Customs and Border Protection’s Top Doctor Tried to Order Fentanyl Lollipops for Helicopter Trip to U.N.
February 18th, 2024[???]
Via: CBS:
The chief medical officer for the Customs and Border Protection agency repeatedly asked staff members to order fentanyl lollipops for him to take on a helicopter mission to the United Nations in New York City in Sept. 2023, according to a whistleblower report by the Government Accountability Project.
The report was shared with Congress on Friday morning, and stated that Chief Medical Officer Dr. Alexander Eastman allegedly “spent copious hours of his and Office of the Chief Medical Officer staff time directing the OCMO staff to urgently help him procure fentanyl lollipops, a Schedule II narcotic, so that he could bring them on the CBP Air and Marine Operations helicopter on which he would be a passenger in New York City.”
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid and painkiller driving the overdose crisis in the United States. Fentanyl lollipops are an oral version of the drug, and are used to treat pain, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency. Chief among the Customs and Border Protection’s duties as a federal agency is stopping the flow of illicit drugs, including fentanyl, into the United States over international borders.
When asked why he would need fentanyl lollipops to travel to the United Nations’ General Assembly meeting, Eastman allegedly argued that the lollipops would be necessary for pain management in case of an emergency, and were “necessary” in case a CBP operator was injured, or if the Air and Marine Operations team encountered a “patient in need.”
Over half a dozen CBP employees were involved in the “urgent” requests to purchase the fentanyl lollipops, the whistleblowers said, with senior leadership in the office reporting concerns about the process in emails. Eastman’s attempts to order the lollipops were unsuccessful because there was not funding available, the whistleblowers said.
Bohemian Grove Infiltration Pt. 2
February 18th, 2024This was my favorite part: Emergency Telephone.
Via: Dancer:
Related: Bohemian Grove Infiltration Pt. 1
Tokenized, Inc: BlackRock’s Plan To Own The Fractionalized World
February 17th, 2024Via: Unlimited Hangout:
In the aftermath of the recent Bitcoin ETF approvals, BlackRock’s Larry Fink revealed that soon everything will be “ETF’d” and tokenized, threatening to fractionalize not just existing assets and commodities, but the natural world, reducing most living things into Wall Street financial products to be traded on a single, universal ledger.
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“We believe we’re just halfway there in the ETF revolution…Everything is going to be ETF’d…We believe this is just the beginning. ETFs are step one in the technological revolution in the financial markets. Step two is going to be the tokenization of every financial asset.”
Microsoft Investing 3.2 Billion Euros In Germany For AI Research
February 17th, 2024Via: Reuters:
U.S. software giant Microsoft will invest 3.2 billion euros ($3.44 billion) in Germany in the next two years, mostly in artificial intelligence, offering a boost to Europe’s largest economy as it faces its worst slump in 20 years.
With its biggest investment in Germany in the last 40 years Microsoft aims to double the capacity of its AI and data centre infrastructure in the country and expand its training programmes, said President Brad Smith on Thursday.
“Inhalable” Self-Spreading Vaccines that Spread Like a Virus, “Circumvent Compliance Issues”
February 17th, 2024Via: Informed Consent Action Network:
A new class of “encrypted RNA” vaccines are being developed where the RNA would piggyback onto an existing wild virus and spread from person to person without any person’s knowledge or consent. Although this may sound like science fiction, it is far from it. Two companies involved in this research have received millions of dollars from the federal government. A study using this technology on hamsters and the SARS-Cov-2 virus has already been completed and a Phase I trial on humans is in the works. ICAN’s attorneys have already sent legal demands to all government agencies involved.
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This so-called “therapy” uses a technology called TIPs (Therapeutic Interfering Particles), which are described as “engineered molecular parasites” that piggyback on a wild virus. If you get the virus, you also get these parasites. Once inside an infected person, the TIPs are supposed to rapidly multiply, hijacking the resources the wild virus needs to multiply and therefore stopping the virus.
Supporters of this technology claim it will “solve” several problems with traditional vaccine delivery, including “behavior barriers” like noncompliance. Meaning everyone gets vaccinated—whether they like it or not.
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The other company working on similar vaccines, VxBiosciences, appears to collaborate with the J. David Gladstone Institutes, led by Dr. Leor Weinberger—who happens to be Ariel’s brother. Patents are already established, such as this one by Leor and Gladstone Institutes in 2017. In a 2020 TEDMED talk, Leor talked about how using viruses would “convert super-spreaders from spreading the virus to spreading the therapy.”
HHS issued a $4.8 million grant to VxBiosciences for “Autonomously Deploying, Co-evolving SARS-CoV-2 Antiviral.” The grant was for engineering “therapeutic molecular parasites of SARS-CoV-2 that can co-adapt and transmit among infected hosts … acting as single-administration therapies that circumvent compliance issues.”
George Soros Scoops Up 220 U.S. Radio Stations Ahead Of 2024 Election
February 17th, 2024Via: Washington Times:
George Soros has purchased a potentially controlling stake in America’s second-largest chain of radio stations.
According to bankruptcy filings cited Wednesday in the New York Post, his Soros Fund Management has bought $400 million of debt in the Audacy chain.
The Post reported that the Fund’s stake comes to about 40% of Audacy’s debt, at a value of about 50 cents on the dollar.
“Although not a majority, [that] could yield effective control of the media giant when it emerges from bankruptcy,” the Post wrote.
A Republican insider “close to the situation” told the Post that Mr. Soros could be making the election-year purchase in a bid to influence public opinion.
80% of Americans Test Positive for Chemical Found in Conventionally Grown Oats That May Cause Infertility
February 16th, 2024Commentary on Cornell Researchers Developing On-Demand Male Contraceptive:
I never got around to writing it, but long ago, in the spirit of Rainbox Six, I envisioned a story that involved a sort of binary bioweapon. If a man drinks a soda containing compound A by itself, he doesn’t become infertile. If he eats a candy bar containing compound B by itself, he doesn’t become infertile. But if he consumes products containing both compound A and compound B within a few hours, he would be infertile for a week, a month or whatever.
The SPECTRE-type group gives up on eat-ze-bugs, etc. and switches to sprinkling these additives in things that sit under heat lamps in gas stations and drop out of vending machines.
It would be very insidious and difficult to find. Medical professionals would shrug shoulders and tell people having infertility problems that they were unlucky. Researchers who got close would commit suicide, etc.
I researched the topic a bit and determined that it wouldn’t make for that thrilling of a story, because it already happened in one way or another.
In a related anecdote, my children learned that students at public schools here in New Zealand are provided with and encouraged to eat snack bars made mostly out of conventionally grown oats.
I sort of half joked: “I wonder what’s in those bars…”
Via: New York Post:
Four out of five Americans are being exposed to a little-known chemical found in popular oat-based foods — including Cheerios and Quaker Oats — that is linked to reduced fertility, altered fetal growth and delayed puberty.
The Environmental Working Group published a study in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology on Thursday that found a staggering 80% of Americans tested positive for a harmful additive called chlormequat.
The “highly toxic agricultural chemical” is federally allowed to be used on oats and other grains imported to the US, according to the EWG.
When applied to oat and grain crops, chlormequat alters a plant’s growth, preventing it from bending over and thus making it easier to harvest, per the EWG.
“Just as troubling, we detected the chemical in 92% of oat-based foods purchased in May 2023, including Quaker Oats and Cheerios,” the nonprofit organization said in a report published alongside the group’s findings.
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Another particularly concerning data point: After testing for the presence of chlormequat in urine collected from 96 people between 2017 and 2023, the EWG’s tests “found higher levels and more frequent detections of chlormequat in the 2023 samples … which suggests consumer exposure to chlormequat could be on the rise.”
Study: A pilot study of chlormequat in food and urine from adults in the United States from 2017 to 2023
2014: Air Force Research: How to Use Social Media to Control People Like Drones
February 16th, 2024I was considering the success of the Covid operation and what the upcoming AI generated video capabilities will enable, in terms of social control. Think about applying advanced AI tools to this decade old research.
It could make Covid look like tiddlywinks.
Via: Ars Technica:
Military social network research has been ongoing over the past decade as part of the DOD’s efforts to leverage “open source intelligence” and use social network analysis (using mobile phone records, other electronic relationships, and physical-world relationships) to target manufacturers of improvised explosive devices and leaders of insurgent cells. Along the way, the research has shifted more toward “hearts and minds” goals than “search and destroy” ones.
DARPA launched its SMISC program in 2011 to examine ways social networks could be used for propaganda and what broadly falls under the euphemistic title of Military Information Support Operations (MISO), formerly known as psychological operations. Early in July, DARPA published a list of research projects funded by the SMISC program. They included studies that analyzed the Twitter followings of Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber among others; investigations into the spread of Internet memes; a study by the Georgia Tech Research Institute into automatically identifying deceptive content in social media with linguistic cues; and “Modeling User Attitude toward Controversial Topics in Online Social Media”—an IBM Research study that tapped into Twitter feeds to track responses to topics like “fracking” for natural gas.
The AFRL-sponsored research by Dixon, Zhen Kan, and Justin Klotz of University of Florida NCR group and Eduardo L. Pasiliao of AFRL’s Munitions Directorate at Eglin Air Force Base was prompted by a meeting Dixon attended while preparing a “think piece” for the Defense Science Study Group. “I heard a presentation by a computer scientist about examining behaviors of people based on social data. The language that was being used to mathematically describe the interactions [between people and products] was the same language we use in controlling groups of autonomous vehicles.”
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While DARPA’s research funding comes with specific ethical and legal constraints [sic.], it’s clear that there is other research being conducted in social media manipulation not happening with such oversight. As Ars reported earlier this week, documents provided to The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden show that the British intelligence agency GCHQ has developed tools specifically aimed at leveraging social media for “effects” operations. The organization has shared its methods with the NSA, and these capabilities have been used in Afghanistan and elsewhere to “shape” information available to members of targeted organizations online and via mobile phones.
Related:
2014: GCHQ’s “Chinese Menu” of Tools Spreads Disinformation Across Internet
2012: Using Mobile Phone User Location Data for ‘Crowd (Soft) Control’
The U.S. Government Will Soon Spend More on Interest Payments Than Military
February 16th, 2024Via: Wall Street Journal:
Treasury yields have sprung to multiyear highs, forcing the U.S. government to pay a lot more in interest and putting pressure on the budget.
The U.S. government is expected to pay an additional $1.1 trillion in interest over the coming decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s latest estimates. Interest costs are on pace to surpass defense this year as one of the largest government expenses in the budget. Only Social Security and Medicare are forecast to be bigger burdens in the coming years.
Russia: Alexei Navalny Dies in Prison
February 16th, 2024Via: Reuters:
Alexei Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable opponent, collapsed and died on Friday after a walk at the “Polar Wolf” Arctic penal colony where he was serving a three-decade jail term, the Russian prison service said.
The death of Navalny, a 47-year-old former lawyer, robs the disparate Russian opposition of its most courageous leader as Putin prepares for an election which will keep the former KGB spy in power until at least 2030.
There are now no opposition leaders of such prominence left in Russia. For some young urban Russians, Navalny also offered hope of an alternative future to Putin, who has served as Russia’s paramount leader longer than anyone since Josef Stalin.
Navalny rose to prominence more than a decade ago by documenting and speaking publicly about what he said was the vast corruption and opulence among the “crooks and thieves” running Putin’s Russia.
