South Korea: At Least 25 Dead Following Flu Vaccinations
October 22nd, 2020Via: Reuters:
South Korean officials refused on Thursday to suspend a seasonal influenza inoculation effort, despite growing calls for a halt, including an appeal from a key group of doctors, after the deaths of at least 25 of those vaccinated.
Health authorities said they found no direct links between the deaths and the vaccines.
At least 22 of the dead, including a 17-year-old boy, were part of a campaign to inoculate 19 million teenagers and senior citizens for free, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said.
“The number of deaths has increased, but our team sees low possibility that the deaths resulted from the shots,” the agency’s director, Jeong Eun-kyeong, told parliament.
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The Korean Medical Association, an influential grouping of doctors, urged the government to halt all inoculation programmes for now, to allay public concerns and ensure the vaccines were safe.
Patriot Missile Battery Suddenly Appears At Small Regional Airport In Texas
October 22nd, 2020Via: The Warzone:
The public affairs officer for the 1st Battalion, 44th Air Defense Artillery Regiment (1-44th ADA), part of the 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade at Fort Hood, told The War Zone that the unit was executing a relatively rare deployment where they set up shop in an unfamiliar location, just as they would during a crisis. After setting up their gear, which as you can see in the images below is quite extensive, as well as an operations center, they will operate as they would in a wartime-like setting and run drills associated with a real-world deployment. This includes defending against air-breathing threats, such as airplanes and cruise missiles, and high and fast-flying ballistic missiles. It’s worth noting that there are no live missiles being used as part of the training evolution.
2022 GMC Hummer EV: Insane Specifications and Price
October 21st, 2020Update: Customers Reserve First Year’s Worth of Production in an Hour
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Via: Car and Driver:
The 2022 GMC Hummer EV … is a departure, in pretty much every way possible, from anything GM builds. Its debut offering is a four-door pickup with 1000 horsepower, at least 1000 lb-ft of torque, and a claimed zero-to-60-mph time of 3.0 seconds. It has 35-inch-tall tires, four-wheel steering, and removable roof panels. Range is 350 miles and an 800-volt DC fast charger can add 100 miles of range in 10 minutes. Edition 1, the decked-out launch model, will cost $112,595. This is not a rebodied Chevy Tahoe.
Microsoft Partners with SpaceX to Connect Azure Cloud to Musk’s Starlink Satellite Internet
October 20th, 2020SpaceX is a major DoD contractor.
Microsoft is a major DoD contractor.
Better broadband for people in rural areas?
This is definitely one for your, Yes, but wait, there’s more… file folder.
Via: CNBC:
Microsoft is partnering with SpaceX to connect the tech giant’s Azure cloud computing network to the growing Starlink satellite internet service offered by Elon Musk’s company, the companies announced Tuesday.
Starlink is SpaceX’s ambitious plan to build an interconnected internet network with thousands of satellites, designed to deliver high-speed internet to anywhere on the planet.
“The collaboration that we’re announcing today will allow us to work together to deliver new offerings for both the public and the private sector to deliver connectivity through Starlink for use on Azure,” SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell said in a video. “Where it makes sense, we will work with [Microsoft]: co-selling to our mutual customers, co-selling to new enterprise and future customers.”
Justice Department and 11 States Accuse Google of Antitrust Violations
October 20th, 2020Via: Yahoo News:
The Department of Justice, joined by 11 states with Republican attorneys general, filed an antitrust lawsuit Tuesday against the tech giant Google, setting off a titanic legal battle likely to last for years.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., accuses Google of using its enormous size to illegally monopolize the market for search-generated advertising through contracts, such as an agreement with Apple to put its search engine on iPhones, to freeze out competitors.
“Two decades ago, Google became the darling of Silicon Valley as a scrappy startup with an innovative way to search the emerging internet. That Google is long gone,” the lawsuit said.
“The Google of today is a monopoly gatekeeper for the internet, and one of the wealthiest companies on the planet, with a market value of $1 trillion and annual revenue exceeding $160 billion,” it continued. “For many years, Google has used anticompetitive tactics to maintain and extend its monopolies in the markets for general search services, search advertising, and general search text advertising — the cornerstones of its empire.”
Google called the lawsuit deeply flawed, saying, “People use Google because they choose to — not because they’re forced to or because they can’t find alternatives.”
Google Terminates Dollar Vigilante and Last American Vagabond YouTube Channels
October 20th, 2020Ghislaine Maxwell Loses Fight to Keep Her Jeffrey Epstein Testimony Sealed
October 19th, 2020Via: Miami Herald:
A federal appeals court dealt Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged madam to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, twin blows late Monday by declining to consolidate her appeals in numerous overlapping cases and striking down her effort to thwart release of a controversial deposition she gave in a now-settled civil lawsuit.
The three-judge Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held more than two hours of oral arguments last week, and issued a succinct Monday afternoon order holding that a lower court judge did not err in ordering the release of a 418-page deposition from April 2016 that could shed new light on the Epstein empire.
“We have reviewed all of the arguments raised by Defendant-Appellant Maxwell on appeal and find them to be without merit,” the judges wrote, also turning away a request for consolidation with Maxwell’s criminal case in the Southern District of New York. “We DENY the motion to consolidate this appeal with the pending appeal in United States v. Maxwell.”
Dr. Jeff Dahn: EV Batteries Going 2 Million Miles
October 19th, 2020Via: Electrek:
A Tesla battery researcher showed updated test results pointing to batteries lasting over 15,000 cycles or the equivalent of over 2 million miles (3.5 million km) in an electric car.
“Twitter and Facebook – They’re Running a Protection Racket for Joe Biden”
October 18th, 2020Via: Sky News Australia:
Japan Will Release Radioactive Fukushima Water Into Sea for Decades
October 18th, 2020Via: Independent:
Amid strong opposition from environmentalists and the fishing community, Japan is set to release more than one million tonnes of contaminated water from the tsunami-devastated Fukushima power plant into the sea.
According to local media reports, the work to release the radioactive water from Fukushima’s Daiichi nuclear power plant would begin in 2022 at the earliest and would take decades to complete.
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As of last month, there were 1.23 million tonnes of waste water at the facility, according to reports.
