Archive for April, 2022
90% of Nurses Considering Leaving the Profession in the Next Year
April 27th, 2022Via: HealthcareITNews: Nurses are thinking about leaving, and the pandemic isn’t solely to blame. Ninety percent of respondents are considering leaving the nursing profession in the next year, with 71% of nurses that have more than 15 years of nursing experience thinking about leaving as soon as possible or within the next few months. Seventy-two […]
‘Big Guy’ Biden Had $5.2 Million in Unexplained Income
April 27th, 2022Via: Daily Mail: Joe Biden agreed to pay son Hunter’s legal fees for his deal with a Chinese government-controlled company, emails reveal. The revelation ties the president even closer to Hunter’s overseas business dealings – and makes his previous claims that he never discussed them with his son, even less plausible. Joe was able to […]
Chinese Police Build Cages Around Shanghai Homes in World’s Strictest COVID Lockdown
April 27th, 2022Via: Daily Mail: Shanghai authorities have put up fences outside residential buildings as China hardens its strict ‘zero-COVID’ policy, sparking fresh public outcry over a lockdown that has forced much of the city’s 25 million people indoors. … In Shanghai, images of workers in white hazmat suits sealing entrances of housing blocks and closing off […]
Attacks on French Fiber Networks Cause Internet Outages, “Major Incident, Unprecedented in Its Scope”
April 27th, 2022Via: Bloomberg: Attacks on long-distance fiber-optic cables caused internet outages in several parts of France, carriers SFR and Free said on Wednesday. The cyber section of the Paris public Prosecutor’s office opened a criminal investigation, a spokesperson told Bloomberg. The probe has been entrusted to the DGSI, the French security agency, and the judicial police. […]
Ford Begins Production of F-150 Lightning Electric Pickup Truck, Says It’s a ‘Model T Moment’
April 27th, 2022Via: Electrek: Ford has officially started full production of the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center. The company compares the significance of the moment to the launch of the Ford Model T. The automaker grabbed a lot of headlines by announcing that the Ford F-150 Lightning would start at $40,000, […]
Study: mRNA Vaccines Don’t Reduce Deaths
April 27th, 2022Via: Peak Prosperity: The mRNA vaccines have been endlessly billed as “Safe & Effective.” But are they? A lot depends on what one means by “safe” (which is always a relative term, as nothing is ever perfectly safe) and what the definition of “effective” is. By effective, I think we can all agree that a […]
Russia Halts Gas Supplies to Poland and Bulgaria
April 27th, 2022Via: Reuters: Russia halted gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland on Wednesday for rejecting its demand to pay in roubles, taking direct aim at European economies in its toughest retaliation so far against international sanctions over the war in Ukraine. The step was denounced by European leaders as “blackmail”, and comes as European countries have […]
Rivian CEO Warns that Upcoming Battery Shortage Will Make Recent Chip Shortage Look Like a ‘Small Appetizer’
April 26th, 2022Via: Business Insider: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe warned that a shortage of electric-car batteries could soon eclipse the issues that the automotive industry has faced from the computer chip shortage. “Semiconductors are a small appetizer to what we are about to feel on battery cells over the next two decades,” Scaringe said, according to a […]
Russian Foreign Minister: “Considerable” Risk of Nuclear War
April 26th, 2022In other news, Germany Approves Tanks For Ukraine: In a major reversal following Chancellor Olaf Scholz only days ago voicing strong resistance, it appears Berlin has bowed to the mounting pressure among allies and approved new tank deliveries to Ukraine from Germany’s own stock, which Scholz had previously said was depleted. The German Ministry of […]
TWITTER ACCEPTS ELON MUSK’S BUYOUT DEAL
April 25th, 2022Via: CNBC: Twitter’s board has accepted an offer from billionaire Elon Musk to buy the social media company and take it private, the company announced Monday. The cash deal at $54.20 per share is valued around $44 billion, according to the press release. Twitter will become a private company once the deal is complete. More: […]
