alternative of disrupting the status quo and leaving our known ‘comfort zone’ is just too disturbing.
We humans are a little crazy that way.
However, when we resist for too long, the Universe will inevitably step in and kick our backsides until we have no choice but to move, let go or to step forward. She ultimately will make our comfort zone simply too uncomfortable, or take the decisions completely out of our hands.
And that is when the magic begins, whether we like it or not, because when these dramatic changes occur, they’re designed to get us back on track, to shake us up and remind us about what’s really important. If we’re wise, we’ll be honest with ourselves and recognise the changes for what they are – our chance to expand, grow and be more in alignment.
I’ve found myself changing roles twice in a short period of time in a way I never expected (or particularly enjoyed). But the place I’ve ended up is perfect for me and I have the time and space to write more – which is one of the most important things to me right now. I’ve also been reminded of a valuable lesson – that some people will never accept your help, even if they need it desperately. So it is better to help those who welcome it and leave others to do as they will – even if you know their journey is going to be more difficult as a result.
I’ve also been reminded that kindness and giving without expectation is a divine part of being human. When I my darling cat Mirabel took a rapid turn for the worse a few weeks ago, I sat with her in the surgery on a Sunday night, holding her in my arms as tears streamed down my cheeks. I knew it was her time to pass over and, although the kind vet (her own eyes filling with tears on my behalf) came to check on me occasionally, I was alone and emotionally torn apart.
Later, as I finally left with an empty cat carrier, I saw a woman sitting on the concrete near my car. I’d heard her desperate cries through the walls earlier when she’d brought in her Mum’s dog.
I put the lonely carrier into the front seat then walked back, dropped to my knees on the beside the woman and took her into my arms. We then cried together for a while, two strangers, on the ground, in the cold late night air. I cried many more tears when I got home (and since then too) but offering her that comfort, and receiving it in return, helped me to feel a little less alone in my grief.
I must confess that Mirabel’s passing seemed an unnecessarily cruel blow coming just days after the very careful and deliberate withdrawal of someone important from my life. Although I understood rationally why things had happened, the Universe’s timing didn’t really seem to be in my best interests. But I guess it’s a sign of my resilience that I was able to get up for work then hold it together all day before sobbing my way home in the car as I thought of the cat-free zone that waited for me at the end of the trip.
You might wonder how I could feel that any of this was being done ‘for me’ by the Universe. I mean really, I have to say nothing felt particularly great at the time. Instead I felt like I was taking one blow after another.
But now the worst has past, I can see that although there has been pain and sadness, there have also been positive changes and shifts that occurred without me even realising it. Things are moving in the right direction and I know I’m on the right track.
Jobs will come and go, people will leave and return, and sometimes we will be asked to let go of the people, pets and hopes we hold close to our hearts.
But life is a fluid process and we always end up where we’re supposed to be, even if we would prefer a different outcome. My current place is under the stars with the haunting cry of a curlew in the distance, and in this moment, I feel peace.
I wish the same for you.
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warc | 202143 | So are they considered dairy, too? What makes someting dairy? The answer is particularly important for people who have food sensitivities involving dairy products. This one has a simple answer: no, eggs are not a dairy product.
Are organic eggs healthier?
While there are multiple benefits of organic eggs, one of the main reasons is simple—
they’re healthier for both you and the chickens. In a study from Penn State University, research showed that eggs from organic egg producers had twice as much omega-3 fatty acids, and much higher percentages of vitamins A and E. Is there a difference between organic eggs and regular eggs?
Conventional Eggs: These are your standard supermarket eggs. The chickens are usually raised in an overfilled hen house or a cage and never see the light of day. …
Organic Eggs: Were not treated with antibiotics or hormones and received organic feed. May have had limited access to the outdoors. Can Vegans have organic eggs?
No.
Vegans do not consume anything produced through the exploitation of animals. Eggs are produced by female chickens by their reproductive systems. It is not vegan to take and consume eggs, whether the hens who produced them are free-range or not. Is Mayo a dairy product?
Mayonnaise is made by emulsifying eggs, oil, and some type of acid, usually vinegar or lemon juice. … Mayonnaise doesn’t have any milk products in it, so that means
it doesn’t have dairy. Is it worth buying organic eggs?
They’re
Better for the Environment. Organic eggs are better for the environment we all live in. … Because there are no pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, antibiotics, or chemical fertilizers used in the production of organic eggs, there’s no risk of those things running off into our rivers and streams. Why are there no white organic eggs?
While it is true that eggs are cleaned before being packaged and sent to your grocery store,
they are not bleached. In fact, most eggs start out white, but different breeds are genetically coded to release different colored pigments as the egg passes through the hen’s oviduct. Which is better organic or free-range eggs?
Organic eggs must be laid by
completely free-range hens and must be able to behave naturally. … This means they live in smaller flocks, enjoy better access to the outdoors and more space in their houses than non-organic chickens. Each organic hen is allowed a minimum of 10 square metres of outside space. | 2,494 | 1,252 | 4,824.654952 |
warc | 202143 | The now disgraced COVID origin investigator Peter Daszak – whose “EcoHealth Alliance” funneled U.S. taxpayer cash to the Wuhan Institute of Virology – defended SARS gain-of-function experiments that potentially rendered the virus “capable of directly infecting humans” in a Nature article unearthed from November 2015. The National Pulse is publishing this information for the first time, shortly after Daszak was recused from the COVID-19 origin commission convened by the Lancet medical journal.
Quoted in an article entitled Engineered Bat Virus Stirs Debate Over Risky Research, Daszak defended the publication of the study in question: A SARS-like Cluster Of Circulating Bat Coronaviruses Shows Potential For Human Emergence.
“Lab-made coronavirus related to SARS can infect human cells,” Nature summarized, which counted funding from Mr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) and included collaboration with two researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The article recounts how the experiment “triggered renewed debate over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks.”
Gain of Function.
While noting how a virus from horseshoe bats in China was manipulated to “infect human airway cells” and “mimic human disease,” Nature posits that the study qualified as gain-of-function research.
“The argument is essentially a rerun of the debate over whether to allow lab research that increases the virulence, ease of spread or host range of dangerous pathogens — what is known as ‘gain-of-function’ research,” the article explains.
“The latest study was already under way before the US moratorium [on gain-of-function] began, and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) allowed it to proceed while it was under review by the agency, says Ralph Baric, an infectious-disease researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a co-author of the study.”
Nature’s admission that the Fauci-funded study qualified as gain-of-function research is at odds with the NIAID Director’s comments from a recent exchange with Senator Rand Paul.
“For years, Dr. Ralph Baric, a virologist in the U.S., has been collaborating with Dr. Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Virology Institute, sharing his discoveries about how to create super viruses. This gain-of-function research has been funded by the NIH,” Senator Paul outlined before Fauci claimed the theory was “entirely and completely incorrect.”
Authored by Fauci-funded researcher Dr. Ralph Baric, the gain-of-function study lists two additional Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers, including...
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warc | 202143 | What is fabric hand painting? Fabric painting techniques are ways of creating colorful pictures and designs on fabric using paints and brushes, markers or stencils. ... Painting over the stencil leaves the design on the fabric. In serti painting, often done on silk, a design is drawn on fabric and traced with a resist, a thick liquid that repels paint. What is painting on cloth called?
Batik Technique - Batik method of
painting on fabric is more of a resist process that make patterns and designs on fabric. There is the usage of wax to prevent the dye or paint from penetrating and seeping into the cloth, leaving blank areas on the dyed fabric. Which fabric is best for hand painting?
Purists say the best fabric for painting on is 100%
cotton with a tight weave (an off-white or cream fabric will dull the paint slightly). But good results can be obtained with rayons and silks too. Does acrylic paint stay on fabric? Acrylic paint will stay permanent on clothing. Once it dries and is heat set with a dryer or iron, it's there forever. Make sure you DON'T use washable acrylic paint! Does acrylic paint wash off fabric?
You can
wash acrylic paint off your clothes and table if you get to it right away-while it is still wet. Once it has dried, not so much. If you are painting clothing like a t- shirt, make sure you place a sheet of plastic or cardboard between the layers of fabric so the paint doesn't bleed through. What's the difference between fabric paint and acrylic paint?
The biggest
difference between normal fabric paint and acrylic paint is that acrylic paint is much thicker, which can cause flaking of the paint and an uncomfortable stiffness to the fabric. ... The easiest way to make a fabric paint from a basic acrylic paint is to thin it using an acrylic medium. How do you get acrylic paint to stick to fabric?
Wash and dry your
fabric prior to painting if possible, then paint away. After the paint is completely dry (at least 24 hours), you need to heat set it for permanency and washability. Most fabrics can be heat set using an iron on medium or high heat for 3-5 minutes. Does acrylic paint wash off in rain?
If you have not treated the surface in any way and the
paint is still wet, the rain can wash away the acrylic paint. When the paint has dried, it is slightly water-resistant but will eventually start to peel or flake off. What to put over acrylic paint to protect it?
In general,
acrylic resin varnishes are glossier, stronger and clearer than acrylic polymer varnishes. Therefore, if you want a high-gloss finish, you should go for an acrylic resin varnish such as Golden MSA Varnish. Before applying the final varnish, you'll need to apply an "isolation coat" over the entire painting. Is acrylic paint waterproof on fabric?
Step 5: How to Seal
Acrylic Paint on Fabric By applying heat to the painted fabric, you are allowing the paint to completely cure into the fabric fibers making it more durable and waterproof. Is acrylic paint waterproof after it dries? Acrylic paint dries fast, in about 15 minutes. It is water-soluble but also becomes water-resistant when dry. Once dry, acrylics are permanent, flexible, and water-insoluble. You can gently wash it with soap and water. Is it okay to add water to acrylic paint?
There are two choices for thinning
acrylic paint: water or acrylic medium. ... Adding up to 30 percent water to acrylic paint thins it but still allows it to coat a surface. Adding 60 percent or more water creates a watery paint application called a wash. Does acrylic paint come off of Hydroflasks?
After painting your
Hydro Flask, you might be asking yourself how to keep paint on your Hydro Flask from chipping and peeling. Without sealing it, the water-based acrylic paint will chip and peel off-pretty easily in fact (tested it!). To seal the paint on your Hydro flask, you'll need a good water-resistant sealant. Is acrylic paint washable?
To answer the question
is acrylic paint washable or not? We can say that in general acrylic paint is easily washable while it is still wet, but has low wash-ability when dried. ... You also need the right solution and other paint removing materials to wash acrylic paint. Is acrylic paint easy to wash off? Acrylic paint is fast-drying, so unless it's removed immediately from skin, it can be hard to take off. Acrylics can be diluted with water when wet, but once dry, water will not be able to take them off. ... A combination of oil and rubbing alcohol can be used to take spilled acrylic paint off of skin. Is acrylic paint permanent? Acrylics are water-based, quick-drying, not reliant on any toxic solvents and can be applied to a wide range of surfaces. When dry, acrylics are lightfast and permanent, and the surface becomes strong and flexible. ... You can modify the consistency of acrylic paint with a variety of gels, pastes and mediums. Is acrylic paint toxic to skin?
Although
acrylic paint is non- toxic and may be safe to use, I don't recommend anybody to use it for skin applications, let alone facial application. Cleaning skin paint is easy, just wash your skin with water, while with acrylics, you have to peel it off like mask. Is acrylic paint toxic when dry? Acrylic paint labelled non- toxic is safe to use. However, propylene glycol is released into the air when the acrylic paint dries, and this can be harmful to the environment. Can you put acrylic paint on your hands? Acrylic paint tends to dry out quickly and also will stain clothes. You may use acrylic paints, however, they dry on the hand really fast causing the print to not turn out very well (lots of gaps). Although they are non-toxic, they are not very suitable for children. They are not washable! Is acrylic paint safe for finger painting? Acrylic paint is best used on paper, wood and canvases. Though acrylic paints labeled “non-toxic” are safe, it's best that young toddlers stick to other craft paints. As toddlers tend to put their fingers in their mouths, choosing one of the previously mentioned paint types would be a safer choice altogether. What paint is best for finger painting?
Tempera paint
Is acrylic paint toxic to humans?
It is my understanding that most
acrylic paints are not toxic to humans—when used for typical acrylic painting purposes—because they are water-based. The acrylic colors that contain toxic chemicals will have it marked on the label—these include cadmium, cobalt, manganese, chromium, and lead. What is the best paper for finger painting?
The best type of paper to use for fingerpainting is heavy paper,
cardboard or pasteboard. Paper such as copy paper or the like tends to result in a big torn up mess with an over enthusiastic painting preschooler or from the use of thin color. What are the benefits of finger painting? Here are some of the benefits of finger painting play: Learning how colors work, especially mixing primary colors. Supporting sensory integration. Improving fine motor development by strengthening finger and hand muscles. Learning about color, shape and spatial relationships. Using hearing, touching, and smelling senses. What is needed for finger painting? Things You'll Need Jars of different colored fingeror poster paints- washable or non-toxic for children. Bowls or jars, one for water and others for paints. Thick paper to painton (scrapbooking, watercolor, cardstock, etc.) Cloth or baby wipes to wipe hands. Newspaper, magazines, or a plastic tablecloth to cover table. What age should you start finger painting?
6-18 months
How long does homemade finger paint last?
1 month
What finger painting means?
: a technique of spreading pigment on paper chiefly with the
fingers also : a picture so produced. What age should you start painting?
Once your toddler is pretty comfortable with how
paint works and how to spread paint around using a paint brush you can start painting in a more traditional way: with various colors in paint pots or on a pallet or plate and paper or another surface for them to paint on. This could be at around 2 or even 3 years old. More topics When did Japanese art start? Where did Japanese art come from? What is traditional Japanese painting called? What is Japan paint? How can you prove that Nepal has a long history of traditional painting? Who painted the original picture of Jesus? How did paintings develop in the Philippines? What dynasty influences the Korean painting? Who made Kalighat painting? Who created Kalamkari and how was it done? Most popular articles What is the purpose of murals? What is reverse painting on glass called? What is nature painting? When did landscape painting begin? Where did painting eggs originate? When did still life painting begin? What is miniature history? What is painting on glass called? What is decorative paint? What is the story behind Mona Lisa painting? | 8,876 | 3,799 | 20,581.385628 |
warc | 202143 | Mumbai, Sep 16 (PTI) Prospects are brightening for the Indian economy achieving "escape velocity" from the pandemic as the second wave of COVID-19 wanes and preparedness for future remains on war-alert status, according to an RBI bulletin published on Thursday.
An article on the state of the economy, published in the September bulletin, said aggregate demand is gaining firmer ground, while on the supply side, IIP and core industries mirror improvement in industrial activity and services sector indicators point towards sustained recovery.
"In August, we believe that India passed a turning point which consolidates and thrives come September," said the article authored by a team lead by RBI Deputy Governor Michael Debabrata Patra.
It further said the trajectory of inflation is shifting down more favourably than anticipated.
"As pandemic scars heal and supply conditions are restored with productivity gains, a sustained easing of core inflation can be expected, which will reinforce the growth-supportive stance of monetary policy," it said.
The central bank, however, said the opinions expressed in the article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
The article further said domestic economic conditions rounded a turning point in August as growth impulses gathered momentum with the progressive opening up of the economy and scaling up of the vaccination drive.
"Prospects are brightening for the economy achieving escape velocity from the pandemic as the second wave wanes and preparedness for future remains on war-alert status," it said.
On aggregate demand, it said e-way bills remained above pre-pandemic levels of February 2020, signalling higher GST collections going forward.
Besides, retail sales of motor vehicles registered growth over a low base in August last year; railways freight continued to be impressive; and fast-moving consumer goods sector surged, among others. Also, merchandise exports continued with their stellar performance.
"In the August issue, we wrote about the music of autumn drowning out the songs of spring. We did so because we believe that at the current juncture, the Indian economy is evenly poised for that gravitational slingshot that will launch it on its aspirational growth trajectory.
"As the enervating effects of the pandemic recede, giving way to dormant growth impulses, the choice of strategy becomes critical," the authors said.
Talking about the price situation, the article said the trajectory of inflation is shifting down more favourably than anticipated.
The inflation outcome for August has vindicated the RBI Governor-headed six-member Monetary Policy Committee's call for treating the May price shock as transitory and looking through it, it said.
The softening of prices of various food items is likely to extend into third quarter of the fiscal and contain the upside price pressures stemming from fuel and core prices on headline inflation.
The task now is to consolidate these gains and carry them forward into Q4 as well. India is a price taker in respect of fuel prices, which have been broadly aligned over time with international prices, it pointed out.
It further said the outlook for core inflation is tied to the fortunes of the Indian economy going forward. | 3,333 | 1,584 | 6,952.166667 |
warc | 202143 | Nearly three years ago, I set out on an 11-month journey as an MTW intern, teaching English and ministering to refugee women in a city in Southeast Asia. The experience changed my perspective, faith, and sense of calling in ways that impact me to this day—ways I’m only just beginning to realize.
Over the course of my internship, I got to work side-by-side with the local church, did Bible studies with local believers, and—most impactful of all—I spent a lot of time with the refugee women whom I was teaching.
I did everything with them, and we got really close. In one of my last classes before the end of my internship, a refugee woman I love dearly said to me “Heather, I am going to miss you so much. A lot of people from other countries come and go, come and go—but they don’t stay. A lot of people come but they don’t touch—but you touch.” As she said this she put her hand over her heart, held it close, and said again, “You touch my heart.”
Now she could have been talking about all the babies that I picked up with poop on them, or all the snotty children that I just wanted to squeeze because they’re still so darn cute, or all the hugs that I gave out, but I don’t think that’s what she was talking about. That day I sat there and thanked God that He provided ways for me to connect to these women and “touch their hearts.” We couldn’t always communicate; we have different beliefs and live life very differently; we are from different backgrounds and very different places, but God is still God and I praise Him for that, because in the midst of so many differences we still had a deep love for each other. That, I know, is clearly a gift from God.
I spent 11 months doing life alongside these refugee women. I ate dinner with their family members. I joined them for weddings of people I had never met. I took care of their children when they had emergencies. I cried with them when they didn’t think they would be able to pay for the next month of rent. I rejoiced when they really grasped an English concept. I prayed for them when they were sick with things they did not know how to cure. I danced with them on their birthdays to songs I don’t understand the lyrics to. I held their feverish toddlers on the floor of the office. I listened as they told hard stories of how they fled their country. I held their hands as we walked through night markets. We laughed together when I asked them to name their children “Heather Ali” after me (many of their sons and daughters had “Ali” at the end of their name). We laughed when they snuck chilies into my food to force me to like spicy food. We cried as we hugged for one last time, knowing that I may never see some of them again.
My heart’s desire is for these women, none of whom are Christian, to know that there is one true God who loves, gives peace, accepts, and covers our sins. Throughout my whole time in Southeast Asia, I prayed that God would open doors to share the gospel, that God would use the local church to speak to them, that God would change their hearts to turn to Him and Him alone. When I prayed those things, I wasn’t praying for abstractions or ideas. I was praying for people, women whom I spent time with and loved with the love of Christ.
They Didn’t Need Me
My dad always says we should do life on life. That means doing life together: the hard, the good, and the mundane parts. That is exactly what I think God called me to during my time in Southeast Asia. He called me to do life alongside the local church and serve the church and its community. For me, that looked like teaching English to the refugees forced to flee their homes and live in this foreign land, serving them in whatever areas God presented.
When it came time for me to leave these women and the local church, to return home to finish college, it was so hard. I felt like I had finally started to understand the refugee community and had finally learned ways to love them well. I also felt like I had built trust with the community. How was I supposed to go back to America knowing that there are people who I could be loving and who need to be loved overseas? Then God reminded me: “Heather, they don’t need you. They need me.”
And it was true. They didn’t
need me. No one needs Heather. But God allowed me to be a vessel for the work He wanted to accomplish. So, I left praising God that I was able to connect at all with these women, that I got to be a part of the work being done there, and that the work there is not over. I praise God that He has sent other people in the church to love that community; that He showed me that missions can look a lot different than I expected, different from how I have seen it presented in the past. Missions looks like living life together and presenting truth to people. It’s not a stop in, share the gospel, and then peace out kind of thing. It’s a stop, stay, do life, and love people right where they are kind of thing—all A New Mindset
I’ve been back in America for two years now. Since returning, I finished college, got married, and am now setting out on the next chapter of life with my husband. For now, we feel called to stay in the U.S.—doing life with people, being on mission where we are right now. But we’ve had so many missions conversations. So many people need to hear the gospel. This is a big thing. This is eternity! One day, we would be open—maybe even called—to moving somewhere overseas to serve again.
Looking back, I realize just how much I was shaped by my 11 months in Southeast Asia. When I left America and headed overseas, I was so unaware of how much God would open my eyes. I was so unaware of how He planned to give me His love to love this people group that I didn’t feel adequate to love. I continue to pray every night for my friends. I pray that God, being rich in mercy, would change their hearts and that they would come to know, love, and serve the Lord Jesus Christ.
In Asia, I lived life with the mindset: “How can I be missionally-minded with every single person I meet?” When I returned back to the U.S., I thought, “Why don’t I have that mindset all the time?”
No matter whether we’re overseas or in the U.S., our calling as Christians is to do missions—no matter what other job you have. Our calling is to glorify God and share Him with others, to be on mission right where we are, to be faithful members in our local church, to do
life on life here and now. God taught me that through 11 months of doing life together with refugee women—my friends.
I would never trade the time I spent in Southeast Asia for anything. God is so gracious to allow me to have those memories and experiences. God is so gracious and so good to allow us, fallen human beings, to be a part of His big plan. | 6,994 | 3,091 | 15,241.534778 |
warc | 202143 | HOW COME Vaping Bad For Your Health? Find Out The Shocking Facts On Why E-Cigs Are Bad For Your Lungs
Why is vaporizing bad for your wellbeing? If you’re a smoker who’s thinking about giving up cigarettes, I have what’s promising for you. You’re not going to die of lung cancer. That’s just one single medical fact that convinced me to stop smoking for good.
But let’s get serious, shall we? How come vaporizing bad for your health? The answer lies in two areas: passive podsmall.com smoking and active smoking. Basically, what harm can an individual do when she or he continues to puff away on an electronic cigarette or even a conventional cigarette, when both are equally harmful?
The analysis found that there are far more cases of tooth cavities where tobacco is smoked than where it is vaporized. Associated with simple: the chemicals and toxins in nicotine make their way into your blood stream. Not only that, studies show that the smokers who continued to smoke cigars also exhibited signs of mouth cancer, throat cancer along with other forms of cancers.
Why is this important to you as a vaper? The reason is quite obvious, but we must put it in a more impressive way. If you’re among those people who loves to smoke cigars and is thinking of quitting, then you should take action. But don’t stop carrying it out because studies have shown that you will end up doing more injury to yourself, particularly if you’re still inhaling second hand smoke.
When it comes to why is vaporizing bad for your lungs and teeth, it is important to note that there are lots of bad ingredients that you discover in cigarettes that are also present in these popular e-juices. A number of them are nicotine, propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, liquid caffeine, carboxylic acid and menthol. A few of these ingredients may cause allergies in the body, so it is best not to use e-juice containing these.
Another problem with how come vaporizing bad for your health is that many of the harmful toxins result from chemicals that are present in the plastic that’s used when making e-juices. Many of these toxins don’t get absorbed through the skin and are instead expelled by inhalation. Studies show an FDA study found traces of lead, zinc and arsenic in the e-juice, which is probably why a lot of people get rashes every time they inhale them. Even after utilizing an electronic vaporizer for a couple days, there’s still a high chance of exposure to dangerous levels of these toxins.
There are even more reasons why vaporizing is bad for your wellbeing. Nicotine is very harmful to your respiratory system since it damages the mucus lining of the lungs very easily. Once the lining is damaged, it could lead to serious asthma attacks or bronchitis, both of which have become serious conditions. Inhaling nicotine is also extremely dangerous to the mind because nicotine can be a poison that may damage the brain permanently. Should anyone ever smoked, you need to really consider quitting because smoking is probably the main causes of why is vaporizing bad for your health.
They are only some of the health effects you can suffer from if you use e-cigs rather than normal cigarettes. Even though the vaporizers don’t directly harm your body, they still release harmful toxins into the air which is why many people are afraid to use this method. The only way to avoid these horrible health effects is to quit smoking completely, nevertheless, you can still use vaporizers in the event that you really want to benefit from the beautiful tastes of smoothies or other desserts while still cutting down on the amount of toxins you are breathing every day. | 3,718 | 1,781 | 7,605.094891 |
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Abstract Objective. Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) is necessary for normal development of retinal blood vessels in mice and humans. Because retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is initiated by abnormal postnatal retinal development, we hypothesized that prolonged low IGF-I in premature infants might be a risk factor for ROP. Design. We conducted a prospective, longitudinal study measuring serum IGF-I concentrations weekly in 84 premature infants from birth (postmenstrual ages: 24–32 weeks) until discharge from the hospital. Infants were evaluated for ROP and other morbidity of prematurity: bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH), and necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Results. Low serum IGF-I values correlated with later development of ROP. The mean IGF-I ± SEM level during postmenstrual ages 30–33 weeks was lowest with severe ROP (25 ± 2.41 μg/L), 29 ± 1.76 μg/L with moderate ROP, and 33 ± 1.72 μg/L with no ROP. The duration of low IGF-I also correlated strongly with the severity of ROP. The interval from birth until serum IGF-I levels reached >33 μg/L was 23 ± 2.6 days for no ROP, 44 ± 4.8 days for moderate ROP, and 52 ± 7.5 days for severe ROP. Each adjusted stepwise increase of 5 μg/L in mean IGF-I during postmenstrual ages 30 to 33 weeks decreased the risk of proliferative ROP by 45%. Other complications (NEC, BPD, IVH) were correlated with ROP and with low IGF-I levels. The relative risk for any morbidity (ROP, BPD, IVH, or NEC) was increased 2.2-fold (95% confidence interval: 1.41–3.43) if IGF-I was ≤33 μg/L at 33 weeks’ postmenstrual age. Conclusions. These results indicate that persistent low serum concentrations of IGF-I after premature birth are associated with later development of ROP and other complications of prematurity. IGF-I is at least as strong a determinant of risk for ROP as postmenstrual age at birth and birth weight. preterm birth retinopathy of prematurity insulin-like growth factor I intraventricular hemorrhage bronchopulmonary dysplasia necrotizing enterocolitis vascular endothelial growth factor Received February 3, 2003. Accepted May 8, 2003. Copyright © 2003 by the American Academy of Pediatrics Institutional Login
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warc | 202143 | The document below gives the history of the Child Measurement Programme for Wales (CMP); information about how the programme is run, including the legislative framework that underpins the CMP and technical detail about how the information is analysed and presented.
The school nursing team will measure and weigh every child in reception class unless their parents have opted the child out of the programme.
Parents can request that their child is weighed and measured but that the results are not used as part of the Child Measurement Programme.
Health board staff enter the information into the child’s computerised health record.
At the end of the school year, the height and weight results are sent to the Public Health Wales Observatorylink to an external website - opens in new window who will analyse the data and look for trends at a local level, at a health board level and nationally to learn how children are growing.
The data is sent in such a way that individual children cannot be identified by the staff who receive the information and are responsible for analysing it.
At present all children attending reception year (aged 4/5 years) will be offered weight and height measurement.
Measurements taken in reception year will be comparable with measurements taken in other parts of the UK and in particular the National Child Measurement Programme in England.
Yes. However, before the establishment of the Child Measurement Programme, this was done in different ways in different areas. Children were measured at different ages, with different equipment and the results were recorded in different ways.
Because of this, it was impossible to get a uniform picture of child growth across Wales. Now that the Child Measurement Programme for Wales is in place, children are all weighed and measured in school using approved equipment, and the results are recorded using the same computer form across the whole country. | 1,944 | 915 | 4,096.209836 |
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Hair loss is an international problem. According to thehairsociety.org, nearly 35 million guys and also 21 million ladies suffer from hair loss worldwide. However, this is likely to alter if individuals take on Restolin, the nutritional supplement that claims to sustain healthy hair growth. According to the makers of this supplement, individuals need to take two pills of the formula for natural hair remediation. The manufacturers state Restolin is 100 percent natural and aims to sustain healthy hair growth by supplying nutrition from nutrients. The product is a brainchild of Mr. William Anderson, that performed considerable study on all-natural treatments for hair growth. Does this product assistance hair growth? Exactly how does it work? Continue reading to learn everything you require to learn about Restolin in this evaluation.
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warc | 202143 | Abstract
Fucosylation of glycans on glycoproteins and -lipids requires the enzymatic activity of relevant fucosyltransferases and GDP-L-fucose as the donor. Due to the biological importance of fucosylated glycans, a readily accessible source of GDP-L-fucose would be required. Here we describe the construction of a stable recombinant S.cerevisiae strain expressing the E.coli genes gmd and wcaG encoding the two enzymes, GDP-mannose-4,6-dehydratase (GMD) and GDP-4-keto-6-deoxy-D-mannose-3,5-epimerase/4-reductase (GMER(FX)) respectively, needed to convert GDP-mannose to GDP-fucose via the de novo pathway. Taking advantage of the rich inherent cytosolic GDP-mannose pool in S.cerevisiae cells we could easily produce 0.2 mg/l of GDP-L-fucose with this recombinant yeast strain without addition of any external GDP-mannose. The GDP-L-fucose product could be used as the fucose donor for alpha1,3fucosyltransferase to synthesize sialyl Lewis x (sLex), a glycan crucial for the selectin-dependent leukocyte traffic.
Publication types Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't MeSH terms Carbohydrate Epimerases / genetics Carbohydrate Epimerases / metabolism Escherichia coli / enzymology* Escherichia coli Proteins* Genes, Bacterial Genetic Engineering / methods Guanosine Diphosphate Fucose / biosynthesis* Guanosine Diphosphate Fucose / chemistry Guanosine Diphosphate Mannose / metabolism* Hydro-Lyases / genetics Hydro-Lyases / metabolism Ketone Oxidoreductases* Multienzyme Complexes* Recombinant Proteins / metabolism Saccharomyces cerevisiae / genetics Saccharomyces cerevisiae / metabolism* Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization Stereoisomerism Sugar Alcohol Dehydrogenases / genetics Sugar Alcohol Dehydrogenases / metabolism Transformation, Genetic Substances Escherichia coli Proteins Multienzyme Complexes Recombinant Proteins wcaG protein, E coli Guanosine Diphosphate Fucose Guanosine Diphosphate Mannose Sugar Alcohol Dehydrogenases Ketone Oxidoreductases Hydro-Lyases GDPmannose 4,6-dehydratase Carbohydrate Epimerases | 2,056 | 962 | 4,385.56341 |
warc | 202143 | Metallo-organic compounds are interesting to study for their antitumor activity and related applications. This paper deals with the syntheses, characterization, structure determination of a copper complex of anthracenyl terpyridine (
1) and its plasmid cleavage and cytotoxicity towards different cancer cell lines. The complex binds CT-DNA through partial intercalation mode. The plasmid cleavage studies carried out using pBR322 and pUC18 resulted in the formation of all the three forms of the plasmid DNA. Plasmid cleavage studies carried out with a non-redoxable Zn 2+ complex ( 2) supported the role of the redox activity of copper in 1. The complex 1 showed remarkable antiproliferative activity against cancer cell lines, viz., cervical (HeLa, SiHa, CaSki), breast (MCF-7), liver (HepG2) and lung (H1299). A considerable lowering was observed in the IC 50 values of HPV-infected ( viz., HeLa, SiHa, CaSki) vs. non-HPV-infected cell lines (MCF-7, HepG2, H1299). Antiproliferative activity of 1 was found to be much higher than the carboplatin when treated with the same cell lines. Incubation of the cells with 1 results in granular structures only with the HPV-infected cells and not with others as studied by phase contrast and fluorescence microscopy. The lower IC 50 value observed in case of 1 with HPV-infected cell lines may be correlated with the involvement of HPV oncoprotein. The role of HPV has been further augmented by transfecting the MCF-7 cells (originally not possessing HPV copy) with e6 oncoprotein cDNA. To our knowledge this is the first copper complex that causes cell death by interacting with HPV oncoprotein followed by exhibition of remarkable antiproliferative activity.
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warc | 202143 | ~13 min read · Jun 22nd · Well before people domesticated crops, they were grinding grains for hearty stews and other starchy dishes.
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The clues from Göbekli Tepe reveal that ancient humans relied on grains much earlier than was previously thought — even before there is evidence that these plants were domesticated. And Dietrich’s work is part of a growing movement to take a closer look at the role that grains and other starches had in the diet of people in the past.
There is evidence that people in the region have been eating bulgur for at least 4,000 years4. By boiling barley or wheat and then drying it for storage and quick rehydration later, “you could process the harvest in bulk and take advantage of the hot sun”, Valamoti says. “Then you can use it throughout the year. It was the fast food of the past.”
3 min read · Jun 22nd · Using neural networks, researchers have developed a new method to search the human genome for beneficial mutations from Neanderthals and other archaic humans. These humans are known to have interbred…
Jul 9th · The authors report an incised giant deer phalanx (toe bone), directly radiocarbon dated to at least 51,000 years old. The age and context of the object suggests that it was engraved by Neanderthals.
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4 min read · Jul 6th · Making measures such as mask-wearing an individual choice sends a message that they’re no longer important, says Stephen Reicher, a member of the Sage subcommittee advising on behavioural science | 1,812 | 986 | 3,135.1643 |
warc | 202143 | The role of eHealth in conflict settings is increasingly important to address geographic, epidemiologic and clinical disparities. This study categorizes various forms of eHealth usage in conflict and aims to identify gaps in evidence to make recommendations for further research and practice. The analysis was carried out via a narrative hermeneutic review methodology. Articles that fulfilled the following screening criteria were reviewed: (1) describing an eHealth intervention in active conflict or ongoing insurgency, (2) an eHealth intervention targeting a conflict-affected population, (3) an e-learning platform for delivery in conflict settings and (4) non-interventional descriptive reviews relating to eHealth in conflict. Of the 489 papers eligible for screening, 46 merited final inclusion. Conflict settings described include Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Chechnya, Gaza and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Thirty-six studies described specific eHealth initiatives, while the remainder were more generic review papers exploring general principles. Analysis resulted in the elucidation of three final categories of current eHealth activity in conflict-affected settings: (1) eHealth for clinical management, (2) e-learning for healthcare in conflict and (3) eHealth for information management in conflict. Obvious disparities in the distribution of technological dividends from eHealth in conflict are demonstrated by this review. Conflict-affected populations are predominantly subject to ad hoc and voluntary initiatives delivered by diaspora and civil society organizations. While the deployment of eHealth technologies in conflict settings is increasingly normalized, there is a need for further clarification of global norms relating to practice in this context.
Introduction: The first step to improve the safety of patients in hospitals is to evaluate safety culture. Therefore, the patient safety culture in doctors, nurses and midwives should be reviewed regularly. The aim of the study was to determine the current state of patient safety culture among physicians, nurses and midwives at the Estiqlal Hospital in Kabul to promote an effective safety culture.
Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted from January to March 2020 among doctors, nurses, and midwives at the Esteqlal Specialized Hospital in Kabul. In that study, the data were collected through a survey of hospital. Among the 267 employees invited to participate, 267 (100%) completed the surveys. Descriptive statistics have been used to adjust frequency distribution tables and inferential statistics to identify differences in variable relationships. The independent sample T-test and one-way ‘ANOVA ‘ were used to check variations between groups, and SPSS version 25 was used for data analysis. Results: The findings of this study have shown that organizational learning and non-punitive response to errors have had the highest and lowest scores. Eight out of 12 dimensions of patient safety culture scored lower. Four dimensions of patient safety culture scored the highest. Overall, patient safety culture dimensions were low and poor (44%). This means the patient safety culture at the hospital was poor. Conclusion: The safety culture of the patients at the hospital was inappropriate, particularly in the eight dimensions of the patient safety culture, immediate intervention was necessary. The study emphasizes the creation of a desirable organizational climate, the need for staff involvement in various levels of decision-making, the creation of a culture of error reporting and recognizing the causing factors, and promoting a patient safety culture.
Introduction: The advancement of interventional neuroradiology has drastically altered the treatment of stroke and trauma patients. These advancements in first-world hospitals, however, have rarely reached far forward military hospitals due to limitations in expertise and equipment. In an established role III military hospital though, these life-saving procedures can become an important tool in trauma care.
Materials and methods: We report a retrospective series of far-forward endovascular cases performed by 2 deployed dual-trained neurosurgeons at the role III hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan during 2013 and 2017 as part of Operations Resolute Support and Enduring Freedom.
Results: A total of 15 patients were identified with ages ranging from 5 to 42 years old. Cases included 13 diagnostic cerebral angiograms, 2 extremity angiograms and interventions, 1 aortogram and pelvic angiogram, 1 bilateral embolization of internal iliac arteries, 1 lingual artery embolization, 1 administration of intra-arterial thrombolytic, and 2 mechanical thrombectomies for acute ischemic stroke. There were no complications from the procedures. Both embolizations resulted in hemorrhage control, and 1 of 2 stroke interventions resulted in the improvement of the NIH stroke scale.
Conclusions: Interventional neuroradiology can fill an important role in military far forward care as these providers can treat both traumatic and atraumatic cerebral and extracranial vascular injuries. In addition, knowledge and skill with vascular access and general interventional radiology principles can be used to aid in other lifesaving interventions. As interventional equipment becomes more available and portable, this relatively young specialty can alter the treatment for servicemen and women who are injured downrange.
Ureteric injuries are among the most serious complications of pelvic surgery. The incidence in low-resource settings is not well documented.This retrospective review analyzes a cohort of 365 ureteric injuries with ureterovaginal fistulas in 353 women following obstetric and gynecologic operations in 11 countries in Africa and Asia, all low-resource settings. The patients with ureteric injury were stratified into three groups according to the initial surgery: (a) obstetric operations, (b) gynecologic operations, and (c) vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) repairs.The 365 ureteric injuries in this series comprise 246 (67.4%) after obstetric procedures, 65 (17.8%) after gynecologic procedures, and 54 (14.8%) after repair of obstetric fistulas. Demographic characteristics show clear differences between women with iatrogenic injuries and women with obstetric fistulas. The study describes abdominal ureter reimplantation and other treatment procedures. Overall surgical results were good: 92.9% of women were cured (326/351), 5.4% were healed with some residual incontinence (19/351), and six failed (1.7%).Ureteric injuries after obstetric and gynecologic operations are not uncommon. Unlike in high-resource contexts, in low-resource settings obstetric procedures are most often associated with urogenital fistula. Despite resource limitations, diagnosis and treatment of ureteric injuries is possible, with good success rates. Training must emphasize optimal surgical techniques and different approaches to assisted vaginal delivery.
BACKGROUND: Surgical site infections (SSIs) are a threat to patient safety. However, there are not available data on SSI rates stratified by surgical procedure (SP) in Peru.
METHODS: From January 2005 to December 2010, a cohort prospective surveillance study on SSIs was conducted by the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) in four hospitals in three cities of Peru. Data were recorded from hospitalized patients using the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-National Healthcare Safety Network (CDC-NHSN) methods and definitions for SSI. Surgical procedures (SPs) were classified into 4 types, according to ICD-9 criteria.
RESULTS: We recorded 352 SSIs, associated to 13,904 SPs (2.5%; CI, 2.3-2.8) SSI rates per type of SP were the following for this study’s Peruvian hospitals, compared with rates of the INICC and CDC-NHSN reports, respectively: 2.9% for appendix surgery (vs. 2.9% vs. 1.4%); 2.8% for gallbladder surgery (vs. 2.5% vs. 0.6%); 2.2% for cesarean section (vs. 0.7% vs. 1.8%); 2.8% for vaginal hysterectomy (vs. 2.0% vs. 0.9%).
CONCLUSIONS: Our SSIs rates were higher in all of the four analyzed types of SPs compared with CDC-NHSN, whereas compared with INICC, most rates were similar. This study represents an important advance in the knowledge of SSI epidemiology in Peru that will allow us to introduce targeted interventions. | 8,452 | 3,758 | 18,946.154337 |
warc | 202143 | Two months ago, the COVID-19 pandemic hit Washington State, disrupting work schedules, closing everything but non-essential businesses, and making pajamas the official work outfit at home.
How do people adjust to our world and still stand still? Even if Washington steps into Governor Jay Inslee’s four-phase approach to reopening, the world will still feel just as closed to some as it did in March when the shutdown first occurred.
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Jaime Denise, a wedding photographer, said in a Facebook post that she lost over 50% of her income when the shutdowns happened because photography is not an essential business.
“The kicker is that I bought a house two weeks before the closure,” she said. “It was a huge nightmare for wedding salespeople doing this as a full-time job.”
Denise said she has also lost a significant portion of her income in the coming months as very few of her clients postponed photo sessions with her despite Phase 2 of Inslee’s reopening plan, including photography companies.
But it’s not just the impact on Denise’s business that has hit her hard. “As terrible as it was, it was harder to watch the couples who had been planning this for years to creep or give up on their dream day.”
There’s no part of this situation that isn’t heartbreaking, she said.
Allison Joelle is one of those people who had to put their big day on hold because of the pandemic. “My rush and wait was trying to reschedule a wedding several times,” she said.
Joelle is also a medical social worker at Pullman Regional Hospital, working to keep patients safe.
“I am rushing to take care of patients and plan a wedding while I wait to see how this pandemic develops in our city and in our hospital,” she said. “And waiting to be a bride.”
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Ally Lang, an early childhood teacher, is also frustrated with the impact of her pandemic. Lang is considered an indispensable worker, but because of the pandemic, her company is on leave other than the few employees that are needed.
“We don’t know when parents will want to take their children back into our care,” she said. “I’m on call now and have to check my phone at 7 or 8 am. Most of the time I’m not needed.”
Most of the time, Lang said, she missed seeing her children every day. “I don’t know about my families or children and as a teacher it makes me so sad,” said Lang.
However, there are some people like Eric Holt who said for him life hasn’t changed much.
Holt lives in a rural area and works in the wood industry. So he said: “Apart from the fact that he can’t go to bars and restaurants, nothing has changed.”
RuthAnn Henshaw said she and her husband, both retired, along with their son, all stayed home during this pandemic and made an effort to practice better meal planning.
“No excuses, especially at first since we hadn’t figured out how to order online,” she said.
They have also started delivering their groceries to them, Henshaw said, with a goal of doing more activities together as a family.
But when things feel overwhelming, try to escape, even if it’s only for a few moments. “We all go through periods of depression and viciousness,” she said. “Then we’ll go to nowhere and back.”
Marilyn Wigen said she observed that retired people seem to handle home stay orders better than others of different age groups.
“Possibly because we grew up in a slower world,” she said. “Or maybe because we are of retirement age and stay home more often anyway.”
Erika Rattray said the closure could mean the end of her business as a restaurant owner in a small town. “I think this could be the end of us,” she said. “We make $ 100 to $ 250 a day in revenue.”
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Rattray said after her paycheck protection program was up and running she wasn’t sure what she was going to do.
Bruce Honda, who works as a process control consultant at Weyerhaeuser, said the biggest change for him is not being on airplanes to travel to work.
“We installed remote functions back in 2008 that enabled us to remotely support our production processes as well as possible in order to reduce travel costs,” he said.
While remote working hasn’t changed Honda’s life too drastically, he hopes to be back on the air soon and doing his normal work routine. | 4,696 | 2,270 | 9,083.760352 |
warc | 202143 | LCT-1000® Deep Tissue Laser Therapy Deep Tissue Laser Therapy™ is an innovative, scientifically based, therapeutic modality. This new technology offers advanced pain relief and expedited healing times through a process known as photobiostimulation. Laser Therapy does not require the use of drugs or surgery, and there are no known side effects or risks that may occur with other forms of treatment. In addition, it can often achieve results faster than other treatment modalities. During the treatment the patient will feel a deep soothing warmth. This pleasant sensation reassures the patient that the laser is stimulating cellular activity. The LCT-1000® delivers, deep, penetrating, photonic energy to bring about profound physiological changes. ATP (Adenosine-triphosphate) production is increased, inflammation and pain reduced and circulation increased at the site of injury. These changes in cellular chemistry are triggered by the LCT-1000® making it a true healing modality. Deep Tissue Laser Therapy is ideal for:
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warc | 202143 | José Onuchic has become an expert at connecting the dots, but finding connections merely implied by the dots… well, that's quite a trick.
But it's a trick that the Rice University-based biophysicist and his team have managed for proteins and, in the process, they have advanced the art of predicting their form and function using advanced computing.
In this case, the dots are amino acid molecules known as residues that link together in chains to form proteins. Proteins are the workhorses that carry out the biological tasks essential to every living thing, but before they can go to work, they fold. Each protein has its own characteristic, folded shape, and a variety of diseases, such as cancer, have been linked to proteins that misfold or otherwise misbehave.
As computers have grown more powerful over the past three decades, scientists have created many methods to predict how a particular chain of residues is likely to fold and the purpose the resulting protein would serve.
Onuchic and colleagues at the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics have developed a tool, known as direct coupling analysis-fold (DCA-fold), that enhances existing methods. Details of their research recently appeared in the online version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). (The center is currently based at the University of California at San Diego, but is relocating to Rice's BioScience Research Collaborative.)
While most protein-folding researchers look at the sequence of amino acids in a protein, either through X-ray crystallography of folded proteins or through computer simulations, Onuchic and his colleagues stepped back to look at the DNA sequences that serve as the blueprints for the proteins. By exploiting the increasingly large database of genomic sequence information, they're able to increase the accuracy of predicting the structures of folded proteins.
They start by finding points in the protein-encoding genome sequences that appear to change at the same time, even though they may be separated by great distances along the chain. The implication, Onuchic said, is that at some point in the protein's evolutionary history, the amino acids made contact, liked what they saw and kept in touch. In more technical terms, a benefit to the protein's purpose was realized and conserved.
"A lot of the decisions made through the biological process don't depend on a strong partner," said Onuchic. "It's like the protein comes, kisses you once, and goes away; it's what we call very weak interaction, which we're never going to be able to see with current methods. But those weak interactions can cause a conformational change, transfer a phosphorus or start an entire cascade of signals."
Onuchic and his colleagues looked deeply into the genomes of bacteria to gather 15 protein models; the scientists took from them about 1,000 distinct protein-coding sequences, enough for DCA-fold to be statistically accurate.
"When you look at the evolution of a particular protein in these bacteria and see just one residue change from one sequence to the next, that's probably random," Onuchic said. "But if two change at the same time, the probability is that they're changing together. It's a good sign that these things probably interact with each other."
Spotting those interactions is difficult in the proteins themselves, at least with current methods, he said. Crystallization, for instance, freezes a protein in time but provides no evidence of interactions that happened on the way to the finished product. And while computer simulations that align protein sequences are improving, their accuracy is not as good as it needs to be, he said.
But direct coupling analysis of protein-coding genes spots positions in sequences conserved across genomes that change together - a change that could only happen through mechanical contact.
DCA-fold finds those subtle interactions that other methods miss. Energy landscape theories developed by Onuchic and his team predict how those interactions nudge the protein through its process. The combined result eliminates possibilities from the range of forms a protein might take.
Onuchic sees that as a way to pull a signal from all the noise.
"The entire game here is to show that by adding the genomic data to folding simulations, we can aid in structure prediction," Onuchic said. "Here, we get at least 1,000 bacterial sequences that are part of the same protein family but are not necessarily structurally similar. Then we compare the sequences and figure out which pairs of amino acids change at the same time. Although previous correlation methods could give approximate answers, our model is much more accurate."
Accordng to Onuchic, once he knows there's a high probability that two amino acids came together at some point, he's constrained. If the sequence data tells him that there could be structure a, b, or c, he can then look to see which is consistent with the pair of contacts he now knows about from the genomic data, and eliminate the wrong predictions.
The new paper was one of three published by Onuchic and his colleagues this month. A second, also in PNAS, examines proteins that not only knot but sometimes form slipknots. (Read about that here.) The third, which appeared in PLoS One and on which Onuchic was a co-author, analyzes how the Interleukin-1 beta protein resolves the conflicting energetic demands of its residues as it folds.
All of this work brings Onuchic and his colleagues closer to their goal: To bring all the data they've accumulated on biological systems to bear on the treatment of cancer.
Eukaryotic cells like those in humans (and unlike those in simple bacteria) produce many thousands of proteins; with rapid advances in the capability to sequence genomes, the researchers hope to apply their technique to look for what causes diseases and how to cure them.
"I think DCA has enormous potential," Onuchic said. "The amount of genome data that's being created is growing exponentially. In the future, if we're patient, instead of comparing sequences of different bacteria as we do here, perhaps we can do time evolution of sequences. Then we can figure out if a particular disease mechanism comes from a pair of residues that switch at the same time - and instead of looking at different animals, we can see changes in one patient over time."
The research was supported by the National Science Foundation through the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics.
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With the loss of lives, freedoms and other things due to the COVID19 pandemic, there has been a rise in symptoms of anxiety and depression. This has led to the stigma around mental health being reduced, and mental health has become one of the major talking points in public health discourse in India and around the world. Workplaces and educational institutions are making more provisions for persons with mental illness, and the discourse is moving from one of shame to one of community and healing.
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warc | 202143 | In this episode, you’ll hear:
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warc | 202143 | Health experts these days often recommend walking 10,000 steps a day as a personal goal to fitness. It serves as a motivational guideline to push people to exercise and move more. Walking is chock full of benefits such as promoting cardiovascular health, building stronger lungs, muscles, and bones, and simply making you feel good and energized.
Walking 10,000 steps a day is often recommended as a simple motivational tool to help you focus your efforts throughout the day.
Although it sounds quite overwhelming at first, the goal is actually doable. It is equivalent to around eight kilometres, or one hour and 40 minutes walking, depending on your stride length and walking speed. Of course, you don’t have to do all the steps in one walk, but to achieve the daily 10,000-step goal you need to either do a 30-minute walk or the equivalent in other exercises.
Why 10,000 steps?
The goal of 10,000 steps each day is a great way to encourage yourself to get up and move more. It is a sensible goal embraced by health experts for improving your health and cutting back risks of disease.
There are plenty of benefits of walking more. Once you start moving, you get to experience the following 10 top health benefits.
Walking can: 1. Promote heart health
Taking walks regularly amplifies the amount of oxygen-filled blood being transported to your muscles. So the fitter you are, the more easily this occurs.
2. Strengthen your lungs
Daily physical activities fuels your lungs and surrounding muscles. The higher the rate and volume of oxygen is inhaled, the greater “VO2 max” you get. VO2 is a measurement that refers to the body’s ability to use oxygen efficiently, and the healthier you are, the higher your VO2 max.
3. Boost your concentration
Physical activity stimulates the release of feel-good hormones such as endorphins and also increased blood circulation to the brain, resulting in improved mental function. Besides being a mood booster, walking also increases brain activity, which in turn, enhances creativity, productivity, and focus.
4. Build stronger bones
Walking is a weight-bearing exercise that places added stress on your bones, resulting in improved density and stronger bones. Aside from promoting bone health, walking or running also betters muscle strength and coordination as well as balance which reduces your osteoporosis risks in later life.
5. Strengthen muscles
Walking tones the leg and helps in building leaner muscles which aid in burning more calories. This type of physical activity increases your range of motion which shifts the pressure and weight from your joints to your muscles, hence, fuelling muscle growth and strength.
6. Keep blood sugar levels at a healthier range
Doing moderate exercises like walking tend to make your heart beat faster and breathing a bit harder. Your muscles also use more glucose in your bloodstream. Over time, this can keep your blood sugar levels down and helps the insulin in your body work better.
7. Stabilize blood pressure
Getting in your daily steps can prevent high blood pressure by alleviating the stiffness of your blood vessels thereby encouraging blood to flow more freely.
8. Increase flexibility
Not only does walking help restore flexibility, but it can also increase lubrication and delivery of nutrition to your joints. When this happens, posture can be corrected, risks for injury lessened and the frequency of aches and pains experienced during the day are minimized.
9. Raise energy levels
Walking may be better than napping when it comes to bolstering energy levels and resisting fatigue. Studies show that regular exercise can increase energy levels while supporting the heart and maintaining circulation.
10. Uplift your mood
If depression or anxiety has you feeling tired and unmotivated throughout the day, walks can clear your mind, improve your mood and increase your energy. Also, it releases endorphins, serotonin and dopamine, all of which are key neurotransmitters that contribute to mood control.
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warc | 202143 | In this post, we learn that the Art of Strategy provides us with a template—model of leadership—for life experiences and dealing with conflict.
In Leadership As a Lens, we started a series on leadership models. And, to kick things off, we’re going back almost 2,500 years to learn from Sun Tzu… the great military strategist.
Why? You may ask.
First, Sun Tzu’s
The Art of Strategy is probably the earliest leadership text.
What’s more, it provides us with a template—model of leadership—for life experiences and dealing with conflict. Now, before you think this is for military leaders, let me tell you it’s definitely not.
It is about overcoming obstacles. Non-Negotiable Conflict
Conflict is costly. Conflict affects people. It affects businesses. Conflict puts obstacles in the way of progress. Does that sound like an everyday circumstance?
Those who are skilled in executing strategy, bend the strategy of others without conflict. – Sun Tzu
Well, I think it does.
Daily, in one way or another, we face conflict in work and our personal lives. And, this is where Sun Tzu can help us.
The Art of Strategy is about resolving everyday conflicts. Those non-negotiable conflicts that stop us growing.
These affect our inner self, the place we live, our place of work, our deeply personal relationships, and those we work with every day. A destructive relationship, poor health or a dead-end job cannot be resolved through compromise. They are obstacles that must be overcome.
The Art of Strategy is to bend others to your cause without coming to conflict. And, it all begins with an understanding of the opponent.
The Original Situational Leadership
Hersey and Blanchard may have coined situational leadership theory, but it was Sun Tzu who first understood its significance.
Of course, Hersey and Blanchard’s model of situational leadership is not about non-negotiable conflict. It’s about adapting leadership styles according to the situation.
But to achieve this… we need a good awareness of the facts.
And so, Sun Tzu believed we must fully understand a situation before even considering confrontation. This means we:
are clear about our goals and those of our opponent, have confidence in the probity and benefit of those goals, assess the difficulty of the challenge, and grasp the courage and determination of all parties to see them through. | 2,434 | 1,158 | 4,935.260794 |
warc | 202143 | Lines not to blame, says SAL as ACCC opens probe into soaring freight rates
Competition authorities in Australia have opened a joint investigation into box terminal and shipping line ...
Australia’s competition authority the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) is considering an appeal against a federal court ruling it claims will reduce competition between ports.
Any appeal will need to be lodged by tomorrow to meet the 28-day rule, unless the court agrees an extension, following the judgement given on 29 June, but only made public last week.
The original court case, instigated by the ACCC in 2018, judged whether a deal between the state of New South Wales (NSW) and Port Botany and its subsidiaries was illegal.
The NSW Government privatised Port Botany and Port Kembla in May 2013 and agreements, known as port commitment deeds, were entered into as part of the privatisation process.
The Botany and Kembla port commitment deeds oblige the state of NSW to compensate the operators of Port Botany and Port Kembla if container traffic at the port of Newcastle exceeded 30,000 teu a year, with adjustments made for the annual growth rate. The deal was meant to last 50 years, but was renewed when the port of Newcastle was privatised just one year later.
The ACCC argued that the port commitment deeds were anti-competitive and therefore illegal, but the judge at the federal court disagreed and ruled in favour of the NSW state and Port Botany.
ACCC chair Rod Sims said: “This judgment provides an enormous hurdle for the port of Newcastle to develop a container terminal to compete with Port Botany and Port Kembla, because of financial consequences arising from the deeds. Less competition usually results in higher charges for businesses and consumers.”
Under the deeds agreed by NSW and its terminal operators, the state would pay the port handling fee for every container handled over the 30,000 teu cap, effectively doubling the cost of moving containers at Newcastle.
“We alleged that making these agreements, containing provisions which would effectively compensate Port Kembla and Port Botany if the port of Newcastle developed a container terminal, was anti-competitive and illegal,” Mr Sims said.
He added that agreements such as the port commitment deeds offered port operators in NSW “an effective monopoly for the next 50 years”.
Meanwhile, the port of Newcastle has vowed to push ahead with its container terminal expansion plans, arguing that the development is “vital for future efficient terminal operations in the region”.
Port CEO Craig Carmody said:
“Any suggestion that Newcastle wouldn’t proceed to build the container terminal if the restrictions were lifted are baseless and misleading. Port of Newcastle maintains its real-world view that a container terminal is entirely viable – and necessary – at the port.
“The judgment clearly accepts that port of Newcastle has the ability to compete in the same market as Port Botany. The only factor preventing the port from building the container terminal is the unfair restrictions placed on container movement above a teu cap at the port of Newcastle.” | 3,238 | 1,494 | 6,818.43909 |
warc | 202143 | Each year, around 39,000,000 people need medical attention for a variety of personal injuries. Even more concerning is the fact that accidental injuries and errors in medical care are the third leading cause of death in the US. Unintentional injuries affect millions every year. Many people decide to file personal injury claims in order to receive compensation.
There are many accidental injuries that can occur, and some have a lasting effect on the lives of people. The type of injury is what determines whether a personal injury claim can be filed. We’ll be discussing the most common personal injuries claims in this article.
1. Car Accident Claims
Personal injury claims arising from car accidents are the most common in the US. Millions of Americans are injured each year in car accidents. To receive compensation, most people decide to file personal injuries lawsuits.
Drivers under the influence or distracted drivers using their phones could be the cause of an accident. This could include cars, trucks, and motorbikes as well as buses and pedestrians. It can sometimes be difficult to prove fault. In such cases, it is crucial that victims have reliable legal assistance representation. This will make it possible to reach a settlement, if not simpler.
Most personal injury lawsuits hold the driver responsible for any accidents. They must accept responsibility for their injuries.
2. Slip-and-fall Accidents
Slip-and-fall accidents can be dangerous. They can cause injury to the neck, back, and arms as well as injuries to the legs, shoulders, heads, and sometimes the head. Hip fractures and brain injuries are most common from falls.
Victims often have to work long hours. Some suffer permanent injuries that can affect their entire lives. Personal injury cases are crucial in such cases. It is essential to have a professional law firm such as Sweet Law Firms.
3. Medical Malpractice
Patients can sustain severe injuries from medical malpractice, negligence, or carelessness by doctors, nurses, or other medical professionals. Medical malpractice claims for personal injury are most common when healthcare professionals fail to provide competent care.
Sometimes, healthcare professionals make mistakes, even if they are not intentional. They can cause serious injuries to the patient that have a negative impact on their life. These cases can be very complex. These cases could include surgical errors, birth injuries or misdiagnosis.
4. Assault
Society is becoming more violent every day. Gun-related assault injuries are the most common type of personal injury claim for assault. Assaults, unlike other types of personal injury claims most people are familiar with, are not usually caused by negligence.
When a person hurts another person, it is called an assault injury. Usually, assault personal injury claims will include a criminal case against the perpetrator.
5. Workplace Accidents
Employees who are injured while on the job can file workplace personal injury claims. These injuries can be caused by unsafe work conditions, defective equipment, or inadequate training. This type of injury is the most common and results in the largest number of personal injury cases.
Workers’ compensation policies in the US cover workplace injuries. Personal injury lawsuits are filed by injured workers to seek compensation for lost income and medical expenses. Material movers, nursing assistants, and trailer drivers are some of the most common jobs that suffer workplace injuries.
Employers must offer benefits to injured workers and a lump-sum benefit for partial or permanent disability. An experienced worker’s compensation lawyer will be able to help you get a fair settlement.
This post was written by Kelly-Ann Jenkins of Jenkins Law P.L. Kelly-Ann is an
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warc | 202143 | As a medical condition, neuropathic pain is one of the most difficult to survive. When a person feels neuropathic pain, they may suffer a lot of problems. There are many underlying causes that can trigger nerve pain.
If you are suffering from nerve pain, you must know that it can appear in different types, like tingling, burning, electric, and pins-and-needles. Many people are suffering from this pain and, the surprising thing is that they have no idea about what type of pain it is.
There are millions of people who are suffering from different types of nerve pain. Medicines such as
Gabapentin 600 mg can improve the symptoms of nerve pain. Reasons behind nerve pain
There are many reasons behind having nerve pain. There are some diseases that can trigger nerve pain. Some illnesses can cause different types of pain, such as diabetes, HIV, trauma, etc.
How does diabetes cause neuropathic pain?
Diabetes can harm the nerves and, that nerve damage is known as neuropathy. These things can affect the different body parts like feet, legs, arms, back, etc. Sometimes it also affects your eyes and vision. When your blood sugar level is under control, you should see a reduction in your initial symptoms.
Diabetes can causes neuropathy like peripheral neuropathy, autonomic neuropathy, proximal neuropathy, focal neuropathy, and other nerve damages.
Cancer
Cancer is also a general cause of neuropathic pain. Symptoms of cancer can trigger nerve pain and, cancer treatment also can cause nerve pain. Three types of nerves, sensory, motor, and autonomic, have chances to affect by cancer. A patient with cancer suffer from peripheral neuropathy, so there is more chance to face additional issues to come out.
Trauma
When you have an injury, it is common to experience nerve pain. Following a traumatic event, approximately 50 percent of people experience pain. Many patients who suffer from chronic pain after a traumatic event have nerve injuries that are either identified or undiscovered.
Celiac disease
Celiac disorder is a digestive disorder that can also cause nerve damage. People with celiac disease were 2.5 times more likely than the general population to be diagnosed with nerve damage. People with this disease can generally suffer from peripheral neuropathy. There was no evidence of a causal relationship between these two things. People can control this disease by some specific diet.
Alcohol and nerve pain
Alcoholic neuropathy is a serious health condition that develops as a result of excessive alcohol consumption. Nerve damage leads to strange feelings in the extremities, decreased movement, and loss of some body functions. Early diagnosis and treatment can lessen the chance of lifelong impairment.
Excessive alcohol consumption might result in tingling sensations in the limbs of the individual who has drunk the alcohol. Alcohol causes damage to the peripheral nerves, which results in this condition. These nerves are responsible for connecting the brain and spinal cord to the muscles, limbs, and sensory organs of the body. The brain can regulate the body and receive sensory information via the peripheral nerves.
Alcoholic neuropathy occurs when alcohol causes damage to the peripheral nerves. People who regularly drink extensively are at risk of getting this illness.
Gabapentin 600 generally prescribes to reduce the pain who are suffering from this alcoholic neuropathy. Physical injuries and nerve pain
There are more possibilities for having neuropathic pain when a person faces injuries to the tissues, joints, and muscles. Sometimes the injuries recover with time, but the damage to the nervous system is not. For several years after the injury, you might have experienced persistent pain.
Major accidents or injuries damage or spine, and this damage leads you to neuropathic pain. Spinal cord compression or herniated discs damage the nerve fibers which are available around the spine.
Treatment of nerve pain Gabapentin 600mg can treat various neuropathy and, you have to take these medications under your doctor’s guidance.
When the reason behind your nerve pain is other health conditions like diabetes, HIV, or cancer, you must have to treat them first. You have to treat the root cause of this pain first. Treatments for the underlying condition may or may not be effective in relieving your pain. Nerve pain may require treatment that is independent of the disease that is causing it.
Nerve pain can treat with some effective and appropriate treatment, but it depends on the patients’ health condition, the underlying cause, and the dangers of potential side effects.
If you’re experiencing nerve pain, changing your habits could help you feel better and alleviate some of the sufferings. Exercise, a nutritious diet, quitting smoking, and taking the time to practice relaxation techniques can all help to reduce stress.
The bottom line
As we see, nerve pain can trigger by many causes, many diseases too. If you can get control over the nerve pain triggers, you can get relief from neuropathic pain. You can manage neuropathic pain with medications, diet, lifestyles, etc. | 5,164 | 2,177 | 12,147.378962 |
warc | 202143 | Congressional Record — October 9, 1975
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The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. McDONALD), is recognized for 30 minutes.
Mr. McDONALD of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, the average American is acutely aware that he is rapidly losing his liberty. Government takes 48 percent of his income in taxes, while inflation devalues the remaining 52 percent. The marvelous, highly productive economy, of which he is a part, once free, is now grinding to
a halt under the massive weight of Government controls. Decisions that were once his to make the kind of food he eats, the kind of car he drives, how and where his children are educated-are now being made by Government bureau crats.
In short, he is losing control over his life and faces a bleak and uncertain future. But what can he do about it? The Government has grown so huge and complex that he feels helpless in attempting to control it. Where would he begin. Going about it piecemeal–abolishing a welfare program here, a regulation there, and restoring a few freedoms along the way-would take forever. There is, however, a much faster and simpler way of reducing the size and power of Government and restoring individual liberties: amend the Contsitution to reinstate the constitutionally limited Government envisioned by our Founding Fathers. The Constitution is a document designed to limit the power of Government and it is because Government has grown far outside the bounds of the Constitution that we are losing our liberty. An amendment that restored proper limits on Government power would automatically eliminate programs. and policies that have infringed on the rights and freedoms of Americans. Such an amendment already exists. It was introduced in the present Congress as House Joint Resolution 23 by JOHN ROUSSELOT of California, STEVE SYMMS of Idaho, and myself. Known as the Liberty amendment, it has been introduced in previous Congresses and has been approved by the legislatures of seven States, including my own State of Georgia. Its text is as follows: SEc. 1. The Government of the United States shall not engage in any business, professional, commercial, financial, or industrial enterprise except as specified in the Constitution. SEc. 2. The constitution or laws of any State, or the laws of the United States, shall not be subject to the terms of any foreign or domestic agreement which would abrogate this amendment. SEC. 3. The activities of the United States Government which violate the intent and purposes of this amendment shall, within a period of three years from the date of the ratification of this amendment, be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected shall be sold. SEC. 4. Three years after the ratification of this amendment the sixteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of the United States shall stand repealed and thereafter Congress shall not levy taxes on personal incomes, estates, and/or gifts.
Since its introduction on January 14 of this year, I have had numerous requests for information on just what it would accomplish. Often these requests are in the form of questions, the answers to which in turn generate further questions. In response, I have prepared the following series of questions and answers on the Liberty amendment.
1. “What is the Liberty amendment?” The Liberty amendment is a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution which would put an end to the Government engaging in business enterprises that are not constitutionally authorized.
Getting the Government out of these businesses, returning them to State jurisdiction and private taxpaying enterprise, would cut the cost of Government more than half, and thereby end the need for the Federal individual income tax, which would be repealed.
The first section provides: The Government of the United States shall not engage In any business, professional, commercial, financial or industrial enterprise except as specified in the Constitution, This clause will cut the cost of Government in half. making possible the repeal of the 16th-income tax-amendment, cut the national debt tremendously, get us back to a balanced budget and stop inflation. 2. “Just what are some of the bustnesses the Government is in? Name a few.” Some of the larger are the Commodity Credit Corporation, a loan company; the Tennessee Valley Authority, a gigantic producer and distributor of electric power and fertilizer; and the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, an intrusion into the insurance field. The book. “Where the Money Went,” by Willis Stone, gives the details of these and many more and lists over 500 others. 3. “But how about all those people who will lose their jobs if the Liberty amendment is adopted? What will they do?” Employees of Government businesses that are bought will be better off than before because under private ownership and management the business will prosper. This happened in the case of the General Aniline & Film Co.-now the GAF_-and others already sold. Employees of Government businesses with no valid economic purpose, will probably have to look for other jobs, but if they want work they will have no problems. When people have money now taken by the income tax, their increased purchasing power will expand all kinds of business which will create a great need for more employees. There will be more jobs than people to fill them. 4. “How would you get the Government out of these businesses? Who would buy them?” These business enterprises would be bought by people who want to invest their money, just as other businesses are bought and sold. In 1965 the General Aniline & Film Co., which the Government seized at the beginning of World War II, was sold as a stock corporation. The shares were offered on the open market, and in 1 day 11 million shares of stock were bought for more than $300 million. A few years earlier the Inland Waterways Corp. was sold in a matter of days for $11 million, although its book value at the time was only slightly over $3 million. Any businesses that have a valid economic reason for existing would be salable. Those which are economically unsound and guaranteed money losers would be liquidated through the sale of their assets. The proceeds of these sales would reduce our national debt by approximately 25 percent. All of this would make practical the
fourth section of the Liberty amendment which provides:
Congress shall not levy taxes on personal incomes, estates and/or gifts. 5. “How can Government get along if the income tax is repealed? What will they do for money?” The latest Federal budget shows that individual income taxes supply only 42 percent of the Federal revenue; the rest comes from other sources. There is ample documentation to prove that getting the Federal Government out of these unauthorized businesses would cut the cost of Government at least 50 percent, while revenue is reduced only 42 percent, would give a surplus of 8 percent. 6. “Is the only purpose of the Liberty Amendment just to get the Government out of business and to repeal the income tax?”. Partially. The Liberty Amendment will get the Government out of those businesses it operates without constitutional authority. As a consequence, Government costs will be reduced to such an extent that the Federal Government will not need the personal income tax. The main purpose of the Liberty Amendment. however, is to restore the Constitution to full force and effect. Then the Government will be confined to the business of governing of protecting individual liberties and no longer compete with its own citizens. By confining the Government to its constitutional functions, we solve our major probleminflation. Repeal of the income tax will increase take home pay 20 percent without changing the rate of pay or the price of things. 7. “Why amend the Constitution? Is not there an easier and quicker way?” In almost two centuries our Constitution has been amended a comparatively few times. The first 10 amendments Bill of Rights were added almost immediately after the Constitution was ratified-in December, 1791-and there have been only 16 added since then. This may seem too slow, but any amendment is unique in that it supersedes anything preceding it which is contrary to it. Only through an amendment, will we be able to correct the present distortion of our basic law. The Liberty Amendment will clarify the terms of our freedom, rectify the current conflict between Government and people, define our economic liberties and force the Government to abide by that definition. The 16th amendment a direct tax upon incomescan only be nullified by another constitutional amendment which repeals it. There is no other way. 8. “You talk of Government taking away our freedoms. What freedoms have I lost?” Year after year our freedoms have been shrinking, by restriction upon restriction, tax upon tax, edict upon edict. Here are a few of the many freedoms lost which were once considered your natural right as Americans. You do not have sound money any more. You are not free to plan your future as inflation makes your dollar buy less and less.
You can neither rent, sell, buy, nor exchange without political control.
Neither an employer nor an employee can establish a wage by mutual consent. You can not operate a business without Government consent and restrictions, and without acting as tax collector. A farmer can no longer grow crops without permission. A doctor can no longer keep his patient’s history confidential, or serve patients without Government intervention. You no longer can receive a full day’s pay for a full day’s work. You no longer have any real privacy. Bank accounts are open to scrutiny, personal affairs are fed into computers, and the last vestiges of privacy are fading into memory. Your private life is no longer private. 9. “If Government continues to grow bigger and bigger, what is going to be the outcome?” The answer is simple. Growing at its present rate, there is but one ultimate answerwe shall soon have a totalitarian government. Whether we call it communism or by some other name, the despotism imposed will be as terrifying as any other in history. This trend can be reversed through the application of the Liberty Amendment. 10. “Haven’t there always been waste and corruption in government?” Waste and corruption in government are nothing new. The bigger government grows, the greater are the opportunities for pork-barrel politics, and the takeover of economic power and resources. It was this that caused the American Revolution, and our Founding Fathers tried to prevent its recurrence through our Constitution of strictly limited powers. The Liberty Amendment is designed to bring these violations of the Constitution to a screeching halt. 11. “Was the progressive income tax invented by Karl Marx?” No, Karl Marx did not invent it. The progressive income tax is almost as old as recorded history, and is the historic way by which people have been subjugated. Every tyrant in history has used it successfully, in one way or another, so Karl Marx included it as one of his 10 rules in the Communist Manifesto. The men who drafted our Constitution carefully prohibited a progressive income tax, but this was nullified in 1913. Therefore, the income tax is part of the Constitution and part of our law and the only way to get rid of it is through another amendment. 12. “Is not the Federal income tax unconstitutional?” The Federal income tax is completely constitutional as long as we have the 16th amendment. The state that it is unconstitutional is wishful thinking. All of the hideous consequences of the 16th amendment will remain with us until it is repealed as the Liberty Amendment provides. 13. “Is not the progressive income tax the fairest kind of tax because it is based on ability to pay?” It may be made to sound fair, but it does not work that way. Actually, it is a form of slavery, draining the life energy
of a person, penalizing success, and destroying initiative.
If you are poor enough, you do not pay; and if you are rich enough, you do not pay either. If you are a responsible productive worker, you carry the load. Tax foundation figures prove you work until the middle of May each year just to pay taxes. 14. “Why eliminate the personal income tax? Why not reduce taxes gradually?” This question is usually asked to divert attention from the Liberty amendment, designed to cut spending not authorized by the Constitution, which will remove the need for the income tax. Eliminating the Federal income tax is the only way to get tax relief for the people. Political candidates may talk about cutting taxes, but historically this never happens. The application of the Liberty amendment can actually do it. 15. “But what will replace the income tax?” Nothing need replace the income tax. Reduced spending imposed by the Liberty amendment will remove the need for income taxes. Recent Government budgets estimate that only 42 percent of revenue comes from individual income taxes. Excise taxes, duties, and imposts and other miscellaneous revenues provide the other 58 percent of revenues. The amendment will cut spending 50 percent, removing the need for income taxes and make tax cuts possible in other areas. 16. “How are you going about getting the Liberty amendment passed?” The fifth article of the Constitution prescribes two valid methods for amending the Constitution. An amendment may be proposed by two-thirds of both Houses of Congress concurring; or the legislatures of two-thirds of the several States-34 may require Congress to call a Constitutional Convention to propose such amendments, which, in either case, become a part of the Constitution when three-quarters-38 States-ratify a proposed amendment. The Liberty Amendment resolution is being advanced in both ways. It is now pending in Congress as House Joint Resolution 23. It has also been approved by the Legislatures in seven of the sovereign States and is pending in several others. 17. “Why are you going to State legislatures to amend the Federal Constitution?” The fifth article of the Constitution provides this method of causing the amendments to be proposed. Then, too, the States must eventually ratify to make it a part of the Constitution. This country consists of a union of sovereign States which hold the only power to ratify amendments and State legislatures hold concurrent power under the Constitution to initiate such amendments as they, the States and the people within them, require. 18. “Who’s behind the Liberty Amendment? Where does the money come from?” The folks behind the Liberty Amendment are just ordinary people with an extraordinary desire to hold fast to the Ideals on which this country was founded. The organization is nonpollti-
cal, nonpartisan, nonbigoted, nonsectardan, and certainly nonprofitable. Its aim is to educate the public on the values of the Constitution and the means of restoring it before it is too late. Neither big business nor big labor, per se, has subscribed to the Liberty Amendment. Its financial support depends upon contributionssome small, some larger-from folks in every State. With the exception of an understaffed headquarters office, everyone is an unpaid volunteer, including national chairman, directors, State chairmen, committeemen and members. 19. “Why allow only 3 years for the Government to sell all those businesses? Won’t they need more time than?”
Section 3 of the Liberty Amendment specifies that: “The activities of the United States Government which violate the Intent and purposes of this amendment shall, within period of three years from the date of the ratification of this amendment, be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected shall be sold.” Three years is adequate and we have ample proof of it. Inland Waterways Corp. was sold in a matter of days. The General Aniline and Film Corp., nationalized in World War II, was sold on the open market in a single day for more than $300,000,000. The liquidation of the entire synthetic rubber industry, was accomplished and fully paid for by private enterprise in less than 9 months. These and many other cases are discussed in the book, “Where the Money Went.” Properties and facilities affected that are not sold within the 3 years will revert to state jurisdiction. 20. “I think the Liberty Amendment is a good idea, but isn’t it too late to do anything?” No. It is not too late. It is never too late to stop the process of political confiscation as long as the amendment process can still be employed. 21. “Why do politicians make wild promises to give ‘something to everybody’ even when they know they cannot according to the Constitution?” Men of high integrity in their personal lives often enter politics and adopt a new set of values in a game of bargaining for power. When they acquire a thirst for power, they resent being hampered by the Constitution, the Liberty Amendment, or anything else. Legislators can be restrained, however, by the voter at the polls who will vote against every candidate who violates the Constitution. Know what the Constitution guarantees, and then require all candidates and officeholders to support basic American principles. 22. “Ts not the Constitution too oldfashioned for today’s complex, computerized society?” Our Constitution, written almost 200 years ago, appears made for today’s world which accents youth and change. The Constitution of the United States is a most revolutionary document, because it was based upon the radical idea that men should be left largely free to pursue their own affairs. The men who drafted the Constitution foresaw that our life style would change, but human nature would not.
They built into the Constitution safeguards to make it possible for people to control the avarice and bullying instincts of politicians when they taste power. As Thomas Jefferson said:
Let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. 23. “Does the ‘general welfare’ clause in the Constitution mean that the Government is responsible for our wellbeing?” Probably one of the most misused phrases is the “general welfare clause.” It is often taken out of context and distorted unmercifully. The term “general welfare” appears only twice in the Constitution: once, in the Preamble as one of the general purposes of the Constitution, and again in article 1, section 8, as one of the reasons why the Constitution grants to Congress certain specifled powers. The two words general welfare are just two descriptive words in a phrase, within a clause, within a single sentence which is 18 paragraphs in length. It is used by the unscrupulous as a peg on which to hang their pet schemes which violate the intent and purposes of the Constitution. 24. “Do you think the courts that now ignore the Constitution will abide by the terms of the Liberty Amendment when it is added to the Constitution?” Of course they will. Once the people speak, and the Liberty Amendment is added to the Constitution, all courts and other Federal agencies will be compelled to abide by it. As a classic precedent for this: more than a century ago slavery was lawful in certain States. The courts were ruling that it was lawful in other States, regardless of State laws and State constitutions. This was the conflict which brought about the Civil War. The 13th amendment resolved the question by abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude. That amendment invalidated hundreds of court decisions and statutes, and the question was settled with apparent permanence. Similarly, the Liberty Amendment will restore the equities and justice of the Constitution as written and wipe out all court decisions, statutes, Executive orders, or bureaucratic directives and regulations which are contrary to it. 25. “I only Congress has the power to write Federal laws, where does the President get his authority to issue Executive Orders, such as ceilings on rents, prices, and wages. And how about all these other edicts?” Executive orders originally were issued by the Chief Executive to members of the executive branch relating to the conduct of their assigned duties. This has changed until now they have the power of law. The fact that it has been accepted as law by the administration does not make it any more legal. An Executive order which assumes 8 legislative power is improper as it has no constitutional authority. The President has no legitimate power to issue Executive orders that legislate. Neither does any agency of Government have any power to issue “regulations” which legislate. Congress alone has the power to legislate, as provided for in article 1, sec-
tion. 1 of the Constitution and limited as article 6, paragraph 2 provides.
26. “The book, ‘Where the Money Went,’ says the Patent Office, the Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Department, and other agencies will be affected by the Liberty amendment. Would these have to be sold?” No, these agencies and a great many a others on the list will not be abolished, because they do have important constitutional functions, but those activities which are not constitutionally authorized will end. These agencies appear in the book because their activities have extended into areas not constitutionally authorized. The Patent Office, for instance, has produced electronic equipment in competition with private enterprise. The Defense Department is operating railroads, barge lines, hotels, restaurants, saloons, and they even manufacture ladies underwear, The Central Intelligence Agency, according to the U.S. budget, is engaged also in roadbuilding, real estate, and property management. 27. “Who, other than the Federal Government, could possibly carry out the really big jobs, such as flood control, or drought relief?” Individuals, local districts, and States have the ability to handle all such problems themselves without depending upon Washington, D.C. Actually, the Federal Government spends our tax money lavishly, while pretending to do for us what we can do better for ourselves. The big jobs they undertake almost invariably are badly done and cost twice as much as they should. When a crisis arises the problems are of a local nature, interest is high, and the people directly affected are far better able to know and work out their own problems than someone from the Federal Government. Hoover Dam was built by private enterprise, whereas Tennessee Valley Authority was built by the Federal Government and so far it has cost the taxpayers billions of dollars. Our Constitution grants to the Federal Government no authority to take on responsibility for such things as disaster relief or flood control. 28. “How could local and State government get along without Federal aid to finance such things as care of the handicapped and the needy?” The only way the people within our States and localities can ever handle these local problems is by stopping federal intrusion into our domestic affairs. The Federal Government’s job is to govern and regulate and protect us from external dangers. It is failing in this, its assigned task, while assuming the power to invade sovereign States to meddle in the problems of people and their localities. It is commonly believed that the Federal Government owes its citizens help in every form, but it has no such authority. When the Federal Government gives to one person, it must take from someone else. If you are a taxpayer, it is your money that is being thus misused. As 8 people, Americans are the first to rush to the aid of those less fortunate. If we
could take home a full pay check, we would provide our local facilities and private charities with the means for handling all problems of the handicapped and needy.
29. “Will the Liberty amendment force use to abandon such projects as space exploration and super-highways?” Not necessarily. It will return to the people only those activities which the Federal Government has taken over without constitutional authority. A great highway system was built under local jurisdiction and paid for by local taxes or gasoline taxes at the pump. These expanded from country lanes to superhighways, and only recently has the Federal Government invaded this field, expanding the costs and producing not a single mile of road that could not have been done better within the local jurisdiction at far less cost. The Federal Government has a valid interest in space from a military standpoint, but the assumption that only Government can carry through large projects is not correct. For example, Telstar was designed, built, and launched by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. 30. “Do you not believe that Federal aid to education is essential if every child is to have an equal opportunity?” No one will dispute that every child should have a good education. The question is, whose responsibility is it? The Constitution clearly does NOT give that responsibility to the Federal Government, therefore Federal aid to education lacks constitutional basis. “Education” per se is not mentioned in the Constitution, and, consequently under the 10th amendment, this activity is reserved to the States. Federal aid to education produces Federal control of education; and this has proved most detrimental. 31. “How will the Liberty amendment affect civil right for all minority groups?” When the Constitution is restored, everyone, regardless of race, will enjoy equity and equality before the law. The Liberty Amendment is a friend to all minority groups, for its purpose is to preserve and guarantee true civil rights to all people equally. Some people have been encouraged by certain politicians to expect very unequal “civil rights,” through the enactment of special interest laws and special subsidies. The only rights anyone is guaranteed as a U.S. citizen are those that are granted by legal means, and these clearly delineated in the Constitution. 32. “What effect, if any, will the Liberty Amendment have on veterans’ benefits?” Almost every family numbers a veteran among its members. Adding the Liberty Amendment to the Constitution would in no way nullify the obligation of Congress to recruit and provide for an armed force and to care for that force and everyone in it. Service-connected disabilities would be an obligation, as always, and the powers and obligations to care for the Armed Forces would be in no way affected. The abuses developed in this fleld will, of course, stop.
33. “How will the Liberty Amendment affect the Indian lands, the Indians and their reservations?”
The Liberty Amendment will emancipate Indians, as the 13th amendment emancipated the slaves in 1863. Few people realize the utter poverty of the Indians who are wards of Government. The incident at Wounded Knee brought attention to the plight of the American Indians, who are supposed to own their own reservation land, but have no real control of it. The Bureau of Indian Affairs controls those lands, and the Indians cannot improve their environment or themselves. Indians must be elevated to the status of first-class citizens, rather than wards of the Government. Because the Liberty Amendment deals specifically with economic freedom for all people, the Indians will be set free free to administer their own lands, to improve, develop, buy and sell-just the same as every other person in this country. 34. “If the Federal urban renewal program should end, how could we possibly modernize our cities?” The modernization of cities must rest with the people, at the local level of government, for that responsibility is not given to the Federal Government under the Constitution. The Federal urban renewal program has used our tax dollars to drive out property owners, often in the lower income group, and then turn them over to affluent and generally politically powerful persons for renewal devised by the bureaucrats. Private citizens, unhampered by the horrendous burden of taxes, Government restrictions and regulations, would pridefully invest their money and effort to keep their cities up to date. 35. “What will bappen to farm subsidies? Can the American farmer survive without help from the Federal Government?” The farm subsidy program is probably the most tragic example of what happens when government disregards the Constitution and intervenes in free enterprise. Farm subsidies have raised the price of farm products and consequently increased the consumer’s food bill. The bulk of the billions in subsidies go to the factory-type operations which have driven out the real farmers. And every farmer-big and small–has lost the freedom to plant the crops of his choice and sell the product of his toil at the best possible price in the free market. John Scott of Gilby, N.C., states the case: We who remain on the farms and ranches of this nation are fighting for survival. We simply cannot endure a continuation of the restrictions, regulations, and meddling that beset us these forty years. We need An end to federal farm programs We ask for freedom to run our own farm business; for a free market of supply and demand. And we, who pay the food bill, ask for the same. 36. “What about the social security system under the Liberty amendment?” Until recently there were few dissenting voices on the subject of social security, but it is now being, given much
scrutiny. The facts now being revealed show social security is: First, not insurance because the so-called premiums we are forced to pay are really a tax on wages, paid into a general fund. Then Congress appropriates those funds to many Government agencies. The tax on wages and funds appropriated to social security are not necessarily similar. Second, the operation is not social, because it is compulsory. Third, it is not secure, as it is subject to any alteration at any time, and there is no contract. Neither is it solvent, because it operates without funding as required of insurance companies, and is, therefore, hopelessly in debt with contingent liabilities of almost half a trillion dollars.
Unfortunately, social security is so many different things that its ultimate fate must be left to the Supreme Court for decision. If the Supreme Court decides it is not constitutional, benefits will stop instantly, which would be a tragic situation for many elder citizens. The Liberty amendment, on the other hand, provides 3 years in which to transfer the operation from unfunded political mismanagement to funded, ecomonically sound, private management, controlled by law so that present and future beneficiaries will go right on receiving their checks. 37. “What about medicare? Will this be eliminated by the Liberty amendment?” The “medicare” program is similar to that of the social security system as a whole. With or without the Liberty Amendment the Supreme Court will some day have to settle the question. With the Liberty amendment in force, the basic structure can be returned tO private enterprise which has adequate medical and hospital plans working advantageously. The present system is unfunded and deeply in debt because of its contingent liabilities. Actually, all our people will be in much better position with private insurers, a under a firm contract supervised by law. 38. “‘Is not the Federal Government responsibile for seeing our air and water is not polluted?” Polluted water and smog-filled air is of deepest concern to the people of the community. Only they can solve the problem. Absentee bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. can not. As an example, Pittsburgh was once our dirtiest city and politicians kept it that way. A Smoke Committee was organized by private manufacturers and industrialists and whipped the problem, with the result that today it is a clean city. The same can be done elsewhere. 39. “Our entire transportation system is in terrible shape, particularly railroads and local rapid transit operations. If the Federal Government does not take over and operate our transportation, who will?” Once upon a time we had the most efficient transportation system the world ever knew, all built and operated by private enterprise. Over an interval of a great many years, our local and national systems have been destroyed by the strategy of freezing revenue while increasing costs and taxes to the point of bankruptcy. This has been followed by
a “takeover” by the same political schemers and bunglers who created the problem, pretending to save them “for the people.”
The only solution is to confine the Government to constitutional limits and permit the people themselves to build the network of transportation needed by today’s mobile millions. 40. “If the Liberty amendment gets the Government out of business, what will prevent large companies and wealthy individuals from creating monopolies?” Competition in a free market prevents monopolies, because the rewards for production, invention, development, and service are profits. Profits are dependent upon giving the customer what he needs or wants to survive. If one fails to serve the customer, he is out of business and his competition takes over. The exception to this is when poutical pressure is applied, and politicians take over. Watergate illustrated how this system works. The Liberty amendment would tend to eliminate monopoly and open up a truly free market. 41. “How did the Federal Government get so much land? What will happen to all the ‘public lands’ under the Liberty amendment?” The Federal Government had no authority to hold back any public lands from the States as they were created, or to “take” any land in any State except as the Constitution provides. Herbstreith & King’s book, “Action for Americans,” tells how much land Government has taken. The Constitution confirmed the terms of the Northwest Ordinance. All States were to come into the Union with rights and powers equal to the original Statesin which the Federal Government had no property rights whatsoever-except first, as land might be purchased, second, with the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, and third, for agreed upon and needful purposes, such as arsenals, magazines, forts, dockyards, et cetera. Now we find that only two-tenths of 1 percent of Alaska was originally subject to the jurisdiction of the State. In Nevada the Federal Government holds 87 percent of the land area, in Utah 66 percent, and in Oregon 52 percent, in Idaho 64 percent, and in California 45 percent of the land area. Under the Liberty amendment the 40 percent of the land area now under Federal control will AN GEREBE be restored to State jurisdiction. 42. “Much of the land under Federal control seems to be worthless desert or rugged mountains. Who would buy land like that?” Land that appears worthless to one may be highly regarded by another. An example is the land just north of the California-Mexico border which was the most barren area imaginable, but men of vision saw possibilities in this arid desert land well below sea level, and now the Imperial Valley is a garden without compare. There is no worthless land. 43. “T private land developers get control of this land, would not they destroy the natural beauties and add to the problems of ecology?” Federally controlled lands, turned back
to State jurisdiction, will be under the watchful eye of the people most concerned with preserving their beauty and usefulness. State and local authorities will make the laws regarding them. An absentee landlord in Washington is not as concerned with the future of the land as are the people of the community involved.
44. “What will happen to our national parks and forests when the Liberty amendment is adopted?” There is no reason to fear that parks and forests will be destroyed because they will be in State jurisdiction. There is nothing to indicate that Federal control has any merit. State, city, and county parks are generally better maintained then national parks, because the local interest is higher. The same may be said of forests. Records show that the ravages of fire and disease in a national forest are far greater than in State forests, and greater in State forests than in private forests. The obvious reason is that trees in a private forest represent a salable crop, while in public hands they are an avenue to political power. 15. “Can the States be trusted to maintain their parks and monuments and preserve these for posterity?” Under the Constitution each State was sovereign and held complete jurisdiction over the land and activities within its boundaries. As the Parks and Monuments are located within States, the States are naturally better stewards of their own property than any Federal agency could be. The Constitution intended the State would hold exclusive jurisdiction over all land and activities within its own boundaries. The Liberty amendment will restore that concept. 46. “What will be the effect on the Federal Trade Commission when the Liberty amendment is put into operation?” According to the U.S. Government Organizational Manual of 1971-72 (page 439) , the Federal Trade Commission was established to “promote free and fair competition in interstate commerce through prevention of price-fixing agreements, boycotts, combinations in restraint of trade, and other unfair methods of competition.” Nice words, but this agency has become, along with others, the proponent of price fixing, boycotts, and various restraints of trade that hamper private enterprise. This may well be an attempt to cripple private enterprise and clamp a tighter political grip on private affairs. Under the Liberty amendment the Federal Trade Commission will hold limited regulatory powers. 47. “How will the application of the Liberty amendment affect the Federal Communications Commission?” The Federal Communications Commission holds some valid regulatory powers, but they have no constitutional authority to control, punish, or dismember any channels of communication. Like so many Government agencies, the Federal Communications Commission has assumed powers that it simply does not have. Media slanting is one of these. The Liberty amendment will stop the despotic control of broadcasting privi-
leges of stations at odds with FCC bias. 48. “What about the effect of the Liberty amendment on the Labor Relations Board?”
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 authorized a National Labor Relations Board to investigate and settle labor disputes. It has no constitutional authority for existence, but it has wielded enormous power. We can assume the Liberty amendment will stop the arbitrary control of labor, management, and industry by edicts that have no constitutional authority. Realistically, the only legitimate jurisdiction the Federal Government has over labor and management is within the ranks of Federal employees. With the National Labor Relations confined to its proper sphere, the terrifying power of the labor unions over workers will be drastically reduced. 49. “Is not the Food and Drug Administration too valuable to be terminated by the Liberty amendment?” The Food and Drug Act came into being in 1907 as a regulatory power to clear up the practices of unscrupulous meatpackers, unsanitary stores, and quacks in the field of medicine. As a check on the purity and safety of the foods and drugs we consume, this agency appears to be within the constitutional intent; but like all political organizations, it has gradually expanded. Without adequate proof or legal justification, it has attacked and prohibited many products that are not the concern of this agency. The constitutionally authorized functions of the Pure Food and Drug Administration will not be affected by the Liberty amendment. Their excesses will be stopped. 50. “How will Government be able to control labor and business monopolies if the Liberty amendment removes or limits the regulatory powers of the Federal Government?” It is ironic that so many people are worried about labor and business monopolies, and yet it apparently never occurs to them that the monopolist to fear most is Government itself. In Communist countries government has a monopoly on all activities, and the people have no economic freedom. With our Federal Government controlling 40 percent of the land area and 20 percent of the industrial capacity of this Nation, we are facing the same disaster. Free enterprise destroys monopolies faster than can government control. 51. “What is the value of the land and personal property held by the Federal bureaus?” The Committee on Government Operations of the House of Representatives maintains a continuing inventory of the real and personal property held by the Government. Their June 30, 1970, report gives a figure of $435 billion for the worldwide holdings as of that date. The estimate is extremely low and some properties such as the famous Presidio in San Francisco inventoried at $1-are undevalued in their appraisal. One thing is certain, if even half of these properties-the ones held without constitutional authorization–are sold at half of book value, the recovered amount will be well over $100 billion.
52. “Supposing all these properties and facilities are not sold off as expected, or do not sell for the prices expected, then what happens?”
If the properties are not sold within 3 years, the Federal Government must relinquish them anyway, and anything left unsold will revert to State jurisdiction for disposal or retention, as the case may be. Prices may vary in the liquidation process, but the main point is that these properties will be removed from Federal hands and restored to State jurisdiction and private taxpaying ownership. The consequent saving from not maintaining these bureaucratic empires will exceed what we now pay in income taxes. There is a bargain to the American taxpayer worth working for. 53. “Now that you have the activities of these agencies that are not authorized and listed, why not get Congress to eliminate them?” Theoretically this sounds like a good idea, but do you know of anyone who has enough power in Congress to override the pressure of the Federal bureaucracy? The bureaucracy has billions of our tax dollars at their disposal every year, and their lobby keeps the pressure on Congress for more power and more appropriations, endlessly. The only way to remove their power is to dry up the tax fountain with the Liberty Amendment. 54. “What effect would the Liberty Amendment have on the plan for regional government, which would concentrate all power in Washington?” A concerted effort is being made to brainwash the American people into accepting not only regional government. but a new Constitution. Books advance the idea, articles in prominent magazines, TV programs and speeches by people who must be misinformed or are outright enemies. The Liberty Amendment will stop these attacks and restore the sovereignty of the States. It will automatically outlaw all such designs for the concentration of power from either regional government or a Constitution other than the one we now have, which provides for individual freedom. 55. “Will the Liberty Amendment have any effect on unemployment?” Unemployment is a tragic fact of life to many people. Surprisingly, the Liberty Amendment will solve much of the unemployment problem. Getting the Government out of business enterprises it operates without constitutional authority would eliminate the staggering losses. This would make possible the elimination of income tax. Workers would then receive about 20 percent more take home pay without any change in their rate of pay. This increased purchasing power would stimulate production and make the economy boom. There would be a demand for new plants, better machinery, more crops, more raw materials and more finished products to meet the accelerated purchasing power. This expansion would create enough jobs to absorb all the labor potential in this country for years to come. 56. “Isn’t the Liberty Amendment just a scheme to shift the load of responsi-
bility from the Federal Government onto the back of the State government?”
Not at all. The idea is to get the responsibility back into the hands of each individual. When Government deprives the individual of self determination and individual responsibility, it tends toward a nation of slaves or robots. In a free society, a free man must be self-reliant and help maintain the society of which he is a part. Our Government was limited in power by the Constitution. The purpose of the Liberty Amendment is to stop the concentration of despotic power and redistribute it to the people. 57. “Does not Congress already have the power to sell such properties and repeal or reduce taxes?” Yes, Congress has such power and has used it on various occasions, sometimes very strangely. For example, Congress did abolish the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, after it had dissipated an estimated $50 billions in tax dollars. While title I of the act abolished the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, title II of the same act created the Small Business Administration, enlarged the General Services Administration, and divided all the residuary powers of RFC between them. The name on the door changed, but now there were two doors instead of one. The sale of the Synthetic Rubber Industry and General Aniline and Film Corp, was accomplished, but while these were being sold, other businesses were issuing from the prolific bureaucracy. Reinforcing the Constitution will stop this sleight-of-hand process. 58. “If Federal agencies are operating businesses without constitutional authority, why do you not take them to court?” A good idea, and many persons have tried it; but there is a catchthere is no way to sue Government without the Government’s permission, and this is rarely given. The Constitution provides that we, the people, shall be able to “petition the Government for redress of grievances,” but the courts have repeatedly shut their eyes to the flagrant assaults against the constitutional rights and powers of the people, and have contended that they have no “jurisdiction” when a bureaucratic “regulation” is involved. The only real court available that can change this situation is the court of public opinion which can restore the Constitution by applying the Liberty Amendment, 59. “Do you not think it is necessary for our Government to keep ahead of Russia in the space race, or the arms race, or the merchant marine, or anything else you may name?” The United States for a long time has been in first place in most fields. We should continue in that position. The question is, why are we lagging behind now? Is it possible our Government has been so busy playing the dangerous game of world power politics and trying to run everyone else’s affairs that they have neglected our safety and liberty? Now we are warned that we need to hurry to keep up, but we are increasingly being hampered in our efforts by regulations and directives and competition from taxfree governmental agencies that prevent
it. The Liberty Amendment will release the vast resources of American inventive genius and production know-how and again give workers the incentive of a full paycheck.
So far as the space race is concerned, the Space Act strangled private incentive by declaring that all inventions dealing with space belong to the Government, instead of to the inventors, as the Constitution provides. 60. “Exactly what is the Federal Reserve System and what will the Liberty Amendment do about it?” There is probably more misinformation about the Federal Reserve System than about any other one thing. Some say it is a Federal agency; others say that it is privately owned. In 1913 an act of Congress created the IRS to provide us with what was defined as “an elastic currency.” This has been done, and in the process our stable currency, based on silver and gold standards, has been replaced by printing press money. The Hoover report of 1955 declared the Federal Reserve to be the first of the 104 banking and lending organizations then being operated by Government. A recent U.S. Government Organizational Manual confirms this. The article “Who Gets The Plunder?” in Freedom magazine reproduced a page from the 57th Federal Reserve report to Congress, showing that in 1970 the U.S. Treasury received 98.9 percent of the earnings, while only 1.2 percent went to the banks compelled to own FRS bank stock. The Liberty Amendment will remove the Government from the banking business. 61. “Can the inflation we have experienced for years be stopped by the Liberty Amendment?” The spiral of inflation will be stopped when the Federal Reserve System’s endless stream of printing press money is stopped. Webster’s International Dictionary defines “inflation” as “an increase in the volume of money and credit relative to available goods resulting in a substantial and continuing rise in the general price level.” In other words, when money is printed faster than actual production of goods and services, we have inflation. Our President and Congress constantly spend more money than all the American people combined can funnel into Washington through taxes. Then they translate these deficits into unredeemable printing press money and we have inflation. In 1971, $40 billion of new paper money was printed for the FRS to cover the Government’s deficit thus was created that much inflation. Yes, the Liberty Amendment can stop Inflation. 62. “Does the Government have anything to do with setting interest rates, and what will the Liberty Amendment do about it?” Economists and the news media have a great deal to say about interest rates, although it is baffling to most ordinary individuals. These days our credit is at the mercy of the bureaucracy that controls money. Interest rates are manipulated by the politically appointed directors of the Federal Reserve System. This manipulation will stop when the Liberty Amendment is in operation. When the
happy day comes, credit arrangements will be strictly between the borrower and the lender, based upon the borrower’s integrity and ability to repay. Interest rates will become realistic, also, when they are no longer manipulated through political control. After all, it is on this basis America was built.
63. “How about all the tax money that is spent on wars. Will the Liberty Amendment change this?” The sole function of the Defense Department is to defend this country from foreign aggression. The Liberty Amendment will not cut the obligations of the Defense Department to carry out its specified duties, to defend this Nation on the ground, in the air, at sea, and even in space. The Constitution enforced by the Liberty Amendment, will not permit undeclared “no win” wars, and our defense posture will be improved enormously by getting our defense establishment back into the business of defending, rather than competing with us, as they do now, through thousands of business, industrial and commercial establishments. 64. “Will the Liberty Amendment have any effect on the present law regarding the draft?” While there is no longer a draft in this country, every eligible male who attains the age of 18 years must register and carry a draft card, presumably to keep a record of eligible strength in case of emergency. The 13th amendment very distinctly provides that: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. If we have learned anything from history it is that no conscripted army has ever proved the equal of a free people defending themselves. Returning to the Constitution will prevent the draft, and increase our defense posture because we will be free to defend the most priceless possession of all-Liberty. 65. “Exactly what effect will the Liberty Amendment have on our membership in the United Nations?” The United Nations building is located in New York City. This country contributes by far the largest amount of money in support of this organization. Some people believe that the United Nations Charter supersedes our Constitution, but this is not true. Nothing supersedes our Constitution as the supreme law, and certainly not the United Nations Charter. The Liberty Amendment will end the pretense that treaty law, the Genocide Treaty, or any other such device can have any valid impact upon our domestic affairs, our industries, our lands, or our activities. It will reduce the United Nations Organization to a forum for the discussion of international affairs and international relations. 66. *Will the Liberty Amendment have any effect upon Communist countries?” Time and again the wealth and resources of the United States have been diverted to the aid of Communist controlled countries. Apparently the Communist system is incapable of sustaining its own existence. When our Government
is confined again to the terms of the Constitution, it can no longer bail out Communist countries when their economy falters, and the enslaved people may be able to establish forms of government of their own free choice.
67. “Unless we have a hand in managing the affairs of some small nations. is there not danger that they will fall under Communist control?” When the torch of freedom burns brighter in this country through the reestablishment of our Constitution, we will be in a better position to set an example for other nations. The Constitution does not permit this country to maintain the economy of other nations or control their political lives, yet that is what we have been doing. Foreign aid around the world cost the United States people, from 1946 through 1971, a total of $212,880,797,000. The rulers of 3½ billion inhabitants of this world have received aid from the United States. The Liberty Amendment will stop this madness which is destroying us. 68. “Would it not be a good idea to continue foreign aid to help the more friendly countries?” Foreign aid does not reach the people of any country, friendly or otherwise. It a is a gift from the Chief of State here to the Chief of State elsewhere. It only enriches the tyrant. Our Constitution protects us from this device for plunder. Our Government was empowered to gather taxes to protect this Nation from the avarice and cupidity of all the other nations on Earth. It did not grant any administration the power to hand our tax dollars, or the production of our people, to any foreign power. The Liberty Amendment will stop this dissipation of our substance by Government, and will restore the right of people to assist whomever they wish around the world. as they once did. 69. “How will the Liberty Amendment affect such treaties and alliances as NATO, SEATO, and others like them?” The Liberty Amendment will not alter the right and power of the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to enter into any treaty that may be within the authority of the Constitution. A review of the Constitution shows that 89481893 no treaty can be valid which in any way jeopardized the independence of the United States or any of the separate 8ggE BERGEO States or permits any foreign power or combination of foreign powers to exercise jurisdiction or control over the internal affairs of the United States or any of the individual States, whether it be with the U.N., NATO, SEATO, or any other. 70. “Will we be able to defend our country properly under the Liberty Amendment?” We have already touched on this subject of defense, and should be reassured that the Liberty Amendment will accomplish miracles in this area. At the present time the Defense Department is involved in thousands of businesses without constitutional authority. Divorced from these activities, their total attention will be given to the defense of this Nation, and with the Constitution back in force and effect we will not be involved in undeclared wars. The Constitution wisely separated the power of
declaring war from the power of waging war, to prevent its being declared for the sake of waging it.
71. “Will we still be able to have a strong economy in the fields of mining. agriculture, manufacturing and transportation with the Liberty Amendment?” All of these activities will flourish incredibly well. Gold and silver production has been stifled; agriculture has been hampered; manufacturers have been in bureaucratic straitjackets; transportation has been strangled. There is no open market. We can expect spectacular new developments in all these fields and every other area of production when the Liberty Amendment is in force. 72. “If the Government does not finance or underwrite research and development, who will?” The only research and development the Government has any right to be involved in is in the defense of this Nation. Even here, it has been individuals and companies that have researched and devised all methods of production. A man named Colt invented the revolver, and the Army was reluctant to adopt it. An American invented the submarine, and our Navy would not even look at it. The airplane was invented here, and the U.S. was one of the last to adopt it to our defense. Gen. Billy Mitchell was discharged from the Armed Forces because he advocated air power. Government has curtailed real research and development, and our weaponry has suffered. 73. “Exactly what effect will the Liberty Amendment have on our local State and city governments?” Federal aid to state and city governments sounds good, but the Federal Government has manipulated the States into very dangerous financial situations through “sharing,” “matching funds” and managed inflation. Cities have been drained of vitality by the Federal individual income tax, which syphons away their potential resources, and federal agencies which inject themselves into essential municipal services and make them more costly. Both states and cities will be better off under the Liberty Amendment. 74. “What will happen to the Government’s revenue sharing plan if the Liberty Amendment is passed?” At first glance revenue sharing looks like a splendid idea. The Federal Government gathers a wealth of taxes from the people and then dribbles a little money back to the States and local governments for their own use. Upon further examination, this new device proves to be a take-over of the states, for it is only a small subsidy, and when government subsidizes anything it exerts control. There are already too many subsidies in existence that undermine our states’ prerogatives. Now even their boundaries are being threatened by “regional government” which would replace the Individual states with 10 regions. Restoring the Constitution, as the Liberty Amendment is capable of doing, would take care of all of these questions—regional government included. | 60,140 | 22,609 | 156,708.736344 |
warc | 202143 | It is one of the greatest challenges confronting the world as it seeks to transition to a net zero future – how to make aviation greener.
The global commercial aviation industry currently produces between 2-3% of all human-made carbon dioxide emissions, and accounts for roughly 12% of CO2 emissions from all transport sources.
Accordingly, the industry will have a key role to play in the transition, not least because, as societies become more prosperous around the world, demand for air travel is expected to grow strongly.
So the hunt is on for ways to make air travel less carbon-intensive.
Today, a decisive step was made in that direction as Rolls-Royce announced that, by 2023, all of its Trent engines will have been proven compatible with 100% sustainable aviation fuel. The Trent family of engines powers around 40% of the world’s long-haul aircraft.
Warren East, the chief executive of Rolls-Royce, did not disclose how much it had cost of adapting the Trent family had been.
But he told Sky News: “It’s a question of how much it would cost us not to. The reality is that by 2050 we have to be net-zero across the planet and aviation needs to play its part.
“We want to continue providing engines for long haul aviation, and so that’s what we must do.”
Rolls has previously said that sustainable aviation fuel, which is produced from feed stocks such as cooking oil, non-palm waste oils from animals or plants and solid waste from homes and businesses, offers “net CO2 lifecycle emissions of at least 75% less than conventional jet fuel”.
The big question airlines and aircraft manufacturers will have, though, is how on how the engines will perform when fuelled differently.
Mr East said that the performance of the engine would not be impacted by making them compatible with 100% sustainable aviation fuel.
He said that by 2050, with all long-haul aviation powered by sustainable aviation fuel, there would have been an evolution in how the product is made.
He added: “It’s possible we will be able to get even better performance of the engines with sustainable aviation fuel.”
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warc | 202143 | The world is becoming more and more digitalized. Firms are investing in computers and software instead of remaining in the paper-pen era. But many organizations shirk from responsibility when they invest in unauthorized purchases of software. When multiple copies are made with the intention of reselling, omitting due credit to the software companies, it means that the organization has stepped into the domain of piracy. Such piracy isn’t a rare phenomenon. With companies trying to cut corners, the software can become easily accessible pirated purchase.
A lawsuit was filed by Microsoft with regards to Internet and Software piracy against a company named ‘Chetu’ administered by M/S Satveer Gaur. This case was filed by three plaintiffs, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Private Limited (a New Delhi-based subsidiary of the latter), and Adobe Systems Incorporated against two defendants, ‘Chetu’ and its system administrator, Satveer Gaur. The defendants have been accused of ‘infringing the intellectual property rights by committing copyright piracy and selling pirated versions of the plaintiffs’ software’.
The Satveer Gaur-led company has been also accused of misleading the customers by using the same packaging as that used by the plaintiffs. They have copied the software with the intention of reselling without the approval of the plaintiffs. Such actions have cost the plaintiff both monetary and reputation loss.
Before filing the complaint, the three plaintiffs lead their own investigation to provide the court with conclusive evidence of the piracy. They doubly worked on forming their case. One, they resorted to acquiring information through Business Software Alliance (BSA) whose role as a non-profit, global organization is to report unlicensed/ pirated software programs. The other was the plaintiffs’ interrogation of Mr. Satveer Gaur, the system administrator of the firm ‘Chetu’.
Needless to say, the claims were denied by the defendants. They stated that the use of the software on the computer was for personal and not business use. Moreover, they agreed to only possess TOAD, open-source software on their devices. However, these claims were proved false on confiscation of the systems by the local Commissioner as part of the investigation. The defendants were found to be in violation of the intellectual property and copyright laws. These charges were not contested by the defendants.
The court then ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, on viewing the proof presented and keeping in mind the failure to showcase for many issues by the defendants. Chetu and its system administrator, have been charged with 30 lakhs as damages. The ruling seems appropriate for the loss of business and goodwill that the companies Microsoft and Adobe have faced due to the prevalence of piracy. This should serve as an example for others who indulge in such malpractices. | 2,945 | 1,388 | 6,117.028098 |
warc | 202143 | Oct 14, 2021Broc-Stars Initiative for Kids led by Bayer, Nature’s Reward and United Fresh
Bayer, in collaboration with Nature’s Reward and the United Fresh Start Foundation, is promoting a kid-friendly broccoli, just in time to celebrate National School Lunch Week, Oct. 11-15.
This week, fresh from the field broccoli, from Bayer’s High Rise Broccoli series, was made available to students in the Monterey Peninsula and Pajaro Valley Unified School Districts in California. Students were offered tasting samples during lunch, participated in a culinary demo, and Pajaro’s elementary students sampled the broccoli as a mid-day snack, as part of the district’s Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program. Students enjoyed the locally grown broccoli’s sweet taste, as well as the plant’s tender, edible stem, which was cut into half-inch rounds, or “stars,” a new Broc-Stars kids initiative.
“Broccoli is a mainstay on our menu, and we’re always looking for new ways to offer and promote broccoli and other dark green vegetables to our students,” Linda Liu, registered dietician and director of food and nutrition services for the Pajaro Valley Unified School District, said in a news release. “The Broc-Stars are a fun, new way to eat broccoli by focusing on the stem.”
“This past summer we had the chance to participate in the produce industry’s foodservice conference, right here in our backyard, and that was a wonderful, eye-opening experience,” said Micha James, Nutrition Services Director at the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District. “We are interested in local collaborations that can help our students enjoy fresh vegetables, as well as helping industry to understand how schools can be partners to expose children to fresh produce.”
In addition to this week’s collaboration, Bayer has committed $20,000 to the United Fresh Start Foundation, supporting their mission to increase children’s access to fresh fruits and vegetables. Bayer has sponsored virtual networking and education sessions for school nutrition professionals to connect with colleagues and industry suppliers, sharing best practices and strategies for sourcing, serving, and promoting fresh produce to students at school, despite challenges posed by the pandemic.
“Broc-Stars started as an idea we had when we were out in the field looking at our High Rise™ Broccoli series,” said Jenny Maloney, Strategic Accounts Manager, Bayer. “The broccoli stems are often overlooked, but our variety has a longer stem to help with harvest and other challenges farmers face. At the same time, it tastes amazing, and we thought this could be a real hit with young school children. The idea of cutting the sweet-tasting stem into easy-to-eat half-inch rounds, or really ‘stars’ given the stem’s shape, made us think this could be a hit with kids, and the idea of Broc-Stars was born.”
Bayer serves as a member of the United Fresh Start Foundation’s Board of Trustees, participating on the committee that is charged with providing guidance on new and innovative avenues to increase children’s access to fresh produce.
“Having the support of companies like Bayer to encourage healthy eating habits for the next generation of produce consumers is instrumental,” said Andrew Marshall, Director of Foodservice and Foundation Partnerships at United Fresh. “We’re pleased to have helped facilitate this connection and look forward to creating additional opportunities for produce companies to collaborate with school foodservice programs and their communities.”
Nature’s Reward, one of the leading growers in the Salinas Valley, grew and donated the broccoli to the two school districts. “Growing in California continues to be a challenge, but we were able to grow a great quality product that not only allows for ease of harvest, but also has a unique sweet tasting stem. As a part of this community, we are always looking for ways to give back, while at the same time promoting fruit and vegetable consumption at schools,” said Mark Mason, Nature’s Reward.
Bayer’s High Rise Broccoli series has been 20 years in the making. Developed in collaboration with growers,the High Rise broccoli series offers supply chain-wide benefits from field to store to table. The High Rise broccoli series delivers cleaner stems with fewer large leaves, and visible crowns that are firm and heavy. With uniform crown maturity, competitive yield potential and consistent product quality, the High Rise series can mean fewer harvest passes and is also well suited for time-saving machine harvesting. That means growers could significantly reduce their field labor; harvesters can make 1-2 passes through a field to cut plants, rather than the current three or more passes, and less leaf trimming is needed. And, the High Rise broccoli series firm heads and tender stems meet today’s market demands for broccoli crowns, bunches, and florets.
Bayer’s commitment to sustainability and agricultural education begins with the people it serves every day. This commitment extends to fighting food insecurity and encouraging healthier food choices for a happier and well-educated community. For additional information and background on Bayer and its other programs, visit here.
National School Lunch Week is an annual celebratory week that recognizes the importance of a healthy school lunch in a child’s life, and the benefits of a program that has been serving nearly 30 million children each day for more than 70 years. This year, it is also an important opportunity to highlight the hard work and dedication of school nutrition professionals who have continued to make fresh fruits and vegetables available to students, despite the continuing challenges of the pandemic.
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the life science fields of health care and nutrition. Its products and services are designed to help people and the planet thrive by supporting efforts to master the major challenges presented by a growing and aging global population. Bayer is committed to drive sustainable development and generate a positive impact with its businesses. At the same time, the Group aims to increase its earning power and create value through innovation and growth.
The Bayer brand stands for trust, reliability and quality throughout the world. In fiscal 2020, the Group employed around 100,000 people and had sales of 41.4 billion euros. R&D expenses before special items amounted to 4.9 billion euros.
For more information, go to www.bayer.com.
Nature’s Reward is owned and operated by the Huntington Family. The Huntington family’s roots run deep in the Salinas Valley soil, and our company is one of the few remaining family-run agricultural businesses in the Salinas Valley. https://www.naturesreward.com/
The United Fresh Start Foundation is focused exclusively on increasing children’s access to fresh fruits and vegetables and inspiring the next generation to “choose fresh” whenever and wherever they are eating their next snack or meal.
Working with the produce industry, local nonprofits, healthcare organizations, allied businesses, and others, the United Fresh Start Foundation is committed to helping today’s youth achieve the public health goal of making half their plate fruits and vegetables in order to live longer, healthier lives. Join our movement to ensure kids everywhere are “Growing Up Fresh!” | 7,638 | 3,329 | 16,882.067888 |
warc | 202143 | Jack Black Acne Remedy Balancing Foam Cleanser
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This product works by removing dirt and oil from the surface of the skin. It uses a combination of mild cleansing agents (cocamidopropyl betaine, disodium cocoamphodiacetate) and should be able to cleanse the skin gently. Still keep in mind that any cleansing can disrupt the skin barrier, and most people do not need to cleanse their skin more than once per day.
Even though this formulation is mild, the following cleansing agents could trigger an irritation or allergy for some people: cocamidopropyl betaine
PromiseWhat does the product description say? WIMJ summary
This product can help reduce breakouts and clogged pores because it contains the following ingredient: salicylic acid. This ingredient is used for treating acne and can have a noticeable effect.
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This product can help exfoliate the skin. In other words, it helps break down the bonds between dead cells on the surface of the skin and speed up the skin turnover. Skin often appears softer and brighter after exfoliation, but overdoing it can result in disrupted skin barrier. The following ingredient is doing the exfoliating job in this product: salicylic acid.
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Used for skin exfoliation. It has an anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial effect, helps to unclog pores, prevent blemishes and speed up healing of the existing ones. Sometimes referred to as a BHA (beta-hydroxy acid)
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Helps oil and water mix together and works as a cleansing agent
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warc | 202143 | World Challenge’s partners in Ukraine are supporting a widow with an incredible history of fighting to keep the church alive.
Ukraine was historically a vibrant heart of Christianity in Eastern Europe.
According to Catherine Wanner’s research, this nation once had “the second largest Baptist community in the world, after the United States…. With good reason, Ukraine was called the ‘Bible Belt’ of the former Soviet Union.”
The evangelical church has had a long, uneasy relationship with the government in this part of the world. After World War II, however, the tension reached a breaking point. The Soviet Union was determined to exterminate the church’s cultural influence and brutally persecuted Christians. The Ukrainian Pentecostal church went underground, and pastors were routinely arrested and some even executed for their faith.
It’s a history that Vera knows all too well because she grew up in the center of that maelstrom.
A Woman on a Mission
Vera was the first Christian woman in the Ukrainian city of Skadovsk. In 1973, she and her family arrived in the town and began to evangelize and then gather with other Christians in someone’s house. The gathering quickly grew, so they removed the kitchen and tore down several interior walls so that they could have a larger meeting room.
The church’s growth did not go unnoticed, however. A neighbor was spying on them, watching through binoculars as people came and went. They alerted the KGB who descended upon the house church and drove everyone away.
Not to be deterred, Vera approached the local authorities and asked for her church to be officially registered. Soviet overseers tended to be slightly more lenient with the Orthodox church because of its traditional cultural presence, but in this case, it was of no help to Vera. Her request was denied.
She steeled herself and traveled to Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, to lobby for permission to legally meet. The authorities there also denied her.
Undaunted, this brave woman of faith traveled all the way to Moscow to demand that her church be allowed to meet and minister to her city. Her prayers and tears of petition did not go unheard in heaven. By the grace of God, she was granted official registration for the church so it could survive.
Praying for Our Elders
Today, Vera is still a formidable believer and force in her local church. She is also a widow with health issues that make it difficult for her to walk. Her sister has recently moved to be closer to her and help her.
Mir Ministries, World Challenge’s partners in Ukraine, reached out to Vera and began supporting her with food packages and visits to make sure that she wasn’t isolated, particularly in this recent season of COVID-19. When they heard her story, they were delighted to have the honor of serving such a woman of God.
When they reached out to us, they wrote, “Please pray for this faithful servant of Christ and for the church in Skadovsk to honor this dear saint!”
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Lan Fang
August 02, 2014
HUANGGANG — It is a hot and sticky midsummer day in a small village along the Chang River in the northeast Jiangxi Province. The most popular spot is the pergola in front of the local grocery where a few women are playing mahjong as children chase each other around.
In the corner, sitting separately, are two young women, whispering. With darker complexions, deeper eye sockets and thicker lips, they look distinctly different from the locals. One of them wears a pair of high-heeled shoes, a short T-shirt and tight jeans, out of place with the more traditional local environment. The other woman is pregnant and is playing with her big-screen smartphone.
"They are our Cambodian brides," says one local woman. "Every village along the Chang river area has at least three or four of them."
It was about seven or eight years ago that the first Cambodian bride appeared in Huanggang, a rural township with two dozen or so local villages scattered along each side of the river. Some villager had gone to work in Yunnan — a province bordering Vietnam, Laos and Burma — and his client introduced him to a girl from his family. Thanks to her satisfaction with her new life in China, she spread the word to other women that they should come to Jiangxi.
Finally this riverside township, which used to be famous only for having floods every year, has turned into China's most famous "collection and distribution center" for Cambodian wives.
Huanggang now features more than a dozen "brokers" specialized in bringing together Cambodian women and Chinese men. In the past three years, thanks to Cambodia's convenient new regulations for marrying foreigners, Jiangxi's official marriage registration department has counted more than 2,000 cases involving Cambodian women; this far exceeds the number of Vietnamese brides. Massive numbers of Cambodian women are also flocking into other coastal provinces such as Fujian and Zhejiang.
Marrying far from home
"I was willing to marry this far away," said Xiaoyan, 30, who already has a strong local Jiangxi accent and has a one-year-old Jiangxi son. She got married two years ago, and not long after their wedding her husband was obliged to go to the coastal region of Zhejiang to work so as to repay the debt to the matchmaker and furnish their brand new three-storey house. Xiaoyan sees him only once a year.
As one of the world's most under-developed nations, 20.5% of Cambodia's population live in poverty, according to the most recent figures in 2011. That means some 8 million people live on less than $2.30 a day.
As Xiaoyan pointed out, in her village the poorer you are, the earlier a girl gets married. She didn't get married until she was 28-years-old. She married a Chinese man because "the Cambodian men are too poor."
Before 2010, Chinese men were not Cambodian girls' first choice. Massive numbers of Cambodian women married via intermediaries with South Koreans. In 2008 South Korea accounted for over 25,000 newly wedded Cambodian brides.
Today, China is overtaking South Korea to become Cambodian women's main destination for marrying a foreign man. Xiaoyan said she had not a clue what it was like in China except that "it's a lot richer and bigger."
Meanwhile, whereas marital violence is commonplace in Cambodia, she heard that "Chinese men don't beat their wives."
Through the referral from a co-worker at her factory, she was introduced to a Chinese man with a promise of a dowry for her family. "So my mom happily sold me!" she said, half-jokingly.
Left-over men
Cambodian women usually enter China in a group. Agents from Huanggang then hire a truck and pick them up from Guangzhou or Shanghai airport and bring them back to the township. Local people reckon it's only men who haven't been able to find a Chinese wife who would consider marrying a foreign one.
"There are too many single men in the countryside. For years Huanggang's birth control was extremely stringent," complained an unlicensed truck driver. In his view, since every couple could only have one child and prefer that the child is a boy, the sex-selective abortions have caused this all too common "left-over" men state of affairs.
And Huanggang is not an isolated case. After decades of harsh family planning policy China is now facing the critical negative effect of a serious gender imbalance. In China, the sex ratio at birth of girls and boys is 100 to 118. It's estimated that by 2020 China will have about 30 million "bachelor" men of whom the majority are from poor rural areas.
Take Huanggang as an example. Two types of men have meager chances of finding a wife: the handicapped and the destitute. As the villagers pointed out, local people marrying their daughters still follow the custom of asking for 200,000 RMB ($32,400) of dowry. Even though it is a relatively rich village in China there are nonetheless men who can't find wives.
Xu Gang is a 37-year-old man. Though healthy and not too poor, he only has four years of elementary education and has an "introverted character," in his own words. After two failed relationships, he was determined to get married so he finally accepted a matchmaker's proposition of a Cambodian wife. He still regrets this decision bitterly.
Xu Gang paid a "finder's fee" worth several thousand dollars, which put him in debt. A blind date was arranged. Though the intermediary emphasizes that the match-making “goes two ways,” the man usually gets to choose the girl he likes first. Afterwards the girl would visit the boy’s home and decide if she wants to marry him. If not, she can make another choice.
“In general as long as the man has a house the girl doesn’t turn down the proposition of marrying him,” said one villager.
When Xu Gang “chose” his bride, there was only one girl left from that batch of Cambodian women. This girl whom he and his family called Suping was 23-years-old. When she was brought to Xu Gang’s home, she was clearly very angry. She talked in an agitated manner though Xu and his family did not understand a word. The intermediary then called her to one side to talk with someone in Cambodia on the telephone. After a while the intermediary came back to tell them that he had managed to persuade the girl to marry him.
It was not until a year later that Xu learned from another Cambodian bride living in the same village that Suping had been cheated by the intermediary in Cambodia. She had been told that she was supposed to come to work in China but she realized only after arriving at Xu’s home that she was supposed to marry him.
The formalities
Over the past three years, the Jiangxi foreign adoptions and foreign marriage registration center has become a crowded place. More than 2,000 Sino-Cambodian marriages have been registered since 2011. Whereas Vietnam demands Chinese men marrying Vietnamese women go to Vietnam to register in person, Cambodia asks only for proof that the to-be-married is a single woman.
Though Wang Wenliang, director of the registration office, confirmed that he had seen Cambodian girls arrive at the office crying for help, he said he didn't sense any abnormality when Xu and Suping processed their marriage license at the center.
In Xu's words, he and his family treated Suping as a "distinguished guest" after their marriage. He bought her new clothes, a mobile phone, and even subscribed to an international calls service so she could regularly talk with her family. Suping wasn't expected to work very much, in or outside the home.
However, Suping remained obviously unhappy. Because of the language barrier there existed almost no communication between her and Xu. There were also fights over food, with Suping not used to the spicy fare of Xu's family.
Apart from eating and sleeping together the couple couldn’t find any common ground between them. Xu knew absolutely nothing about Suping's family either.
Suping didn't get pregnant either. Xu Gang had given up going to the city as a migrant worker in the hope that he'd have a child soon, and yet nothing happened. Xu even suspected that Suping had secretly been using contraception.
After making the acquaintance with other compatriots in the village, Suping started going out for entire days at a time. Xu's home just became like a free hotel for her. Lacking the possibility of communication, "we couldn't even argue," Xu recalled.
It was later that Xu found out that Suping was busy fixing up another Cambodian girl from her hometown to marry a Chinese guy, taking a commission as a matchmaker. Using that money, she went back to Cambodia.
Horror stories
There are of course far worse outcomes. Since the second half of last year, Cambodia's consulate in Shanghai has received numerous Cambodian women's calls for help. Last month, they sent six women back home who had fled from this region, while another ten are hiding in a basement near the consulate waiting for formalities to return home.
Hong Thavery, 19, told us her story. She was abducted by a Cambodian woman in Phnom Penh who told her she could earn good monthly wages in China working in the factory. She agreed. Then a Chinese man came to pick her up, along with four other girls, to take them to an undisclosed airport to catch a plane to an undisclosed location.
She wound up with a Chinese man, forced to work at home and not allowed to go out. Her husband frequently raped her. When she fled to the police, they just sent her back again. Very often she was not even given food. "I was just like a slave."
He Yunxiao, coordinator at the UN's anti-human-trafficking office in China, confirmed that since last year the Jiangxi police have uncovered several Cambodian women trafficking cases. They mostly involved coercion, and included women forcibly married to physically or mentally handicapped men.
China's control
Still, Wang Wenliang says forced marriages involving violence or fraud remain the exception. He did acknowledge that there were numerous cases of women who had "voluntarily" married their Chinese husbands, but did not feel accustomed to the local life and got divorced or fled after constant conflicts with their Chinese spouses and families.
"In essence, even if these girls came by their own will, it's still a mercenary marriage. Such abnormal wedlock is inhuman. To put it plainly, one does it for money while the other is in it for sex," Wang said.
Zhang Zhiwei, a lawyer and activist long involved in rescuing abducted and abandoned children, said that China's serious gender imbalance is to blame both for individual marriage problems and a broader social instability in the country.
He reckoned that in the global context of uneven economic development there would always be women willing to exchange for a better material life at the expense of their freedom and happiness. It's a question of demand and market. He called on governments, including the Chinese authorities, to face up to this kind of cross-border migration and find fundamental solutions instead of simply fighting human trafficking.
Meanwhile, since last January, Jiangxi's relevant departments have paid visits to the Cambodian consulate in China to reconsider policy related to cross-border marriages.
As for Xu, he continues to lament his loss, financial and otherwise. At the very least, he hopes Suping will come back to grant him an official divorce. "I'll take whatever she can afford to compensate me and accept my fate," he said.
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Crunching the numbers of South Korea's personal and household debt offers a glimpse into what drives the win-or-die plot of the Netflix hit produced in the Asian country.
Yip Wing Sum
October 16, 2021
-Analysis- SEOUL — The South Korean series Squid Game has become the most viewed series on Netflix, watched by over 111 million viewers and counting. It has also generated a wave of debate online and off about its provocative message about contemporary life.
The plot follows the story of a desperate man in debt, who receives a mysterious invitation to play a game in which the contestants gamble their lives on six childhood games, with the winner awarded a prize of 45.6 billion won ($38 million)... while the losers face death.
It's a plot that many have noted is not quite as surreal as it sounds, a reflection of the reality of Korean society today mired in personal debt.
Seoul housing prices top London and New York
In the polished streets of downtown Seoul, one sees endless cards and coupons advertising loans scattered on the ground. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, as the demand for loans in South Korea has exploded, lax lending policies have led to a rapid increase in personal debt.
According to the South Korean Central Bank's "Monetary Credit Policy Report," household debt reached 105% of GDP in the first quarter of this year, equivalent to approximately $1.5 trillion at the end of March, with a major share tied up in home mortgages.
Average home loans are equivalent to 270% of annual income.
One reason behind the debts is the soaring housing prices. In Seoul, home to nearly half of the country's population, housing prices are now among the highest in the world. The price to income ratio (PIR), which weighs the average price of a home to the average annual household income, is 12.04 in Seoul, compared to 8.4 in San Francisco, 8.2 in London and 5.4 in New York.
According to the Korea Real Estate Commission, 42.1% of all home purchases in January 2021 were by young Koreans in their 20s and 30s. For those in their 30s, the average amount borrowed is equivalent to 270% of their annual income.
Playing the stock market
At the same time, the South Korean stock market is booming. The increased demand to buy stocks has led to an increase in other loans such as credit. The ratio for Korean shareholders conducting credit financing, i.e. borrowing from securities companies to secure stock holdings, had reached 21.4 trillion won ($17.7 billion), further increasing the indebtedness of households.
A 30-year-old Seoul office worker who bought stocks through various forms of borrowing was interviewed by Reuters this year, and said he was "very foolish not to take advantage of the rebound."
In addition to his 100 million won ($84,000) overdraft account, he also took out a 100 million won loan against his house in Seoul, and a 50 million won stock pledge. All of these demands on the stock market have further exacerbated the problem of household debt.
42.1% of all home purchases in January 2021 were by young Koreans in their 20s and 30s
Game of survival
In response to the accumulating financial risks, the Bank of Korea has restricted the release of loans and has announced its first interest rate hike in three years at the end of August.
But experts believe that even if banks cut loans or raise interest rates, those who need money will look for other ways to borrow, often turning to more costly institutions and mechanisms.
This all risks leading to what one can call a "debt trap," one loan piling on top of another. That brings us back to the plot of
Squid Game, "Either you live or I do." South Korean society has turned into a game of survival.
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Ursula Gauthier
April 12, 2012
QINGHAI - At the end of the veranda, below the big, smiling portraits of the Dalai Lama hanging on the walls, an altar has been created. The crowd, squeezed together in the confined space, is absolutely silent. Glowing with fervor and pride, their gazes are fixed on a small photo which has been placed on the altar on top of a pile of ceremonial scarves: dressed in a white buttoned-up shirt, hair sensibly parted to the side, a delicate face looks timidly out at the visitors who have come from all over the Tibetan highlands.
Dressed in their Sunday best, the procession weaves its way along the dirt track to Shabrang, a tiny hamlet lost in the middle of this endless landscape. They climb the muddy track between the mud brick walls and thatched roofs, before placing their presents at the foot of the altar with reverence. Bricks of tea, bags of grain, slabs of butter… the person in charge of the offerings makes a note when money is given. These are very generous offerings, given the poverty of the region. The visitors then join the rest of the crowd assembled in front of the modest altar dedicated to Sonam Dargye and recite prayers in honor of this peasant who has become the people's hero.
Sonam is the thirtieth Tibetan to set himself on fire. Unlike most of those who went before him, he was not a monk but an illiterate peasant who couldn't afford to send his four children to school. At 44 years old, he had normal worries, such as how he was going to build a house for his eldest son who was ready to get married. To pay for the construction, he made prayer wheels at the Rongwo monastery in the neighboring town of Rebkong.
And then, on March 17, everything changed. Sonam knelt in front of a portrait of the Dalai Lama, before drinking petrol. At the foot of the monastery, he set fire to himself while crying out: "We want His Holiness the Dalai Lama back!" To prevent policemen seizing hold of him, he had wrapped his torso in petrol-soaked cotton and barbed wire. A worker who was passing by filmed the whole scene on his mobile phone. The video is hard to watch: it shows Soman trying to lift his fist – as the other fire matyrs have done – while the fire consumes him.
In shock, passers-by carried his charred body to the main square of the monastery which is where, three days earlier on March 14, a friend of Sonam's, the monk Jamyang Palden, had carried out the same radical act.
Martyrs or "terrorists'?
Rebkong is still in shock. Unlike the neighboring province of Sichuan, where this type of incident has been happening for over a year, Rebkong had not experienced an immolation until March 14, 2012, the anniversary of the uprising of Lhasa in 2008. "The main square filled up in the blink of an eye," recalls a worker. "A large contingent of police arrived, but there were so many of us that they gave up. It was the elderly monks who kept things under control. They performed a solemn public funeral, and then everyone climbed to the top of the hill to attend the cremation. People were so moved…" According to witnesses, the crowd swelled to 8,000 people – the biggest gathering ever seen in this town of 80,000 inhabitants.
Why did Soman Dargye carry out such a radical act? Was it in anger? Provocation? Desperation? In his modest house in Shabrang, the question remains unanswered. His wife, Dolkar Kyi, has been suffering from cardiac problems since the incident. Squatting on the platform which serves as her bed, a drip in her wrist, she barely has the strength to greet the flood of visitors. Her four children – the youngest is 6 years old – only speak the local dialect. It is a relative, an energetic 50-year-old, who answers people's questions, whilst avoiding anything that could be vaguely problematic. "My cousin was poor, but money was not a concern for him," he said. "He was very pious and often went on pilgrimages." According to him, nobody can describe Sonam's state of mind, as nobody knew of his plan. When it comes to expressing what Sonam's relatives are feeling – approval? Pride? – he is even more evasive. "We're sorry, these are things that we can't talk about…"
For Beijing, confronted by this unexpected form of protest – as unique as it is radical – the Tibetans who have self-immolated are simply "terrorists' manipulated by foreigners. The care they take not to hurt anyone else is irrelevant. Their relatives all risk being charged as accomplices. The Tibetan regions of Sichuan province are run by authoritarian politicians who continue to use oppressive methods which hark back to the times of the Cultural Revolution. Here, anyone who survives after self-immolating is treated like a criminal. Half of all the immolations have taken place in Aba, a city of 20,000 inhabitants towards the west of Sichuan province. Every case is followed by arrests, which leads to further immolations in protest. It's a vicious cycle, which forecasts a very bleak future.
A culture eradicated
The same black cloud hangs over Tongde, a town 200km southwest of Rebkong, where on March 16 the police reacted to a demonstration of about a thousand people by throwing grenades into the middle of the crowd. It is impossible to find out any more details, but according to a young monk from in a nearby monastery, there were several wounded. "We also protested here. What do we want? Freedom. We are not free. We cannot practice our religion freely. We cannot meet our spiritual leader. We cannot study our language in schools, where more and more classes are taught in Mandarin. We cannot even set fire to ourselves without putting our family or monastery in danger…" The young man fears that the province of Qinghai will implement repressive policies that have been tried and tested elsewhere in the Tibetan regions. "In Lhasa, a monastery cannot have more than 30 monks, whereas there were thousands of us in the past! They want to slowly kill off the monastery system which is the pillar of our existence…"
In Rebkong, where the Party Secretary takes a more flexible approach based on dialogue with the head lamas, they have managed to avoid an explosion of violence following the two recent sacrifices, despite the wave of emotion they provoked. "It's true, things are less violent here," says a teacher. "But look at what is happening: the Tibetan language is being crushed in our own schools, we are drowning in Chinese immigrants. They have basically decided to eradicate our population. This is why Tibetans have started setting fire to themselves."
Faced with an ever-growing number of willing martyrs, Beijing wants to smother the revolt by imposing an information blackout. The Party has sealed off the Tibetan regions, four times bigger than France and spread over four provinces, from the rest of China. To intercept foreign journalists, a string of roadblocks has been set-up – hundreds of metres before you even reach the affected areas. The Chinese press is required to use the dispatches from the official government press agency. There is no Internet access on the Tibetan plateau and mobile phones are tapped. When you talk to a Tibetan, he doesn't just turn off his phone, he takes out the battery as well…
Peaceful protests
Tibet is being crushed under an unofficial martial law. In Sichuan province, four to six times more money is spent on maintaining law and order in the Tibetan regions than in the rest of the province. The number of soldiers sent to the region is skyrocketing, leading some to predict an armed repression. But nothing seems able to stop the spread of these self-sacrificing tendencies. "I am convinced that the movement will continue, and even spread to other groups: teachers, civil servants…" predicts Tashi (not his real name), a writer who lives in Xining, the capital of Qinghai province. "It is the only form of protest that we have left: we cannot demonstrate, or sing, or write, or debate in forums… 70 intellectuals and artists are in prison." The immolations are therefore to be understood, not as acts of desperation, but on the contrary, as acts of combat. "Since the uprising in 2008, Tibetans have understood that freedom has a price, and that it won't just be given to us for free," adds Tashi. In that case, why not an open revolt? "Because of the Dalai Lama. Above all else, people want him back. How could they use methods which he disapproves of?"
When will all this bloodshed end? Tashi darkens: "At the start we said: after 15, the UN will intervene. Then we said 20. Now we are at 30, and nothing is happening… Now people speak of 2,000 sacrifices," he says with a shiver, "a figure which we pretend to have gotten from Gandhi's fight against the English…"
Despite the worsening of the situation, the Tibetans seem surprisingly optimistic. "Of course we are!" says Tashi passionately. "I must admit that for a long time I thought that we didn't have a chance against China… And then there was the uprising in 2008 and the world realized that we are an extraordinary people, ready to die for freedom, for justice. All these martyrs are our heroes and they give us extraordinary strength. I am convinced that in the end we will win, because moral force always wins out against physical force eventually."
Read the original article in French.
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Crunching the numbers of South Korea's personal and household debt offers a glimpse into what drives the win-or-die plot of the Netflix hit produced in the Asian country.
Yip Wing Sum
October 16, 2021
-Analysis- SEOUL — The South Korean series Squid Game has become the most viewed series on Netflix, watched by over 111 million viewers and counting. It has also generated a wave of debate online and off about its provocative message about contemporary life.
The plot follows the story of a desperate man in debt, who receives a mysterious invitation to play a game in which the contestants gamble their lives on six childhood games, with the winner awarded a prize of 45.6 billion won ($38 million)... while the losers face death.
It's a plot that many have noted is not quite as surreal as it sounds, a reflection of the reality of Korean society today mired in personal debt.
Seoul housing prices top London and New York
In the polished streets of downtown Seoul, one sees endless cards and coupons advertising loans scattered on the ground. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, as the demand for loans in South Korea has exploded, lax lending policies have led to a rapid increase in personal debt.
According to the South Korean Central Bank's "Monetary Credit Policy Report," household debt reached 105% of GDP in the first quarter of this year, equivalent to approximately $1.5 trillion at the end of March, with a major share tied up in home mortgages.
Average home loans are equivalent to 270% of annual income.
One reason behind the debts is the soaring housing prices. In Seoul, home to nearly half of the country's population, housing prices are now among the highest in the world. The price to income ratio (PIR), which weighs the average price of a home to the average annual household income, is 12.04 in Seoul, compared to 8.4 in San Francisco, 8.2 in London and 5.4 in New York.
According to the Korea Real Estate Commission, 42.1% of all home purchases in January 2021 were by young Koreans in their 20s and 30s. For those in their 30s, the average amount borrowed is equivalent to 270% of their annual income.
Playing the stock market
At the same time, the South Korean stock market is booming. The increased demand to buy stocks has led to an increase in other loans such as credit. The ratio for Korean shareholders conducting credit financing, i.e. borrowing from securities companies to secure stock holdings, had reached 21.4 trillion won ($17.7 billion), further increasing the indebtedness of households.
A 30-year-old Seoul office worker who bought stocks through various forms of borrowing was interviewed by Reuters this year, and said he was "very foolish not to take advantage of the rebound."
In addition to his 100 million won ($84,000) overdraft account, he also took out a 100 million won loan against his house in Seoul, and a 50 million won stock pledge. All of these demands on the stock market have further exacerbated the problem of household debt.
42.1% of all home purchases in January 2021 were by young Koreans in their 20s and 30s
Game of survival
In response to the accumulating financial risks, the Bank of Korea has restricted the release of loans and has announced its first interest rate hike in three years at the end of August.
But experts believe that even if banks cut loans or raise interest rates, those who need money will look for other ways to borrow, often turning to more costly institutions and mechanisms.
This all risks leading to what one can call a "debt trap," one loan piling on top of another. That brings us back to the plot of
Squid Game, "Either you live or I do." South Korean society has turned into a game of survival.
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warc | 202143 | Utah (ABC4) – COVID-19 vaccine distribution is picking up in Utah.
Vaccine eligibility is opening-up throughout Utah, it could even be opened to every adult in Utah on April 1, according to a statement from Governor Spencer Cox’s office.
As more vaccines are distributed many people are hearing about possible side effects the vaccine may cause.
Some Utahns are skeptical about getting the vaccine for fear of the potential effects. According to the Utah Department of Health, “The benefits of getting vaccinated far outweigh the risks of getting COVID-19.”
COVID-19 vaccination will help protect you from getting COVID-19. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, you may have some side effects, which are normal signs that your body is building protection.
These side effects may affect your ability to do daily activities, but they should go away in a few days.
The following are some common side effects listed by the CDC, keep in mind many people experience no side effects at all.
Common side effects on the arm where you got the shot:
Pain Redness Swelling
Common side effect throughout the rest of your body:
Tiredness Headache Muscle pain Chills Fever Nausea
According to the Utah Department of Health, symptoms are most common within the first 7 days after getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Mild to moderate symptoms usually happened after the 2nd dose rather than the 1st. This is because the vaccine takes 2 shots to give you the most protection, so it makes sense that your body would be learning how to fight the disease more aggressively after the 2nd shot than the first.
The Utah Health Department lists the following for vaccine symptoms:
Most of the time, the symptoms showed up around 1-2 days after the person was vaccinated and usually lasted for a day. These types of symptoms were also more common in younger people, between 18-55 years old, rather than in older people (those older than 55).
Thinking of taking medications such as ibuprofen, acetaminophen, aspirin, or antihistamines before you get vaccinated in an effort to ease the discomfort?
The CDC says this is not recommended for most people because due to the unknown effectiveness of getting a COVID-19 vaccine when taking medications that suppress the immune system.
It is not known how these medications may affect how well the vaccine works, the CDC shares. However, if you take these medications regularly for other reasons, you should keep taking them before you get vaccinated, the CDC adds.
For any pain and discomfort you may experience after getting vaccinated you can take these medications to relieve post-vaccination side effects, the CDC shares.
Charla Haley
, Public Information Officer for the Utah Department of Health says the Utah Department of Health encourages every Utahn who is able to get vaccinated for COVID-19 to do so when it becomes their turn.
“Most people who get COVID-19 will recover within a few weeks, but there is no way to know how COVID-19 will affect you,” Haley shares. “It can have serious, life-threatening complications. Getting vaccinated for COVID-19 is a safer way to help build protection.”
According to the CDC, in most cases, discomfort from pain or fever is a normal sign that your body is building protection.
They recommend contacting your doctor or healthcare provider if you experience any of the following:
If the redness or tenderness where you got the shot gets worse after 24 hours If your side effects are worrying you or do not seem to be going away after a few days
The CDC also has the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, VAERS. According to the CDC, VAERS is a database that contains information on unverified reports of adverse events (illnesses, health problems and/or symptoms) following immunization with US-licensed vaccines.
The VAERS database contains reports received from 1990 to the present, as stated by the CDC. Data can be searched by age, event category, gender, manufacturers, onset interval, recovery status, serious/non-serious category, state/territory, symptoms, vaccine, VAERS ID number, year reported, month reported, year vaccinated and month vaccinated. | 4,215 | 1,882 | 9,290.021254 |
warc | 202143 | Value-driven equities investment manager Lanyon Asset Management is readying to launch a $25 million raise for its first listed investment company, ahead of a listing on October 1.
The company will issue 5 million shares at $5 a share, with priority given to existing Lanyon investors or new investors in the company’s other funds before the offer closing date. The raise will be managed by Taylor Collison.
Lanyon is due to lodge its prospectus on August 27, the offer will open on September 13 and the book will close on September 24.
The 11-year-old fund manager has over $700 million in funds, which it deploys on behalf of a select group of institutional investors, state government bodies, family offices, for-purpose entities and private investors.
Lanyon managing director David Prescott said his aim would be for the LIC to trade at, or above, its net tangible assets (NTA). If this isn’t being achieved, Lanyon have committed to reinvesting 100 per cent of the after-tax value of all management and all performance fees (if earned) to purchase shares on market.
Prescott also has aspirations to buy up other LICs that are trading at a discount.
“There’s a number of LICs with market caps sub $150 million that have perpetually traded at a discount to NTA and the managers either seem disinterested or unable to close that gap to NTA,” he said.
“We have a number of those companies on our target list.”
Lanyon has recruited Nicholas Markiewicz from Platinum Asset Management to spearhead the strategy, and he will co-manage the portfolio alongside Prescott.
It will be chaired by Ken Williams, who is currently head of the Statewide Super board.
While Lanyon is not afraid of taking on an activist investor role and actively engaging with companies, its primary strategy is as a long-only value investor.
It has taken active positions in the likes of Village Roadshow, Contango Income Generator and Cross-Harbour Holdings.
Prescott said there were a few investment opportunities Lanyon was already assessing for the LIC, but said it was not going to rush to deploy all of its capital.
“It’s unlikely we’ll be fully invested early on,” he said.
“There well be some initial ones we’ll make, and we’ll open a dialogue with those management teams, but shareholders shouldn’t expect we’ll be fully invested from day one.”
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warc | 202143 | The Weather Channel on Weather Risk Management
Jonathan Erdman, Senior Digital Meteorologist at The Weather Channel, shares strategies that businesses can adopt to improve weather preparedness.
Weather events don’t need to make major news to have dangerous impacts. This makes it critical for businesses to understand weather hazards in their area and develop a risk management plan accordingly to keep their people and business safe.
Jonathan Erdman, Senior Digital Meteorologist at The Weather Channel, joined us on a recent episode of
The Employee Safety Podcast to share his insights on weather risk management and strategies that businesses can adopt to improve weather preparedness.
You can listen to the full episode below.
Q&A With Jonathan Erdman of The Weather Channel Can you tell us about your background and your role at The Weather Channel?
My interest in meteorology started at the age of seven when I had a close encounter with a tornado that skipped over my house just after school. I later learned this tornado was surveyed by Dr. Theodore Fujita, whom the Fujita scale was named after. So my interest started early—it was fear and fascination at the same time. I studied physics at the University of Wisconsin and completed my master’s in atmospheric science at Colorado State University. You’d think after a tornado almost hit my house, I would make better choices for fieldwork, but this involved installing lightning rods near thunderstorms.
In 1998, I came to The Weather Channel as a forecaster and in 2010, I transitioned to Weather.com, where I produce videos and articles for The Weather Channel’s app and website that cover weather stories around the world. We cover everything from winter storms and hurricanes, to severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. Our forecast content is meant to alert our users about impactful weather.
What are some examples of events that you’ve covered that inspired you to help organizations and individuals with weather risk management?
I’ve been doing this for 23 years, and over that time I’ve covered over 150 Atlantic hurricanes, several hundred winter storms, and dozens of severe weather outbreaks. Among those was Hurricane Katrina. I was covering Katrina as a weather producer on The Weather Channel’s cable network, and I’ll never forget it. We were monitoring the imminent strike on the Mississippi gulf coast, but when the first National Weather Service flash flood warning came across announcing that there was a problem with the levee system, I felt helpless because there was nothing I could do at that point.
"Know the types of weather hazards that can affect your area and have a system in place to communicate and alert your employees about these hazards." Jonathan ErdmanSenior Digital Meteorologist, The Weather Channel
The other event that comes to mind is the 2011 super tornado outbreak that occurred in Joplin, Missouri. This left a mark on me because of the number of violent, long-track tornadoes we saw that spring and the ferocity of the damage. There were mobile homes thrown 300 yards away, appliances shredded, entire homes missing, concrete slabs pulled out of the ground, and parking blocks scraped from the ground. The Joplin tornadoes stick with me more than anything because, despite the warnings that were issued, some of the public didn’t take shelter immediately. Instead, they looked outside and, because the violent tornado was hidden in a curtain of rain, what they saw looked like a rain shaft—it didn’t look like a tornado.
Many organizations have preparedness plans in place for “big” weather events or natural disasters, such as hurricanes or earthquakes, but what are some of the lower-level risks that might be overlooked?
That’s the insidious part of the weather, and I don’t want to make anybody paranoid, but we’ve recently seen cases of flash flood events that are not associated with hurricanes or tropical storms. The most important thing I can pass along is that it doesn’t take a major newsworthy weather event to produce dangerous weather impacts. Flash flooding is the most underrated weather hazard out there. It can happen from just one or two slow-moving thunderstorms that happen to stall over your place of work or your home. The problem is these are not major events leading the nightly news as a hurricane would, yet you have people trying to drive through them. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles where someone attempts to drive through a flood, only to lose control and have their car picked up by the current. Other times, the roads have been washed away and cars just plunge right into the water. So, if your weather source puts out a flash flood watch, take caution and be aware that this type of thing can happen to you.
Lighting is another example of an overlooked risk. You think it’s something that won’t happen to you, but if you can hear thunder, you’re in danger of being struck by lightning. That’s a reliable rule of thumb. Another hazard that slips under the radar is light snow. Light snow doesn’t sound dangerous, but it doesn’t take a heavy snowstorm to make roads slippery. And if that one inch of snow happens to fall in less than an hour in what is called a snow squall, your visibility will go from clear to 100 yards or less, which can lead to deadly multi-vehicle accidents.
With frequent environmental changes and heightened risks for weather events these days, are there strategies that businesses can adopt to be more vigilant in their preparedness efforts?
Know the types of weather hazards that can affect your area and have a system in place to communicate and alert your employees about these hazards. Ask yourself, how susceptible is your area to flash flooding? How susceptible is it to the occasional light snow? Austin is a perfect example of this—you may get one snowfall every couple of years, but when it does happen, it’s big. So you also have to think about infrequent events that can have big impacts and plan accordingly.
Those living in hurricane zones must also consider water because, while hurricanes are categorized based on wind impact, 88% of U.S. deaths from hurricanes and tropical storms are from water, not wind. So have plans in place to deal with the flooding, rainfall, and storm surge. Another thing to pay attention to is how fast or slow a hurricane is moving to help determine rainfall potential. As we saw with Hurricane Harvey in 2017, if a tropical cyclone stalls, rainfall and flood danger goes way up.
How have research methods and technology changed during your career, and how do you leverage them to communicate weather risk and perspective?
When I first started in meteorology, I was ripping forecast maps off of a dot matrix printer and printing satellite images (almost like Kodak film) from a huge blue box that would belch out a satellite image about every couple of hours. Today, however, our technology is amazing. We not only run sophisticated computer forecast models on supercomputers, but we can run each individual model several times with slightly different conditions. That’s called ensemble forecasting. Not only does this give you a forecast, but it gives you confidence in your forecast. For example, if you have 51 different versions of a model and you tweak the conditions a little bit and they all still say a hurricane is going to form and head toward Louisiana, you can have confidence in that forecast. But if half of the models don’t spin up a hurricane or half of them move toward Florida, then you know uncertainty is high. So ensemble forecasting, in my opinion, has been the biggest, most beneficial change in technology that I’ve seen over the years.
Doppler Radar has also been a game-changer for detecting rotation in thunderstorms and tornadoes. Conventional Radar detects rainfall, precipitation, and clouds. Doppler Radar detects the motion of raindrops in the clouds. So it detects motion toward the radar and away from the radar. In that way, it can detect rotation in thunderstorms that may or may not be associated with tornadoes. With the more recent Doppler radar technology, we can even detect lofted debris from tornadoes so that we can confirm there is a tornado in progress based on radar, not by sight. So, if we don’t have spotters out at night, for example, Doppler Radar can detect a tornado by the debris from trees, buildings, and anything else that tornado is impacting.
What can someone do today to improve their risk management tactics and be better prepared for weather events overall?
In general, be more weather aware. If you hear about the weather watch on your way to work, tell your coworkers and plan for what you would do if a flood, hurricane, or tornado were in your area. Finally, as I’ve learned from the school of hard knocks, dangerous weather can happen to you. So plan as if someday, unfortunately, severe weather may impact you. | 9,074 | 3,928 | 20,529.693992 |
warc | 202143 | Allergy-Friendly Holidays
December is a month full of celebrations, friends, family, food and drink. For children and adults with food allergies, it can be a time of anxiety and stress. Parents can find themselves in constant worry mode, wondering if this will be the time their child is exposed to their life-threatening food allergy, or whether there…Read More
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When you grow up and live in a body that doesn’t easily find enemies in food, it can be easy to forget — or overlook – those who aren’t so lucky. This little reminder came from my son a few years back. He was unlucky enough to experience food allergy, primarily to eggs and milk,…Read More
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warc | 202143 | Turbulence on the ground as Southwest Airlines pilots say no to mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations, American pilots are suing over unconstitutionally mandated shifting baseline syndrome, aka, the new normal. The Media would have you believe the stormy weather story...
We must gain back the trust of our children. Without our children there will be no future, America!
Don’t let your children hate you or believe you are the enemy. Let’s see if we can get our millennial and snowflakes to understand that they have been lied to over and over again by the people that they trusted.
As the saying goes full me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. Let’s not be fooled twice. We know what this coming election is all about. It is about, the heart, soul, minerals, natural resources and wealth of America and its people. We know what is going on. Now it’s time to let 2020 be the year of doing. Let’s take some of those lies, expose them for what they are – lies. Let’s become the truth warriors. Are your millennials into music? You might want to play “Dogs” by Pink Floyd. Dogs is a satirical song about the rise and struggle of ruthless, cutthroat politicians, bankers and other (“yuppie”) public figures that feel they should be in total dominance of society and how they should be in total control of mindless general population, a.k.a., the “Sheep.” This song was released in 1977. What is happening today is nothing new. But our response must be new. The old way does not work. When talking to your millennials, ask them questions. Do not make bold direct statements, they will shut down. Instead, ask questions. In a recent yahoo article, the way to handle deniers (that’s us) is not through science but through messaging. Why do you think that? Can you explain? Do experiments. Let’s see if we can break down climate so you can have a conversation and bring out the truth.
Over the years the communists/progressives taught the school children to become climate activists by mixing pollution, which humans can control, with weather/climate, which humans can not control.
Fossil fuel aka hydrocarbons have nothing to do with weather/climate. Years ago they did contribute to pollution. Over the years the industry has cleaned itself and the air we breathe is about 90-95% clean. This is quite an accomplishment by the industry, and is rarely mentioned in MSM or school texts. Instead the communists/progressives try to spin the connection, to fit the narrative. So they lie constantly and skew the data. Since the communists know the outcome they desire, “control the fossil fuel industry and redistribute America’s wealth,” they feel secure in lying. Christina Figueres UNIPCC and AOC Chief of Staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, said out loud,
“ the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.” Over time billions have been spent giving grants to scientists to skew the data. Their reports eliminate mention of the sun, or evaporation, or moon. NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, UN IPCC (United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Academics “scientists” have been caught in massive lies. They claim CO2 is to blame. CO2 is .03% of the atmosphere. A minute gas CAN not have an affect on climate. It is however a gas that humans expel so it is a gas that can be blamed on evil humans. Of course CO2 is a gas which plants need to produce food. This is rarely mentioned. No CO2, no food. Depopulation anyone? Since math is no longer taught⏤students have little or no understanding of rations, proportions, or percentages. Let’s try a visual. Can you agree that the atmosphere is huge and the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is minute? Think of a forest. If the forest was the atmosphere and one tree was CO2, would one tree cut down affect the forest? Fill a bathtub with cold water (atmosphere). Take a glass or thimble and fill it with hot water (CO2). Pour the hot water into the tub. Did the cold water become hot? According to NOAA, each year, the United States averages some 10,000 thunderstorms, 5,000 floods, 1,300 tornadoes and 2 Atlantic hurricanes, as well as widespread droughts and wildfires. Weather, water and climate events, cause an average of approximately 650 deaths and $15 billion in damage per year and are responsible for some 90 percent of all presidential-declared disasters. About one-third of the U.S. economy – some $3 trillion – is sensitive to weather and climate. Together watch a few episodes of “How the Universe Works” on the Science channel. Weather events have been going on for billions of years. Where were the humans during the ice age? When the Hudson River froze? When an asteroid hit the planet? When Vesuvius or Mt. St. Helens erupted? When an earthquake and tsunami hit the Philippines? Weather/climate changes constantly whether or not humans have anything to do or say about it. If humans are responsible for climate, then during a blizzard why don’t all humans go outside and breathe. Will humans expelling CO2 melt the snow? Can humans stop a hurricane? UN IPCC Scientist Blows Whistle on Lies About Climate, Sea Level
Humans can predict and take their best guess. But a guess is all it is. Take Hurricane Michael. We all went to bed and it was a CAT 1 storm predicted to go in a certain direction by all the knowledgeable climate reporters reading their computer climate models. When I got up Michael was a Cat 3 turning into a Cat 4 headed in my direction. It landed as a Cat 5 doing massive destruction. The computer predicting Michael’s outcome, and the people reporting what the computer said were wrong, dead wrong. Yet these are the same people telling us the planet will be destroyed in 10-12 years. A computer model can not predict Mother Nature. We should be using these reports to prepare not blame.
Why do they still want to eliminate fossil fuel industry? Basically because they don’t own it. Communist /Progressives know that the energy sector is a commodity that no one can live without.
Thousands of products are created using fossil fuel. Trillions of dollars are to be made. By demonizing the industry, they restrict and shut down the single largest growth industry in the world while forcing Americans to buy fuel from our enemies. Energy is growth. Growth means money. These same corrupt people have invested or own fuel companies all over the world and in third world countries. Supporters of the Green New Deal like, Kerry, Soros, Strong, Clinton, Biden, Bush, Koch, Steyer to name a few are also big supporters of fuel companies and have invested in these companies in Ukraine, Canada, Iran, Mexico (just Google them). In oil rich prosperous Venezuela, the first thing Chavez did when he took office was to nationalize the oil industry. By closing down American fuel, eliminating competition America is forced to buy fuel from these countries making the investors very rich. American fuel is evil but Ukrainian fuel is not? Rolling back restrictive drilling regulations is one reason Trump is being impeached. Communists/ progressives hate competition.
Since the Socialists/ Progressives will not allow anyone to counter any of their narratives, let’s try a different approach. Ask your millennial: Where does electricity come from? How is it made? What happens during a huge highway crash if you are stuck in your electric car for hours and the battery dies? How are windmills or solar panels made? How many are needed to power one car? If land is converted from farming to wind and solar, where does our food come from? Play take away. Once fossil fuel is eliminated, what are they willing to do without? Take a look at the picture, this is a perfect example of how badly oil is needed to create products that enrich our lives. Fossil fuel/hydrocarbons make our lives easier. Because there is no progress under communism the old sayings and beliefs remain in place year after year. In reality fossil fuel in America burns clean. Without fossil fuel we would be living in the Dark Ages. No cell, computer, TV, glasses, furniture, PVC, and more… Giving Thanks #2: Petroleum Do not demand, ask questions. One last thought…A caller on my radio show sent me this. “My children are socialists. We argue every Sunday dinner. So this Sunday I told them I will now become a socialist like them. I got hugs. I told them to meet me at our attorney on Monday afternoon. Why? They asked. Since I am now a socialist, I must change my Will and leave my money to those in need. Wait a minute they screamed…This is the first time we have had a real conversation.“ Is America Worth Saving? “Give me the young,” is the cry of all communist/progressives aka the Democrat Party. They have infiltrated our schools and media. It is up to us to expose their lies and gain back the trust and confidence of our children. Without our children there will be no future America. Will you make 2020 the year of exposing the lies? 2020 the year of the truth? If not you, who? If not now, when?
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warc | 202143 | Running a business is never easy, but you don’t have to do it all on your own. Outsourcing some aspects of your business can free up time, provide services you don’t have the technical know-how for, and leave you to focus on growing your business and bringing in income.
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What is an MSP?
MSP stands for managed service provider, and companies can do everything from providing cyber security and Software as a Service (SaaS) to hardware outsourcing and business broadband. They can even manage your whole IT infrastructure for you.
These companies are specialists in what they do, so you don’t have to be.
MSPs can be your whole IT department or simply provide extra assistance when needed. They can provide cover 24/7, 365 days a year, which would cost far more if you employed IT professionals round the clock to do the same. They can provide specialists in just one aspect of IT or one piece of software so you can get someone in quickly, when needed, and have new systems set up without having to job search, interview, and train. They can be there should the worst happen and help with business recovery and systems restoration.
In short, they can make your life so much easier.
How can leased lines improve a business?
More and more businesses need an excellent internet connection to do business, whether that’s connecting with customers, getting leads and selling products, or simply working with ease between departments and other branches.
While fibre business broadband is obviously a much faster connection than used to be available, larger businesses can start to find that even fast broadband isn’t enough for their needs.
That’s where leased lines can make all the difference.
A leased line is dedicated only to your business, with no contention ratio, so you aren’t competing with others at peak use times of day. With broadband, at peak times, your connection can slow, but this doesn’t happen with leased lines. Equally important is that with a dedicated line, security is much better and there’s a far smaller chance of your important business data being intercepted.
With a guaranteed line speed and a synchronous connection (upload and download speeds are the same), business can be smoother, easier and quicker.
How can VoIP improve a business?
VOIP stands for Voice Over Internet Protocol and instead of using a standard telephone system, you can make calls to anywhere in the world over the internet for a low cost. You pay either per connection or per user and this makes it much easier to budget. Not only that, but if you need to add new users, you just add them to your system and you’re done. You’re not limited to only so many channels per circuit, like you would be with many older phone systems, so it’s extremely easy to scale.
There are far more features with a VOIP phone system, including call diversion, email messaging, voice mail, and hold music. And with so many businesses turning to remote working, you can take your phone number with you, wherever you go.
With excellent sound quality and ease of use, VOIP is a great choice for most businesses.
How can Cyber Security improve a business?
Cyber security is vital to protect your business from cybercriminals, hackers and scammers determined to steal data, corrupt systems and make as much money as they can. In that sense, it’s not so much how it can improve your business, but that your business can’t live without it.
However, have excellent cyber security does come with some business benefits too:
Securing your business also protects your customers from any attacks that could otherwise come via your website, business email or systems. Many businesses sell through their website and cyber protection is vital so that your website isn’t hacked or infected. Losing your website for hours or days while you repair it from an attack could cost thousands in lost sales. Some computer viruses are known for slowing down networks and causing usability problems, sometimes even bringing systems to a complete stop. Having a robust cyber security system in place keeps productivity levels high. A secure business with a good track record of protecting its customers’ data is a business that can be trusted. The right cyber protection can enhance your reputation and give your customers confidence. How can Cloud Computing improve a business?
Cloud computing is specifically designed to be highly reliable and scalable to suit business growth. It can streamline your business tasks, help with productivity, and support your business to develop and grow.
One of cloud computing’s biggest benefits is flexibility, with almost unlimited storage and bandwidth, so you can move your use up to meet times of high demand.
Good backups are vital for any business and with cloud computing, you have excellent backup solutions and peace of mind knowing your business disaster recovery is in safe hands, should the worst happen.
Whether it’s Microsoft 365, Adobe Suite or high-end CAD applications that your business uses, with cloud computing, every user will be able to access what they need, secure in the knowledge that everything is automatically updated. And for your IT team, your software is already integrated and can be easily customised.
Cloud computing makes it easier to work and collaborate, with excellent security and regular backups so it’s easy to restore lost data. | 5,491 | 2,465 | 11,959.910345 |
warc | 202143 | This may seem like a daunting prospect, however, here at AquAid, we’re delighted to advise that choosing a Bottled or Mains Water Dispenser to help hydrate you is quite simple. Here’s why:
Experience: With AquAid, you have at your disposal 23 years of our experience in the provision of drinking water dispensers, irrespective of the requirements. This includes drinking water dispenser needs for any organisation of any size, notwithstanding construction sites, festivals, pop-up events and open-air locations. We offer a free, no obligation assessment at your premises with our recommendation of which of our range is the best option for use.
Convenience: With our 23 branches, you have peace of mind that there is an AquAid branch convenient to your location. Not only do we offer a 48-hour installation period for bottled water coolers and 3-4 days for mains water coolers and scheduled bottled water deliveries, we also provide a next day emergency water delivery should you run out.
Innovation & Quality: Each of AquAid’s high-quality Water Coolers, Boilers and Instant Taps is backed by an automatic service schedule; there is no need for you to check on when your water cooler requires sanitisation or servicing.
Donations to Charity: Since our inception in 1998, we have donated to charities where the focus is on implementing clean water resources for people in dire need. These donations are not added to your purchase or contract, they are automatic and generate from our revenues.
Access & Availability: If you preference is to first browse and contact later, we have that coolered too. The AquAid website clearly itemises our range, our branches and when you want to speak to us, that’s also easy – use the contact form, e-mail or call us – we’re here to help.
Some time ago, we blogged about how drinking water can increase belly health. As the belly (or stomach) is seen as a second brain, keeping it hydrated is vital, contributing to sustained belly and digestive health and indeed, our body’s health overall.
A few benefits of drinking water on an empty stomach are:
Flushes Toxins – helps in flushing out all the toxins from the body, cleansing the system. It’s also a great way in which to kick-start your metabolism.*
Increases Red Blood Cell population – stimulates the red blood cells to populate at a faster rate, an increase in oxygen reaching your cells, which in turn boosts the energy levels of the body.*
Increases Metabolism speed – can mean an increased metabolic rate of around 25%. This can also lead to a faster digestion, aiding a more healthy weight loss.*
Cleanses Your Bowels – drinking water on an empty stomach helps in cleansing your bowels. It creates an urge to move the bowel and therefore helps to regulate your digestive tract.*
Prevents Kidney Stones – water dilutes the acids and prevents the formation of stones in the kidney. Drinking water can also help prevent bladder infections. However, fluid intake must be carefully monitored should a person have a kidney disease or is on a treatment like dialysis. Always consult with a healthcare professional.
Strengthens Immune System – flushing out all the toxins and preventing infections from spreading through the body. This ultimately strengthens the immune system thereby reducing the likelihood of infections.*
Wherever you require a plumbed in (mainsfed), bottled (bottlefed), water dispenser, hot water boiler or hot or cold Instant Taps for your home, office, workplace or worksite, delivering a constant supply of refreshing drinking water – day and night – contact AquAid Water Coolers.
*source: from a blog at Manipal Hospitals
There are many items used to keep warm externally during when the weather is cold – something we blogged about previously. From furry pets (the best bed warmers), fuzzy socks, heavy coats to hot water bottles, options abound.
Of course, with the advent of the microwave, external body heaters mean we can avoid possible water spillage or leaking as well as negate the possibility of burns filling up a hot water bottle from the kettle. We now have heating pads available containing wheat, buckwheat or flax seed, which may sound like an alcohol brewing starter pack, but it isn’t.
As we’ve covered external body warming, we now look at hot water for warming yourself internally.
This leads us to introduce the AquAid range of water boilers. Each of these high quality, well-designed machines maintain your hot drinking water at an even temperature of 98 °C, thereby ensuring a constant supply of filtered, piping hot drinking water for all your warming hot drinks, combining both practicality and self-service all within a variety of stylish units.
For an alternate hot drinking water solution, we also supply AquAid Instant Taps. These elegant, convenient and environmentally friendly taps are space saving, compact and discreet, providing instantly ready and limitless boiling filtered water at the touch of a button.
Ideal for any workspace, office, remote work location, establishment, medical facility, university, college or school, AquAid Hot Water Boilers and Instant Taps are the perfect hot drinking water solution, meeting your requirements, all while saving you time, energy and money.
Maintaining good hydration habits may seem less important in winter than in summer, but this is not the case. I would venture that it is actually more important to make sure you’re drinking enough water in winter than in summer.
Dehydration is much less noticeable during winter, as you don’t notice how much you sweat under layers of clothing.
The dryness in the air may dehydrate our bodies quicker than we can imagine and most often, we don’t even feel thirsty, so our need for adequate water may remain unmet*. That’s why it’s important to work pre-emptively to replenish the fluid reserves of the body, in order to avoid any physical discomfort that will stem from dehydration in the future.
As with all seasons, winter also demands special dietary and lifestyle adjustments to prepare the body for the cold weather.
Drink room-temperature drinks: Although cold drinks are absorbed quicker, warmer or room temperature drinks keep your body temperature optimal – particularly ideal if you’ve been exercising in the cold.
Make good hydration a habit: Since your ability to recognise your thirst worsens as you age,
today is the ideal time to start getting into the keeping hydrated habit.
Boosting Immunity: The cold and dry air may sap your body of energy, making you feel sluggish and even making you more susceptible to cold weather illnesses. Keeping hydrated helps boost immunity thereby protecting your body.
Regulating Weight: When you’re hydrated, your body is more capable of breaking down fats, effectively regulating body weight.
Eat water rich food: Fruit and veggies have a high water content – these add volume and keep you satisfied without the calories. Broth and soup are also a great way to consume water.
Water refresh: A lot of us just do not like drinking water, period. Try adopting a different approach. Switch up your room temperature water by adding lemon, cucumber or even ginger.
Helps skin health: Drinking adequate water during winter is essential to stay hydrated, all which helps to prevent dry and dull skin.
Whatever the weather and wherever your location in the UK, the easiest and quickest route to ensuring you have a constant supply of refreshing drinking water is to install a water dispenser from AquAid. We provide a wide range of high-quality water coolers, water boilers and Instant Taps.
AquAid has also recently added a selection of Touch-Free water coolers and water boilers to our range: providing you safe and easy access to your drinking water, thereby ensuring your continued hydration health.
*source: NDTV Food
Recently on social media, we posted about how the demand for drinking water changes depending on the seasons.
With this top of mind, we thought to increase awareness about the wide range of water dispensers AquAid supply, thereby meeting all drinking water needs and requirements.
Aside from the recent introduction of our range of Touch-Free water dispensers that offer even more hygienic safety features, AquAid also offer a wide selection of high quality hot & chilled water dispensers, hot water boilers and Instant Taps.
Hot & Cold Water Dispensers like the AQ Max Desktop. This elegant and compact workhorse is the ideal solution if you are short on space but want to enjoy the cost-saving benefits of a plumbed-in water dispenser.
Despite its compact size, this machine is well suited for installation in areas where there is a medium to high demand for chilled & hot drinking water.
AquAid’s range of Hot Water Boilers, such as the Eco LargeFlow , offers the perfect combination of reduced usage costs and energy efficiency whilst delivering a rapid draw of piping hot water and is suited to any medium to large home or office workspace.
A stylish, space saving constant supply of hot drinking water makes the AquAid Instant Tap ideal for installation in (staff) kitchens and breakout areas. With an elegant tap system, that dispenses boiling and ambient water at the touch of a button, with the water boiler unit discreetly installed underneath the worktop, this hot water tap provides a limitless supply of boiling water.
Visit our website to browse our selection.
The first one is easy: Not only do AquAid supply a wide range of high quality water coolers, dispensing chilled or ambient drinking water, we also offer a range of hot and cold water dispensers, hot water boilers as well as our stylish, space saving Instant Taps.
What’s even more (heart)warming, is that for every Mains Fed/Plumbed-in water dispenser AquAid install, a portion of that sale is donated to charities that we support. These donations are used to fund life-saving clean water delivery projects for communities in need. A method guaranteed to warm you up as you sip your hot drink.
Bake something. We may not all qualify as contestants for events such as The Great British Bake Off, but that doesn’t matter – baking is a guaranteed method to warm your environment – also eating hot food raises your body temperature somewhat.
Wear a hat. Although it’s been disproved, we can’t negate the fact that covering your head while outside certainly feels warmer than leaving your extremities bare. In addition, some hats look great – you never know – you could start a trend. Note: Fascinators don’t count.
Exercise. Sure-footed and steady wins the race! Or at least keeps you mobile while you negotiate ice and slush covered pavements. Although higher impact, cardio-vascular exercise is a great health benefit, it is sometimes better to take exercise that produces a slow burn – it may make for a longer lasting raised core temperature, which will keep you warm and toasty as you move between in and outdoors. | 11,146 | 4,951 | 24,516.247223 |
warc | 202143 | Your bank account is generating only 3 to 4% returns. What’s more is that the pre-tax return on most traditional investments is well...confusing. We get it.
That's why Cube has partnered with Grip to bring you Asset Leasing as an investment option. GRIP is an alternative investment option that lets you invest in unique physical assets. It is outperforming traditional bank accounts and FDs by generating nearly 3x post-tax returns. What Is GRIP?
GRIP is a lease financing platform that lets you co-invest in physical assets like vehicles, electronic equipment, and furniture. These assets are leased to GRIP’s partners under a leasing agreement.
The companies pay a fixed amount throughout the duration of the lease. This ensures that investors get a recurring monthly income on their investment. GRIP’s returns stand at 12% IRR post-tax. Who Are GRIP’s Partners?
GRIP’s partners include companies that are involved in exciting domains like Electric Vehicles (EVs), furniture renting, air purification, and more. These physical assets are leased to companies like:
FURLENCO | UBER | VOGO | RENTOMOJO | CHARGE ZONE- ASHOK LEYLAND
GRIP evaluates their partners based on 3 important factors:
Financials: Does the company have a strong balance sheet? Corporate profile: What is the company’s standing in the business world? Business performance: What is the business’ future potential, what are the industry trends, key contracts?
These factors help ensure that GRIP only leases to companies that have a strong business model and high creditworthiness.
Who Is It Suitable For?
GRIP is suitable for investors who want to:
Generate passive income on a monthly basis Receive a lucrative post-tax return of 12% IRR Gain exposure to a non-market linked asset GRIP Facts At A Glance Returns: 12% IRR post-tax Passive Income: Yes (monthly) Asset Class: Lease Financing Asset Type: Non-market linked (Alternative asset) Risk: Medium Ideal For: 3+ years Sample EMI Schedule For Grip Investors Benefits Of Investing In GRIP Lucrative Post-Tax Returns: GRIP has historically generated 12% IRR post-tax. This has a dual benefit: 1) Returns are better than most FDs, RDs, bank savings a/c 2) You don’t have to calculate the taxable amount/capital gains Note: Investors will need to file ITR 3 to declare returns generated from GRIP. Passive Income: GRIP is a platform where a lessee (companies) pays the lessor (investor) a fixed monthly lease income. The returns are predictable since the interest is pre-agreed. This is great for investors aiming to achieve financial freedom in India. Non-Market Linked: GRIP is a lease financing platform where co-investors lend to companies. This means that GRIP is not linked to the stock market. Creditworthy Lessees: GRIP follows a 3-step protocol to ensure that their partners are creditworthy lessees. This helps you mitigate the risk and if you’re investing with Cube, there are more unique benefits. Unique Cube Benefits: Your GRIP investment in Cube Wealth is split across 10 unique companies (across different sectors and assets) every time you decide to invest. This mitigates the risk even more for Cube users. How To Invest In GRIP With Cube
Cube in association with GRIP gives you access to the best alternative investment and lease financing experience. All you have to do is:
Download Free Cube App Complete your KYC Choose 'All investment options' Click on GRIP Sign the investor's agreement Tap on invest
The Cube Wealth app is convenient to use because it doesn’t confuse you with complicated graphs and charts Cube is reliable because there’s no unnecessary jargon and you always have control. | 3,706 | 1,780 | 7,568.151685 |
warc | 202143 | A. Root Cause Analysis A root cause analysis (RCA) must be conducted when a sentinel event occurs in order to identify where the systems and pro cesses involved failed and how these systems may be improved to eliminate or reduce the risk for a reoccurring event of this type (Cherry , 2011 ) . The first step in conducting a root cause analysis is to form a committee of individuals that are from different levels of t he organization to review the failures of the system and processes that are associated
A. Root Cause Analysis or RCA Root Cause analysis is an effective tool used both reactively, to investigate an adverse event that already has occurred, and proactively, to analyze and improve processes and systems before they break down. Roost cause analysis helps dissolve the problem, not just the symptoms. In health care, it is important to analyze the root cause because: (1) deficiencies and weaknesses in the system can lead to human errors (2) evidence shows that in organizations with high
RUNNING HEAD: RTT1 TASK 2 1 RTT1 Task 2: Root Cause Analysis, Change Theory, FMEA, and Nursing Western Governors University RTT1 TASK 2 2 RTT1 Task 2: Root Cause Analysis, Change Theory, FMEA, and Nursing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) A root cause analysis (RCA) is an essential tool that can be used to examine and understand the ways in which systems fail as well as discuss those specific failures that led to a specific adverse event and potentially implement steps or behaviors to
this type of critical analysis tool by reason of, it will provide me with solutions to all realms of this conflict and why the end result of our night was the way it was. Root cause analysis is helpful considering it is going to let us find the reason for why this problem occurred in the first place. According to our reading assignments for this week, RCA allows us to look at three different types of causes that could stimulate this type of response. The three types of causes are physical, human,
2.1. Root Cause Analysis: In Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is the process of identifying causal factors using a structured approach with techniques designed to provide a focus for identifying and resolving problems. Tools that assist groups or individuals in identifying the root causes of problems are known as root cause analysis tools. Every equipment failure happens for a number of reasons. There is a definite progression of actions and consequences that lead to a failure. Root Cause Analysis is a
often offer partial or contradictory evidence for an interpretation. Recognition of the inherently political and residual features of archival material is thus a central methodological concern, the basis for significant decisions about design and analysis. The skilfulness of scholars’ abilities to master this ambiguity is a distinguishing feature of exemplary research in this tradition (see for example Baron et al 1986 and the methodological commentaries by Jennings et al, 1992; Guillén, 1994; Casadesus
always a slight possibility for a medical error to take place, similar to our case of Mrs. Jonesky and Samantha Jones. Root-Cause Analysis Definition According to Dattilo and Constantino (2006), “The most fundamental reason for the failure or inefficiency of a process, in any work setting even the healthcare environment, is referred to as a root cause”. Root cause analysis (RCA) is the tedious process under which the healthcare providers take a step back and analyze their potential mistakes, adverse
There are several examples of improvement projects in healthcare; however, in this class we will be discussing only three of them. The names of the three projects are PDSA, RCA, and FMEA. The first one being discussed is PDSA or in other words, Plan-Do-Study-Act, which is a 4-step process model that helps organizations adapt to changes being made. According to the Minnesota Department of Health (n.d.), “When using the PDSA cycle, it's important to include internal and external customers; they can
differences concerning the failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) and a root cause analysis (RCA) are clarified. Failure mode and effects analysis is conducted prior to any event. FMEA is a preventive action used to help prevent a failure. The FMEA committee consists of about three to four members who all are experts in the designated subject. Through FMEA the committee helps develop action plans to reduce the risk of failure (Quality-One, 2011). RCA is an investigation that occurs after a sentinel
unnecessary death of a patient. A root cause analysis (RCA) can be utilized to help understand the systems at fault within the facility so that improvements can be determined and implemented to prevent any future occurrences (Cherry, 456). RCAs focus on systems rather than blaming individuals involved, therefore they are only appropriate in cases where there has been no willful negligence or criminal acts (Huber & Ogrinc, 2014). The overall purpose of RCAs is to find out the causes of the adverse event and | 5,060 | 2,338 | 10,873.156544 |
warc | 202143 | The Webster Technique, discovered by Dr. LarryWebster, founder of the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association, is aspecific chiropractic adjustment to correct sacral subluxation. Used most oftenon pregnant women, this adjustment balances muscles and ligaments in thewoman's pelvis and may remove undue tension to the uterus. The goal of theWebster Technique is to reduce the effects of sacral subluxation(misalignments), and sacroiliac (SI) joint dysfunction. Sacral subluxations maycontribute to difficult labor for the mother (i.e., dystocia). Dystocia iscaused by inadequate uterine function, pelvic contraction, and babymal-presentation.
Correcting sacral and pelvic alignment through Chiropractic adjustments creates healthy pelvic positioning, which may help to prevent birth complications. Because of its importance, the Webster Technique is recommended throughout pregnancy to detect and alleviate any imbalances and optimize pelvic alignment. | 963 | 541 | 1,708.83549 |
warc | 202143 | Talking To Your Collectors Should You’re Having Bother Paying Your Payments
One means that the corporate has turn into so infamous is via doubtful dealings on the phone. Far too typically, the representatives that work together with shoppers on behalf of this agency make guarantees that aren’t saved and inform half-truths to push shoppers to decide to transactions that they aren’t financially prepared for. Since it may be hard for consumers to show what was stated throughout phone conversations, the best way to take care of this is by requesting all communication take place in writing. The reality is, people who discover this entity listed on their credit score report have often by no means heard of them.
Skilled Organizations
RMs are a helpful useful resource for information about our services. Banks generate income by lending money to borrowers and charging some rates of interest. So, it is very essential from the bank’s part to follow the cardinal principles of lending. When these ideas are abided, they assure the security of banks’ funds and in response to that they guarantee its depositors and shareholders.
The stipulations for this are political stability and peace and safety throughout the nation. The second most necessary function of lending is security, safety of funds lent. Safety means that the borrower should be ready to repay the loan and curiosity at common durations of time with none fail. The compensation of the mortgage depends on the character of safety and the potential of the borrower to repay the loan. Only these securities which acquires enough liquidity are added in the bank’s investment portfolio. This is essential as the bank requires funds to meet the urgent needs of its prospects or depositors.
The financial institution ought to be in a situation to promote a number of the securities at a very quick notice without creating an impression on their market charges much. There are explicit securities such because the central, state and native government agreements that are easily saleable with out having any influence on their market rates. Sometimes, debt that is reported in opposition to you by certainly one of these businesses is inaccurate – or doesn’t even belong to you, in the first place! This is because these agencies purchase money owed in large teams from other corporations, that means that they could not at all times have full or accurate info.
Risk Management is a steady strategy of figuring out risks which are sometimes subject to fast and risky changes. The identification of dangers could lead to alternatives for portfolio progress or could aid in avoiding unacceptable exposures for the establishment. On subsequent calls, investigate competition, market share, and the probable influence of economic conditions on the business. And determine the corporate’s business strategy and what the company must do to succeed.
In this entire process, banks earn good profits and develop as monetary institutions. Sound lending ideas by banks additionally help the economic system of a nation to prosper and also advertise growth of banks in rural areas. Government contracts and debentures of industries carry fastened costs of curiosity. But the financial institution is bound to liquidate a part of them to fulfill its needs of money whenever stuck by a financial disaster. Also, the share and debentures of commercial considerations are sure to their earnings. Income varies according to the business activities held in a country. The financial institution also needs to contemplate the ability of the debtor to repay the debt of the governments whereas investing in their securities. | 3,715 | 1,802 | 7,547.511099 |
warc | 202143 | Going on a diet is never an easy task, but it’s valuable for helping you stay healthy and in shape. However, a cookie-cutter diet isn’t often the best solution for everyone. Each person has unique needs, making it essential to ensure you’re choosing the right diet plan for you. The following questions will help you… | 339 | 244 | 440.422131 |
warc | 202143 | A man who police said was driving a pickup truck erratically ended up striking and critically injuring two women who were watching fireworks from a sidewalk in Anaheim.
According to a news report in The Orange County Register, the incident occurred the night of July 4. Police said the man behind the wheel lost control and struck the two women in the 200 block of North Grand Avenue, leaving them with serious injuries.
Critical Injuries
Firefighters took the two women, aged 44 and 22, to an area hospital in critical condition. Police said they examined the driver to see if he was under the influence and determined that he was not. Traffic investigators will examine the vehicle for malfunctions and determine how fast it was going. The driver has not been arrested or cited. The investigation is still ongoing.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the injured victims of this horrific crash. We wish them both the very best for a speedy and complete recovery.
What Caused This Collision?
Based on this news report, it is unclear as to what caused the driver of the pickup truck to lose control of the vehicle. While officials say the driver was not under the influence, there are still several unanswered questions here.
Was the driver operating the truck at an excessive rate of speed? Was there some type of vehicle defect or mechanical malfunction that caused this crash? Was the driver distracted or inattentive at the time? Did he suffer a medical condition that caused him to lose control? We trust the official investigation will delve into these issues in order to determine precisely who or what caused this major injury crash.
Liability Issues
In such cases, injured victims may be able to seek compensation for their losses from the at-fault or negligent parties. Injured victims can seek compensation for damages including medical expenses, lost income, hospitalization, cost of rehabilitation, permanent injuries, disabilities, pain and suffering, and emotional distress.
Pedestrian accidents have the potential to result in injuries that could leave people with long-term or even lifelong disabilities. If you or a loved one has been seriously injured in a pedestrian accident, it is imperative that you contact an experienced Orange County pedestrian accident lawyer to obtain more information about pursuing your legal rights. | 2,357 | 1,147 | 4,818.801221 |
warc | 202143 | Carpet Cleaners in Rose Hill NYC 10010
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Kills Bacteria and Mites: Bacteria, mould, fungus, and dust mites can thrive in carpet, and it can be very hard to completely eliminate them using conventional cleaning methods. With steam cleaning, the warmth of the vapor is sufficient to kill those invaders. What is Steam Cleaning?
Steam cleaning is a fairly simple concept to grasp, and it provides a wide-ranging choice of benefits. What Makes Steam Cleaning Such a Winner?
Dirt and stains can be removed far more easily, once weakened. It’s the exact same principle which makes washing your clothes in hot water so much more effective. The vapor will also work its way down to the layers, providing a more comprehensive clean than massaging or vacuuming. Steam cleaning is currently exploding in popularity, but most homeowners still do not quite understand what it is, how it works, and why it’s so wonderfully advantageous. If you need steam cleaning explained, simply read through this quick and easy article to discover why it’s exactly the kind of carpet and rug cleaning you deserve. Water vaporized to clean your carpet and rugs. The vapor is heated to an exceptional level applied using a machine that looks a little. It helps give a clean and break down dirt, as that warmth meets the fibers of your rug and carpet. Dry steam is used to collect unpleasant debris and the dirt that has collected. Zero Pollutants: People tend to believe more intensive cleaning results in damage, but that’s not the case with steam cleaning. Unlike shampoos, steam cleaners don’t have to use chemicals; in fact, steam cleaning may sterilize any pollutants which have found their way to your carpeting or rugs. carpet steam cleaning
For over 40 years, New York City Carpet Cleaners has been the Professional carpet cleaning specialist people have trusted to supply the best carpet cleaning service available.
New York City Carpet Cleaners carpet cleaning removes an average of 96.5percent of common household allergens. Our carpet cleaning solution is an EPA Safer Choice product, which means it is safe for you, your pets and the environment. To put it differently, a carpet cleaning from New York City Carpet Cleaners will leave your house cleaner and healthier.
Our carpet cleaning Service uses a hot water extraction cleaning method. This is often known as”steam carpet cleaning,” although we do not really use steam to clean. This cleaning method allows us to remove spots, dirt and odors . So the next time you need a professional carpet cleaning, contact New York City Carpet Cleaners Today
12 Step Carpet Cleaning Process
Step 1: Pre-Inspection
Our Technician will do a Walk to identify carpet construction conditions, and possible stains.
Step 2: Pre-Vacuum
Your carpet is pre-vacuumed using a vacuum to eliminate bonded, insoluble soil.
Step 3: Furniture Moving
Sofas, chairs and tables Will be carefully moved. Larger pieces, like beds and dressers are left in place under our regular pricing structure. Furniture will be protected using disposable tabs and blocks.
Step 4: Pre-Spot
Spots are pre-treated for optimum removal.
Step 5: Pre-Spray
Traffic areas are pre-treated using a traffic lane therapy that is biodegradable.
Step 6: Pre-Agitate
Your carpet will be Pre-groomed using a carpet groomer or rotary cleaning machine (depending on soil level) to further loosen traffic area soil.
Step 7: Extract and Rinse
Once the soil has been Loosened, the carpet pile will be thoroughly flushed by our state-of-the-art truck-mounted hot water extraction cleaning process. Stress and heat are regulated to prevent the carpet from being over-wet.
Step 8: Neutralizer
The pH is balanced on every Carpet and cloth cleaned. This is one of the steps based on the producers of carpet. It is accomplished during the rinse & extract process or a post-spray will be implemented.
Measure 9: Post Spot Treatment
Potential permanent stains, as identified by the tech, might not be removed.
Step 10: Post Groom
The carpet pile is set to aid the drying process.
Measure 11: Speed Dry
High velocity air movers are placed to reduce the time.
Measure 12: Post Cleaning Inspection
Our technician will walk Through your house with you be sure, that you’re completely thrilled with the job and to point out the cleaning results.
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Let us share some answers to the three most commonly asked questions we receive almost daily.
How long should we wait to have our carpets cleaned?
Imagine, you have a new Born infant, a roaming toddler using a sippy cup filled with red Kool-Aid, or you are an allergy sufferer, perhaps you are the proud owner of a new puppy or kitten, or maybe you’ve simply given up trying to get your kids to take their shoes off at the door. You may see that each situation is very unique. Each one of you could demand a different response to this question.
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Are not all carpet cleaning firms roughly the same?
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Mr. Steam includes a Reputation that’s second to none. Realtors, and the area Carpet Retailers, Interior Designers refer our services. Stainmaster, Mohawk, Shaw and Couristan have used Mr. Steam to help them with cleaning related problems. New York City Carpet Cleaners is in cleaning all carpet and fabric types, in addition to every soiling condition known to our 24, Experienced. Our staff has over 100 years of on-site experience. New York City Carpet Cleaners takes Education and is certified by the IICRC, that is the world’s most recognized body of certification for upholstery and carpet cleaners. We hold Journeymen Cleaning Technician Designations, which are among the highest certifications available. New York City Carpet Cleaners cleaning Systems are the most advanced on the market, getting maximum spot removal and maximum soil removal without leaving a residue or over-wetting your carpet. New York City Carpet Cleaners Provides a 100% money-back Guarantee. If you’re not completely satisfied, we’ll return at no cost to address the problem area. We will honor our money back guarantee if you remain unsatisfied. During these five values and New York City Carpet Cleaners 12-step cleaning process, we are able to provide you with the service experience .
What is it about New York City Carpet Cleaners which makes the company so unique?
Let us just try and pretend For a moment the finest gear, products that are safest and certified Technicians in Idaho do not even matter. When was the last time a? Tradesman of any kind was at your dwelling? Can they treat it and concern? Or did they leave you with a mess to clean up when it Was all said and done? How about hidden surprises in their final bill? What about being on time? How comfortable were you with their? Technicians?
These are all feelings that every person at New York City Carpet Cleaners and company absolutely understands intimately. We want you to know That we share your concerns about your family and home with you. We Promise to protect its contents and your house with each tool in our arsenal. We’ll utilize other protection devices and corner guards to Keep from scratching at your walls and woodwork. You’ll notice We never proceed down the hallway or into any room consent. Our trained technicians carry identifying and are clearly uniformed credentials. We understand that getting ready to have your carpeting and Furniture cleaned is a big job, especially for you. And we promise to Call in the event Because we respect your valuable time you, and your dwelling time-all.
The bottom line-what makes The New York City Carpet Cleaners Business the quality of the whole Experience, from the moment we meet till we say,”Good bye and thank you.” We care just as much about your experience as you do. We want so Much more than simply happy clients; cheerleaders are wanted by us.
Experience the quality of New York City Carpet Cleaners The service, and you will see for yourself Difference between us and all our competitors is obvious…
Can Carpet Cleaning Completely Eliminate Dog and Cat Urine Stains And Odors?
We love our pets. They know when we’re sad or sick, so they closely watch over us. We love them for their love, those massive brown haired eyes, and their smile and tail wag when they see us. When they perch purring, we love our cats. We appreciate when they curl up on the bed with us at night. They, also, watch over us if we’re ill or sad.
As much as we love them, however, they have one habit that makes us mad. When pets wet the carpet, the cat and dog urine seeps into the fiber of the rug and to the subfloor and padding beneath. When they do it long enough (they go back to wet the identical spot), the carpet is destroyed, and the floor needs to be replaced. This is a unpleasant and costly job for homeowners.
Homeowners do not always know where the animals have gone or in which room. The air we breathe is permeated by the odor. People who have breathing problems can not catch a breath of air. HVAC units disperse it and pick up that odor. Visitors are uncomfortable. It’s time for professional carpet cleaning.
Why Can’t I Do It Myself?
Homeowners might buy commercially produced chemical carpet cleaners. They will use the cleaner, wait the recommended time, and then vacuum the area. But these chemicals are only designed to get the surface of the rug, not deep into the fibers. Until the carpet needs to be replaced, the chemicals may harm the textile.
Home remedies are all over the Internet. Vinegar and baking soda are the go-to organic remedies for a number of purposes. They, also, are rubbed into the textile. Stains are removed by them well. They won’t get the odor down from the fibers, although they won’t damage the carpet’s fibers.
With the stains are gone along with the odor temporarily on hold, homeowners believe they’ve beaten the issue. What they do not recognize is that an animal marks its territory. The animal will go back to spots or that spot to be certain her or his space is not invaded by any other animal. The odor and stains will return.
Why Hire a Carpet Cleaning Professional?
Carpet cleaning first involves finding out the extent of the damage, the condition of the wooden sub-floor, and the amount of time the damage was there. That matters as well, if the pet is in the house. The stain needs to be pretreated with a neutralizer that breaks down the urine and followed up with a contaminant extraction cleaning.
The second choice is for the carpet and pad to be entirely replaced. This can be done only in the cases. The urea crystals left behind odor more pungent than urine although the urine may have evaporated. There’s also the ammonia odor from the urine to be removed. The cement or wood sub-floor wills clean and apply an odor block merchandise. New pads and carpet will be laid over it.
New York City Clients and homeowners should know that professional carpet cleaners use natural products that will not damage the fibers of the rug. These won’t interact with the compounds built into the rug and warp. They won’t cause a reaction that will cause allergies and asthma sufferers a moment’s trouble. Nor will pets become ill from this kind of interaction.
New York City clients and homeowners should also know that the longer the pet stains sit, the more harm is done. The air quality in the house will endure exponentially
Bad odors mean the existence of mould and mildew from dog or cat urine. Professional carpet cleaning removes bad odors in addition to the resulting mold and mildew. Indoor air quality improves. Those with allergies and asthma improve.
How to Get Pet Stains From Carpet
When it comes to Lifting the urine spot it’s important to act quickly so it does set to a stain. Cleaning it can be particularly tricky since urine starts as a acid becomes alkaline over time and but crystallizes. Luckily, our tips and tricks to make the cleanup easier. Try these methods for removing the urine spot out of your carpet.
To clean the urine spot (and odor) from carpet with household ingredients, here is what you need and the step-by-step to clean:
Clean white towels – We always recommend using white towels for cleaning so there’s no color transfer when blotting.
Hydrogen peroxide 3% – This is a mild solution to chlorine bleach which helps kill germs while being safe on cloth. This makes it effective for helping destroy odor-causing bacteria and to break down stains, As it’s an oxidizing agent. We urge because there’s potential for color loss if a higher concentration of hydrogen peroxide is used hydrogen peroxide 3%. Empty spray bottles – For safe practice, always make sure spray bottles are clean and clear of any other residue before using. Liquid dishwashing detergent – This also helps lift stains from carpet and other cloth. Cold water White vinegar – White vinegar breaks down the uric acid in urine to help eliminate the spot and odor.
Use Hydrogen Peroxide – Start by filling an empty spray bottle with hydrogen peroxide 3%. Spray the stain. If you don’t have a spray bottle you can pour directly onto the carpet. Let sit until it dries.
Blot Everything You Can – Using a clean towel, consume as much of the liquid as possible until it penetrates the carpet pad or subflooring. Create Cleaning Solution & Blot – Then, mix a solution using 2 cups of water and 1 teaspoon of liquid dish soap in an empty spray bottle. Spray the area with the solution. Allow it to sit for 1-2 minutes. Blot with a white towel. Repeat blotting. Rinse with Cold Water – Next, you will want to flush the region with clean cold water and blot with as much pressure as possible until it is dry. Flush with White Vinegar & Blot – Finally, flush the region once more, but this time with white vinegar. Blot up as much of the vinegar as possible. Be sure to let the area dry completely before walking on it. To clean with our easy-to-use spot remover, here is what you want and the step-by-by to clean:
New York City Carpet Cleaners Spot Remover – Since our cleaner has a neutral pH level, it’s safe to use carpet. Additionally, it is effective to treat winning spots, which are stains that reappear after a carpet has dried.
Clean white towels – White towels are also great at showing how much of the urine is being lifted. Water
Blot Everything You Can – Before using our solution, blot up as much of the urine as possible using a new, white towel.
Spray Our Solution – Use New York City Carpet Cleaners Spot remover first, shake well and turn spray nozzle to start. Spray until wet on spot. Let Solution Sit & Blot – Let sit for 2-4 minutes, then blot up with a clean, white towel moving from the outer edges of the stain inward. Rinse & Blot Dry – Rinse the affected area with clean water and once again, blot the area with another white, absorbent towel. Repeat – Repeat the steps above as needed until stain lifted. Dry – Let the area of carpet dry before walking over. How to Get Pet Urine Smell From Carpet
Once the Stain is lifted, you definitely don’t wish to wait long to linger. For a simple solution, here is for removing urine smell out of carpet how to use our Odor Out Plus.
For Receiving the urine stench out of carpet, here’s what you need and the step-by-step to eliminate:
New York City Carpet Cleaners Odor Out Plus – This solution uses natural enzyme action to digest organic Odor sources like urine. This eliminates the odor at the source rather Than masking it. It uses a agent to give Relief from any odors while the enzyme is currently working into the carpet.
Clean white towels Water
Make Sure Area is Dry – Before applying this deodorizing solution, be sure that the spot you are treating is dry.
Spray Our Option – Next, shake our Odor Out Plus well and liberally apply directly onto the affected area. Press Into Carpet – After applying onto the carpet, press the solution to the carpet fibers with a towel. Maintain Area Moist – Keep the solution moist over the carpet for at least 24 hours. You Can do this by covering the area that is treated with a slightly damp cloth. Dry – Finally, after the solution sits for 24 hours, let the carpet successfully dry before walking over. | 17,746 | 7,463 | 41,184.606727 |
warc | 202143 | This event has passed. Orkney ‘Worrying About Money?’ Leaflet Launch: A cash first response to food insecurity October 4 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmFree
Based on learning from Scotland’s A Menu for Change project, Orkney’s ‘Worrying About Money?’ Leaflet has been co-designed to help people experiencing financial insecurity, and those supporting them, to easily identify and access appropriate financial support and advice. By helping people access any existing financial entitlements and advice on income maximisation, the hope is to reduce the need for emergency food aid.
The Orkney ‘Worrying About Money?’ leaflet is a step-by-step guide that:
– starts with the money problem situation/s someone might be facing (Step1) – explains the options available that could help (Step 2) – includes contact information for local organisations that can directly support people with these options (Step 3)
This launch event is an opportunity for frontline workers and volunteers in Orkney to hear more about the new leaflet and how to use it. Speakers will highlight the types of support available and raise awareness about the services that can help someone facing financial crisis or money worries.
We will be welcoming representatives of partner organisations who have worked together to co-develop the Orkney ‘Worrying About Money?’ leaflet to share their experiences and thoughts. They will reflect on why a cash first response to food insecurity is fundamental and how access to appropriate money advice and support can help reduce the need for charitable food aid. Partner organisations include NHS Orkney Public Health, the Independent Food Aid Network, Orkney Citizen’s Advice Bureau, Social Security Scotland, the Trussell Trust and Orkney Food Insecurity Group.
The roll-out of this resource in Orkney will be supported by future Money Counts training sessions designed for food bank staff, volunteers and other frontline workers. Book your place for the launch via this page and we will send the Microsoft Teams joining details shortly before the event. If you have any questions ahead of the event, please contact Jessica Jones (jessica.Jones2@nhs.scot) or Maria Marshall (maria@foodaidnetwork.org.uk).
You can access the Orkney ‘Worrying About Money?’ leaflet online here: www.ifanuk.org/leaflet-orkney | 2,391 | 1,154 | 4,769.568458 |
warc | 202143 | Seafood is so nutritious that we preferably should eat it two to three times a week, according to the Swedish National Food Agency. But at the same time, the fishing is the most energy demanding step between the sea and our plates, and reports of stocks depletion are frequent.
“In worst case, only 300 tonnes out of a catch of one thousand tonnes end up on our plates. That is irresponsible,” says Ingrid Undeland, Professor at the division of Food and Nutrition Science at Chalmers Department of Biology and Biological Engineering.
New food ingredients
The new EU project WaSeaBi aims to find a remedy for this. The four-year project starts with a survey of where and why by-products are generated and losses occur, and has the final goal of producing four to six new nutritious food ingredients based on fractions that today are wasted or used as animal feed.
“Seafood has a good composition of amino acids that are essential and easily accessible to humans. Unfortunately, in the ongoing shift from red meat to more sustainable protein sources, the marine proteins have partially been forgotten. But with new methods and techniques, we can get so much more out of the catch than just fillets,” says Undeland.
Her research group has previously worked with techniques to extract proteins from process waters originating from herring marination and shrimp boiling (read more about the NoVAqua project
). They have also worked with the so-called pH shift method to extract protein from the prime quality fish muscle that is situated too close to the back bone to be recovered during the filleting operation.
Separates the sidestream constituents
In the new EU project, the Chalmers researchers will investigate the logistics and methods needed to utilize more of the seafood raw materials. The side flows in the seafood industry are often a mixture of different constituents and contain a lot of blood and unsaturated fatty acids that quickly go rancid. Step one is therefore to separate the various constituents and then treat them with e.g. antioxidants so that they stay fresh long enough to allow them to be refined into food products.
“After that, it’s time to extract various exciting compounds from the raw materials. Here at Chalmers we will continue to work on the pH shift method and on so called flocculation techniques for capturing proteins from process water. With both methods, it is possible to obtain a protein mass that resembles fish mince. It then has numerous product possibilities.”
In the final step of the WaSeaBi project, processes will be built up in pilot scale at the sites of the participating companies, with the goal of producing new sustainable and nutritious food ingredients.
“This project is a significant step forward for the research that we have been conducting for several years. More of the seafood catch will soon end up on people's plates,” says Ingrid Undeland.
Facts: EU project WaSeaBi
The WaSeaBi project is a four-year, interdisciplinary project with the aim of better utilizing side streams in the seafood industry by developing new methods for producing food ingredients. The project consists of 13 partners from five European countries and has a budget of EUR 4 million. From Chalmers Professor Ingrid Undeland, Dr Mehdi Abdollahi and Dr Bita Forghani from Food and Nutrition Science participate. In addition to Chalmers, companies Scandic Pelagic Ellös and Alfa Laval Tumba are partners from Sweden.
Text: Ingela Roos
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warc | 202143 | Want the cheapest auto insurance rates for your Ford E-250? Comparison shopping for auto insurance is always a challenge for beginners to buying insurance online. People have so many options that it can easily become a real hassle to compare prices.
The purpose of this article is to introduce you to the most effective way to quote insurance and some money-saving tips. If you are paying for car insurance now, you will be able to save some money using these tips. Nevertheless, drivers do need to learn the way companies sell online and apply this information to your search.
There are a variety of methods to compare 1998 Ford E-250 insurance coverage prices but some are less time-consuming than others. You could waste time talking to insurance companies in your area, or you can stay home and use the internet to get prices fast.
Many companies enroll in a system where prospective buyers submit their information once, and at least one company then returns a price quote for coverage. This eliminates the need for quotation requests to each company.
To compare 1998 Ford E-250 rates now click here (opens in new window).
The one disadvantage to using this type of form is you can’t choose the providers to get quotes from. So if you prefer to choose individual companies to request quotes from, we have assembled a list of insurance coverage companies in your area. View list of insurance companies.
It doesn’t matter which method you choose, just double check that you are using apples-to-apples information for each price quote. If each company quotes different limits and deductibles on each one it’s not possible to determine which rate is truly the best. Slightly different insurance coverages can result in a big premium difference. And when price shopping your coverage, quoting more will increase your chances of finding a better price.
Consumers need to have an understanding of the factors that help determine car insurance rates. When you know what positively or negatively controls the rates you pay helps enable you to make changes that could result in much lower annual insurance costs.
The following are a partial list of the pieces that factor into premiums.
Car insurance is not cheap, but there are discounts available to help bring down the price. Larger premium reductions will be automatically applied when you quote, but a few need to be asked for before you get the savings.
It’s important to note that some of the credits will not apply to the entire policy premium. The majority will only reduce the cost of specific coverages such as collision or personal injury protection. Just because you may think all the discounts add up to a free policy, you won’t be that lucky. But all discounts will reduce your premiums.
Insurance companies that may have these benefits are:
Before buying, ask each company which discounts they offer. Savings might not be offered in your area.
When it comes to buying adequate coverage for your personal vehicles, there isn’t really a one size fits all plan. Coverage needs to be tailored to your specific needs.
For example, these questions might help in determining if you may require specific advice.
If you’re not sure about those questions but a few of them apply, you may need to chat with a licensed insurance agent. To find an agent in your area, fill out this quick form.
Having a good grasp of a auto insurance policy can be of help when determining appropriate coverage at the best deductibles and correct limits. Auto insurance terms can be difficult to understand and coverage can change by endorsement.
Liability coverage can cover injuries or damage you cause to other’s property or people that is your fault. It protects you against other people’s claims, and doesn’t cover damage to your own property or vehicle.
Coverage consists of three different limits, bodily injury per person, bodily injury per accident and property damage. You might see policy limits of 50/100/50 that translate to $50,000 in coverage for each person’s injuries, a per accident bodily injury limit of $100,000, and a limit of $50,000 paid for damaged property. Alternatively, you may have a combined limit which combines the three limits into one amount and claims can be made without the split limit restrictions.
Liability can pay for claims such as structural damage, medical expenses, legal defense fees and repair costs for stationary objects. The amount of liability coverage you purchase is a decision to put some thought into, but buy as high a limit as you can afford.
Med pay and PIP coverage pay for expenses like pain medications, ambulance fees and surgery. They are often utilized in addition to your health insurance policy or if you lack health insurance entirely. They cover all vehicle occupants and also covers if you are hit as a while walking down the street. Personal Injury Protection is not an option in every state and gives slightly broader coverage than med pay
This covers damage caused by mother nature, theft, vandalism and other events. You first must pay your deductible then your comprehensive coverage will pay.
Comprehensive coverage protects against things like damage from flooding, hail damage and damage from a tornado or hurricane. The maximum amount a auto insurance company will pay at claim time is the market value of your vehicle, so if it’s not worth much more than your deductible consider removing comprehensive coverage.
This protects you and your vehicle’s occupants from other drivers when they do not carry enough liability coverage. Covered losses include medical payments for you and your occupants as well as damage to your Ford E-250.
Since a lot of drivers only carry the minimum required liability limits, their limits can quickly be used up. So UM/UIM coverage should not be overlooked. Frequently the UM/UIM limits are set the same as your liablity limits.
Collision coverage pays to fix your vehicle from damage caused by collision with a stationary object or other vehicle. You will need to pay your deductible and the rest of the damage will be paid by collision coverage.
Collision insurance covers things such as sustaining damage from a pot hole, hitting a parking meter, crashing into a building and backing into a parked car. This coverage can be expensive, so you might think about dropping it from vehicles that are older. You can also bump up the deductible to get cheaper collision coverage.
We’ve covered quite a bit of information on how to reduce 1998 Ford E-250 insurance prices online. The key concept to understand is the more rate comparisons you have, the better likelihood of reducing your rate. Drivers may discover the lowest premiums are with a small local company.
Budget-conscious insurance can be found from both online companies and also from your neighborhood agents, and you should compare price quotes from both to get a complete price analysis. There are still a few companies who may not provide online price quotes and these small insurance companies work with independent agents.
Consumers leave their current company for any number of reasons including policy cancellation, high rates after DUI convictions, policy non-renewal or even questionable increases in premium. Regardless of your reason for switching companies, finding the right insurance provider is less work than it seems.
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warc | 202143 | Looking for the cheapest insurance coverage rates for your Mazda Mazda6? Finding better rates for insurance coverage can be hard for beginners to comparison shopping online. There are so many options that it can quickly become a real hassle to locate the lowest price.
The cost of insuring your cars can be expensive, but discounts can save money and there are some available that can drop the cost substantially. Some discounts apply automatically when you get a quote, but a few need to be asked for prior to receiving the credit.
As a disclaimer on discounts, most discount credits are not given to the overall cost of the policy. A few only apply to individual premiums such as physical damage coverage or medical payments. So even though it sounds like you would end up receiving a 100% discount, you won’t be that lucky. Any qualifying discounts will reduce the cost of coverage.
To see a list of providers offering auto insurance discounts, click this link.
The best way to compare rate quotes is to know most of the larger companies participate in online systems to provide you with a free rate quote. All consumers are required to do is spend a couple of minutes providing details including the make and model of your vehicles, your job, your education level, and daily mileage. Your insurance information is instantly sent to many highly-rated insurers and they provide comparison quotes quickly.
To compare multiple company rates now, click here then complete the form.
When it comes to choosing adequate coverage for your vehicles, there is no perfect coverage plan. Every insured’s situation is different.
These are some specific questions might point out whether you will benefit from professional help.
If you’re not sure about those questions then you might want to talk to an insurance agent. If you want to speak to an agent in your area, simply complete this short form.
Learning about specific coverages of your insurance policy can be of help when determining appropriate coverage and proper limits and deductibles. The coverage terms in a policy can be confusing and reading a policy is terribly boring.
This coverage covers damage that is not covered by collision coverage. You first have to pay a deductible then the remaining damage will be covered by your comprehensive coverage.
Comprehensive insurance covers things like theft, vandalism, rock chips in glass, damage from getting keyed and falling objects. The maximum amount your insurance company will pay is the actual cash value, so if it’s not worth much more than your deductible it’s probably time to drop comprehensive insurance.
This coverage protects you from damage that occurs to other’s property or people in an accident. It protects YOU against other people’s claims, and does not provide coverage for damage sustained by your vehicle in an accident.
It consists of three limits, per person bodily injury, per accident bodily injury, and a property damage limit. You commonly see values of 100/300/100 that translate to a $100,000 limit per person for injuries, $300,000 for the entire accident, and $100,000 of coverage for damaged propery. Some companies may use one limit called combined single limit (CSL) which provides one coverage limit and claims can be made without the split limit restrictions.
Liability can pay for things like repair bills for other people’s vehicles, repair costs for stationary objects, medical services and medical expenses. How much liability coverage do you need? That is up to you, but consider buying higher limits if possible.
Medical payments and Personal Injury Protection insurance kick in for immediate expenses like chiropractic care, pain medications and prosthetic devices. They can be utilized in addition to your health insurance plan or if you do not have health coverage. They cover you and your occupants in addition to any family member struck as a pedestrian. PIP coverage is not universally available and may carry a deductible
Collision coverage pays for damage to your Mazda6 from colliding with another car or object. You first must pay a deductible then your collision coverage will kick in.
Collision coverage pays for claims such as hitting a parking meter, crashing into a building, driving through your garage door and backing into a parked car. Collision coverage makes up a good portion of your premium, so analyze the benefit of dropping coverage from lower value vehicles. Another option is to choose a higher deductible in order to get cheaper collision rates.
Your UM/UIM coverage gives you protection from other drivers when they either are underinsured or have no liability coverage at all. It can pay for medical payments for you and your occupants as well as your vehicle’s damage.
Because many people only purchase the least amount of liability that is required, their limits can quickly be used up. So UM/UIM coverage is important protection for you and your family. Most of the time these coverages are identical to your policy’s liability coverage.
We covered some good ideas how to compare 2006 Mazda Mazda6 insurance prices online. The key thing to remember is the more times you quote, the more likely it is that you will get a better rate. Drivers may discover the lowest premiums are with some of the lesser-known companies.
Low-cost insurance can be found both online and also from your neighborhood agents, so compare prices from both in order to have the best chance of saving money. There are still a few companies who may not provide you the ability to get quotes online and usually these smaller companies provide coverage only through local independent agents.
When shopping online for car insurance, don’t be tempted to buy lower coverage limits just to save a few bucks. There are many occasions where consumers will sacrifice uninsured motorist or liability limits only to regret that it was a big error on their part. Your aim should be to find the BEST coverage at the best price while still protecting your assets.
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warc | 202143 | CEO of Samsung says: learning is not only a activity of HR but a core part of the business.
a key lever for success. And with that shift, the traditional role of the chief learning officer is changing. No longer are CLOs responsible just for training—making skills-based and compliance-oriented courses available to employees and perhaps running leadership-development programs. Instead, they’re embracing a more powerful role in which they reshape capabilities and organizational culture. We call this new type of leader the transformer CLO.
Need of an hour is TRANSFORMER CLO?
The transformer CLO role is not reserved for the lucky few whose CEOs see learning and development as essential; any CLO can take steps to fundamentally change the nature of learning in an organization.
extensive interviews with 21 senior learning officers at 19 large companies to find out how they conceive of their roles and organizations. This research, which builds on our prior work on digital leadership and culture, revealed that transformer CLOs are driving three principal types of change in their enterprises. They’re transforming their organizations’ learning goals, shifting the focus from the development of skills to the development of mindsets and capabilities that will help workers perform well now and adapt smoothly in the future. They’re transforming their organizations’ learning methods, making them more experiential and immediate, and atomizing content for delivery when and where it’s needed. And they’re transforming their organizations’ learning departments, making them leaner, more agile, and more strategic.
Transforming Learning Goals
The need for organizations to become more adaptable means changing the goals of corporate learning. Instead of narrowly focusing on job- or compliance-related training for all but their high-potential leaders, organizations should cultivate every employee’s ability to explore, learn, and grow. The objective is not only to train people but also to position the company for success.
Following could be the most require quality in CLO.
1/ Changing his habits.
2/ Following heart, head and hands feeling.
3/ Walking on talking
4/ Execute instead of advice.
5/ Listening, smiling, doing and creating results. | 2,315 | 1,140 | 4,571.109649 |
warc | 202143 | On-farm culling most probably for the UK swine sector
On-farm culling phenomenon is seen as a probable scenario for the British pig industry due to a labour crisis in the sector. The number of pigs sent in the market has dropped by 25% for some small units in the UK, according to data presented by the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA). The lack of workforce in the sector is threatening the industry and farmers and processors will feel the impact, warns BMPA.
BMPA along with "the entire food industry has been shouting and screaming at Government that there's a problem here," said Nick Allen , BMPA's head. "That problem is both short and long term. We have an immediate skills shortage for which we need an emergency Covid Recovery Visa to get butchers into the country quickly, but which the Home Office keep refusing to address", he added.
Longer-term, the industry has already been raising wages and improving the additional support and benefits offered to employees. It's also been trying to encourage British workers to consider the industry as a long-term career choice. This is a harder nut to crack and will take time to come to fruition which is why we need Government to lend a helping hand to get through the current crisis, believe BMPA's General Manager.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced $500 million funding for ASF prevention in USDA... | 1,393 | 791 | 2,435.548673 |
warc | 202143 | Modern pest control sprays can be secure for use on both inside your home and outside, which means there’s no reason to place your house in danger. Yet the sprays do need you to remain on the facilities for a couple of hrs to permit the spray to correctly dry. Additionally, it does completely dry rapidly and also does not leave a tarnish or trigger any other major troubles. Right here’s what to search for in your pest control spray.
In the past, insect control companies made use of chemicals which contained hazardous components that could cause serious troubles. They likewise splashed the wrong chemicals on the incorrect insects, which could make them more probable to return. Since modern-day pest control therapy has ended up being more sophisticated, these threats are practically nonexistent. These newer items function by using particularly developed chemicals that target just those parasites that are understood to return. информация
The pest control specialists you get in touch with to provide your residence a pest control therapy will carefully read through the instructions before applying the solution. They won’t apply to simply any type of old chemical to every noticeable part of your house. They have an idea of which insects could be living in your residence, where they could be concealing, and just how much wetness, warmth, and also food supply they have. They’ll additionally consider just how difficult it would be for you, the house owner, to eliminate those pests as well as rodents.
If you want to prevent even having to call a pest control operator, take into consideration initially that insects you ought to be targeting. Expert pest control men currently consistently make use of methods that target specific pests, consisting of: termites, ants, roaches, fleas, and also also spiders. You shouldn’t have to call them more than when if you want the treatment to function. If you need to see an exterminator, you can constantly call the very same exterminator back for a follow-up check out.
Certainly, you can additionally do your very own parasite control. This is really simpler than it appears, specifically if you recognize what kind of bugs you are taking care of and also where to locate them. For instance, if you have a trouble with roaches, you can go-of-the-tack and also purchase a Cockroach vacuum, or go-of-the-streets insect repellent. Remember to adhere to the instructions thoroughly so you don’t damage on your own or the setting. Actually, going the environmentally friendly course can save you money on insect control solutions as well as make your life a little simpler, especially if you want to avoid calling a specialist pest control specialist.
Utilizing incorporated parasite monitoring strategies is likewise a lot more economical than chemical pesticides. It’s easier, as well. It’s more likely that you’ll be able to fix your pest issue without calling a specialist pest control expert in the future, which suggests more time to invest with your household rather than stressing over insect control. Go ahead, do your study, and also provide integrated pest management a shot – maybe simply the solution you need to do away with those annoying parasite troubles in your house and also garden. вижте уебсайта
If you intend to find an expert pest control solution, you should understand that most of them are considered to be specialists by the sector. This is because they specialize on eliminating bug from houses and offices. Nevertheless, not all pest control companies can give the best services. There are specific requirements that each of the business must meet before they could make the very best service to their customers. Read on to recognize what these requirements are so you might likewise locate the very best bug control firm.
Among one of the most important standards that any kind of firm need to have is that it needs to be accredited. Certified business are probably to offer efficient pest control solutions. The certificate makes certain that the business is adhering to all the essential regulations and policy to remove insects from residences and workplaces. Therefore, if you wish to eliminate cockroaches, as an example, you ought to not work with a fly swatter firm that doesn’t have a license since your property may be messed up as a result of making use of a harmful maker.
An additional essential criterion that you ought to search for when working with a bug control company is whether it utilizes only natural as well as organic pesticides. If the firm makes use of pesticides that contain less hazardous chemicals, there are less possibilities of experiencing negative wellness results on the individuals remaining in your office or home. Making use of chemicals with a reduced degree of poisonous chemicals is constantly much better than making use of poisonous chemicals that can result in serious health and wellness problems on human beings.
You should additionally make sure that bug control companies have Cockroach catches. Roaches can increase very quickly and infest a home quickly. Because of this, it is suggested to have a parasite control firm eliminate roaches at your home because they can potentially damage your residential or commercial property. Cockroaches are very sensitive to heat and also noise. If the structure is left open while the pests are within, it might lead to serious illness and other complications. Thus, a trap can help recognize the place of where the cockroaches are and also at some point eradicate them.
Before employing an insect control company to take care of your residence, it is important for you to identify the sorts of pests that infest your place. If you locate that using chemicals alone to wipe out bugs will not function, it might be required for you to work with professional insect control firms who specialize in removing ants, crawlers, and also insects. These bugs can create a great deal of damages to your personal belongings and health. In order to remove these undesirable bugs, it is essential that you first look after the source of their existence. Ants, crawlers, as well as bedbugs can breed in any area that has adequate wetness. If you are having a hard time getting rid of these pesky bugs, it might be needed for you to deal with the wetness trouble in the area. Открийте повече
If you find that making use of Do It Yourself methods isn’t working all right, it might be necessary for you to work with the solutions of a pest control expert. A pest control specialist has the best knowledge and also abilities when it comes to taking care of unwanted guests. DIY methods entail using chemicals which might prove dangerous to you as well as the atmosphere. Instead of dropping this road, it may be best for you to speak to a pest control man to aid you in getting rid of all the undesirable bugs. The pest control experts will additionally recognize exactly how to prevent future problems by doing preventative upkeep on your building. | 7,264 | 3,152 | 16,145.807107 |
warc | 202143 | The Physical Education (PE) PGCE course prepares Associate Teachers (ATs) to teach all areas of the PE National Curriculum at Secondary level and aims to prepare successful applicants to develop into reflective, proactive, creative practitioners through an on-going analysis of their own progress and development. All Associate Teachers follow a forward-thinking curriculum which focuses on the skills, knowledge and concepts related to effective learning and teaching and pedagogical development within the secondary classroom. Teaching is based on lectures, workshops, skills training and seminars with individual support through one-to-one and group tutorials forming an integral feature of the programme.
A blend of practical experience and theory gained during the PE course is assessed in a number of ways. Teaching knowledge, skills and understanding is monitored through lesson observations, professional learning conversations, reflective journals and progress review meetings together with a number of written academic assignments that focus on theory into practice and key aspects of pedagogical development. We work closely with Staffordshire University on our Masters Programme.
ATs are supported and encouraged to develop ideas in the delivery of the attainment targets in PE across all subject content areas in secondary education. The course reflects the very latest teaching ideas in PE, responding to the needs and changes both within Consortium schools and within the National Curriculum.
Course content for GCSE, A level, BTEC and leadership courses in PE and Sport are explored. The use of Information and Communication Technology is studied and utilised to enhance the quality of teaching and learning.
The quality of relationships across the Consortium of schools is outstanding and is developed collaboratively at every stage to ensure that training is at the cutting edge of education. Effective communication is paramount to the continued success of this partnership, allowing WMC to map development needs with the best-placed partnership schools to ensure a tailored programme that is designed to suit all aspiring PE teachers.
WMC has established a fantastic reputation across the West Midlands. Historically, the majority of ATs have gained teaching posts before the end of their PGCE training period with a high percentage placed within partner schools. Headteachers frequently contact the Consortium directly when they have vacancies knowing that they can be confident of the quality of the AT that they are employing. | 2,556 | 1,245 | 5,233.127711 |
warc | 202143 | Supplements
There are some supplement manufacturers who adhere to the same exacting standards of the pharmaceutical industry. Other companies may substitute inferior or non-active ingredients in order to minimize their costs and maximize their profits. Thus, we do not recommend purchasing vitamins or nutritional supplements at most local stores.
Many resellers that are accessible online do not treat these delicate plant-based materials with the respect they require, such as in temperature-controlled facilities. Others may not have careful control of their sources, and inadvertently sell counterfeit products with inert or harmful ingredients. Thus, we do not recommend purchasing supplements on sites such as Amazon.
The following sources have high quality ingredients that should provide the full benefits intended. While you may use these links to purchase any supplements, we always recommend you choose them in consultation with Dr. Goldman to find the right products for your individual needs. | 1,010 | 551 | 1,842.196007 |
warc | 202143 | October 8, 2021EETC and National Grid SA are developing an interconnection project that aims to connect the grids of Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The project entails the construction of a ±500 kV multi-terminal high voltage direct current (HVDC) link from Badr in Egypt to El-Madinah El Munawara via Tabuk in Saudi Arabia. The interconnector will have a transfer capacity of 3,000 MW. It will allow Egypt and Saudi Arabia to capitalise on the differences in their peak power demand times, facilitate trade, and lead to cost savings of around USD3.7 billion.
September 9, 2021The 68-km-long, 132 kV double-circuit transmission line will run from Olkaria to Narok in Kenya. It also enatils construction of the a new 132/33 kV substation at Narok and extension of the existing Olkaria substation. The line will serve as the backbone for increasing the electricity access within the Narok country and its surrounding areas.
August 9, 2021The project entails the construction of a 102-km-long, 230 kV double-circuit transmission line from Semera (Ethiopia) to Galafi (Djibouti Border), a 190-km-long, 230 kV double-circuit transmission line from Galafi to Nagad in Djibouti, and a 170-km-long, 230 kV double-circuit transmission line with one circuit strung from Kombolcha to Mile, and then to Semera in Ethiopia.
June 10, 2021The 225/30 kV Projetd’ Interconnexion Électrique Guinée Mali (PIEGM) or the Guinea–Mali Electric Interconnection Project, involves the construction of a 714-km-long, 225 kV transmission line between Guinea and Mali, of which 590 km is in Guinea and 124 km in Mali.
March 11, 2021The 500 kV high voltage direct current (HVDC) line aims to link the power grids of Ethiopia and Kenya, create power-sharing between the two countries, reduce energy costs, and promote sustainable and renewable power generation.
February 9, 2021The Lusaka Power Transmission and Distribution Network (LPTDN) project being developed by ZESCO Limited aims to reinforce and upgrade the power transmission and distribution (T&D) infrastructure in the Lusaka area.
November 5, 2020The project aims to connect the electricity grids of Egypt, Cyprus and Greece through a subsea direct current (DC) cable and high voltage direct current (HVDC) onshore converter stations.
July 13, 2020The 330 kV North Core Project is a 330 kV transmission line from Birnin Kebbi (Nigeria) to Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), passing through Zabori (Niger) and Niamey (Niger) with a T-off to Malanville (Benin).
April 8, 2020The project involves the construction of 1,024-km-long, high voltage lines between Ngaoundéré, Maroua, in Cameroon, and N’Djamena in Chad, along with associated substations and distribution networks for rural electrification along the lines. | 2,781 | 1,311 | 5,793.21968 |
warc | 202143 | Covid forced social activities, like bar crawls and date nights, to go on hiatus, or move to Zoom. So the fact that fragrance sales increased by 82% in the first half of 2021, compared to the same time in 2020, demonstrates that in the age of wellness, perfume has been added to the list of self-care.
Ilaria Resta, global president since March of 2020 of the perfumery division at Firmenich, a fragrance and flavor company, said this shift in consumer preference is just one aspect of change that she has been tasked with reacting to. “The key pillars of my vision are related to anticipating and being on the leading front of the transformation of this industry, and future-proofing the business by anticipating or creating trends,” said Resta on this week’s Glossy Beauty Podcast.
That’s included navigating the “shift from fragrance [being worn to] appeal to others to being [worn] for our own relaxation and feeling better with ourselves,” she said.
Additionally, Resta has had to determine, “How do we communicate the fragrance in a virtual way [during Covid]?” she said. Fittingly for the digital-centric nature of the world today, Firmenich launched Scentmate, an “AI-enabled platform” that enables users to create a personalized fragrance based on data, as well as their personal preferences.
“Innovation is critical as a driver for value creation and differentiation [in fragrance],” she said.
Below are additional highlights from the conversation, which have been lightly edited for clarity.
On the evolution of the fragrance industry “The power of fragrances in triggering emotions [and] memories. It’s outstanding, and [it] is used also for therapies in order to trigger specific emotions. There are ingredients proven to aid concentration and focus, in lowering the heartbeat rate and improving well-being. It’s an industry that is evolving from being pleasure-focused [and] hedonic-focused to being an industry that is also adding real physical and mental benefits. And [it] is very much science-driven, as much as it is hedonic and creative. It is a fascinating sweet spot between the left and the right brain.” Firmenich’s relationship with sustainability “The company started working on [sustainability] before it became even a word or before it became a necessity and a demand from consumers. Decades ago, at Firmenich, we started defining critical roles to assess the role of biodegradable, renewable ingredients in the palette of ingredients that our perfumers work with. But also when it comes to biochemistry, we develop fragrances that mimic nature but do not deprive nature [of these] ingredients. At the same time, we started looking at the broader role of sustainability when it comes to social responsibility. [We] make sure that all the sourcing strategies are [responsibly sourced] from communities that are treated in the best way, not only for the workers, but [also] for the communities they work with. We [ensure] there are equal wages and minimum wages for men and women. We look at the broader ecosystems of sustainability. And this has been inspiring the work at Firmenich, this has been an important glue between us and our clients.” On the future expansion of the company “The chief consumer officer role, which is at the cornerstone of the transformation that I’m bringing at Firmenich [in] the perfumery division, starts from the assumption that if you know the needs of the consumers in a thorough way, then you are ready for the future. Because at the end of the day, the consumers will tell you where [they are] going without even knowing that [they’re] telling you that. We need to be able to leverage the existing wealth of consumer data that we’ve gathered in more than 50 years to understand what the consumer need [is] by country, by age, by group, by segmentation, but also by the type of benefit or product they use. That’s why it was incredibly important to staff [the] position [with someone] that can understand, that can muster the knowledge of consumers… We are looking at innovation with a broad spectrum [lens] — not necessarily only on [one] specific angle, but rather from all the aspects that fragrance [touches].” | 4,318 | 2,036 | 8,854.44499 |
warc | 202143 | We are proud to share...
goEgoNetwork is now the first and the only Indian company to be fully OCPP 1.6 (Open Charge Point Protocol) certified in providing standard, reliable and hassle-free electric vehicle charging solutions. The certification gives businesses and city municipalities the confidence that there are proven solutions in the market to accelerate EV adoption, alongside raising trust among EV users.
Walking alongside international majors with a similar certification - goEgoNetwork is the only ‘Make in India’ compliant EV-charging firm to receive the full-fledged OCPP certification, as communicated by the governing body at OCA (Open Charge Alliance).
The Open Charge Alliance (OCA) - a global consortium of more than 220 companies active in the field of electric mobility, has an independent certification program for the test and compliance of Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP) – the de facto standard for electric vehicle charging station-network communication worldwide. For the independent testing of conformance, OCA has selected three test laboratories with five testing facilities located in Europe, North America and Asia.
The goal for Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP) is to offer a uniform solution for the method of communication between the Charging Station for EVs and the Charging Station Management System (CSMS). With this protocol, it is possible to connect any CSMS with any Charging Station, regardless of the vendor. A uniform standard prevents all kinds of coordination problems and is, therefore, an advantage for the whole electric vehicle market and to propel EV adoption on a large scale.
Realizing the OCPP 1.6 certification has been an ambition of every eMobility company that works with OCPP protocol. With such a certificate, vendors of OCPP compliant systems can now prove to their clients that their products’ conformance to the OCPP specifications has been approved by an independent test laboratory. Buyers of OCPP compliant products can easily check which products are certified and have been successfully tested for conformance to OCPP 1.6.
Speaking on the certification, Pravin Kumar, CTO & COO, goEgoNetwork, said, “At goEgo, we believe in international open standards such as OCPP, because it enables interoperability and accelerates mass EV adoption quicker. Thus, securing a certificate to prove the compliance to the standard is a great benefit for us, as well as for our potential customers - since they don’t have to test and validate our products separately. We're super proud to become India's first company to get certified for OCPP and we are committed to helping push the standards forward.”
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warc | 202143 | Exploratory data analysis (EDA) in its most basic definition simply means getting to know your data. It is - pretty much always
- the best way to start analysis and involves loading, preparing, inspecting, visualising and transforming a dataset.
It's the first opportunity to
spot patterns in your dataset and probably defines how your analysis will proceed. But the best-kept secret about EDA is that it's an iterative process - not a linear one.
In exploratory data analysis, the analyst firstly aims to become familiar with the contents of a dataset. This might involve spotting missing or corrupt values, inspecting the value distribution of key variables or determining the type of values that exist in the data. For quantitative values in the data, analysts can use descriptive statistics to determine the mean, min, max and quartile ranges in the data.
After getting a sense of the dataset contents, the analyst can begin to shape it for use - perhaps transforming some values or casting an incorrectly labelled text column to a categorical one.
The analyst firstly aims to become familiar with the contents of a dataset - spotting anomalies and understanding value distribution. Then they can begin to transform the data so that it is ready to model.
At the same time as cleaning and transforming the data, the analyst will also be searching for patterns in the data. They might already have some suspicions about variable correlation or the suitability of variables to use in their models. This is where data visualisation becomes the tool of choice. Using histograms, box plots, scatter plots, heat maps and other chart types, the analyst can study value distribution, understand simple relationships and catch extreme values.
But hypotheses evolve. As data scientists report their findings, business teams will ask more questions of the data. The insights that can be found in the first few visualisations of the data will prompt further investigation of focus areas. The simple models that analysts first create to study variable relationships should lead to more refined models. But before moving on to conduct specific analysis, the analyst will return to exploratory data analysis again.
This is why
EDA is an iterative process.
Businesses that rush through exploratory data analysis will probably waste time down analysis rabbit holes that could have been avoided. This is the realm where assumptions are formulated and tested rigorously and should involve an open dialogue between business leaders and data scientists.
After loading the data from its source into an analysis friendly format, it needs to be prepared. Most analysts will agree that this is often a laborious task. Cleaning, transforming and shaping (see below for definitions) the data occupies most of the time and effort here and largely takes place before analysts get a chance to visualize the dataset.
This said, visualising data helps to highlight its inconsistencies. Analysts will typically return to prepare the data further after creating their initial series of histograms, box plots and other exploratory charts.
Cleaning datasets is a big part of the data preparation process. Lots of missing values might be useful in specific contexts but analysts might choose to remove columns or fill those missing values with relevant ones. Another important aspect of cleaning data involves correcting corrupt or inaccurate records - something that can frequently occur with dates and times saved in specific formats.
"I kind of have to be a master of cleaning, extracting and trusting my data before I do anything with it." Scott Nicholson , Data Scientist
Datasets will often require shaping for specific forms of analysis. Shape refers to the rows, columns and structure of a dataset. Joining datasets often involves adding information from a second table that shares some information - typically an ID column.
Aggregating data means summarising your data around a specific variable. Often known as grouping data - aggregation results in each row in your final dataset representing the summary of values that share a unique value for your set variable(s).
Sampling data will also change its shape. Sampling rows that meet specific criteria gives you the ability to refine your analysis to specific communities in your dataset.
After inspecting datasets, analysts will often need to transform them in some way. This might be because the data is insufficient or because the type or range of values in the data is not appropriate for the analyst's chosen analysis.
Enriching datasets involves using existing variables to produce new ones. Examples of data enrichment include extracting detailed time and date information from a general date field or adding address information using latitude and longitude values.
Setting or casting variable types involves changing the kind of value in a column - quantitative, text, list, categorical etc. Working with incorrect variable types limits the ways that analysts can later manipulate datasets. Normalizing values in a dataset is a useful way of accounting for anomalies by reducing the distribution of values according to a set scale.
Visualising data as part of the exploratory data analysis cycle helps analysts to understand immediate patterns in the data, catch extreme values and begin studying variable relationships.
Univariate visualisations measure the values of a single variable whereas Multivariate measures the values of more than one variable.
The type of visualisation you need will depend on how many values you are inspecting and what type of values you are working with.
Histograms, Box Plots & Pie Charts are among the common chart types used to visualise the values belonging to a single variable. Box plots - in showing the quartile ranges belonging to a variable - is especially useful at describing univariate value distribution.
Heatmaps, Scatter Plots and Time Series visualisations are among the most popular types of charts used to represent values from more than one variable. Networks are more complex entities and are generally used to explore communities in data that has been grouped according to one or more criteria.
Many businesses use dashboards, chart-builders and low-code tools to create data visualisations. Why? Because it is difficult to create good visualisations using Python or R.
Data visualisation is an incredibly important aspect of communicating insights from data. Well presented charts can negotiate language and cultural barriers as well as communicating complex ideas to people from all walks of life. But as well as being a key part of presenting data - visualisation is of prime importance in the EDA lifecycle as well.
Analysts rely on visualisations to understand which focus areas to move forward with and which areas of the dataset need further preparation.
Because data visualisations are often time-consuming and difficult to produce using Python or R, analysts will often turn to descriptive statistics as their first port of call when exploring a dataset.
Descriptive statistics describe a dataset by using a single or set of statistics to effectively summarize a collection of values. Analysts use descriptive statistics to summarize the full dataset or to summarize aggregated samples of it.
Averages are a key way of describing quantitative variables. Means are found by adding all numbers in the data set and then dividing by the total number of values. The median is the middle value when a data set is ordered from least to greatest. Quartile ranges and standard deviation help analysts to understand quantitative distributions in more detail.
Counts are more commonly used to describe categorical variables and provide a useful summary of the number of values belonging to each category. Often when analysts are describing categorical or boolean variables, they will aggregate (group) the data and then compare descriptive statistics from each group. In this way, they are able to inspect the min, max, mean and quartile range for values belonging to each group.
As you might be starting to realise, EDA is an essential part of analysis in pretty much every context. According to a survey conducted in 2020 by Anaconda, exploratory data analysis accounts for two-thirds of analyst's time.
Without inspecting datasets using exploratory data analysis methods, it's impossible to ascertain what the dataset actually contains. Quite often in business processes, data is passed through many different pipelines and databases before ending up in the hands of the analysts. This can result in corruptions that exist between values and that must be corrected at their source before analysis can be conducted on these values.
Anomalies and outliers are also problematic for some analysis types. Visualising data distribution or describing it with statistics helps business teams spot the extreme values in their data. These can often be of interest as they might point to interesting customer segments or products that aren't selling especially well. Even if they are not of interest, analysts might prefer to normalize values where anomalies are skewing the distribution of values.
Studying the contents of a dataset is how analysts and business decision-makers understand what kind of analysis they can and should do. When business leaders are interested in answering specific questions, data science teams must check how these questions can be answered with the variables existing in their data.
What's more, once business teams have a sense of the quality and type of variables on offer - they will want to ask simple questions of the data. These might include - how many cucumbers have we sold on Saturdays this year? Or - what is the average age of users spending more than 4 hours on our platform each day? These questions can often be answered with exploratory data analysis
Models are fragile things that often are influenced by the smallest of changes. Knowledge of a dataset's contents is an essential part of building effective models.
Data science and business teams must communicate effectively to ensure that appropriate factors are chosen when performing predictive tasks. Choosing a bad combination of factors for a model will mean that the model is largely useless. What constitutes a good or bad combination of factors is often decided during exploratory data analysis.
Exploratory data analysis crucially helps business teams to start spotting patterns in the data. These patterns - that are initially found in multivariate visualisations - often provide foundational thinking for model creation. Put simply, if you find something when you are exploring a dataset - it is probably a good idea to explore it further by modelling the data.
Exploratory data analysis isn't particularly complex but it is especially useful. Datasets become far more useful and often more interesting after they are loaded and prepared by analysts. Business teams that emphasize time spent on EDA will often save time that would otherwise be wasted on pointless lines of enquiry.
What's more, many simple business questions can be answered purely by visualising or describing datasets. Whilst data modelling is powerful, it is no good at all without knowledge of the specific contents of a dataset.
If you want to learn more about EDA, here's some of our favorite articles on the topic.
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warc | 202143 | Pranic Healing is a modern, non-touch energy healing modality developed by Master Choa Kok Sui. Prana means “energy” or “life force,” and is also known as chi or ki. Prana is a necessary part of your “invisible” energy anatomy and is required for all physical bodily processes. Master Choa Kok Sui (1952- 2007) devised a system of secular multicultural practices that leads to the realization of the greater soul (or self). In his book, Choa Kuk Sui wrote that Pranic Healing presents a unique holistic approach used to treat a variety of ailments, from fever to heart conditions to cancer. By tapping into pranic or “ki” (chi) energy – the universal force which is our life force.
Pranic Healing draws from ancient as well as modern techniques. It was developed through a unique process whereby Master Choa tested traditional, spiritual, and energy healing techniques from all different cultures in his own clinics over the course of several years in the Philippines. Through this rigorous experimentation, the most efficient and effective techniques were then synthesized into what we now call Pranic Healing.
There are several benefits of pranic healing which include; no-touch therapy. Hence, there is no insertion of needles or medications involved here. It does not involve procedures that may cause pain to the body. The procedure has no side effects. Most of the courses are short, and a knowledge of yoga or meditation is not mandatory to enroll for it.
Now, you may be wondering how can you learn this magical thing. Choa Kuk Sui had said
‘’In ancient times, Pranic Healing could only be
practiced by an elite few. My job was to develop a very effective healing system, which ordinary people could learn in just a short period. Anybody can practice Pranic Healing now. The knowledge of being able to deal with simple ailments is quite empowering.”
The truth is that even though Pranic healing is lesser know it could be learned by any ordinary man and there are many courses available in India for you to learn. As this practice are lesser-known, it is very difficult to find our courses available. There are actually a number of centers in India that offer a variety of courses. Below is a list of the best of those courses with center details, so that you can learn the art of Pranic healing with the best suitable course for you.
1. Basic Pranic Healing by World Pranic Healing Foundation
This is the best organization of Pranic healing in India. Its branches are spread across India in different states including Gujarat, Haryana, West Bengal, and Rajasthan. This is the most special organization of Pranic healing as the master Choa Kok Sui himself is the founder of this establishment. This is an active organization that is working towards creating awareness about the art of pranic healing through blogs, CDs, books, online videos, and courses. The organization also has its own app called “Chakra Energy healing”. Apart from this, they offer numerous workshops and courses offline. They offer courses on pranic healing from basic to advance. Basic Pranic Healing, Advanced Pranic Healing, Pranic Psychotherapy, Pranic Crystal Healing, Pranic Facelift, and Pranic Body Sculpting, Pranic Psychic Self-Defence are the healing courses available. The duration of most of the courses is two days. You can find all course-related details on the website.
2. MCKS Pranic Healing Centre & Research Institute
This center of pranic healing was established in the year 1995. This center is located in Secunderabad, Telangana. Over the years, the institute has spread awareness about Pranic healing, and thousands of people have benefitted from its lessons.
3. Courses by Yoga Vidya Pranic Healing Foundation of Karnataka
The foundation for pranic healing is located in Cochin, Kerala. The institute offers both basic and advanced short-term courses on Pranic Healing. It has affiliations with Bangalore-based World Pranic Healing India Pvt Ltd as well as the World Pranic Healing Foundation. Along with the course, you will get free intro talk, healing camps, and meditation. Every month two healing sessions are held for free. They are held on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month. This foundation is a part of the World Pranic healing foundation.
4. Courses by Holistic Healing Centre
This pranic healing centre has been founded by Surekha Almelkar,an ardent practitioner of Pranic healing techniques, in 2006. This is a Bangalore-based centre which has benefitted many, including those suffering from numerous complex physical disorders. They offer numerous courses in a variety of exciting topics in form of workshops.
5. What is Pranic Healing by Soham Pranic Healing Centre
The center is located in Rajarhat, Kolkata, and was established in 2010. The pranic healing center has an affiliation with MCKS Pranic Healing Trust. It offers three types of courses including healing, prosperity, and spirituality. The duration of the courses varies from one to two days for approximately eight to nine hours a day. They offer basic, advance, and psychotherapy, pranic healing classes. The fee is around 2000 INR (Indian Rupees).
6. Basic Pranic Healing Course by GMCKS Pranic Healing Trust of Rajasthan
This non-profit organization was set up in Jaipur in February of the year of 2010. The organization has an affiliation with World Pranic Healing Foundation. It offers courses on prosperity, spirituality, and healing. The center also sells books and CDs on Pranic healing, which are mostly the works of master Sui. According to the website the Ashram is spread over nearly sixty acres of scenic land surrounded by hills and valleys. It is a paradise insulated from the outside world. Situated in a deep gorge valley between the beautiful Mulshi Lake and the magnificent natural formations of verdant valleys and hills, Arhatic Yogis from around the world will be rejuvenated by an abundance of fresh Prana(energy).
7. Basic Pranic Healing by Pranic Healing Trust, Tamil Nadu
This entity is located in Vasudevan Nagar, Chennai. It provides basic to advanced courses on Pranic healing therapy through several workshops around the year. On the website, you can find the upcoming courses, for which you will be able to register.
8. Courses by Niraamay Consultancy
The center has been offering Pranic Healing therapies to people living in Pune and Mumbai for the past years. It has now spread to Kolhapur and Chinchwad. The center provides basic and advanced pranic healing courses. The duration for each of the courses is two days. Prior registration is mandatory to participate.
9. Distant Healing and Counselling by Master Choa Centre For Pranic Healing, Delhi
The center was established four years ago in Janakpuri, New Delhi. The entity has an affiliation with World Pranic Healing Foundation. They offer basic and advanced pranic healing courses. Basic Pranic Healing is designed for everyone, from students to engineers, doctors to housewives, parents to teachers as it introduces methods of healthy living. While Advanced Pranic Healing represents a breakthrough in modern energy healing systems. It is a very advanced healing technique simplified for a common man. Both are two-day workshops and have a fee of 6000 Indian Rupees. Anyone above sixteen may register for courses. | 7,386 | 3,169 | 16,990.829915 |
warc | 202143 | This question is posed by many: When will children be able to be administered COVID-19 vaccines? Apparently, it is conditional on the child's age. However, some teenagers could be rolling up their sleeves soon.
When Will a COVID-19 Vaccine Be Available for Children?
Johnson & Johnson would most likely have a novel coronavirus vaccine made available for children under 18 years old by September, according to CEO Alex Gorsky. He stated it is possible to transpire in that timeline. The good news is that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is already working with companies to implement clear regulatory guidelines for collating adequate data.
Across the nation, the coronavirus vaccine dissemination is expanding from healthcare workers and individuals who reside in long-term care facilities to older adults, essential workers, and people with chronic medical conditions, depending on location. Two vaccines have been permitted so far. One vaccine was developed by Moderna and is authorized for individuals aged 18 and older, and one by Pfizer authorized for individuals 16 and older.
Clinical trials for children are planned or underway. According to experts, a wave of vaccinations could be the final step to mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic, reported Healthline.
Each day, more people are being administered their COVID-19 inoculations. Nearly 77 million doses have been administered in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Children remain not to receive the vaccine. Experts are in unison that they will need to be immunized for life to return to the old normal, reported Today.
Since the Pfizer vaccine is already authorized for use starting at 16 years old, several high schoolers could get in line for those doses either whenever they become qualified in their location, once availability opens up, and due to a medical condition.
According to Gorsky, one benefit of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is that this certain type of vaccine has been used in lower age groups earlier. He remarked, "The AdVac 26 was used extensively among broad age groups, young and old in Africa when we were developing this for other conditions such as Ebola and HIV. So it gives us reasons to be optimistic regarding the safety profile in that patient population, but we still have to do the clinical work," reported CNN.
Inoculating young people will be important to approach herd immunity and remarkably slow the coronavirus's prevalence in the U.S. The FDA has particular protections and regulations for testing new medications in children to diminish risk.
An estimated 15 percent of individuals in the United States have been administered at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Almost 20 percent of the population of the United States is not currently qualified to receive the vaccine.
The earlier clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines did not involve kids. This is standard practice, particularly for non-pediatric diseases. But in autumn, Pfizer initiated its adolescent trial in kids as young as 12, with more pharmaceutical companies following suit. | 3,126 | 1,536 | 6,333.40625 |
warc | 202143 | KEY POINTS Solar winds destroyed the atmosphere of Mars The magnetosphere protects Earth from solar winds Radiation from solar winds can increase cancer rates among humans
Experts discussed how solar winds emitted by the Sun can be dangerous. Aside from destroying the atmospheres of planets, these solar emissions can also kill humans.
Solar winds, which are highly charged particles ejected from holes in the Sun’s atmosphere, hit Earth regularly. Fortunately, the solar emissions that reach Earth are only minor and are not powerful enough to affect the planet’s magnetic field or cause electrical disruptions.
Extreme cases of solar winds, on the other hand, can be devastating for a planet. One example that showcases the destructive capabilities of solar winds is Mars. As indicated in scientific reports, Mars previously had ideal conditions that could have supported life.
However, powerful solar winds from the Sun stripped the planet’s atmosphere and turned it into a hostile world. According to planetary scientist Arun Prasaad Gunasekaran, since Mars did not have a magnetic field to protect it from solar winds, its atmosphere became vulnerable to the effects of the solar emissions.
“For Mars, the magnetosphere is extremely weak (maybe gone) because of the absence of the internal dynamo,” he stated in a post on Quora. “So, the solar winds can breach the magnetosphere and can rip the atmosphere due to their kinetic energy and momentum.”
Unlike Mars, Earth has a magnetosphere, which means its atmosphere is relatively safe from being stripped away by solar winds. However, without the magnetosphere, the entire planet and its inhabitants will be directly exposed to the harmful effects of solar winds, such as radiation.
According to electrical engineer Harry Kier, the intense ultraviolet radiation from solar winds could cause accelerated cancer rate among humans, which could be extremely fatal.
Aside from an increased death rate caused by cancer, intense solar winds could also knock out communication and electrical grids, which could have a huge impact on countries.
“Without the Earth’s magnetic field to deflect it, this radiation would cause an increased cancer rate in we humans,” Kier explained in a statement. “Extreme solar flares can disrupt electric and communication grids. Radiation from the sun increases the risk of cancer in space travelers.” | 2,452 | 1,133 | 5,152.879082 |
warc | 202143 | Oil price set to trade sideways, symbolic Dow Jones exit for Exxon
Brent crude continues to trade in and around $45 a barrel, with the dim oil price outlook prompting the symbolic exit for Exxon from the Dow Jones Industrial Average index.
Oil prices were trading at around $61 a barrel at the start of the year, only for them to crash in March as lockdowns eroded energy demand and markets panicked to make sense of the coronavirus pandemic, with futures contracts closing at -$37 a barrel in April amid the turmoil.
According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), global oil prices are expected to average at $43 a barrel throughout the second half of this year, with that figure expected to rise to $50 in 2021.
Brent crude once again broke above the $45 a barrel this week, where it will likely hover around at for the remainder of the year, while the US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) rallied through $43 on Wednesday.
However, it remains unclear if oil price forecasts will be realised or if they will fall short of expectations considering the myriad of headwinds battering financial markets face over the next 14 months?
Oil market turmoil leads to symbolic Dow Jones exit for Exxon
A shake-up in the Dow Jones Industrial Average index offered insight into how the negative price outlook for crude is impacting companies operating in the oil and gas industry.
Exxon Mobil was once the world’s most valuable stocks and has been a member of the Dow Jones since 1928. But next Monday, the oil and gas major will no longer feature on the index due to its share price falling more than 40% this year amid low crude prices.
However, the oil and gas major could return to the index if demand recovers, but that outcome relies on a stabilising of the coronavirus crisis which continues to hinder global economic activity.
Rivals like BP and Royal Dutch Shell have suffered similar slumps in their respective share prices due to the challenging market conditions. But both have opted to write-off billions in oil and gas assets in order to focus their attention on transitioning to renewables due to the dim price outlook for crude.
‘Energy markets are fundamentally changing, shifting towards low carbon, driven by societal expectations, technology and changes in consumer preferences,’ BP chairman Helge Lund said in a statement. ‘And in these transforming markets, bp can compete and create value, based on our skills, experience and relationships.’
‘We are confident that the decisions we have taken and the strategy we are setting out today are right for BP, for our shareholders, and for wider society,’ he added.
Without Exxon, the Dow Jones only remaining oil and gas company is Chevron.
WTI: technical analysis
Oil has finally found the strength to move higher, rallying through $43. Above $43.66, the price will have made a new higher high in the current uptrend, reinforcing the bullish view, according to Chris Beauchamp, chief market analyst at IG.
‘Alternately, a reversal below $41.50 is the catalyst that bears will be looking for,’ he added.
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warc | 202143 | Bottom line, if 2020 was the year of forced rethinking about where and how we worked, 2021 and beyond can be the time of proactively designing a hybrid work model that minimizes remote work risks and delivers greater purpose to in-office activities. This white paper aims to help you define that. Designing communication and collaboration for your hybrid work model shouldn’t be difficult, and won’t be if you keep three principles at the forefront:
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warc | 202143 | Key Takeaways Berkshire Hathaway beat analysts' expectations on earnings and revenues. While gains on its investment portfolio were down YOY, operating earnings from its subsidiaries were up sharply, showing improvement in its underlying businesses. Revenues increased YOY across business segments, reflecting the conglomerate's broad exposure to the economic recovery.
Berkshire Hathaway Earnings Results Metric Beat/Miss/Match Reported Value Analysts' Prediction EPS Beat $18,488 $14,215 Revenue Beat $96.5B $83.7B Source: Predictions based on analysts' consensus from Visible Alpha Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) Financial Results: Analysis
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (BRK.A) reported Q2 FY 2021 earnings that far exceeded analysts' expectations. Earnings per share (EPS), up by 13.3% year over year (YOY), were 30.1% better than analysts' forecasts. Revenue for the quarter exceeded analysts' estimates by 15.2%, despite being down by 0.4% year over year (YOY).
Berkshire Hathaway recorded a net gain of $27.4 billion on investments and derivative contracts that was reflected both in earnings and in the revenue figures cited in the table above. This was down by 31.7% from the figure of $40.1 billion recorded in the same period of 2020. Operating earnings, which exclude this gain, were $8.2 billion, compared to a loss of $4.4 billion in the same quarter of 2020.
Berkshire hasn't made a large outside acquisition since its purchase of Precision Castparts in 2016, but has continued extensive stock buybacks with its large cash stockpile. It bought back $6 billion in stock in Q2, bringing the total for 2021 to $12.6 billion.
Over the past year, through the market close on Aug. 6, 2021, Berkshire Hathaway's shares have provided a total return of 36.9%, outperforming the S&P 500's total return of 32.4%.
BRK.A Operating Earnings
For many years, Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett has urged investors to focus on Berkshire's operating earnings from its diversified lineup of wholly-owned operating subsidiaries, which stretch across a variety of industries, most notably insurance, railroads, utilities, and energy. Meanwhile, pursuant to current GAAP reporting rules, the quarterly mark-to-market fluctuations in the value of Berkshire's investment portfolio must be reflected on the company's income statement, a rule that Buffett has decried as introducing misleading volatility into the company's financial results.
Operating revenues increased from $56.8 billion in Q2 FY 2020 to $69.1 billion in Q2 FY 2021, an improvement of 21.7%. Meanwhile, operating expenses fell by 0.5% YOY, from $61.3 billion to $60.9 billion. A major factor in the improved expense picture was that the Q2 FY 2020 figure included a $10.6 billion one-time goodwill impairment mostly related to its acquisition of Precision Castparts.
The biggest drivers of the $12.3 billion YOY improvement in operating revenues came from an increase of $4.4 billion from Berkshire's manufacturing segments and a $2.9 billion improvement in its service and retailing segments. Its insurance, railroad, and energy segments also posted YOY revenue gains, reflecting the company's participation in the economic expansion.
Berkshire Hathaway's next earnings report (for Q3 FY 2021) is expected to be released on Oct. 30, 2021.
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warc | 202143 | Abstract
Previous research has demonstrated that dogs that received chemically abbreviated Dirofilaria immitis larval infections were significantly immune to challenge infections. Sera from those immune animals have been effective in passively transferring larval killing and stunting. In the present study, sera from immune and control animals were used to screen various Ag subsets for unique Ag. Through Western blot analysis of larval extracts and excretory-secretory products, and immunoprecipitation of metabolically labeled proteins and larval surface Ag, it was determined that as many as 12 molecules were uniquely recognized by protective immune sera. A 39-kDa molecule was present in both soluble lysates of third- and fourth-stage larvae and larval excretory-secretory products; it was recognized by each of the immune dogs and by none of the infected or uninfected control animals. The 39-kDa molecule appeared to be absent from adults and microfilariae of the parasite. In addition to the unique recognition by immune dog sera, larval stage specificity of this molecule suggests that it may be useful as a vaccine candidate.
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warc | 202143 | HELENA — Child-care providers in Montana can start applying for a share of $31 million in federal funds, meant to bolster their business and make a dent in the state’s shortage of child-care slots.
The Gianforte administration launched the application process Thursday, and some 400 providers attended an on-line meeting that evening to learn about it, state officials said.
“This is a lot of money, and a lot more money than we’ve ever had directly for child-care stabilization,” said Jamie Palagi, head of the state Early Childhood and Family Support Division. “So it took a little time to get it ready.”
The American Rescue Plan Act, approved by Democrats in Congress in March, allocated $110 million to Montana to boost child care, which has been hit hard by the pandemic.
The state already had a shortage of child-care slots, but state officials have said 171 child-care programs closed during the pandemic.
The Gianforte administration this summer approved spending $31 million of the money for “child care stabilization,” which can cover operators’ rent, mortgage, utilities, payroll costs, maintenance and equipment, among other things.
Licensed child-care operators can start applying to the state for the money, and, if approved, get amounts equal to 80 percent to 100 percent of their annual operating costs, Palagi said. The state hopes to get the money out no later than January, she added.
The state has been contacting child-care providers directly to inform them about the grant-application process and plans another “town hall” on-line meeting Oct. 13.
A total of $68 million is available for child-care stabilization, and Palagi said the state may dip into the rest of that money if the need is there.
Advocates and operators have said the biggest problem facing child care in Montana is a shortage of workers, who average $11 an hour. Providers say they have trouble recruiting and retaining staff at such low wages, while most parents can’t afford to pay higher fees that might support higher wages.
The grants now available can pay for personnel costs, but Palagi noted the funds are “one-time-only” money.
Still, she said providers who attended Thursday evening’s on-line meeting had some ideas on how to use the money to bolster employee compensation.
“In some cases, directors aren’t necessarily giving raises, but they might be providing free child care for their staff, they may be paying their school loan payment or other types of educational opportunities,” she said. “So they are finding really creative ways to recruit and retain staff as well.”
The Gianforte administration is preparing several other programs to use the rest of the $42 million in federal funds for child care in Montana, including grants to start child-care businesses in areas where they’re needed, business assistance to providers, and child-care assistance to some health-care workers.
Those programs should be under way in the next few months, Palagi said. | 3,086 | 1,433 | 6,374.431263 |
warc | 202143 | In a new era for recycling in the district, 419 tonnes of good quality paper and card were collected last week thanks to households making great use of their purple-lidded or purple bins to keep it clean and separate from other recycling.
The district council says it is now important that the problem of contamination in green-lidded bins is focused upon. The wrong items going in recycling bins is a growing problem across the county, and impacts on how much can be successfully recycled.
The next collection of green-lidded recycling bins will take place from Monday October 11. If a green-lidded bin contains the wrong things it cannot be emptied. If this happens a tag will be left by our teams indicating which items caused this.
Several wrong items in a bin can make the rest of the recycling inside it damp or stained and render items unusable. It is also about making sure other recycling collected on routes is not contaminated by it too, explains the council.
If a bin cannot be emptied because it is contaminated, the owner of the bin will need to remove the items contaminating it and present the bin at the next green-lidded recycling collection.
The wrong items found contaminating recycling bins include everything from soft plastics, crisp packets and film lids to used tissues and sometimes even nappies and dog waste.
What can be recycled in green-lidded bins has not changed - aside from that the council now ask you to put clean, dry paper and cardboard in your purple-lidded or purple bin only (unless it is damp, soiled or shredded and therefore needs to go in the black bin where it will be burned and made into electricity from waste).
Recycling can be complex, with so many materials and items out there. It is easy to make mistakes, and the council says staff will help and give advice where they can on their rounds next week. The Right Thing Right Bin leaflet at
www.n-kesteven.gov.uk/recycling has lots of information to help households make sure the items in their green-lidded bins are the right ones. There is also an A-Z of recycling on the same link, and more is being shared on the council’s
social media channels @northkestevendc and via e-newsletter at www.n-keteven.gov.uk/stayconnected
So, what cannot go in green-lidded bins?
At a glance, items which must not go in green-lidded bins include:
Paper and cardboard (such as paper, magazines, newspapers, greetings cards without glitter/foil, cereal packets, household packaging, etc. These should go in your purple or purple-lidded bin only, or in the black bin if damp, soiled or
shredded), never the green-lidded bin.
Any takeaway packaging (black bin only for this, even if it looks clean, unless it is clear or light plastic which is rinsed and dry).
Tissues or kitchen roll (black bin only).
PPE such as masks (black bin only for these, bagged).
Batteries or electrical items (these should not go in any household bins as they cause a hazard, but taken to your local recycling centre instead).
Soft plastics such as plastic bags and bread bags (these can go instead to soft plastics collection points at various shops and supermarkets or the black bin if not possible).
Polystyrene (black bin only for this).
Clothes/textiles (these can go to your recycling centre or donation points, or if not possible can go in the black bin as a last option).
Food pouches and crisp packets (local Terracycle schemes may be able to help, or put in the black bin if not possible).
Black or brown plastic food trays (black bin only).
Hard plastics e.g. old toys, plant pots (these are best being donated if in good condition, taken to your local household recycling centre or if not possible then the black bin as a last option with all batteries removed). | 3,765 | 1,673 | 8,405.424387 |
warc | 202143 | Good self-esteem is crucial to having a happy, healthy life. People who have confidence in themselves and their abilities are more likely to pursue new opportunities and surround themselves with supportive and successful friends. Although no single factor is totally responsible for self-esteem, taking pride in your personal appearance is a good first step. When you look good, you’ll feel better about yourself.
Eyelashes have managed to become one of the few types of female body hair to make it into the “Good, emphasize” category and not the “Bad, eliminate” one – and for centuries, we’ve been imagining the presence of long, dark eyelashes to signify feminine beauty of the highest order.
Why? More recent research points toward the notion that long eyelashes are valuable for the illusion they create of wide, gazing eyes. Natural eye lashes are used for all eye shapes, for lifting the eyes and opening the eye more. Additionally, and much more simply, fluttering eyelashes create more visible movement around the eye with each blink and glance – which helps hold the attention of the beholder.
The earliest documented efforts to emphasize the eyelashes date back to as early as 4,000 B.C.; if you’ve ever watched any movie or TV show set in ancient Egypt, you’ll know all too well that in certain regions, eye makeup was worn on the lids, brows, and lashes of wealthy and royal men, women, and children. What eyelashes do is like what lipstick does, and eyelashes may actually even do it more: They draw a contrast between the eye itself and the eyelid, like lipstick draws attention to the contrast between the lips and the surrounding area.
Time and again, studies show that people with high self-esteem are more confident, resilient and ambitious. Confidence in your appearance translates to strength in many other parts of your life. So the next time you ask yourself whether lash extensions are really right for you, remember the power that lies in your choice to look your best. | 2,050 | 1,066 | 3,834.615385 |
warc | 202143 | As project director of the Food Sustainability Index, developed by Economist Impact with the Barilla Foundation, I spoke about “Nature-Based Solutions, Finance & Regenerative Agriculture” at the World Climate Foundation’s World Biodiversity Summit during Climate Week NYC.
I was joined by a group of food-system experts:
• Dr Zitouni Ould-Dada, Deputy Director, Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB), FAO • Emma Chow, Lead, Food Initiative, Ellen MacArthur Foundation • Hans Sauter, Corporate Sustainability Officer, Fresh Del Monte Produce • José Pugas, Partner & Head of ESG and Agribusiness JGP Crédito, Brazil | 685 | 451 | 965.986696 |
warc | 202143 | Special Issue "Advances in Multivariate Analysis and Their Applications in Actuarial and Financial Economics"
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warc | 202143 | One of England's top public health chiefs has painted a bleak picture of the second wave of coronavirus as efforts are stepped up to save lives and protect the NHS.
Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam and two other experts warned that hospital deaths will rise in the coming weeks as cases soar, infection rates in the South are climbing to worrying levels, and temporary Nightingale hospitals are put on standby to cope with a surge in patients.
They gave an update on the latest Covid-19 data in England before Prime Minister Boris Johnson reveals details of the new three-tier lockdown system.
They said there had clearly been a "marked pick-up" in cases - with 40 per cent of all current confirmed infections in the North West - as new maps show how the virus is spreading and where cases are spiking.
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The rise in infections was now being seen "nationwide" and was not solely a problem for northern England, said Professor Van-Tam, England's deputy chief medical officer.
Here is everything we know about the second wave and what to expect in the weeks ahead as lockdown restrictions are tightened.
Hospitalisations and deaths to rise
Monday's Downing Street press briefing was told that pressure is building on NHS hospitals, with a steep rise in the number of people needing urgent treatment for coronavirus.
Hospital admissions and deaths will rise in the coming weeks as the virus continues to spread.
NHS England's national medical director, Professor Stephen Powis, said more people are now in hospital with coronavirus than before restrictions were announced in March.
"Sadly, as the number of those infected increases, then so will the number of people who die," he said.
"And that's why the Government is looking at what other measures could be introduced in the areas where infection is rising the most.
"As the Secretary of State for Health has said, if we do not take measures to control the spread of the virus, the death toll will be too great to bear."
Hospitals in the North West and North East could end up treating more patients than they did during the peak of the first wave of Covid-19, he added.
Why second wave hit North first
The second wave of coronavirus infections has emerged most prominently in northern England because rates had not dropped as low as in the South at the end of lockdown, Professor Van-Tam confirmed.
He said the increase in Covid-19 infections had become a "nationwide phenomenon", but the North had seen the fastest rate of re-emergence because cases "never dropped as far in the summer" as they did in the South.
Prof Van-Tam, addressing a question about a presentation slide depicting a creeping rate rise in the South, said: "You have worried me now that I might have presented a bipolar picture that Covid-19 is a problem in the North and not a problem in the South.
"On the contrary, the epidemic this time has clearly picked up pace in the North of England earlier than it did in the first wave, and that almost certainly relates to the fact the disease levels in the North, and certainly in the North West, never dropped as far in the summer as they did in the South.
"But pretty much all areas of the UK are now seeing growths in the infection rate and that extending brown map that I showed you, which is sourced from the Joint Biosecurity Centre, absolutely makes that point.
"This is a nationwide phenomenon now that rates are changing upwards across the UK."
Northern leaders have for weeks been claiming that the UK Government lifted the national spring lockdown restrictions with London and the South East in mind.
North West has 40% of current cases
Dr Jane Eddleston, a consultant in intensive care medicine and anaesthesia in Manchester Royal Infirmary, urged the public to "respect" the virus due to the "extremely serious" consequences it has for some patients.
She told the briefing: "The North West has about 40% of all Covid cases at the moment and this is proving very challenging for us.
"Within Greater Manchester, we have seen a threefold increase in the number of patients admitted to intensive care in the last five weeks and an eightfold increase in the number of patients admitted to our hospitals.
"The situation at the moment is that 30% of our critical care beds are taken up with patients with Covid and this is starting to impact on the services we provide for other patients."
Second wave not just a problem for North
Professor Van-Tam said the rise in coronavirus cases is now being seen "nationwide" and is not solely a problem for northern England.
"This is a nationwide phenomenon now that rates are changing upwards across the UK," he said.
The latest data shows rates are climbing to worrying levels in the Midlands and South.
Maps show where coronavirus is spreading
Professor Van-Tam said that while cases are rising fastest in the North of England, it is of "concern" that they are "heating up" in more parts of the country compared with a week ago.
He presented two maps which reveal that rates are climbing further south on the heels of huge spikes in the North.
One map (in purple) shows weekly case rates per 100,000 people in the week up to October 6, and the other (in brown) shows the rate of change per 100,000 population by local authority between September 23-29 and September 30 to October 6.
Professor Van-Tam said the map showing the rate change was of greater concern, adding: "Dark brown areas indicate where things are heating up."
In that map, the dark brown areas are reaching further south than they were the previous week.
Virus spikes in young and creeping up in older groups
Professor Van-Tam said other regions are now following the North West pattern where the virus moved through the age bands, having started spiking among young people at first.
Explaining an age-specific chart at a press briefing, he said: "You will see that the infection rate was initially highest in the 16-29-year-olds.
"And that, as you move to the right just gets hotter and hotter but as it does so you can see the incremental creep of the infection into the next age band up, 30-44, followed two or three weeks later by a creep-up again into the 45-59s, and you can now see that the 60+ are now heating up on that chart.
"The North West experienced all of this first and my understanding is that pattern is likely to be followed - you can see it in the North East and you can see it in Yorkshire and the Humber just beginning but at an earlier stage."
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He added: "There is the spread from those younger age groups into the 60-plus age group in the North West and the North East, and there are rates of change in the same places but also extending a little further south," he said.
"And this is again of significant concern, because of course the elderly suffer a much worse course with Covid-19, they are admitted to hospital for longer periods, and they are more difficult to save."
Professor Van-Tam played down the impact of the return of schools on the resurgence of the virus.
England's deputy chief medical officer said: "If you salami slice the infection data very carefully across the school age bands, what you actually see is very low rates of increase in infection up to around the age of 16 and then picking up a bit in the 17-18-year-olds as we drift into that age bracket... of really quite intense transmission.
"The evidence that there is significant transmission in schools is not really borne out by the increased infection rates and indeed we already know that children are not drivers of infection and spread in the community in the same way we know they are for influenza, for example."
Temporary Nightingale hospitals on standby
Professor Powis said the temporary Nightingale Hospitals in Manchester, Sunderland and Harrogate are now being mobilised to help with the spike in Covid-19 cases.
He also set out asymptomatic testing of NHS staff in high-risk areas - first announced by Health Secretary Matt Hancock in June - adding that it would go beyond just frontline employees.
He said: "To protect our staff and our patients we will be introducing – with tests provided by the Test and Trace service – regular testing for staff in these high-risk areas, even when they don’t have symptoms.
“This will help us keep staff and patients in those hospitals as safe as possible.
“Secondly, we have asked the Nightingale hospitals in Manchester, Sunderland and Harrogate to prepare for this next phase.
“They are being asked to mobilise over the next few weeks to be ready to accept patients if necessary.”
It will be for local clinicians to decide whether they are used for Covid-19 patients or to provide extra capacity to maintain services for people without coronavirus.
Seven Nightingale hospitals were built in locations in England, including London, Manchester and Bristol, to create surge capacity as a response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Other sites included Sunderland, Exeter, Harrogate and Birmingham.
In June, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that they would be converted into cancer testing centres.
Hospitals in North could see more patients than peak
Hospitals in the North West and North East could end up treating more patients than they did during the peak of the first wave of Covid-19, Professor Powis said.
NHS figures show that the number of people receiving timely treatment for conditions such as cancer has dropped during the pandemic, while lengthy waiting lists for key services continue to grow.
Professor Powis told the briefing: "Liverpool University Hospital has the highest number of Covid-19 patients, currently more than 250 patients with Covid in its beds.
"And in the last four weeks, hospitals in the North West and the North East have witnessed a seven-fold increase in Covid patients in their intensive care units.
"And if infections continue to rise in just four more weeks, they could be treating more patients than they were during the peak of the first wave."
In the North West, 350 people were on ventilators at the peak of the epidemic on April 11. The figure as of October 11 was 132.
In the North East and Yorkshire, 302 were on ventilators at the peak. On October 11, the figure was 99.
Professor Powis said there were now "more patients in hospital with Covid-19" than there were before the Government announced lockdown on March 23.
In England, 3,451 people were in hospital on October 11, compared with 3,097 on March 23.
Impact of tighter lockdown won't be seen 'for weeks'
Professor Powis warned that it would take "a number of weeks" before the benefit of any additional measures put in place this week are shown in hospital admissions.
He also stressed that the NHS is open for all patients but said that keeping Covid-19 rates under control is key to keeping other services running.
England in 'better position' than first peak
Professor Powis admitted that the country is in a better position than in March and April but added that it is not a question of "if rates continue to rise, it's a question of when".
"Clearly we have learnt many things from that first wave, we have learnt better treatments for patients, and dexamethasone ... we learnt that that reduces deaths," he said.
But he warned: "R is above one - that means that infections will continue to rise - and, as infections continue to rise, then hospital admissions and impact on health services continue to rise."
Covid-19 thrives in closed spaces
Professor Van-Tam said the virus spreads in closed spaces, crowded spaces and areas where people are in close contact.
He told the briefing: "We do know the virus thrives on the thing we like most, which is human contact."
Prof Van-Tam also drew attention to D - duration of contact, and V - the volume at which people speak, citing that the louder they are the further virus-laden particles are likely to spread.
Asked about the transmission of the disease in hospitality settings such as pubs and restaurants, he added: "We do know the virus thrives on the thing we like most which is human contact.
"We have increasingly strong evidence about shouting and singing as pressure points on the virus in terms of making the expulsion of virus-laden particles go further and the transmission therefore to become more intense."
Different stages of Covid-19 infection
One of the graphics displayed during the press briefing shows the average time taken for the different stages of Covid-19.
It varies significantly by patient.
Those who end up in hospital usually do so within seven to ten days of becoming infected.
The average number of days from infection to death or discharge from hospital is 15 to 30.
In a more precise breakdown, most people display symptoms five days after infection.
Hospital admission usually takes place two to five days later.
And death or discharge from hospital occurs nine to 19 days later on average.
'We are in a second wave'
In a statement following the Downing Street briefing, Professor Andrew Goddard, president of the Royal College of Physicians said: "From the figures released this morning by the deputy chief medical officer, and from what our members have been telling us, we know for certain that we are now in the second wave of Covid-19.
"It is currently centred in the North West and North East of England, but it is going to spread to other areas.
"This is going to be a very hard winter, but doctors, nurses and their colleagues stand ready to care for the nation.
"We all have a responsibility to protect them and the NHS so it can care for all patients, those with Covid-19 and those with other potentially life-threatening conditions.
"Please keep washing your hands regularly, use a face covering when you can't social distance, and keep your distance from people not in your household. These are small steps, but they have a big impact." | 14,543 | 5,968 | 34,929.517761 |
warc | 202143 | Good news for consumers this week as new rules were launched which give them better protection in case they buy a faulty product. People with serious debt are also being helped with changes to Debt Relief Orders raising levels from £15,000 to £20,000. For this week’s money stories, read on.
1. New Consumer Rights Act comes into force
Consumers will be better protected on the back of the new Consumer Rights Act which came into effect on 1 October.
The new Act brings about simpler, clearer rights for shoppers regarding refunds, repairs or replacement of faulty goods. It includes, for the first time, a specific timeframe of 30 days for consumers to reject a faulty product and get a full refund.
2. Kicking smoking this 'Stoptober' could save £135,000 over a lifetime
Smokers who get involved with 'Stoptober' and kick the habit will benefit from healthier bodies and bank balances.
According to moneysupermarket.com, ditching the cigarettes could radically reduce the cost of combined life and critical illness cover. Non-smokers can also make considerable savings on single life cover.
3. New debt rules introduced to help those struggling
New rules have been introduced to help people struggling with a large amount of debt. They offer a cheaper alternative to people declaring bankruptcy.
Debt Relief Orders have become more accessible meaning someone who has less than £20,000 of debt is now eligible to apply for one, up from £15,000.
4. Almost 400,000 people with cancer struggle to pay bills
Almost 400,000 people living with cancer struggle to keep up with their household bills and credit commitments each year, according to a new survey by Macmillan Cancer Support.
Tens of thousands of people living with cancer say they have missed paying vital bills due to a lack of money, with an estimated 66,000 missing a council tax payment and 51,000 missing a water bill, in the last year.
5. Students who don’t know their rights are often out of pocket
Research shows that students could be missing out on £240 a year by choosing the wrong contract and not knowing their rights, meaning they feel unable to complain.
Almost one in five have been overcharged on energy bills and one in six charged for damage to their property which they didn’t do, according to Ombudsman Services, an impartial consumer dispute group set up by government. | 2,410 | 1,225 | 4,619.330612 |
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warc | 202143 | By MELISSA D. SULLIVAN For Montclair Local “All Write Now” reflects the writing life. Melissa D. Sullivan is an attorney by day, writer by night, mother of two and a 2019 Pushcart Prize nominee. Melissa’s writing has appeared in Hippocampus Magazine, Nightingale & Sparrow, Sum Journal and elsewhere. She splits her time between Montclair and Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Learn more at melissadsullivan.wordpress.com and follow her on Twitter @MelDSullivan.
A few weeks ago, I made my first nervous appearance at a new writing group. The format was different than I was used to – instead of meeting at a coffee shop or a diner, we met virtually, in a chat room with the level of sophistication of an AOL instant messenger conversation. As I sat at my desk, trying to ignore the chaos of my husband refereeing bath time for my two toddlers, I was apprehensive. Sharing criticism of someone’s work can be a tricky thing, and a sympathetic tone can go a long way to defusing a tough point. But with chat, all tone (save the occasional emoji) would be lost. Would this become too impersonal?
The writing group turned out to be awesome. It was jokey and quick and within a few minutes, my shoulders relaxed. We spent a short hour on the chat board, providing feedback on a new urban fantasy and joking about whiskey and feminist wrath.
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Then, came the dreaded interrogation.
“Mel — why don’t you tell us what you’re working on?”
For me, this question is the worst. While I adore talking about writing in general and receiving feedback on my completed and semi-edited drafts, I am superstitious when it comes to discussing my works-in-progress (or WIP, for those in the know). If I am in the middle of a new story, I refuse to talk about specifics — not the subject, the plot or any details — with anyone, including my sainted husband. I need to hold all of it my head, without any escape, allowing the pressure of the story to build like gases in a volcano about to erupt. If I talk about it — discuss a nuance of research or a character issue — then the pressure diminishes and the idea shrinks, losing some of its power.
But what about the theory of accountability? From financial advisers to fitness experts to corporate thought leaders, we are urged to speak our goals out loud to friends, family and the mailperson, so that they can encourage us, assist us and, ultimately, hold us accountable to what we said we would do.
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So why do I detest it when someone asks, “So how is that novel coming?” And why does answering the question make me worry that I will never actually finish the dang book?
Luckily, a study from 2009 offers an explanation. According to some highly intelligent psychologists, when an intention is linked to an “identity goal” — meaning activities that affect a person’s sense of identity as an artist, parent, circus clown, etc. — telling others about the behavior and receiving attention for that behavior made subjects less likely to attain the goal. So, for example, if your goal is to be a wealthy, acclaimed and attractive writer, telling everyone about it makes you less likely to attain universal fame. Why? The theory goes that just by telling someone about your goal to be a writer who’s thin and rolling in it, you have already received some attention for it, which was sort of the point anyway.
Don’t get me wrong. I love hearing about what others are working on. I will brainstorm plot ideas with you until the cows come home. But for me, I know that as soon as I open my mouth or type on the chat room board, some of the drive and the strange magic that makes me come back to my keyboard night after night will be lost.
So, on my very first night, I shared this with the new writing group. They started asking some follow-up questions. Can you share some general plot? Nope. The subject? Nope? The time period or theme? Nope and nope.
The typing stopped and, for an electronic eternity, the chat room went silent.
Then, a comment popped up from one of the other writers:
“I do that, too,” she typed, and someone else starting writing about their WIP.
Before the chat session was done, the group invited me to bring one of my short stories of feminist wrath for feedback in a couple of weeks, which I am unabashedly excited to do. Meanwhile, I’ll keep working on my super secret not-to-be-named project and hope I don’t implode from the pressure. | 5,617 | 2,812 | 10,888.430654 |
warc | 202143 | STORIES 'Tough' to meet climate finance targets ahead of COP26, Johnson says
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:17
September 19, 2021: Prime Minister Boris Johnson boards RAF Voyager at Stansted Airport ahead of a visit to the United States.
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There is a six out of 10 chance an agreement on climate finance will be reached before the forthcoming COP26 climate change summit, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.
In remarks made to the media while traveling to New York over the weekend, Johnson was asked about securing commitments related to climate finance and, according to the BBC, environmental targets over the next few days.
"Getting it all done this week is going to be a stretch," he is reported to have said. "But I think getting it all done by COP, six out of 10. It's going to be tough, but people need to understand that this is crucial for the world."Discussions around finance are set to play a key role at COP26, which will be hosted by the U.K. in the Scottish city of Glasgow between Oct. 31 and Nov. 12.
According to the U.N., developed nations have previously said they would "jointly mobilize $100 billion per year by 2020 in support of climate action in developing countries."
This target is proving to be a challenge. Last week, the OECD said climate finance provided and mobilized by developed countries amounted to $79.6 billion in 2019. This represents a rise compared to the figure of $78.3 billion in 2018 but still falls short of the $100 billion.
"The limited progress in overall climate finance volumes between 2018 and 2019 is disappointing, particularly ahead of COP26," Mathias Cormann, the OECD's secretary-general, said in a statement reacting to the numbers.
"While appropriately verified data for 2020 will not be available until early next year it is clear that climate finance will remain well short of its target," Cormann said. "More needs to be done."
Johnson's remarks were published by a number of outlets and on Monday morning the BBC broadcast an excerpt of the discussion. Johnson said while the U.K. had made a "big, big pledge" and "greatly reduced our CO2," it needed other countries to step up to the plate.
"We've been emitting for centuries and these newly industrialized countries say 'well, why should we pay such a big price?' So the $100 billion a year that we need to raise is to support those countries [to] make the transition."The U.K.'s official website for COP26 states it will "bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change."
Described by the United Nations as a legally-binding international treaty on climate change, the Paris Agreement aims to "limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels."
Monday will see Johnson and U.N. Secretary-General Ant"nio Guterres hold what's being described as an "informal leaders roundtable on climate action."
Inquiry launched into European Commission chief's refusal to hand over text messages she exchanged with Pfizer CEO '-- RT World News
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 12:56
The European Ombudsman has demanded that Commission President Ursula von der Leyen explain how she lost text messages that she exchanged with the CEO of Pfizer during talks about vaccine procurement.
European Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly, the EU's top accountability and governance officer, launched an inquiry into the European Commission's refusal to hand over the contents of communications between von der Leyen and a CEO of an unnamed pharmaceutical company about a Covid-19 vaccine contract.
As a first step, O'Reilly asked the Commission to explain its policy on keeping records of von der Leyen's text messages. ''The Commission has an obligation to record instant messages relating to important policy or political matters, such as the procurement of Covid-19 vaccines,'' O'Reilly's office wrote in a statement about the case.
In April, the New York Times reported that von der Leyen had been exchanging texts and calls with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla for a month as part of negotiations about vaccine procurement for the bloc. The paper wrote at the time that personal diplomacy played a big role in securing the vaccine deal.
O'Reilly requested that the Commission hand over the text messages, but the Commission claimed that ''no record had been kept of any such messages,'' according to the ombudsman's office.
The office has previously warned about the importance of record-keeping within EU institutions amid an increased amount of remote work in the Covid era. ''EU administration is required by EU law to draw up and retain documentation pertaining to its activities, as far as possible and in a non-arbitrary and predictable manner,'' the watchdog said in June.
Also on rt.com BioNTech 'preparing production' of Covid-19 vaccine for children under 12, which may be approved in Europe next month '' media Pfizer remains one of the EU's major vaccine suppliers after sealing several deals with Brussels. The delays in shipments earlier this year frustrated EU leaders, including von der Leyen herself. ''Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines,'' she said in January. ''And now, the companies must deliver. They must honor their obligations.''
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Michigan Gov. Whitmer announces in-road wireless EV charging project
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 12:13
PONTIAC, Mich. '-- Tuesday, at the opening ceremony for Motor Bella, the outdoor event serving as a placeholder for the Detroit Auto Show, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced that Michigan would be the first state to deploy wireless electric vehicle charging on the road. This would allow EVs to charge while driving, without having to stop to plug in at a charging station.
Whitmer said the state is looking for partners to help develop and deploy the technology. According to a press release from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the Inductive Vehicle Charging Pilot will cover a one-mile stretch of road in either Wayne, Oakland or Macomb county. The Michigan Department of Transportation will release a Request for Proposal on September 28 to design, fund and implement the test road.
"Michigan was home to the first mile of paved road, and now we're paving the way for the roads of tomorrow with innovative infrastructure the will support the economy and the environment, helping us achieve our goal of carbon neutrality by 2050,'' said Whitmer. "This project reinforces my commitment to accelerating the deployment of electric vehicle infrastructure in Michigan and will create new opportunities for businesses and high-tech jobs amidst the transition to electric vehicles."
Despite the claim that Michigan would be the first to deploy such technology, the Indiana Department of Transportation announced earlier this summer that it would be working with Purdue and with German firm Magment to test in-road wireless charging. Magment's technology uses a concrete medium filled with magnetic particles to wirelessly transmit energy to electric vehicles on the move.
Utah State University is also working on in-road wireless charging, with induction coils in the pavement transmitting energy to coils in equipped electric vehicles.
In-road wireless charging could help solve problems with range anxiety, as well as the headache of finding a working DC fast charger.
We're curious to see what Michigan's program will entail, and we'll update you when we know more about the initiative.
Study Shows That Up To 8 In 10 Women Had A Miscarriage After Getting The Covid Vaccine Before The Third Trimester | Evie Magazine
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 12:11
The June 2021 study called ''Preliminary Findings of mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine Safety in Pregnant Persons'' purports to study the effects that the Covid vaccine has on pregnancies, including miscarriages, stillbirths, anomalies, and live births.
One particular finding '' that related to miscarriages '' has been disturbingly overlooked (and perhaps even intentionally hidden, as some claim, since corrections were made to the report). But first, it's important to keep in mind that miscarriages are defined as ''the spontaneous loss of a pregnancy before the 20th week.'' The general rate of miscarriages in the U.S. ranges from as low as 10% to as high as 26%, depending on the medical publication.
The study tracked 3,958 women who received the vaccine before and during pregnancy (the group was a mix of Pfizer''BioNTech and Moderna recipients). Among the women, 92 participants (2.3%) had received the vaccine before conception, 1132 (28.6%) received the vaccine in the first trimester, 1714 (43.3%) in the second trimester, and 1019 (25.7%) in the third trimester.
This is what the study found: ''Among 827 participants who had a completed pregnancy, the pregnancy resulted in a live birth in 712 (86.1%), in a spontaneous abortion in 104 (12.6%), in stillbirth in 1 (0.1%), and in other outcomes (induced abortion and ectopic pregnancy) in 10 (1.2%). A total of 96 of 104 spontaneous abortions (92.3%) occurred before 13 weeks of gestation (Table 4), and 700 of 712 pregnancies that resulted in a live birth (98.3%) were among persons who received their first eligible vaccine dose in the third trimester.''
Okay, what do these statistics mean? Firstly, 827 women completed their pregnancy during the study, and 712 of them successfully gave birth. 700 of those 712 women who gave birth received their Covid vaccine in the third trimester.
Secondly, 104 of those 827 women experienced ''spontaneous abortions,'' i.e. miscarriages, with 96 happening in the first trimester. Now, initially, that looks like 1 in 8 women, which is 12.5% '' which fits within the general miscarriage rate in the U.S. However, we have to remember that miscarriages, by definition, occur before the 20-week gestation mark. This means that all 700 women who received the vaccine in the third trimester must be excluded from the calculation because they were already past being able to have a technical miscarriage! So really, 104 out of 127 women experienced a miscarriage. This means the miscarriage rate of women who received the vaccine in the first or second trimester is actually 81.8%, or 8 out of 10 women '' way, way above the national average.
Another thing to note is that this study is still ongoing, as 3,131 participants had not completed their pregnancy yet at time of publication, so these preliminary statistics are likely to change '' hopefully for the better.
That being said, the study seems to overlook the miscarriage rate and focus on the positive rates of third-trimester vaccination, concluding that ''Early data...do not indicate any obvious safety signals with respect to pregnancy or neonatal outcomes associated with Covid-19 vaccination in the third trimester of pregnancy.''
Since pregnant women were excluded from the trials of the experimental vaccine, they have been left to make their own best decision about which to risk '' Covid or the vaccine. It's hardly pro-woman not to make statistics like these transparent and public.
Case Filed Against COVID-19 Vaccines in International Criminal Court, Rising Infections in Vaccinated - Vision Times
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 12:05
On April 20, UK-based attorneys Melinda C. Mayne and Kaira S. McCallum submitted a 27-page ''Request for Investigation'' to the International Criminal Court (ICC). In the request, the duo accused members of the UK government and its advisors of being complicit in crimes against humanity, genocide, and breach of the Nuremberg Code in the name of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines.
On April 28, the ICC acknowledged the request and assigned the pair a case number. Since then, Mayne and McCallum have been collecting evidence to prove their claims. On Aug. 17, a press release from the two attorneys stated that they had received sworn affidavits from experts around the world, including Nobel Laureate virologist Professor Luc A. Montagnier, nuclear cardiologist Dr. Richarm M. Fleming, and neuroscientist Dr. Kevin W. McCairn.
The pair said they now have ''compelling evidence'' that COVID-19 and the vaccines are ''deliberately engineered bioweapons'' that have been released in two phases on the ''unsuspecting people of the world.''
The attorneys have asked the ICC to examine the ''genocide of the elderly'' that took place in hospitals and care homes. An investigation into the ''inappropriate use'' of morphine and midazolam has also been requested. A team of lawyers and experts who conducted another inquiry on the issue sent a letter to the UK Government and officials such as Matt Hancock and Chris Whitty, warning that if they did not provide satisfactory answers, a private criminal prosecution case would be launched against them.
Mayne and McCallum were joined by lawyers from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and France to file a joint claim, asking the ICC for a moratorium on ''the entire COVID-19 vaccine program'' in all four nations, as well as ending the testing of asymptomatic people.
''Given the extremely serious nature of the situation that pertains in all four of our countries with regards to escalating medical apartheid, the loss of basic freedoms and rights and the ever-increasing, very high number of deaths and serious adverse events suffered by recipients of COVID-19 'vaccines', we have brought to the attention of the ICC the urgent need for the Court to act swiftly and without further delay,'' states the press release.
One of the experts cited by the duo, Montagnier, is famous for winning the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work researching HIV. In April last year, he said that the novel coronavirus responsible for the pandemic could have been created in a lab.
In an interview with Hold-Up Media in May, Montagnier blamed vaccines for triggering the creation of COVID-19 variants. The French virologist called the mass COVID-19 vaccination program an ''unacceptable mistake,'' and a ''scientific error as well as a medical error.'' He said that antibodies created by the vaccine force the SARS-CoV-2 virus to mutate into new variants.
''What does the virus do? Does it die or find another solution? It is clear that the new variants are created by antibody-mediated selection due to the vaccination,'' Montagnier said. He added that the trend can be seen in ''each country'' where the ''curve of vaccination is followed by the curve of deaths.''
Vaccines, infections, and deathsThe issue of rising COVID-19 infections after vaccination was raised back in February by a group of medical doctors. In an open letter to the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the doctors highlighted numerous reports of ''care homes being struck by COVID-19 within days of vaccination of residents.'' The doctors stated that they were concerned about the issue and that there is not much scrutiny regarding the matter.
''We question whether cardinal issues regarding the safety of the vaccines were adequately addressed prior to their approval by the European Medicines Agency (EMA),'' the letter stated.
According to a Sept. 15 report published by Dr. Joseph Mercola, New York Times bestselling author and recipient of multiple awards in the field of natural health, vaccinated patients are flooding hospitals around the world.
On Aug. 1, Israel's director of Public Health Services, Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, revealed that 50 percent of COVID-19 infections were among fully vaccinated individuals. Data from Scotland shows that 87 percent of those who have died from COVID-19 in the third wave of the pandemic, which began in July, were inoculated.
Among citizens above 50 years of age in the UK, vaccinated people account for 68 percent of hospitalizations and 70 percent of deaths. In Iceland, where more than 82 percent of the population has received vaccines, 77 percent of new COVID-19 cases have been in fully vaccinated people. Between July 6 and 24, 74 percent of those diagnosed with COVID-19 and 80 percent of those hospitalized in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, had received two doses of COVID-19 vaccines.
A British study published in mid-August found that fully vaccinated individuals who contract COVID-19 have a higher viral load in their nasal passages than unvaccinated individuals who are infected. The same was found in a study conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In addition, a new study published on medRxiv showed that healthy boys who received mRNA COVID-19 shots were more at risk of developing heart inflammation after vaccination than being hospitalized for COVID-19. For boys aged 12 to 17 who did not have underlying medical conditions. The cardiac adverse events (CAE) observed occurred a median of two days after vaccination, and 91.9% occurred within five days.
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The Defense Ministry of Lithuania is recommending that smartphones from Chinese brands be thrown away as quickly as possible following the discovery of built-in censorship on some handsets.
As Reuters reports, the recommendation was made by Defense Deputy Minister Margiris Abukevicius, who said, "Our recommendation is to not buy new Chinese phones, and to get rid of those already purchased as fast as reasonably possible." It follows the discovery of "censorship capabilities" on phones offered by Xiaomi.
In particular, the Xiomi Mi 10T 5G contains software that detects and censors terms including "Free Tibet", "Long live Taiwan independence," and "democracy movement." The software is present, but disabled on phones sold in the European Union, but the Defense Ministry's National Cyber Security Centre believes the software can be enabled remotely at any time.
The censorship controls can be used by any of the default system apps included on Xiaomi phones, including the default browser. A report released by the National Cyber Security Centre says there are 449 terms in Chinese that will be censored, but that the list is regularly updated by the company. Huawei was also flagged for a security flaw discovered on its P40 5G phone, but the company has responded, stating user data is not shared with others. Notably, OnePlus did not feature in the report.
Recommended by Our EditorsXiaomi was added to a US blacklist back in January, but by May the company had been removed from the list. This discovery in Lithuania could push the Department of Defense to take another look at Xiaomi to see if the same disabled censorship controls are included on phones sold in the US. Huawei, of course, has already been banned from the US market.
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Take a look at the record-breaking port congestion from 10,000 feet above, as 70 hulking cargo ships park off the LA coast
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 11:39
(C) Associated Press Associated Press Every day last week key ports in Southern California hit a new record backlog of cargo ships. An aerial view shows how the coast has turned into a parking lot for container ships. Prior to the pandemic, the ports typically had zero to one ships waiting to dock and unload. See more stories on Insider's business page. From above they may look like colorful specks in the distance, but the cargo ships floating off the coast of Southern California represent a massive bottle neck for the global supply chain.
On Monday, 97 hulking cargo ships were at Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. At the time, 70 of the container ships were at anchor or in drift areas waiting for space to open up in the port, according to the Marine Exchange of Southern California.
On Sunday, when Sam Kirschner snapped a photo from his plane window - over 10,000 feet above the shore - the Southern California ports had just finished a week where they had hit a new ship-backlog record every day, as the queue lengthened by 10 ships.
(C) Courtesy of Sam Kirschner A photo of the Southern California coast taken from a plane Courtesy of Sam Kirschner The aerial view of the scene from Sunday captures the enormity of the situation, as ships wait over a week to dock and unload, turning the coast into a type of parking lot for vessels that can be worth over $100 million and weigh over 200,000 tonnes.
Prior to the pandemic, the ports typically had zero to one ships waiting to dock, according to Kip Louttit, the executive director of the Marine Exchange of Southern California
Earlier this year, Louttit told Insider the sheer enormity of the ships has only made the issue worse.
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"Part of the problem is the ships are double or triple the size of the ships we were seeing 10 or 15 years ago," Louttit told Insider. "They take longer to unload. You need more trucks, more trains, more warehouses to put the cargo."
Another Twitter user also took a photo of the scene from above.
-Q (@quinnjmiller) September 20, 2021The massive backlog has become a spectacle of sorts in California. Insider's Brittany Chang captured images of the port congestion in April, when 21 boats waited to dock.
At the time, the cargo boats were readily visible from the shore.
(C) Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images About 20 containers wait to be unloaded in Southern California. Surfers are just hanging out. Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images In April, the backlog was already wreaking havoc on the global supply chain, but it was nowhere near the levels of congestion the port is seeing today.
Earlier this year, the backlog showed signs of abating, after hitting a record high in February of 2020, when the onset of the pandemic and panic-buying wreaked havoc on global supply chains. But, last month the ports began to beat out February's record, as COVID-19 shutdowns and a labor shortage met a boom in demand from shopping for remote work to preparing for the holiday shopping season.
Several Twitter users have also captured photos of the recent congestion from nearby beaches.
Longitudinal Trends in Body Mass Index Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Persons Aged 2''19 Years '-- United States, 2018''2020 | MMWR
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 18:24
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Samantha J. Lange, MPH1; Lyudmyla Kompaniyets, PhD1; David S. Freedman, PhD1; Emily M. Kraus, PhD2; Renee Porter; DNP3; Heidi M. Blanck, PhD1; Alyson B. Goodman, MD1 (View author affiliations)
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The COVID-19 pandemic led to school closures, disrupted routines, increased stress, and less opportunity for physical activity and proper nutrition, leading to weight gain among children and adolescents.
What is added by this report?
Among a cohort of 432,302 persons aged 2''19 years, the rate of body mass index (BMI) increase approximately doubled during the pandemic compared to a prepandemic period. Persons with prepandemic overweight or obesity and younger school-aged children experienced the largest increases.
What are the implications for public health practice?
Obesity prevention and management efforts during and following the COVID-19 pandemic could include health care provider screening for BMI, food security, and social determinants of health, and increased access to evidence-based pediatric weight management programs and food assistance resources.
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Obesity is a serious health concern in the United States, affecting more than one in six children (1) and putting their long-term health and quality of life at risk.* During the COVID-19 pandemic, children and adolescents spent more time than usual away from structured school settings, and families who were already disproportionally affected by obesity risk factors might have had additional disruptions in income, food, and other social determinants of health.' As a result, children and adolescents might have experienced circumstances that accelerated weight gain, including increased stress, irregular mealtimes, less access to nutritious foods, increased screen time, and fewer opportunities for physical activity (e.g., no recreational sports) (2,3). CDC used data from IQVIA's Ambulatory Electronic Medical Records database to compare longitudinal trends in body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) among a cohort of 432,302 persons aged 2''19 years before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (January 1, 2018''February 29, 2020 and March 1, 2020''November 30, 2020, respectively). Between the prepandemic and pandemic periods, the rate of BMI increase approximately doubled, from 0.052 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.051''0.052 to 0.100 (95% CI = 0.098''0.101) kg/m2/month (ratio = 1.93 [95% CI = 1.90''1.96]). Persons aged 2''19 years with overweight or obesity during the prepandemic period experienced significantly higher rates of BMI increase during the pandemic period than did those with healthy weight. These findings underscore the importance of efforts to prevent excess weight gain during and following the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as during future public health emergencies, including increased access to efforts that promote healthy behaviors. These efforts could include screening by health care providers for BMI, food security, and social determinants of health, increased access to evidence-based pediatric weight management programs and food assistance resources, and state, community, and school resources to facilitate healthy eating, physical activity, and chronic disease prevention.
Data were obtained from IQVIA's Ambulatory Electronic Medical Records database,§ which contains deidentified information recorded during outpatient encounters for a geographically diverse U.S. patient population. BMI was calculated from height and weight measurements¶ and categorized based on sex-specific CDC BMI-for-age percentiles.** To be included, persons had to be aged 2''19 years at their initial BMI measurement and have two or more BMI measurements before the COVID-19 pandemic (with at least one during the year immediately preceding the pandemic, March 1, 2019''February 29, 2020) and one or more BMI measurements after the initial 3 months of the pandemic (June 1, 2020''November 30, 2020).' ' The longitudinal cohort included 432,302 persons who had a total of 2.5 million BMI measurements collected from January 1, 2018 through November 30, 2020.
Linear mixed-effects regression models were used to examine differences in the average monthly rate of change in BMI before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Models accounted for all BMI measurements for each child during the study period and included random intercepts to account for individual-level heterogeneity. Models included a linear time trend (from the start of the pandemic on March 1, 2020), a dichotomous variable designating BMI measurements to the period before or after the start of the pandemic on March 1, 2020, the interaction between the linear time trend and pandemic variable, sex (male or female), age (on March 1, 2020), race and ethnicity (White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, other, or unknown), and initial BMI category (underweight, healthy weight, overweight, moderate obesity, or severe obesity). Models were run on the full cohort and stratified by age group during the pandemic (3''5, 6''11, 12''17, and 18''20 years). Models were also calculated with weight change (pounds per month) and obesity status (BMI '¥95th percentile) as the outcomes.§§
To determine changes between the prepandemic and pandemic periods, CDC calculated rate differences as the pandemic slope minus prepandemic slope and rate ratios as the pandemic slope divided by prepandemic slope. Data were analyzed using SAS (version 9.4; SAS Institute Inc.) and Stata (version 15.1; StataCorp); statistical significance was defined as p<0.05. This activity was reviewed by CDC and conducted consistent with applicable federal law and CDC policy.¶¶
Among 432,302 persons aged 2''19 years in the longitudinal cohort, 50.7% were male and 65.7% were White (Table 1). The cohort included 45.7% persons from the South, 21.2% from the Midwest, 19.0% from the West, and 14.0% from the Northeast U.S. Census regions.*** Based on initial BMI, obesity prevalence was start highlight 16.0% end highlight , including 4.8% with severe obesity. Overall, the monthly rate of BMI increase nearly doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic period compared with that during the prepandemic period (0.100 versus 0.052 kg/m2; ratio = 1.93) (Table 2). Similarly, the rate of change in the proportion of persons with obesity was 5.3 times as high during the pandemic (0.37 percentage points per month) than before the pandemic (0.07); for example, in this cohort, the estimated proportion of persons aged 2''19 years with obesity was 19.3% (95% CI = 19.1''19.4) in August 2019 and 22.4% (95% CI = 22.3''22.6) in August 2020.
Persons aged 2''19 years in all BMI categories except underweight experienced significant increases in their rate of BMI change during the pandemic (Table 2). Among persons with overweight, moderate obesity, and severe obesity, pandemic rates of BMI increase more than doubled, compared with prepandemic rates (ratios = 2.13, 2.34, and 2.00; differences = 0.06, 0.09, and 0.09, respectively); similar effects were observed for weight change. In contrast, those with healthy weight had a rate of BMI change that increased 0.03 kg/m2/month during the pandemic (ratio = 1.78).
Compared with other age groups, children aged 6''11 years experienced the largest increase in their rate of BMI change (0.09 kg/m2/month), with a pandemic rate of change that was 2.50 times as high as the prepandemic rate. Age-stratified analyses revealed that among children aged 3''5 and 6''11 years, the difference in the rate of BMI change increased with increasing BMI category. For example, among children aged 3''5 years, those with healthy weight had an increase in their rate of BMI change of 0.03 kg/m2/month, whereas those with overweight, moderate obesity, or severe obesity had increases of 0.06, 0.10, and 0.18 kg/m2/month, respectively (Figure).
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DiscussionIn a longitudinal cohort of 432,302 persons aged 2''19 years with outpatient visits, the monthly rate of increase in BMI nearly doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with a prepandemic period. The estimated proportion of persons aged 2''19 years with obesity in this care-seeking cohort also increased during the pandemic; for example, 19.3% of persons had obesity in August 2019 compared with 22.4% 1 year later. These findings are consistent with a recent study of Kaiser Permanente data that reported significant weight gain and increased obesity prevalence during the pandemic among children and adolescents aged 5''17 years in Southern California (4). The present study is the largest and first geographically diverse analysis to assess the association of the COVID-19 pandemic with BMI and the first to show results by initial BMI category.
Persons aged 2''19 years with moderate or severe obesity before the pandemic experienced significantly higher rates of increase in BMI, which translates to weight gain, compared with those with prepandemic healthy weight. During March''November 2020, persons with moderate or severe obesity gained on average 1.0 and 1.2 pounds per month, respectively. Weight gain at this rate over 6 months is estimated to result in 6.1 and start highlight 7.3 end highlight pounds, respectively, compared with 2.7 pounds in a person with healthy weight. Accelerated weight gain, especially among children with overweight or obesity, can cause long-lasting metabolic changes that put children at risk for serious and costly co-occurring conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and depression (5,6).
In response to pandemic-related concerns and because of the critical role that pediatricians serve in maintenance of healthy child weight (7), the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that pediatricians assess all children for the onset of obesity-related risk factors during the pandemic and provide tailored counseling, including screening for patient and family stress, disordered eating, and social determinants of health.' ' ' The large increases in BMI and weight detailed in this report provide additional support for the need for such comprehensive screening and counseling.
Consistent with previous studies (4,8), this analysis found that preschool and school-aged children, particularly those with obesity, had larger pandemic-associated increases in BMI than did adolescents. During the pandemic, many early child care and education settings§§§ and schools¶¶¶ experienced closures, leading to online or hybrid learning environments. This might have reduced the ability for some children to engage in structured physical activity and receive healthy meals. As venues serving youth reopen, it is important to acknowledge the potential indirect consequences of the pandemic and provide children, adolescents, and families with ample opportunities for proper nutrition and regular physical activity.
The findings in this report are subject to at least five limitations. First, although the longitudinal cohort included a geographically diverse sample of persons with clinically measured BMI data, IQVIA data are not nationally representative; this analysis should be replicated with other data sets, particularly those that are population-based. Second, IQVIA lacks detailed data on race and ethnicity because information was optionally reported in a single composite variable; therefore, ability to assess outcomes by racial and ethnic subpopulations was limited. Third, the number of health care visits with measured BMI was substantially lower during the beginning of the pandemic (March''May 2020) than during comparable months in 2018 and 2019, suggesting potential selection bias for persons who sought health care in 2020; to minimize bias, persons were required to have a BMI measurement during June''November 2020, when health care''seeking behavior began to normalize, to be included in the cohort. Fourth, the observed associations might represent an over- or underestimation if persons who gained weight during the pandemic were more or less likely to see a doctor because of health status or social determinants of health, such as access to care. Finally, the findings could be attributed to other factors that coincided with the pandemic dates selected for this study.
In this large, longitudinal cohort of persons aged 2''19 years, sharp increases in BMI rates occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic; those with overweight or obesity and younger school-aged children experienced the largest increases. These findings underscore the importance of obesity prevention and management efforts during and following the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as during future public health emergencies, including increased access to efforts that promote healthy behaviors. These efforts could include screening for BMI, food security, and other social determinants of health by health care providers; increased access to evidence-based pediatric weight management programs and food assistance resources; and state, community, and school efforts to facilitate healthy eating, physical activity, and chronic disease prevention.****
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AcknowledgmentsCorinna Koebnick, Margo Sidell, Kaiser Permanente; Kenneth Resnicow, University of Michigan; Ihuoma Eneli, Jinyu Xu, Nationwide Children's Hospital; Chris Economos, Kenneth Chui, Tufts University.
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Corresponding author: Samantha J. Lange, nya7@cdc.gov.
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1Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC; 2Public Health Informatics Institute, Atlanta, Georgia; 3McKing Consulting Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia.
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TABLE 1. Characteristics of the longitudinal cohort* of persons aged 2''20 years (N = 432,302) and those with at least one body mass index measurement in the year preceding the COVID-19 pandemic but not during the pandemic '-- IQVIA Ambulatory Electronic Medical Records Database, United States, January 2018'--November 2020CharacteristicNo. (%)Persons aged 2''20 years in the IQVIA longitudinal cohort*Persons aged 2''20 years in the IQVIA database with '¥1 BMI measurement in the year preceding but not during the pandemicTotal432,302 (100.0)1,419,796 (100.0)SexFemale213,303 (49.3)717,568 (50.5)Male218,999 (50.7)702,228 (49.5)Race/Ethnicity' White283,915 (65.7)840,906 (59.2)Black41,466 (9.6)135,758 (9.6)Asian12,427 (2.9)39,186 (2.8)Hispanic4,203 (1.0)18,001 (1.3)Unknown72,010 (16.7)325,809 (22.9)Other18,281 (4.2)60,136 (4.2)Age group, yrs§2''5106,944 (24.7)284,872 (20.1)6''11155,389 (35.9)407,720 (28.7)12''17144,302 (33.4)487,031 (34.3)18''2025,667 (5.9)240,173 (16.9)Initial BMI category¶Underweight18,293 (4.2)58,801 (4.1)Healthy weight279,351 (64.6)877,775 (61.8)Overweight65,281 (15.1)221,749 (15.6)Obesity69,377 (16.0)261,471 (18.4)Moderate48,715 (11.3)172,206 (12.1)Severe20,662 (4.8)89,265 (6.3)Geographic region**,' ' South197,639 (45.7)696,998 (49.1)Northeast60,677 (14.0)158,036 (11.1)Midwest91,704 (21.2)275,896 (19.4)West82,173 (19.0)288,244 (20.3)Abbreviation: BMI = body mass index.*The longitudinal cohort included persons aged 2''19 years at initial BMI measurement, with '¥2 BMI measurements before the pandemic (with '¥1 measurement during the year immediately preceding the pandemic) and '¥1 BMI measurement after the initial 3 months of the pandemic.' Race and ethnicity categories are mutually exclusive. IQVIA's Ambulatory Electronic Medical Records database lacks additional information on race and ethnicity because of information being optionally reported in a single composite variable in the electronic health record.§ Based on age in years on March 1, 2020 (the start of the COVID-19 pandemic period for this analysis). Persons were aged 2''19 years at their initial BMI measurement and aged 3''20 years by March 1, 2020.¶ Based on initial BMI measurement. BMI categories were defined as underweight (<5th percentile), healthy weight ('¥5th to <85th percentile), overweight ('¥85th to <95th percentile), moderate obesity ('¥95th percentile to <120% of the 95th percentile), and severe obesity ('¥120% of the 95th percentile). Moderate obesity and severe obesity are mutually exclusive.** A total of 109 persons in the longitudinal cohort and 622 persons with one or more BMI measurements in the year preceding but not during the pandemic were missing information on geographic region.' ' U.S. Census regions: Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont; Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; West: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
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TABLE 2. Monthly rate of change in the body mass index and weight of persons aged 2''19 years before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, overall and by body mass index category and age group '-- IQVIA Ambulatory Electronic Medical Records Database, United States, January 2018'--November 2020CharacteristicPrepandemicPandemicPandemic versus prepandemicSlope* (95% CI)Slope (95% CI)Difference' (95% CI)Ratio§ (95% CI)BMI (kg/m2)Overall0.052 (0.051 to 0.052)0.100 (0.098 to 0.101)0.05 (0.05 to 0.05)1.93 (1.90 to 1.96)Initial BMI category¶Underweight0.046 (0.044 to 0.047)0.051 (0.044 to 0.058)0.01 (0.00 to 0.01)1.12 (0.96 to 1.28)Healthy weight0.044 (0.044 to 0.044)0.078 (0.076 to 0.080)0.03 (0.03 to 0.04)1.78 (1.73 to 1.82)Overweight0.057 (0.056 to 0.058)0.121 (0.117 to 0.125)0.06 (0.06 to 0.07)2.13 (2.06 to 2.20)Moderate obesity0.070 (0.069 to 0.071)0.164 (0.160 to 0.168)0.09 (0.09 to 0.10)2.34 (2.28 to 2.40)Severe obesity0.089 (0.088 to 0.090)0.179 (0.173 to 0.185)0.09 (0.08 to 0.10)2.00 (1.93 to 2.07)Age group, yrs**3''5''0.002 (''0.003 to ''0.002)0.040 (0.037 to 0.043)0.04 (0.04 to 0.05)'--' ' 6''110.059 (0.059 to 0.060)0.148 (0.145 to 0.150)0.09 (0.09 to 0.09)2.50 (2.45 to 2.54)12''170.072 (0.071 to 0.072)0.106 (0.104 to 0.109)0.03 (0.03 to 0.04)1.48 (1.44 to 1.51)18''200.045 (0.044 to 0.046)0.032 (0.027 to 0.037)''0.01 (''0.02 to ''0.01)0.70 (0.59 to 0.82)Weight, lbsOverall0.356 (0.354 to 0.358)0.595 (0.588 to 0.603)0.24 (0.23 to 0.25)1.67 (1.65 to 1.69)Initial BMI categoryUnderweight0.212 (0.205 to 0.218)0.289 (0.252 to 0.325)0.08 (0.04 to 0.11)1.36 (1.19 to 1.54)Healthy weight0.282 (0.280 to 0.284)0.447 (0.438 to 0.457)0.17 (0.16 to 0.18)1.59 (1.55 to 1.62)Overweight0.409 (0.405 to 0.412)0.725 (0.706 to 0.744)0.32 (0.30 to 0.34)1.78 (1.73 to 1.82)Moderate obesity0.544 (0.541 to 0.548)1.010 (0.989 to 1.032)0.47 (0.44 to 0.49)1.86 (1.81 to 1.90)Severe obesity0.736 (0.730 to 0.741)1.217 (1.187 to 1.248)0.48 (0.45 to 0.51)1.65 (1.61 to 1.70)Age group, yrs3''50.379 (0.374 to 0.383)0.469 (0.453 to 0.485)0.09 (0.07 to 0.11)1.24 (1.20 to 1.28)6''110.365 (0.362 to 0.367)0.737 (0.724 to 0.750)0.37 (0.36 to 0.39)2.02 (1.98 to 2.06)12''170.393 (0.391 to 0.396)0.623 (0.609 to 0.636)0.23 (0.22 to 0.24)1.58 (1.55 to 1.62)18''200.277 (0.272 to 0.282)0.202 (0.174 to 0.229)''0.08 (''0.10 to ''0.05)0.73 (0.63 to 0.83)Abbreviations: BMI = body mass index; CI = confidence interval.* Measured in kg/m2/month for BMI analysis, pounds per month for weight analysis.' Calculated as the pandemic slope minus prepandemic slope. Units are kg/m2 per month; 95% CIs for differences that exclude the null value of 0 are statistically significant.§ Calculated as the pandemic slope divided by prepandemic slope; 95% CIs for ratios that exclude the null value of 1 are statistically significant.¶ Based on initial BMI measurement. BMI categories were defined as underweight (<5th percentile), healthy weight ('¥5th to <85th percentile), overweight ('¥85th to <95th percentile), moderate obesity ('¥95th percentile to <120% of the 95th percentile), and severe obesity ('¥120% of the 95th percentile). Mixed-effects model included sex, race and ethnicity, age in years on March 1, 2020, and threeway interaction among linear time trend, pandemic indicator variable, and BMI category. Model for weight in pounds also included height in inches and height squared.** Based on age in years on March 1, 2020, which was the start of the COVID-19 pandemic for this analysis. Persons were aged 2''19 years at their initial BMI measurement and aged 3''20 years by March 1, 2020. Mixed-effects model included sex, race and ethnicity, age in years on March 1, 2020, initial BMI category, and threeway interaction among linear time trend, pandemic indicator variable, and age group. Model for weight in pounds also included height in inches and height squared.' ' Ratio was not calculated because of a prepandemic slope that was negative and very close to zero.
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FIGURE. Estimated body mass index before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, by initial body mass index category, stratified by age group '-- IQVIA Ambulatory Electronic Medical Records Database, United States, start highlight January 2018''November 2020 end highlight Abbreviation: BMI = body mass index.
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Over 2,000 workers at Catholic Health Mercy Hospital in New York plan strike | Healthcare Dive
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 18:20
Dive Brief: Some 2,500 nurses, technologists, clerical staff and other service workers at Catholic Health System's Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, New York, plan go on strike Oct. 1 if the union and hospital management are unable to reach a deal on a new contract by that date. The current contract expires Sept. 30, and 97% of members represented by the Communications Workers of America have voted in favor of authorizing a strike. They share nearly universal concerns over staffing, threats to patient care, supply shortages, high turnover and low pay they want addressed in the next contract, according to the union. The hospital's bargaining team is working to settle a fair contract and avert a strike, though it has a strike contingency plan in place that includes bringing in contract labor, according to a release from the hospital. Mercy has also filed unfair labor practice claims against CWA with the National Labor Relations Board for engaging in bad faith, surface and regressive bargaining, according to the hospital. Dive Insight: Labor unions representing nurses and other healthcare workers in particular are leveraging their experiences during the pandemic to get better contracts, especially as burnout continues exacerbating turnover.
And while unions sometimes authorize a strike without setting a date, workers at Mercy Hospital are ready to strike in less than two weeks if they're unable to nab a new contract with the measures they say are necessary to attract and retain staff.
In a survey conducted among 500 staff members across Catholic Health's Kenmore Mercy, Mercy and St. Joseph's hospitals, 97% of respondents said their hospital is struggling to retain staff. Most cited concerns over quality of care, staffing shortages, low pay and working conditions, according to the union.
"There is not a shortage of nurses '-- I want to be clear with that '-- there is a shortage of nurses that are willing to work under these conditions and under these unsafe ratios," Tina Knop, a critical care registered nurse at Mercy Hospital who has worked there for about 10 years said during a Tuesday press conference.
Nurses in the ICU typically care for one or two patients depending on acuity, but throughout the pandemic have been assigned up to four or five patients at a time, Knop said.
In recent weeks six nurses in the ICU at Mercy Hospital put in their two weeks notice, including Knop. "I can no longer do it, I can no longer work under these conditions," she said.
That comes as healthcare workers, following a brief reprieve this spring, are now dealing with renewed surges of COVID-19 patients with the delta variant and a fast approaching winter and flu season.
A month ago, Catholic Health's census of COVID-19 patients was down to one or two per day, but is rising and hit 40 patients across the system as of Thursday, according to a letter 25 elected officials from the Buffalo region wrote to hospital management.
The letter shares concerns the legislators and councilmembers have heard from staff, namely that the hospital's operations haven't recovered from the worst of the pandemic and have consistently stretched workers to their breaking points.
"The result is overwhelming stress and demoralization among the workforce, and workers voting with their feet by quitting as soon as another opportunity is available," the letter says.
Workers also believe there is a crisis of leadership and their concerns aren't being taken seriously, as hundreds of staff positions remain unfilled, according to the elected officials.
The letter notes hospital management's proposal for a new contract wouldn't help attract the staff they need, as meager wage increases would be offset by large increases in healthcare costs.
"Hundreds of new hires are needed to ensure safe staffing levels, leaving the remaining staff exhausted and increasingly concerned over their ability to provide adequate patient care as COVID-19 cases increase in Erie County," the union said in a release.
It is unclear how long the strike would last if the two sides are unable to reach a deal by Oct. 1.
How to blur your house on Google Street View (and why you should)
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:27
A little privacy goes a long way.
Privacy Please is an ongoing series exploring the ways privacy is violated in the modern world, and what can be done about it.
Google Street View offers up a window to the world in all its bizarre, intimate, and often raw glory. That window just so happens to peek into your home, as well. What that peek reveals may be more than you've bargained for '-- think views into bedroom windows, potential fodder for stalkers, and more.
Thankfully, there is something you can do about it. Specifically, you can ask Google to permanently blur your house out '-- leaving only a smeared suggestion of a building in its place. The entire process is surprisingly easy.
As the name would suggest, Street View, launched in 2007, provides a street-level view of many cities and towns around the world. Captured by roving vehicles and individual photographers equipped with camera-laden backpacks, the service has been controversial from the start '-- both in the ways you might imagine, and ways you might not.
In 2008, the Minnesota suburb of North Oaks decided it didn't want pictures of it up on Google's service, and threatened to cite Google for trespassing. Google pulled the images down.
In 2009, the lobbying organization Privacy International filed a formal complaint to the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) alleging that Google failed to properly de-identify the people it captured. As a BBC report at the time noted, that type of failure could have serious repercussions.
"Among them were a woman who had moved house to escape a violent partner but who was recognisable outside her new home on Street View," read the article, describing complaints made to Privacy International. "Also complaining were two colleagues pictured in an apparently compromising position who suffered embarrassment when the image was circulated at their workplace."
Staying cool in Brooklyn. Credit: Screenshot / street view
And that's just the obvious stuff.
Google has never exactly been a steward of anyones' privacy. In 2010, the company admitted that its Street View vehicles '-- the ones endlessly circling neighborhoods around the world '-- had secretly been collecting information from unencrypted WiFi networks they drove past for years.
So maybe you're worried about an online stalker, maybe you don't want strangers peering in your windows, or maybe you value privacy for its own sake and simply don't think Google should have indexed and digitized photos of your home available for all to see. Whatever the reason, it's relatively easy to request Google blur out the image of your home or apartment on Google Street View.
Here's what you do:
1. Go to Google Maps and enter your home address
2. Enter into Street View mode by dragging the small yellow human-shaped icon, found in the bottom-right corner of the screen, onto the map in front of your house
3. With your house in view, click "Report a problem" in the bottom-right corner of the screen
4. Center the red box on your home, and select "My home" in the "Request blurring" field
Google's San Francisco office. Credit: screenshot / google
5. Write in the provided field why you want the image blurred (for example, you may be concerned about safety issues)
6. Enter in your email address, and click "Submit"
Importantly, be sure it's what you want. Google warns you that once it has blurred your house on Street View "it is permanent."
Don't forget, though, you live in the place. If you ever need to be reminded of what it looks like, presumably you can go outside and see for yourself.
After you hit "submit," you should receive an email from Google noting that it's "reviewing the image you reported and will email you when your request is resolved." The company may follow up, via email, and ask you to be more specific about the area you want blurred. If so, you will need to do the entire process again '-- clearly detailing the specific area of the picture you want blurred.
That's it.
SEE ALSO: 7 Google privacy settings you should enable now
It's not clear exactly how long Google takes to process the requests, so you might as well get started now. And, when you're done with that, do the same thing on Bing Maps (the process is surprisingly similar) '-- it's not like Microsoft should get any special treatment, after all.
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White House revokes foreign travel ban; vaccinations required
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:14
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will also require airlines to collect contact information from international travelers to facilitate tracing. Photo courtesy Transportation Security AdministrationWASHINGTON (AP) '-- The U.S. will ease foreign travel restrictions to the country beginning in November, allowing foreigners in if they have proof of vaccination and a negative COVID-19 test, the White House said Monday.
The new rules will replace a hodgepodge of restrictions that had barred non-citizens who had been in Europe, much of Asia and certain other countries in the prior 14 days from entering the U.S. The changes will allow families and others who have been separated by the travel restrictions for 18 months to plan for long-awaited reunifications.
White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients announced the new policies, which still will require all foreign travelers flying to the U.S. to demonstrate proof of vaccination before boarding, as well as proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken within three days of flight. Biden will also tighten testing rules for unvaccinated American citizens, who will need to be tested within a day before returning to the U.S., as well as after they arrive home.
Fully vaccinated passengers will not be required to quarantine, Zients said.
The new policy will replace the patchwork of travel bans first instituted by President Donald Trump last year and tightened by Biden that restrict travel by non-citizens who have in the prior 14 days been in the United Kingdom, European Union, China, India, Iran, Republic of Ireland, Brazil and South Africa.
Those travel bans had become the source of growing geopolitical frustration, particularly among allies in the UK and EU where virus cases are far lower than the U.S. The easing comes ahead of Biden meeting with some European leaders on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly this week.
''This is based on individuals rather than a country-based approach, so it's a stronger system,'' Zients said.
The EU and UK had previously moved to allow vaccinated U.S. travelers into their territories without quarantines, in an effort to boost business and tourism travel. But the EU recommended last month that some travel restrictions be reimposed on U.S. travelers to the bloc because of the rampant spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus in America.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will also require airlines to collect contact information from international travelers to facilitate tracing, Zients said.
It was not immediately clear which vaccines would be acceptable under the U.S.-system and whether those unapproved in the U.S. could be used. Zients said that decision would be up to the CDC.
Zients said there would be no immediate changes to the U.S. land border policies, which continue to restrict much cross-border travel with Mexico and Canada.
The announcement was met with cheers by the air travel industry, which has lost significant revenues from the pandemic-related declines in international travel.
''We applaud the Biden Administration for establishing a path to re-opening international travel to the U.S.,'' said Delta Air Lines spokesman Morgan Durrant. ''Science tells us that vaccinations coupled with testing is the safest way to re-open travel and we are optimistic this important decision will allow for the continued economic recovery both in the U.S. and abroad and the reunification of families who have been separated for more than 18 months.''
Worldwide, air travel is still down more than half from pre-pandemic levels, and the decline is much sharper for cross-border flying. By July, domestic travel had recovered to 84% of 2019 numbers, but international travel was just 26% of the same month two years ago, according to figures released this month by the airline industry's main global trade group, the International Air Transport Association.
The numbers are similar but not quite as stark for the U.S., where international travel in August was 46% of that in August 2019, according to Airlines for America. Arrivals by non-U.S. citizens were only 36% of the 2019 normal.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted that he was ''delighted'' by the news. He said: ''It's a fantastic boost for business and trade, and great that family and friends on both sides of the pond can be reunited once again.''
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss tweeted that the move was ''excellent news for travelers from the UK to the US. Important for out economic recovery, families and trade.''
Britain scrapped quarantines for fully vaccinated travelers from the U.S. and the European Union in early August, and has been pushing for Washington to ease its rules. But Johnson said Sunday that he did not expect the change to come this week.
Airlines hailed the U.S. decision as a lifeline for the struggling industry. Tim Alderslade, chief executive of industry body Airlines U.K. said it was ''a major breakthrough.''
Shai Weiss, chief executive of Virgin Atlantic, said it was ''a major milestone to the reopening of travel at scale, allowing consumers and businesses to book travel to the U.S. with confidence.''
''The U.K. will now be able to strengthen ties with our most important economic partner, the U.S., boosting trade and tourism as well as reuniting friends, families and business colleagues,'' Weiss said.
French entrepreneur Stephane Le Breton, 45, expressed joy that he will finally be able to book his trip to New York city that had been put on hold over the virus restrictions.
''I felt frustrated that I couldn't go to the U.S. as I had planned. It just didn't make sense that authorities weren't letting in vaccinated EU citizens.''
Le Breton, who lives in the Boulogne suburb of Paris, said he feels that the U.S. lifting the restrictions is a sign that the world is heading to a new, better phase of the coronavirus pandemic.
''It's a happy day. Big Apple, here I come!''
The new air travel policy will take effect in ''early November,'' Zients said, to allow airlines and travel partners time to prepare to implement the new protocols.
Dystopia watch
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:20
Marty's ÉentThis attack vector on civil liberties is only going to increase.
Marty BentEditor in Chief and Creative Director of TFTC; home of Marty's Éent, Tales from the Crypt, and Rabbit Hole Recap.
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Marty Bent 21 Sep 2021 ' 2 min read
Here is something to keep an eye on as calls for "climate action" and pressure to meet arbitrary "ESG standards" heat up; credit cards with a carbon limit. In 2019 Mastercard rolled out the "Doconomy card" in an effort to provide carbon impact conscious individuals with a credit card that would prevent them from spending money if they went over a predetermined "carbon limit" calculated by adding up the "carbon impact" of the goods purchased using the credit card over a specific period of time.Well, it looks like Mastercard is beginning to position Doconomy as a proof of concept that could set a "global standard for carbon calculations" to be adopted by others. Here's a brief video of someone highlighting how this is a clear cut way to usher in a social credit system under the guise of environmentalism.
Dont say you weren't warned pic.twitter.com/JVMMQp6BfN
'-- Phil Stone (@philosopherssto) September 17, 2021This is how the social credit scoring system will be Trojan Horse'd into society. At first it starts off as a way for individuals to signal their virtue. Then it turns into a standard that others can leverage to offer their customers. And eventually it ends up as a mandatory prerequisite for issuing credit cards or using a Central Bank Digital Cuck Buck wallet. Obviously, we are not at the full on implementation of this type of potential standard via a central bank digital cuck buck and it may never get there, but it is always important to recognize how these dystopian systems can arise from a social and technical standpoint.The normalization of "carbon impact" is being rolled out slowly but surely at this current juncture. Here's a screenshot from a freak that was sent to me last week highlighting how Google Flights is beginning their normalization efforts.
via Bbask24This attack vector on civil liberties is only going to increase. I urge you freaks to resist the social pressure to give in to the pandering to individuals' respect for the environment by recognizing that this type of carbon shaming won't do anything to actually affect positive change for the environment and certainly not for humanity. Those who will control this social credit scoring system will in no way be subjected to the same standards it thrusts on the Common Man. And the forced transition to unreliable energy sources will make humans worse off. Particularly the poor.Luckily we have Bitcoin which provides individuals with a monetary and payments network that - if its users work to make it sufficiently distributed and robust - cannot implement the type of dystopian standards that the Cantillionaires are currently attempting to force on the Common Man.
Final thought...My wife needs to do her hair.
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Strictly Come Dancing 'sees third professional dancer refuse Covid vaccine' | Daily Mail Online
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:45
Strictly Come Dancing has reportedly seen a third professional dancer refuse the Covid vaccination.
Sources claim the star has already been paired with a celebrity and it is well-known among the cast that they have refused the jab, sparking resentment behind the scenes.
The reports come just days after it was claimed that two professional dancers had refused the Covid vaccine, sparking fears from bosses the show could be hit by another outbreak.
Drama: Strictly Come Dancing has reportedly seen a third professional dancer refuse the Covid vaccination (Giovanni Pernice and Oti Mabuse are pictured)
The pro, who has not been named, does not have to disclose whether they've been vaccinated to BBC bosses, because it is a private medical matter.
A source told The Sun: 'Producers are dreading an outbreak of Covid on the new series, which is a crucial part of the autumn schedule.
'They are taking every possible precaution to make the set as safe as possible, particularly as the studio audience is returning.'
Scare: Sources claim the star has already been paired with a celebrity and it is well-known among the cast that they have refused the jab (Karen Hauer and Gorka Marquez pictured)
A Strictly spokesperson told MailOnline: 'We do not comment on speculation of somebody's COVID vaccination status.
'Strictly Come Dancing production has, and will, continue to follow strict government guidelines to ensure the safety of all on the show.'
This year's Strictly has once again seen stars and their professional dancers required to adhere to strict Covid safety measures, including being tested multiple times a week, and forming bubbles to perform and train safely.
Saturday's launch show, which was recorded earlier this month, saw this year's celebrity contestants discover their professional partners, with the 15 couples set to perform in the first live show this weekend.
Worries: On Saturday it was reported that two of the show's professional dancers had refused to get Covid jabs (Giovanni is pictured getting a Covid test)
On Saturday it was reported that two of the show's professional dancers had refused to get Covid jabs, ahead of the launch show being broadcast.
The identity of the dancers was not revealed and BBC bosses were said to be fearful that there could be a larger outbreak among those participating in the show.
A source told The Sun that if a 'proper outbreak' led to 'half the cast' contracting Covid-19, it would be 'curtains' for the show.
They added: 'Strictly already has to jump through hoops just to be able to broadcast. The dancers who won't get vaccinated have been a topic of conversation among cast and crew for weeks '-- even before the positive test.
'There were vocal protests from celebrities that they didn't want to be paired with them. It's a headache for bosses but employers cannot force workers to get jabbed.'
Reacting, ex-Strictly contestant Dr Ranj Singh said: 'I think, you know vaccination is not mandatory, it's an offer, and I think we should all be playing our part and doing whatever we can to try and keep everybody safe. Not just ourselves but those around us.
'There may be legitimate reasons for those people to not be able to have the jab and we've got to understand that, but I think we've all got a part to play to be as safe as possible.
'And that's not just about vaccination, that's about being careful around hand hygiene, trying to distance, wear a mask in enclosed spaces, and all those other things that we should be doing well.'
Worries: The identity of the dancers was not revealed and BBC bosses were said to be fearful that there could be a larger outbreak among those participating in the show
It came just three days after it emerged that one professional dancer has tested positive for Covid-19. The unidentified dancer was forced to isolate for ten days, but their celebrity partner tested negative.
Strictly judge Motsi Mabuse told Good Morning Britain in response to the news of the positive test that 'it is still a pandemic, we cannot ignore the fact as much as we want our lives back.'
She added: 'We will all be there and we will all be healthy and all keep on dancing - that's what I can say.'
Speaking of the two dancers' refusal to get vaccinated, the source added to The Sun: 'There were vocal protests from celebrities that they didn't want to be paired with them.'
As part of the measures in place to lessen the risk posed by the virus, dancers are tested multiple times a week.
Judge Motsi said on Friday: 'There are still issues here and the BBC is doing the upmost to keep everybody safe.
'We are being tested and we are trying to isolate as much as we can, but things can happen and we should be able to go through that, and everyone should be responsible and take care of themselves.
'But we can't plan these things so we just have to react, and hope that everybody stays healthy.'
Show bosses are reportedly still enforcing Covid-19 bubbles for its professional dancers, despite lockdown restrictions easing.
Wanting to minimise all potential risks, Strictly bosses have requested the show's dancers all stay at a London hotel in 'bubbles', according to The Sun.
Such bubbles were put into practice for last year's Strictly series amid lockdown, while the show's professionals have been busy pre-recording group dances ahead of this year's launch.
As well as forming bubbles ahead of the series, the professional dancers filmed most of their group routines in advance and only a limited number of guests will be allowed in the studio audience.
Fans, along with friends and family of the celebrity contestants, will be allowed back into Elstree studios to watch the live shows, but only in small numbers.
Last year, Strictly bosses brought bubbles and close contact cohorts into play in order to ensure the safety of the contestants, dancers and crew during filming.
Each dancing couple formed an exclusive support bubble - meaning one half of the bubble was a single adult household living alone and the other could remain with their household, allowing them to have close contact with one another.
Concerns: It came just three days after it emerged that one professional dancer has tested positive for Covid-19 (Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman are pictured)
Close contact cohorts were also introduced and work similarly to support bubbles, but included regular and routine testing for coronavirus. Each couple was put into a close contact cohort and could not form a cohort with anyone else during the competition.
Despite the measures in place, Covid still wreaked havoc with the series, as same-sex couple Katya Jones and Nicola Adams were forced to leave the competition, after Katya tested positive for the virus.
The series was won by Bill Bailey and Oti Mabuse, with EastEnders star Maisie Smith, singer HRVY and Jamie Laing all finishing as runners-up.
Producers have also reportedly put a kissing ban on contestants in a bid to stop Covid causing havoc again for the new series.
Producers are said to have told this year's stars 'one snog and you're out' after last series celebs Maisie Smith and HRVY allegedly broke social distancing rules because of a brief romance.
An insider told The Sun: 'Although the pandemic has eased since last year's series, the BBC aren't taking any chances.
'This kissing ban is likely to be part of a package of measures introduced by producers to make the show as safe as possible.
STRICTLY COME DANCING 2021: WHO ARE THE COUPLES? TOM FLETCHER & AMY DOWDEN
Celebrity's Age: 36
Profession: McFly musician
Tom says: 'I'm so pleased the news is out it's been so hard keeping it secret. Equal parts excited and terrified.'
Fun fact: Tom's McFly bandmate Harry Judd won Strictly Come Dancing in 2011. Tom's wife Giovanna Fletcher is the reigning champion of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
ROBERT WEBB & DIANNE BUSWELL
Celebrity's Age: 48
Profession: Actor and comedian
Robert says: 'It's very exciting but with a slight undertone of quivering terror.'
Fun Fact: Robert squeezed into a shiny leotard to take the title of Let's Dance For Comic Relief in 2009, performing What A Feeling from '80s film Flashdance, beating the likes of Keith Lemon and Paddy McGuinness to the title.
RHYS STEPHENSON & NANCY XU
Celebrity's Age: 27
Profession: CBBC presenter
Rhys says: 'I have dreamt about being on this show, and I know for a fact that it is going to exceed every expectation'
Fun fact: Rhys has been an actor since the age of ten, performing alongside Matt Smith and Hugh Bonneville.
KATIE MCGLYNN & GORKA MARQUEZ
Celebrity's Age: 28
Profession: Actress
Katie says: 'I'm really not a dancer, but I'm so excited to learn a new skill on this crazy journey and cannot wait to slip into some sequins along the way.'
Fun fact: Katie, who played Sinead Tinker in Corrie, won a NTA for Best Serial Drama Performance in 2020.
TILLY RAMSAY & NIKITA KUZMIN
Celebrity's Age: 19
Profession: CBBC presenter
Tilly says: 'I'm going to put my heart and soul into this and can't wait to get my dancing shoes on!'
Fun fact: Tilly's father is celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay and the pair often star in dancing TikTok videos.
NINA WADIA & NEIL JONES
Celebrity's Age: 52
Profession: Actress
Nina says: 'I think I should do this before I'm too old and can't walk anymore. I just want to grab life by the horns and just enjoy it.'
Fun fact: Nina is a JDRF Ambassador and was awarded an OBE in the 2021 New Year's Honours List.
ADAM PEATY & KATYA JONES
Celebrity's Age: 26
Profession: Athlete
Adam says: 'I'm really looking forward to doing something totally different and challenging myself away from the pool.'
Fun fact: Adam becoming the first British swimmer to defend an Olympic title at Tokyo 2020.
UGO MONYE & OTI MABUSE
Celebrity's Age: 38
Profession: Rugby player and sports pundit
Ugo says: 'What a dream come true! Strictly is the biggest entertainment show on TV and I can't wait to show everyone I've got more than just dad dancing moves.
Fun fact: Beginning his rugby career at Harlequins in 2002, Ugo went on to make 241 appearances for the club where he scored 89 tries, won a Premiership and made his England debut in 2008.
AJ ODUDU & KAI WIDDRINGTON
Celebrity's Age: 33
Profession: TV presenter
AJ says: 'I think it's going to be really challenging. I can't wait for the sequins, the wigs, the glitz and the glamour.'
Fun Fact: Apocalypse Wow hosts AJ has featured on a whopping 14 TV shows this year, competing in the likes oF Cooking With The Stars and Celebrity Karaoke Club. She has appeared as a panelist on Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two in the past, too.
JOHN WHAITE & JOHANNES RADEBE
Celebrity's Age: 33
Profession : Great British Bake Off Winner and TV chef
John says: 'I'm so grateful, excited, and nervous to be joining the Strictly 2021 family... I've been wearing sequins and jazzy attire since I was three years old and can't wait to hurl myself, full throttle, around the most glamorous dance floor on earth'
Fun Fact : The duo are the first ever all-male partnering - the first in 17 years of the show.
SARA DAVIES & ALJAZ SKORJANEC
Celebrity's Age: 37
Profession: Businesswoman
Sara says : ' I'm really nervous because so far the producers keep asking me if I can dance... Truth be told '' I haven't got a clue! I've not danced since I did ballet lessons when I was little.'
Fun fact: Sara was the youngest ever dragon on BBC show Dragons' Den.
DAN WALKER & NADIYA BYCHKOVA
Celebrity's Age: 44
Profession: Journalist
Dan says : 'I'm enjoying the experience when it starts of learning to dance. I'll be honest I'm not making room on any shelves in my house for the glitterball.'
Fun fact: Dan recently quit Football Focus after 12 years at the helm and has been covering Tokyo Olympics.
GREG WISE & KAREN HAUER
Celebrity's Age: 55
Profession: Actor
Greg says: 'It's about being out there and exposing yourself as someone who can't dance, and learning.'
Fun fact: Greg is married to the actress Emma Thompson who he met while filming Sense and Sensibility.
ROSE AYLING-ELLIS & GIOVANNI PERNICE
Celebrity's Age: 30
Profession: Actress
Rose says: 'I hope I will do the deaf community proud and break down more barriers. I am also very excited to learn an incredible new skill.'
Fun fact: Rose will make history as Strictly's first deaf contestant.
JUDI LOVE & GRAZIANO DI PRIMA
Celebrity's Age: 41
Profession: Comedienne
Judi says: 'I'm truly looking forward to pushing myself in something that I could have only dreamed of doing and now it's actually coming true!'
Fun fact: Judi began comedy when she performed a set in front of her class for a degree module.
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ISCAP Releases | National Archives
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:31
The Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP, or ''the Panel'') provides the public and users of the classification system with a forum for further review of classification decisions.Section 5.3(b)(4) of Executive Order 13526, ''Classified National Security Information,'' (the Order) requires that the ISCAP ''appropriately inform senior agency officials and the public of final Panel decisions on appeals under sections 1.8 and 3.5 of this order.'' This function is important for two reasons. First, the documents decided upon by the Panel for classification challenges and mandatory declassification review appeals may be of historical interest to the public, not just the appellants. Second, section 3.1(i) of the order states that ''When making decisions under sections 3.3, 3.4, and 3.5 of this order [these are the sections concerning automatic, systematic, and mandatory declassification], agencies shall consider the final decisions of the Panel.'' Distribution of electronic versions of declassified documents on a publicly available web site is the most efficient way for the ISCAP to fulfill this function.
This online collection includes documents decided upon by the ISCAP starting in Fiscal Year 2012. The documents include records from the Presidential Library system of the National Archives, the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, the Department of Defense, and other agencies. The quality of the images is dependent on the quality of the original records used to create the copies provided to the Panel.
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Sidney Gottlieb, 80, Dies; Took LSD to C.I.A. - The New York Times
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:18
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Sidney Gottlieb, who presided over the Central Intelligence Agency's cold-war efforts to control the human mind and provided the agency poisons to kill Fidel Castro, died on Sunday in Washington, Va. He was 80 and had spent his later years caring for dying patients, trying to run a commune, folk dancing, consciousness-raising and fighting lawsuits from survivors of his secret tests.
Friends and enemies alike say Mr. Gottlieb was a kind of genius, striving to explore the frontiers of the human mind for his country, while searching for religious and spiritual meaning in his life. But he will always be remembered as the Government chemist who dosed Americans with psychedelics in the name of national security, the man who brought LSD to the C.I.A.
In the 1950's and early 1960's, the agency gave mind-altering drugs to hundreds of unsuspecting Americans in an effort to explore the possibilities of controlling human consciousness. Many of the human guinea pigs were mental patients, prisoners, drug addicts and prostitutes -- ''people who could not fight back,'' as one agency officer put it. In one case, a mental patient in Kentucky was dosed with LSD continuously for 174 days.
Other experiments involved agency employees, military officers and college students, who had varying degrees of knowledge about the tests. In all, the agency conducted 149 separate mind-control experiments, and as many as 25 involved unwitting subjects. First-hand testimony, fragmentary Government documents and court records show that at least one participant died, others went mad, and still others suffered psychological damage after participating in the project, known as MK Ultra. The experiments were useless, Mr. Gottlieb concluded in 1972, shortly before he retired.
The C.I.A. awarded Mr. Gottlieb the Distinguished Intelligence Medal and deliberately destroyed most of the MKUltra records in 1973.
John Gittinger, a C.I.A. psychologist who vetted Mr. Gottlieb -- ''one of the most brilliant men I've ever known'' -- and worked with him for 22 years, said the agency began the tests because it was gripped by ''a great fear'' in the cold war. It was afraid that the Soviet Union would corner the market on LSD and use it as a chemical weapon or that China would perfect the black art of brainwashing, Mr. Gittinger said.
The agency and Mr. Gottlieb believed the United States had to fight by any means necessary.
''We were in a World War II mode,'' Mr. Gittinger said. ''The war never really ended for us.''
John Marks, author of the definitive book on the experiments, ''The Search for the 'Manchurian Candidate' '' (Times Books, 1979) said Mr. Gottlieb was ''unquestionably a patriot, a man of great ingenuity.''
''Gottlieb never did what he did for inhumane reasons,'' Mr. Marks said. ''He thought he was doing exactly what was needed. And in the context of the time, who would argue? But with his experiments on unwitting subjects, he clearly violated the Nuremburg standards -- the standards under which, after World War II, we executed Nazi doctors for crimes against humanity.''
Sidney Gottlieb was born in New York City on Aug. 3, 1918, the son of immigrants from Hungary. His parents were orthodox Jews, but he did not embrace the faith. Mr. Gottlieb ''had had a real problem to find a spiritual focus, having gone away from Jewishness,'' Mr. Gittinger said, and he experimented with everything from agnosticism to Zen Buddhism all his life.
He left the City College of New York, first for the Arkansas Polytechnic Institute, then for the University of Wisconsin, where he graduated, magna cum laude, with a chemistry degree in 1940. He earned a doctorate in biochemistry from the California Institute of Technology, where in 1942 he married Margaret Moore, the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries who served in India, where she was born. A clubfoot kept him from military service in World War II, and he was always bitter that he missed the war, Mr. Gittinger said.
Mr. Gottlieb joined the C.I.A. in 1951, although not before telling Mr. Gittinger, his interviewer, that he had been a socialist in his youth.
Two years later, the agency established MKUltra and Mr. Gottlieb was running it. As chief of the agency's technical services division, he served two decades as the senior scientist presiding over some of the C.I.A.'s darkest secrets.
The first of these were the LSD experiments. Mr. Gottlieb was fascinated by the drug, and, a family friend said, he took it hundreds of times.
''He was the most curious man I ever knew,'' Mr. Gittinger said. ''He was willing to try anything to discover something.''
Mr. Gottlieb was also involved in the C.I.A.'s assassination plots. In the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations, Mr. Gottlieb, always under orders from the Director of Central Intelligence or his chief spymaster, developed a poison handkerchief to kill an Iraqi colonel, an array of toxic gifts to be delivered to Fidel Castro, and a poison dart to kill a leftist leader in the Congo. None of the plans succeeded.
After he left the C.I.A., Mr. Gottlieb and his wife went to India, where he ran a leper hospital for 18 months. A lifelong stutterer, he pursued a master's degree in speech therapy. He bought land with an old log cabin outside a small Virginia town, Boston, where he practiced two of his lifelong hobbies, folk dancing and herding goats.
''He bought that old house and the land with the idea of setting up a communal home, with several families living together,'' said Mr. Gittinger, a lifelong friend. At least one other couple stayed for years.
Mr. Gottlieb spent his last years in Washington, Va., a pretty village in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains, working in a hospice, tending to the dying.
He is survived by his wife and four children, Penny Gottlieb Chesluk, Rachel Gottlieb Samoff, Peter Gottlieb and Steven Gottlieb. Cleaving to old habits of secrecy, his wife declined to disclose the cause of Mr. Gottlieb's death.
Biden to Take COVID-19 Booster Jab on Camera: White House
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:13
President Joe Biden will take a booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine on camera, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday.
Psaki was responding to a question about how soon Biden, 78, would get his booster shot, which would be the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA-based vaccine.
''He will do so, and he will do so on camera. I don't have a date for you exactly,'' she said at a press briefing at the White House.
''It's important to note'--just to take a slight step back'--that there are still a couple of additional steps in the process,'' Psaki added.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration 's vaccine advisory panel voted on Sept. 17 to endorse the Pfizer booster for individuals who are aged 65 and older and for those who are at high risk of contracting COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
That vote came after the same advisory panel on the same day voted 16''3 to recommend against boosters for everyone over the age of 16, saying that data is required to determine whether booster doses are safe and effective.
The FDA has yet to follow through with the recommendation. It is not obliged to follow the guidance of an advisory panel, but it usually does.
The role of the FDA is to approve or authorize vaccines, whereas the role of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is to recommend whether and how the vaccines are used.
Psaki said that ACIP is now ''planning to meet.'' The meeting about how to distribute boosters across the country is scheduled next week.
''Based on their recommendation, we're, of course, prepared to operationalize on the plan,'' Psaki said. ''And that includes having the president get his booster shot as well.''
The president and First Lady Jill Biden received their first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 21, 2020, and their second doses on Jan. 11.
Biden administration officials had in mid-August announced in a joint statement that boosters would likely be available by Sept. 20. At the time, Biden said that the plan was for every adult to get a booster shot eight months after they received their second shot.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on Sept. 19 that fully vaccinated Americans should not get a third shot of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine if they are not over 65 or not at high risk, and to wait until they are in a category that is recommended to take the shot.
He said in an interview with CNN that there is ''always a theoretical risk'' if people go ahead and take the shot without following government guidance ''because the studies have not been done to look at the safety and the immunogenicity of doing that right now for everyone.''
''Theoretically, if you look at things, it is very unlikely that there's going to be a risk there, but scientifically you don't want to go by 'unlikely.' You want to have some scientific proof,'' Fauci said. ''And that's the reason why right now we recommend that people go by the guidelines, according to the FDA approval and the CDC recommendations.''
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'10 For The Big Guy': Politico Confirms Hunter Biden's China, Ukraine Emails Are Legit | ZeroHedge
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 13:57
Several emails from Hunter Biden's laptop have been confirmed as legitimate, according to Politico, citing claims in a new book, along with emails released by a Swedish government agency.
Ben Schreckinger's ''The Bidens: Inside the First Family's Fifty-Year Rise to Power,'' out today, finds evidence that some of the purported HUNTER BIDEN laptop material is genuine, including two emails at the center of last October's controversy.
A person who had independent access to Hunter Biden's emails confirmed he did receive a 2015 email from a Ukrainian businessman thanking him for the chance to meet Joe Biden. The same goes for a 2017 email in which a proposed equity breakdown of a venture with Chinese energy executives includes the line, ''10 held by H for the big guy?'' (This person recalled seeing both emails, but was not in a position to compare the leaked emails word-for-word to the originals.)
MORE: Emails released by a Swedish government agency also match emails in the leaked cache, and two people who corresponded with Hunter Biden confirmed emails from the cache were genuine. -Politico
Recall that news of Hunter Biden's laptop was broken by the New York Post shortly before the 2020 election - resulting in a multi-week Twitter ban on the outlet, and a baseless claim spread throughout the MSM and by notable Democrats including Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) that it was Russian disinformation.
Murphy notably received nearly 70,000 'likes' for his tweet calling it "likely Russian propaganda" - claiming he'd "seen the intel."
Joe Biden - and all of us - SHOULD be furious that media outlets are spreading what is very likely Russian propaganda.1/ I've seen the intel. The mainstreaming of misinformation is Russia's 2020 goal. Here's what we know, and why we can't take it lying down.
'-- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 17, 2020On CNN, Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff says New York Post Hunter Biden story 'comes from the Kremlin.' Anchor seems to agree. Would be more persuasive if they provided evidence that 1) story is false, and 2) it 'comes from the Kremlin.' pic.twitter.com/JBILBs3YT3
'-- Byron York (@ByronYork) October 17, 2020More:
They were all wrong. They all lied. And they'll never apologize for it.
'-- Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 21, 2021Taxpayer-funded NPR refused to even cover the story.
It's time to defund @NPR. This is appalling. #DefundNPR https://t.co/wFbY5lGGTG
'-- Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) October 22, 2020This story is very simple '' Hunter Biden dropped off three computers with liquid damage at a repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware on April 12, 2019. The owner, John Mac Issac, examined the three and determined that one was beyond recovery, one was okay and the data on the harddrive of the third could be recovered. Hunter signed the service ticket and John Paul Mac Issac repaired the hard drive and down loaded the data. During this process he saw some disturbing images and a number of emails that concerned Ukraine, Burisma, China and other issues. With the work completed, Mr. Mac Issac prepared an invoice, sent it to Hunter Biden and notified him that the computer was ready to be retrieved. Hunter did not respond. In the ensuing four months (May, June, July and August), Mr. Mac Issac made repeated efforts to contact Hunter Biden. Biden never answered and never responded. More importantly, Biden stiffed John Paul Mac Issac''i.e., he did not pay the bill.
When the manufactured Ukraine crisis surfaced in August 2019, John Paul realized he was sitting on radioactive material that might be relevant to the investigation. After conferring with his father, Mac and John Paul decided that Mac would take the information to the FBI office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mac walked into the Albuquerque FBI office and spoke with an agent who refused to give his name. Mac explained the material he had, but was rebuffed by the FBI. He was told basically, get lost. This was mid-September 2019.
Two months passed and then, out of the blue, the FBI contacted John Paul Mac Issac. Two FBI agents from the Wilmington FBI office''Joshua Williams and Mike Dzielak''came to John Paul's business. He offered immediately to give them the hard drive, no strings attached. Agents Williams and Dzielak declined to take the device.
The laptop - while allegedly containing inappropriate photographs of underage girls - revealed that President Biden lied when he said that he had no knowledge of Hunter's business dealings - and was in fact involved with them.
In the final months of the heated 2020 presidential race, The Post revealed a trove of emails from Hunter Biden's laptop that raised questions about his then-candidate father's ties to his son's foreign business ventures, including Burisma, a Ukrainian natural gas company linked to corruption.
The emails revealed that the younger Biden introduced a top Burisma executive to his father, then vice president, less than a year before the elder Biden admittedly pressured Ukrainian officials into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company.
The never-before-revealed meeting is mentioned in a message of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, a Burisma board adviser, sent Hunter on April 17, 2015. -New York Post
The laptop, which was protected by the password "Hunter02" according to the Daily Mail, was considered a national security nightmare.
And according to Rudy Giuliani, there were disturbing, underage photographs of young girls found on Hunter's laptop which were turned over to police in New Castle County, Delaware. The laptop also contained videos of Hunter smoking crack and engaging in sex acts with an unidentified woman.
Unpacking this monumental election meddling is journalist Glenn Greenwald:
I have a copy of Schreckinger's important book and will write about it shortly. 2 points:1) Kudos to him, as a young journalist, for reporting facts most in the corporate media don't want to hear.
2) Big Tech/Dem censorship of this story before the election was a grave assault
'-- Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 21, 2021One last reminder: @TheIntercept -- founded in 2014, before the current editors arrived, to be *adversarial* to CIA/security state -- used an ex-NYT reporter to mindlessly endorse the CIA lie that the Hunter docs were "Russian disinformation" out of desperation to help Biden win. pic.twitter.com/sDJuuOiMjW
'-- Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 21, 2021It's so easy to recognize and denounce the censorship, repression and propaganda in distant countries we're taught from childhood to hate (Russia). It's more more difficult -- and more important -- to recognize it in our own. Pre-election censorship of this story was a disgrace.
'-- Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 21, 2021Amazingly, Facebook and @andymstone -- having interfered in our elections by suppressing a story that the CIA, the Intercept and other media outlets lied about by claiming it was Russia disinformation -- now refuses to answer questions about the outcome of that "fact-check." ð pic.twitter.com/9Zl6s1qJiv
'-- Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 21, 2021One interesting aspect of the fact that it's a POLITICO reporter with a new book confirming the authenticity of the Hunter docs:It was POLITICO -- through the co-Queen of Russiagate frauds, @NatashaBertrand -- who first used CIA to dismiss the docs as "Russian disinformation." pic.twitter.com/eL17sAayHJ
'-- Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 21, 20212) CNN's @camanpour -- the week before the election -- explicitly refusing to discuss the reporting on the Biden family by claiming that it's not the media's job to determine if the documents are or are not authentic. Watch this shit:pic.twitter.com/mkI4Jtd4SN
'-- Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 21, 2021
New bill would limit unemployment benefits for those fired for refusing vaccine | The Times of Israel
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 13:51
A new bill circulated by the Finance Ministry on Monday seeks to strip some unemployment benefits from employees fired for refusing to get vaccinated.
According to the draft legislation, if an employee is fired for refusing the vaccine or to carry out regular tests as required in order to receive the Green Pass, they will be deemed to have resigned on their own accord and will only be eligible for unemployment benefits 90 days after leaving their jobs.
Under Israeli law people who are fired are entitled to 90 days compensation from employers, while people resigning forgo the benefit.
''In light of the Health Ministry's determination that in workplaces where there is a multiplicity of risk-increasing risk factors both for the workers themselves as well as those with whom they come in contact, there is an epidemiological justification for applying a Green Pass to reduce these risks,'' a version of the bill obtained by the Globes business daily reads.
The draft explains that part of the legislation's goal is to avoid incentivizing anyone considering not getting vaccinated in order to receive unemployment benefits.
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termsThose who are placed on unpaid leave will be considered to have attained that status of their own volition, thereby limiting the benefits they're eligible to receive, the bill also states.
The bill was circulated hours before the start of the Sukkot holiday on Monday evening in an apparent attempt to minimize blowback.
A client seeks work at an unemployment office in Jerusalem (Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
The timing was similar to legislation expanding the authorities of the Shin Bet security service in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus. A draft of that law was circulated on the eve of the Shavuot holiday last spring and faced significant public outcry.
Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman has pushed for sweeping changes to the existing unemployment model in order to push people '-- particularly the young '-- to return to work.
Benefits had been significantly expanded to help deal with the disruptions caused by the pandemic and frequent lockdowns.
Figures from the National Insurance Institute published in July showed that Israel has paid out more than NIS 39 billion ($12 billion) in unemployment benefits since the start of the COVID outbreak. The benefits were paid out to 1.2 million Israelis who lost their income due to the pandemic.
The unemployment model enacted in March 2020 came to an end after the Knesset voted in July to update the program and significantly cut back on benefits.
According to the National Insurance Institute, anyone who became unemployed after July 1 will be assessed according to the standard unemployment laws that existed pre-COVID. But the period of time an employee must have worked before being able to claim unemployment was lowered from 12 months to six months.
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U.S. Is Losing the Global Race on Digital Currency | Time
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 13:10
I n cities across China, the country's central bank has begun rolling out the e-renminbi'--an all-digital version of its paper currency that can be accessed and accepted by merchants and consumers without an internet connection, credit or even a bank account.
Already having conducted more than $5 billion in e-renminbi transactions, China has opened its digital currency up to foreigners. Next year, when Beijing hosts the Winter Olympic Games, authorities are expecting to let the world test drive its technological achievement.
The U.S., by contrast, is having trouble even concluding its multi-year exploration into the possibility of an e-dollar. In fact, an upcoming Federal Reserve paper on a potential U.S. digital currency won't take a position on whether the central bank of the United States will, or even should, create one.
Instead, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said in recent testimony to Congress, this paper will ''begin a major public consultation on central bank digital currencies'...'' (Once planned for July, the paper's release has since been moved to September.)
Once the world leader in digital payments and technological innovation, the U.S. is being outpaced by its top global adversary as well as much of the industrialized and the developing world.
The Bahamas recently announced the integration of its digital Sand Dollar into a stock exchange, while Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and South Africa are moving forward with the world's first cross-border central bank digital currency exchange program led by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which is known as the central bank of central banks.
Such developments have been somewhat outshined by El Salvador's recent decision to make bitcoin a legally accepted currency, which few expect to make significant impact in the payment space. But outside of the cryptocurrency space, nations around the globe are making significant strides in the development of the digital future of money '-- supported by governments and backed by powerful central banks.
Leadership in this space will have implications for more than just payments: geopolitical ambitions, economic growth, financial inclusion and the very nature of money could all be dictated by who leads the charge and how.
''"I don't think the U.S. is aware there is a race"
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Digital currencies are the next wave in the ''evolution of the nature of money in the digital economy,'' Hyun Song Shin, economic adviser and co-leader of the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International Settlements, tells TIME.
As more of our world migrates from physical brick-and-mortar to wireless and cloud-based, the way we pay for things is changing as well. A central bank digital currency would operate just like cash, but instead of having to carry it in a physical wallet or put it into a bank account, it would be stored and accessed digitally. Not only could U.S.-backed digital currency facilitate easier, modern banking, it could prove vital in protecting American international influence.
Late to the party, the U.S. is ''stepping up its research and public engagement'' on digital currencies, the Federal Reserve says, including forming working groups on cryptocurrency and other kinds of digital money, and experimenting with technology that would be central to producing a digital dollar. The Fed's regional Boston branch is overseeing these efforts with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on what's known as Project Hamilton.
But the path towards a digital U.S. dollar has met many challenges, skeptics and outright opponents. All while China, and other countries, push forward.
Lagging behind the worldJust how far behind is the U.S. in the development of a central bank-issued digital currency (CBDC)? According to global accounting firm PwC's inaugural CBDC global index, which tracks various CBDCs' project status from research to development and production, the U.S. ranks 18th in the world. America's potential efforts trail countries like Sweden, South Korea and China but also countries like the Bahamas, Ecuador, Eastern Caribbean and Turkey.
China, with its government's hyperfocus on maintaining control and overseeing data, has been working to develop a CBDC for almost a decade.
And the U.S. is probably not close to catching up. Analysts like Harvard economics professor Kenneth Rogoff, who study monetary policy and digital currencies, estimate that the U.S. could be at least a decade away from issuing a digital dollar backed by the Fed. In that time, Rogoff argued in an op-ed earlier this year, the modernization of China's financial markets and reduction or removal of its currency controls ''could deal the dollar's status a painful blow.''
Read More: How China's Digital Currency Could Challenge the Almighty Dollar
China has already largely moved away from coin and paper currency; Chinese consumers have racked up more than $41 trillion in mobile transactions, according to a recent research paper from the Brookings Institution, with the lion's share (92%) going through digital payment processors WeChat Pay and Alipay.
''The reason you could say the U.S. is behind in the digital currency race is I don't think the U.S. is aware there is a race,'' Yaya Fanusie, an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and a former CIA analyst, tells TIME in an interview. ''A lot of policymakers are looking at it and concerned'...but even with that I just don't think there's this sense of urgency because the risk from China is not an immediate threat.''
Not only is the U.S. running significantly behind in the development of a CBDC, we are trailing the rest of the world in digital payments broadly.
Kenya, for example, has almost fully digitized its economy through its digital currency and payment system MPESA, making transactions free and almost instantaneous. India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) allows users to transfer money instantly between bank accounts with no cost. Brazil's PIX facilitates the transfer of money between people and companies in up to 10 seconds.
All of these programs work through and are overseen by the countries' central banks rather than commercial banks or other private companies.
What's holding the U.S. back?Critics argue CBDCs are simply a solution in search of a problem and potentially harmful. Many see support from the banking sector as vital to the success of a digital U.S. dollar, however commercial banks in the U.S. have taken a largely adversarial stance.
''The proposed benefits of CBDCs to international competitiveness and financial inclusion are theoretical, difficult to measure and may be elusive,'' the American Bankers Association said in a statement at a recent congressional hearing on digital currencies. ''While the negative consequences for monetary policy, financial stability, financial intermediation, the payments system, and the customers and communities that banks serve could be severe.''
The Bank Policy Institute, which lobbies on behalf of the country's largest banks, went so far as to argue that neither the Fed nor the U.S. Treasury even has the constitutional authority to issue a digital currency.
Commercial banks dominate the U.S. financial system to such a degree that unraveling them would be ostensibly impossible, experts say, they also would be a powerful adversary. Former Goldman Sachs managing director Nomi Prins notes banks have clearly seen the writing on the wall.
''Banks are centralized middlemen with respect to financial transactions,'' Prins, author of Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged The World, tells TIME. ''The more popular cryptocurrency or digital currency becomes, the fewer profits the banking system can reap from traditional services and verification methods that allow them to hold, take or use their customers' money, and the more financial power they stand to lose as a result.''
Even disruptive financial technologies like PayPal, Venmo and Zelle work through the banking system, rather than around it, thanks in large part to the banks' power.
Central bankers also generally have concluded that commercial banks are a necessary piece of a potential CBDC ecosystem, thanks to their pre-existing regulatory guardrails and ability to move money.
Read More: How Jay Powell's Coronavirus Response Is Changing the Fed Forever
Top policymakers at the Fed, including influential Vice Chair for Supervision Randal Quarles, have joined the banking industry in arguing that a digital dollar ''could pose significant and concrete risks'' and that the potential benefits ''are unclear.''
Fed Governor Christopher Waller said in August he was ''skeptical that a Federal Reserve CBDC would solve any major problem confronting the U.S. payment system,'' in a recent speech he titled ''CBDC: A Solution in Search of a Problem?''
Further, there's no central U.S. authority with direct oversight or responsibility for any of this.
In addition to the Fed, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of Thrift Supervision, Financial Stability Oversight Council, Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council and the Office of Financial Research would all have some stake in the development of a digital currency backed by the central bank, to say nothing of state and regional authorities.
''The U.S. has an active congressional debate, which is beneficial and very important,'' Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard tells TIME in an interview. ''But the U.S. also has a diffusion of regulatory responsibility with no single payments regulator at the federal level, which is not as helpful. That diffusion of responsibility is part of what creates the lags that our system is working through.''
None of this exists in China where the Chinese Communist Party oversees the central bank, commercial banks and their regulators and is unconcerned with privacy.
How a downgraded dollar could hamstring U.S. influenceAn American CBDC could have lasting geopolitical impact and curb a longstanding international effort to reduce reliance on the mighty U.S. dollar.
''Why we should care about this is that the U.S. financial system is not intrinsically dominant,'' Fanusie says. ''Other countries, both allies and adversaries, are sincerely interested in finding ways to decrease their dependence on the dollar.''
With the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve and primary funding currency, the U.S. can restrict access to funding from financial markets, limit countries' ability to sell their natural resources and hinder or block individuals' access to the banking sector.
''''Other countries, both allies and adversaries, are sincerely interested in finding ways to decrease their dependence on the dollar''
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While dollar dominance has rankled much of the world for decades, there has been no suitable replacement for the U.S., with its massive economy, sophisticated banking system and sprawling international presence.
China is in the midst of a long-term push to simultaneously grow its financial markets and internationalize its currency. Both have the end goal of allowing China and its allies to limit the ability of the U.S. to enforce its will through economic actions like sanctions.
Fanusie wrote in a January report that being the first major economy to roll out a digital currency is ''part of China's geopolitical ambitions.''
However, the renminbi will not become the world's reserve currency '-- at least, not any time soon. But what China has done by being in the forefront of CBDC development is put itself in position to take the lead on development and implementation of rules and regulations for digital currencies on a global scale.
''While America led the global revolution in payments half a century ago with magnetic striped credit and debit cards, China is leading the new revolution in digital payments,'' writes Brookings' economic studies fellow Aaron Klein.
Why should central banks offer digital currencies?Over the past decade, digital currencies, including cryptocurrency and ''stablecoins,'' have sprung up like weeds. Some purport to be just as safe as dollars, but are backed by questionable assets. In a crisis regulators worry they could fluctuate wildly in value or lose their value altogether.
Having central banks, which are responsible for the printing and circulation of coins and paper money, issue digital currencies is in part a reaction to this private sector activity, Shin says, ''accelerated by the potential encroachment of private digital currencies, and the need to preserve the role of money as a public good.''
''''The status quo is not an option"
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Notably, a U.S. digital currency could provide benefits to everyday people. It could increase financial inclusion and fix flaws in current payments systems, Shin adds, citing findings of a recent BIS study.
For example, transferring money between U.S.-based bank accounts, even those held by the same person, can take days. The process can be even longer when crossing international borders. Credit and debit card transactions similarly don't settle for days and come with significant fees for merchants, who sometimes pass them on to customers.
CBDCs could grant universal access to the banking sector and quickly facilitate the distribution of paychecks and government funds, reducing the need for costly bank workarounds like check cashing and payday loans.
Championing CBDCsBrainard has been pushing the Fed to move on a digital currency for years, but there was little urgency from others at the Fed or in Congress. Companies developing their own currencies, consumers investing in cryptocurrency and the COVID-19 pandemic making paper notes anathema to many Americans changed that.
Before COVID-19, Facebook's Libra project (now known as Diem) showed lawmakers and central bankers the potential for a private company to step in and fill the void by effectively minting its own currency that could be spent by users around the world.
''The status quo is not an option,'' Diem co-creator David Marcus said at the International Monetary Fund's 2019 fall meeting. ''Whether it's Libra or something else, the world is going to change in a profound way.''
Brainard, for one, has taken notice.
''My own thinking is that stablecoins and related private sector initiatives are moving very rapidly, which makes it incumbent on us to move more rapidly,'' she tells TIME. ''That is why I have been pushing to advance outreach, cross-border engagement, and policy and technology research for several years now.''
So-called stablecoins '-- unregulated digital currencies created by private companies that purport to represent dollars but are completely unregulated '-- have become a significant worry for lawmakers and shown the importance of considering tying currency to a central bank.
''It's getting harder and harder for community banks to compete for new customers when big tech companies can afford to spend billions on marketing and technology,'' Sen. Sherrod Brown, who chairs the Senate Banking Committee, tells TIME. ''But many of these new 'fintech' products don't come with the consumer protections, federal backing or customer service and relationships with the community that small banks and credit unions provide.''
During a hearing on digital currencies in June, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection, compared stablecoins to worthless ''wildcat notes'' that were issued by speculators in the 19th century.
Her expert at that hearing, Lev Menand, an Academic Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, went further in his testimony, calling stablecoins ''dangerous to both their users and '... to the broader financial system.''
With private companies pushing deeper into the digital currency space, rival countries seeking to seize leadership and a public that is moving further away from physical currency, the U.S. is facing a world in which it may not control or even lead the world's payment systems.
That would make the future of money look very different from the past.
Contact us at letters@time.com.
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Government shutdown: House passes funding, debt ceiling bill
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 03:52
Published Tue, Sep 21 2021 8:44 PM EDTUpdated 3 Hours Ago
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The House passed a bill Tuesday that would temporarily fund the government and suspend the debt limit. The legislation could fail in the Senate, as Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says Republicans will vote against raising the debt ceiling. The government would shut down on Oct. 1 and the U.S. would be unable to pay its bills sometime in October if Congress does not pass legislation addressing both issues. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) leaves after holding her weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol on August 25, 2021 in Washington, DC.
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The House passed a bill Tuesday that would both prevent a government shutdown and suspend the debt limit in a step toward preventing possible economic calamity.
The chamber approved the plan in a 220-211 vote. All Democrats voted for it and all Republicans opposed it.
As the bill heads to the Senate, Republicans are threatening to block it, which could leave Democrats scrambling to find another way to avoid a federal funding lapse '-- or even a first-ever default on U.S. debt. Worries about a looming default and the economic damage it would cause contributed to a U.S. stock market drubbing on Monday.
Congress has to pass a funding plan by Sept. 30 to prevent a shutdown. Separately, the U.S. will exhaust all of its options to keep paying its bills sometime in October, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has told congressional leaders.
The House-passed plan would keep the government running through Dec. 3. It would also suspend the debt ceiling into Dec. 2022.
The bill would put $28.6 billion toward natural disaster relief and $6.3 billion toward resettlement of Afghan refugees.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has said Republicans will vote for a standalone funding bill but not legislation with a debt limit suspension attached.
While Democrats have pointed out that the GOP signed off on huge emergency coronavirus relief bills since the last debt ceiling suspension, Republicans have said their counterparts should move to prevent default on their own as they prepare to pass a mammoth spending bill without the GOP.
Ahead of the House vote, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., warned Republicans that failure to raise the debt ceiling could wreak havoc on the economy and critical government benefits such as Social Security.
"This is playing with fire. Playing games with the debt ceiling is playing with fire and putting it on the back of the American people," he said Tuesday.
It is unclear how Democrats would proceed if the legislation fails in the Senate.
They could attach a debt ceiling suspension to their $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill. Doing so would add more steps to an already chaotic and time-consuming process.
The proposal, the centerpiece of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda, would make massive investments in the social safety net and climate policy. Republicans want Democrats to tie the debt limit suspension to the sprawling bill, which Democrats want to pay for through tax increases on corporations and the wealthy.
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Boris Johnson confirms he has six children - The Washington Post
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 03:50
You wonder: Why we didn't know that? The answer is the British prime minister has dodged the question for years.
Various publications have gone with five, six or seven offspring. Seems simple, but not. The Guardian explained that Johnson has been ''previously coy .'.'. about his notoriously complex family life.''
How many children does Boris Johnson have? The British prime minister won't say.
On Tuesday, speaking with NBC's ''Today'' show from the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, in a discussion about fatherhood, the thrice married Johnson was asked if he had six children '-- and he replied, rather quickly, ''yes.''
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The 57-year-old British leader has four grown children with second wife Marina Wheeler, a barrister, from whom he separated in 2018. And with his current wife, the former Conservative Party media officer Carrie Johnson, 33, nee Symonds, he has a 16-month-old son, Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson. The couple revealed in July that another baby is due around Christmas.
The question about the full tally followed a mention of the baby on its way. But the British media in their write-ups suggested he was not counting the one in utero but instead confirming a longtime assumption that he has a daughter from a previous affair.
Johnson said in the interview that he absolutely loved having a baby at 10 Downing Street, but it has involved a lot work. ''I change a lot of nappies,'' the prime minister said.
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The revelation of six offspring was a top story on news sites and broadcasts in Britain.
Gimson said Johnson's affairs and marriages haven't hurt the politician, or not much, ''because he's not a hypocrite. He's never preached about marriage.''
The biographer told The Post that some Britons may disapprove of having a child out-of-wedlock. Others see his refusal to answer the question as evidence of his slippery nature. ''But I think quite a lot of people find it a relief that he is so fallible,'' Gimson said.
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The prime minister has found himself on the griddle about his personal life. Back in 2004, he denied to the tabloids that he had an affair. Johnson called the story ''complete balderdash'' and ''an inverted pyramid of piffle.'' As it turns out, it was true, and he lost a party leadership post over the deception.
In an interview with LBC radio in 2019, during his election campaign, a caller challenged Johnson over a 1995 article he'd written for Spectator magazine, in which he blamed single mothers for ''a generation of ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate children.''
Johnson said he shouldn't be judged by old things he had written '-- and refused to say how many children he had.
''I love my children very much, but they are not standing at this election. I'm not therefore going to comment on them,'' he said.
No Vaccine Rules for Big U.N. Meeting: Free Pass for World Leaders
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:27
The U.N. General Assembly will ignore vaccine requirements for attendees at next week's big meeting in New York, snubbing NYC rules for convention centers and public gatherings.
Presidents, premiers, monarchs, dignitaries, diplomats and their traveling staff members have been told by organizers they won't have to show coronavirus vaccination passports or other proof of inoculation on arrival at U.N. headquarters on Turtle Bay, Manhattan.
Instead attendees plus their staff will be waved through and allowed admission free of any checks with more than 100 heads of state and government and over 20 foreign ministers signed up to speak in person.
An honor system '-- and only an honor system '' means dignitaries won't have to show vaccination cards or other proof of inoculation as they'll simply attest to it by swiping their ID badges at the assembly hall.
The freedom from regulation follows a precedent first set at the G7 meeting in the UK earlier this year.
When they're posing for one of their staged photographs the G7 elite all pretend, for propaganda purposes, that they are Covid regulation compliant. But look at what they got up to later'... https://t.co/086ApEYCWJ
'-- Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) June 12, 2021
The decision to ignore the rules as applied to the general public in NYC came after Russia challenged an earlier proof of vaccination requirement on the grounds it was an infringement on personal liberties.
''We strongly object that only people with a proof of vaccination should be admitted to the GA hall,'' Russia's ambassador Vassily Nebenzia wrote in protest to U.N. officials.
He described it as ''a clearly discriminatory measure'', adding that preventing delegates access to the hall was a ''clear violation of the U.N. charter.''
Rules are for the little people. https://t.co/SH1Tg6K07M
'-- Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) December 9, 2020
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for one isn't vaccinated and reiterated Thursday he has no plans to get the coronavirus shot anytime soon, AP reports.
''Why take the vaccine? To have antibodies, isn't that right? My antibody levels are way up high,'' Bolsonaro said in a live broadcast on social media Thursday night. ''After everybody in Brazil is vaccinated, I'll decide.''
The AP report said a message sent to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's office wasn't immediately returned. He has previously maintained the city's aim is to protect both assembly attendees and New Yorkers from the virus.
U.S. President Joe Biden is on the speaker list.
And Some Were More Equal Than Others: MPs Exempt from Vaccine Passports in Commons https://t.co/mzmbMxgOiH
'-- Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 21, 2021
The prime ministers of Japan, India and the United Kingdom will also be at U.N. headquarters to deliver their country's speech to the 193-member assembly, along with Israel's new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Another 23 foreign ministers are slated to speak in person as well, according to the list obtained by AP.
The 76th session of the general assembly starts on Tuesday and finishes the following Monday.
The Associated Press contributed to this story
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'For the next pandemic, we'll have gigantic mRNA factories in India' - Times of India
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:02
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , says the Delta variant will make it difficult for the world to end the pandemic by 2022, missing his last year's estimate. In a telephone interview to TOI+, Gates spoke on a range of issues, from vaccinating the elderly to creating factory capacities large enough to supply vaccines for the entire world within 200 days. Excerpts: Last year, you talked about the possibility of ending the coronavirus pandemic by 2022. Do you still think it's possible? Everyone has been surprised by the Delta variant and how transmissive it is. India was the first place where there was, tragically, explosive growth in cases. The number of cases has come down from that peak, but we have to get these vaccines out far more broadly than we have done so far.
I'd say Delta was the worst variant that anyone ever expected, and so we probably will have cases into part of 2022, and the importance of getting the vaccine coverage up, very high, is even more clear now. My prediction, based on Delta, is that we'll miss that goal somewhat.
In this year's Goalkeepers Report you highlight the innovations that Covid-19 has triggered. Which are the ones that hold potential? Now that the world understands its vulnerability to a pandemic, there will be a huge amount of research and invention of new tools. The diagnostics '' we could scale that up much faster. The therapeutics we could do a lot better. We should have a goal that we have so much factory capacity that, even within 200 days, we could make enough vaccines for the entire world.
Will this work, to be ready for the next pandemic, and will it have benefits beyond the pandemic preparedness? The answer is absolutely yes. The
mRNA platform, we're working with that German company, BioNTech, to do an HIV vaccine using their mRNA technology. We have a malaria vaccine. We think that we can do a very low-cost flu vaccine and bring the worldwide level of flu down dramatically.
Ideally, we would eradicate some of these respiratory viruses because they actually create quite a significant health burden even in normal years, and of course, they can mutate into a form that could cause the next pandemic. I'm hoping that all countries will increase their research in these areas. We're working with the United States, Europe and the UK on increasing their research budgets. I would hope that India would join in that as well.
What is your view about the way vaccine-making has progressed in India? Most low-cost vaccines in the world are made in India, and that has saved literally millions of lives because of the partnership we have with those three companies (Serum, BioE, Bharat Biotech). It's kind of natural that, in the spring of 2020, as the pandemic came along, we talked with Serum about both AstraZeneca and Novavax, and we hoped that they'd do a great job making AstraZeneca, and they will be making Novavax.
Over the years, Gates Foundation has partnered with the government of India and with Indian vaccine manufacturers in the development of affordable, high-quality vaccines '' for India and for the rest of the world. It is encouraging to see India step up during the Covid-19 pandemic and develop safe and cost-effective vaccines that will save millions of lives.
What should be done to fix the problem in India's healthcare system in the short term and what are the long-term steps? India should invest even more in its primary healthcare system to make sure that primary healthcare centres are well-staffed, the people are well trained.
Overall, the health conditions in India over the last decade have improved. We've got vaccine coverage up. We're not as high as we should be. We've got the birth attendant quality '' delivering in a facility '' we've got those numbers up, and so maternal-infant mortality has gone down.
Our foundation has focused in particular on Bihar and Uttar Pradesh for health in general. When it came to building oxygen centres for
Covid, and special interventions for Covid, we were able to draw on the strong relationships we had in participating there. Although the pandemic is tragic, it highlights the importance of primary healthcare with the need to invest more, both financially and in the quality of primary healthcare.
If you look at the overall spending on primary healthcare, it has not gone up as much as it should. India is a democracy and there will be a debate about that as an increased priority.
Coronavirus live updates The challenge has changed from vaccine availability to vaccine hesitancy. How can governments address it more effectively? Politicians are speaking out clearly and then setting examples by getting vaccinated themselves, and constantly repeating that message, and making sure that the trust networks '' whether it's religious leaders or people in villages that people look up to and trust '' are always delivering positive messages, and whatever negative rumour comes out doesn't fester on social media in such a way that people are worried.
Every country has had vaccine hesitancy. I'm not that expert on India, but if I look at the numbers, some of the numbers look good. Do we get to 100% of healthcare workers? I'm told that it's about 70% right now.
The people who are the priority, of course, are the elderly, and I guess, in India, about 65% got their first dose. We should pick that up to 100% for the second dose. The benefit of the vaccine to the elderly is very, very high, and that's how you get your deaths down. The leadership on the positive message about the vaccine, from what I know, has been quite good in India. It hasn't turned into one party likes it and another party doesn't like it.
This is a case where the US has not done the best job, but every country has to really work on this every single day to get every percentage point increase. Right now, you're not in a big wave but there could be a future wave. So, we have to maintain this as a super-high priority.
There's a lot of vaccine wastage in several advanced economies. What should be done to prevent this and ensure global cooperation? It's been somewhat inequitable. We keep a spreadsheet of where all the doses of the world are, and where they should be given. We weren't ready, the world wasn't ready for this pandemic. And so, as we look back on Covax, where the foundation has been very involved, there are some lessons. We could have done some things better, but the key has been the supply, which no one was funding in the spring of 2020 other than the US government.
We got full cooperation between the Western inventors and the Indian manufacturers. The mRNA, sadly, is different enough that there was no capacity for that particular type of vaccine outside the rich countries. Even there, it was completely new.
For the next pandemic, we will make sure we have gigantic mRNA
factories in India and the rest of the developing world to achieve our 100-day goal of being able to make vaccines for everyone.
The pandemic has also widened the digital divide. What are the solutions? A lot of students should have access to at least a mobile phone. And some learning around maths and reading and writing can be done on the mobile phone.
Obviously, when the classroom shut down, in India, a lot of kids simply didn't learn. And so, there's a deficit there. Sadly, the education quality in India isn't quite as strong as you'd like it to be. If I had to say what's the other thing besides health that, both in terms of resources and quality, should be an increased focus to invest in India's future, I'd put health number one, maybe because that's where I work, and education number two.
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Pelosi faces internal Democratic strife as key deadline could sink Biden agenda - CNNPolitics
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:21
By Lauren Fox and Manu Raju, CNN
Updated 7:00 AM EDT, Mon September 20, 2021
(CNN) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing a major dilemma: September 27 -- the day she promised a vote on a trillion-dollar infrastructure deal that passed the Senate last month -- is fast approaching.
But no matter how she maneuvers from now until then, a new problem emerges. If, by that date, the House and Senate have not approved a separate, $3.5 trillion package to expand the social safety net, progressives have vowed to sink the infrastructure bill crafted by a bipartisan group of centrists.
Yet there is little chance both chambers can reconcile their vast intraparty differences to pass the $3.5 trillion package within the next eight days, especially given the constraints of shepherding a bill of this magnitude through the legislative process, according to multiple senior Democrats.
"There's always a possibility that the vote would get delayed. But the question is, are we going to work to get to our goal for September 27? Yes. We are going to work hard to reach that goal," Democratic House Whip Jim Clyburn, the No. 3 House Democrat, said on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. "Sometimes you have to kind of stop the clock to get to the goal. We'll do what's necessary to get there."
Top Democrats, however, have reassured House members that they are still committed to holding the vote on the 27th, sources with knowledge of the matter tell CNN.
On top of the September 27 deadline for the infrastructure package vote, Pelosi has to decide whether to wait until moderate Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema sign off on what they can accept in the sweeping spending package, which the party plans to pass with only Democratic votes, or if she should ignore their demands and try to ram through the House a bill that is backed by liberals.
If she does go along with the progressives on the size and scope of that social spending package, known as the "Build Back Better Act," she risks forcing moderates to cast a vote on a bill that could ultimately be pared back and changed dramatically in the Senate, effectively forcing them to cast a vote on an array of contentious tax-and-spending provisions that could become liabilities on the campaign trail next year.
"She knows how dangerous it is for our frontliners," one moderate Democrat said of her party's most vulnerable members. "Nancy is in a hell of a bind. But it's her bind."
'Why would you have people walk the plank for the sake of it?' Indeed, the next several days will test Democratic leaders and President Joe Biden's legislative muscle as Washington Democrats settle in for a tedious and complicated negotiation that will force the party to agree on not just policy, but also navigate a delicate timeline that could be upset by any one faction of their party.
While it's still possible one faction in the caucus will ultimately back down, both moderates and progressives are posturing to get leadership to cater to their demands. And how leadership ultimately responds remains to be seen.
"There is a strong argument for making as much progress as possible," said Rep. Tom Malinowski, a Democrat from New Jersey whose seat is targeted by the GOP in next year's midterms. "I completely understand the desire among some of my colleagues to make progress in parallel on the reconciliation bill," he said, referring to the spending package that is moving through what's known as the budget reconciliation process. "But I also don't think given the progress, holding infrastructure hostage would be justified."
Last week, key House panels completed their work in passing the $3.5 trillion bill out of committee, a sweeping plan that would expand Obamacare, boost the country's paid family leave policy, extend the child tax credit and raise taxes on corporations and wealthy individuals in the country. By using the reconciliation process, Democrats can bypass a filibuster in the Senate and therefore pass it with just a simple majority of 51 votes.
But the expectation is it will still need to be changed significantly to pass muster with all 50 Senate Democrats and to win over the votes in the House, where Pelosi only has a narrow margin. For moderates in the House facing reelection in tough districts, the prospect of voting on anything that doesn't have the blessing of the entire Senate is too risky.
Many Democrats recall the vote Pelosi forced them to cast in 2009 on cap-and-trade legislation to combat global warming -- a controversial bill that became a major attack line on the campaign trial even though it never was considered by the Senate.
One moderate Democratic member who agreed to talk to CNN on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal party dynamics told CNN they are confident that Pelosi won't force a vote on the sweeping spending package that will be vastly different than the Senate's package, knowing that repeating the cap-and-trade drama would be an unforced error.
"Why would you make people vote on something when we have a four-seat majority? Why would you have people walk the plank for the sake of it? Pelosi shrewdly recognized that and made that commitment," the member said, adding that other leaders have also suggested that wouldn't happen.
What Pelosi pledged in August was that she'd hold a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill by September 27, just days before federal highway funding runs out. That deadline could help win over skeptical progressives, whose voters may be moved by the expiration of funding. She also pledged to "work with House and Senate Democrats to reach agreement in order for the House to vote on a Build Back Better Act that will pass the Senate."
The differences that remainDespite the House finishing their committee work last week, the series of markups revealed some of the schisms that still remain among House Democrats. In the Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Stephanie Murphy of Florida was the sole Democrat to vote against the committee's text, saying some of the provisions gave her "pause," as did the overall process.
In the Energy and Commerce Committee, three Democrats voted against a provision that would have lowered the cost the US government pays for certain prescription drugs. The provision is seen as a huge revenue raiser for Democrats' proposal, but has faced an uphill battle in both the House and Senate where members who have large pharmaceutical companies in their districts and states have argued the provision goes too far and would have a negative impact on innovation.
With no Republicans expected to back the larger spending package, Democrats cannot afford to lose more than three votes in the narrowly divided House. And prescription drugs is just one issue that could lead to Democratic defections.
The disagreements over how much to increase taxes on businesses and the wealthy are also expected to be a bruising fight.
Behind the scenes, House Democrats from high-tax states have also been deeply engaged with their Senate counterparts on their effort to repeal the cap on the State and Local Tax deduction that was passed in the GOP's 2017 tax bill. That cap only allows Americans to deduct up to $10,000 in state and local taxes on their federal returns.
For several House Democrats from high-tax states, the SALT issue has been the one area that they say would cause them to vote "no" on their party's sweeping economic bill. However, many progressives, who argue the wealthy should be taxed at a higher rate to cover the cost of the bill, have push back on efforts to do away with the cap. They argue that doing so would be a boon to wealthy Americans who would then be able to deduct more from their federal taxes.
The negotiations are still taking shape in many places. In the Senate, aides tell CNN that the caucus is still laying out where members stand. And while the White House has been deeply engaged for months with Manchin and Sinema on the package, there is little indication the President has been able to change their minds on issues like how much the bill should cost.
Instead, the next week will be a crucial indication of just how much Biden can accomplish in a narrowly held House and Senate, and it will be complicated by a set of deadlines to fund the government by the end of the month and raise the debt ceiling sometime this fall.
U.S. to Lift Travel Ban on Vaccinated Visitors - The New York Times
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:13
Politics | The Biden administration will lift restrictions on fully vaccinated international travelers in November. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/20/us/politics/us-travel-ban.html Travelers exiting a terminal at Los Angeles International Airport in May. Credit... Frederic J. Brown/Agence France-Presse '-- Getty Images Sept. 20, 2021 Updated 10:44 a.m. ET The Biden administration will lift travel restrictions starting in November on those from abroad who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, ending a travel ban implemented to limit the spread of disease and reopening the United States to relatives who have been separated from families and employees from businesses.
Foreign travelers who provide proof that they are fully vaccinated before boarding a flight will be able to fly to the United States starting in ''early November,'' Jeff Zients, the White House pandemic coordinator, said Monday.
''International travel is critical to connecting families and friends, to fueling small and large businesses, to promoting the open exchange ideas and culture,'' Mr. Zients said. ''That's why, with science and public health as our guide, we have developed a new international air travel system that both enhances the safety of Americans here at home and enhances the safety of international air travel.''
The administration has restricted travel for foreigners looking to fly to the United States from a group of European countries, Iran and China for more than a year. Fully vaccinated travelers will also need to show proof of a negative test for the coronavirus within three days before coming to the United States, Mr. Zients said.
Unvaccinated Americans overseas aiming to travel home will have to clear stricter testing requirements. They will need to test negative for the coronavirus one day before traveling to the United States and will need to be tested again after arriving, Mr. Zients said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will also soon issue an order directing airlines to collect phone numbers and email addresses of travelers for a new contact-tracing system. Authorities will then follow up with the travelers after arrival to ask whether they are experiencing symptoms of the virus.
The administration's action came on the eve of a visit by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was expected to press Mr. Biden to lift the ban. British officials had hoped the president would announce a relaxation of restrictions when he came to Cornwall, England, in June for the Group of 7 summit meeting and were disappointed when he did not. Their frustration has only deepened since then.
British officials note that the United States had not imposed a similar ban on people from Caribbean nations, which had a higher rate of infection than Britain, or from Argentina, which had lower percentage of its population vaccinated. About 82 percent of people in Britain above the age of 16 have had two shots.
The European Union and Britain both allowed fully vaccinated people from the United States to travel without quarantining and officials there were annoyed when the United States did not reciprocate.
The ban, European officials point out, has kept families separated since March 2020, when former President Donald J. Trump first announced it, as the coronavirus was erupting across Europe. European countries have weathered a third wave of infections propelled by the Delta variant. But in several countries, including Britain, infection rates have begun to level off and even decline.
Stephen Castle contributed reporting from London.
Cable News Ratings Thursday, September 16: MSNBC Almost Doubles CNN in Primetime Total Viewers
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:03
By Mediaite Staff Sep 17th, 2021, 5:06 pm
Fox News continued to dominate in the cable news ratings Thursday, but between the other two big networks, MSNBC almost doubled CNN in total viewers in primetime.
CNN was third in primetime with 885,000 total viewers, while MSNBC took second with 1.7 million. Fox News took first overall with 3 million.
CNN did narrowly beat out MSNBC in the 25-54 viewer demographic in primetime, 196,000 to 185,000. Fox again took the top spot with 476,000.
MSNBC's highest-rated show continued to be Rachel Maddow at 9 pm, with 2.23 million total viewers and 259,000 in the demo. The 9 pm hour on CNN garnered 910,000 total viewers and 194,000 in the demo.
Here is a full breakdown of Wednesday's cable news ratings by show:
Total Viewers (thousands)
ETFNCCNNMSNBCNEWSMAXNEWSNATION6aFOX AND FRIENDS:915NEW DAY:321MORNING JOE:862DICK MORRIS DEMOCRACY:24'--7aFOX AND FRIENDS:1302NEW DAY:447'--WAKE UP AMERICA:116'--8aFOX AND FRIENDS:1705NEW DAY:512'--'--'--9aAMERICAS NEWSROOM:1653CNN NEWSROOM:613STEPHANIE RUHLE REPORTS:823NATIONAL REPORT:212'--10aAMERICAS NEWSROOM:1568CNN NEWSROOM:687HALLIE JACKSON REPORTS:790'--'--11aFAULKNER FOCUS, THE:1614AT THIS HOUR:579CRAIG MELVIN REPORTS:630'--'--12pOUTNUMBERED:1624INSIDE POLITICS:702ANDREA MITCHELL REPORTS:655JOHN BACHMAN NOW:212'--1pAMERICA REPORTS:1471CNN NEWSROOM:738MTP DAILY:627'--'--2pAMERICA REPORTS:1520CNN NEWSROOM:808MSNBC PRESS CONFERENCE:695AMERICAN AGENDA:242'--3pSTORY, THE:1597CNN NEWSROOM:762AYMAN MOHYELDIN REPORTS:735'--'--4pYOUR WORLD W/NEIL CAVUTO:1495LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER:784DEADLINE:WHITE HOUSE:1289ERIC BOLLING THE BALANCE:294'--5pFIVE, THE:3045SITUATION ROOM:737'--CHRIS SALCEDO SHOW, THE:305'--6pSPECIAL RPT W/BRET BAIER:2331SITUATION ROOM:661BEAT W/ARI MELBER:1084SPICER & CO:298NEWSNATION: RUSH HOUR:997pFOX NEWS PRIMETIME:1963ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT:789REIDOUT:1101GREG KELLY REPORTS:389DONLON REPORT, THE:258pTUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT:3274ANDERSON COOPER 360:1007ALL IN W/ CHRIS HAYES:1342STINCHFIELD:252ON BALANCE W/ VITTERT:209pHANNITY:3171ANDERSON COOPER 360:910RACHEL MADDOW SHOW:2231CORTES & PELLEGRINO:151NEWSNATION PRIME:2510pINGRAHAM ANGLE, THE:2531DON LEMON TONIGHT:737LAST WORD W/ L. ODONNELL:1534ROB SCHMITT TONIGHT:137BANFIELD:2511pGUTFELD!:1817DON LEMON TONIGHT:45011TH HOUR W/B. WILLIAMS:1078GREG KELLY REPORTS:110DONLON REPORT, THE:725-54 Demo (thousands)
ETFNCCNNMSNBCNEWSMAXNEWSNATION6aFOX AND FRIENDS:132NEW DAY:57MORNING JOE:97DICK MORRIS DEMOCRACY:5'--7aFOX AND FRIENDS:189NEW DAY:84'--WAKE UP AMERICA:16'--8aFOX AND FRIENDS:203NEW DAY:111'--'--'--9aAMERICAS NEWSROOM:206CNN NEWSROOM:122STEPHANIE RUHLE REPORTS:93NATIONAL REPORT:22'--10aAMERICAS NEWSROOM:211CNN NEWSROOM:136HALLIE JACKSON REPORTS:91'--'--11aFAULKNER FOCUS, THE:209AT THIS HOUR:123CRAIG MELVIN REPORTS:78'--'--12pOUTNUMBERED:219INSIDE POLITICS:131ANDREA MITCHELL REPORTS:55JOHN BACHMAN NOW:23'--1pAMERICA REPORTS:201CNN NEWSROOM:124MTP DAILY:62'--'--2pAMERICA REPORTS:238CNN NEWSROOM:169MSNBC PRESS CONFERENCE:70AMERICAN AGENDA:28'--3pSTORY, THE:243CNN NEWSROOM:152AYMAN MOHYELDIN REPORTS:101'--'--4pYOUR WORLD W/NEIL CAVUTO:225LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER:136DEADLINE:WHITE HOUSE:138ERIC BOLLING THE BALANCE:38'--5pFIVE, THE:414SITUATION ROOM:134'--CHRIS SALCEDO SHOW, THE:34'--6pSPECIAL RPT W/BRET BAIER:319SITUATION ROOM:131BEAT W/ARI MELBER:94SPICER & CO:39NEWSNATION: RUSH HOUR:87pFOX NEWS PRIMETIME:349ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT:195REIDOUT:133GREG KELLY REPORTS:29DONLON REPORT, THE:18pTUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT:544ANDERSON COOPER 360:228ALL IN W/ CHRIS HAYES:149STINCHFIELD:34ON BALANCE W/ VITTERT:09pHANNITY:514ANDERSON COOPER 360:194RACHEL MADDOW SHOW:259CORTES & PELLEGRINO:14NEWSNATION PRIME:410pINGRAHAM ANGLE, THE:370DON LEMON TONIGHT:166LAST WORD W/ L. ODONNELL:148ROB SCHMITT TONIGHT:19BANFIELD:411pGUTFELD!:295DON LEMON TONIGHT:12211TH HOUR W/B. WILLIAMS:138GREG KELLY REPORTS:22DONLON REPORT, THE:1As for the three cable news networks overall, here are the total day averages in total viewers and the 25-54 category.
Total viewers:
Fox News: 1.75 million
MSNBC: 958,000
CNN: 635,000
25-54 Demo:
Fox News: 267,000
CNN: 132,000
MSNBC: 108,000
Here are the prime time averages'-- encompassing shows which air from 8-11 p.m. '-- in total viewers and the 25-54 demo.
Total viewers:
Fox News: 3 million
MSNBC: 1.7 million
CNN: 885,000
25-54 Demo:
Fox News: 476,000
CNN: 196,000
MSNBC: 185,000
For more ratings information and analysis go to ShowBuzz Daily.
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Stock market today: Dow sheds 500 points amid growing risks, on pace for its worst sell-off since July
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 14:17
A trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., August 20, 2021.
Andrew Kelly | Reuters
U.S. stocks began the week deeply in the red as investors continued to move to the sidelines in September amid several emerging risks for the market.
The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 500 points, or 1.4%, set for its biggest one day drop since July 19. The blue-chip Dow pared back some of the losses soon after the open when it dropped nearly 600 points. The S&P 500 fell 1.5%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.8%.
There were a number of reasons for the sell-off:
Investors fear a contagion sweeping financial markets from the troubled China property market. Hong Kong equities saw a big sell-off during the Asia trading session on Monday. The benchmark Hang Seng index plunged 4% with embattled developer China Evergrande Group on the brink of default.The Federal Reserve begins a two-day meeting Tuesday and investors are worried the central bank will signal it's ready to start pulling away monetary stimulus amid surging inflation and improvement in the job market.Covid cases because of the delta variant remain at January levels as colder weather approaches in North America.September has the worst track record of any month, averaging a 0.4% decline, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac. History shows the selling tends to pick up in the back half of the month.Investors are also concerned about brinkmanship in DC as the deadline to raise the debt ceiling approaches. Congress returned to Washington from recess rushing to pass funding bills to avoid a government shutdown.Stocks linked to global growth were down the most Monday. Ford and Carrier Global lost more than 3%. General Motors and Boeing fell about 2% each. Nucor steel shed 2.8%
Energy stocks tumbled as WTI crude oil fell 2% on concerns about the global economy. Occidental Petroleum, Hess and Devon Energy were among the biggest losers.
Bond prices gained as investors sought safety. The move pushed the 10-year Treasury yield down by 5 basis points to 1.325%.
Big bank stocks took a hit as the falling rates may crimp profits. Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase were each down more than 2%.
"We think the mid-cycle transition will end with the rolling correction finally hitting the S&P 500," wrote Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley's chief U.S. equity strategist. "We point to downside risk to earnings revisions, consumer confidence and PMIs."
Wilson said he believes a "destructive outcome" is looking more likely that results in a pullback of 20% or more. On Friday, University of Michigan's September consumer sentiment index came in at 71, just slightly above the August level that was the lowest in 9 years.
The Cboe Volatility index, Wall Street's fear gauge, jumped above the 26 level on Monday, the highest since May.
Amid Monday's sell-off, a number of classic defensive stocks provided the broader market with some support. Pfizer, Walmart, Procter & Gamble and Merck all traded in the green.
Stocks have struggled so far in September in line with historical trends. For the month, the Dow is off 3.3%. The S&P 500 is lower by 3.2% and the Nasdaq Composite is lower by 2.9%.
On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average turned in three straight weeks of losses for the first time since September 2020. The S&P 500 saw its biggest trading volume Friday since July 19, more than doubling its 30-day average volume.
Friday coincided with the expiration of stock options, index options, stock futures and index futures '-- a quarterly event known as "quadruple witching." History shows volatility tends to pick up around this event.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell will hold a press conference Wednesday at the conclusion of the two-day meeting. Powell has said the so-called tapering could occur this year, but investors are waiting for more specifics, particularly after mixed economic data released since Powell's last comments.
Some investors believe this is just normal market action that can occur in September.
"The reasons for drop this morning are the same as last week: China concerns (Evergrande, regulation, COVID), Fed tapering and possible tax hikes, but nothing new occurred this weekend to justify this mornings' declines," Tom Essaye, founder of Sevens Report, said in a note.
Other risky assets declined on Monday. Bitcoin lost as much as 10% to below $43,000.
Most commodities were in the red. Gold was among the few assets in the green, adding 0.5% to $1,760.
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Nurse claims fully vaccinated Covid-19 patients are being treated with Ivermectin whilst the unvaccinated are being put on ventilators | Truth11.com
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 13:51
Focus ArticlesTHE COVID-19 SCAMDEMICWe have hundreds of articles on Truth11.com exposing the truth about COVID-19 and all measures taken in response to it. Here is an 11 point summary of the big picture and some key focus articles.
1) COVID-19 CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITYSince flu was renamed Covid-19, and other diseases and deaths have been re branded covid last year, unprecedented harm was inflicted on countless millions of people. Western mass media, health professionals, organizations and governments world wide are complicit in the greatest ever public health crime against humanity. They should all be prosecuted and held accountable for their endless mass deception campaign. Read Article Here
2) COVID-19 BIGGEST SCAM IN HISTORY
The Covid Outbreak: ''Biggest Health Scam of the 21st Century.'' Report by 1500 Health Professionals. Read article here
3) FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST 1 = NO VIRUS PROVEN TO EXIST
There have been several requests of information that have been replied to and they clearly state there has been no isolation of ''Covid-19'' The virus does not exist. You can read one of the Freedom Of Information Requests from Canada here
4) FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST 2 = NO DEATHS FROM COVID-19
Another freedom of information request from the UK asked how many people have died from covid-19 alone, not counting those who had other reasons for their death. The answer was NONE. View the request here
5) MASKS GIVE NO PROTECTION AND CAUSE HARM
Mask Test Showing Carbon Dioxide Levels + Mask Test Showing Oxygen Levels = DO NOT WEAR MASKS Read Article HereHazardous Mask Wearing, read article HereMandatory Masks and Vaccines Break the 10 Points of the Nuremburg Code, Read article hereSTUDY: Long term mask use breeds microbes that infiltrate the lungs and contribute to advanced stage lung cancer Read Article Here6) LOCKDOWNS CAUSE HARM AND PROVIDE NO BENEFIT
Lockdowns Are Based On Fraud, read article hereLockdowns Motivated By Occult Doctrine. Read article hereDoctors Questions Lockdowns, read article hereA study of 10 million found that asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 did not occur at all, thus undermining the need for lockdowns, read article here7) DEADLY COVID-19 VACCINES ARE NOT EVEN VACCINES THEY ARE GENE THERAPY AND MUST BE AVOIDED
100,000 doctors & medical professionals oppose COVID-19 vaccine Read Article HereWhy People Will Start Dying a Few Months After the First Covid-19 MRNA Vaccination. Professor Delores Cahill: Watch HereLarge Scale COVID-19 Vaccination Injuries and Deaths, read article here8) NO STATE OF EMERGENCY EXISTS
Each country has its own declaration of emergency guidelines. Here is the Canada-Wide Declarations of Emergency For Covid-19| Understanding how the Declarations of Emergency have never existed, read article here
9) INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS RELATING COVID-19
Each country has its own constitution and charter of rights and freedoms. Here is the Canadian Charter Rights for Individuals | Empower Yourself '' Know Your Rights! | Understanding how COVID-19 measures violate your Charter Rights, read article here
10) BUSINESS RIGHTS, FREEDOMS, VIOLATIONS AND LIABILITY RELATING TO COVID-19
Each country has its own constitution and charter of rights and freedoms for businesses. Here is the Canadian Charter Rights for Businesses | Understanding how COVID-19 measures violate YOUR Charter Rights AND Understanding how COVID-19 measures YOU ENFORCE violate Your Employee's and Patron's Charter Rights, read article here
11) THE NUREMBERG CODE RELATING TO COVID-19The Nuremberg Code as it applies to masks, the Covid vaccines and covid tests. read article here
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There Is No Covid-19 VirusNo record of ''COVID-19 virus'' (SARS-COV-2) isolation by anyone, anywhere on the planet
Freedom Of Information response from Canada's National Research Council: No record of ''COVID-19 virus'' (SARS-COV-2) isolation by anyone, anywhere on the planet. Read Article here___________DR Andrew Kaufman: There is no pandemic, the governments are faking the death counts (simply placing all deaths in the fabricated COVID category), all the governments are using a fraudulent RT-PCR machine to mark healthy people as infected (therefore driving a fear based case-demic of people who aren't ill) plus the vaccine is designed to kill, cripple and/or cause infertility. Read Article Here__________Top Canadian Pathologist Dr. Roger Hodkinson, Tells Alberta Government COVID Is ''The Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated on an Unsuspecting Public'' | Masks don't protect, social distancing does nothing, tests are also uselessRead Article Here
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Brave TV Reporter Goes Off Script And Reveals Truth About Covid-19___________
Doctors Around The World Issue Dire Warning:DO NOT GET THE COVID VACCINE
In an effort to combat Big Pharma Corporate Media and Big Tech censorship, doctors around the world are frantically trying to warn the masses of the devastating effects of the experimental COVID vaccines about to be mass injected into the unsuspecting public assisted by military forces around the world.
What could possibly motivate these doctors, nurses, scientists, and other health professionals to make such an impassioned plea? What do they have to gain by taking the time to educate the public on the hidden dangers of a new class of vaccine about to be inflicted upon the citizens of countries around the world?
They have NOTHING TO GAIN, and much to lose, including their careers, and possibly even their lives. Read article here___________100,000 doctors & medical professionals oppose COVID-19 vaccineThe vaccine is now set to kill and cripple the seniors and the uninformed in the first wave of genocide, their vaccine induced deaths and disease states will be used as the excuse to force the vaccine on everyone else, as the evil media and corrupt government will simply re-label the medical genocide as COVID-19 or something more deadly than COVID. This has been the plan the entire time. Read Article Here
___________Why People Will Start Dying a Few Months After the First Covid-19 MRNA Vaccination.Professor Delores Cahill: Watch Here
___________Robert F. Kennedy Jr: 'New COVID Vaccine Should Be Avoided At All Cost'Read Article here
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The Covid-19 Pandemic Fraud Is Deeper Than You Think
Dr Andrew Kaufman presentation to the red pill expo. An excellent explanation of the big picture of this global scam. Watch above or here
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Planned Chaos Video and Article Series
This past year has offered a great opportunity for most of humanity to consider their world and what might be important to them. Prepare For Change have put together an excellent documentary and article series called Planned Chaos which questions the madness we are experiencing and its purpose in our lives as a result of this mess.
4 Video Documentary: Video 1 | Media: Tell A Vision + Predictive ProgrammingVideo 2 | CV19: Plan, Scam & Resulting OrderVideo 3 | Racial Divide = Civil WarVideo 4 | No Ordinary Election
9 Part Article VersionPart 1 | MediaPart 2 | COVID-19: Plan, Scam + Resulting OrderPart 3 | Racial Divide = Civil WarPart 4 | No Ordinary ElectionPart 5 | Swamp Draining Is Real and Global Part 6 | Arson and Eco TerrorismPart 7 | Financial War: Power, CorruptionPart 8 | The Spiritual Connection Of QPart 9 | Darkness Drives The Madness
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Castro (Trudeau) Complicit In American Election Fraud
Communist China also gave the Canadian Dominion voting machine company a $400 million financial boost through a Swiss bank account, belonging to the Chinese government. As for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his role in the massive US election fraud, was to harbor the George Soros linked criminal election rigging Dominion voting machine company and let them commit criminal activity, across the US border, which could pretty much be considered as Canada committing an act of war on American independence and democracy, along with China. Read Article Here
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO SARS-COV-2 AND OTHER FACTORS INCLUDING 5G | MAY 13 2020
The Association des Officiers De R(C)serve (Association of Army Reserve Officers) spent 50 days investigating issues related to the 2020 ''pandemic''. The report has been prohibited from disclosure for the time being. However, in view of the urgency and seriousness of the situation, we have chosen nevertheless to communicate it to civil society.
In order to propose a prevention protocol and to provide information on therapeutic approaches, it is necessary to establish the parameters of the pathogenic agent, which has revealed serious inconsistencies in the official version.
These inconsistencies have led to the identification of obvious corruption and an agenda contrary to public welfare, culminating in criminal and genocidal intent, and the implementation of a totalitarian state, which are reported in our conclusions.
Read article and download full report here
Freedom Parade Berlin: 1,300,000 People Protest Covid Pandemic
The video of this peaceful protest was Banned on you tube. The video was removed because it showed a peaceful protest with over 1,300,000 people not social distancing, not wearing masks and saying they don't believe the lie of Covid-19.
This is a real protest. The protest that we should have done as a global population, but was robbed of us by BLM Antifa fake Soros backed violent attacks and pointless destruction by design.
This is a true protest that calls out the lies of the COVID-19 scam and makes the statement that TODAY MARKS THE END OF THE PANDEMIC!.
They are not social distancing, not wearing masks, see the video for yourself, this is not thousands, this is over a million people. Protesters chant ''We are the people. We are fed up. Stop with the lies. Today marks the end of the pandemic''
''Our demand is to go back to democracy. Away with these laws that have been imposed on us, away with the masks that make us slave!'' Read article here
QTHE PLAN TO SAVE THE WORLD
The QAnon global patriot movement has a plan to fight the evil few. United we stand. United we can overcome the satanic few that have enslaved us. QAnon are a very important group of people, globally fighting and standing up for humanity!. Have faith in humanity!. WWG1WGA! Where We Go One We Go All!
Q Anon | Welcome To The Great Awakening
In the fall of 2017, posts began appearing on anonymous online forums from a mysterious ''Q Clearance Patriot'' '' someone within the U.S. government with top-secret access. These posts have since become ''the biggest 'inside' 'approved' [information] dump in American history,'' giving we, the people unprecedented insight into a far-reaching shadow war between patriots (within and outside of the government and military) and an evil international cabal intent on destroying America and quashing its founding principles. We are witnessing '' in real time '' the exposure of past and present crimes of this cabal, actions to bring them to justice, and the ushering in of a great, global awakening.
This site is an aggregator of these posts as they happen. WWG1WGA!
https://qposts.onlineArticle explaining Q Anon also an amazing documentary. Here
The Fall Of The Cabal
This is a very important film by Janet Ossebaard. It connects many dots that needed to be connected and brings us to the point of horrific truth, that needs to be publicly known. Once known all of humanity will revolt against this evil. We are fighting pure evil. Please watch this film, it is disturbing but the truth is disturbing and warrants our immediate response. The Fall Of the Cabal is exactly what it sounds like. The horrific truth that will spark a global revolution to bring these satanists down. The world is about to change. Watch Film Here or click above Image
Corona Debunked By Biochemistry
This excellent video explains the truth about viruses and how germ theory is still just a theory and has never been proven. The Rothschild's hijacked the medical industry with their more profitable germ theory framework and have perverted medical direction that promotes fake science.
This video proves you cannot catch the corona virus or any cold for that matter from a sick person. They discuss experiments showing after hundreds of attempts they could not infect a healthy person with a cold virus. There is no such thing as an external virus entering the body. The body is simply having a biological response to your body being not at ease, dis-ease due to certain deficiency's such as Potassium deficiency which is fully explained in this video. The reason for this response is also explained and the simple solutions to bring your body back to health. A must see and share. Watch above or in the article here
Dr. Andrew Kaufman: There Is No VirusAnd Now They Want To Genetically Modify Us With The COVID-19 Vaccine
Spiro and Dr. Kaufman discuss the expanding curtailment of basic civil liberties being normalized under the false pretext of a global health emergency.
Doctor Kaufman lays his reputation and his career on the line as he blows the whistle on what he describes as a manufactured crisis to carry out a planned agenda to facilitate global governance and population control.
Doctor Kaufman is a well-educated medical professional who convincingly illustrates, using the CDC's own technical data, how the public has been manipulated on the grandest scale. Watch below and read article and watch two other Kaufman/Spiro interviews covering Reuters (Rothschild's) fake fact checking and if masks should be worn. (they should not) Here
THE REAL REVOLUTION = UNITYREVERSE THE CONTROLPYRAMID
The real revolution that is needed is being hijacked by the corrupt few, the elite, the satanic cabal, the 1% that have funded fake revolutionary groups.
Trading one group of 'few people over another group of few people is not the revolution we need. The real revolution that this planet needs is the global population, uniting and demanding the reversal of the control pyramid. The masses must unite in a global voice and build our utopia that benefits the many, not the few.
This is the perfect time to break free from the same old bullshit that promotes genocide, war, famine, the 1% satanists stealing 800,000 kids per year for their Adrenocrome addiction. It is time for a real revolution away from the sick few controlling billions of people.
We need to scrap all forms of control by any few.
If the many were in control they would choose what benefits themselves, therefore what benefits the interests of the many, not only the few. This is the solution = UNITY
A simple connection of every person on the planet. A unity of our global voice. Where we can all ask ourselves life changing questions for the benefit of the human race and every species on this planet and beyond. And vote on them to be implemented.
THIS IS THE KEY SOLUTION: We must invert the control pyramid to take the power of the few away. And that means ANY FEW. No small group of people should control the many, ever.
Welcome the True Global Revolution: UNITY = The rise of the 99%. Read article here
ROSE/ICKE IV
Rose and Icke will discuss:Who is really benefiting from the protests, the wider political agenda behind the funding of Black Lives Matter and why George Soros and other multinational technology companies are involved. Watch on London Real here or if is not available there it can be viewed here
Huge Victory For Humanity As Khazarian Mafia's Long-planned 666 Offensive Was Stopped Dead In Its Tracks
The forces of light scored a huge victory against the Khazarian Satanists as their long-planned 2020/06/06/06 offensive was stopped dead in its tracks, multiple sources agree. Instead of massive bloodshed involving armed demonstrators (million man occupation of the white house) and the U.S. military, there was a small, peaceful march against racism. This was because the armed saboteurs and their financial backers were all rounded up before their planned climax of mayhem, Pentagon sources say.
The plan that was stopped, aimed to use massive bloodshed to replace the Republic of the United States with a draconian totalitarian government. As Rothschild front man George Soros, told Bild Magazine in September 2014:
''I'm going to bring down the U.S. by funding black hate groups. We'll put them into a mental trap and make them blame white people. The black community is the easiest to manipulate.''
Note: attempts to label this quote as fake appear at the top of internet searches such as ''Lead Stories'' but NSA sources say it's real.
The plan nearly worked as the death of African American George Floyd triggered huge, coordinated acts of looting and vandalism all over the United States.
U.S. military intelligence says the rioting was stopped only after over a thousand armed looters were shot. In addition, U.S. and Russian Special Forces teams went around hunting down and killing the financiers and Khazarian agents stoking the flames. Also, on June 5th U.S. military White Hats found and disarmed three nuclear devices, seized countless pipe-bombs, and arrested two snipers,'' according to NSA sources. Read article here
We Need A Revolution, But These Riots are an Anti-Revolution By Design
''When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you'--pull your beard, flick your face'--to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you.'''--John Lennon
There is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn't bode well for the future of this country. (and many others)
Anytime you have entire nations so mesmerized by political theater and public spectacle that they are oblivious to all else, you'd better beware.
And anytime you have a government that operates in the shadows, speaks in a language of force, and rules by fiat, you'd better beware.
What is unfolding before us is not a revolution. The looting, the burning, the rioting, the violence: Is an anti-revolution.
The protesters are playing right into the government's hands, because the powers-that-be want this. They want an excuse to lockdown the nation and throw the switch to all-out martial law. They want a reason to make the police state stronger. Read Article Here
Mandatory Testing'... of what?
Authorities claim that testing is important for public health officials to assess if their mitigation efforts '' ''shelter in place'' and ''social distancing'' and ''wearing a mask'' '' are making a difference to ''flatten the curve.'' Officials also claim that testing is necessary to know how many persons are infected within a community and to understand the nature of how coronaviruses spread.
Are these reasons sufficient to give up our health freedom and our personal rights, being tested and shamed in public? The answer is no.
Across the nation, police are being told to not apprehend criminals but instead, to arrest parents at playgrounds, to arrest lone surfers on public beaches, to fine ministers and congregation members sitting in their cars listening to a service on the radio, and to restrict movement by creating one-way sidewalks.
People have had enough. They are beginning to see the huge scam that has been perpetrated on the entire world over a viral infection with a global death rate of 1.4% (meaning, 1.4% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 have a fatal outcome, while 98.6% recover). This is far fewer deaths than a severe flu season.
While they shut us down and held us hostage in our homes, they changed our society, our lives, our world.
I am not willing to accept this is the ''new normal.''I won't submit to testing.I will refuse mandatory vaccination.I will stop wearing a mask.I will not be afraid of standing next to a friend or family member and will not obey the concept of ''social distancing.''I will understand that an asymptomatic carrier is a normal, healthy person and I will not buy into the fear that I might ''catch something'' from a normal, healthy person.Be brave. Be bold. It's time for us to resist with non-violent civil disobedience. Read article here
Electromagnetic Radiation Due to Cellular, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Technologies: Latest Important Scientific Paper
Conclusion: Wireless devices are ''harmful to human health'...For now, wireless technologies must be avoided as much as possible'...People should be made aware that the EMR from using day to day cellular, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices are harmful to human health.'' Read paper here
Rockerfeller Foundation Plan For Militarized Control Of The PopulationNational Covid-19 Testing Action Plan
The Rockefeller Foundation has presented the ''National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan'', indicating the ''pragmatic steps to reopen our workplaces and our communities''. However, it is not simply a matter of health measures as it appears from the title.
The Plan '' that some of the most prestigious universities have contributed to (Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins and others) '' prefigures a real hierarchical and militarized social model.
The plan calls for 3 million US citizens to be Covid-19 tested weekly, and the number should be raised to 30 million per week within six months. The goal is to achieve the ability to Covid-19 test 30 million people a day, which is to be realized within a year.
The plan the Rockefeller Foundation wants to implement in the United States and beyond. If it were even partially implemented, there would be further concentration of economic and political power in the hands of an even narrower elite sector to the detriment of a growing majority that would be deprived of fundamental democratic rights.
The operation is carried out in the name of ''Covid-19 control'', whose mortality rate has so far been less than 0.03% of the US population according to official data. In the Rockefeller Foundation Plan the virus is used as a real weapon, more dangerous than Covid-19 itself. Read article here
666 The Mark Of The BeastSatanists And Their Genocidal Agenda
The number 666 is displayed proudly on the satanic control and genocidal plan orchestrated by the Satanic Khazarian Mafia, Rothschilds, Rockerfellers and other satanists such as Bill Gates.
The mark of the beast, a chip that will connect to the cloud and your cryptocurrency account, that is to be put in a mandatory, harmful, destructive and deadly vaccine, designed to interact with your body and send and receive data from the cloud.
Satanist Bill Gates has the patent for the technology from your body-to chip-to cloud to-cryptocurrency, and its name is WO2020060606 '' CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEM USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA. Read article here
Bill H.R. 6666 which will allow the government to enter your home, say you have covid-19 a fake diagnosis as the virus is a fake. Force you or a family member to be removed from your home and quarantined or when becomes mandatory, forcibly vaccinated. Read article here
WE MUST RESIST THEIR SATANIC PLAN
The Hidden History Of The Satanic Khazarian Mafia | Rothschilds
This evil is trying to use COVID-19 Scamdemic to carry out satanic genocide. It is time to expose this evil, the greatest evil the world has ever experienced. It is time for the world to work together to eradicate this problem now and forever. Read article here
THE PLANDEMIC
An excellent film by StrangerThanFiction.com. Explaining the current planned scam event COVID-19. A must watch. 5G exposed as the true threat. Excellent critical thinking explanation of the situation that is upon us all. Lots of information that has been released by whistle blowers, doctors, nurses, and people around the world. A great film documenting this current genocidal attempt by the elite. Watch film (click above video) or here
COVID-19 TRUTH
4 Video Interviews By Brian Rose of LondonReal.tv that are banned as the Elite few don't want the truth out there. These are a must see in this time where the new world order agenda is in as they call it ''Warp Speed'' mode. We must stand up to this tyranny. Watch all 4 videos to really know what is going on with this COVID-19 plandemic.
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COV ''ID''-19 84 Global PsyopThe New World Order Plandemic
World Khazarian Zionist Parasite controlled Vatican operated Government Corporations including United States declares war on Humanity. Their goal is 90% depopulation of the human race using deadly vaccines and 5G Weapons.
The World is in a Global War between the Khazarian Luciferian Roman cult and their sycophants v All of Humnanity. We are at war with a Luciferian cult that has taken control of all aspects of world Society and all so called Governments.
America was couped by the khazarian Roman Cult in the 1860s and through proxies, its agents have been destroying America from within every since.
Their strategy over the last 150 years was to dumb down Americans and to convert Americans in to Socialists through Psycological Warfare techniques, including endless propoganda/fake news. The intention was to get the people to call for and demand a New World Order Global Governance System [Problem '' Reaction '' Solution]. The trigger was the planned collapse of the current Central Banking System which was always intended to be destroyed by the Luciferian cult to trigger their New World Order Slave Planet System.
This brings us up to the ongoing Plandemic World Wide shutdown which has been achived in Fake News, Fake science and a global psycological Warfare through CIA Mockingbird Media which is pumping out 24/7 fear porn.
We are witnessing the deliberate collapse of this system and a move toward The New World Order End Game.
The people must organize to ensure that what emerges from the current Plandemic False Flag serves the people and not the cabal that have been running the world from the Shadows for millennia! Read article here
Vaccine TruthNo documents exist proving saftey or effectiveness of any vaccine
The US Department of Health and Human Services and all vaccine makers have been deceiving the American people for over 30 years about the effectiveness and safety of vaccines.
Government funding was pulled from Gates Foundation, WHO and CDC (Centre for Disease Control). U.S. Government lost a Landmark Vaccine Lawsuit.
Vaccine injury lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Del Bigtree, producer of the suppressed vaccine documentary, 'VAXXED' and the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) are credited with this victory.
They demanded the relevant government documents proving that all federally approved vaccines had been tested for quality over the past 32 years '-- and there were NONE!
LIABILITY: All government officials who have passed laws legalizing vaccine fraud at the state, national, or international level, or otherwise aided and abetted this vaccine fraud can now be charged with vaccine fraud, criminal malfeasance and in some cases, war crimes under the Nuremberg Code.
Bill Gates needs to be brought to the Military Tribunal. Read artilce here
Truth11 Films | Wireless GenocideMicrowave RadiationPart of the Depopulation Agenda
Truth11 Films 13th release. This film explains the big picture of microwave radiation. Cell phones, Smart meters, Wifi, Cell towers and their connection to chemtrails. From who invented microwave radiation, how it has developed, and the big picture view of exactly what its doing to us all, by whom, why they are doing it and how they are getting away with it, and what we can do about it.
Microwave radiation threatens the continued existence of the human race.
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D is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
Our losses are mounting with every passing day.
Free speech, the right to protest, the right to challenge government wrongdoing, due process, a presumption of innocence, the right to self-defense, accountability and transparency in government, privacy, press, sovereignty, assembly, bodily integrity, representative government: all of these and more have become casualties in the government's war on the American people.
The American people have been treated like enemy combatants, to be spied on, tracked, scanned, frisked, searched, subjected to all manner of intrusions, intimidated, invaded, raided, manhandled, censored, silenced, shot at, locked up, and denied due process.
None of these dangers have dissipated.
They have merely disappeared from our televised news streams.
The new boss has proven to be the same as the old boss, and the American people, the permanent underclass in America, has allowed itself to be so distracted and divided that they have failed to notice the building blocks of tyranny being laid down right under their noses by the architects of the Deep State. Read article here
5G Depopulation Agenda
Current multiple threats to humanity, from chemtrails to fluoridation to vaccines to glyphosphates to 5G. These attacks are a coordinated attempt to depopulate 90% of humanity.
Their accelerating program towards the culling of billions of human beings from this planet, SERCO is the lynch pin which implicates the Crown as perpetrator of this well-planned genocide. 5G is key to their plan and must be stopped. Read Article Here
5G Apocalypse ''The Extinction Event''
9/11/01
The Rothschild Khazarian Mafia Chieftains decide that it is time to use America to complete their final take-down and occupation of the Whole World by instituting a major False-Flag attack inside America to blame on the Islamics whom they want America to wrongly attack on their behalf:
So the Khazarian Mafia Chieftains use their top Israeli-American ''Israeli-first'' dual citizens living in America (aka, the PNACers and top NeoCon Cutouts) to plan a major nuclear attack on America on 9-11-01.
Bibi Netanyahu, the operational head of the KM, deployed the Mossad and these Dual Citizens to set up and institute this attack on America which was to be blamed by the CMMM on Muslims.
They informed their top Rabbis and ''Friends of World Zionism'' not to fly on that day and to stay out of NYC, as did ''Larry Silverfish'', one of the primary men involved in the operation.
They used their main cutout in the DOD to lure the Able Danger investigators to the Pentagon Naval Intel meeting room, where they would be assassinated by a Tomahawk cruise missile that was fired from an Israeli Dolphin class Diesel submarine bought from Germany.
Thirty-five of the Able Danger investigators who were investigating and tracking the Israeli theft of 350 decommissioned W-54 Davy Crockett nuclear pits out of the backdoor at Pantex in Texas were murdered by this Tomahawk hit, which was timed with the detonation of bombs pre-planted in the Naval Intel wing, which was newly hardened to no avail. This footage shows the the Pentagon being hit by a missile, that was never shown to public.
The Israeli Mossad front company, Urban Moving Systems, was used to transport the mini-nukes made from the stolen W-54 nuclear pits from Pantex (and originally made at the Hanford processing plant), where they were stored in the Israeli Embassy in NYC and transported to the Twin Towers for detonation on 9-11-01. Read more here
9/11 + The CIA
A former US government intelligence agent who worked for the CIA during attacks on September 11th, 2001, has given a sworn affidavit stating that 9/11 was an inside job. The ex-CIA agent, who's also an experienced commercial airline pilot, has blown the whistle on the destruction of the World Trade Center buildings, claiming that the three towers were actually brought down by controlled demolitions, and not by passenger planes that were flown by amateur pilots.
Former CIA agent John Lear has not only given a sworn statement as an expert witness, but he has also produced conclusive evidence that disproves the official narrative that the towers were destroyed by airplanes that were highjacked and flown by terrorists. Read more here
No Planes on 9/11
We are as a planet mostly all aware that 9/11 was a controlled demolition that resulted in 3 buildings collapse. We understand that this was planned and carried out by the US government as a false flag event to enable the police state and fake perpetual war on terror. We know that no plane hit the Pentagon or building 7, but what about the planes that we have all seen footage of hitting the twin towers. After closer inspection you can see that no planes were present in those towers either. Read more here
This footage shows an non edited timeline showing the second explosion without a plane.
Our latest film TRUTH11 FILMS | WIRELESS GENOCIDE | Microwave Radiation Part of the Depopulation agenda, will be released soon.
This film is 2 hours and 45 mins long, and explains the big picture of microwave radiation. From who invented it, how it has developed, and the big picture view of exactly what its doing to us all, by whom, why they are doing it and how they are getting away with it, and what we can do about it.
We are releasing the film transcript. Simply because its ready now and can be read by many to inform them of the dangers so they can do something about it. The film will be released soon, date to be announced. Read the transcript HERE
World Health OrganizationSetting The Standard For A Wireless World Of Harm
Radiofrequency/microwave radiation is everywhere'--constantly and increasingly emanating from cell phones, WiFi routers, cell towers and telecommunications satellites. It is proliferating unchecked and people are suffering and dying because of it. Via its International EMF Project, WHO is supposed to be protecting us from the harmful effects of this radiation'--radiation that we cannot see, smell or taste, even though it penetrates and affects every cell of our electromagnetic bodies.
WHO is failing to protect its global citizens from this pervasive pollutant in four key ways:
1. industry infiltration2. intentional ignorance3. denial of the science4. disregard for humanity.
This document provides details of these inexcusable failures and what urgently needs to be done to address them. It also outlines what WHO must do to reverse this destructive course'--for itself and for the global citizens it is supposed to protect. Read article and download document here. Download document here
Microwave Weapons Designed To Kill Us= Cell Phones, WiFi, Cell Towers, Smart Meters'... All Part of the Depopulation Agenda
Physicist Blows Whistle on Microwave WeaponryExposes Assaults on Populations Everywhere''We are irreparably damaging the very fabric of life''
The age of wireless technology, ubiquitous microwave transmissions and countless cellphone towers have transformed the planet in profound and fundamental ways. Especially where it concerns human health and environmental integrity, the effects of these various frequency assaults have been nothing short of catastrophic.
If the people of the world truly understood the deleterious effects of these unseen and unfelt frequencies, they would have abandoned their cell phones and bluetooths decades ago. It has been proven beyond any doubt by the best science available that certain types of electromagnetic radiation can have highly damaging effects on the human body. Likewise, when animals and plants are exposed to these fields of harmful EMR, they too suffer great consequences. Read Article here
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There is now 10 billion times more radiation in our environment than there was in the 1960s.If current trends continue, 50% of the population in Austria, California, England, Ireland, Germany and Sweden will be feeling the effects of electromagnetic radiation by 2017. Canada will be no different.Swisscom, the Swiss telecommunications company, says non-thermal wireless radiation ''has a genotoxic effect'', causing ''clear damage to hereditary material [DNA]'' and an ''increased cancer risk''.EMR adversely affects the blood cells of ALL individuals, whether they feel the effects or not.EMR damages cell membranes, causing them to leak calcium and create many health issues, such as altered brain function, autism, infertility, EHS, hypocalcaemia, DNA damage, thyroid problems, osteoporosis, endocrine imbalances, early dementia, asthma, neurological disorders and multiple chemical sensitivities.Autism in children is doubling every five years, paralleling the rise of EMR, and there is now a 1-in-50 chance of a child developing or being born with autism in North America.Almost every grade in every elementary school in North America has at least one child with autism'--a disorder that was nearly unheard of a generation ago.Electromagnetic radiation breaks down the all-important blood''brain barrier, causing the death of neurons, which can result in early dementia and Alzheimer's disease.Just 5 minutes of Wi-Fi exposure can cause cell mutation, oxidation and rouleaux'-- all of which are associated with illness and disease.The average cumulative whole-body exposure from a Smart meter at 3 feet is about 100 times more than that from a cell phone.How The CIA Made Google
As our governments push to increase their powers, Insurge Intelligence can now reveal the vast extent to which the US intelligence community is implicated in nurturing the web platforms we know today, for the precise purpose of utilizing the technology as a mechanism to fight global 'information war'''--'a war to legitimize the power of the few over the rest of us. The lynchpin of this story is the corporation that in many ways defines the 21st century with its unobtrusive omnipresence: Google.
Google styles itself as a friendly, funky, user-friendly tech firm that rose to prominence through a combination of skill, luck, and genuine innovation. This is true. But it is a mere fragment of the story. In reality, Google is a smokescreen behind which lurks the US military-industrial complex.
The inside story of Google's rise, revealed here for the first time, opens a can of worms that goes far beyond Google, unexpectedly shining a light on the existence of a parasitical network driving the evolution of the US national security apparatus, and profiting obscenely from its operation. Read Article Here
We Are Right In The Middle Of A Fucking Reptile Zoo
Raoul Duke:
I was right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo, and somebody was giving booze to these goddamn things. Won't be long now before they tear us to shreds.
Hunter S Thompson
Blue blood lines, vampires, lizard people, consuming blood daily to keep their shape shifting appearance in the public eye. Red Cross has been there on the front lines collecting blood from war carnage, and we donate to them openly, the Queen and the rest of the reptile blood line that have been running our world for thousands of years must be exposed and stopped. Time and time again children have gone missing in many countries and the public are aware of the sinister blood bath ring that surrounds these lizard people. The truth is being realized and with the help of so many cameras and video they can't seem to keep up the shape shifting 100% of the time and we are seeing proof of their true identities. Read Article Here
Putin Announces The Worlds Ruling Class Are Reptilians
The Russian president said that ''95% of the world's ruling class are not even human,'' but are ''cold-blooded hybrids'' who are ''members of an ancient cult.'' Read article here
#ReptilianQueen
From the Royal Website ''Earlier this week the Queen was seen by thousands of people in a form they are not acquainted with. We seek to reassure the public that the Queen is still the Queen, and remains the respected and loved figure they have always known. While she may not be human, she is a devoted leader and Monarch and she believes her subjects will grow to accept her and her family for what they are.'' Read article here
Russia Today Declares 9/11 Was An Inside Job
Possibly the biggest and most public 9/11 story to date.
The Top Of The Pyramid
The United States Is A Corporation
Human Status Of A Corporation = Enfranchisement Vs Natural Person
Living in todays nazi fascist police state, understanding the corrupt system they use to control us cattle is of great importance. Read article here
Everything Is Fake | 40 Things You May Have Thought Were Real
The good thing though is that once you awaken to the deception, you can use it as a tool for raising your consciousness. The idea that virtually everything is fake can be empowering rather than depressing. Fake News, Fake Journalism, Fake Entertainment, Fake PR and Advertising, Fake Medicine, Fake Scientific Research, Fake Acquired Immunity, Fake Food, Fake Water, Fake Choice, Fake Money, Fake Economy, Fake Free Markets, Fake Free Trade Agreements, Fake Accounting, Fake Welfare, Fake Government, Fake Republic, Fake Democracy, Fake Elections, Fake National Security, Fake Defence, Fake Education, Fake Law, Fake Rights, Fake Consent, Fake Morality, Fake Spirituality, Fake Clouds, Fake Lone Nutter Killers, Fake Boogeymen, Fake False Flag Attacks, Fake Crisis Actors, Fake Pandemics, Fake Moon Landing, Fake International Space Station, Fake Space Walks, Fake History, Fake Authority and Fake Universe. Read Article here.
Why Are There No Real Photos Of The Complete Earth? = NASA Has Never Been Into Space
In nearly 60 years of alleged space exploration NASA has never been able to offer us a single genuine photograph of the Earth from space'--NOT ONE! Even though we've had good, high-resolution cameras for nearly 100 years, NASA has never taken a true photograph of the Earth
By their own admission, all of the pictures we see are composites, paintings or computer-generated images. Why is this? Could the answer be, horror of horrors, that NASA has never been into space'--or at least, not far enough from the Earth to get the whole planet in the frame? Read Article Here
War Is A Global Economic and Control Phenomenon
Definition: Phenomenon: | fÉËn¤mÉËn¤n , -nÉn | noun ( pl. phenomena | -nÉ | ) F act or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is in question.
War is a global economic and control phenomenon that exists in our reality not as a constant of human behaviour, but a manufactured situation that is forced upon us by bankers, the royal family and the other Bilderberg NWO Nazi cronies. Bankers and elite globally without borders have control of apposing countries and forces and they play a game of risk, the board game of global domination. They don't care who wins, because they win on both sides. They supply the money for the arms and sell the arms to both sides. They control the population by creating a world wide situation that no one can avoid. All are called to duty, all forget the current reality and focus on the new world war reality. 120 Countries now in war games. ..Peaceful global revolution can avoid WW3 | No More Business As Usual. Read article here
Weaponized Cell Towers
A microwave oven's internal magnetron, which is virtually the same as that of a radar- or cell phone tower, transforms that electrical energy into microwaves. The magnetron inside a microwave oven an be easily adapted into a very lethal ray gun '' A typical cell phone tower, ''A giant microwave oven on a stick,'' capable of releasing 3,000,000 watts (3 megawatts) of output power to the tower's magnetron '' or even more megawatts, if there is an amplifier at the top.
To put this into perspective, one (1) watt from your cell phone can go 25 miles to the nearest cell phone tower, to relay your call's signal to the person on the other end of the line. The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) limits the amount of energy that a cell phone tower can release to 400 watts.
These megawatts of extra power are NOT for data transfer '' nothing close to that amount of energy is required for data transfer '' which is an important point, because this suggests that cell phone towers are easily capable of being switched to Weaponized Mode.
That cell phone towers are wired with the capability to release millions of watts of microwave radiation makes them veritable of ''towers of death'', the perfect weapons against an ''invasion'' '' or the mega-slaughter of the domestic population.
Virtually all towns, all over the world have the amount of towers necessary to fry the populations in their vicinity. Read Article Here
No Planes Were Used To Bring Down Any Towers On 911
We are as a planet mostly all aware that 9/11 was a controlled demolition that resulted in 3 buildings collapse. We understand that this was planned and carried out by the US government as a false flag event to enable the police state and fake perpetual war on terror. We know that no plane hit the Pentagon or building 7, but what about the planes that we have all seen footage of hitting the twin towers. After closer inspection you can see that no planes were present in those towers either.
This footage shows an non edited timeline showing the second explosion without a plane.
''Official'' 9/11 story destroyed! Irrefutable un-doctored photographic and scientific evidence, whistleblower videos, expert testimony and undeniable truths. Read full article here
UFO Clear Footage
Secret UFO Footage Released and several other clear videos showing UFO's
View article with all videos here
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Global daily tyranny of the few must end, this we all know. Replacing one lizard bastard with another is not the answer. The top down pyramid control system of the few, favours those at the top. The few can make decisions for the many for the benefit of the few. This control system needs to be inverted. Invert the pyramid and have the control be given to the many. The many will choose whats best for the many, not the few. We cannot implement this structure within the current system. We cannot continue to support the current system with our taxes, time and effort as it fuels the few, war, starvation, poverty, and despair.
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111 Articles On Wireless Pollution
190 scientists from 38 nations have submitted the International EMF Scientist Appeal to the United Nations, UN member states and the World Health Organization (WHO) requesting they adopt more protective exposure guidelines for electromagnetic fields (EMF) and wireless technology in the face of increasing evidence of risk from this rapidly increasing environmental pollutant. The scientists who have signed the Appeal have collectively published over 2,000 peer-reviewed papers on the biological or health effects of non-ionizing radiation. It was submitted on 11 may 2015 to His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, to Dr. Margaret Chan, MD, Director General of the World Health Organization, and to the United Nations Member States. Read article here
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Facebook = CIA
Mark Zuckerberg is David Rockefellers grandson. Fucking Nazi lizard bastards.
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Harnessing Black Holes:
The Large Hadron Collider, Ultimate Weapon Of Mass Destruction
The stakes are the highest they have ever been. The Large Hadron Collider is a dangerous instrument wielded by men and women seeking ultimate knowledge and power. The start-up April 5 has initiated a more reckless use of LHC's capabilities, endangering all life including our universe.
Spouses and family members of the CERN scientists, energy companies supplying electricity to this facility, environmental and spiritual organizations, and citizens in every country '' we must shut this project down now. Read article here
CERN To Attempt 'Big Bang', Stephen Hawking Issues Warning; 'God particle' found by CERN ''could destroy the universe''
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Fukushima Radiation Is Part Of The Depopulation Agenda
Leuren Moret, MA, PhD ABD, confirms that Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, is employing Russian HAARP to lay an electromagnetic fence around Russia to keep out plumes filled with Fukushima radiation, thereby protecting the Russian people from depopulation. Putin is also constructing BRICS, a banking model to protect against collapse of world financial system, built on U$dollar Rothschild-dominated private debt-based fiat-currency as a prison for humanity.
The U.S. Government and Jesuit controlled sections of the HAARP environmental weapons system, under President Barack Obama in coordination with monarchies and Zionist banking networks, are creating polar vortex and nuclear typhoons filled with Fukushima radiation that is then dropped on the northern hemisphere populations, especially targeting the United States people with depopulating radiation. Read article here
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The Fall of the Nazizionists
7 Articles from Benjamin Fulford
G20 meeting was a total defeat for the cabal, Bush and Cohen crime families on the run | Pentagon ready to take action as US Nazionist rogue regime now totally isolated | Over 20 national governments to be overthrown as cabal take-down begins, CIA sources say | First the evil Pope, then the dumb Secretary of Defense, now Netanyahu, next the Bush clan | Torture Report Paves Way For Arrest Of Top Nazionists | US regime under unprecedented attack, black swan event imminent| Read articles here
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Top 5 Special Interest Groups Lobbying To Keep Marijuana Illegal:
1. Police Unions, 2. Private Pensions, 3. Alcohol and Beer Companies, 4. Pharmaceutical Corporations, and 5. Prison Guard Unions. Read Article here
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Truth11 Films
WARNING: Global Extermination In Full Effect
Our 12th film is called; WARNING: Global Extermination In Full Effect. This film is a big picture understanding of the plans that are being carried out around the world to cull the population. The global elite, nazi, sabbetean mafia who have been running our world for thousands of years, are currently carrying out plans to exterminate 95% of the worlds population. When you look at each way they are killing us daily, many feel there is no larger agenda. This film ties in all areas of attack and shows if you look at the big picture for what it is; a global extermination plan, you will see the truth. The film also provides solutions to this problem and explains what is necessary to stop this extermination process, Total Global Revolution. Watch film here
#Trending?, why not spark a revolution: #NoMoreBusinessAsUsual = The Revolution Solution.
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Ebola: Biological Warfare By US Government, The Master Criminal Of Our Time
Experts have brought to the public's attention that ebola is a genetically modified organism developed in US biowarfare laboratories in Africa. Read article here
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Nuclear Experimentation | Year 69 Of A 100,000 Year Wast Cycle
On 16th July 1945, 69 years ago, the United States Army set off the Trinity detonation in New Mexico, the beginning of the infamous Manhattan Project.
69 years later, nuclear experimentation has proven to be a failed experiment at every step, and the inextricable nuclear fuel and nuclear war cycles to be a deadly chain of meltdowns, bombings and denials. And still nuclear experimentation industrialists tout the 'safety' and 'cleanliness' of nuclear energy, when the facts of its commercial and wartime destruction tell us nothing could be farther from the truth.
In reality, the same destructive energy that powers one, powers the other. Nothing on our planet is more deadly and volatile than nuclear. The entropy caused by nuclear experimentation of both kinds permeates the elements and rattles all life at an atomic level, negatively altering our biological heritage, our land, and our health '' everything we value.
Meanwhile, alternative energy technologies are systematically suppressed while the threat of nuclear warfare continues to escalate '' both for the benefit of the oligarchy. Read article here
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Tokyo Contaminated From Fukushima; Not Fit for Habitation
The policies of the WHO, the IAEA or the Japanese government cannot be trusted.'' and ''if the power to save our citizens and future generations exists somewhere, it does not lie within the government or any academic association.
Dr. Mita states that all 23 districts of Tokyo are contaminated, with the eastern area worst affected '-- up to 4 000 Bq/kg. (The becquerel is a unit of radioactivity. One Bq is the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second.) These findings confirm what the nuclear physicist Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Nuclear Education found in 2012, when he picked up five random soil samples in Tokyo from between paving stones, in parks and playgrounds. The levels of contamination were up to 7 000 Bq/kg; in the US, anything registering these levels would be considered nuclear waste.
Independent science & independent reporting in Japan outlawed
In December 2013, the Japanese parliament passed a bill whereby public officials and private citizens could face ten years in prison for divulging ''special state secrets'', and journalists, five years, for seeking to obtain classified information. The bill is widely interpreted as a way of preventing sensitive information about Fukushima (among other topics) reaching the Japanese public and by extension the rest of the world. Read article here
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What is going on, has been going on and the power within us all
The purpose of this video is to expose the secrets, lies, suppressed information and illicit facts that most of the people in positions of authority would much rather keep you ignorant of and most everyone else doesn't even know exists. It's about challenging the comfortable world of official versions and established thinking by giving you access to the knowledge and information that will make the most powerful people, whether they are in government, business, academia, military, the judiciary, media, or the established church uncomfortable at the very least.It is designed for those seeking ''The TRUTH'' in this world of lies. This includes the truth about our unbelievably amazing ancient history, the truth about who/what has been behind most all of the atrocities committed against mankind and everything else on this planet as well as the truth about what God/spirituality/enlightenment actually is and our intimate connection to the field. Watch film here
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Thrive Documentary
THRIVE is an documentary that lifts the veil on what's REALLY going on in our world by following the money upstream '-- uncovering the global consolidation of power in nearly every aspect of our lives. Watch film here.
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Army Preparing To Use Lethal Force Against Unarmed American Civilians
A document released by the U.S. Army details preparations for ''full scale riots'' within the United States during which troops may be forced to engage in a ''lethal response'' to deal with unruly crowds of demonstrators. The 132-page document, titled U.S. Army Techniques Publication 3-39.33: Civil Disturbances (PDF), was written in April 2014 and recently obtained by Public Intelligence. The document makes it clear that the techniques detailed therein are to be applied both outside and inside the ''continental United States (CONUS)'' in the event of ''unruly and violent crowds'' where it is ''necessary to quell riots and restore public order.'' The most shocking aspect of the document is the fact that it describes the deployment of a ''lethal response'' directed against ''unarmed civilians,'' including ''sniper response'' and ''small arms direct fire.'' Under the heading ''sniper response,'' the document states, ''Ensure that target leaders or troublemakers are targeted,'' in addition to a passage which states, ''Exploit the psychological effect of an attack.'' Read article here
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GMO Golden Rice | The Scourge Of Asia
Asia's dependency on rice cultivation for both subsidence and income is intuitively understood. The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates the agricultural population of lowland rice cultivation in Asia to be over 470 million '' larger than the entire population of the United States. Improvements in rice cultivation would stand to lift hundreds of millions from debt and poverty. Conversely, the disruption of rice cultivation would threaten to mire hundreds of millions in deeper debt, inescapable destitution, and all of the negative socioeconomic implications that follow. Read article here
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Transhumanism | The Road To Singularity
Scientists from all over the world are warning that robots and artificial intelligence could eliminate humanity
A haunting sculpture of a humanoid robotic figure crawling through water is featured at the Grove Hotel in Watford, UK.
The site of the secretive 2013 Bilderberg meeting. The Grove hotel hosted Google's annual Zeitgeist conference just a few short days prior to Bilderberg's gathering. Google's CEO Eric Schmidt, who currently employs top transhumanist Ray Kurzweil as director of engineering, must have felt a kindred spirit at the Grove and its metallic humanoid sculptures.
Transhumanists embrace the idea of radical human evolution aided by technology. Some see an entirely new species emerging when revolutionary technologies begin to be applied to the human race. Technologies for the improvement of human performance are at the center of transhumanist thought. Most of these technologies begin with military applications, and only after a period of use by the military or black operations are they unveiled to the general public. Read article here
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Truth11 Films | Goodbye Blue Sky
Chemtrails, Ignored Genocide From Above
Truth11 Films 13th film release; s a look at the global problem we all face in Chemtrails or geoengineering.
The film explains the difference between contrails and chemtrails, who is spraying us and why. What it is doing to our health and what you can do to prevent the planned global genocide that the elite is attempting.
Chemtrails are part of the global culling of the masses. Yet this obvious pollutant from above is largely ignored.
Hidden in plain sight, most don't understand the dangers that are falling from the sky.
The film enables us to understand what is going on and what to do about it. See film here
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Documentary: The Great Culling
The Great Culling of the human race already has begun. Covertly, insidiously, mercilessly, a global depopulation agenda has been launched. It is being done through chemicals added to our drinking water, food, medicines, and the air we breathe '' chemicals that have the known effect of reducing fertility and shortening lifespan. See film here
Water Control: Another Part Of The Culling Of The Human Herd
The globalist agenda '' thinning the human herd down from near seven billion currently to as low as just half a billion. That means 13 out of 14 of us alive today according to their diabolical oligarch plan simply must die within the next few years. And what better way to rapidly kill off the human population than taking full ownership and control over the earth's limited diminishing water supply. Read article here
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NDAA Indefinite Detention
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Sections 1021 and 1022, authorizes the indefinite military detention, without charge or trial, of any person, including an American citizen, and applies the ''Law of War,'' to U.S. soil, making the United States legally a battlefield. Read article here.
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Cannabis Cures Cancer | High Potency Hemp Oil
The Holy Grail of Natural Medicine has been found. It is High Potency Hemp Oil' grown from selected varieties of Cannabis Sativa (the same species that produces marijuana) specifically selected and bred (through natural, not GMO methods) to have very low THCs (the get-you-high compounds) and very high CBDs (the get-you-well compounds).
Hemp has been illegal to grow in the US since 1933, creating a sort of legislative Reefer Madness, despite the fact that it has been cultivated for at last 9,000 years for fiber, food and remedy. And although legislation has recently been proposed to amend the hemp-hostile laws, growing it remains legal in several states but illegal at the Federal level.
Hemp oil as a treatment for cancer and a host of other diseases and conditions was largely popularized by the efforts of Canadian Rick Simpson who cured his own cancer and tried to share the wonders of his discovery without seeking a patent or other compensation. Although hemp can legally be grown in Canada under strict controls (e.g., farmers must obtain only permitted low THC seed), hemp oil is not a legal substance and Simpson found himself eye-to-eye with the might of the Canadian government. He migrated to Europe where he could pursue his miracle. Read article here
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97% Of The Time Chemotherapy Does not Work
Doctors and pharmaceutical companies make money from it. That's the only reason chemotherapy is still used. Not because it's effective, decreases morbidity, mortality or diminishes any specific cancer rates. In fact, it does the opposite. Chemotherapy boosts cancer growth and long-term mortality rates. Most chemotherapy patients either die or are plagued with illness within 10-15 years after treatment. It destroys their immune system, increases neuro-cognitive decline, disrupts endocrine functioning and causes organ and metabolic toxicities. Patients basically live in a permanent state of disease until their death. The cancer industry marginalizes safe and effective cures while promoting their patented, expensive, and toxic remedies whose risks far exceed any benefit. This is what they do best, and they do it because it makes money, plain and simple. Read article here
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Truth11 Films | Fukushima 3/11 HAARP and Nuclear Attack on the World
Truth11 Films 12th Film release: Looks at the Events of 3/11/2011 and how it changed the world forever.
The Japan earthquake and ''accidents'' at the Fukushima's 6 nuclear power plant units starting March 11, 2011 Were deliberate acts of tectonic nuclear warfare, carried out against the populations ecology of Japan, and the nations of the Northern Hemisphere, including the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
This short film is a synopsis of the entire situation, who, why, how, when, and what it means to you. This essential short film informs you of the dangers that are present to you and your family and provides solutions and recommendations for you and your family. The film condenses articles and research from three days prior to the event to present day. It also has information from interviews by Alfred Lambremont Webre released May 9, 2011, with independent scientist Leuren Moret.
This situation affects us all. Please share this film. See film here
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Truth11 Films | The Cost Of WiFi and Cellular Technology
Truth11 Films 11th film discusses EHS ElectroHyper-Sensitivity and the growing issue of wireless pollution from WiFi and Cellular sources. Something that affects us all and poses a serious threat to our health and sanity. The film also looks at the role wireless technology plays in our privacy and freedom. Watch the short film here or above.
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Typhoon Haiyan | An Act Of Weather Warfare
The strongest typhoon ever to hit land, leaving destruction and death in its path, is conveniently attributed to climate change by the mainstream media but that is not the case. In the past week, independent weatherman 'Dutchsinse' shot several YouTube videos dissecting the typhoon system passing through the Philippines, believing it to be produced by weather manipulation, specifically microwave pulse technology. This is an act of weather warfare using HAARP. Read article here
HAARP
'In a United States Department of Defense transcript from April, 28th 1997, then Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, shocked the public by admitting that weaponized weather has been created through the use of ''electromagnetic waves.'' The Weather Modification Association has admitted that governments have been altering the weather since at least 1950.
The HAARP project (High Altitude Auroral Research Project) is an integral part of the attempt to ''own the weather'' HAARP has the potential to jam global communication systems, change weather patterns over large areas, interfere with wildlife migration patterns and negatively affect human health. It is also capable of triggering targeted floods, droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes. Read more articles on HAARP in its category on Truth11 or here
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EHS Electro-Hypersensitivity
Electro-Hypersensitivity (EHS) is a condition that has been known about since 1932 and has been called various names in different countries around the world (particularly in Europe, Canada and the former Soviet Union). The labels include Microwave Sickness, Radio Wave Syndrome, EMF Intolerance Syndrome and Rapid Aging Syndrome. Whatever you call it, the condition is real and has been known to exist for over 80 years.
The typical EHS symptoms are headaches (tension along the sides of the head), heart palpitations/pressure in the chest, ringing in the ears (tinnitus), fatigue, skin rashes (particularly on the face), memory & concentration difficulties, irritability and sleep disturbance. Approximately 300,000 people in Sweden (a country that officially acknowledges EHS as a functional impairment) are affected. Millions of people throughout the world are likely affected, yet most do not realize that microwave radiation and electrical pollution are the cause of their symptoms.
EHS is analogous to an allergy and once the body becomes sensitized to sources of EMF pollution, the only known treatment is to significantly reduce exposure. This can have a dramatic impact on one's life, with some electro-sensitive people giving up their career, their home, social networks and sometimes even their family because it is difficult to live in
our modern environment that is now filled with electrical pollution and microwave radiation. There have been multiple suicides around the world related to severe cases of EHS. Thus, the condition can have devastating effects on individuals and families. Read article; 11 Articles On EHS | Living With Electrohypersensitivity | A Survival Guide here
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SHADE the Motion Picture
SHADE the Motion Picture exposes the true power structure embedded in our global reality, showing the true controllers their plans to Geo-engineer our planet and control the populace. Watch full movie here
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The Fed Is The Biggest Ponzi Scheme In The History Of The World
The value of the U.S. dollar has declined by more than 95 percent since the Federal Reserve was created nearly 100 years ago. As we approach the 100 year anniversary of the creation of the Fed, it is absolutely imperative that we get the American people to understand that the Fed is at the very heart of our economic problems. It is a system of money that was created by the bankers and that operates for the benefit of the bankers. The Fed is the biggest Ponzi scheme in the history of the world, and if the American people truly understood how it really works, they would be screaming for it to be abolished immediately. Read article here
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Police Are More Dangerous To The Public Than Are Criminals
The worse threat every American faces comes from his/her own government.
At the federal level the threat is a seventh war (Syria) in 12 years, leading on to the eighth and ninth (Iran and Lebanon) and then on to nuclear war with Russia and China. The criminal psychopaths in Washington have squandered trillions of dollars on their wars, killing and dispossessing millions of Muslims while millions of American citizens have been dispossessed of their homes and careers. Now the entire social safety net is on the chopping bloc so that Washington can finance more wars.
At the state and local level every American faces brutal, armed psychopaths known as the police. The ''law and order'' conservatives and the ''compassionate'' liberals stand silent while police psychopaths brutalize children and grandmothers, murder double amputees in wheel chairs, break into the wrong homes, murder the family dogs, and terrify the occupants, pointing their automatic assault weapons in the faces of small children.
The American police perform no positive function. They pose a much larger threat to citizens than do the criminals who operate without a police badge. Americans would be safer if the police forces were abolished.
The police have been militarized and largely federalized by the Pentagon and the gestapo Homeland Security. The role of the federal government in equipping state and local police with military weapons, including tanks, and training in their use has essentially removed the police from state and local control. No matter how brutal any police officer, it is rare that any suffer more than a few months suspension, usually with full pay, while a report is concocted that clears them of any wrong doing.
In America today, police murder with impunity. All the psychopaths have to say is, ''I thought his wallet was a gun,'' or ''we had to taser the unconscious guy we found lying on the ground, because he wouldn't obey our commands to get up.'' Read article here
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War Is A Racket
In the 1930s, an outstanding Major General of the Marine Corps, Smedley Butler, went public with information that he was approached by powerful industrialists to be involved in a plot to overthrow the United States government. Led by powerful business magnates with the intention of ousting President Roosevelt and installing a Fascist dictatorship ruled by business magnates and a private army of half a million US soldiers, this coup was disrupted by Butler's integrity and willingness to be one of the military industrial complex's first whistleblowers.
These events led Butler to publish a short book that today still gives us a realistic and truthful picture of the forces keeping this nation in a perpetual state of emergency, involving us in war after war against other nations, and diverting so much of our wealth and resources to military buildup. War Is A Racket. Read article here.
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With All The Extreme Government Corruption, Why Are People Still Supporting The System With Money?
Freedom Is Possible |Extreme Government Corruption Does Not Have To Be Our Reality | We Need To Look At Iceland's Example
The Benghazi murders. TSA groping at the airport. NSA spying on innocent Americans. Unlabeled genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). Illegal wars in the Middle East. Unlimited printing of fiat currency by the privately-owned Federal Reserve Bank. Everywhere you look these days, the federal occupying powers are flagrantly displaying their authoritarian intentions against us all while simultaneously trampling the U.S. Constitution without shame. And yet this tyranny is all being made possible by a compliant populace that continues to dutifully pay federal income taxes.
We the People, who are supposed to be represented by a government structure designed to protect our liberties, have become enslaved to ruthless tyrants that have infiltrated the system's highest ranks. From local officials all the way up to the office of the presidency, corruption has encroached virtually every crevice of the civil structure, and yet there is no conjoined or unified effort by the populace at large to do anything about this travesty.
In places like Iceland, the people have shown their willingness to rise up and rid their government structures of all the scoundrels, which is precisely what occurred during the most recent and ongoing global economic crisis. According to a Forbes.com article from earlier this year, the systemic failure of Iceland's banking system back in 2008, which was the direct result of the same globalist takeover that has already taken place in the U.S. and throughout much of Europe, led to an eventual revolt where Icelanders indicted those responsible and basically kicked them out of all levels of power.
Today, Iceland is one of the freest nations on earth, thanks in large part to the solidarity of its people, who have proven that they value freedom and independence over blind complacency. Read article here and see the Icelandic President discuss choosing democracy and human rights over the banks here
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The Genocide Of The American People | Food As A Weapon
We've reached the point that any person with critical thinking skills can no longer deny that we are being deliberately poisoned. Nearly everything that is reasonably priced to eat or drink is actually toxic. The glowing health claims and the stamps of approval from the EPA, the FDA, and USDA, are fraudulent smoke and mirrors '' people are actually being deceived into spending money to purchase the substances that will lead to disease and demise.
A chemical warfare has been declared on us. The battlefields are our homes, the grocery stores, the pharmacies. This is genocide, and we are the intended victims. As early as 1974 food became the top weapon of the United Nations in a stealthy war waged on the citizens of the world. Read article here.
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Obama Threatens Humanity
He represents the worst of rogue governance. He does so lawlessly. He serves monied interests. They own him. Whatever they want they get. He violates core rule of law principles. He mocks democratic rule. He's waging multiple imperial wars. He's doing so on humanity. He plans others. He looted the nation's wealth. He handed it to Wall Street, war profiteers, and other corporate crooks. He wrecked the economy. He lets popular needs go begging. He ignores growing poverty, unemployment, hunger, homelessness and despair. He governs by diktat. He permits lawless torture. Global renditions persist on his watch. He institutionalized tyranny. He authorized indefinitely detaining anyone called a national security threat without charge or trial (including US citizens). He heads America's Murder, Inc. agenda. He prioritizes targeted assassinations anywhere. He authorized killing US citizens abroad. He deployed special forces death squads globally. They operate covertly in 120 or more countries. He destroyed hard won labor rights. He's commodifying education. He wants it made another business profit center. He's waging war on freedom. He wants it destroyed on his watch. He targets Muslims, Latinos, African Americans, environmental activists, animal rights defenders, truth-tellers and whistleblowers. He pronounced Bradley Manning guilty by accusation. Doing so assures conviction. Read article here
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Truth11 Films | Drones, Assassination WIthout Trial, Nazis In Power
Truth11's latest short film discusses the purpose of the drone program and the actions of the US Government. Obamas drone program is CIA murder of innocent people and drones must be abolished. Here or Watch Below
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Agenda 21 + The Gulf Oil Spill Depopulation Event
The US government and the Chinese government are engaged in an motivated plot to relocate rural and suburban residents to more densely populated urban centers to live in overcrowded conditions where a person's every movement and every activity is monitored. The previously described policies are proving effective in moving populations into densely populated urban centers in accordance with Agenda 21 policy. However, the process is not as speedy as the globalists had hoped. The global elite needed a game-changing event in the United States. In order to speed things up, the elite bankers at Goldman Sachs masterminded the Gulf oil spill to this end. The Gulf Oil Spill Is a Depopulation Event of Epic Proportions. Read article here
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Solving World Hunger With 8 Days Of Peace
It has been calculated that it would cost $30 billion per year to eradicate world hunger. To put that into perspective for you, the US military spent $737 billion on 'military defense' in 2012, $30 billion of which is about 8 days of such an expenditure. 8 days of peace per year could fund the analyzation of world hunger. Imagine what 365 days per year of peace could do. Read article here
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Canada Being Assimilated into a US Dominated North American Security Perimeter
Canada's prime minister recently addressed the CFR. The U.S. and Canada are now further advancing this agenda through the Beyond the Border agreement. Both countries are increasing bilateral border transportation and infrastructure coordination. The perimeter security deal is being sold as vital to improving the flow of trade and travel across the border. In order to appease U.S. fears, Canada has made numerous concessions with no guarantees that it will lessen border restrictions. As part of a North American security perimeter, Canada will always be at the mercy of any new U.S. security measures, regardless of the dangers they may pose to privacy and civil liberties. Read article here
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The Purpose of Geoengineering and Chemtrails is Death
In earlier times it was easier to control a million people than physically to kill a million people. Today it is infinitely easier to kill a million people then to control a million people. '' Zbigniew Brzezinski (National Security Advisor, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group).
The evidence demonstrates that the primary purpose of the public nuisance of Geoengineering is to cause bodily injury and premature death with malice aforethought. The Geoengineers are well aware of the consequences of spraying tiny particles aluminum, barium, and other dangerous toxins into the atmosphere. Secondary purposes of Geoengineering include controlling the climate/weather for warfare and profits, and destroying the natural world while furthering the transhumanist/synthetic biology agenda.
The evidence indicates that Geoengineering is an essential element of the elite's Endgame move to depopulate the planet. The pubic must be educated and the stratospheric spraying stopped immediately. Read article here.
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Main Core: 8 Million+ Americans On The List
Are you on the list? Are you one of the millions of Americans that have been designated a threat to national security by the U.S. government? Will you be subject to detention when martial law is imposed during a major national emergency? There is a list that contains the names of at least 8 million Americans known as Main Core that the U.S. intelligence community has been compiling since the 1980s. If you have ever been publicly critical of the government, there is a very good chance that you are on that list. Read article here
Truth11 Films lastest film The Enemy Within. The camps are built, the drills have been run. The police state is secured. Its time to wake up. Don't get on the bus to the camps, if your on the Main Core list get off the grid. View on Vimeo
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Bradley Manning Court-Martial: Secrecy and Injustice on Trial
America honors its worst. It persecutes its best. Manning is heroic. He risked great personal harm. He did so to reveal vital truths. People have a right to know. Washington has no right to conceal them. Secrecy, lawlessness, and contempt for humanity define US policy. Evidence vital to Manning's defense is prohibited. Information refuting charges of ''aiding the enemy'' is barred from trial proceedings. Claiming it's not relevant or harmful to national security doesn't wash. Excluding it reflects police state justice. On June 3, United States v. Bradley Manning court-martial proceedings began. Pre-trial, Obama pronounced him guilty by accusation. Doing so denies any possibility of judicial fairness. His word is final. ''We are a nation of laws,'' he claimed. ''We don't let individuals make decisions about how the law operates. (Manning) broke the law.'' No nation spurns inviolable laws more egregiously than America. Obama reflects the worst of US governance. He rules by diktat authority. He does so secretly. He's waging war on humanity. He does so at home and abroad. With a stroke of his pen he could free Manning. Pronouncing guilt by accusation assures his conviction. Doing so publicly leaves no doubt. So do secret trial proceedings. They violate constitutional law. Read 11 Articles on Bradley Manning here
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US Suspends Constitution In Permanent World War On Terror
Two disturbing developments have occurred in the last couple of days that have gone relatively unnoticed. First, the senate is debating an expansion of the already broad powers of the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) so the U.S. can essentially engage any area in the world in the war on terror, including America. Which brings us to the second development: the Pentagon has recently granted itself police powers on American soil.
'It is hard to resist the conclusion that this war has no purpose other than its own eternal perpetuation. This war is not a means to any end but rather is the end in itself. Not only is it the end itself, but it is also its own fuel: it is precisely this endless war '' justified in the name of stopping the threat of terrorism '' that is the single greatest cause of that threat.'
A self-perpetuating permanent war against a shadowy undefinable enemy appears to be the future of American foreign policy. How convenient for the war machine and tyrants who claim surveillance is safety.
But perhaps most disturbing of all of this is the military's authority to police American streets as if it was in civil war. For all those still in denial that America is a militarized police state, this should be the ultimate cure to your delusion. Read Article Here
Truth11 Films Perpetual War
We have been tricked into fighting perpetual wars of mass genocide for pointless profit. There is no enemy. The enemy is within the US government. All exterior enemies are created to justify the advancing military industrial complex.
There is only one way war will end. The masses must rise up, unite, and demand world peace.
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Chemtrail Budget Exceeds Billions
A select group of diabolic oligarch globalists and their puppet cronies embedded within the United States government are heavily involved in crimes against humanity. These tyrants will stop at nothing to usher their hush, hush global aerosol agenda into full swing.According to a report prepared for the Air Force titled ''Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the WeatherBy 2025 the U.S. Air Force wants to fully control the weather on earth by the year 2025.Far surpassing even the most horrific act of terror (real or staged), posing as literal gods, these globalists will stop at nothing to control the world by not only controlling the fraudulent banking systems but by owning the weather through a process (blanket term) called Geoengineering. It looks as if members of the government's upper echelon and even members of the Senate will go to extreme lengths to suppress this vital information from reaching the American people. In regards to aerosol spraying into the earth's atmosphere, a recent update to data assembled by The Carnicom Institute reveals the chemicals used and their respective levels of concentration. The toxic levels that are being used in these aerosols goes beyond shocking '' it would appear that these levels are indeed criminal by EPA Standards; These figures indicate how many times they are over the allowable toxic limit:
Aluminum: 15.8Antimony: 63.3Arsenic: 418Barium: 5.3Cadmium: 6.0Chromium: 6.4Copper: 9.0Iron: 43.5Lead: 15.7Manganese: 513.8Nickel: 10.7Zinc: 7.5 Read article here___________
Google '' Bilderberg Merger = Planned-Opolis
This years agenda: Domestic Spying, Diffusing Social Protests, War On Syria and Iran + Lots More'...
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt is a regular Bilderberg attendee. his company is ''merging'' with Bilderberg. Google's annual Zeitgeist conference, which has been based at the Grove since 2007, immediately precedes the Bilderberg Group conference by a matter of days.'' Bilderberg's ''being recast as 'Google-Berg' '' partly because of efforts on behalf of activists to tear away the veil of Bilderberg's much cherished secrecy, and partly as a means of re-branding authoritarian, undemocratic secret gatherings of elites as trendy, liberal, feel-good philanthropic-style forums like Google Zeitgeist and TED. Eric Schmidt thinks ''privacy is a relic of the past,'' He ''plans to turn Google into the ultimate Big Brother.'' He and Bilderberg members share a common agenda. In part, it reflects a ''collectivist, permanently networked world (without) individuality and privacy.'' Bilderberg's grand design is one-world government comprised of rulers and serfs. It wants total unchallenged global control. June issues for discussion:
destroying Iran's nuclear facilities within three years; prolonging war on Syria by arming anti-Assad elements; the threat of a global pandemic; controlling 3D printing;Internet control through ''cyber resilience;''smart cities for mass surveillance;diffusing austerity induced social protests;preventing Britain from leaving the EU;propping up the euro to keep the Eurozone intact;minimal 2013 economic growth;increasing central bank power;transferring more wealth from ordinary people to corporations and super-rich elitesestablishing a ministry of truth; Orwell explained its mission and more, saying:''The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation.''''These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.''
In joining with Bilderberg, Google is preparing to enter this ''Hybrid Age'' of advancing technology and rapidly changing geopolitical landscapes with its hands gripped tightly on the reigns of power. With this merger, the world is set to be shaped into a highly surveilled and planned system at the direction of unelected elitists. This is the backdrop to the Google-Berg merger. Governments are going broke. Globalist influences have broken down national borders. Tax exempt foundations and mega corporations are filling the gap. These groups are essentially hijacking national government's policies and advancing a top down, authoritarian system of control. Read article here
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The Vaccine Hoax Is Over!
Freedom of Information Act in the UK filed by a doctor there has revealed 30 years of secret official documents showing that government experts have
1. Known the vaccines don't work2. Known they cause the diseases they are supposed to prevent3. Known they are a hazard to children4. Colluded to lie to the public5. Worked to prevent safety studies
Those are the same vaccines that are mandated to children in the US. Read article here
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Israel and US Lawless Aggression
Israel and America are longstanding imperial partners. They spurn international laws. They do so repeatedly. They ignore their own. They jointly plan and wage wars. Israel's attack on Syria was a joint US/Israeli provocation.
Lawless Aggression | Peace is Law Not War
In August 1928, America, Germany France, Britain, Italy, Japan, and nine other nations signed on and promised wars would no longer resolve ''disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them.'' Violators ''should be denied the benefits furnished by this treaty.'' Article 8 of the 1933 Montevideo Convention of Rights and Duties says ''No state has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another.'' Under Article 10, differences between states ''should be settled by recognized pacific methods.'' Article 11 calls sovereign state territory ''inviolable'....'' The 1950 Nuremberg Principles defined crimes against peace to include: ''(i) Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances; (and) (ii) Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i).'' On June 26, 1945, the UN Charter was signed. On October 24, it became effective. It failed ''to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war'....'' Fundamental principles have been ignored. They require all Members to ''settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered.'' ''All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.'' Article 51 permits armed force only in self-defense against externally generated aggression until the Security Council acts. It has final say. Under no circumstances may one nation, or combination thereof, intervene against another without lawful Security Council authorization. Doing so is lawless aggression.
Belligerents like America and Israel put their own priorities above international laws. They ignore their own as it suits them. Wars rage without end. New ones are planned. Washington wages permanent ones. Peace is a four-letter word. Israel's a longstanding imperial partner. Attacking Syria is their latest provocation. They acted without justification. Doing so reflects naked aggression. Expect Washington, rogue NATO allies, and regional partners to take full advantage. Read article here.
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Obama's SS Is Here Now
The name which struck terror into the German people who still believed in freedom and wanted their nation to remain a peaceful, respectable member within the international community. Nazi Germany's SS was a force for terror and intimidation, creating an aura of fear within the citizenry and horror for the remainder of the world watching the spectacle of a police state far more brutal than any in human history up to that time.Apparently this lesson has not been lost on the dictators of the world since that era as the communist leaders and rulers around the world learned that building an effective domestic spying and military police apparatus was the key to remaining in power. Welcome to modern America my friends, as Obama's SS is here now. Read article here
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Cell Phone Tower Hell On Apartment Roofs Springing Up Everywhere
Corrupt cell phone companies cowardly hiding their towers of hell on the roof of rental units. Corrupt property companies cashing in by selling out the health of their unit holders with no disclosure. Corrupt fascist government ignoring countless health studies and reports claiming their levels are safe, which are 6000 times less stringent than European standards. Thousands sick, and the number is growing. A massive nation wide scam that is affecting us all. Clinics are set up to treat the symptoms of exposure, medical industry acknowledges the health issues, while Canadian and US governments are ignoring them. Read article here | New Study Links Over 7000 Cancer Deaths To Cell Phone Towers. Read article here | Also read 11 Articles On RF Exposure here
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Liberty Was Attacked In Boston By the Nazis In Control
Ron Paul '' Forced lockdown of a city. Militarized police riding tanks in the streets. Door-to-door armed searches without warrant. Families thrown out of their homes at gunpoint to be searched without probable cause. Businesses forced to close. Transport shut down.
These were not the scenes from a military coup in a far off banana republic, but rather the scenes just over a week ago in Boston as the United States got a taste of martial law. The ostensible reason for the military-style takeover of parts of Boston was that the accused perpetrator of a horrific crime was on the loose. The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city. This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.
Sadly, we have been conditioned to believe that the job of the government is to keep us safe, but in reality the job of the government is to protect our liberties. Once the government decides that its role is to keep us safe, whether economically or physically, they can only do so by taking away our liberties. That is what happened in Boston.
This is unprecedented and is very dangerous. We must educate ourselves and others about our precious civil liberties to ensure that we never accept demands that we give up our Constitution so that the government can pretend to protect us. Read article here
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America is being absolutely consumed by fear, stress, anger and depression; by design
Most Americans live lives of ''quiet desperation'' that are punctuated by moments of great crisis. We spend our prime years working for others (making them rich) in order to pay off debts that we have foolishly accumulated (thus making the banks even wealthier). When most Americans reach the end of their lives, they look back and wonder what they actually accomplished. '.... Jobs are modern-day slavery. We are paid just enough to live and not more. You are punished if you ask for more'... The government gets up to 50% of your paycheck and then 10-20% of that goes to kill people on other parts of the planet'.... Read article here
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Controlled Economic Slavery
Throughout human history, most slavery has been enforced physically '-- with whips and chains. You either did what you were told or they beat you into submission.
Most modern people mistakenly believe slavery has been largely eradicated across our world. They don't see people shackled in chains or being ordered what to do by their owners. Modern culture no longer accepts overt slavery, right? '...Or does it?
As it turns out, slavery is alive and well on our planet, and its shackles are made of numbers, not steel. Read article here
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11 Years of US Illegal Wars Of Aggression Against Muslim People
Our government told us for eleven years that we blew trillions of dollars on wars to protect Americans from al-Qaeda, endangering Social Security, Medicare, the social safety net, the dollar's exchange value, the credit rating of the US Treasury, and our civil liberties in order to save America from al-Qaeda terrorists. So why is Washington now supporting al-Qaeda's overthrow of the secular, non-Islamist government in Syria which has never ever done anything whatsoever to Americans!? Read article here
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False flag attack, kill one patsy, nab another patsy, ship him off to Guantanamo and have a martial law training exercise
= Textbook Nazi Bullshit
Martial law has been declared in Boston to hunt for another patsy. One suspect dead, another kid has been nabbed and is being treated as a terrorist so no trial, straight to Guantanamo with him. Fucking bullshit it was this kid and not the trained mercenaries photographed with back packs with skulls depicting a stupid motto justifying in their pathetic minds the carnage they were about to ensue. False flag with cover up, resulting in martial law exercise. Textbook Nazi Bullshit.! read article here
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Fukushima | A Continuing Nuclear Disaster
Massive radiation releases continue to spread in Japan and globally via the atmosphere, ocean, precipitation, contaminated food & manufactured goods. Calling for a global understanding of how to protect yourself and detoxify yourself from the harmful radiation that now affects us all. Life is not going to be the same, we must learn to fix any problems due to this nuclear fall out. Read article here
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Chemtrials: Daily Global Geoengineering
Even as the mainstream media and a television-obsessed American public refuse to admit the existence of chemtrails and government sponsored weather modification programs, the evidence continues to mount with ever-incresaing speed that not only do these programs exist, but they are also effective and wide spread. Daily global efforts with an aim to dominate the weather completely while dumping disease causing chemicals on us daily. In addition to the recent study published in Environmental Research Letters entitled, Cost Analysis of Stratospheric Albedo Modification Delivery Systems, a 2010 study undertaken on behalf of the Belfort Group, a Belgian ''environmental watchdog'' organization, also corroborates much of the information compiled by citizens and activists the world over regarding the existence of chemtrails and stratospheric weather modification programs.
The study entitled, ''Contrail Science, Its Impact On Climate and Weather Manipulation Programs Conducted By the United States and Its Allies'', seeks to highlight the specific problems associated with contrails emitted by aircraft, the manipulation for defence purposes of some of these by the United States government and the subsequent effect on quality of life. Read article here
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In Amerika Law No Longer Exists
In the 21st century Americans have experienced an extraordinary collapse in the rule of law and in their constitutional protections. Today American citizens, once a free people protected by law, can be assassinated and detained in prison indefinitely without any evidence being presented to a court of their guilt, and they can be sentenced to prison on the basis of secret testimony by anonymous witnesses not subject to cross examination. The US ''justice system'' has been transformed by the Bush/Obama regime into the ''justice system'' of Gestapo Germany and Stalinist Russia. There is no difference. Read article here
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Fluoridegate
Have you ever wondered why most major municipal water utilities across America continue to artificially fluoridate public water supplies when inexpensive fluoride toothpastes are readily available for those who choose to use them? Or why governments and medical groups continue to force fluoridated tap water on the public in spite of the fact that it has many known and proven health risks? These and many other pertinent questions find their answers in the hard-hitting documentary Fluoridegate: An American Tragedy, one of the most powerful documentaries ever made about the fluoride fraud.
A sordid narrative that recaps the dirty history of fluoride and how it came to be an officially recommended water additive, Fluoridegate delves deep into the completely unscientific and blatantly corrupt process by which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) forced fluoride onto the public via the National Program for Water Fluoridation. The film also exposes how Dr. William Marcus, a now-retired senior scientist at the EPA, was targeted and fired for leaking critical information back in the 1990s about the many dangers of fluoride, none of which were being publicly shared in accordance with the EPA's mission and purpose. Watch movie here
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11 Years 0f Torture
January 11, 2013, marked the 11th year that the infamous Guantanamo prison has been in operation by the United States. President Obama ensured the continued operation of Guantanamo for another year by signing the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013, and refused to challenge the Congressional mandated ban on transfers from Guantnamo to the federal court and prison system in the United States. Read article here
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The Gun Control Issue = Freedom From Government Tyranny
It would be nice to think that the reason behind the gun control debate was the safety of the population. Although great lengths are taken to ensure the population are swayed by the news of horrible events, mass shootings, real, staged or provoked it is not the reason the guns are wanted out of our hands. It is simply the ease of martial law take over. In reality they are after our guns so we are defenceless against them. Even if they get a large chunk of law abiding citizens to hand in their guns it would be that many people that would not rise up against them armed when the hammer falls.
The definition of the Second Amendment: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Read article here
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BAN GMO | Stop The Elites Global Domination Of The Food Supply
Hidden agendas, divide and conquer, controlling the narrative, and problem-reaction-solution. These are certainly time-honored and effective strategies for the political elites. To get simpler, we could just say lie-cheat-steal-kill.
A powerful elite group first forms a goal, an objective. It clarifies that goal. For example: domination of the global food supply.
With that goal in mind, and with the technology to genetically modify food crops, huge corporations like Monsanto, along with their politicians firmly in their pockets, decide to patent every kind of food seed possible.
Soon, they own food. They license/sell food seeds. They expand the number of GMO food crops.
But they also realize they have to deal with opposition. Read article here.
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2013 NDAA Expands Power of Military to Detain Citizens
In response to widespread outrage over the National Defense Authorization Act passed last year, Congress is said to be working on a more Constitution friendly version of the legislation. The latest version was overwhelmingly approved by the House Armed Services Committee on May 8 and introduced the following week.
The new statute actually states that persons lawfully in the U.S. can be detained under the Authorization for the Use of Military Force [AUMF]. The original (the statute we are fighting in court) never went that far. ''Therefore, under the guise of supposedly adding protection to Americans, the new statute actually expands the AUMF to civilians in the U.S.'' Read article here
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The Gates Of Wrath And Sorrow Open Wide Again In Gaza
Hell is coming. Hell is near. Thousands upon thousands of troops are massing for the ground invasion of a small patch of land crammed full with human beings trapped without any defense against the steel that will destroy them. Several children have already died in the preliminaries. Many, many more will die when the real feast of death begins. Read article here
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The Reality Of The Lesser Of Two Evils
Obama has won reelection, and his supporters think that somehow things are going to be different. Fat chance.
While evil continues to envelop America, the public is focused on CIA director General Petraeus' resignation. The FBI spied on him and found that he was having an affair with his biographer, a woman 20 years younger than his 60 years.
What is it with Americans and sex? Why is an illicit affair the ONLY reason for removing someone from political office? Why is it that government officials, presidents and vice presidents included, can violate US statutory law and torture people, spy on Americans without the necessary warrants, murder US citizens without due process, confine US citizens to dungeons for life without evidence and due process of law, start multi-trillion dollar wars on the basis of contrived allegations that have no basis in fact, murder civilians in seven countries, overthrow legitimate governments, and all of these massive crimes against humanity can be accepted as long as no one in Washington gets any sex out of it?
Why does Washington want hegemony over the world? Why does Washington want this hegemony so badly that Washington is willing to murder women, children, aid workers, husbands and fathers, village elders, anyone on earth including its own American heroes?
What is the evil that drives Washington? How can the evil that drives Washington be contained, stamped out, prevented from destroying the human race? What does the world do when it confronts unbridled evil, which is what Washington is? Read article here
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Real history: Vaccines not responsible for halting infectious diseases of 20th century
A common misconception about vaccines purports that they are the primary reason why infectious disease rates saw a rapid and steady decline throughout the early-to-mid 20th century. But an honest look at the figures reveals that diseases like polio, typhoid, measles, and tuberculosis were already in significant decline long before vaccines were ever even invented, this being the result of improved hygiene and diet. Read article here
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New Euphemism For State Murder:
''Disposition''
Obama Administration's ongoing effort to expand, entrench and ''codify'' the practice of murder and terrorism by the United States government. The avowed, deliberate intent of these sinister machinations is to embed the use of death squads and drone terror attacks into the policy apparatus of future administrations, so that the killing of human beings outside all pretense of legal process will go on, year after year after year, even when the Nobel Peace Laureate has left office.
The new ''counterterrorism matrix'' is ''designed to go beyond existing kill lists, mapping plans for the 'disposition' of suspects beyond the reach of American drones,''
The sickening nature of this perpetual-motion death-machine '-- and the husk-like inhumanity of those who operate it and the sycophants who applaud it '-- are all too plain. These butchers '-- our bipartisan elites, our whole respectable, self-righteous establishment '-- have trapped us all in an Age of Hell. Read article here
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11th Anniversary of 9/11
Fascism and the Fake War On Terror Remain Due To The Masses Living In Denial
We arrive at the 11th anniversary of the false flag attack that changed the world as we know it. The tactic was nothing new. The purpose clear: The false enemy, fake war on terror, enables the establishment to reign fascist terror upon the planet, and it has gone 11 years with no justice or main stream acceptance of the truth.
Many ask me why I still crusade for 9/11 truth. 11 years is no reason to stop fighting fascist propaganda. We must continue to educate and awaken the masses. For those still living in an 11 year bubble of denial.. WAKE THE FUCK UP!
Perpetual war, genocide, and fascist rule continue because the masses live with the assumption that if they ignore the fact that their government is against them, that it will not affect them. Well it does and it affects millions around the world. You cannot sit in denial any more. We have great strength in numbers and we must all rise up and resist this fascist government. A time comes when silence is betrayal. '-- Martin Luther King Jr. Read article here
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What In The World Are They Spraying?
The Chemtrail/Geo-Engineering Cover-Up Revealed
This is a groundbreaking documentary discusses the reality behind the crisscrossing streaks of white clouds trailing behind jet aircraft, stretching from horizon to horizon, eventually turning the sky into a murky haze. The documentary discusses the developing industry called geo-engineering, driven by scientists, corporations and governments intent on changing global climate, controlling the weather, and altering the chemical composition of soil and water. See documentary here
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Propaganda'... In The Grocery Store?!
Food Rating Systems Discourage Consumer Empowerment
We have been hearing a lot about genetically modified food lately. Stories are coming out about their environmental impacts and the role they play in a war waged on our health and the health of our children. We have also been hearing a lot of other stories about our food '' antibiotics and growth hormones in meat or radiation and chemicals in fish from the sea. From the news sources to which I subscribe the truth is clear and simple: we need to consume nutritious, whole foods that are grown organically. Our future and our family is worth it. It is a choice between weakness and strength for our bodies and our minds, an issue of black vs. white. We do not get the newspaper at my house, but I have been known to snag the occasional grocery store flyer from the recycling and have a look. The other day something was in there that made me think. Join me as I pick apart this PROPAGANDA TRASH which has been designed to make us blindly ingest without using our brains. Read article here
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V Is For Victory When We Stand United Against The New World Order
The film V for Vendetta is a shining example of what we are facing and how we can overcome a fight against a corrupt fascist government.
For many this seems such a daunting task they would rather live in denial at the cost of their own health, freedom and economic situation.
Living in denial allows a perpetual state of war. Genocide that fuels the military industrial complex and advances the fascist government that plagues the US, Canada, The UK and Australia and so on..
The first rule of the elite was and is; to 'Divide and Concur'. As the film V is For Vendetta illustrates we have great strength in unity. We must simply organize ourselves. The film shows a symbolic organization and unification of the populous to rise up at once to take control. This is what is required. But we cant stop there.
The same problem can occur when the new ones in control become corrupt. So the solution therefore is in unity we must stay. Not just for one event but to act in unison as a collective making decisions for the collective. Not anarchy, that is where individuals rule themselves without concern for others. I am talking about the individual making a decision that will benefit themselves and in turn everyone else. Read article here
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HAARP
The significance of this qualitative leap could be compared to the transition from cold steel to firearms, or from conventional weapons to nuclear weapons.
Located on an United States Air Force site near Gakona, Alaska, the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Project (HAARP) is the world's largest and most functional ionospheric heater.
Construction began in 1993. Today, HAARP can generate super high powered beams of directed energy. HAARP is designed to shoot these energy beams 200 kilometers up into the sky; affecting an area known as earth's ionosphere. In doing this, HAARP can perform a number of functions. The known uses of HAARP are: weather modification, power beaming, earth tomography (mapping of our planet's interior), Star Wars-type defense capabilities, enhanced communications, communication disruptions, creating earthquakes and mind control. This mobile HAARP ship was used to trigger the March 2011 magnitude 9.0 Japan earthquake. Read article here
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CFR + Google (This can't be good)
Google will meet this Wednesday with the Council on Foreign Relations to discuss ways that they can use their dominant search engine to penetrate and disrupt international crime. Under the cloak of doing good by fighting international crime, Google will likely be given full reign to not only monitor but infiltrate people and organizations that the DoD, DEA, CFR and other alphabet agencies desire. Furthermore, many refer to the CFR as an international criminal gang due to their support for violent regime change, among other questionable behavior. If history is any indicator, the agents of the CFR will use Google as a tool to eliminate competition to their interests. Read article here
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Truth11 Films The Enemy Within
Truth11 Films lastest film The Enemy Within discusses the fascist police state that surrounds us and is a wake up call for some to realize we are controlled by the same people who funded Hitler. The camps are built, the drills have been run. The police state is secured. Its time to wake up. Don't get on the bus to the camps, resist Nazi Fascist control. We have great strength in numbers. We must unite and organize ourselves with self government through internet automation. See film Here
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War Pigs
As Americans mindlessly celebrate another Memorial Day with cookouts, beer and burgers, the U.S. war machine keeps churning. As we brutally enforce our will on foreign countries, we create more people that hate us. They don't hate us for our freedom. They hate us because we have invaded and occupied their countries. They hate us because we kill innocent people with predator drones. They hate us for our hypocrisy regarding democracy and freedom. Just when we had the opportunity to make a sensible decision by leaving Iraq and exiting the Middle East quagmire, Obama made the abysmal choice to casually sacrifice more troops in the Afghan shithole. We have thrown over $1.3 trillion down Middle East rat holes over the last 11 years with no discernible benefit to the citizens of the United States. George Bush and Barack Obama did this to prove they were true statesmen. The Soviet Union killed over 1 million Afghans, while driving another 5 million out of the country and retreated as a bankrupted and defeated shell after ten years. Young Americans continue to die, for whom and for what? Our foreign policy during the last eleven years can be summed up in one military term, SNAFU '' Situation Normal All Fucked Up. These endless foreign interventions under the guise of a War on Terror are a smoke screen for what is really going on in this country. When a government has unsolvable domestic problems, they try to distract the willfully ignorant masses by proactively creating foreign conflicts based upon false pretenses. General Douglas MacArthur understood this danger to our liberty. ''I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.'' Read article here
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Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld convicted of war crimes by international Tribunal
In the first verdict of its kind since former President George W. Bush left office, he and several members of his administration have been successfully convicted in absentia of war crimes in Malaysia.
A five panel tribunal delivered a unanimous guilty verdict after a week long trial that, unsurprisingly, was not covered by American media. The witnesses included several ex-Guantanamo detainees that gave testimony on the conditions and human rights violations that were systematically carried out under orders of the Bush administration.
Former President Bush, Former Vice-President Dick Cheney, Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo that crafted the legal 'justification' for torture that basically said, 'we can if we want to even if it's illegal' were the defendants. None were present, of course, but international war crime trials do not require the presence of the accused. The trial was run according to the standards set by the Nuremberg Trials to convict war criminals after World War II. Read article here
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Leaked U.S Army Document Outlines Plan For Re-Education Camps In America
A leaked U.S. Army document prepared for the Department of Defense contains shocking plans for ''political activists'' to be pacified by ''PSYOP officers'' into developing an ''appreciation of U.S. policies'' while detained in prison camps inside the United States. Read article here.
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Stellar Wind
A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world's communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks'....Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails'--parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital ''pocket litter.'''... The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013.'' In other words, in just over 1 year, virtually anything one communicatesthrough any traceable medium, or any record of one's existence in the electronic medium, which these days is everything, will unofficially be property of the US government to deal with as it sees fit. The codename of the project: Stellar Wind. Read article here
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Radioactive Water One Year After The 3/11 Fukushima Attack
A few days after the one year anniversary of the Fukushima 3/11 attacks on Japan. The worlds largest man made ecological disaster continues to unfold. From ASR, a global coastal and marine consulting firm, The Radioactive Seawater Impact Map. Read article here
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New World Order: Blueprint Of Madmen
A new documentary from Alex Jones definitively declares war against the attempts to control the population through a fear of false dangers. The facts are in'' terrorism as a mass threat is a hoax. It is government, and the elite who control it, that pose the real threat to humanity. This new film will serve as evidence to the fact that government is history's greatest killer'' with various regimes claiming more than 262,000,000 unnatural deaths in the 20th Century alone. Now, a 21st century technocratic global corporate tyranny seeks to kill not mere millions but billions'' through their superweapons, central banking warfare model and eugenics mindset. See movie here.
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Nazification Of America Is Almost Complete
The United States of America is becoming more like Nazi Germany every single day. In fact, the Nazification of America is almost complete. The parallels between Nazi Germany and the United States of today are going to absolutely shock many of you. Most Americans simply have never learned what life was really like back in Nazi Germany. Under Adolf Hitler, Germany was a Big Brother totalitarian police state that ruthlessly repressed freedom and individual liberty. Read article showing 25 signs that Americas Nazification is almost complete here.
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The Copyright Office Is A Corrupt Raceteering Operation For Censorship
It is a known fact that the Copyright Office has been a fraud, does nothing to protect the original content creators, and has deprived America of it's true creativity. When facts and informational material in newspapers can be copyrighted and lead to copyright infringement lawsuits the copyright office is a known corrupt fascist front for the giant mega corporations and mega banks. Copyrights are suppose to only apply to creative material in nature as Judge Philip Pro believes posting an entire article is Fair Use for non commercial entities online since copyright should only apply to content creative in nature and facts cannot be copyrighted. '...The copyright office wants alternative media websites to disappear into a black hole. They are the biotch of the large Mega Corporations that put out propaganda for the Council of 300, the Bilderberg Group, and global power brokers. They know piracy is not the real reason for newspapers losing traffic and losing advertisement money. It is because they lie, distort, and omit the facts. The newspapers lie for the U.S. Government and banksters that really rule America and the rest of the world. Read article here
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A Noble Lie: A New Film Exposing The Truth Of The 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing
Noble Lie: A myth or untruth knowingly told by the elite to maintain social harmony, or the social position of the elite. '' The Republic, Plato The 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City was a direct blow to the heart of America. One hundred sixty-eight people were killed, including nineteen children. For those watching the nightly news, terrorism had come home. For years following the bombing, countless victims' family members, survivors, rescuers and ordinary Americans have questioned the official accounts about that fateful day. Hoping to shed light on answers long ignored and censored, both by prominent media outlets and the U.S. government, A Noble Lie peels back what we thought we knew about the bombing and its perpetrators. This film exposes information never before examined or brought to the attention of the American public. See here
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Model For Colonizing Nations (National Destruction) Banksters Handbook
Steps 1-8 from the handbook of the evil corrupt few that are running the planet. Their model; Force and Hypocrisy, used to destroy whole countries in the name of ''freedom'', ''democracy'', ''human rights'' and ''free trade''. They use utmost force and violence to achieve their ends. ''What did you say'...? That you don't want to be liberated and democratized?'' ''Then take this Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Hanoi, Berlin, Dresden, Bagdad, and Basra'...'' ''Take that Vietnam, Tokyo, Gaza, Kabul, Pakistan, Tripoli, Belgrade, Egypt, El Salvador and Grenada'...'' ''And that, Panama, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Somalia, Africa'...'' Always bombing people to smithereens'... Of course, always in the name of ''freedom'', ''democracy'', ''human rights'' and ''free trade''. Read article and watch video from ex-IMF Economic hit man John Perkins here
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Truth11 Films | Armed WithThe Truth, United We Stand
Truth11 Films latest release documents the reasons the 99% have risen. It outlines the subjects that need to be discussed, the areas of corruption and areas of government tyranny. Set to Famine, by Opeth. See the film here
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11/11/11 Unite For World Peace
November 11 1918 was supposed to be the end of all war. Instead the propaganda machine continued and with its perseverance the concept of peace was lost as being normal. Perpetual war was created immediately as war was outlawed. By refusing to enforce the ban of the concept of war, perpetual war was born. All war is illegal murder. '... November 11th was not made a holiday in order to celebrate war, support troops, or cheer in the 11th year of occupying Afghanistan. This day was made a holiday in order to celebrate an armistice that ended what was up until that point, in 1918, on of the worst things our species had thus far done to itself, namely World War I. '..... This November 11th 2011 is one where the truth is known by more people than ever before, 1500 plus cities are in protest and the world is awaking to the reality that we can choose world peace. We can choose prosperity. 11/11/11 Unite for world peace. Read article here
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Rex 84 Vs. Globalist Shutdown
For many years the globalists, through the federal agencies they control, have treasonously planned to use devastating orchestrated events to suspend constitutional rights and implement martial law. The best-known plan for martial law/continuity of government is called REX 84. Despite their planning efforts, technology, and billions of dollars spent on martial law training, a handful of activists can utilize simple yet powerful tools to ensure martial law is never implemented. This plan is known as Globalist Shutdown. Read article here
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UNGRIP
From the creators of Esoteric Agenda and Kymatica , UNGRIP penetrates the illusions and delusions of the legal system with direct relation to the psychology of humanity. See movie here
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The Pole Shift In Global Financial Power Is Almost Complete
The process of removing the cabal that has controlled most of the world for the past 300 years is almost complete, according to sources directly involved in the takedown. The takedown is being done by the world's military, police and intelligence agencies. The group being taken down is the Thule Society, Skull&Bones Nazi conglomerate headed by George Bush Senior. This group was trying to start world war 3 in order to reduce the world's population by 85% and start a fascist world government. Instead, they will be bankrupted and put in jail. Evidence of the takedown is now becoming visible for all to see. For example the IMF, supposedly the world's lender of last resort, is saying they have no money to help the Euro. This is publicly available evidence that the post war power structure is ending. Read article here
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The Rise Of The 9/11 Truth Movement and The Second Western Enlightenment
The growth of the 9/11 truth and justice movement throughout the world is unstoppable. The psychopathic elite and their moronic puppets in governments and media institutions cannot prevent the natural progress of freedom, peace, knowledge, truth, and love'... All the establishment sources of information and news, whether television or print, are losing credibility and public trust by the day. They are beyond redemption. Their complicity in war crimes and crimes against democracy will never be forgotten. If they are not in the gutter of history already, they soon will be when 9/11 truth reaches critical mass. '...9/11 truthers and conspiracy theorists are the vanguard of freedom of speech in the West and represent the intellectual resistance to the global totalitarian corporate state that got its big boost after the false flag 9/11 attacks. Read article here
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Ten Years After 9/11
10 years after 9/11 the masses are still living in denial and their action of inaction continues to enable mass murder. This must end. We can not allow the masses to stay in their false reality bubble at the cost of millions of lives. We must all act upon the truth. Ten years ago to the day we were attacked by our own government. On September 11, 2001 the US government plans of pre-meditated mass murder were carried out on its own people. With the intent to enlist the population into perpetual wars of mass murder. And to further enslave the human population deeper into the fascist police state. An ever controlled life of servitude, enslaved to the same people who put Hitler in power. The same people put Bush and Obama into office and thus the Nazi rule still persists to this day. Read article here
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Gandhi On Ending Injustice
US injustice in major policies will end when enough Americans speak the truth. The injustice is literal: US government policies with war and economics are in Orwellian violation of basic laws. The annual costs are millions of human lives, billions damned to suffer, and trillions of dollars looted. Anyone with intellectual integrity and moral courage can see and say these facts. Read article here
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Open proposal for US revolution:
End unlawful wars, parasitic/criminal economics and expose corporate media as propaganda
Revolution is from the Latin, revolutio, a ''turn around'' of political power. The US public would revolt and end unlawful US wars and banksters' rigged-casino fraud if they understood and embraced the central facts of these issues. This four-part series of articles provides the central facts, invites passionate public response, and proposes specific revolutionary public action. Read article here
The King family's civil trial found the US government guilty of Dr. King's assassination
US Corporate media refused to cover the trial or interview Dr. King's wife. His family's opinion is that the US government murdered Dr. King to end his protests against unlawful US wars and his call to end poverty. Read article here
Over 250 million human beings slaughtered by governments in war
The century within which we were all born witnessed over 250 million human beings slaughtered by governments in war and atrocities. War is used as a continuous ''foreign policy,'' with the US in present egregious and unlawful abuse of their superpower status. History will judge when Americans developed the education competence to evolve beyond endless wars. Read article here
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Controlled Economic Collapse
Over 1 Million Deaths Annually, 62 Million People With Zero Net Worth, As The Economic Elite Make Off WIth $46 Trillion
The American public has sustained intensive economic attacks across broad segments of the population. While the attacks have been increasingly severe in scale over the past four years, they have been implemented with technocratic precision. They have been incrementally applied thus far, successfully keeping the population passive and avoiding any large-scale civilian unrest, while effectively reducing living standards for the majority of the population. Read article here
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The Riots Of England Are Exactly What The Establishment Want = Don't Play Into Their Hands = Riots Are Not The Solution
It then comes to a point in time when it is in the best interests of the powers that are in control to let the ponzi scheme they have created collapse. The math makes no sense any more, they need it to fail so they can start the next one hundred year pyramid scheme of fractional reserve banking. We are at 100% of GDP to service the debt. Income tax would have to be raised to 80% to cover the debt. Baby boomers are retiring in mass with nothing to show for their years in the slave system. The elite know its going down and they respond by furiously further robbing us blind, transferring even more wealth back to them in fast forward. Foreclosing on houses and taking vast land ownership, crashing markets and daily gouging the lemmings in the stock market corrupt trading system. When it all collapses you will not even have your house to hold up in'... and thats their plan. Its not enough they want to enslave us and kill and rob us blind, they want to control us with a tight police state. So they instil riots and the masses cry for martial law and beg for a police state. We must not fall for this. Read article here.
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9/11 International Hearings To Be Held In Toronto
A decade after the events of September 11, 2001, which resulted in the immediate deaths of nearly 3,000 people on American soil, countless victims from toxic dust, and hundreds of thousands of deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq, international hearings on this pivotal event will begin in Toronto in September. The events of September 11 provided a pretext for a War on Terror that has led to military invasions and occupations, and attacks upon civil and human rights throughout the world. The credibility of the official investigation into the events of September 11, 2001, carried out by the U.S. Government between 2003 and 2005, has been questioned by millions of citizens in the United States and abroad, including victim family members, expert witnesses and international legal experts. Read article here
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There is no freedom, no democracy, and no government accountability in Amerika, a fascist state
Americans are a doomed people for many reasons. One reason is that they are disunited and at one another's throats and, thus, cannot stand up the tyranny issuing from Washington. Read Article here.
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A World Overwhelmed By Western Hypocrisy
As the second decade of the 21st century opens, those who oppose US hegemony and the evil that emanates from Washington risk being declared to be ''terrorists'' If they are American citizens, they can be assassinated. If they are foreign leaders, their country can be invaded. '... And the American sheeple think that they have ''freedom and democracy.'' '.... There is nothing left of the American character. Only a people who have lost their soul could tolerate the evil that emanates from Washington. Read article here
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The Government Has Ordered The Media Not To Cover 9/11
The Pentagon Papers have finally been released by the government. Yet the statements from Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about 9/11 have not been covered by the corporate media; what else is new. Read article here
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Truth11 Films | Perpetual War
We have been tricked into fighting perpetual wars of mass genocide for pointless profit. There is no enemy. The enemy is within the US government. All exterior enemies are created to justify the advancing military industrial complex. There is only one way war will end. The masses must rise up, unite, and demand world peace. Here is Truth11 Films latest short film set to The Lotus Eater by Opeth. Perpetual War; See film here
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Plans For A Permanent War Against Terror | A War Against A Fake Terror Al-CIA-da
By declaring a global war against nameless individuals, organizations and nations 'associated' with the Taliban and al Qaeda, as well as those playing a supporting role in their efforts, the Detainee Security Act would appear to grant the president near unfettered authority to initiate military action around the world without further congressional approval. Read articles here and here
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Manufactured Reality + A Politically Constructed History
The American people are prisoners of state terror and victims of totalitarian propaganda. The American mind has been under a government and media siege ever since September 11, 2001 when the Bush administration committed the deadliest terrorist attack against America in U.S. history. But there are no cages, or military guards on the streets to signify that America is imprisoned. Guns are not needed to secure an illegitimate reign when people self-police their thoughts and police others by calling them conspiracy theorists if they champion a view of reality that is in stark contrast to the one that the men in power profess and the official ministers of propaganda publicize day and night. Read article here
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Al Qaeda: A CIA Database | Not A Terrorist Group
Shortly before his untimely death, former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook told the House of Commons that ''Al Qaeda'' is not really a terrorist group but a database of international mujaheddin and arms smugglers used by the CIA and Saudis to funnel guerrillas, arms, and money into Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. Read article here
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Bilderberg Meeting 2011 '' Swiss National Councillors Letter About This Corrupt Group
This Group unites a kind of European and global elite of Bankers, Industrialists, Diplomats, US and European NATO Brass, crowned heads, Media groups, their Moguls and Editors, as well as Heads of States, whether retired or not, which coordinates, exchanges, organizes and structures, out of all democratic control, the major guidelines towards economic globalization. Considering that the notions of sovereignty and independence are obsolete, if not hindrances to an open Market, this discreet Group develops an ultra-liberal, Free Trade society model, with a (unique) world currency and the IMF as Treasurer. Read article here
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New Madrid fault line attack underway, 15 nuclear reactors targeted
The ''once in 500 year'' flooding of the Mississippi river over the New Madrid fault line is part of a campaign directed against the American people, according to multiple intelligence agency (MI6, CIA, FSB, Japan Security police) sources. The HAARP caused flooding is expected to be followed by an earthquake and then a ''nuclear emergency'' involving the 15 nuclear reactors located in the region. This will be a pretext for mass evacuations into FEMA camps, the sources say. The best way to derail this plan, apart from arresting the criminal cabal in Washington D.C., is to widely announce and denounce these plans in advance. Read article here
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Fake Death Of Bin Laden + The War On Terror False Flag Operation
By now, you are probably worn out from all the speculation about the actual events in Pakistan that claim the death of the public enemy No 1. No photos of a dead Osama bin Laden, burial at sea, instant DNA results and changing versions with every new news report gets old quickly. Capturing him alive for interrogation would maximize the intelligence quest, if that were the real goal. If any significance should be assigned to this account, now is the time to re-evaluate the entire nature of the War on Terror that has destroyed America more in the last ten years than any attack on home soil. Read article here
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The Collapse Of Our Modern World + The Birth Of A Better One
The root cause of most these problems that are bringing down our world right now is bad government. It is bad government (Big Government) that approved the GMOs. Bad government enforced the medical monopoly and allowed the pesticides to kill the honeybees. Bad government drove us into inescapable debt and costly foreign wars. Bad government outlawed health freedom and protected the monopolistic practices of the food companies, drug companies and chemical companies. The downfall of modern human civilization is, as you probably guessed, also the downfall of the very idea that Big Government creates a better society. Because if there's one idea that needs to stay dead after the collapse, it's the idea that We the People somehow need another group of people (government workers) to live off our hard work while hounding us with their false authority, directing every little detail of our lives. What we need in our world isn't more government, but more freedom. If we had freedom, integrity and personal responsibility, we wouldn't even be facing the global collapse that has already begun. Read article here.
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The Global Economy's Corporate Crime Wave
The world is drowning in corporate fraud, and the problems are probably greatest in rich countries '' those with supposedly ''good governance.'' Poor-country governments probably accept more bribes and commit more offenses, but it is rich countries that host the global companies that carry out the largest offenses. Money talks, and it is corrupting politics and markets all over the world. Read article here
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Sociapitalism: How the Government Became the Next Bubble | When This Bubble Bursts America Will Be Changed Forever
In the last thirteen years, a new financial order replaced capitalism in America. With cat-like tread, this transformation has caught most Americans unaware, let alone some of country's best financial minds (many of them fascist anyway). This new order constitutes the socializing of risk. Read article here
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Quantum Physics + Mind Over Matter
Quantum physics has proven that all matter at the subatomic level exists in wave form, and that matter only appears solid when we, as the observer, use our senses to decode and perceive the wave patterns in space and time. Significantly, thoughts, especially concentrated thoughts, also form measurable wave patterns. And thought waves have proven to affect observable matter in the physical world. Read article here
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5 Words Used To Control + Enslave Us
These 5 words are the keys to casting the spell in the attorneys' legal jargon trickery. All commercial transactions / contracts have been designed to remove the men and women from the equation and replace with a legal fictional entity in the matrix system. Read article here
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Centralized government identity program dismissed as being too draconian for Communist China
Gets go ahead in United States
A new program being touted by the Obama administration as a solution to online identity theft actually increases the risk of identity theft while providing the government with a national ID system through the backdoor, paving the way for a world wide web in which users will need government permission to access the Internet. Read article here
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Destroy The Globalists, One Fat Cat Corporations At A Time
Many may ask, ''How exactly can we boycott the globalists when they control everything?'' The answer is by systematically boycotting and replacing them with local alternatives. You can actually start today, by boycotting corporations you may not have even considered part of this nefarious agenda and corporations you not only can certainly live without, but would be better off for it. It requires absolutely no money at all, in fact, it will save you money in the long run and if you decide to replace them, you may learn a valuable skill-set in the process. Read article here
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Suppressing Truth and Promoting War: A New York Times Tradition
During and since WW II alone, America killed millions of mostly civilian Japanese, Germans, Italians, Koreans, Southeast Asians, Central Americans, Africans, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis, and now Libyans. Read how the New York Times is party to genocide. Just like the rest of the mass media circus. Here
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Flying Saucer Technology Released
Nuclear Engineer, Mehran Tavakoli Keshe, has come forward as being the developer of the technology being used in Iran's new ''flying saucer.'' His technology is claimed to harness magnetism and gravity to allow travel throughout the solar system and beyond. Read article here
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Legalizing War With Secret Memos
Justice Department memos''legalizing'' the crime of aggressive war were secret. Now they're published quickly, and there's a new one out on Libya (PDF). It begins:''The President had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force in Libya because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest. Prior congressional approval was not constitutionally required to use military force in the limited operations under consideration. April 1, 2011.'' read article here
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Obama's Position On Assassinations
The Democrat in office has taken a position on unilateral murder so extreme as to be ''profoundly troubling'' in its legal reach and potential for future use. Read article here
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9/11 Stand Down Orders
The 9/11 attacks have directly led to a dangerous interventionist US foreign policy based on preemptive military action that has transcended administrations and political paradigms. The key to understanding how 9/11 was possible can be found in a single government document, presented in context by Ventura in stunning detail. Just two short months prior to 9/11, then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld oversaw a significant change to DoD procedures for dealing with hijacked aircraft, making it the personal responsibility of the Defense Secretary to issue intercept orders. Of course, on 9/11 no such intercept orders were issued to NORAD, and three of four hijacked airliners were able to hit their targets with precision accuracy, paving the way for literal modern military crusade into the middle east, and now into Africa. Read article here
Jesse Ventura's New book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn't Want You To Read, blows the lid off top secret black ops
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Libya: Another War, Another Pack of Lies
The United States, Britain and NATO don't care about bombing civilians to contain rebellion. Their militaries bomb civilians every day without mercy. They have destroyed most of the community infrastructure of Iraq and Afghanistan before turning their sights on Libya. Read 11 Articles on Libya in 1 here
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''Support The Troops'' Is One Of The Most Cruel Hoaxes In History
Support the troops'' is a clever PR slogan that causes Americans to turn a blind eye to the brutal exploitation of our soldiers and military families for profit and for an evil ideology. Our soldiers and military families are paying for the Bush/Cheney/Obama/neocon wars with lives, limbs, post-traumatic stress, suicides, broken marriages, children without fathers, wives without husbands, and parents without sons and daughters. Read article here.
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Japan Earthquake + Tsunami Caused By HAARP and Nukes In the Seabed
The horrific earthquake weapon attack on Japan, resulting in 10 meter tsunamis along much of Japan's coast line came from rogue elements of the U.S. government located in underground bases in New Mexico and Nevada, according to pentagon and CIA sources. Read articles here and here and a video explanation here
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Rothschild Bankers Looting Nations Through World Bank/IMF
The World Bank/IMF is owned and controlled by NM Rothschild & Sons plus 30 to 40 of the wealthiest people in the world. For over 150 years they have planned to take over the planet through money. The former chief economist of the World Bank, Joe Stiglitz, was fired in 2000. He pointed out to top executives that every country the IMF/World Bank forced their way into ended up with a crashed economy, a destroyed government, and some even broke out in riots. Read article here
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The Connection Between Military Dominance + Planned Economic Crisis
The book Global Economic Crisis carefully ties militarization with the planned economic meltdown.The New World Order's systematic destruction of the planet's middle classes so as to concentrate wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer families. While global uprisings now threaten global governance under a single currency, scheming rulers have long anticipated this reaction. In The Global Economic Crisis, we learn exactly how a planet-wide military dictatorship plans to enforce its feudal vision. Read article here
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Truth11 Films | Techno Revolution + Self-Government System
Truth11 films latest short film is a call to action for peaceful instant global techno revolution, followed by a system that is already in place for global self-government. We are highly connected, we are highly equipped to unite. United we stand for self-government over new world order tyranny. Watch here
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Eliminating The Entire Federal Government Structure Is The Answer
The entire rationalization for the War of Terror against the American people rests upon the willful surrender of our most precious natural rights to a corrupt government. The Geheime Staatspolizei secret state police spawn the Homeland Security society. The criminal acts of the TSA are an affront to every citizen. In this new century, irrevocably harmed is caused by the phony domestic terror phobia. America is a mere shell of herself. Pile on the forced tax to fund socialized medicine over the intense opposition of regular people and you have a perfect storm. How can reform be a practical option when faced with such a perverse political system? The only sensible path for sincere and courageous souls is to work towards a replacement of the central government model of governance. Eliminating the entire Federal Government structure may seem to be impossible. However, aided in this task are the very actions of an evil system! All empires collapse. The United States is no more a monolithic union than the nations of the world are a global brotherhood. The myth that citizens owe an allegiance to a failed federation is absurd. Read Article here
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Revolution Without Violence
The American power structure has been set reeling by something that is simply outside the boundaries of their mental universe: a non-violent, non-sectarian, non-ideological, leaderless revolution by ordinary people. Read article here
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Self Sufficiency | Food Production
There are many gardening techniques that can produce an abundance of food for you and your family without requiring a lot of space, money or equipment. Read article here.
Self-Sufficiency: a universal solution to the globalist problem
Self-sufficiency and the harassing of technology in the hands of the people are the greatest fears of the global oligarchy '' fears that oligarchs throughout the centuries have harbored. Simply boycotting the globalists' corporations and replacing them with local solutions is something everyone can afford to do starting today. Read article here
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Techno Revolution
United We Stand, Connected, Organized + Armed With The Truth
The ability of the social networks to organize a protest almost overnight, because people of similar beliefs and commitments are in close communication with others, has completely changed the nature of political resistance and revolution. This system of revolution toppled a middle eastern dictatorship in less than a month. It threatens to topple two more before the end of February: Yemen and Egypt. We have entered into a new period political resistance. Read Article Here
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Thirty Little Known Facts About America
IRS, IMF, UN, US Treasury, FCC, CIA, FBI, NSA and Executive Orders'... Read article here
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Deconstructing The Sovereign United States
We the people are viewed as the greatest threat to a malevolent government and its partnering corporations and the expansion of what is becoming a full blown police state. The security the government desires is not from foreign terrorists, but rather, from us. Read Article Here
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V
''[T]he occupier, by seeing this sign (V), always the same, infinitely repeated, [would] understand that he is surrounded, encircled by an immense crowd of citizens eagerly awaiting his first moment of weakness, watching for his first failure.'' Read Article Here
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The CFR
The Council of Foreign Relations figured out how many news stations, radio stations and publications it would take to control the majority of opinion. They purchased them and put an editor in place in every one. See movie explaining how this elite group has controlled the big picture with propaganda from so many angles it has brainwashed a nation here.
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The Collective Evolution
'The Collective Evolution' is a documentary aimed at showing the current state of the world, why it needs to be changed, and how each and every one of us can play a role in changing it. Watch Movie Here
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Zeitgeist Moving Forward
''The world is going bankrupt, (whatever the hell that means), because of this idea called debt, which doesn't even exist in the physical reality. Its only part of a game we have invented, yet the well-being of billions of people is now being compromised. Extreme lay-offs, tent cities, accelerating poverty, austerity measures imposted, schools shutting down, child hunger,and other levels familiar deprivation all because of this elaborate fiction'...what are we fucking stupid'' See the first 3 movies here, Read Truth11's review of the movie: there are some mixed reviews of this movie, and for good reason. Don't let the message get lost due to corruption of even the purest ideas and watch the New movie Zeitgeist Moving Forward here
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Obama Is CIA
After eight brutal years of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, the nation was ready for any change. Unfortunately, the CIA, through LOOKING GLASS, MK-ULTRA, ARTICHOKE, PANDORA, and other behavioral science programs were ready to answer the call. The CIA answered the call with Obama and most of us bought him and his ''Hope and Change'' propaganda fecundity ''nurtured'' by CIA programs going back some sixty years. Read article here
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Lets Reclaim History
This is not an American government at all. It is a gang.
The deceitful and manipulative leaders in the CIA, the Federal Reserve, the White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon are the most destructive force in the world, and pose the greatest existential threat to human civilization, and world peace. Read article here
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10 New Year's Re-Solutions For Non-Violent Rebellion
Because our representative democracy has become a fraud, and the media and courts are clearly shills for the oligarchs, our only action appears to be non-violent rebellion; one person and community at a time. We can expose the crimes and immorality of the corporate state through civil disobedience and conscientious objection. We can punish multinational companies who commit flagrant fouls on humanity and the environment by boycotting them. Additionally, we can peacefully regain our liberty by becoming less dependent on the system for our basic needs. Read article here
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9/11 Billboards | We Need More Of These
If you are going to donate any money to truth organizations, may we suggest putting money into billboards. We need more of these. In what may be the first of it's kind in the nation, a group of 9/11 Truth activists organized, designed and paid for a commercial billboard in which 1,200 Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth invite the public to ''Examine the Evidence.'' Read article here
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Big Brother Watches You But You Are Not Allowed To Know Its Secrets
One of the hallmarks of an authoritarian government is its fixation on hiding everything it does behind a wall of secrecy while simultaneously monitoring, invading and collecting files on everything its citizenry does. Based on the Francis Bacon aphorism that ''knowledge is power,'' this is the extreme imbalance that renders the ruling class omnipotent and citizens powerless. Read article here
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Secret Underground Shelters | Denver International Airport
Built by the Masonic New World Airport Commission. The Denver International Airport covers the US largest secret underground shelter. It is adorned with disturbing graphic images of burning bushes, people in coffins, children crying, and a soldier with an AK47 and sword killing the dove of peace. Images you would not expect to find in an airport. Put there to illustrate the purpose of the facility. Read article and watch documentaries here
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Jesse Ventura | Conspiracy Theory | Seasons 1 and 2
Episodes covering; 2012, Secret Societies, HAARP, Big Brother, Plum Island, Area 51, Wall St, FEMA Camp | Police State, JFK Assassination, 911 / Pentagon, Manchurian Candidate, World Wide Water Conspiracy, Gulf Oil Spill, Global Warming and the Great Lakes. Watch the episodes here
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The Rand Corporation: A top secret think tank has been pulling the strings of American government for at least 60 years
''We're all the bastard children of RAND and we don't even know it,'' RAND started off as an organization centered around building new weapons for the military but ultimately expanded into politics, science, history and economics and was closely allied with the Ford, Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations. RAND was instrumental in developing the strategy behind the use of nuclear weapons, and how they actively promoting nuking the entirety of Eastern Europe as well as China in case of problems in Western Europe, a policy that could easily have sparked off a catastrophic nuclear holocaust. RAND researchers believed that as long as 10 million Americans survived a nuclear war, the war was won. Read article here
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To Question The Official 9/11 Story Is Simply And Fundamentally Revolutionary
To question the government story about 9/11 is to question the very foundations of our entire modern belief system regarding our government, our country and our way of life'...Bring on the revolution | Pentagon whistleblowers call for a new 9/11 investigation Read article here
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The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of America
This is a very good film showing the systematic approach the government has taken to dumb down America. Covering the education system, poisoning of citizens, fluoridation, and over medication of the population. See movie here
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Let The Banks Collapse and Free Us All From Slavery
The peoples of Ireland, Portugal, Spain etc. are looking at Iceland and realizing its is better for a country to allow banks to collapse that it is to take on generations of debt slavery. Ireland is now expected to be the first country to leave the Euro. They will not be the last. Read article here
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Fly The US Governments True Flag and Judge Their Actions Accordingly
Look at the actions of the US government over the past 70+ years, and judge each action with the governments true flag flying. You will see the forest for the trees. Read Article Here
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In America today, there are approximately five unemployed workers for every single job opening
The truth is that there are not nearly enough jobs out there for everyone that wants one. In fact, it isn't even close. Read article here
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Is WikiLeaks Going To Help The Government Kill The First Amendment and The Bill Of Rights?
Is This The Excuse They Need To Shut Down The Internet?
In order to convert the United States into a third world slave gulag with a high-tech police state overlay, the ruling elite will target and attempt to liquidate alternative media. Eventually extraditing and prosecuting Julian Assange as an enemy of the state is an important element in the effort to kill the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights. Read articles here and here and here.
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The Chemtrail Cover-Up
Clandestine NASA-military programs are poisoning the environment. Read article here
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The Big Picture Truth About The Global Warming Scam
Enough is enough of this complete bullshit
Several years ago, the sun was unusually active and all the planets in our solar system experienced a time of ''global warming''. That is a fact which many global warming alarmists just conveniently ignore. If man was the primary cause of ''global warming'' then why were all of the other planets in our solar system experiencing increased temperatures as well? The green agenda is becoming increasingly linked to the population control agenda. Today there are literally millions of people who actually believe that we need to dramatically reduce the number of humans on the planet for the good of the earth. Read article here
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Nazis, Eugenics, Floride and The Rockefeller Foundation
Depopulation programs forged by the Rockefeller foundation in association with the Nazis were the basis of modern day incarnations of eugenics like fluoride poisoning and vaccinations.
Blaylock explains how the eugenics movement began in America through Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie funding and what originated as The Science of Man project, which was an effort to socially engineer humanity to weed out those deemed ''undesirable'' to the elite. ''Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century.''- Robert Carlton, Ph.D, former EPA scientist, 1992 The history of forcing fluoride on humans through the fluoridation of drinking water is wrought with lies, greed and deception. Governments that add fluoride to drinking water supplies insist that it is safe, beneficial and necessary, however, scientific evidence shows that fluoride is not safe to ingest and areas that fluoridate their drinking water supplies have higher rates of cavities, cancer, dental fluorosis, osteoporosis and other health problems. Read articles Here + Here
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Manufacturing Consent
Here is an excellent movie by Noam Chomsky on the subject of using media to control the population. See movie here
Pol Pot Genocide of 2 Million Cambodian People in 1975
This movie also covers atrocities such as Pol Pot masacre of Cambodian people in 1975. Something the US Government and global media was complicit in.
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The Game Is Simple | All Economies Will Fail + The IMF Will Enslave Us All
The current economic control system is a pyramid scheme that is coming to the end of its cycle globally. No surprises, just built to fail from inception. The false solution is to roll into a new pyramid scheme by the IMF. As each country falls the IMF steps in and when they do the country suffers to no end. Natural resources are sold off and the country works eternally to pay the debt. Read article on the latest countries for the math to fail here.
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The Big Picture When It Comes To Naked Body + Behavior Scanners
Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano admitted yesterday that body scanners would eventually find their way into U.S. public transportation, trains and boats, but Big Sis is already beta-testing technology that goes even further, by forcing Americans to undergo a behavioral interrogation before they are allowed to enter sports events, rock concerts and shopping malls. '... The use of such technology is not only a complete violation of the Fourth Amendment, it also eviscerates the notion of innocent until proven guilty, and therefore totally undermines everything America stands for. Read article here
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Revolution Baby
Voting '... is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens
The past has shown us when faced with tyranny and corruption, there is only one way for the masses to regain freedom : Rise up, resist, revolt, strike, defy and do it in mass. We have great strength in unity. United we stand. Read article here. See also this article on Europe rising up here
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Marijuana Prohibition Is The Cornerstone Of The Police State
The simple truth about America's marijuana prohibition: any law that allows the easy incarceration of any citizen any time those in power want to do it is the ultimate enemy of democracy. With 800,000 annual arrests over an herb used by tens of millions of Americans, it is the cornerstone of a police state. Read article here
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Pearl Harbor Was An Inside Job
Robert Stinnett published his book ''Day Of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor''in 1999. Stinnett, a decorated WWII veteran and author, requested files about the attack, and the events preceding it, through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). He discovered that FDR not only knew about the attack in advance, but that his administration did everything it could to cause a Japanese attack on America. Read article here
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Words Of Truth From System Of A Down
The percentage of Americans in the prison system prison system, has doubled since 1985 | Why don't presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor? | Modern globalization, Coupled with condemnations, Unnecessary death, Matador corporations, Puppeting your frustrations, With the blinded flag, Manufacturing consent, Is the name of the game, The bottom line is money, Nobody gives a fuck. 4000 hungry children die per hour, from starvation, while billions spent on bombs, creating death showers. | Read article here
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Governments are the great mass-murderers of our world
Throughout human history, more human beings have been maimed, tortured and murdered by governments than by any other type of organization on the planet. And virtually all of that activity has been justified under the excuse that they were working to ''make the world a better place.'' Read article here
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9/11 Truth Report in ''Focus Money''
On 2010-09-08 Focus Money, an weekly mainly economic magazine, did a special take on 9/11 truth. This is a major breaktrough, as Focus Money is the second in the market for ecomomic magazines by numbers, edition about 140.000, views probably 50% more. This is the second time Focus Money printed an article about 9/11 truth, after a 5-page article back in January. The old one was titled ''We don't believe you'' Read article here
9/11 Pictures
The 911 pictures article has also been recently updated with new photos. Here
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Eisenhower's Warned Us Of The Military Industrial Complex
We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations. We must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. See speech and read article here
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De-classified Vietnam-era Transcripts Show Senators Knew Gulf Of Tonkin Was A Staged False Flag Event
Aug. 4, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, where US warships were apparently attacked by North Vietnamese PT Boats '' an incident that kicked off US involvement in the Vietnam war '' was a staged event that never actually took place. Read article here.
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Fluoridation is straight from the Nazi handbook | It must be stopped
Despite damning evidence on fluoride toxicity, bureaucracies and multinationals continue to pollute our drinking water and mess with our physical and mental health. Read article here | Also more articles in the Fluoridation category (right)
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Toronto G20
20 corrupt leaders planning global taxes, austerity, global government and expansion of government tyranny. Nazi police tactics, martial law, police in disguise and paid provocateurs = the black block; hijacking the peaceful protests, that were suspiciously left alone by police. Bait cars, illegal searches, torture and beating peaceful protestors and journalists. Welcome to the Toronto G20. New world order in full effect in police state Toronto. Read article and see photos and videos here. Update article here
Black Bloc'... Paid Provocateurs And Police In Disguise
To justify the spending, a false flag attack by police and paid vandals aid the new world order agenda. See article and watch video here
A Right Is Not A Right If They Can Take It Away
Suspension of rights in Toronto for the G2o, If they get away with this, they will do it again. See call to action article here
Toronto G20 Update
Police violating rights, lying, beating, abducting, raping and torturing protestors. Fascist Police State. Multiple update articles in one here.
Truth11 Films
Toronto G20 Video By Truth11 Films | Fuck Everything You Stand For | Watch here
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New Bill Gives Obama Kill Switch To Shut Down the Internet
The federal government is desperate to seize control of the Internet because the establishment is petrified at the fact that alternative and independent media outlets are now eclipsing corporate media outlets in terms of audience share, trust, and influence. Read article here.
Bill Approved | Obama can shut down the internet for 4 months under new emergency powers.. Read article here
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Food and Depopulation
Since the Rockefeller family came to power (especially after gaining a monopoly with Standard Oil) they have manipulated our government into ruining our financial system by way of the Federal Reserve, energy through oil dependency and food with GMOs (Genetically Engineered Organisms). The intention is to rob us blind and kill us. It's time to wake up. Read article here
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Austerity fascism is the realization of the global elite's agenda for a ''post-industrial revolution''
Top historians, social and financial analysts are warning that the draconian austerity measures currently being prepared by governments in the west will cause riots and even revolutions as people react with fury in response to their jobs, savings, basic public services, pensions and welfare money being seized by the financial terrorists who caused the economic collapse in the first place. Read article here
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Bilderbergers Have Failed and now are trying to activate plan B
The participants at the just ended Bilderberger meeting in Spain are scared they are going to be identified and eventually hunted down, according to an inside source at the meeting. For now Clinton, Bush, Baker and the other Bilderberg Nazi's are trying to cut a deal with China that will allow them access to large amounts of funds which they plan to hide and use to re-assert their power after the current political storm blows over, the source says. Unfortunately for them, this is one storm that is not going to blow over to and allow them to resume their plans for world fascist dictatorship. Article, 2010 agenda, list of attendees and coverage videos here
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The Truth About Alternative Energy and The Real Reason For the Iraq War'... Oil
One of the world's leading experts on trend forecasting says that producing our own energy for our homes and cars (called ''micro generation'') will become ahuge trend in the next couple of decades.
'...Alan Greenspan, John McCain, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, ahigh-level National Security Council officer and others all say that the Iraq war was really about oil. Read article here
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The writing is on the wall for the new world order
'...The solution is really quite simple to reach now that the nightmarish Satanic plan to enslave humanity is coming to an end: live and let live. If you look at the situation objectively you will see there is no reason for conflict between these groups, all the fighting and strife between them has been artificially engineered. Read article here
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Continuity Of Government | Suspension Of The US Constitution
The National Emergencies Act, one of the post-Watergate reforms that Vice-President Cheney so abhorred, specifies that: ''Not later than six months after a national emergency is declared, and not later than the end of each six-month period thereafter that such emergency continues, each House of Congress shall meet to consider a vote on a joint resolution to determine whether that emergency shall be terminated'' (50 U.S.C. 1622, 2002). Yet in nine years Congress has not once met to discuss the State of Emergency declared by George W. Bush in response to 9/11, a State of Emergency that remains in effect today. Read article here
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Hunter S. Thompson | Multiple Quotes Of Truth: Life, Corrupt Politicians and Stupid Wars
''We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear'--fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.'' Hunter S. Thompson. Article Here.
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Satanists On The Run | Revolution Is Coming
Satanists who have participated in the plot to enslave humanity are worried and are starting to run. With 40% of Greece's population revolting, the satanists are realizing we have great strength in unity. The masses are becoming aware and revolution is coming. Their plan was to kill at least 4 billion people and permanently enslave the rest of humanity. There is so much evidence for this now that only the fools still relying on Satanic corporate propaganda do not realize it yet. The plan involved a fake alien invasion, germ warfare, starvation, atomic war and artificially generated disasters like tsunamis and earthquakes. Read Article Here
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Overpopulation Is A Myth
As these videos demonstrate, overpopulation is a myth. Globalists and their eugenic minions have misrepresented population statistics for decades in order to justify their agenda to wipe out large portions of the population. See article here
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Police State Toronto and The G20 Summit
Events such as the G20 have become a testing ground for new police state measures and a trial run for a military style occupation. In June Toronto will be on lockdown with rights and liberties severely restricted. Article Here See Video Here
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Understanding Deep Politics
Definition of deep politics: It refers to government in which two dimensions of action always coexist: Overt and covert, or benign and utterly ruthless. Ten distinguished speakers headlining the ''Understanding Deep Politics'' Conference in Santa Cruz this May 14-16'--trace the era of deep politics to JFK's assassination; to the aftermath of World War II, Hitler, Lenin, Weishaupt, or Machiavelli, from there to ancient secret societies, and even back to the dawn of human governance itself. We can trace it forward too; the ways of deceptive government did not end with the ascent of Obama. Quite the opposite. Read article here
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Regime Change By Plane Crash
Nearly a month ago amateur footage was released ostensibly showing a Russian clean-up crew at the crash site killing off the few survivors of the Polish presidential plane crash. See video and read article here
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Two Words Brought Down Building 7; ''Pull It''
World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein, who collected nearly $500 million dollars in insurance on the basis that the collapse of building 7 was accidental, a 47-story structure that was not hit by a plane but collapsed within seven seconds on September 11; Was on the phone to his insurance carrier attempting to convince them that the building should be brought down via controlled demolition. How did Silverstein expect to demolish the building safely when such a process takes weeks or even months to properly set up. How could explosives have been correctly placed on such short notice inside a burning building that had already been evacuated '' unless the explosives were already in place? Read article here.
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Police State 4 | The Rise Of FEMA | Alex Jones
Another excellent documentary by Alex Jones. Extensively covering FEMA, and FEMA camps, executive orders and the growing police state. Watch movie Here or download at infowars.com
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Jason Burmas New Movie | Invisible Empire | A New World Order Defined
This is a comprehensive guide to the new world order and should be watched by everyone. If anyone doubted the truth movement, after watching this movie I think the only skeptics that will remain are the liars who run or benefit from the system and those choosing to live in denial. This is the final frontier, take the truth pill. Watch The Full Movie Here Or download it from InfoWars.com
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What The 9/11 Commission l Really Think
If you still don't know what to believe about 9/11 or doubt the 9/11 truth movement and believe the official story, then please listen to the people that were on the 9/11 commission. This article should spark a doubt in the official story. Enough to have you look into it further, and when you do, you will find great truth. Read here
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The Digital Economy Bill
A draconian Internet censorship bill that has been long looming on the horizon finally passed the house of commons in the UK yesterday, legislating for government powers to restrict and filter any website that is deemed to be undesirable for public consumption. Read article here.
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Top Nazis Planned EU-Sytle Fourth Reich
US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128, also known as The Red House Report, which details how top Nazis secretly met at the Maison Rouge Hotel in Strasbourg on August 10, 1944 and, knowing Germany was on the brink of military defeat, conspired to create a Fourth Reich '' a pan-European economic empire based around a European common market. Read Article here
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Benjamin Fulford Articles
AIDS and SARS are bio-engineered weapons designed to reduce the African (''Black'') and Asian populations.
The 9/11 terrorist attacks were an ''inside job'' carried out by the US government as a false flag attack to bring about new imperial mobilization.
The Pentagon, the oil industry, banking elite, and the pharmaceutical industry suppress inventions including free-energy and anti-gravity technology to maintain power.
The US government, using a secret military program HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) has been altering the climate, and using high power microwave energy inducing earthquakes including the Asian Tsunami (2004) and earthquakes in Japan (1995), China (2008), Haiti (2010), Chile (2010).
Haiti Video here | Articles by Benjamin Fulford here, | Articles on HAARP + Induced Earthquakes here
HAARP US Military Weapon That Can Cause Earthquakes and Alter The Climate
13 reasons to suspect HAARP caused the Haiti earthquake here
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The Truth Has Fallen And Taken Liberty With It
Today Americans are ruled by propaganda. Americans have little regard for truth, little access to it, and little ability to recognize it. Truth is an unwelcome entity. It is disturbing. It is off limits. Those who speak it run the risk of being branded ''anti-American,'' ''anti-semite'' or ''conspiracy theorist.'' Truth is an inconvenience for government and for the interest groups whose campaign contributions control government. Truth is an inconvenience for prosecutors who want convictions, not the discovery of innocence or guilt. Read article here
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Pictures Worth A Thousand Words
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. When it comes to the truth, these pictures speak volumes. From 9/11 truth, to the new world order police state. Each picture says it all. They show your fellow citizens voicing the truth. Evidence of the Truth and graphical representations of examples of truth. See all the pictures Here
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Bill Gates, Rockefeller Foundation, Neo-Eugenics, Vaccines and GMO for Population Reduction
In plain English, one of the most powerful men in the world states clearly that he expects vaccines to be used to reduce population growth.
The vaccine industry has been repeatedly caught dumping dangerous unsafe, untested or proven harmful'--vaccines onto unwitting Third World populations when they cannot get rid of the vaccines in the West. The true aim of the vaccinations is to make people sicker and even more susceptible to disease and premature death. Read article here
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Alex Jones Sticking it to the Propaganda Machine
The last time Alex Jones challenged Heraldo on 9/11 heraldos response was to give him the finger, twice. This time he has to respond to Alex Jones on TV . Alex rips into him and the establishments bullshit.. See video here
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Wall Streets Bailout Hustle
The biggest robbery in history. The wall street bailout con jobs, outlined in detail in this Rolling Stone article. 1. The Swoop and Squat, 2. The Dollar Store, 3. The Pig in the Poke, 4. The Rumanian Box, 5. The Big Mitt, 6. The Wire, 7. The Reaload. Read article here.
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Executive Orders: The Hallmarks Of Fascistic Tryanny
When a president tries to effect one of his Executive Orders into being a national law, he is attempting to circumvent congress, and contravene our Constitution, and move us closer to being a country ruled by men rather than a nation ruled by laws'.... '...In order to maintain the illusion of a democracy, we are still allowed a presidential election every four years; and no one president can serve more than two four year terms. But, it's not any one president who has become a dictator, it is the Office of the Presidency, and those faceless autocrats who control the presidency that has become dictatorial, without many of us ever knowing it. No, we are hardly a democracy. Our beloved United States of America has become a fascist dictatorship, and will remain so, until the majority of Americans come to realize the sad state of our ship of state. Read article here.
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US Government Abdicates
On February 3 2010, Dennis Blair, director of National Intelligence told the House Intelligence Committee that it was now ''defined policy'' that the U.S. government can murder its own citizens on the sole basis of someone in the government's judgment that an American is a threat. No arrest, no trial, no conviction, just execution on suspicion of being a threat. Read article here.
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Obama Declares He Will Rule By Authoritarian Decree
The Obama administration has announced it will now rule by fascist decree and ignore Congress and the American people. Read article here
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Refuse To Pay Government Debt Incurred For Unlawful And Oppressive Purposes
In international law, odious debt is a legal theory which holds that the national debt incurred by a regime for purposes that do not serve the best interests of the nation, such as wars of aggression, should not be enforceable. Such debts are thus considered by this doctrine to be personal debts of the regime that incurred them and not debts of the state. Read article here
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Conspiracy Theory VS Conspiracy Fact
Those who conspire for war, profit, and evil, cry conspiracy theory when their actions are questioned; The masses hear conspiracy theory and regurgitate it upon cue. Its time the masses stopped spewing the term conspiracy theorist and actually looked into the facts, if they did they would find conspiracy fact. Article here
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Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Have now reached 1000 professional members, further legitimizing calls for a new investigation into the September 11th attacks based upon physical evidence and analysis that is completely inconsistent with the official story. Article here
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New Arial Photos Released From 9/11
These clouds of dust were the result of pulverized concrete and thermite explosives. The bogus official pancake story would not do this. Take a look at these photos and see if you think this was a collapse layer by layer, on top of the other, compressing the damage, or buildings literally blown to particles of dust. See photos here
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Fake wars, fake war on drugs, drugs peddled by hypocritical government, the military industrial complex set to kill and invasions continue
Whether it's under Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, or Obama, the policies have remained the same and the damage to our bottom line has been mountainous. It's time to ditch the policies we have come to tolerate for decades before they consume what is left of our moral core. Read article here
120 Years Of US Invasions here
Common themes of US Invasions here
13 Lies: An Abbreviated History Of U.S. Presidents Leading Us To War
Those of you who long ago figured out that George Bush lied about, and twisted, 9-11, the role of Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Osama, and WMDs to justify the invasions of Afghanistan, and Iraq, and to create the War on Terror, will not be surprised to learn that our prior Presidents, and their complicit henchmen, have lied us into every war since our Revolution. Read article here
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Obama Administration Orders World Bank To Keep Third World In Poverty
By preventing poor nations from becoming self-sufficient in blocking them from producing their own energy, the Obama administration is ensuring that millions more will die from starvation and lack of access to hospitals and medical treatment. Read article here
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9/11 Truth From Mos Def and Immortal Technique
Man, you hear this bullshit they be talkin', Every day, man, It's like these motherfuckers is just like professional liars'...YouknowwhatI'msayin? It's wild'... Listen'.... | Lyrics and song Here
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William Melvin Hicks Speaking Pure Truth
''Its just a ride, and we can change it any time we want, its only a choice, no effort, no work no job, job, no savings of money, a choice right now between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, and buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Heres what we can do to change the world right now to a better ride; Take all that money we spend on weapons and defence each year and instead spend it on feeding clothing and educating the poor of the world which it would many times over, not one human being excluded and we can explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.''
Video of the quote Here | Bill Hicks on The Global Elite Here | and more quotes and vidoes of Bills here
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Fuck You I Wont Do What You Tell Me!'.....
It hast to start somwhere, it has to start somehow, what better place than here, what better time than now? All hell can't stop us now!,,,,
Rage Against The Machine Quotes of truth here
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Truth11 Films | Propaganda vs Truth In Advertising
watch video here
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1. The Hyperreality of a Failing Corporate Media System | 2. Inside the Military Media Industrial Complex and 3. Hope Fades for End of the American Empire under Obama
1. Hyperreality is the inability to distinguish between what is real and what is not.Corporate media, Fox in particular, offers news that creates a hyperreality of real world problems and issues. Consumers of corporate television news''especially those whose understandings are framed primarily from that medium alone''are embedded in a state of excited delirium and knowinglessness'.....
2. Among the most important corporate media censored news stories of the past decade, one must be that over one million people have died because of the United States military invasion and occupation of Iraq.
3. There are still a large number of Obama supporters who are basing their opinion of him solely from his campaign promises. Others simply hear what he says and base their opininon on that. In order to properly asses Obama you must look at his actions. There are numerous articles on Truth11 discussing his actions. In two speeches at the close of the decade, the Nobel Peace Prize winner affirmed that peace was no longer peace, but rather a permanent war that 'extends well beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan-- to 'disorderly regions and diffuse enemies--. He called this 'global security-- and invited our gratitude. Read all three articles here
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False flag attack to usher in less rights
The general consensus from the corporate media is, if we want to travel, we have to just put up with our rights being violated. The government puts a man on a plane with no passport and a fire cracker in his shorts and we are supposed to put up with nazi style interrogation. Just another addition to the long list of diminishing human rights.
Evidence clearly indicates staged attack on Detroit flight. Article here
lluminati Vowed in 1969: ''Travel Will Be More Difficult''
Like sheep, humanity had better adjust to constant harassment as long as it tolerates Illuminati control of all important government and social institutions. Read article here
Project Hostile Intent
Mind Scanners the next step if we accept naked body scanners. Under project hostile intent, everyone is remotely screened by passive scanners that pick up brain waves in order to to determine whether they intend to commit violent or terroristic acts. Article here
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Environment, Eugenics and Quotes
''A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible.'' '' United Nations, Global Biodiversity Assessment
''A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.'' '' Ted Turner, founder of CNN and major UN donor
Everyday I encounter people who doubt the plain truth that stares them in the face. The problems is they either can't see the forest for the tress or they do not want to see. Many automatically doubt that big organizations like the Federal Reserve or United Nations could be involved in corruption or conspiracy, and they do it without looking into it at all. They blindly belive they are doing good things. Well for those people this article is for you. It is quotes from the people running those organizations, words from their own mouths, telling you the evil they are planning to do and are doing to you right now. Article here. See also bilderberg quotes here. See also the quote category here.
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War Is Over | If you want it
John Lennon forwarded the peace movement by paying for billboards that spread a message of truth. ''War Is Over!, if you want it''. The government did not like the truth being told to the masses. The add campaign was really starting to cause problems, so they killed him. Read article and watch the movie The US vs John Lennon here
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President John F Kennedy Secret Society Speech
'...we are apposed around the world, by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy,
'...I am asking for your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. Confident with your help man will be what he was born to be, free and independent. Speech recording and transcript here
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ClimateGate
For years many scientists have been challenging the numbers put out by the Gore climate propaganda machine. Recently emails have been released outlining the deceit, conspiriacy and corruption. See the Climateate category here
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Copenhagen, fake global warming propaganda, the Trilateral Commission, CFR and one world government
'...''The philosophical underpinnings of the Trilateral Commission are pro-Marxist and pro-socialist. They are solidly set against the concept of the nation-state and in particular, the Constitution of the United States.
'...''If the Council on Foreign Relations could be said to be a spawning ground for the concepts of one-world idealism, then the Trilateral Commission was the 'task force' assembled to assault the beachheads. Already the Commission had placed its members in the top posts the U.S. had to offer,''
'...''A former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher [Lord Christopher Monckton] says the real purpose of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Dec. 7-18 is to use global warming hype as a pretext to lay the foundation for a one-world government,'' Read article here | See also this article
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The Fed Is Running Scared
Bernanke's Fed has meticulously sabotaged the economy in order to create a crisis in classic Hegelian fashion. The corporate media tells us the crisis is the result of ineptitude and mismanagement at the Federal Reserve. Au contraire. Like the Great Depression, the even Greater Depression now on the horizon was scientifically created.
The Fed is the primary instrument the bankers are now using to destroy the middle class, hand over all public assets and resources to them, implement a crushing austerity, usher in a new era of global corporatist feudalism and build a sprawling planet-wide slave plantation based on China's totalitarian model.
It is the ultimate dream of the banking cartel. It will be used as the foundation to build world government. Destroying the dollar as the world's reserve currency is only the beginning. Read article here
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A brief history lesson and the economic crisis
The United States does not control its own destiny. Rather it is controlled by an international financial elite, of which the American branch works out of big New York banks like J.P. Morgan Chase, Wall Street investment firms such as Goldman Sachs, and the Federal Reserve System. They in turn control the White House, Congress, the military, the mass media, the intelligence agencies, both political parties, the universities, etc. No one can rise to the top in any of these institutions without the elite's stamp of approval. Read article here |
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A real solution to the financial crisis
Truth11'²s suggested solution to the financial crisis 100% Guaranteed to work, first time. here
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Evidence that George W. Bush had prior knowledge of 911
He states in these two videos that he watched the first plane hit on TV. There was no live coverage of the first plane hitting, there was no coverage on TV of the first plane until a video surfaced that evening. He had a private live video feed. The only way for that to be possible is prior knowledge. Read article and watch the video clips here.
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Microbiologist speaks out:H1NI vaccine is actually a bio-weapon
Joseph Moshe is a microbiologist who had called a radio station, and stated that the H1NI vaccine is actually a bio-weapon, and is the DEPLOYMENT OF A PLAGUE. The official propaganda line is that he had threatened the President, although there is no evidence that this is true. The following day his car was disabled with a magnetic pulse and surrounded by tanks, robots, and a virtual army of Secret Service and FBI agents. Then bombarded with massive amounts of gas. Read article and watch here.
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Media as enablers of Government Lies
If Americans wish to retain the remnants of their liberty, they cannot trust the media to warn them about government tyranny. In order to recognize government deceit, there is no substitute for more citizens to make more effort to find the truth for themselves. Read article here
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George Bush Telling The Truth For A Change
This speech is created from clips of several speeches to tell us all what bush really thinks. Thanks to creators for allowing us to hear the truth for a change from this guy. Click here for the video
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William Patrick Corgan | The Smashing Pumpkins
Flu Pandemic is Propaganda
If you follow some of the links I have been supplying as of late, you'll notice many are focused on the propaganda build up to our day of reckoning with the Swine Flu virus. I say 'propaganda' because, in my heart, there is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic. Our American President Obama has declared a national emergency about this virus, which he in his own words said was, at this point, a preventative measure. So, why declare an emergency if there isn't one? Read article here
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Truth Advertising Campaign
Truth11 photography exhibit here
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Change'... What Change?
The combined US troop deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan have now reached a higher level than existed at any time under the presidency of George W. Bush. This surge past the record set by its predecessor marks another grim milestone in the Obama administration's escalation of American militarism. Read Article here
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What Is Money?
Article here
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Truth11 Films | 911 Truth to Ticks and Leeches by Tool
Watch here
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Government Propaganda To Infest Network TV Shows
An insidious brainwashing program set to be launched next week will ''organically'' weave the government's political propaganda into prime time network television shows, with positive talking points about Obama's environmental, bailout, health care and ''servitude'' agenda being seamlessly integrated into the content of dramas, reality shows and comedies. Read article here
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One Mainframe to Rule Them All
One Mainframe To Rule Them All is a breathtaking rundown of the human microchipping agenda. Concise and effective, it breaks down the coming global information control grid in all its horrifying detail. Watch the movie here
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End the Fed'... The IMF and the rest!
We cannot let the End of the Fed victory be a false one. We can not let the efforts of Ron Paul and many others go to waste, by simply replacing evil with the same evil and a different logo. We cannot allow the IMF to take the place of the Fed. They are the same thing. The same people in control, the same effect on the human population. Read article 300 members of the house support audit the fedhere
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Martial Law
A private security force whose biggest role is helping the U.S. government to ''combat terrorism'' is now patrolling the streets of a town in Montana, acting as law enforcement but accountable to nobody and operating completely outside the limitations of the U.S. constitution in a chilling throwback to the brownshirts of Nazi Germany. Read article here See also these articles here and here
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National Guard, police, and other military units attacked American citizens with tear gas and deployed sound cannons today in response to an ''unpermitted protest'' as bedlam hit the streets on the first day of the G20 summit in downtown Pittsburgh. Read article here
The First Amendment is officially dead in the United States. If this isn't martial law then we don't know what is.
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United We Stand
2 million march on ending government tyranny | The largest protest in US history | Downplayed by the propaganda machine
The last thing the government wants is for the masses to rise up together and realize their power of strength in numbers. Thats why the corporate media reported the latest T.E.A. Party only had tens of thousands of participants. The actual number was the largest in US history, over 2 million. If the corporate media was really on the side of the people they would have reported the significance of the largest protest ever. Read article here | Watch time lapse video here
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Charlie Sheen's Video Message To Obama here
Charlie Sheen has confronted the president on public record about 9/11 truth and for going back on his campaign promises.
The transcript of that conversation is here
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Stop The 9/11 Cover up
On the anniversary of the false flag attacks by our own government, the truth movement is stronger than ever. Polls, petitions and protests show that people know the truth and do not accept the governments ridiculous cover up story. Read article here
Lots of articles and movies on 9/11 truth here or in the categories section >right>
Documentary on the controlled demolition of the world trade centre on 9/11. Watch it here
Pancake theory? Would leave a steel core'...
Lots more 9/11 pictures and links to articles below'... scroll down
And tons of 9/11 articles here
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Obama, Fairey and Propaganda
The Obama ''Hope'' campaign successfully detached the reality of who Obama is and what he stands for and bundled him up as a neat little answer to our problems; what most people hoped would be the deliverance from the countries empirical aims.
'....As is taught in Buddhism; Suffering is ended by the light of awareness. So too is the influencing effects of propaganda'... After all, what is propaganda; but a ploy to persuade through sensationalism and emotional triggers rather than logic and contextual insight? Read article here
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Global Currency
The United Nations has called for the establishment of a new global reserve currency to be overseen by a bank of the world in an effort to reduce the role of the Dollar in international trade. Read article here.
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Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack Obama
Alex Jones latest documentary lays out in precise detail the long-running plot by a cabal of global elitists to take over the world and deliver humanity into grinding slavery and usher in a new Dark Age. It spells out how the elite have worked tirelessly to bankrupt a once proud, industrious, and self-reliant nation through financial terrorism. Fall of the Republic warns what is in store for us if we do not wake up and take back our country and restore its once cherished tradition of liberty and limited government. Read article here Watch movie here or download or order a copy at infowars.com, or prisonplanet.com
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Click here for a large version
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Big Brother Is Watching
UK has more CCTV cameras than China. Read article here
UK Government to install surveillance cameras in private homes. Read article here
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THINK DIFFERENT
Resist the New World Order
Click here to watch the Apple Commercial that aired only twice
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New World Order Organizational Chart and the Pyramid of Power HERE
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Global Power and Global Government
Part 1 | Evolution and revolution of the central banking system
Part 2 | Origins of the American empire: Revolution, World wars and World Order
Part 3 | Controlling the global economy: Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Federal Reserve
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Scams and Bailouts Are The Cause Of World Depression
This is a great article summarizing all that has and is causing our current global economic crisis. Read article here
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Law
Understanding Law and the lies they tell us we must follow | Know your true rights | Article here
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Taxation
31 Questions and answers the IRS does not want you to know | Article here
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North American Union
President Obama will attend the controversial Security and Prosperity Partnership meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper next month, it has been revealed. Read article here.
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Resisting the new world order
9/11 activists at a July 4th parade. Read article here
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One Global Currency
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev illustrated his call for a supranational currency to replace the dollar by pulling from his pocket a sample coin of a ''united future world currency.'' Read article here
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NAFTA Superhighway and the North American Union
The Trans-Texas Corridor, part of the NAFTA Superhighway projected to link the United States with Canada and Mexico as an integral cog of the North American Union, is back on the agenda after Texas Governor Rick Perry lied in claiming that the proposal was dead earlier this year. Read article Here
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Journalist Files Charges against WHO and UN for Bioterrorism and Intent to Commit Mass Murder
Read article here
Do Not Get The Swine Flu Vaccine
Lots of articles on this subject in the biological false flag attack category here
Congressman: Obama Could Use Pandemic To Declare Martial Law
Georgia Congressman Paul Broun warned attendees of a town hall event Tuesday that the Obama administration was planning to use a pandemic or a natural disaster to implement martial law in the United States. Read article here
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D-Day, Obama and Hitler
Without the financial support of Bush, the Wall Street bankers, and multinational corporations Hitler would have remained an obscure former Gefreiter in the German army and hyperventilating leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party that would have fizzled out, as did so many other parties in the tumultuous years of the Wiemar Republic. Minus Hitler and his bankster and industrialist backers, 160,000 troops would not have landed on the beaches of Normandy and 10,000 American, British, and Canadian troops would not have died. Bush, Ford, General Electric, IBM, and the Wall Street bankers are responsible for more than 70 million people slaughtered during the Second World War, including about 12 million war-related famine deaths in China, Indonesia, French Indochina and India. Read whole article here
Also see the article Bush and Nazis here
See also
The Anatomy of Blue State Fascism | Explaing the link of Hitler, Bush and Obama. Nazi Rule has been in place since ww2 | Read article here
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For lots of excellent Truth Documentaries click here
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Co-operation vs. competition / Competition is enslaving us all / Economics, slavery and the financial crisis
The human spirit will thrive with co-operation: far more than with competition. So why is our society based upon competition and not co-operation? The current economic system is based upon the masses competing with each-other for limited resources. For one reason, to keep them enslaved to the system. '... The current economic crisis is being caused by the end of a pyramid scheme by the Federal Reserve Bank called the Fractional Reserve Banking System. Read article here
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9/11 was an inside job
The top 40 reasons to doubt then challenge the governments official story of the events of September 11th 2001
Read article and watch Truth11 short film: ''Ticks and leaches'' here
Molten steel and thermite that burns much hotter than airplane fuel can burn being extracted weeks after 9-11
Cut columns are not caused by planes
9/11 was a Nazi false flag attack by our own Nazi government
Some excellent pictures from the Movie Loose change watch here
Plane hitting the pentagon?
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IFC New World Order 2009 Documentary
From the Kennedy assassination, to waco and 911. Documentary covering the New World Order, The Bilderberg group and the truth movement and its crusaders. See movie here
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I am as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this any more!
This speech and several others in the movie Network (1976) holds as true today as it did back then. See the article, clips and the full movie here
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2012 | Pole Shifts | Planet X
Lots of articles and books on this subject that may or may not face us all. The key is if you believe it or not, it doesn't hurt to be very prepared for anything.
2012 Survival Guide here
Survival Guides here
Pole Shift Information here
2012 Information here
Books and further resources here
Articles that feel 2012 will not bring any changes to our planet here
My thoughts on the subject here
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Cybersecurity Is Framework For Total Government Regulation & Control Of Our Lives
The Obama administration's new Cybersecurity system will only make the Internet more vulnerable to attack, while creating the framework for a massively upgraded government surveillance grid that will control and regulate every aspect of our daily lives through the implementation of ''smart'' technology. Read Whole Article Here
Projects to ''master the internet'' in full swing on both sides of the pond
The legislation would allow the federal government to tap into any digital aspect of every citizen's information without a warrant. Banking, business and medical records would be wide open to inspection, as well as personal instant message and e mail communications. Read Whole Article Here
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New World Order Definition and the US Dollar Explained here
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One Giant Leap For Mankind | The Moon Explained
Read article here
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Bail Out Pictures
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G20 Protestor
Protesting the New World Order
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G20 Protestors
Abolish Money
Abolish Economics
Abolish Slavery
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Today we are all prisoners in the USA
As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government's permission. Read More Here
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John F. Kennedy | Shadow Government Speech
JFK addressing the American people about the shadow government that operates behind the scenes. He asks for the help of every citizen to expose the truth. This was his last speech before being assassinated by the CIA. Specifically ordered by George H. W. Bush.
Read speech here
Read about the George H.W. Bush connection to Kennedy's assassination here
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US to relax EU and UK travel restrictions for vaccinated passengers
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 13:40
Coronavirus pandemicBiden administration to announce new travel policy effective from NovemberThe new rules are part of a broader policy for international travel being developed by the Biden administration, a person familiar with the matter said (C) Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesSeptember 20, 2021 1:15 pm byKiran Stacey in Washington Vaccinated passengers will be able to travel to the US from the EU and UK from November onwards, the Biden administration will announce on Monday, in a major diplomatic victory for Brussels and London.
The White House will announce a new travel policy on Monday morning, marking the end of the 18-month blanket ban on travel imposed by Donald Trump, the former US president, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic that was maintained by Joe Biden.
Three people with knowledge of the policy told the Financial Times that Monday's announcement will mean that fully vaccinated passengers will be able to travel once the ban is lifted within weeks. Those involved in clinical trials for vaccines that are not yet approved in the UK will also be allowed to enter the US, a policy which will apply to around 40,000 people.
One person added that the policy is part of a wider framework the Biden administration is developing to cover all international travel, which is intended to replace the patchwork system of bans and restrictions that apply to different parts of the world.
Under the current policy, only American citizens, their immediate families, green card holders and those with national interest exemptions can travel to the US if they have been in the UK or EU in the previous 14 days.
The White House's change of direction comes at the start of the UN General Assembly in New York and marks the culmination of weeks of intense diplomacy between Washington, London and Brussels.
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Chess Trailblazer Nona Gaprindashvili Is Suing Netflix Over 'The Queen's Gambit' : NPR
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:35
Georgian chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili plays at the International Chess Congress in London on Dec. 30, 1964. She is suing Netflix for defamation and invasion of privacy over its series The Queen's Gambit. Stanley Sherman/Getty Images hide caption
toggle caption Stanley Sherman/Getty Images Georgian chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili plays at the International Chess Congress in London on Dec. 30, 1964. She is suing Netflix for defamation and invasion of privacy over its series The Queen's Gambit.
Stanley Sherman/Getty Images The Queen's Gambit on Netflix won over tens of millions of viewers last year, triggering a national run on chess sets and making an instant icon out of its fictional protagonist.
And that's not all it did, according to one real-life champion. Georgian chess legend Nona Gaprindashvili '-- who made history as the world's first female grandmaster '-- alleges the show belittled her career and damaged her reputation with a single sentence.
Gaprindashvili is now suing Netflix for defamation and invasion of privacy, according to a 25-page complaint filed in a federal district court in California on Thursday. The case focuses on a scene toward the end of the show's final episode.
In it, brainy heroine Beth Harmon is facing off against a Russian grandmaster at the Moscow International (both characters are fictional). A radio commentator remarks that she is not considered an important player by her male competitors:
"The only unusual thing about her, really, is her sex. And even that's not unique in Russia. There's Nona Gaprindashvili, but she's the female world champion and has never faced men," he says, as the camera passes briefly over a female audience member watching the chess match.
The real Gaprindashvili, now 80, and her legal team call this line "manifestly false ... grossly sexist and belittling." They write in the complaint that by 1968, the year in which this episode is set, she had competed against at least 59 male chess players '-- including 28 of them simultaneously in one game.
Also, they note, Gaprindashvili is Georgian, not Russian '-- a misrepresentation they say is made worse by the fact that Georgians suffered "under Russian domination" during and after the Soviet Union era.
The complaint accuses Netflix of disparaging Gaprindashvili's achievements to make for a more dramatic story and dismissing her earlier allegation of defamation without issuing a public apology or retraction.
It seeks at least $5 million in damages, arguing that the false statement caused Gaprindashvili "personal humiliation, distress, and anguish, as well as damages to her profits and earnings, and her ongoing capacity to engage in her professional livelihood in the world of chess."
"We think it's a very shabby thing of them to have done," Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, one of Gaprindashvili's attorneys, told NPR in a phone interview. "This whole program, The Queen's Gambit, is aimed to show that women can succeed, and how their heroine overcame prejudice. But in doing so, they trashed the real person who had really been the trailblazer."
Gaprindashvili declined to comment through her attorneys in Georgia.
Netflix said in a written statement that it believes her case is without a legal basis. "Netflix has only the utmost respect for Ms. Gaprindashvili and her illustrious career, but we believe this claim has no merit and will vigorously defend the case," wrote a spokesperson.
Who is Nona Gaprindashvili?Gaprindashvili has made a career of breaking barriers in the male-dominated world of chess.
She was born in 1941 in the Republic of Georgia ("where chess is a very big deal," Rufus-Isaacs says) and started playing professionally at the age of 13. She became female world champion at age 20 and held that title until 1978.
Over the decades, she has picked up 25 Chess Olympiad medals, held positions in Georgia's parliament and received the Georgia Order of Excellence. The Tbilisi Chess Palace is dedicated to her, the complaint notes. And she continues to participate in senior tournaments, winning the world championship title among players 65 and up as recently as 2019.
Gaprindashvili started competing against (and defeating) men in 1962, and has spoken and written about the difficulties she faced in countering the stereotype that female chess players were inferior to men.
"She overcame a great deal of prejudice," Rufus-Isaacs said. "The male players in the '60s were not the most progressive bunch of guys, and they took it very personally when they were being competed against by a young girl. And Nona found that a lot of them ... would go to great lengths to avoid the embarrassment they saw as being beaten by a woman."
Gaprindashvili was known for her aggressive style. The complaint mentions one legendary tournament in which she and her opponent only agreed to a draw when there were "virtually no pieces left on the board." The Soviet Chess Federation later declared the match the best chess game of the year, and the complaint says it took such a psychological toll on Gaprindashvili's opponent that he did not participate in tournaments for the next year.
The case and its allegationsGaprindashvili's accomplishments made headlines during the 20th century, the complaint says, and many social media users and news organizations took issue with Netflix's framing of her career after The Queen's Gambit came out last October.
Gaprindashvili had reached out to Netflix to communicate her concerns through a previous legal team, according to Rufus-Isaacs. He said Netflix dismissed the line in question as "innocuous," rather than offering acknowledgement or a remedy.
The television series is based on a 1983 novel by Walter Tevis, which references Gaprindashvili but says she had "met all these Russian Grandmasters many times before."
Rufus-Isaacs said Netflix should have preserved the novel's original wording or used a fictional name.
A spokesperson for the company has not responded to an email asking for comment on specific aspects of the complaint.
Netflix said 62 million households had streamed the seven-episode series within a month of its release. It went on to become the first series in history to top Nielsen's streaming rankings for three straight weeks and is up for 18 Emmy awards on Sunday.
Kabul Airport suicide attacker was freed by Taliban after four years in CIA custody for New Delhi terror plot
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:33
Abdul Rehman, a former engineering student with roots in Afghanistan's Logar province and the son of a merchant who frequently visited New Delhi on business, was freed from Bagram prison on 15 August
The Islamic State suicide bomber who killed at least 169 Afghan civilians and 13 United States soldiers outside Kabul airport last month was incarcerated in Afghanistan's notorious Bagram prison for the past four years, thanks to Indian efforts, Firstpost has learnt through credible intelligence sources.
Senior Indian intelligence sources familiar with the case have told Firstpost that he was handed over to the United States' Central Intelligence Agency by the Research and Analysis Wing in September 2017. However, the jihadist walked free on 15 August along with thousands of other dangerous terrorists held in the high-security prison, taking advantage of the chaos that ensued in the aftermath of the United State's hurried exit and the Taliban's swift takeover of the entire country.
Identified as Abdul Rehman, the jihadist was a former student of an engineering college in India and hailed from Afghanistan's Logar province. He was the son of an Afghan merchant who frequently visited India for business.
His arrest had led to the termination of a plot by the Islamic State of Khurasan Province (IS-K) -- the Islamic State's regional wing in Afghanistan -- to stage suicide bombings in New Delhi and other cities across the region, probably on the behest of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI).
"America's disorganised retreat from Afghanistan has led to hundreds of highly-competent and highly-committed terrorists being set free to rejoin the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups," one officer who worked on the Abdul Rehman case said.
"Literally a decade's work on counter-terrorism has been undone by the US' failure to secure key prisoners in Bagram," he said adding that the consequences of this failure will be "very far-reaching."
The Islamic State's South Asia magazine, Sawt al-Hind (or Voice of the Indian Subcontinent) also confirmed in this weekend's edition that the suicide bomber had earlier been arrested in New Delhi, in the course of a failed suicide-bombing plot.
The said plot was first brought into the public domain by The Indian Express in 2018 and was first detected in mid-2017 by the CIA, which had picked up intelligence from communications of IS leadership in Afghanistan and their financial support networks in Dubai.
Rehman was selected to lead the plot because of his familiarity with New Delhi, which the jihadist had visited on several occasions in connections with his family business.
Rehman, the sources said, arrived in India under cover of studying at an engineering institute in Noida. After staying in the institute's hostel for some weeks, he moved to a flat in New Delhi's Lajpat Nagar neighbourhood. Intercepted communications allowed RAW to insert an agent posing as a jihadist in Rehman's circle, who pretended to be furthering the plot by sourcing explosive devices and recruiting personnel.
Sources said that the Delhi Police's counter-terrorism unit, which was led by now-Deputy Commissioner of Police Pramod Kushwaha, had conducted on-ground surveillance against Rehman for several weeks before his arrest.
RAW's agent, the sources said, persuaded Rehman that he had recruited multiple suicide attackers and sourced enough explosives to conduct the attacks. This generated a lot of chatter in the extremists' network and caused multiple communication between the Afghan jihadist and his commanders, which the CIA was able to exploit.
Instead of prosecuting Rehman in India, the sources said, a decision was taken to extradite him to Kabul on a special flight, to facilitate the CIA's investigation. In Bagram, he was questioned by the CIA and Afghanistan's intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security. The questioning led to the elimination of multiple Islamic State leaders in United States drone strikes till 2019.
"There's no clarity on what happened to Abdul Rehman between his escape from Bagram and the suicide attack," one intelligence official said. "It is possible he wanted revenge, or that he was persuaded by his old jihadist friends to atone for his role in the killings of his associates in this manner."
The New Delhi suicide-bombing plot, the sources said, had begun to take shape in the summer of 2016, soon after the Islamic State's military shura, or council, picked jihad commander Aslam Faruqi to lead the organisation. A 1977-born ethnic Pashtun from Bara, in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Faruqi had joined the Lashkar-e-Taiba, and operated with its units alongside the Taliban from 2007 to 2014, before leaving for Syria to join the Islamic State.
According to Antonio Giuztozzi's writings, Faruqi returned to Pakistan in 2016 and was later appointed as the leader of the Islamic State in Afghanistan, as a ''result of contacts with the Pakistani ISI, which hinted to IS-K the possibility of a trade-off: the appointment of a leader linked to the ISI and the cessation of attacks against Pakistani government targets, in return for access to safe havens in Pakistan."
The Islamic State's rapprochement with the ISI was brokered by Azizullah Haqqani, the leader of an Islamic State unit that in turn had close links to Sirajuddin Haqqani, the head of a Taliban terrorist network responsible for multiple, lethal suicide attacks across Afghanistan and who is now the interior minister of the country.
Immediate command of the New Delhi suicide operation, the sources said, rested with Amir Sultan, an ethnic-Punjabi jihadist also known by the alias Huzaifa al-Bakistani. Amir Sultan was given charge of a unit within the Islamic State, which was responsible for recruiting operatives in India, particularly in Kashmir, and for motivating them to carry out attacks in the region.
Amir Sultan's unit included several Indian nationals, among them the only citizens of the country to stage suicide attacks overseas were dentist Ijas Kallukettiya Purayil, who was killed in a bid to storm a prison in Jalalabad last year, and his fellow Kerala resident, Muhammad Muhsin.
Last month, Firstpost had revealed that Aijaz Ahanger, Amir Sultan's father-in-law and an ethnic Kashmiri jihadist with a long record of terror activities in Kashmir, had also escaped from Bagram prison.
Gottlieb: 'Nobody knows' origins of six-foot social-distancing recommendation | TheHill
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:31
(C) getty: Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb
Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Scott Gottlieb said on Sunday that "nobody knows" the origins of the six-foot social-distancing recommendation.
During an appearance on CBS's ''Face The Nation,'' Gottlieb told host Margaret Brennan that the recommendation was arbitrary, saying that the Biden administration asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to change its guidelines from six feet to three feet in an effort to re-open schools last spring.
''Nobody knows where it came from. Most people assume that the six feet of distance, the recommendation for keeping six feet apart, comes out of some old studies related to flu, where droplets don't travel more than six feet,'' Gottlieb told Brennan.
Former FDA commissioner @ScottGottliebMD calls CDC's six-foot distancing recommendation ''arbitrary'' and ''a perfect example of sort of the lack of rigor around how CDC made recommendations.'' pic.twitter.com/2Xf4vrz6Ec
'-- Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) September 19, 2021 Gottlieb also said that the CDC's initial social-distancing recommendation was 10 feet.
''So the compromise was around six feet. Now imagine if that detail had leaked out. Everyone would have said, 'This is the White House politically interfering with the CDC's judgment.' The CDC said 10 feet, it should be 10 feet, but 10 feet was no more right than six feet and ultimately became three feet,'' Gottlieb said.
''But when it became three feet, the basis for the CDC's decision to ultimately revise it from six to three feet was a study that they conducted the prior fall. So they changed it in the spring.''
198 Methods of Nonviolent Action '' Albert Einstein Institution
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:25
198 Methods of Nonviolent Action (PDF version)
198 METHODS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION
Practitioners of nonviolent struggle have an entire arsenal of ''nonviolent weapons'' at their disposal. Listed below are 198 of them, classified into three broad categories: nonviolent protest and persuasion, noncooperation (social, economic, and political), and nonviolent intervention. A description and historical examples of each can be found in volume two of The Politics of Nonviolent Action, by Gene Sharp.
THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT PROTEST AND PERSUASION Formal Statements 1. Public Speeches 2. Letters of opposition or support 3. Declarations by organizations and institutions 4. Signed public statements 5. Declarations of indictment and intention 6. Group or mass petitions
Communications with a Wider Audience 7. Slogans, caricatures, and symbols 8. Banners, posters, and displayed communications 9. Leaflets, pamphlets, and books 10. Newspapers and journals 11. Records, radio, and television 12. Skywriting and earthwriting
Group Representations 13. Deputations 14. Mock awards 15. Group lobbying 16. Picketing 17. Mock elections
Symbolic Public Acts 18. Displays of flags and symbolic colors 19. Wearing of symbols 20. Prayer and worship 21. Delivering symbolic objects 22. Protest disrobings 23. Destruction of own property 24. Symbolic lights 25. Displays of portraits 26. Paint as protest 27. New signs and names 28. Symbolic sounds 29. Symbolic reclamations 30. Rude gestures
Pressures on Individuals 31. ''Haunting'' officials 32. Taunting officials 33. Fraternization 34. Vigils
Drama and Music 35. Humorous skits and pranks 36. Performances of plays and music 37. Singing
Processions 38. Marches 39. Parades 40. Religious processions 41. Pilgrimages 42. Motorcades
Honoring the Dead 43. Political mourning 44. Mock funerals 45. Demonstrative funerals 46. Homage at burial places
Public Assemblies 47. Assemblies of protest or support 48. Protest meetings 49. Camouflaged meetings of protest 50. Teach-ins
Withdrawal and Renunciation 51. Walk-outs 52. Silence 53. Renouncing honors 54. Turning one's back
THE METHODS OF SOCIAL NONCOOPERATION
Ostracism of Persons 55. Social boycott 56. Selective social boycott 57. Lysistratic nonaction 58. Excommunication 59. Interdict
Noncooperation with Social Events, Customs, and Institutions 60. Suspension of social and sports activities 61. Boycott of social affairs 62. Student strike 63. Social disobedience 64. Withdrawal from social institutions
Withdrawal from the Social System 65. Stay-at-home 66. Total personal noncooperation 67. ''Flight'' of workers 68. Sanctuary 69. Collective disappearance 70. Protest emigration (hijrat)
THE METHODS OF ECONOMIC NONCOOPERATION: ECONOMIC BOYCOTTS
Actions by Consumers 71. Consumers' boycott 72. Nonconsumption of boycotted goods 73. Policy of austerity 74. Rent withholding 75. Refusal to rent 76. National consumers' boycott 77. International consumers' boycott
Action by Workers and Producers 78. Workmen's boycott 79. Producers' boycott
Action by Middlemen 80. Suppliers' and handlers' boycott
Action by Owners and Management 81. Traders' boycott 82. Refusal to let or sell property 83. Lockout 84. Refusal of industrial assistance 85. Merchants' ''general strike''
Action by Holders of Financial Resources 86. Withdrawal of bank deposits 87. Refusal to pay fees, dues, and assessments 88. Refusal to pay debts or interest 89. Severance of funds and credit 90. Revenue refusal 91. Refusal of a government's money
Action by Governments 92. Domestic embargo 93. Blacklisting of traders 94. International sellers' embargo 95. International buyers' embargo 96. International trade embargo
THE METHODS OF ECONOMIC NONCOOPERATION: THE STRIKE
Symbolic Strikes 97. Protest strike 98. Quickie walkout (lightning strike)
Agricultural Strikes 99. Peasant strike 100. Farm Workers' strike
Strikes by Special Groups 101. Refusal of impressed labor 102. Prisoners' strike 103. Craft strike 104. Professional strike
Ordinary Industrial Strikes 105. Establishment strike 106. Industry strike 107. Sympathetic strike
Restricted Strikes 108. Detailed strike 109. Bumper strike 110. Slowdown strike 111. Working-to-rule strike 112. Reporting ''sick'' (sick-in) 113. Strike by resignation 114. Limited strike 115. Selective strike
Multi-Industry Strikes
116. Generalized strike
117. General strike
Combination of Strikes and Economic Closures
118. Hartal
119. Economic shutdown
THE METHODS OF POLITICAL NONCOOPERATION
Rejection of Authority 120. Withholding or withdrawal of allegiance 121. Refusal of public support 122. Literature and speeches advocating resistance
Citizens' Noncooperation with Government 123. Boycott of legislative bodies 124. Boycott of elections 125. Boycott of government employment and positions 126. Boycott of government depts., agencies, and other bodies 127. Withdrawal from government educational institutions 128. Boycott of government-supported organizations 129. Refusal of assistance to enforcement agents 130. Removal of own signs and placemarks 131. Refusal to accept appointed officials 132. Refusal to dissolve existing institutions
Citizens' Alternatives to Obedience 133. Reluctant and slow compliance 134. Nonobedience in absence of direct supervision 135. Popular nonobedience 136. Disguised disobedience 137. Refusal of an assemblage or meeting to disperse 138. Sitdown 139. Noncooperation with conscription and deportation 140. Hiding, escape, and false identities 141. Civil disobedience of ''illegitimate'' laws
Action by Government Personnel 142. Selective refusal of assistance by government aides 143. Blocking of lines of command and information 144. Stalling and obstruction 145. General administrative noncooperation
146. Judicial noncooperation 147. Deliberate inefficiency and selective noncooperation by enforcement agents 148. Mutiny Domestic Governmental Action 149. Quasi-legal evasions and delays 150. Noncooperation by constituent governmental units
International Governmental Action 151. Changes in diplomatic and other representations 152. Delay and cancellation of diplomatic events 153. Withholding of diplomatic recognition 154. Severance of diplomatic relations 155. Withdrawal from international organizations 156. Refusal of membership in international bodies 157. Expulsion from international organizations
THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT INTERVENTION
Psychological Intervention 158. Self-exposure to the elements 159. The fast a) Fast of moral pressure b) Hunger strike c) Satyagrahic fast 160. Reverse trial 161. Nonviolent harassment
Physical Intervention 162. Sit-in 163. Stand-in 164. Ride-in 165. Wade-in 166. Mill-in 167. Pray-in 168. Nonviolent raids 169. Nonviolent air raids 170. Nonviolent invasion 171. Nonviolent interjection 172. Nonviolent obstruction 173. Nonviolent occupation
Social Intervention 174. Establishing new social patterns 175. Overloading of facilities 176. Stall-in 177. Speak-in 178. Guerrilla theater 179. Alternative social institutions 180. Alternative communication system
Economic Intervention 181. Reverse strike 182. Stay-in strike 183. Nonviolent land seizure 184. Defiance of blockades 185. Politically motivated counterfeiting 186. Preclusive purchasing 187. Seizure of assets 188. Dumping 189. Selective patronage 190. Alternative markets 191. Alternative transportation systems 192. Alternative economic institutions
Political Intervention 193. Overloading of administrative systems 194. Disclosing identities of secret agents 195. Seeking imprisonment 196. Civil disobedience of ''neutral'' laws 197. Work-on without collaboration 198. Dual sovereignty and parallel government
Without doubt, a large number of additional methods have already been used but have not been classified, and a multitude of additional methods will be invented in the future that have the characteristics of the three classes of methods: nonviolent protest and persuasion, noncooperation and nonviolent intervention.
It must be clearly understood that the greatest effectiveness is possible when individual methods to be used are selected to implement the previously adopted strategy. It is necessary to know what kind of pressures are to be used before one chooses the precise forms of action that will best apply those pressures.
[1] Boston: Porter Sargent, 1973 and later editions.
Maximum aan cash betaling: Nederland wil limiet tegen witwassen | Binnenland | Telegraaf.nl
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:01
Door Leon Brandsema
Updated Vandaag, 00:26Vandaag, 00:01 in BINNENLAND
Het paarse eurobiljet van 500 euro moet uit de omloop worden genomen.
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Den Haag - In de strijd tegen criminaliteit en witwassen pleit Nederland in Europa voor een limiet aan cash betalingen en het laten verdwijnen van het biljet van 500 euro.
Het paarse eurobiljet van 500 euro moet uit de omloop worden genomen.
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Nederland staat er niet alleen in, demissionair minister Hoekstra (Financin) doet het voorstel samen met Belgi, Frankrijk, Itali en Spanje. Gezamenlijk vragen ze de Europese Commissie om een maximum van 5000 euro voor betalen met cash, met ruimte voor landen om nog lager te gaan. Hoekstra werkt zelf aan een grens van 3000 euro, schrijft hij aan de Tweede Kamer.
De landen willen ook af van het biljet van 500 euro, dat vooral wordt gebruikt door criminelen. Het biljet wordt niet meer gedrukt, maar er circuleren nog altijd 400 miljoen stuks van. Hoekstra en zijn collega's willen het biljet geleidelijk uit roulatie nemen.
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'Gokker' Boris Johnson breekt opnieuw belofteIn de aanloop naar de verkiezingen van 2019 deed Boris Johnson als leider van de Conservatieven twee beloftes. Hij zou de kwakkelende welzijnszorg met een straf plan herstellen en hij zou geen belastingen verhogen.
The Strange China Feud of Soros and BlackRock
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 04:59
Image Author: Harald Dettenborn License:Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license Some rights reserved. License & Image Link: LINK By F. William Engdahl 17 September 2021 A bizarre war of words has erupted in recent days in the pages of financial media between billionaire hedge fund and color revolution specialist, George Soros, and the gigantic BlackRock investment group. The issue is a decision by BlackRock CEO Larry Fink to open the first foreign-owned mutual fund in China presumably to attract the savings of China's new (and fast disappearing) middle income population. In a recent newspaper interview Soros called the BlackRock decision a threat to BlackRock investors and to US national security.
This seemingly absurd clash of views between two financial predator giants of Wall Street hides a far larger story'--the looming systemic collapse inside China of a financial debt pyramid that is possibly the largest in the world. It could have a domino effect on the entire world economy far greater than the September 2008 Lehman Crisis.
''Global economic terrorist..:''
On September 6 Soros wrote a guest Editorial in the Wall Street Journal sharply criticizing BlackRock for investing in China: ''It is a sad mistake to pour billions of dollars into China now. This is likely to lose money for BlackRock customers and, more importantly, harm the national security interests of the US and other democracies.'' Not like Soros to cite US national security'... He went on to say, ''The BlackRock Initiative threatens the national security interests of the US and other democracies because money invested in China will help advance President Xi's regime, which is repressive at home and aggressive abroad.'' BlackRock issued a response stating, ''The US and China have a large and complex economic relationship'...Through our investment activity, US-based asset managers and other financial institutions contribute to the economic interconnection of the world's two largest economies.''
At a time when the bloated debt edifice of China banks and real estate conglomerates is collapsing almost daily, the defense of BlackRock and CEO Fink hardly ring true. It suggests there is far more behind the BlackRock-China relation as well as behind the Soros attack. Two days before Soros' OpEd in the journal, the official China Global Times wrote a scathing article calling Soros a ''global economic terrorist.'' One of their charges was that Soros money financed a ''color revolution'' in Hong Kong in 2019 against Beijing new laws de facto ending the island's independent status.
However the sharp attack on Soros was far more likely caused by an OpEd Soros wrote in the London Financial Times five days earlier in which he sharply attacked Xi Jinping and the current crackdown on private Chinese companies such as Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Financial. In an August 30 OpEd Soros called President Xi Jinping's crackdown on private enterprise, ''a significant drag on the Chinese economy'' that ''could lead to a crash.'' He further pointed out that major western stock indices such as MorganStanley's MSCI and BlackRock's ESG Aware, have ''effectively forced hundreds of billions of dollars belonging to US investors into Chinese companies whose corporate governance does not meet the required standard '-- power and accountability is now exercised by one man (Xi) who is not accountable to any international authority.'' He urged Congress to pass laws that would limit asset managers' investments to ''companies where actual governance structures are both transparent and aligned with stakeholders.''
The curious aspect about the Soros charges against Beijing financial transparency is that they are factually correct, based on public statements by Chinese regulators as well as Wall Street managers and regulators. China's financial markets are opaque, and rules change unpredictably as to who gets rescued and who not. The ongoing meltdown of China's huge Evergrande real estate and financial group is only one recent instance of the high risk of investing today in China.
Not so Evergrande
The world's ''most valuable'' real estate group is also the world's most indebted real estate group. Evergrande, based in Shenzhen, has been teetering on the edge of bankruptcy for months as it defaults on loan after loan and the major credit rating agencies lower its rating to junk status. The group owes a total of $305 billion and that debt is both offshore in dollar loans as well as domestic unregulated loans from what are termed WMPs or wealth management products. As its finances implode and unit apartment sales plunge, tens of thousands of prospective apartment owners are threatened with having paid for unfinished apartments. To date the central bank of China has not intervened but speculation grows that a state bailout of the group is days away in order to prevent a systemic financial contagion. The reason is apparently that Evergrande is only the tip of a very debt-bloated China corporate sector iceberg.
In August China Huarong Asset Management Co., a so-called ''bad bank'' created by the Finance Ministry to take on assets of troubled Chinese companies, itself had to be bailed out by the state to prevent what many feared would be China's ''Lehman crisis.'' Huarong is one of four such state-owned companies created in the wake of the 1998 Asia financial crisis to manage assets of bankrupt state companies. While majority owned by the Chinese Finance Ministry, since 2014 it has sold shares to others including Goldman Sachs and Warburg Pincus.
After 2014 Huarong grew into a non-bank financial giant and financed spectacular growth via debt. That began to unwind in 2020 during the covid crisis. In January 2021 a Chinese court tried the chairman, Lai Xiaomin, who was sentenced to death without reprieve for bribery, embezzlement, and bigamy, in a strange collection of charges. The court declared, ''He endangered [China's] financial stability.''
When the Huarong group failed to release its annual financial report by the deadline end of March, fears grew of a bankruptcy chain-reaction as billions of its offshore dollar bonds were at risk. Total debts were estimated at some $209 billion. Reportedly, instead of conservatively managing distressed assets, Lai used the state Finance Ministry status of the non-bank bank to deal in everything from private equity to real estate speculation to junk bond trading, borrowing billions wildly. The state forced its own CITIC group to bailout Huarong in August. Yet it's clear this is only the beginning of a snowballing financial crisis in China.
Crash landing?
For months the Xi Politburo has tried, with increasing desperation, to halt the growth of a colossal financial bubble in its real estate sector. Earlier this year Xi issued the slogan ''housing is for living, not for speculation.'' His moves to freeze and slowly deflate the huge real estate bubble are likely far too late. Real estate construction and sales are the largest single part of Chinese GDP, over 28% by official estimates. To demand that investment go now into ''productive'' projects and not speculation in real estate ever-rising prices is not so easy.
Xi has increasingly taken steps to control China's out-of-control real estate bubble, and its threat of a systemic crisis like that in the US in 2008, by instituting steps to restrain real estate lending. According to Chinese data the amount of real estate total financing is down 13% for the first half of 2021 compared with 2020. At the same time debt due by Chinese real estate companies on bonds and other debts are more than RMB 1.3 trillion or $200 billion in 2021, and almost RMB 1 trillion in 2022. The contracting real estate sector will make such a huge repayment increasingly impossible and lead no doubt to new defaults across China. Recently Ping An, China's largest insurance group, also heavily invested in real estate, was forced to set aside $5.5 billion in loan loss provisions related to its investment in defaulter, China Fortune Land Development Co.
If it were only Evergrande that is insolvent due to unpayable debts in a contracting economy, Chinese authorities could no doubt manage it in one or another way by demanding its state banks or large groups like CITIC simply swallow the bad debts to contain spread of the crisis. The problem is that Evergrande, Huarong, PingAn and other large Chinese property investors are clearly only symptoms of an economy which has taken on debt far beyond what was prudent. In April Beijing's CCP State Council told local governments that their so-called Local Government Financing Vehicles with estimated (no one knows) trillions of dollars they had in unregulated shadow bank loans used to finance local projects, had to get rid of excess bad loans or go under.
On July 1 Beijing announced that local government revenues from land sales to developers, some half of all local revenues, must be sent to the central Beijing Finance Ministry and no longer used locally. That insures a catastrophic collapse in the multi-trillion dollar local shadow banks and construction projects. No more Beijing bailouts. At the same time solvency of China's fragile multi-trillion ''small'' banking sector is in doubt, as bank closings increase. Now with national state-owned giants nearing bankruptcy, the verbal war between BlackRock and George Soros takes on a significant new light. China is in a serious debt collapse crisis.
China already has the world's largest extent of high-speed rail track and those are losing money. The Belt Road Initiative is bogged down in debts that countries are unable to repay and China banks have sharply cut loans to BRI Silk Road projects from $75 billion in 2016 to $4 billion in 2020. Its demographic crisis means the endless flow of cheap rural labor to build that infrastructure is sharply declining. The middle class is deeply indebted from buying new cars and homes when times were good. Total household debt including mortgage and consumer loans for cars and household appliances in 2020 was a whopping 62% of GDP. The Institute of International Finance (IIF) estimated that China's total domestic debt rose to 335 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020.
Beijing's Wall St Bailout?
It appears that Beijing is seeking a major de facto bailout from foreign investors into its troubled stocks and bonds led by Wall Street. Major Wall Street banks and investors have had close involvement in China for several years. With the US stock markets at dangerous historic highs and the EU in deep trouble, they perhaps hope China can save them, despite the clear evidence that Chinese corporate accounting rules are opaque, as Evergrande shows. Since 2019 Morgan Stanley's widely used MSCI All Country World Index, has been allowed to list major Chinese companies, which, as Soros accurately noted, forces western stock funds to buy billions of dollars of China stocks. BlackRock is permitted now to invest Chinese personal savings in its funds. It is not clear if there are other parts to the deal.
This is the pot of potential gold which has Wall Street and BlackRock lining up outside Beijing. The Soros condemnation of BlackRock, the largest private investment fund in the world, clearly is strategic. Could it be that Soros intends to replay his 1998 toppling of the Russian bond market bubble after taking his profits? If so, no wonder the official China media calls Soros an ''economic terrorist.'' Whatever the trigger, such a collapse of the China debt bubble would make the 2008 Lehman crisis pale.
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine''New Eastern Outlook''
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The days of full COVID coverage are over. Insurers are restoring deductibles and copays, leaving patients with big bills '' The Seattle Times
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Jamie Azar leaves Kindred Hospital rehab Tuesday after being hospitalized for COVID-19 in late July in Chattanooga, Tenn. (Stacy Kranitz for The Washington Post)Jamie Azar left a rehab hospital in Tennessee last week with the help of a walker after spending the entire month of August in the ICU and on a ventilator. She had received a shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in mid-July but tested positive for the coronavirus within 11 days and nearly died.
Now Azar, who earns about $36,000 a year as the director of a preschool at a Baptist church in Georgia, is facing thousands of dollars in medical expenses that she can't afford.
''I'm very thankful to be home. I am still weak. And I'm just waiting for the bills to come in to know what to do with them,'' she said Wednesday, after returning home.
In 2020, as the pandemic took hold, U.S. health insurance companies declared they would cover 100% of the costs for COVID treatment, waiving copays and expensive deductibles for hospital stays that frequently range into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
But this year, most insurers have reinstated copays and deductibles for COVID patients, in many cases even before vaccines became widely available. The companies imposed the costs as industry profits remained strong or grew in 2020, with insurers paying out less to cover elective procedures that hospitals suspended during the crisis.
Now the financial burden of COVID is falling unevenly on patients across the country, varying widely by health-care plan and geography, according to a survey of the two largest health plans in every state by the nonprofit and nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.
If you're fortunate enough to live in Vermont or New Mexico, for instance, state mandates require insurance companies to cover 100% of treatment. But most Americans with COVID are now exposed to the uncertainty, confusion and expense of business-as-usual medical billing and insurance practices '-- joining those with cancer, diabetes and other serious, costly illnesses.
(Insurers continue to waive costs associated with vaccinations and testing, a pandemic benefit the federal government requires.)
A widow with no children, Azar, 57, is part of the unlucky majority. Her experience is a sign of what to expect if COVID, as most scientists fear, becomes endemic: a permanent, regular health threat.
The carrier for her employee health insurance, UnitedHealthcare, reinstated patient cost-sharing Jan. 31. That means, because she got sick months later, she could be on the hook for $5,500 in deductibles, copays and out-of-network charges this year for her care in a Georgia hospital near her home, including her ICU stay, according to estimates by her family. They anticipate she could face another $5,500 in uncovered expenses next year as her recovery continues.
Bills related to her stay at the out-of-network rehab hospital in Tennessee could climb as high as $10,000 more, her relatives have estimated, but they acknowledged they were uncertain this month what exactly to expect, even after asking UnitedHealthcare and the providers.
''We still don't know where the numbers will land because the system makes the family wait for the bills,'' said Azar's sister, Rebecca Straub.
UnitedHealthcare declined to comment specifically about Azar's situation unless she signed a blanket waiver allowing release of all her health records '-- which she declined.
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Jamie Azar with her dog, Buster. (Stacy Kranitz for The Washington Post)In general, a person with Azar's type of plan would have an in-network deductible of $1,500 and an in-network out-of-pocket maximum of $4,000, said UnitedHealthcare spokeswoman Tracey Lempner in an email. Lempner declined to say what a patient's out-of-network, out-of-state share would be at the Tennessee rehab hospital.
She did not respond directly to a question about why UnitedHealthcare chose Jan. 31 to stop waiving deductibles and copays for COVID treatment.
''The cost-share waivers were just one piece of our overall response to the COVID-19 pandemic,'' Lempner said. ''We have focused our efforts around helping our members get access to COVID-19-related tests, vaccines and treatment, while providing additional support to our clients, care providers and local communities.'' UnitedHealthGroup, UnitedHealthcare's parent company, reported $15.4 billion in profits in 2020, up from $13.8 billion in 2019.
The charges Azar anticipates would be budget-crushers, Straub said. Her relatives are seeking help from the public on a nonprofit patient-fundraising website called Help Hope Live, which says it verifies the circumstances of each patient's condition with medical providers.
In a recent Facebook video call from her hospital bed in Chattanooga, Azar cited prayer from family and friends for helping her maintain a positive attitude. Although she considers the change in insurance practices unjust for people who get sick this year, she said she harbors no personal animosity toward UnitedHealthcare.
''I got here a year late, huh?'' she quipped. ''Even though it may not seem fair or seem right, it's where we are.''
She said her doctors surmised she may have already been exposed to the coronavirus when she received her Johnson & Johnson shot in July.
The lack of uniformity in COVID insurance practices across the country this year is striking. In some places, because of differences in health plan policies, COVID patients in the same hospitals and in the same ICU units could be facing completely different financial burdens.
''There was no federal mandate for insurers to cover all the costs for COVID treatment. Insurers were doing it voluntarily,'' said Krutika Amin, a Kaiser Family Foundation associate director who researchers health insurance practices.
Last year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 88% of people covered by private insurance had their copays and deductibles for COVID treatment waived. By August 2021, only 28% of the two largest plans in each state and the District of Columbia still had the waivers in place, and an additional 10% planned to phase them out by the end of October, the Kaiser survey found. Its survey this year of employer-sponsored plans reflected similar patterns.
''For some people, deductibles can be over $8,000 for a hospital stay,'' Amin said. ''It will really depend on what plan they have.''
America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry's lobbying and trade group, said insurance companies began to reinstate cost-sharing for COVID treatment as vaccines became available and in recognition that the coronavirus will be an ongoing health challenge.
''After a year and a half, it's pretty clear that COVID is here to stay, that this is a continuing health condition,'' AHIP spokesman David Allen said. ''When it comes to treatment, we're looking at it like we would treat any other health condition.''
The industry says it is not using the return of deductibles as financial incentive for people to get vaccines. To encourage vaccinations, the industry is focused on ''carrots, not sticks,'' Allen said, with programs targeting education and making sure no one is billed for receiving vaccines.
In Painesville, Ohio, Becky Calderone, a hairdresser and graphic artist, has been contending with a steady stream of bills and collection notices for seven months, she said, after she and her husband were both stricken with COVID in February. Her husband was hospitalized; she was not. Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, which was provided through her spouse's employer, reimposed patient cost-sharing for COVID treatment Jan. 31.
Calderone and her husband did not fit the criteria for early vaccine supplies, which were targeted in January and February toward the elderly. The couple did not get vaccinated until May, well after they got sick.
''We were stuck in this gap,'' Calderone said. Thirty days after her husband's release from the hospital, she said, ''the bills started coming in like a flood.''
Calderone described navigating a bureaucratic odyssey of emails and appeals with Anthem as well as contact with state insurance regulators. Now she is receiving letters ''up the wazoo'' from collections agencies. Anthem agreed to waive her husband's deductibles, she said, but the bills from various providers are still inexplicably arriving. Her deductibles remain in place, she said, but she has not been told why.
Calderone said the financial hardships may mount even further. The couple has a new insurance company now, because her husband changed jobs, so they will have to meet another set of deductibles and copays this year as they battle long-hauler COVID symptoms, including irregular heartbeats and chronic fatigue, she said.
Anthem did not respond to requests for comment specifically about Calderone's claims. A spokesman said Calderone would need to sign a waiver to release medical information. Calderone declined.
In a general statement, the company said its waivers last year were one of a number of steps it took to help its members manage the impacts of the virus.
''These waivers ended in January as we all had gained a better understanding of the virus, and people and communities became more familiar with best practices and protocols for limiting COVID-19 exposure and spread,'' the company said in a statement. ''Also, at this time vaccines, which are proven to be the safest and most effective way to protect oneself from COVID-19, were starting to become readily available.''
Anthem took in $4.6 billion in profits in 2020, compared with $4.8 billion in 2019.
The reintroduction of cost-sharing mainly affects people with private or employer-based insurance. Patients with no insurance can have 100% of their expenses covered by the federal government, under a special program set up by the government for the pandemic, with hospitals reimbursed for care at Medicare rates.
COVID patients with Medicaid, the government plan for lower-income people that is paid for by states and the federal government, continue to be protected from cost-sharing, insurance specialists said. Patients on Medicare, the federal plan for the elderly, could face out-of-pocket costs if they do not have supplemental insurance.
For large commercial plans, the pandemic created an unusual dynamic in 2020. Hospitals stopped performing elective procedures, because of the risk of infection and because they were overwhelmed in many communities, so insurance companies had to pay out fewer claims.
''Insurers may have also wanted to be sympathetic toward patients, and some may have also feared the possibility of a federal mandate to provide care free-of-charge to COVID-19 patients, so they voluntarily waived these costs for at least some period of time during the pandemic,'' the Kaiser Family Foundation report said.
Nationally, COVID hospitalizations under insurance contracts on average cost $29,000, or $156,000 for a patient with oxygen levels so low that they require a ventilator and ICU treatment, according to data gathered by the national independent nonprofit FAIR Health.
''Insurers wanted to encourage people to get treatment. And this was something that, almost more than any illnesses and health conditions, was something that you have no control over,'' said Jack Hoadley, research professor emeritus at the Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms. ''The insurers probably had a sense that there was a moral obligation to not put patients on the spot for this kind of thing.''
Insurance companies participating in Affordable Care Act marketplaces also faced the prospect of having to pay rebates to the government if their profit ratios exceeded certain levels.
The calculus in place in 2020 changed with the advent of vaccines, which now makes most hospitalizations preventable, Hoadley said.
In some cases, the patchwork of policies and plans is creating stark differences in circumstances for individual patients in the same facility.
Hospitals along the Connecticut River, the border between Vermont and New Hampshire, draw patients from both states. Vermont health plans are waiving deductibles and copays into 2022. In New Hampshire, where Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield has a dominant presence, insurance companies have reinstated cost-sharing.
Marvin Mallek, a doctor who treats COVID patients from both sides of the river at Springfield Hospital in Vermont, said New Hampshire COVID patients are now facing business as usual from insurers, suffering the same sort of financial stress that routinely affects patients with cancer, heart disease and other serious ailments.
''The inhumanity of our health-care system and the tragedies it creates will now resume and will now cover this one group that was exempted,'' he said. ''The U.S. health-care system is sort of like a game of musical chairs where there are not enough chairs, and some people are going to get hurt and devastated financially.''
Hospitals also are in the position of having to resume billings and collections for individuals who may have been laid off because of the pandemic or been too sick to work, experts said.
''If you ever wanted a study in differential treatment, this is it,'' said Ray Berry, chief executive officer of his own company, Health Business Solutions, in Cooper City, Florida, and a member of the North Broward Hospital board. ''You can have people in beds right next to each other, and one can pay $3,000 and one can pay nothing '... The folks who do pay it are going to get sticker shock.''
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warc | 202143 | Today marks the 9
th Annual World Lung Cancer Day (WLCD).
The inaugural WLCD was initiated by the Forum of International Respiratory Societies in 2012 as a campaign to celebrate, commemorate & support people affected by lung cancer all over the world.
On the day and in the lead up to it, members of the international lung health community including the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) and the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) in the U.S. host various events to raise awareness and educate about the disease risk factors as well as encourage people to seek screening tests for early diagnosis and improved prognoses.
Lung Cancer
According to the World Health Organisation, lung cancer is the most common form of cancer globally, with more than 2 million new cases diagnosed annually and just over 1.75 million deaths. Each year, the disease claims more lives yearly than breast, colon and prostate cancers combined and in the US alone it is estimated that one person dies from lung cancer every 4 minutes.
Smoking tobacco remains the number 1 risk factor for lung cancer, but it’s not the only factor with family history and environmental exposure to carcinogens also playing a significant role in disease onset.
You can read more about lung cancer at Cancer Health’s Lung Cancer page and related links on their website.
What’s Happening This Year?
This year, the Lung Cancer Foundation of America (LCFA) is supporting WLCD by raising awareness through its dedicated Speakers Bureau and Young Investigators.
These people will share their stories about what it means to live with lung cancer and how research within lung cancer has made a difference. You can read their stories here and hear them live on social media when they take over LCFA’s Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram profiles for the day (#WLCD2021)
Get Involved!
Cancer is a part of life and this day is for everyone. You can easily get involved in WLCD just by following the online events and discussions, and taking part to spread the word about lung cancer. See the full schedule right here and make sure to use some of the hashtags #worldlungcancerday, #wlcd, #LivingWithLungCancer, #LivingWithLungCancer when posting on social media. | 2,276 | 1,187 | 4,298.898062 |
warc | 202143 | M1: Lesson 2 – DiscussionCreate an original posting with a minimum of 250-300 words.Back up your arguments with reliable evidence.Ethical Issues In ResearchThere are many ethical challenges that have specific implications for nursing research. These arise primarily from the emergent and unpredictable nature of the research methods and the nature of the profession. Ethical challenges such as risk-benefit ratio which involves weighing both the benefits and the potential harm must be anticipated by the researcher before any contact with the potential subject.Instructions:You are planning to conduct interviews about the experiences of women who were the victim of domestic violence. Complete the activities and answer the following questions:List and discuss in detail the ethical issues that are involved in the early stages of doing a research or evaluation study with these subjects or participants.is informed consent necessary in this case? Why or why not?What steps will you take to minimize the potential risks? What possible sources of physical and mental harm to the participants be minimized?How would you protect this specific subject from harm?What information will you provide to the participants to ensure informed and voluntary consent?Do the benefits of the study outweigh the risks?To begin the discussion, click on the “Create Thread” link above.
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warc | 202143 | 2021 WOR Day 6: Taking Care of People
Thirtymile Fire – The Days After
Thirtymile Fire Memorial at the Chewuch River.
Following release from the scene and check-ups at the hospital, everyone involved were told to meet at the North Cascades Smokejumper Base (a facility able to house the large group) where an official debrief was conducted. While well intended, the way this debrief was conducted wasn’t well received by many of the participants.
The next day, separate but overlapping investigations began with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. Forest Service, and the Office of Inspector General (OIG). The OIG investigation lasted until 2009.
On Thursday July 12
th, resources were released. Some were given the option to take a week of paid leave with their families while others were instructed to return to work on Monday or use leave for additional time off.
In the following days and weeks there were a series of memorials for the fallen firefighters.
Organizational Learning
Following feedback from this incident and others, the wildland fire service has learned and continues to learn how to move forward following critical incidents. Peer support is one of many tools used in Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM). For many this has become a preferred model for wildland firefighter-involved critical incidents.
The peer support concept is founded on peers or people of mutual respect helping each other. In our case, firefighters helping firefighters. The shared experience of peers fosters the initial trust and credibility necessary for developing relationships. Peer-to-peer programs facilitate opportunities for individuals to talk with trained peer supporters who serve as a bridge to connect with mental health professionals. Peer support groups can offer educational, social support, build resilience, and provide avenues for additional help if needed. The standard of care for the peer support concept is the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation. Peer support training is offered multiple times throughout the year.
Discussion Questions: Do you know your organization’s plan for taking care of people involved in a critical incident? If not, who does? What can you do to mentally prepare for difficulties faced during and after a critical incident? The need for human connectedness continues long after the trauma, but the traumatized individuals often can’t reach out for it themselves. Think 30 days later…what can you do to reach out and connect to someone who experienced a traumatic event? What about one year later? Or 10 years or even 20 years later?
Additional Resources
Incident Management Situation Report (IMSR)
Incident Response Pocket Guide (IRPG), PMS 461 NWCG Standards for Helicopter Operations, PMS 510 RT-130, Wildland Fire Safety Training Annual Refresher (WFSTAR) Interagency Standards for Fire and Fire Aviation Operations (Red Book) Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center Have an idea? Have feedback? Share it.
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