Natural Piezoelectric Effect May Build Gold Deposits
October 12th, 2024Via: Ars Technica:
One of the reasons gold is so valuable is because it is highly unreactive—if you make something out of gold, it keeps its lustrous radiance. Even when you can react it with another material, it’s also barely soluble, a combination that makes it difficult to purify away from other materials. Which is part of why a large majority of the gold we’ve obtained comes from deposits where it is present in large chunks, some of them reaching hundreds of kilograms.
Those of you paying careful attention to the previous paragraph may have noticed a problem here: If gold is so difficult to get into its pure form, how do natural processes create enormous chunks of it? On Monday, a group of Australian researchers published a hypothesis, and a bit of evidence supporting it. They propose that an earthquake-triggered piezoelectric effect essentially electroplates gold onto quartz crystals.
Feds Find Million In Cash While Investigating Staffing Firm Supplying Haitians To Charleroi, PA Food Factory
October 12th, 2024
Via: ZeroHedge:
Many of Fourth Street’s workers are actually employed by a contractor, Prosperity Services. Prosperity also transports workers in vans, which can be seen throughout Charleroi.
In court records, federal investigators said Prosperity “knowingly paid undocumented non-citizen employees with cash” and “transported and housed undocumented non-citizens for employment purposes.”
Earlier this year, the feds seized nearly $1 million in cash from Prosperity and two men affiliated with the company, including Andy Ha, the company president.
The Secret Commonwealth: “We Live in a Soup of Non Human Company”
October 12th, 2024Via: The 5th Kind:
Book: The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies Paperback by Robert Kirk
“Mask Mandates Are Coming Back to the Bay Area,” Hospitals, Skilled Nursing Facilities and Other Health Care Facilities
October 11th, 2024Via: San Francisco Chronicle:
Masks are coming back to the Bay Area — for a limited time.
As the annual cold and flu season gears up, several Bay Area counties have recently issued local health orders requiring face masks to be worn in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and other health care facilities starting Nov. 1 until either March 31 or April 30, 2025.
The orders are aimed at reducing the spread of flu, COVID and other respiratory viruses in medical settings during the winter virus season that typically spans late fall to early spring.
For the most part, the orders apply to health care workers only and echo similar local health orders announced last year for the 2023-24 winter virus season. But two local jurisdictions, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, are also extending the requirement to visitors — and Santa Clara County is also asking patients to mask up.
Israel Attacks UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon
October 11th, 2024Via: Al Jazeera:
The Israeli military has fired on the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon twice in less than 48 hours, the UN says.
Israeli forces repeatedly fired at a guard tower at the headquarters of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Thursday, injuring two members of the force, and again fired at a watchtower, injuring two more peacekeepers, on Friday.
We Are Already in the Dystopia
October 11th, 2024Via: Sargon of Akkad:
What Is Actually Going on in North Carolina?
October 11th, 2024Via: Truthstream Media:
Australia, Russell Broadbent, MP: Vaccine Warning to Prime Minister
October 11th, 2024Via: Dr. John Campbell:
“In short, there is compelling evidence that excessive synthetic foreign DNA encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles can integrate into human cells, potentially leading to genomic instability, cancers, immune system disruption, and adverse hereditary effects.”
Letter: Australians Demand Answers!
Aluminum Bucket Opener
October 11th, 2024I was just talking with someone about disaster preparations, and mentioned my aluminum bucket opener.
We store a lot of food in 5 gallon plastic buckets and that opener is a nice tool to have, especially on buckets with very stiff lids. My sons think it’s not manly to use the bucket opener and apply about 400% more force than is necessary, getting the lid off in about a second and cracking it in the process.
Anyway… We get there in the end, one way or another.
America’s Homeless Population Reaches Record High Under Biden-Harris Admin
October 11th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge:
According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s latest report on homelessness in the United States, 653,104 Americans were homeless in 2023.
