SpaceX Rocket Production Facility Approved by Port of Los Angeles
February 26th, 2020Via: Reuters:
SpaceX, the private rocket company of high tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, won final approval on Tuesday to build a research and manufacturing plant for its deep-space Starship project on a tract of vacant land at the Port of Los Angeles.
Polio Vaccine Caused Polio Outbreak in Pakistan
February 25th, 2020Via: Guardian:
According to the source within the programme, the renewed outbreak of the P2 strand came from a mismanagement of vaccines, which carry a live strain of the disease to create immunity.
After the strand was eliminated from Pakistan five years ago, all P2 vaccines should have been collected from hospitals and clinics and not used. However, it appears a P2 vaccine was administered accidentally and a child became a carrier for the disease. Tests on the new cases allegedly show the children are all carrying a vaccine-derived form of the disease .
“Somewhere, somebody has inaccurately used this vaccine and because of this negligence … this virus was brought back into the environment and our children are again getting infected with P2,” alleged the source.
However, it is understood that, instead of publicly declaring the renewed outbreak and beginning a public vaccination campaign, a “secret” vaccination campaign will begin on Monday in Rawalpindi and surrounding cities in an attempt at containment. It is understood that only senior members of the polio programme are aware of the P2 campaign, with others – even those who will be administering the vaccines – led to believe it is a standard P1 and P3 polio vaccination programme.
“This P2 outbreak can only be contained if they do a quality vaccination campaign, and how can you do a quality campaign if you are carrying it out in secret, without any awareness or accountability?” said the source.
“If anything goes wrong and this P2 polio spreads throughout the whole country, who will take responsibility? Will they just keep telling more lies to cover up their mistakes and put more children at risk?”
U.S. Health Officials Urge Americans to Prepare for Spread of Coronavirus
February 25th, 2020Via: Reuters:
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday alerted Americans to begin preparing for the spread of coronavirus in the United States after infections surfaced in several more countries.
The announcement signaled a change in tone for the Atlanta-based U.S. health agency, which had largely been focused on efforts to stop the virus from entering the country and quarantining individuals traveling from China.
“The data over the past week about the spread in other countries has raised our level of concern and expectation that we are going to have community spread here,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the CDC’s head of respiratory diseases, told reporters on a conference call.
Pentagon Preps Nuclear Moon Rocket
February 25th, 2020Via: Daily Beast:
The U.S. government is working on an atomic rocket to send satellites into the vast space between Earth and the moon—before Beijing gets there with its own spacecraft.
Video Content Producers Increasingly Trying to Work Around YouTube Censorship
February 25th, 2020Here are three videos in a row that I just watched with people trying to dance around YouTube’s censorship and demonetization systems.
In the first one, Dana Ashlie goes as far as showing a white board to convey a glossary of terms!
The Last Gas Cars Roll Off GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck Plant This Week
February 24th, 2020Via: Electrek:
Last Thursday, the body of the last Chevrolet Impala inched down the assembly line at GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck plant. Employees gathered around the car, snapping pictures of the final internal-combustion vehicle to be made at the storied Detroit plant. It will roll off the assembly line this week.
On Friday, roughly 800 General Motors workers in Detroit will step away from Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly for 12 to 18 months while the company retools the facility as a dedicated electric-vehicle plant.
The China They Don’t Want You to See
February 24th, 2020I’ve been waiting a long time for Winston to finally let it rip.
Via: serpentza:
Fairview Developmental Center: Zero Isolation Rooms, No Viral Containment Facilities and No Training for BSL-4 Biohazards
February 24th, 2020Via: Natural News:
It begs the question: Why would the United States Air Force attempt to relocate up to 50 infected coronavirus patients to a facility with no biocontainment capabilities, right in the middle of a high-density population area near Los Angeles?
Why wouldn’t the Air Force just keep the infected patients at the Travis Air Force Base where they have containment? This idea of “exporting” infected patients into a high-density city near Los Angeles seems incredibly unwise, if not criminally negligent.
Finally: How can there be up to 50 infected patients trying to be moved by the Air Force when the CDC says there are only 35 infected people in the entire nation?
Dow Plunges 1,000 Points as Coronavirus Cases Outside China Jump
February 24th, 2020Oil down 4.9% at the moment.
Via: USA Today:
Global financial markets were jolted Monday after a significant rise in coronavirus cases outside of China revived concerns about a potential economic fallout from the outbreak.
The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 1,000 points, or 3.3%, erasing its gains for the year. The losses puts the blue-chip average on pace for its biggest one-day drop since February 2018, when inflation fears rattled investors. The Standard & Poor’s 500 slid 3.2%, but is still sitting within 4.7% of its record set on Wednesday. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite shed 3.8%.
Related: Oil Slumps, Gold Soars as Coronavirus Outbreak Spreads in Europe
Prince Andrew’s Millionaire Friend Peter Nygård…
February 24th, 2020Via: Daily Mail:
Pictures of Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard partying with women in the Bahamas have emerged just days after he was accused of luring at least 10 teenage girls to the compound and sexually assaulting them.
Millionaire Nygard, who has links to Prince Andrew, is seen grinning and soaked with sweat as he watches three women dressed in tiny bikinis gyrate against each other inside his private nightclub on the property dubbed Nygard Cay.
Andrew visited Nygard at his lavish estate in 2000, after the fashion designer had agreed out-of-court settlements with three employees who accused him of sexual harassment.
The prince and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson stayed at Nygard Cay, near Nassau, with daughters Beatrice and Eugenie.
The pictures emerged days after Nygard, 78, was accused of plying teenage girls with drugs and alcohol at the property before sexually assaulting them.
