Archive for February, 2022
Ottawa Police Chief May Call in the Military to Handle Protests
February 3rd, 2022Update: The Canadian Government Will Not Use Troops Against Truckers — Via: Fox: Ottawa’s chief of police suggested Wednesday that the Canadian Armed Forces might have to be called in to handle the lingering protesters in the Canadian capital. “This is a national issue, not an Ottawa issue,” Ottawa police Chief Peter Sloly said in […]
Mysterious Aircraft Spotted At Area 51 In Unprecedented Satellite Image
February 3rd, 2022Via: The Warzone: The aircraft in question measures roughly 65 feet long and 50 feet wide — about the size of a Su-27 Flanker — and has wings that are reminiscent of Concorde, with its elegantly curved ‘ogival’ leading edge. Even the mystery aircraft wing’s trailing edges are curved, leading to almost scimitar-like wingtips that […]
Facebook Stock Tanks
February 3rd, 2022Via: Daily Mail: Facebook lost daily users for the first time in its 18-year history in the final quarter of 2021, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes was caused by the TikTok boom. The social media giant’s devastating earnings report on Wednesday sent Facebook shares plunging more than 20 percent, wiping more than $200 billion off […]
Lockdowns Did Not Reduce COVID Mortality, But Did Impose, “Enormous Economic and Social Costs Where They Have Been Adopted”
February 2nd, 2022Via: Johns Hopkins University: More specifically, stringency index studies find that lockdowns in Europe and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average. SIPOs were also ineffective, only reducing COVID-19 mortality by 2.9% on average. Specific NPI studies also find no broad-based evidence of noticeable effects on COVID-19 mortality. While this meta-analysis […]
U.S. National Debt Hits $30 Trillion for First Time
February 1st, 2022Via: National Review: The U.S. national debt hit and exceeded $30 trillion for the first time in the country’s history Tuesday, Treasury Department data confirmed. The ballooning debt is largely attributed to the massive social spending prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Since the end of 2019, the national debt grew by an astonishing $7 trillion. […]
Florida: Grandpa and Grandson Went Magnet Fishing, Pulled Two Barrett .50 Caliber Lower Receivers Out of Canal
February 1st, 2022Via: Miami Herald: The South Miami-Dade man said he was concerned that the serial numbers on the lower receivers of the weapons and the bolt of one of the rifles were filed off. “Whoever did this is not your run-of-the-mill criminal,” said Smith, a 61-year-old former Army infantry officer. Smith called the Miami-Dade County Police […]
Robot Performs First Laparoscopic Surgery Without Human Help
February 1st, 2022Via: Johns Hopkins University: A robot has performed laparoscopic surgery on the soft tissue of a pig without the guiding hand of a human—a significant step toward fully automated surgery on humans. Designed by a team of Johns Hopkins University researchers, the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, or STAR, is described today in Science Robotics. “Our […]
