Lithium Discovery in U.S. Volcano Could be Biggest Deposit Ever Found
September 9th, 2023Via: Chemistry World:
A world-beating deposit of lithium along the Nevada–Oregon border could meet surging demand for this metal, according to a new analysis.
An estimated 20 to 40 million tonnes of lithium metal lie within a volcanic crater formed around 16 million years ago. This is notably larger than the lithium deposits found beneath a Bolivian salt flat, previously considered the largest deposit in the world.
New Mexico Governor Suspends Right of People to Carry Guns in Albuquerque and Bernalillo County for 30 Days
September 9th, 2023An emergency public health order…
Via: Fox:
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s controversial comments in defense of a temporary gun ban, prompted fierce backlash on social media.
The Democrat issued an emergency public health order on Friday, suspending the right to carry guns in public across Albuquerque and the surrounding Bernalillo County for at least 30 days following the shooting deaths of three children in the area.
Local law enforcement officials expressed concerns that the governor’s order violated Second Amendment rights. The governor acknowledged the ban may face legal challenges and addressed these concerns during a press conference.
After a reporter questioned if Grisham was upholding her oath to the Constitution, she argued no Constitutional rights were fixed, including her oath.
More: New Mexico Governor Suspends Constitutional Gun Rights For Law-Abiding Citizens In Albuquerque
Government Gave Millions to American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to Promote COVID-19 Vaccines to Pregnant Women
September 9th, 2023Via: Epoch Times:
The premier professional membership organization for obstetricians and gynecologists accepted $11.8 million from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to promote COVID-19 vaccines to pregnant women, despite the exclusion of pregnant women from clinical trials and regulatory data showing the vaccine had not been tested for safety during pregnancy.
The Race Is On To Deploy Killer Robots For Future U.S.-China War
September 8th, 2023Via: Reuters:
“There is a lot of warfare that is dull, dirty and dangerous. It is a lot better to do that with a machine.”
Gavin Newsom Says He’s Not Running In 2024, Kamala ‘Natural Successor’ To Biden
September 8th, 2023He’s too busy wrecking California.
Gavin Newsom says he will not be running for President in 2024
The only people I’ve heard say they think he was going to run are Republicans
pic.twitter.com/gLByYqPuYb— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) September 8, 2023
Google Bakes a User-Tracking Ad Platform Directly Into Chrome, Generates a “Topic” List It Shares with Advertisers
September 7th, 2023And Chrome is the most popular browser in the world by a large margin.
Via: ArsTechnica:
Don’t let Chrome’s big redesign distract you from the fact that Chrome’s invasive new ad platform, ridiculously branded the “Privacy Sandbox,” is also getting a widespread rollout in Chrome today. If you haven’t been following this, this feature will track the web pages you visit and generate a list of advertising topics that it will share with web pages whenever they ask, and it’s built directly into the Chrome browser. It’s been in the news previously as “FLoC” and then the “Topics API,” and despite widespread opposition from just about every non-advertiser in the world, Google owns Chrome and is one of the world’s biggest advertising companies, so this is being railroaded into the production builds.
Google seemingly knows this won’t be popular. Unlike the glitzy front-page Google blog post that the redesign got, the big ad platform launch announcement is tucked away on the privacysandbox.com page. The blog post says the ad platform is hitting “general availability” today, meaning it has rolled out to most Chrome users. This has been a long time coming, with the APIs rolling out about a month ago and a million incremental steps in the beta and dev builds, but now the deed is finally done.
Major Vulnerability on Apple Devices, Update Immediately – “BLASTPASS” Can Install Malware Without User Interaction
September 7th, 2023Via: Ars Technica:
Apple has released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS today to fix actively exploited zero-day security flaws that can be used to install malware via a “maliciously crafted image” or attachment. The iOS 16.6.1, iPadOS 16.6.1, macOS 13.5.2, and watchOS 9.6.2 updates patch the flaws across all of Apple’s platforms. As of this writing, no updates have been released for older versions like iOS 15 or macOS 12.
The CVE-2023-41064 and CVE-2023-41061 flaws were reported by the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Also dubbed “BLASTPASS,” Citizen Lab says that the bugs are serious because they can be exploited just by loading an image or attachment, which happens regularly in Safari, Messages, WhatsApp, and other first- and third-party apps. These bugs are also called “zero-click” or “clickless” vulnerabilities.
Citizen Lab also said that the BLASTPASS bug was “being used to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus mercenary spyware,” the latest in a long line of similar exploits that have been used to infect fully patched iOS and Android devices.
Researchers Create Aerosolized mRNA COVID Vaccine
September 6th, 2023Via: EpochTV:
Researchers at Yale University have created a new airborne method of delivery for mRNA vaccines. They claim that their tests were able to successfully vaccinate mice intranasally — without any injections. They believe that this will radicalize the way people are vaccinated in the near future. Let’s go through their research, as well as the the implications that it has for the next “vaccination drive” in this country.
What Are These Clumps of Material in the MMR Vaccine?
September 6th, 2023I have no idea what I’m looking at, but my guess is that there shouldn’t be visible clumps of whatever-that-is in any vaccine.
What is that?
If you have a PhD is a relevant field and want to go on the record to explain this to us, please email me.
Via: Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, PhD:
NOBODY can justify injecting this material into babies.
Research Credit: pookie
Scientists Have Grown, “An Entity” that Resembles an Early Human Embryo Without Using Sperm, Eggs or a Womb
September 6th, 2023
Via: BBC:
Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb.
The Weizmann Institute team say their “embryo model”, made using stem cells, looks like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo.
It even released hormones that turned a pregnancy test positive in the lab.
The ambition for embryo models is to provide an ethical way of understanding the earliest moments of our lives.
The first weeks after a sperm fertilises an egg is a period of dramatic change – from a collection of indistinct cells to something that eventually becomes recognisable on a baby scan.
This crucial time is a major source of miscarriage and birth defects but poorly understood.
“It’s a black box and that’s not a cliche – our knowledge is very limited,” Prof Jacob Hanna, from the Weizmann Institute of Science, tells me.
