CDC Changes Webpage To No Longer Reject The Possibility That Vaccines Cause Autism
November 21st, 2025Via: USA Today:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recast the vaccine safety section of its website to question the long-held stance that vaccines do not cause autism, countering decades of scientific evidence showing them to be safe.
The U.S. public health agency’s website was changed on Nov. 19 to say that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.” It added that health authorities have “ignored” studies supporting the link between the two.
More: CDC Says ‘No Evidence’ to Support Claim that Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism
U.S. Could Collect DNA from Foreign Travelers
November 21st, 2025Via: The Sun:
NEW security measures are being rolled out on December 26, and travelers could have to hand over their DNA to cross the US border.
Authorities will ask for a cache of personal information to combat anyone overstaying their welcome.
The new travel rules apply to any non-citizen who is entering or leaving America, government documents seen by Reuters reveal.
Starting next month, US border authorities will be allowed to photograph travelers at airports and use facial recognition to compare their information with existing records.
The records can be held for up to 75 years.
U.S. Government To Buy 10 Large, New Nuclear Reactors
November 20th, 2025Via: ZeroHeadge:
Hot on the heels of news that it will invest “hundreds of billions” in loans to the nuclear power industry, including one already disbursed loan for $1BN to restart Three Mile Island, Bloomberg reported that the US government also plans to buy and own as many as 10 new, large nuclear reactors that could be paid for using Japan’s $550BN funding pledge, part of the Trump admin’s existential push to meet surging demand for electricity
The Energy Department’s chief of staff, Carl Coe, made comments today detailing the unusual arrangement related to the $550 billion in funding for US projects announced by Japan, Bloomberg reports.
“The role of having the government involved in private markets is sacrosanct — you just don’t do it,” Coe said at an energy conference hosted by the Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council. “But this is a national emergency.”
Related: Army Announces Next Steps On Janus Program For Next-Generation Nuclear Energy
Border Patrol Monitoring Drivers, Looking for “Suspicious Travel Patterns”
November 20th, 2025Via: CBS News:
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found.
The Border Patrol’s predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going and which route they took. Federal agents in turn may then flag local law enforcement.
Suddenly, drivers find themselves pulled over – often for reasons cited such as speeding, no turn signals or even a dangling air freshener blocking the view. They are then aggressively questioned and searched, with no inkling that the roads they drove put them on law enforcement’s radar.
Infant Vaccine Intensity Strongly Predicts Autism Rates Worldwide
November 19th, 2025Via: Focal Points:
A new cross-national study from Italy’s National Research Council, spanning multiple developed countries across three continents, has identified a remarkably strong association between early-life vaccine intensity and autism prevalence. The number of vaccine types and doses administered before 12 months showed exceptionally high correlations with national autism rates.
A 1% increase in vaccine types before age one corresponded to a 0.47% increase in autism prevalence.
The correlation is enormous — r = 0.87 for vaccine types and r = 0.79 for vaccine doses. In regression models, vaccine intensity alone explained 81% of the variance in autism prevalence across nations.
This is not an isolated signal. It directly corroborates earlier U.S. state-level data from DeLong (2011) — and aligns with the 107 positive-association studies catalogued in the McCullough Foundation’s Landmark Autism Report.
“Potentially Transformative” Rare Earth Elements Discovery in Alaska
November 19th, 2025Keyword: Potentially
Via: Discovery Alert:
Recent geological investigations at Graphite One’s Graphite Creek facility in Alaska have revealed a potentially transformative development for North American critical minerals energy security. In November 2024, the company confirmed the presence of five permanent-magnet rare earth elements within garnet-bearing rocks at the same location designated for graphite extraction in their February 2025 Feasibility Study. This Graphite One rare earth elements discovery positions Alaska’s Seward Peninsula as a potential source of two Defense Production Act Title III materials in a single mining operation.
The identified elements include neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, terbium, and samarium, each critical to permanent magnet manufacturing and defense applications. Furthermore, this development reflects broader mining industry trends towards dual-commodity operations that maximise resource utilisation from single deposits.
However, industry analysts emphasise that confirming elemental presence differs significantly from proving commercial viability. No resource estimates, metallurgical recovery data, or economic assessments for the rare earth component have been disclosed, leaving key questions about extraction feasibility unanswered.
More: New Arctic discovery could deal massive blow to Chinese dominance of rare earth minerals
Senate Unanimously Approves Bill to Force Release of Epstein Files
November 18th, 2025*yawn*
The Epstein files are like UFO disclosure, JFK, 9/11 etc. At maximum, only carefully managed limited hangouts will be released.
There is no way that the full extent of the Epstein situation will ever come out.
Via: The Hill:
The Senate agreed by unanimous consent Tuesday to approve a House-passed bill to require the Justice Department to release all unclassified records and documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, sending the bill to President Trump’s desk for a signature.
The swift Senate action ends the protracted battle in Congress over the files, which caused months of turmoil in the House and gave Democrats political ammo to accuse Republicans of protecting rich and powerful people who participated in Epstein’s illicit activities.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Tuesday evening received unanimous consent to approve the Epstein Files Transparency Act upon receipt of the legislation from the House, only hours after the lower chamber voted 427-1 to approve it.
Related: “National Security” Blocks Epstein Files Release
Apple’s Quiet Path to Identity Control
November 18th, 2025Via: The Highwire:
Apple’s new Digital ID feature has arrived. And in true Apple fashion, it is dressed in the language of ease and convenience. Scan your passport into your iPhone or Apple Watch. Move through TSA with a quick tap. In other words, no wallet, no cards, and no friction. If you listen to Apple, it is a much-needed quiet upgrade to today’s modern life. But, beneath the surface, the pattern is all too familiar and increasingly global. Much of the world is already living inside digital identification enslavement systems that began in the same way, professing to be voluntary, limited, and wrapped neatly in claims of convenience.
Google Boss Says Trillion-Dollar AI Investment Boom Has ‘Elements of Irrationality’
November 18th, 2025Via: BBC:
Every company would be affected if the AI bubble were to burst, the head of Google’s parent firm Alphabet has told the BBC.
Speaking exclusively to BBC News, Sundar Pichai said while the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) investment had been an “extraordinary moment”, there was some “irrationality” in the current AI boom.
It comes amid fears in Silicon Valley and beyond of a bubble as the value of AI tech companies has soared in recent months and companies spend big on the burgeoning industry.
Asked whether Google would be immune to the impact of the AI bubble bursting, Mr Pichai said the tech giant could weather that potential storm, but also issued a warning.
“I think no company is going to be immune, including us,” he said.
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Anduril Unveils Omen Hybrid-Electric Vertical Takeoff And Landing Drone
November 18th, 2025Via: The War Zone:
Anduril has unveiled Omen, a new tail-sitting vertical takeoff and landing drone with a hybrid-electric propulsion system. The design, which the company is now developing in cooperation with EDGE Group in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is intended to be modular and adaptable to a wide array of military and non-military missions. Omen is being presented as a particularly disruptive effort, with outsized range and capabilities for its size and weight, positioning it to compete against larger uncrewed and crewed aircraft.
