Attack on U.S. Soldiers in Jordan: White House Says “Significant Military Response Coming”
January 29th, 2024And Now… U.S. Failed to Stop Drone Attack Because of Identification Mixup:
The U.S. failed to stop a deadly attack on an American military outpost in Jordan because the enemy drone approached its target at the same time a U.S. drone was also returning to base, U.S. officials said Monday.
The return of the U.S. drone led to some confusion over whether the incoming drone was friend or foe, officials have concluded so far.
The enemy drone was launched from Iraq by a militia backed by Tehran, U.S. officials said. The outpost, Tower 22, sits in Jordan, near the borders of Iraq and Syria.
An American defense official said on Monday that the U.S. has yet to find evidence thus far that Iran directed the attack, which killed three U.S. troops and wounded dozens of others.
The attack signaled an escalation in hostilities that have been growing since the Oct. 7 Hamas assault on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza. President Biden said the U.S. would respond.
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Via: ZeroHedge:
Iran has vehemently denied that it was behind the weekend drone attack on a Jordanian base near the Syrian border which killed three American troops, and according to a revised figure injured 34. A one-way drone reportedly slammed into a tent which was housing soldiers at the base, which is why casualties are so high, but questions remain.
Tehran has called the accusations that it was behind the attack “baseless” after President Biden on Sunday vowed “We shall respond”. Within the hours after news of the attack on Jordan’s Tower 22 base there were widespread reports that Iranian allied groups in Iraq and Syria were temporarily evacuating their bases, expending retaliatory airstrikes.
Iranian allies are now bracing for a major US response to the deadly attack on the Jordanian outpost, according to the Wall Street Journal. Already there’s been an apparent Israeli airstrike on a Damascus suburb, resulting in the deaths of two people, said to be targeting an “Iranian-backed group”.
Related: What Happens After Israel Flattens Gaza?
Navy Again Lowers Requirements As It Struggles To Meet Recruitment Goals
January 28th, 2024Via: New York Post:
The US Navy is starting to enlist individuals who didn’t graduate from high school or get a GED, marking the second time in about a year that the service has opened the door to lower-performing recruits as it struggles to meet enlistment goals.
The decision follows a move in December 2022 to bring in a larger number of recruits who score very low on the Armed Services Qualification Test.
Both are fairly rare steps that the other military services largely avoid or limit, even though they are all finding it increasingly difficult to attract the dwindling number of young people who can meet the military’s physical, mental and moral standards.
Under the new plan, Navy recruits without an education credential will be able to join as long as they score 50 or above on the qualification test, which is out of 99.
The last time the service took individuals without education credentials was in 2000.
Bill Gates Turned $55 Million Vaccine Investment in Pfizer’s Partner, BioNTech, Into Over $550 Million in Just Under Two Years
January 27th, 2024Fascinating coincidence!
WOAH
I recently discovered something very weird.
Bill Gates invested a whopping $55 MILLION in BioNTech that made the Pfizer mRNA injection.
You will never believe the date that this happened…
Is this just a coincidence?
You know, the company that partnered with Pfizer… pic.twitter.com/G2yNyBAnaB
— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) January 26, 2024
This is from 2021.
Via: Tech Startups:
Who said saving lives is not a lucrative business?[sic.]
Idaho Sending State Police Troopers to Mexico Border
January 27th, 2024Via: ArcaMax:
Gov. Brad Little announced Friday that he plans to send more Idaho State Police troopers to the U.S.-Mexico border “to assist with securing our nation’s border,” as Texas is in the middle of a legal standoff with the federal government over border security.
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“We stand in solidarity with our fellow governor, Greg Abbott, and the state of Texas in utilizing every tool and strategy, including razor wire fences, to secure the border,” the governors said in a joint statement. “We do it in part because the Biden administration is refusing to enforce immigration laws already on the books and is illegally allowing mass parole across America of migrants who entered our country illegally.”
“Shunned in Computer Age, Cursive Makes a Comeback in California”
January 27th, 2024
Thankfully, we never drank the Koolaid.
Our four homeschooled children learned both manuscript and cursive handwriting with the Zaner-Bloser system. I highly recommend it.
Our children can also read—wait for it—analog clocks. My sons told me that some of their peers can’t do it. To those children, reading analog clocks is seen as a sort of baffling adult skill. Believe it or not…
Via: Reuters:
A generation of children who learned to write on screens is now going old school.
Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting, after the skill had fallen out of fashion in the computer age.
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Experts say learning cursive improves cognitive development, reading comprehension and fine motor skills, among other benefits.
British Biologist Identifies Medical Research Fraud at Harvard Cancer Institute
January 27th, 2024Via: Smithsonian Magazine:
More than 50 research papers published by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), a prestigious teaching center affiliated with Harvard Medical School, are under review this week following online claims that their images and data had been manipulated.
Sholto David, a British molecular biologist and blogger, wrote a post for the independent research integrity blog For Better Science on January 2, in which he accuses researchers at the institute of “data forgery.” The long and at times scathing blog post featured images such as protein bands, data plots and PCR results from the papers, which David alleges were manipulated via copy and paste or Photoshop. The studies in question had been published between 1999 and 2017.
25 Red States Rally ‘Round Texas As Battle Brews With Biden Over Border
January 26th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge:
A coalition of red states has rallied around Texas, after Governor Greg Abbott invoked the state’s constitutional right to self-defense due to the migrant crisis, which he deemed an ‘invasion.’
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“What is Biden going to do? Send the military in to forcibly open the border? In an election year?”
Related: Texas Military Department: Operation Lone Star, “Seeking Volunteers to Join the Border Mission”
San Diego: Boat Full of Migrants Lands on La Jolla Beach Where Average Home Costs $2.2M
January 26th, 2024Via: Daily Mail:
This is the shocking moment a boat full of undocumented migrants landed on a beach in San Diego before running into the wealthy La Jolla neighborhood.
More than 20 migrants were filmed storming the beach on Wednesday morning and disappearing into the southern California enclave, where homes go for a median price of $2.2million.
mRNA Vaccines Contain Prion Region, May Be Linked to Prion-Like Diseases
January 25th, 2024Via: Epoch Times:
The COVID-19 virus and its vaccine sequences have a prion region on their surface spike proteins. Earlier in the pandemic and vaccine rollout, some researchers were concerned that these prion regions may promote incurable prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
In December 2023, researchers from Oxford showed that 8 percent of the time, the body does not make spike protein from Pfizer mRNA vaccines but may form aberrant proteins instead. This has led researchers to investigate the potential risks of such unintentional formations.
Subsequently, on Jan. 12, retired French biomathematician Jean-Claude Perez published a preprint study discussing whether such mistakes could lead to the formation of prion-like proteins. He concluded that prion-like protein formation is possible.
Alligators Freeze Themselves in Solid Ice to Survive Cold Snap in Southern U.S.
January 25th, 2024Via: Telegraph:
Alligators are allowing themselves to freeze solid in icy ponds and swamps to survive an unexpected cold snap in the American South.
The creatures were spotted submerged in ice with only their snouts poking out to breathe as temperatures fell as low as -10C across Texas and North Carolina.
The phenomenon has been put down to the brumation – a process similar to hibernation in mammals – that reptiles undergo to survive the cold.
