Philips CPAP Machines “Can Spew Carcinogenic Foam”
January 31st, 2024Via: Daily Mail:
Medical device manufacturer Philips will halt all sales of its sleep apnea machines amid fears about the devices’ links to cancer.
In 2021, the company’s CPAP machines, used to treat the sleeping disorder, were found to be blowing gas and foam into users’ airways as they slept, putting them at increased risk of tumors.
The discovery led to the company recalling more than 5million machines, but attempts to repair and replace affected machines has been dragging on for years.
Now, the FDA and Justice Department have forced Philips to halt all new sales until they address the problem with the old devices.
Bayer: Jury Verdicts Totaling Almost $4 Billion Over Roundup Litigation
January 30th, 2024Via: Bloomberg:
Bayer AG faces mounting pressure to come up with a new plan for handling its Roundup weedkiller litigation after getting hammered by US jury verdicts totaling almost $4 billion over the last three months.
The German conglomerate’s latest courtroom loss was its biggest since Roundup cases started going to trial five and a half years ago, with a Pennsylvania jury awarding $2.25 billion to a former Roundup user who blamed his cancer diagnosis on long-term exposure to the herbicide.
AI Companies Will Be Required to Report Safety Tests to U.S. Government
January 30th, 2024I feel safer already!
Via: Time:
The Biden Administration will start implementing a new requirement for the developers of major artificial intelligence systems to disclose their safety test results to the government.
The White House AI Council is scheduled to meet Monday to review progress made on the executive order that President Joe Biden signed three months ago to manage the fast-evolving technology.
EU Wants All ‘Gendered Language’ Erased
January 30th, 2024Via: Modernity News:
A European Union body has called for all ‘gendered language’ to be purged from existence, including completely innocuous sayings such as ‘Joe Public’, as well as words such as ‘virile’ which it claims are too often associated with men.
The Telegraph reports that The European Institute for Gender Equality (yes that exists) has compelled a 61-page document outlining what words should be wiped from existence and have more “sensitive” replacements.
Gridlessness YouTube Channel
January 30th, 2024I was clicking through various wood gas videos on YouTube when I found the Gridlessness channel. Great, family oriented videos, mainly about food and energy.
Elon Musk Reveals First Neuralink Implant in Human
January 30th, 2024Via: Daily Mail:
Elon Musk has revealed a patient has become the first human to have a Neuralink microchip implanted into their brain.
The billionaire said on Monday night his startup Neuralink had successfully performed a craniectomy to attach the device in the unnamed person on Sunday.
He announced the product – called ‘Telepathy’ – and he hopes it will allow users with disabilities like Stephen Hawking to ‘communicate faster than an auctioneer’.
Musk said it will ‘enable control of your phone or computer, and through them almost any device, just by thinking’.
It comes less than a year after Neuralink got Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to operate on humans, a critical milestone for the startup.
Attack on U.S. Soldiers in Jordan: White House Says “Significant Military Response Coming”
January 29th, 2024And Now… U.S. Failed to Stop Drone Attack Because of Identification Mixup:
The U.S. failed to stop a deadly attack on an American military outpost in Jordan because the enemy drone approached its target at the same time a U.S. drone was also returning to base, U.S. officials said Monday.
The return of the U.S. drone led to some confusion over whether the incoming drone was friend or foe, officials have concluded so far.
The enemy drone was launched from Iraq by a militia backed by Tehran, U.S. officials said. The outpost, Tower 22, sits in Jordan, near the borders of Iraq and Syria.
An American defense official said on Monday that the U.S. has yet to find evidence thus far that Iran directed the attack, which killed three U.S. troops and wounded dozens of others.
The attack signaled an escalation in hostilities that have been growing since the Oct. 7 Hamas assault on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza. President Biden said the U.S. would respond.
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Via: ZeroHedge:
Iran has vehemently denied that it was behind the weekend drone attack on a Jordanian base near the Syrian border which killed three American troops, and according to a revised figure injured 34. A one-way drone reportedly slammed into a tent which was housing soldiers at the base, which is why casualties are so high, but questions remain.
Tehran has called the accusations that it was behind the attack “baseless” after President Biden on Sunday vowed “We shall respond”. Within the hours after news of the attack on Jordan’s Tower 22 base there were widespread reports that Iranian allied groups in Iraq and Syria were temporarily evacuating their bases, expending retaliatory airstrikes.
Iranian allies are now bracing for a major US response to the deadly attack on the Jordanian outpost, according to the Wall Street Journal. Already there’s been an apparent Israeli airstrike on a Damascus suburb, resulting in the deaths of two people, said to be targeting an “Iranian-backed group”.
Related: What Happens After Israel Flattens Gaza?
Navy Again Lowers Requirements As It Struggles To Meet Recruitment Goals
January 28th, 2024Via: New York Post:
The US Navy is starting to enlist individuals who didn’t graduate from high school or get a GED, marking the second time in about a year that the service has opened the door to lower-performing recruits as it struggles to meet enlistment goals.
The decision follows a move in December 2022 to bring in a larger number of recruits who score very low on the Armed Services Qualification Test.
Both are fairly rare steps that the other military services largely avoid or limit, even though they are all finding it increasingly difficult to attract the dwindling number of young people who can meet the military’s physical, mental and moral standards.
Under the new plan, Navy recruits without an education credential will be able to join as long as they score 50 or above on the qualification test, which is out of 99.
The last time the service took individuals without education credentials was in 2000.
Bill Gates Turned $55 Million Vaccine Investment in Pfizer’s Partner, BioNTech, Into Over $550 Million in Just Under Two Years
January 27th, 2024Fascinating coincidence!
WOAH
I recently discovered something very weird.
Bill Gates invested a whopping $55 MILLION in BioNTech that made the Pfizer mRNA injection.
You will never believe the date that this happened…
Is this just a coincidence?
You know, the company that partnered with Pfizer… pic.twitter.com/G2yNyBAnaB
— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) January 26, 2024
This is from 2021.
Via: Tech Startups:
Who said saving lives is not a lucrative business?[sic.]
Idaho Sending State Police Troopers to Mexico Border
January 27th, 2024Via: ArcaMax:
Gov. Brad Little announced Friday that he plans to send more Idaho State Police troopers to the U.S.-Mexico border “to assist with securing our nation’s border,” as Texas is in the middle of a legal standoff with the federal government over border security.
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“We stand in solidarity with our fellow governor, Greg Abbott, and the state of Texas in utilizing every tool and strategy, including razor wire fences, to secure the border,” the governors said in a joint statement. “We do it in part because the Biden administration is refusing to enforce immigration laws already on the books and is illegally allowing mass parole across America of migrants who entered our country illegally.”
