China Admits Huge Jump In New Coronavirus Infections And Deaths
February 12th, 2020I always triple “bad news” numbers from China. Minimum. Which wouldn’t have been enough in this case. Maybe 3Xing from this latest admission might be the way to go?
It’s hard to know since all the diabolical Chinese regime does is lie.
Via: ZeroHedge:
And just like that we are back on the quadratic growth path in new cases, as one would expect from an exponentially spreading viral pandemic.
Will Google’s Social Credit System Determine Your Future?
February 12th, 2020Via: Mercola:
Google is the largest monopoly the world has ever seen, and its data-siphoning tentacles reach deep into our everyday lives, collecting data on every move you make and conversation you have, whether online or in the real world.
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According to Fast Company, China’s social credit system is not entirely unique. “A parallel system is developing in the United States, in part as the result of Silicon Valley and technology-industry user policies, and in part by surveillance of social media activity by private companies,” Fast Company writes.
“Eventually Only the Rich Will Procreate as Chemicals Leave the Poor Sterile”
February 12th, 2020Via: CNBC:
High-profile investor Jeremy Grantham warned in a letter that falling birth rates in the developed world could accelerate in coming years due to increasing chemical toxicity, allowing only wealthy people to have children.
In recent years, economists have raised concern about the impact on economic growth of slowing birth rates in the developed world. Grantham, who co-founded GMO in the 1970s and is famous for calling the last two major market bubbles, said that trend is poised to accelerate due to increased chemical toxicity in the environment and food products.
“This interference is growing at such a rapid rate that if left alone it is likely to leave us sterile in a few decades with only the rich able to easily afford the healthy lifestyles and the exotic medical help required to have babies,” Grantham said.
While acknowledging that changes in lifestyle choices is responsible for at least some of the slowing birth rates, Graham said increased chemical toxicity is making it harder for women to conceive and lowering sperm counts in men.
UK Government to Give Office of Communications Power to Police Internet Content
February 12th, 2020Via: Independent:
The UK government will give Ofcom new regulatory powers to police what is posted on the internet, it has said. The decision was made as part of a new “online harms“ plan that ministers say will protect people as they use the internet.
However, critics say the addition of new rules and regulations could stifle free speech and give the government unprecedented powers to decide what is posted and available on the internet. Campaign group Big Brother Watch has called the plans “dangerous and wrong” and suggested they are “a direct attack on the fundamental right to freedom of expression”.
70 Percent of Pure Human Blood Ready for Transfusion Found to Contain Xanax
February 12th, 2020Via: Newsweek:
Scientists testing a small but random sample of donated blood ready for transfusion have discovered that 70 percent contained traces of Xanax.
Writing in the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical earlier this month, researchers were surprised by the level of pharmaceuticals detected in supposedly clean blood batches—in particular, the concentrations of cough medicine and anti-anxiety medication.
The testing also revealed that all 18 batches of blood contained caffeine, suggesting America’s love of coffee, tea and other caffeinated beverages runs deep.
For Decades, U.S. and Germany Owned Swiss Crypto Company Used by 120 Countries
February 11th, 2020I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.
Via: Ars Technica:
Crypto AG, a Swiss cryptographic communications gear company that got its big break building code-making gear for the US Army in World War II, has been a provider of encryption systems for more than 120 countries. And according to a report by The Washington Post and German broadcaster ZDF, the company was owned outright for decades by the Central Intelligence Agency and Germany’s intelligence agency, the BND—allowing the CIA, the National Security Agency, and German intelligence to read the most sensitive communications of practically everyone but the Soviets and Chinese.
That unprecedented level of access allowed the US to monitor Iranian communications during the Iranian hostage crisis, Argentine communications during the Falklands War (shared with British intelligence), the communications of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat during negotiations of an Egypt-Israel peace deal at Camp David, and communications from Libya that confirmed the Qaddafi regime’s involvement in a 1986 West Berlin disco bombing. During the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, Iranian communications were “80-90 percent readable,” according to documents viewed by the Post and ZDF.
While German intelligence cashed out of the company in the 1990s, the CIA’s ownership persisted until 2016, even though the intelligence value of the company diminished with the widespread availability of other digital cryptography tools—and a series of missteps, including what a CIA history described as a “storm of publicity” after the arrest of a Crypto AG salesman in Iran in 1992. But the history also informs the US government’s concerns over the potential threat that comes from other countries’ ownership of parts of communications infrastructure, including concerns over China’s Huawei.
U.S. Household Debt Exceeds $14 Trillion for the First Time
February 11th, 2020If you’re going to hit the wall, might as well light off the afterburner. YEEE HAAAAAAAA!
Via: Bloomberg:
Americans increased their borrowing for the 22nd straight quarter as more households took out loans to buy homes or refinance existing mortgages, according to a report released today from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Total U.S. household debt rose by $601 billion in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, or 1.4%, surpassing $14 trillion for the first time, the New York Fed’s quarterly household credit and debt report showed. That’s $1.5 trillion above the previous peak in the third quarter of 2008. Overall household debt is now 26.8% above the second-quarter 2013 trough.
Mortgage borrowing rose by $120 billion to $9.56 trillion. The rate for a 30-year mortgage has fallen by about 100 basis points over the past year, adding to home purchasers’ buying power. For example, a $500,000, 30-year loan costs about $300 less per month.
Related: Nearly 1 in 3 American Workers Run Out of Money Before Payday
Glycyrrhizin, an Active Component of Liquorice Roots, and Replication of SARS-Associated Coronavirus
February 11th, 2020Via: The Lancet:
The outbreak of SARS warrants the search for antiviral compounds to treat the disease. At present, no specific treatment has been identified for SARS-associated coronavirus infection. We assessed the antiviral potential of ribavirin, 6-azauridine, pyrazofurin, mycophenolic acid, and glycyrrhizin against two clinical isolates of coronavirus (FFM-1 and FFM-2) from patients with SARS admitted to the clinical centre of Frankfurt University, Germany. Of all the compounds, glycyrrhizin was the most active in inhibiting replication of the SARS-associated virus. Our findings suggest that glycyrrhizin should be assessed for treatment of SARS.
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The figure shows the effect of glycyrrhizin on replication of SARS-CV in Vero cells. We detected replication of SARS-CV with serum samples from patients with SARS. Expression of viral antigens was much lower in cultures treated with 1000 mg/L of glycyrrhizin than in any other culture; high concentrations of glycyrrhizin (4000 mg/L) completely blocked replication of the virus (figure).
Nissan Halts Japanese Plant Over Coronavirus Issue
February 11th, 2020It’s astonishing to see very major cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen mostly shut down.
What will be the economic cost of this situation to China, and the world?
I haven’t seen much information yet about the implications to global supply chains, but there was this piece from Forbes, Coronavirus Hits Electronics Manufacturing Hard, Companies Are Scrambling:
Supply chains are complex, and after decades of lean manufacturing, it’s no longer common for factories to store weeks of parts inventory to feed their assembly lines. Keith shared, “We are already seeing the ramifications of the delay in factories restarting, as Hyundai recently announced it is idling a production facility in Korea for lack of components from factories in China. This same situation is likely to play out thousands of times in dozens of countries over the next 60 days as existing component inventories are depleted and Chinese factories are delayed in their ability to replenish them.”
I’ve already felt the effects in a small way. I had an Asus motherboard fail on me back in December of last year. It was under warranty, so I sent it in for repair. I was initially given an ETA of three weeks, so third week of January. I didn’t get it back and now they’re saying two or three weeks more. Needless to say, I’m not holding my breath.
Via: Cnet:
Nissan will reportedly suspend auto production at a Kyushu plant owing to parts shortages stemming from the coronavirus outbreak. The company is the first automaker in Japan to reveal such a temporary stoppage at one of its domestic plants owing to the global health crisis.
More: Coronavirus: The economic cost is rising in China and beyond
Alleged Wuhan Funeral Home Staffer Tricked Into Speaking Candidly
February 10th, 2020The source is New Tang Dynasty Television, which is Falun Gong. We need to treat Falun Gong sources (Epoch Times is another one) as we would treat state sponsored propaganda outlets such as Voice of America, Russia Today and PressTV.
I’m not saying that these sources can’t be useful, but we need to be aware of what they are.
Additionally, if the situation below actually happened, the person on the phone, that NTD tricked into speaking candidly, has probably been disappeared by the Chinese government. In other words, that person is probably dead because of this.
With a total lack of independently verifiable facts, we’re left having to try to piece together what’s happening with sources like… this.
Nobody said it was going to be easy.
Via: NTD:
