California Activist Group Paying Teens $1,400 in Taxpayer Money to Undergo “Social Justice” Training
March 14th, 2024Via: Campus Insanity:
An activist group in California is reportedly paying $1,400 each in taxpayer money to teenagers who undergo “social justice” training.
According to the Free Press, the group Californians for Justice (CFJ) inked contracts with the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) between 2019 and 2023 for this endeavor. These contracts, which the outlet obtained, showed that the LBUSD used taxpayer funds to pay CFJ almost $2 million to facilitate equity and leadership development training for students and teachers. Aside from this, the contracts also allotted a total of $20,200 to 13 parents for their participation in the group’s programs.
The outlet added that from December 2019 until the present, the LBUSD has paid at least 78 students a total of nearly $100,000 for participating in CFJ’s programs. The programs are led by the group’s staff instead of officials from the school district. The most recent contract runs until June. (Related: Not just public schools: Ohio PRIVATE school reports mothers to FBI for questioning leftist curriculum.)
“You get paid good,” one student answered when asked why others should join CFJ.
Eat the Bugs… With a Side of Python Meat
March 14th, 2024— cryptogon (@cryptogon) March 15, 2024
Via: Disney Entertainment – ABC:
Scientists are learning more about what sources of meat could serve as more sustainable alternatives to beef, pork and chicken.
Python meat could offer a form of meat much less carbon intensive than the current options, according to researchers who studied farms in Southeast Asia for two species of pythons — reticulated and Burmese — for 12 months.
Farmed python meat may offer a more sustainable alternative to other farmed meat because they can reproduce rapidly, even when food is not abundantly available, according to a study published in Scientific Reports on Thursday.
Inside Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Dominate Mining
March 14th, 2024Via: Semafor:
Saudi Arabia sees vast riches beyond oil within its reach. The kingdom’s broad-ranging ambition, a top mining official told Semafor, is to extract the more than $2.5 trillion in metals in its soil, invest in minerals extraction around the world, and capture as much of the minerals value chain as possible.
“Saudi Arabia is being transformed. Through this transformation we want to be an economic powerhouse,” Khalid al-Mudaifer, the vice minister for mining, said. “To be an industrial [power], we need minerals. To build projects, we need minerals. Therefore, mining of Saudi Arabia [is] the first step, bringing minerals from outside is the second step, third step is to build Saudi Arabia as a hub.”
As part of its “Vision 2030” effort to refashion and diversify its economy, the kingdom is adding mining as a “pillar” of its industrial foundation — joining the mainstays of oil, gas, and petrochemicals — and creating a new economic backstop against the eventual decline of fossil fuels.
Figure Shows Humanoid Robot Running ChatGPT
March 13th, 2024Via: PC Magazine:
A new demo gives an early look at how OpenAI’s ChatGPT tech can power humanoid robots, giving them the ability to have full conversations with humans.
The demo comes from the startup Figure, which is developing a general purpose robot that promises to one day replace what it calls “unsafe and undesirable” human jobs. Last month, the startup announced a partnership with OpenAI to use its AI models to expand the machine’s ability to perceive, reason, and interact.
On Wednesday, Figure posted a video that demonstrated some of the early results. By tapping OpenAI’s models, the bot is able to speak and interpret its surroundings.
“Nuclear fusion for the grid is coming much sooner than you think”
March 13th, 2024Mmm hmm.
Via: Telegraph:
Commercial nuclear fusion has gone from science fiction to science fact in less than a decade. Even well-informed members of the West’s political class are mostly unaware of the quantum leap in superconductors, lasers, and advanced materials suddenly changing the economics of fusion power.
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A poll at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s forum in London found that 65pc of insiders think fusion will generate electricity for the grid at viable cost by 2035, and 90pc by 2040.
Pentagon Officials Anticipate ‘Mass Migration’ of Haitians Amid Chaos in Caribbean
March 13th, 2024Via: The Post Millennial:
INCOMING HAITIAN INVASION: DoD officials testify before the House Armed Services Committee that the Biden Administration acknowledges there IS an anticipated mass migration from Haiti into the United States through Florida ? pic.twitter.com/Fo9XyR9v8n
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) March 12, 2024
During a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, Department of Defense officials testified that they are preparing for the possibility of an influx of Haitian illegal immigrants coming to the US as the Caribbean nation has fallen into chaos.
Trudeau Demands Life In Prison For Speech Crimes
March 13th, 2024Via: Public:
To protect children from sexual exploitation, Canada must pass the Online Harms Act, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government. “I am the parent of two young boys,” said Justice Minister Arif Virani. “I will do whatever I can to ensure their digital world is as safe as the neighborhood we live in. Children are vulnerable online. They need to be protected from online sexual exploitation, hate, and cyberbullying.”
But Virani’s bill is totally unnecessary to protect children. Its real goal is to allow judges to sentence adults to prison for life for things they’ve said and for up to a year for crimes they haven’t committed but that the government fears they might commit in the future.
As such, Trudeau and Virani’s Online Harms Act (Bill C-63) is the most shocking of all the totalitarian, illiberal, and anti-Enlightenment pieces of legislation that have been introduced in the Western world for decades.
The Liberal government’s censorship legislation, when considered in the context of Trudeau’s sweeping abuse of governmental powers during and after the Covid pandemic and new subsidies for government propaganda, sets a new watermark in rising totalitarianism in Western societies.
Britain: NHS Bans Puberty Blocker Prescriptions for Children
March 13th, 2024Via: Telegraph:
Children will be banned from receiving puberty blockers on prescription under NHS rules that come into effect immediately.
Under-18s will now only be able to take the controversial drugs as part of a clinical trial set to start at the end of this year.
Ministers said the “landmark decision” was in children’s “best interests” and would help to ensure youngsters who feel their gender is not the same as their sex are being treated using medical evidence.
The proposals to stop the practice were first accepted by NHS England in July 2022 following recommendations made by a review led by Dr Hilary Cass, the former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
She warned that the drugs may permanently disrupt the brain maturation of adolescents, potentially rewiring neural circuits in a way that cannot be reversed, and said there was a lack of long-term evidence and data collection on their safety and effectiveness.
The blockers pause the physical changes of puberty such as breast development or facial hair.
Experts have said the “affirmative” approach by the controversial Tavistock clinic, and subsequent referrals for the prescribing of blockers, was sending children on an “irreversible” path without exploring mental health conditions.
Net Zero, the Digital Panopticon and the Future of Food
March 13th, 2024Via: Off-Guardian:
The food transition, the energy transition, net-zero ideology, programmable central bank digital currencies, the censorship of free speech and clampdowns on protest. What’s it all about? To understand these processes, we need to first locate what is essentially a social and economic reset within the context of a collapsing financial system.
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In response to a collapsing neoliberalism, we are now seeing the rollout of an authoritarian great reset — an agenda that intends to reshape the economy and change how we live.
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The new economy is to be dominated by a handful of tech giants, global conglomerates and e-commerce platforms, and new markets will also be created through the financialisation of nature, which is to be colonised, commodified and traded under the notion of protecting the environment.
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This great reset envisages a transformation of Western societies, resulting in permanent restrictions on fundamental liberties and mass surveillance. Being rolled out under the benign term of a ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’, the World Economic Forum (WEF) says the public will eventually ‘rent’ everything they require (remember the WEF video ‘you will own nothing and be happy’?): stripping the right of ownership under the guise of a ‘green economy’ and underpinned by the rhetoric of ‘sustainable consumption’ and ‘climate emergency’.
Climate alarmism and the mantra of sustainability are about promoting money-making schemes. But they also serve another purpose: social control.
Neoliberalism has run its course, resulting in the impoverishment of large sections of the population. But to dampen dissent and lower expectations, the levels of personal freedom we have been used to will not be tolerated. This means that the wider population will be subjected to the discipline of an emerging surveillance state.
Signatures of Neurological Adverse Events After Vaccination
March 13th, 2024Via: Advanced Neurology:
There have been reports associated with the development of neurological adverse events (AEs) post-vaccination. Here, we retrospectively examine the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database for neurological AEs reported following vaccination. Since VAERS is a passive reporting system, to minimize reporting bias and to reduce background events, this retrospective study examines both age-stratified AE reports made with onset within 24 h of immunization, and age-stratified AE reports regardless of timeframe from immunization. Immediate temporal onset data patterns for febrile convulsion, seizure, and syncope AEs were observed for multiple vaccines. For age-stratified AEs in infants up to 3 years of age, the following patterns of high association were observed: (i) Aphasia, autism spectrum disorder, and speech disorder were found to be highly associated with the measles, mumps, and rubella and hepatitis B (HepB) vaccines; (ii) febrile convulsion and syncope were found to be highly associated with the meningococcal group B vaccine; and (iii) seizures were found to be highly associated with diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and whole-cell pertussis (DTP) vaccines.
