Xi Greets ‘Old Friend’ Bill Gates Amid Simmering US-China Tensions
June 17th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge:
Co-founder of Microsoft Bill Gates traveled to China this week and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping. It was the American tech billionaire’s first trip to China since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, with his prior visit being in 2019, and is against a backdrop of simmering US-China tensions.
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President Xi greeted Gates on Friday by saying, “I am very happy to see you. We haven’t seen each other for more than three years … and you are an old friend of ours. He noted, “You are the first American friend I’ve met in Beijing this year.”
Obama Suggests ‘Digital Fingerprints’ to Counter Misinformation
June 17th, 2023Oh sure. Tell me another one.
Via: Fox News:
Former President Barack Obama suggested in a new interview the development of “digital fingerprints” to combat misinformation and distinguish between true and misleading news for consumers.
RFK Jr. Says He Must “Be Careful” The CIA Doesn’t Assassinate Him
June 17th, 2023Via: Summit News:
During a discussion with Joe Rogan, Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy junior admitted that he is putting his life in danger by speaking out about the assassinations of his uncle and his father, and that he “takes precautions” to ensure the CIA doesn’t kill him.
Rogan asked RFK Jr. what he thought would happen if he managed to get into office, to which Kennedy replied “I gotta be careful.”
“I’m aware of that, you know, I’m aware of that danger. I don’t live in fear of it — at all. But I’m not stupid about it, and I take precautions,” he added.
Kennedy spoke about his Uncle JFK being “at war” with the military industrial complex, and asserted that the intelligence agencies were “trying to trick him” into launching military excursions into Cuba and Vietnam.
RFK Jr. again spoke about JFK eventually concluding that he must “shatter” the CIA “into a thousands pieces” and “scatter it to the winds.”
House Oversight Chairman Says There Is Evidence Of $20-$30 MILLION Of Illegal Payments To Bidens
June 17th, 2023It’s going to be hard for Biden to explain? All he can do is mumble and make work for his handlers.
Via: Summit News:
House Oversight Chairman James Comer revealed Thursday that he expects there is evidence of at least $20-$30 million being made in illegal payments by foreign nationals to the Biden family.
Appearing on Fox Business, Comer stated “We have more bank records coming in but we’re gonna exceed $10 million this week but I think we’ll get up to $20-$30 million.”
He further noted that it is becoming clear that the Bidens potentially engaged in bribery, influence peddling, and money laundering.
“This is going to be hard for Biden to explain, this is not going to go away, and I think eventually the mainstream media is going to start asking the real questions,” Comer added.
China is Throwing Away Fields of Electric Cars
June 16th, 2023Breathtaking insanity.
Via: serpentza:
Pfizer Observed 1.6 Million Adverse Events Covering Nearly Every Organ System From Covid Shots
June 16th, 2023Via: Conservative Review:
Over 10,000 categories of nearly 1.6 million adverse events – many of them serious and debilitating – brought to you by Pfizer!
You might not have heard it in the news, but in recent months, Pfizer’s pharmacovigilance documents requested by the European Union’s drug regulator, the European Medicines Agency, have been released. They show that Pfizer knew about a sickening level of injury early on. An August 2022 document shows that the company already had observed the following scope of vaccine injury:
* 508,351 individual case reports of adverse events containing 1,597,673 events;
* One-third of the AEs were classified as serious, well above the standard for safety signals usually pegged at 15%;
* Women reported AEs at three times the rate of men;
* 60% of cases were reported with either “outcome unknown” or “not recovered,” so many of the injuries were not transient;
Highest number of cases occurred in the 31-50 year age group, and 92% did not have any comorbidities, which makes it very likely it was the vaccine causing such widespread, sudden injury.
Off Topic: Which Double Edge Safety Razor Blades Should I Buy?
June 16th, 2023Apologies. I need to briefly go off topic to personal grooming.
After decades of using disposable plastic razors, I decided to switch to a double edge safety razor to save money. I probably wouldn’t have thought much about it, but when the price for ten shitty plastic razors went to NZ$12 here, I refused to buy them again. (They used to be NZ$8 which felt like a ripoff.)
I also thought that it would be good to get my sons to use safety razors instead of plastic razors when they start shaving. Of course, I experimented on myself first.
I found a double edge safety razor that must have been on clearance on Amazon Australia for NZ$22 (delivered), which included five blades. Works great! No nicks at all. Much closer shave than disposables. My wife was astonished at the difference.
A lot of razor blades come in packs of one hundred. Before I buy, I thought I’d ask:
Which double edge razor blades do Cryptogon readers recommend?
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Would you like to support Cryptogon by buying a fine double edge safety razor?
Consider:
Feather AS-D2, stainless steel. Made in Japan.
Rockwell Razors 6S, stainless steel, adjustable shave settings. Made in USA.
Western Razor Premium Safety Razor, chrome. Made in USA.
“Nightmare Scenario”: U.S. Government Has Been Secretly Stockpiling Information on Americans Via Data Brokers
June 15th, 2023I’ll recycle some commentary from, FBI Finally Admits to Buying Location Data on Americans:
In 2013, we learned that law enforcement was “laundering” data collected through U.S. national security intercept systems for use against Americans, U.S. Communications Intelligence Secretly Shared with Law Enforcement for Use Against Americans in Criminal Investigations:
“It’s just like laundering money – you work it backwards to make it clean,” said Finn Selander, a DEA agent from 1991 to 2008 and now a member of a group called Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, which advocates legalizing and regulating narcotics.
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So, this is going to be more about being able to, “Work it backwards to make it clean,” because they already collected it illegally and stored it at the Utah Data Center.
Via: ZeroHedge:
The ODNI’s own panel of advisers makes clear that the government’s static interpretations of what constitutes “publicly available information” poses a significant threat to the public. The advisers decry existing policies that automatically conflate, in the first place, being able to buy information with it being considered “public.” The information being commercially sold about Americans today is “more revealing, available on more people (in bulk), less possible to avoid, and less well understood” than that which is traditionally thought of as being “publicly available.”
Perhaps most controversially, the report states that the government believes it can “persistently” track the phones of “millions of Americans” without a warrant, so long as it pays for the information. Were the government to simply demand access to a device’s location instead, it would be considered a Fourth Amendment “search” and would require a judge’s sign-off. But because companies are willing to sell the information—not only to the US government but to other companies as well—the government considers it “publicly available” and therefore asserts that it “can purchase it.”
Synthetic Human Embryos Created
June 15th, 2023Via: Guardian:
Scientists have created synthetic human embryos using stem cells, in a groundbreaking advance that sidesteps the need for eggs or sperm.
Scientists say these model embryos, which resemble those in the earliest stages of human development, could provide a crucial window on the impact of genetic disorders and the biological causes of recurrent miscarriage.
However, the work also raises serious ethical and legal issues as the lab-grown entities fall outside current legislation in the UK and most other countries.
The structures do not have a beating heart or the beginnings of a brain, but include cells that would typically go on to form the placenta, yolk sac and the embryo itself.
Prof Magdalena ?ernicka-Goetz, of the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology, described the work in a plenary address on Wednesday at the International Society for Stem Cell Research’s annual meeting in Boston.
“We can create human embryo-like models by the reprogramming of [embryonic stem] cells,” she told the meeting.
There is no near-term prospect of the synthetic embryos being used clinically. It would be illegal to implant them into a patient’s womb, and it is not yet clear whether these structures have the potential to continue maturing beyond the earliest stages of development.
10% Of $4.2 Trillion US COVID Relief Was Lost To Fraud, Waste
June 14th, 2023I’d say the chance that it’s only 10% is somewhere around 0%, but since the entire situation was a fraud…
Yeah.
Via: ZeroHedge:
As much as 10 percent of the $4.2 trillion the U.S. government has disbursed in COVID-19 relief aid may have been lost to fraud and waste.
A new analysis of COVID relief spending by The Associated Press estimates that fraudsters collected more than $283 billion, while another $120 billion was wasted or misspent. The news outlet expects estimates of pandemic waste and fraud to grow as investigators continue to review additional potential fraud schemes.
