Starshield: SpaceX Wins Pentagon Contract to Supply Military Communications Using Starlink Technology
September 28th, 2023All the Starlink satellites now around Earth pic.twitter.com/cdDypr6uSo
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Via: PC World:
SpaceX has won a Pentaogon contract to supply military communications to the US Armed Forces using Starlink technology.
The contract was awarded to SpaceX’s Starshield program, which is applying the company’s Starlink technology to defense and government communications.
According to Bloomberg, the US Space Force awarded the contract, which is worth up to $70 million, on Sept. 1 to help the military tap communications using low-Earth orbiting satellites. Specifically, the contract “provides for Starshield end-to-end service via the Starlink constellation, user terminals, ancillary equipment, network management and other related services,” an Air Force spokeswoman told the media outlet.
Costco Sells Out 1 Ounce Gold Bars Within Hours
September 27th, 2023Via: KTLA:
One of Costco’s newest merchandise items has been selling out within a matter of hours, CFO Richard Galanti said on an earnings call Tuesday.
“I’ve gotten a couple of calls that people have seen online that we’ve been selling one-ounce gold bars,” Galanti told investors during the retailer’s fourth-quarter earnings call.
“Yes, but when we load them on the site, they’re typically gone within a few hours and we limit two per member.”
Costco’s website shows that members can purchase one-ounce bars of 24-karat gold from Rand Refinery for $1,949.99 or a one-ounce bar from PAMP Suisse for $1,979.99. Both items have a 4.9-star rating and can’t be refunded or returned.
Costa Rica Declares State of Emergency Over Migrant Crisis
September 27th, 2023Via: Daily Mail:
Costa Rica has declared a state of emergency as it struggles to deal with an influx of migrants passing through the tropical paradise, with more than a quarter million asylum seekers crossing through the treacherous Darien Gap this year to get to the US.
President Rodrigo Chaves said on Tuesday he has ordered officials to declare a state of emergency as the number of migrants passing through the small Central American nation after crossing from South to Central America through the jungle jumped sharply, reaching 386,000 in 2023 alone.
Target to Close Nine Stores Across Four States Because of Theft and Crime
September 27th, 2023Via: Star Tribune:
Target Corp. will shutter nine stores across four states on Oct. 21 because of theft and threats to safety, the company announced Tuesday, the latest — and loudest —example of a retailer exiting urban locations because of crime.
Target said it made the “difficult decision” to close the stores — which include locations in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, Seattle, Portland and the San Francisco Bay area — after the Minneapolis-based company determined that theft-preventive measures had proved ineffective. The company said it had tried adding more security, including third-party guards, and using deterrents such as locking up merchandise.
“We cannot continue operating these stores because theft and organized retail crime are threatening the safety of our team and guests and contributing to unsustainable business performance,” the company said.
Covid Vaccines DO Cause Unexpected Vaginal Bleeding in Women
September 27th, 20232021: Some Women Are Having Heavier and More Painful Periods Since Getting COVID-19 Vaccines
And now…
Via: Daily Mail:
Researchers looked at data from nearly 22,000 women who had already experienced menopause, women in perimenopause, the time just before entering menopause, and non-menstruating premenopausal women, including some who were on long-term hormonal birth control.
They found 252 postmenopausal women (3.3 percent), 1,008 perimenopausal women (14.1 percent) and 924 premenopausal women (13.1 percent) reported unexplained or breakthrough vaginal bleeding throughout the entire year of 2021.
Of the women who reported this, about half in every group reported their bleeding occurred within the four weeks following their first and/or second vaccine dose.
The data showed: 45 percent of postmenopausal women, 51 percent of perimenopausal women and 55 percent of premenopausal women reported the unexplained bleeding.
Among these women, 28 percent of those in perimenopause characterized the bleeding as heavy, compared to 18 percent of both women who had finished menopause and who had not yet experienced menopause.
Women in the senior cohort of the study were aged 61 to 88 years old and were considered non menstruating. Other non menstruating females were aged 32 to 64 years. Respondents were then grouped into the three menopausal categories.
Vaginal bleeding in postmenopausal women can be a sign of a serious condition, such as cancer, and more women in this group than the others sought medical care after experiencing unexplained bleeding – 30.6 percent compared to 13.8 percent of perimenopausal women and 9.3 percent of premenopausal women.
The risk of breakthrough bleeding in the first four weeks after a dose of Moderna’s vaccine was associated with a 32 percent increase compared to Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine.
Heavy menstrual bleeding has since been added as a vaccine side effect.
Nucor and Helion to Develop Historic 500 MW Fusion Power Plant
September 27th, 2023
Via: PRNewswire:
Today, Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE) announced a collaboration with fusion power company, Helion to develop a 500 MW fusion power plant. This transformational project will offer baseload zero-carbon electricity from fusion directly to a Nucor steelmaking facility. Nucor and Helion are working together to set a firm timeline and are committed to beginning operations as soon as possible with a target of 2030. Nucor is making a direct investment of $35 million in Helion to accelerate fusion deployment in the United States. This is the first fusion energy agreement of this scale in the world and will pave the way for decarbonizing the entire industrial sector.
Gavin Newsom Signs California Law Doubling Taxes on Guns, Ammo: ‘A Small Price to Pay’
September 27th, 2023Via: Fox:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Tuesday that will double the taxes on guns and ammunition, with the new revenue going to safety initiatives.
The federal government collects excise taxes on purchases of firearms and ammunition at either 10% or 11%. The new law adds another 11% excise tax, meaning that Golden State residents can indirectly pay as much as 22%.
Newsom said that he saw the tax increase as a “pretty modest investment” in gun violence prevention and believes it will help toward “reducing those costs ultimately.”
“The carnage, it’s too much. We can’t normalize it, we can’t accept it,” Newsom said. “This is a small price to pay.”
Former Police Detective Reveals 50% of SIDS Cases Happened Within 48 Hours Post Vaccine
September 27th, 2023I could be wrong about the exact year, but I think I heard Jon Rappoport talking about this on Roy Tuckman’s Something’s Happening late night radio show… Back around 1994.
The link between vaccines and SIDS has been known, and officially unacknowledged, for a very long time.
Via: Steve Kirsch:
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) happens to babies, from 1 month to 1 year in age, but most frequently between 2 and 4 months of age.
Recently I interviewed a former police detective who handled over 250 SIDS cases for a major US city. She revealed her full name and I was able to independently verify her employment at the police department.
In the interview, she revealed that 50% of the SIDS cases happened within 48 hours after a vaccine was given and about 70% of the cases happened within one week of a vaccine.
This can only mean one thing: that the childhood vaccines are the leading cause of SIDS deaths.
There is no other explanation.
Even her pediatrician acknowledged this, but they aren’t allowed to talk about it. She said that the American Academy of Pediatrics trains the pediatricians in how to gaslight parents who seek to blame the vaccine.
Research Credit: pookie
Fauci Was ‘Smuggled’ Into CIA Headquarters To “Influence” Covid-19 Origins Investigation
September 26th, 2023In other news/comedy gold: DIA Releases Mostly Redacted Documents on COVID-19 Origin
Via: ZeroHedge:
Dr. Anthony Fauci was smuggled into CIA headquarters, “without a record of entry,” where he “participated in the analysis to “influence” the Agency’s” Covid-19 investigation, according to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
F-35 Can’t Be Fixed Without Private Contractors
September 26th, 2023The F-35 is probably the biggest single scam in U.S. Military history.
Mission accomplished.
Via: Vice:
Like Apple’s new iPhone, America’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is expensive and hard to repair without intervention from the original manufacturer. According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a bipartisan watchdog group in D.C., F-35s are only available for missions about half the time. A whole lot of these expensive jets are sitting in storage because they’re waiting on repair parts.
The F-35 is a troubled aircraft that’s been on the GAO’s radar for years. Its new report on the jet, “DOD and the Military Services Need to Reassess the Future Sustainment Strategy,” drilled down into why the aircraft spent so much time on the tarmac and not in the skies. “The F-35 fleet mission capable rate—the percentage of time the aircraft can perform one of its tasked missions—was about 55 percent in March 2023, far below program goals,” the GAO said. “The program was behind schedule in establishing depot maintenance activities to conduct repairs. As a result, component repair times remained slow with over 10,000 waiting to be repaired.”
Right now, the care and upkeep of F-35s has been contracted out to third parties. If something breaks on an F-35, it’s usually fixed by a defense contractor and not military engineers. This is part of why the jet is so expensive. “DOD has estimated overall costs for the program at more than $1.7 trillion over its life cycle, with the majority of the costs, about $1.3 trillion, associated with sustaining the aircraft,” the GAO said.
