Pentagon Wants to Feed Troops ‘Experimental’ Lab-Grown Meat to ‘Reduce CO2 Footprint’
June 14th, 2024The U.S. military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries, so feed U.S. military personnel experimental lab-grown meat???
Via: Washington Free Beacon:
A Pentagon-funded company is seeking proposals to feed America’s soldiers lab-grown meat in a bid to “reduce the CO2 footprint” at Defense Department outposts.
BioMADE, a public-private company that has received more than $500 million in funding from the Defense Department, announced earlier this month that it is seeking proposals to develop “innovations in food production that reduce the CO2 footprint of food production at … DoD operational environments,” according to an online announcement.
Microsoft Delays Recall AI Feature on Security Concerns
June 13th, 2024Via: Reuters:
Microsoft will not roll out “Recall”, an AI-powered feature that tracks computer usage, with its new computers next week and will instead preview it with a smaller group later, the tech giant said on Thursday, amid concerns of privacy risks.
The Recall feature tracks web browsing to voice chats, creating a history stored on the computer that the user can search when they need to remember something they did, even months later.
Recall will now be available only for a preview on its Windows Insider Program (WIP) in the coming weeks instead of being broadly available for Copilot+ PC users on June 18, Microsoft said in a blog post.
Dr. Joseph Fraiman: “Serious Harm” from Covid Vaccines
June 13th, 2024Via: Dr. John Campbell:
Gobekli Tepe and the World Economic Forum
June 13th, 2024Via: Bright Insight:
Documents Catch NIH Officials Misleading Science Writers at Science Magazine and STAT News About Dangerous Virus Research
June 13th, 2024Via: The DisInformation Chronicle:
House investigators on the Energy and Commerce Committee released a 73-page report yesterday documenting NIH officials lying about dangerous gain-of-function virus research to reporters and withholding information from Congress. These latest revelations follow reporting last week that Tony Fauci lied to the New York Times about his involvement in a Nature Medicine piece that advanced the theory that the pandemic could not have started in a lab Fauci himself was funding in Wuhan, China.
Chiquita Held Liable for Funding Colombian Paramilitaries
June 13th, 2024Founded in 1899 in Boston, United Fruit quickly grew to be the dominant force in the region. In addition to the banana plantations and railway, it also ran the post office and the telegram service. By the 1930s, with a dictator in power, United Fruit had amassed hundreds of thousands of acres of Guatemalan land. It was the country’s single largest landowner. Its reach was so ubiquitous that people called the company El Pulpo — the octopus.
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The company Chiquita was formed out of a defunct United Fruit in the 1980s. It’s no longer a US company. It’s now based in Switzerland and owned by Brazilian firms. But, it is still a huge banana producer. And the brand is still everywhere in the United States.
Via: BBC:
A court in the United States has found multinational fruit company Chiquita Brands International liable for financing a Colombian paramilitary group.
The group, the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC), was designated by the US as a terrorist organisation at the time.
Following a civil case brought by eight Colombian families whose relatives were killed by the AUC, Chiquita has been ordered to pay $38.3m (£30m) in damages to the families.
Chiquita said in a statement that it intended to appeal against the jury’s verdict, arguing that there was “no legal basis for the claims”.
The jury in the case, which was heard in a federal court in South Florida, found Chiquita responsible for the wrongful deaths of eight men killed by the AUC.
The AUC engaged in widespread human rights abuses in Colombia, including murdering people it suspected of links with left-wing rebels.
The victims ranged from trade unionists to banana workers.
Finland’s First NATO Deployment Sends F-18 Jets to Romania
June 12th, 2024Via: ZeroHeadge:
NATO’s two newest members – Finland and Sweden – have already seen their militaries quite busy as part of recent joint exercises with the alliance. For the first time this week, another milestone has been achieved as Finland has deployed fighter jets to another NATO country, in a further reversal of the Scandinavian country’s decades-long policy of neutrality.
Seven F-18 fighter jets have been deployed by Helsinki to a base in southeastern Romania. Reuters said based on military statements that the aircraft will “conduct air shielding missions with Romanian and British jets.” Romania has long been dubbed in Western publications as “Russia’s doorstep”.
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Water Is Bursting from Another Abandoned West Texas Oil Well
June 12th, 2024Via: The Texas Tribune:
In recent years, Schuyler Wight has noticed a growing number of abandoned oil wells coming back to life, gurgling fluids on the surface of his West Texas ranch. Last week he found the biggest one yet.
Gassy water was gushing from the ground and down a quarter mile of roadway before it drained into a pasture on a remote corner of his land.
“It’s by far flowing more than any other,” Wight said. “It’s getting worse, there’s no question about that.”
It’s the latest in a string of mysterious water features in the arid Permian Basin, the nation’s top producing oil field, that regulators have been unable to explain.
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The mystery now in the Permian Basin is what is pushing large volumes of that water up to the surface.
“There’s a source of pressure there and it’s shallow,” said Hawk Dunlap, an oilfield firefighter who lives in Crane County and surveyed the recent blowout for Wight last week. “It’s not clear what the source is.”
Dunlap has worked oilfield emergencies in 102 countries, he said. He’s seen water dribbling up from old oil wells before, but never anything close to the quantity he’s seen in West Texas.
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Dunlap suspects it may be related to the injection of fracking wastewater. West Texas oil producers pump millions of gallons of so-called produced water, laced with chemical lubricants and numerous hazardous compounds such as arsenic, bromide, strontium, mercury, barium, and organic compounds, particularly benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes, underground every day for disposal, often into old oil and gas wells.
In theory, the produced water will remain in those wells and rock formations in perpetuity. But the geological science is imprecise, and if the water broke out its confines, it could affect pressure in other pockets underground.
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On Wight’s ranch the latest blowout continues to flow. Measurements indicate the water is moderately salty, and Wight can only watch helplessly as it seeps into his land.
“The salt poisons the ground and nothing will grow after that,” he said. “There’s not a lot you can do to remediate salt contamination.”
U.S. Spending More Money On Chip Manufacturing Construction This Year Than In Previous 28 Years Combined
June 12th, 2024Via: Tom’s Hardware:
The Biden administration’s CHIPS Act is pumping money into chip manufacturing construction at an historic rate. According to a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau, the growth of computer and electrical manufacturing construction funding is so great that the U.S. government will add as much funding to the sector in 2024 alone as it did in the prior 27 years.
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The construction growth began in 2021, but its explosive boom is due to a massive boost in funding from the CHIPS and Science Act, the Biden administration’s $280 billion spending package passed in 2022. The act was signed to help bolster the U.S. semiconductor industry, which accounted for effectively 0% of all advanced-process chips manufactured worldwide. Companies including Intel, Samsung, and Micron have all received billions of dollars to build new manufacturing plants in the United States. Domestic research and development is also a major focus of the funding package.
The construction funding is making a major impact on the United States’ projected chip production. A recent Semiconductor Industry Association study found that the United States is due to triple its domestic chip manufacturing capacity by 2032, and is expected to be producing 30% of the world’s leading-edge chips by the same year. This expectation exceeds even the government’s inflated goals; U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo boldly proclaimed a goal of 20% of the world’s leading-edge chips just in February, which is now expected to be far exceeded.
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Biden Malfunctions at White House Concert
June 12th, 2024Update: G7 Antics…
Biden wandering off as if lost from the group.
Other leaders trying to cover for his dementia.
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) June 13, 2024
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‘NO ONE’S HOME’: President Biden appears to freeze as Vice President Harris and others dance next to him at a Juneteenth event. https://t.co/k0WAJilZ7l pic.twitter.com/cFMRVXDd3y
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 11, 2024
