The Postal Service Is Running a ‘Covert Operations Program’ that Monitors Americans’ Social Media Posts
April 21st, 2021Via: Yahoo News:
The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News.
The details of the surveillance effort, known as iCOP, or Internet Covert Operations Program, have not previously been made public. The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory” postings and then sharing that information across government agencies.
“Analysts with the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) monitored significant activity regarding planned protests occurring internationally and domestically on March 20, 2021,” says the March 16 government bulletin, marked as “law enforcement sensitive” and distributed through the Department of Homeland Security’s fusion centers. “Locations and times have been identified for these protests, which are being distributed online across multiple social media platforms, to include right-wing leaning Parler and Telegram accounts.”
And Now… “Herpes Infection Possibly Linked to COVID-19 Vaccine”
April 21st, 2021Via: New York Post:
Herpes infections may be a side effect of a COVID-19 vaccine, experts have revealed.
Scientists in Israel identified six cases in a new study of patients developing a skin rash known as herpes zoster — or shingles — after receiving the Pfizer vaccine, according to a study in the Rheumatology journal.
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Researchers from Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Carmel Medical Center in Haifa found those with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases had a higher risk of developing the herpes infection.
Six people developed herpes zoster after receiving the Pfizer vaccine.
Out of 491 patients, six people or 1.2 percent experienced the infection, researchers said.
U.S. F-16s Operating Out of Japan with Maximum Air-to-Air Weapons Loadouts
April 21st, 2021Via: The Warzone:
The four U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets that recently flew a mission over the highly contested South China Sea were photographed landing at Yokota Air Base in Japan, en route to their home base at Misawa. The images confirm that these jets were armed for counter-air operations with a heavy load of live air-to-air missiles. The jets’ appearance in the South China Sea last week coincided with the biggest presence of People’s Liberation Army aircraft in Taiwan’s southwest air defense identification zone (ADIZ) in recent times: 25 aircraft in all.
Arizona: State of Emergency Declared at Southwest Border
April 21st, 2021Via: Wall Street Journal:
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey declared a state of emergency at the southwest border in Arizona and said the state would deploy 250 National Guard troops to help local law enforcement.
“The U.S. Border Patrol is overwhelmed. Local law enforcement and mayors are calling out for help,” the Republican said Tuesday in a recorded statement. “Citizens and our border communities are concerned for their safety and nonprofits, left to pick up the pieces of broken federal policies, are strained.”
Arizona is the first state to declare an emergency related to this year’s rapid increase in arrests of people crossing the border illegally. Border Patrol agents made about 168,000 arrests at the border in March, compared with about 71,000 in December.
The governor said the state would allocate $25 million to fund the National Guard mission. He didn’t say how long the deployment would last.
NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Successfully Hovered for 40 Seconds in Mars’s Thin Atmosphere
April 20th, 2021Via: Scientific American:
NASA has pulled off the first powered flight on another world. Ingenuity, the robot rotorcraft that is part of the agency’s Perseverance mission, lifted off from the surface of Mars on 19 April, in a 40-second flight that is a landmark in interplanetary aviation.
“We can now say that human beings have flown a rotorcraft on another planet,” says MiMi Aung, the project’s lead engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
Ingenuity’s short test flight is the off-Earth equivalent of the Wright Brothers piloting their aeroplane above the coastal dunes at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903. In tribute, the helicopter carries a postage-stamp-sized piece of muslin fabric from the Wright Brothers’ plane. “Each world gets only one first flight,” says Aung.
San Francisco Overdose Deaths Far Outpaced COVID-19 Deaths in 2020
April 19th, 2021Via: Epoch Times:
Nearly three times as many people died from accidental drug overdoses in San Francisco in 2020 than from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, according to preliminary data released by the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
A total of 713 people died from drug overdoses in the city in 2020 compared to 255 who died from the CCP virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus.
If Lockdowns are Needed, Why Did More People Die in U.S. States Which Locked Down Than Those Which Did Not?
April 19th, 2021Via: Lockdown Sceptics:
As you can see, states which did not lock down over the winter, far from having many times more Covid deaths, have actually had fewer – 1,671 vs 1,736 deaths per million. There may be demographic or other reasons that some states have a higher or lower number of deaths than others so we shouldn’t read too much into the precise differences. But even so, if lockdowns are supposed to suppress the virus to low levels and thus prevent ‘hundreds of thousands’ of deaths (or the population equivalent), then how is this possible? The only conclusion is that lockdowns do not work as intended and do not suppress the virus.
Oregon: Permanent Mask Rule
April 17th, 2021COVID mask mandates are, and have always been, a massive fraud.
The Data on Masks Is Clear
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CDC Mask Spin
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We Decided to Name it ‘Mask Mouth’ – After ‘Meth Mouth.’
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Countless hours of mask mandate fraud coverage on The Last American Vagabond…
Via: ABC:
As states around the country lift COVID-19 restrictions, Oregon is poised to go the opposite direction — and many residents are fuming about it.
A top health official is considering indefinitely extending rules requiring masks and social distancing in all businesses in the state.
The proposal would keep the rules in place until they are “no longer necessary to address the effects of the pandemic in the workplace.”
SpaceX Wins $2.9 Billion NASA Moon Lander Contract
April 17th, 2021Via: Reuters:
NASA awarded billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to build a spacecraft to bring astronauts to the moon as early as 2024, the agency said on Friday, picking it over Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics Inc.
Going Vegetarian Can Lower Testosterone, Damage Libido in Men
April 17th, 2021In other news, Bill Gates Wants Rich Countries To Move To 100% Synthetic Beef.
Via: StudyFinds:
Many people champion low-fat and vegetarian diets as the best ways to stay healthy, but is that really the case for men? A new study finds lowering fat also slashes male testosterone levels. The results can leave men choosing to go green with their diets suffering a loss of libido.
Researchers from the University of Worcester add the male sex hormone also protects against heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s. Results show vegetarian low-fat diets rank as the worst for men’s sexual health; decreasing testosterone by up to 26 percent.
These diets typically focus on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds. Such foods are rich in fiber and low in calories in comparison to meat and other animal products. Other low-fat diets cut this key chemical by 10 to 15 percent on average, according to the study.
“There were significant decreases in sex hormones on low-fat vs high-fat diets,” lead author and nutritional therapist Dr. Joseph Whittaker writes in The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
The findings reveal Europeans are particularly prone to the effects of these fashionable eating plans. Study authors looked at blood samples from over 200 men with an average age of 46.
“Low-fat diets appear to decrease testosterone levels in men,” Dr. Whittaker reports. “Men with European ancestry may experience a greater decrease in testosterone, in response to a low-fat diet.”
