I’m Afraid We Have to Talk About “Her Penis”
July 3rd, 2023Via: Brendan O’Neill:
We need to talk about her penis. Not about any specific individual’s private parts. That would be weird. No, we need to talk about the union of those two words. The smashing together of the female pronoun and the noun for the male genital organ. Her penis. Nothing better captures the irrationalism of our age, and also the slippery authoritarianism of it, than the fact that this nonsensical phrase is frequently uttered, and as much in the respectable press as in the gender Bedlam of internet discussion forums. If anyone tries to tell you the culture war is a myth, show them her penis.
Her penis is everywhere.
New Research Paper: mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Are Gene Therapy Products
July 3rd, 2023
Via: Epoch Times:
Now that the pandemic has ended, researchers are urging regulatory agencies to consider the safety issues associated with the rapid approval of COVID-19 vaccines—and to correctly classify messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines as gene therapy products (GTPs) to prevent pharmaceutical companies from bypassing regulatory standards.
Power Analysis of LEDs Can Reveal Encryption Keys
July 3rd, 2023If you thought TEMPEST/van Eck phreaking was interesting in the 1980s, check out what’s possible by monitoring power fluctuations on modern LED displays.
In case you’re a “normal” computer user and wondering if you should be concerned about this, the simple answer is no, not really. There are many, many, many other issues with our computers that are far more serious (and pretty much unfixable) than this clever trick with LEDs.
If, however, you were concerned about this, could you run some threads doing CRC or creating unrelated keys in the background to hide your actual encryption activities?
Via: Computerphile:
Claims That French Government Has Cut Off Internet Access in France Are False
July 3rd, 2023Update: Macron Accused of Authoritarianism After Threat to Cut Off Social Media
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If you’re seeing messages on social media about the Internet being down in France: That’s false. As of 14:45 UTC, the Internet is working normally in France.
I’m able to browse the Internet though my VPN with an exit node in Paris. Both French sites and international sites look normal to me.
There is definitely no widespread Internet outage in France at this time.
But don’t take my word for it:
Cloudflare Outage Map
Thousand Eyes/Cisco
Dr. Suneel Dhand: Stay Away from Doctors
July 3rd, 2023Via: Dr. Suneel Dhand:
Gates Commits $400 Million to Test New TB Vaccine on 26,000 People in Africa and Southeast Asia
July 2nd, 2023Via: The Defender:
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust on Wednesday announced plans to fund a phase 3 clinical trial for a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine that will be tested on 26,000 people at 50 sites in Africa and Southeast Asia over the next four to six years.
Gates committed $400 million to the trial and Wellcome — the largest funder of medical research in the U.K. and one of the largest in the world — committed an additional $150 million.
The trials will test the M72/AS01 vaccine, developed by pharmaceutical giant GSK (formerly GlaxoSmithKline) with partial funding from the Gates Foundation.
Experts told The Washington Post the news was “huge.” The Guardian heralded the announcement as “gamechanging,” while STAT called it “promising.”
But Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., senior director of science and research for Children’s Health Defense told The Defender that the planned trials for the TB vaccine raised red flags.
“I’m concerned that they’re planning on conducting the trial in underdeveloped nations,” Hooker said. “It seems almost prototypical that the underserved have to be guinea pigs for the rest of the world.”
He added, “Fifty percent is incredibly low efficacy for such an ‘important’ intervention to go to essentially everyone in the developing world.”
US Wants To Make More Stingers, But it Needs to Revive Production Technology Nearly from Scratch
July 1st, 2023
Via: Technology.org:
It is not easy to restart old production lines – after most of them have been disassembled and the technology itself was largely forgotten. Therefore, in order to make Stinger portable missile launchers (MANPADS) which became incredibly popular after their particularly effective use in Ukraine, the United States needs to find specialists who still know the essence of making this weapon.
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To replenish its own stocks, the U.S. Army placed an order for 1700 new Stinger launcher units back in May 2022. However, the Pentagon reported that it would take as long as 30 months (or two and a half years) for the completed MANPADS to start rolling off the assembly line.
The reason behind this lengthy timeframe is quite straightforward—several components for these MANPADS are no longer in production, necessitating the exploration of new methods and possibly novel technological improvements to resume production and increase its rates in the nearest time.
As an example, American engineers have encountered difficulties in manufacturing the homing heads for these MANPADS, so this component will potentially require conducting research and developing replacement modules.
Benzodiazepine Use Associated with Brain Injury, Job Loss and Suicide
July 1st, 2023Another one for your herniating Safe and Effective file folder…
Via: University of Colorado:
Benzodiazepine use and discontinuation is associated with nervous system injury and negative life effects that continue after discontinuation, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
The study was published today in the journal PLOS One.
“Despite the fact that benzodiazepines have been widely prescribed for decades, this survey presents significant new evidence that a subset of patients experience long-term neurological complications,” said Alexis Ritvo, M.D, M.P.H., an assistant professor in psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and medical director of the nonprofit Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices.“This should change how we think about benzodiazepines and how they are prescribed.”
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Symptoms were long-lasting, with 76.6% of all affirmative answers to symptom questions reporting the duration to be months or more than a year. The following ten symptoms persisted over a year in greater than half of respondents: low energy, difficulty focusing, memory loss, anxiety, insomnia, sensitivity to light and sounds, digestive problems, symptoms triggered by food and drink, muscle weakness and body pain. Particularly alarming, these symptoms were often reported as new and distinct from the symptoms for which benzodiazepines were originally prescribed. In addition, a majority of respondents reported prolonged negative life impacts in all areas, such as significantly damaged relationships, job loss and increased medical costs. Notably, 54.4% of the respondents reported suicidal thoughts or attempted suicide.
Pfizer Vaccine Batches in the EU Were Placebos, Say Scientists
July 1st, 2023Via: Daily Skeptic:
Scientists have uncovered startling evidence that a substantial portion of the batches of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine deployed in the European Union may in fact have consisted of placebos – and that the German regulator knew this and did not subject them to quality-control testing.
The scientists, Dr. Gerald Dyker, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum, and Dr. Jörg Matysik, Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Leipzig, are part of a group of five German-speaking scientists who have been publicly raising questions about the quality and safety of the BioNTech vaccine (as it is known in Germany) for the last year and a half.
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Finally, we have the ‘yellow batches’ clustered around the yellow line, which, as can be seen above, barely gets off the x-axis. On Dyker’s calculation, the yellow batches represent around 30% of the total. Dyker notes that they include batches comprising some 200,000 administered doses which are associated with literally zero suspected adverse events.
What’s Happening in France?
June 30th, 2023The media is silent about the crazy riots going on in France. pic.twitter.com/mBlMKFHVWO
— 1776 (@TheWakeninq) July 1, 2023
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Update: Social Unrest Spreading In Third Night
Via: ZeroHedge:
French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, said overnight chaos has resulted in 2,000 cars burned, 500 buildings damaged, hundreds of businesses looted, and violent clashes with police. He said over 800 people were arrested, with nearly 250 officers injured.
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Via: Summit News:
