Turkey Blocks Sweden, Finland NATO Accession Talks; Issues List Of Demands
May 18th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge:
Turkey has issued its “list” of demands that must happen before it would accede to granting formal NATO membership to Scandinavian countries Finland and Sweden. This coming on the same day both countries handed in their formal applications. In a photo op with the Finnish and Swedish ambassadors, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg hailed the “historic moment”.
But given that for days Turkey has voiced vehement denunciation of the move, calling the countries ‘terror safe-havens’ over their alleged support for the outlawed Kurdish PKK (also as Sweden is home to one of the largest Kurdish communities in Europe), Brussels is in for a long-haul of gridlock as there must be consensus among the 30-member states for new entry. Within hours after an application submission ceremony, FT is reporting Turkey has already blocked the planned initial accession talks with Sweden and Finland essential to processing the requests…
Biden’s ‘Disinfo’ Board Paused, ‘Scary Poppins’ Drafts Resignation
May 18th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge:
The Department of Homeland Security has ‘paused’ it’s newly created Disinformation Governance Board, after its head, Nina Jankowicz, was called out for being a Russiagate truther, and going full “libs of TikTok” with creepy Disney-themed songs in a fake British accent – lending to the nickname “Scary Poppins.”
Experts Warn Arms for Ukraine Could End Up in Wrong Hands
May 17th, 2022
#blowback
Via: AFP:
Western countries have been ramping up weapons and ammunition shipments to Ukraine as Kyiv fights off a Russian invasion, but arms trade experts warn some of the lethal assistance could end up falling into the wrong hands.
Ukraine in particular has a history as a hub of the arms trade during the 1990s, setting off alarm bells for those who study illicit flows.
“There are very significant risks associated to the proliferation of weapons in Ukraine at the moment, in particular regarding small arms and light weapons,” said Nils Duquet, a researcher and director of the Flemish Peace Institute.
Western nations, above all the US, have announced successive shipments of both light and heavy weapons for Kyiv’s forces since Russian troops crossed the Ukrainian border on February 24.
Washington alone has delivered or promised military gear including hundreds of Switchblade kamikaze drones, 7,000 assault rifles with 50 million rounds of ammunition, laser-guided missiles and radar systems to detect enemy drones and incoming artillery fire.
“While the response to provide more weapons to Ukraine is understandable…, it would be prudent to consider the immediate and long-term security implications,” the US-based Stimson Center think-tank said in March.
Chile Bans ‘Discrimination Against Mutants and Genetically Altered People’
May 17th, 2022Hmm…
Via: Daily Bell:
“Law No. 21.422 prohibits labor discrimination against mutations or alterations of genetic material, and in turn ‘prohibits demanding any certificate or test to verify that the worker does not have such alterations or mutations in his human genome.’”
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Is Chile’s new law related to COVID-19 mRNA gene therapies?
Fraudulent Trial On Ivermectin Published By The World’s Top Medical Journal
May 17th, 2022Via: Dr. Pierre Kory:
The New England Journal of Medicine recently published the fraudulent TOGETHER trial, designed and conducted to launch anti-ivermectin headlines across every major media outlet across the world.
MIT, Harvard Scientists Find AI Can Recognize Race from X-Rays – and Nobody Knows How
May 17th, 2022Via: Boston Globe:
A doctor can’t tell if somebody is Black, Asian, or white, just by looking at their X-rays. But a computer can, according to a surprising new paper by an international team of scientists, including researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School.
The study found that an artificial intelligence program trained to read X-rays and CT scans could predict a person’s race with 90 percent accuracy. But the scientists who conducted the study say they have no idea how the computer figures it out.
“When my graduate students showed me some of the results that were in this paper, I actually thought it must be a mistake,” said Marzyeh Ghassemi, an MIT assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and coauthor of the paper, which was published Wednesday in the medical journal The Lancet Digital Health. “I honestly thought my students were crazy when they told me.”
At a time when AI software is increasingly used to help doctors make diagnostic decisions, the research raises the unsettling prospect that AI-based diagnostic systems could unintentionally generate racially biased results. For example, an AI (with access to X-rays) could automatically recommend a particular course of treatment for all Black patients, whether or not it’s best for a specific person. Meanwhile, the patient’s human physician wouldn’t know that the AI based its diagnosis on racial data.
Congressional Hearing on UFOs
May 17th, 2022This is a huge waste of time, but possibly useful as #comedygold.
Via: cnet:
Pfizer COVID Vaccine Safety Varies from Lot to Lot
May 16th, 2022Via: Epoch Times:
When you search both national and international databases, you quickly see that most vaccine lots have maybe one or two adverse events associated with them. Usually these adverse events are mild: an upset stomach or sore shoulder may be reported, for example.
Not so with Pfizer’s EN6201, the lot that Tweedale was given. When McDunn first starting looking into it, in early January, he found that the lot number of Tweedale’s vaccine was associated with 90 deaths in the United States.
Since then, that number has grown. As of May 9, 2022, when The Epoch Times accessed it, Pfizer’s EN6201 was linked to 167 deaths and 3,349 adverse events. When we conducted a search a different way, we found an even higher number of deaths and side effects.
McDunn believes a single lot number associated with nearly 170 deaths should be cause for concern. At the same time, statistically speaking, we would need to know how many doses of that lot have been given.
“You would need to know the size of each COVID vaccine lot to make a meaningful reactivity comparison between lots, but the size of lots is not publicly available,” pointed out Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center, a non-profit organization established in 1982 to promote vaccine safety through public education.
Russia Defeated In Months-Long Battle For Kharkiv
May 16th, 2022Via: The Warzone:
Ukrainian forces reportedly reached the Russian border in a successful counterattack on the now-abandoned Kharkiv frontline. Ukrainian units have spent the last week or more pushing north and east from the besieged city, working to knock the Russians out of artillery range to protect the city.
The Kharkiv front is the latest Russian attack axis to collapse after abandoning advances north of Kyiv, in Chernihiv, and Sumy in early April. Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv was a major Russian objective on Day 1 of the war and has endured near constant artillery, ground and air attack since Russian armor first advanced from across the border in Belgorod. The front’s collapse after having thrown the kitchen sink at the city is nothing short of stunning.
Finland AND Sweden Announce Plans to Join NATO
May 16th, 2022In other news, Russia moves nuclear missiles towards Finland:
Russia has started moving nuclear-capable missiles towards its border with Finland hours after Moscow vowed not to tolerate Helsinki’s plans to join Nato.
The Kremlin issued a chilling warning that plans for both Finland and Sweden to sign up to the Atlantic alliance were a ‘grave mistake with far reaching consequences’.
Russian deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, said: ‘They should have no illusions that we will simply put up with it,’ and insisted ‘the general level of military tension will rise’.
This morning a video believed to have been filmed on a road leading to Vyborg, around 24 miles from the Finnish border, shows the deployment of mobile Iskander missiles.
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Via: Bloomberg:
NATO members rallied around Finland and Sweden on Sunday after they announced plans to join the alliance, marking another dramatic change in Europe’s security architecture triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Gathering in Berlin over the weekend, most NATO foreign ministers embraced the bloc’s northern enlargement, a process that requires unanimity among the 30 allies.
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Governments in Helsinki and Stockholm are set to deliver their formal applications at NATO’s headquarters in Brussels later in the week once their respective parliaments have signed off.
