Foreign Travelers Forced to Provide Five Years of Social Media History to Enter U.S. [???]
December 10th, 2025Via: Daily Mail:
Foreign tourists are set to be forced to hand over the past five years of their social media history in order to enter the United States.
The drastic move was the latest attempt by Donald Trump to scrutinize those entering the country, after an immigration freeze from 19 countries was announced last week.
The ‘mandatory’ notice was published by Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday in the Federal Register.
Social media data would be required for anyone entering the United States, including those from countries such as the United Kingdom and Germany, which don’t mandate visas for travel.
It follows a June announcement by the State Department that ordered tourists to make their social media profiles public.
Britain: Council Fined Man Four Times After a Disabled Bay Was Painted Around His Legally Parked Car
December 9th, 2025So sorry…
Via: Telegraph:
A council has fined a man four times after a disabled bay was painted around his legally parked car.
The owner of the car, who wishes to remain anonymous, left his car on an unrestricted road near his home in New Addington, south London, while he was on holiday last month.
He returned to find he had been issued with four penalty charge notices (PCN).
Footage from his CCTV showed workers painting around his Audi, prompting parking attendants to give him tickets between Nov 22 and 26.
Croydon council, which has gone bankrupt three times in the past five years, “apologised” and claimed the fines were “cancelled a week before the video was uploaded to social media”.
The local authority insisted it was “standard practice” to paint around vehicles to prevent delays, but failed to prevent parking attendants from issuing fines.
A Statistical Error in the Estimation of the Recommended Dietary Allowance for Vitamin D
December 8th, 2025Via: Dr. John Campbell:
Paper: A Statistical Error in the Estimation of the Recommended Dietary Allowance for Vitamin D
Trump’s Son-in-Law to Help Run Gaza with Tony Blair
December 7th, 2025Via: Telegraph:
Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will help run Gaza, Western officials have said.
The negotiators, who both played key roles in securing the ceasefire, will be involved in the practical rebuilding of the war-torn Strip, under US plans to be announced this month.
This is despite both also being centrally involved in US efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
According to briefings from Western officials to media in the US and Israel, Mr Kushner and Mr Witkoff will join Sir Tony Blair on Gaza’s executive board, which will sit under the board of peace, chaired by Mr Trump.
Top Obama DEA Official Charged With Laundering Money For Mexican Drug Cartel
December 6th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official appointed as deputy chief of the Office of Financial Operations during the Obama administration – and who still holds a security clearance – was indicted on Friday on charges of agreeing to launder $12 million for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) – which was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization in February of this year.
Paul Campo, who oversaw the FBI’s money laundering operations and resigned in January 2016 ahead of Trump’s inauguration, laundered around $750,000 for the cartel by converting cash into cryptocurrency, and agreed to launder far more – totaling over $12 million, according to the indictment.
Campo’s hoome was raided by federal agents on Thursday.
Are the EngineAI Robots Real?
December 5th, 2025[???]
The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron
December 5th, 2025Via: Gamers Nexus:
More: The DDR5 issue just got INFINITELY worse…
Trump Administration Encouraging Development of Humanoid Robots
December 5th, 2025Running…
https://t.co/tPmp2Hq1mw pic.twitter.com/VChAa8p7j9
— Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) December 4, 2025
Just set a new PR in the lab pic.twitter.com/8kJ2om7uV7
— Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus) December 2, 2025
Via: ZeroHedge:
President Trump’s national industrial strategy centers on expanding U.S. dominance in semiconductors, AI, rare earth production, clean technology, space, and other emerging technologies expected to dominate the global economy in the 2030s. Following the administration’s push to accelerate AI data center buildouts and power grid upgrades, Politico now reports that the next major focus is poised to be humanoid robotics.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been meeting with the heads of major tech companies and is weighing an executive order next year to spur domestic development and production of humanoid robots, while the Department of Transportation is setting up a robotics working group, according to Politico sources.
CDC Will No Longer Recommend Hepatitis B Vaccine for All Newborns
December 5th, 2025Via: Focal Points:
In a landmark decision, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 8–3 on Friday to eliminate the universal recommendation that all newborns receive a Hepatitis B vaccine at birth — a policy in place since 1991.
The new guidance keeps the birth dose only for infants whose mothers test positive for Hepatitis B or whose status is unknown. For all other newborns, ACIP now recommends parent-directed, individualized decision-making, with vaccination suggested no earlier than two months.
The vote followed discussion of evidence showing that U.S. newborns face extremely low risk of Hepatitis B transmission absent maternal infection, and that past declines in disease were driven largely by improved blood screening and medical practices rather than universal infant dosing.
Three dissenting members warned of potential harm, but the majority concluded that a blanket recommendation is no longer scientifically justified.
Journal Retracts Key Paper Claiming Glyphosate Not Linked to Cancer
December 5th, 2025Via: Center for Biological Diversity:
The scientific journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology has issued a rare retraction of one of the most cited studies on the safety of the pesticide glyphosate, the main ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup.
The study, which found that glyphosate poses no cancer or other health risks to people, was retracted because it relied exclusively on unpublished Monsanto studies. The study failed to review any research that was not conducted by Monsanto, the maker of glyphosate, now owned by Bayer. The journal also found that the paper may have been ghostwritten by Monsanto employees and that financial compensation from Monsanto was not disclosed.
The article has been cited extensively by regulatory agencies around the world, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as evidence that glyphosate poses no cancer risk to humans. The paper is in the top 0.1% of cited articles on glyphosate in the scientific literature, meaning it is more highly cited than 99.9% of articles written on the chemical.
“The pesticide industry’s decades of efforts to hijack the science and manipulate it to boost its profits is finally being exposed,” said Nathan Donley, environmental health science director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The EPA must take immediate action to reassess its finding that glyphosate is not a carcinogen. That means rather than relying on Monsanto’s confidential research of its own product, the agency needs to follow the gold standard of independent science established by the World Health Organization in its finding that glyphosate probably causes cancer.”
