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Exxon Mobil begins escorting workers from Texas plant -USW official
BEAUMONT, Texas (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp late Friday began escorting United Steelworkers (USW) union members from part of its Beaumont, Texas, complex ahead of an expected Saturday lockout, a USW official said.
The oil company had set a 10 a.m. (1500 GMT) May 1 start time to begin removing hourly workers represented by the USW if there was no vote on a company labor contract proposal.
Union officials submitted a last-ditch contract proposal Friday evening that was rejected by the company, Exxon said on its website. The union proposal "would significantly increase costs and limit the company's ability to safely and efficiently operate," the company said. It rejected the proposal.
"After they gave us a lockout date and time, they could not give up control of the timeline. They had to go early," Hoot Landry, a USW staff representative, told Reuters. The two sides had given each other a 75-day notice of a strike or lockout, a period that would have ended May 1.
An Exxon spokesperson was not immediately available to respond to the USW comment.
Exxon said it offered to negotiate through the night to reach an agreement ahead of the 10 a.m. deadline, but the union wanted to resume talks on Monday.
"We are disappointed negotiations broke down," Exxon said. "The lockout will continue until the union accepts the company’s current offer or the parties otherwise reach agreement."
The company's April 20 offer "remains on the table, and a ratified contract would avoid the lockout planned for 10 a.m. tomorrow or would end a lockout once initiated," Exxon said on its website.
Union negotiators "came to the consensus to move our priority from negotiations to preparation for the lockout at 10 a.m. tomorrow," the USW's Landry said.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/exxon-mobil-begins-escorting-workers-103834244.html
Bill and Melinda Gates are placing bets on this biotech in the race to develop a Zika vaccine
Stéphane Bancel’s plans are nothing short of disrupting the entire biomedical industry — and with it the way your body and everyone else’s are protected against a variety of diseases. As CEO of Moderna Therapeutics, Bancel helms a biotech company that claims it can direct cells to develop whatever proteins it chooses, in effect turning a body’s own cells into miniature factories capable of developing the therapeutic proteins necessary to fight infections and heal diseases.
It’s an audacious ambition, and one that has attracted the attention and money of large pharmaceutical companies, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the federal government.
“We modeled Moderna to mimic biology by giving your body the instructions for your cells to make the proteins you need to protect you,” said Bancel.
If successful, Moderna’s methods could lead to therapeutic drugs and myriad vaccinations being produced more quickly at a lower cost. It’s a pitch that has made the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Moderna Therapeutics, currently valued at close to $5 billion, the most valuable private biotech company in the United States. Its stockpile of $1.9 billion in cash has been raised from financing and partners that include pharmaceutical giants Merck and AstraZeneca and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/18/bill-and-melinda-gates-bet-on-this-biotech-to-develop-zika-vaccine.html
Then, in October, the government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Moderna $25 million to develop mRNA to combat infectious diseases and biological threats.
https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=3170
Flagship, led by co-founders Noubar Afeyan and Ed Kania,  is an early-stage venture capital firm with more than $600 million in funds and a portfolio of 40 companies. It focuses on startups in therapeutics; life science tools and diagnostics; bioenergy; and cleantech. Earlier this month, medical diagnostics startup T2 Biosystems Inc. secured a $10.8 million second round of venture capital from Flagship Ventures, along with fellow Series A investor Polaris Venture Partners and new investors Flybridge Capital Partners, Partners Healthcare Inc. andCIA venture arm In-Q-Tel.
https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/mass-high-tech/2008/10/greene-flies-from-flagship-to-valhalla.html
U.S. Army warmly welcomed ahead of NATO exercises in Albania
DURRES, Albania (AP) — Albania’s main port of Durres has welcomed a huge influx of containers and big trucks this week ahead of NATO exercises, a concentration of military vehicles that U.S. officials said has not been seen in the Adriatic nation since World War II.
Some 700 pieces of equipment from the Florida National Guard’s 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team were being discharged from the USNS Bob Hope at Durres, 33 kilometers (20 miles) west of the capital, Tirana. They will be used for two weeks of training involving up to 6,000 U.S. troops at six Albanian military bases.
It's part of the US Army-led Defender-Europe 21 multinational military exercises, which are focused on deterring aggression and building operational readiness with NATO and a greater number of allies and partners. They run from May 17 to June 2.
“Albania is a valued partner. Our militaries benefit by training together, enhancing interoperability, building operation readiness and strengthening relationships — all of which enable our ability to respond to any crisis, anytime, together with our allies and partners,” Tammy Muckenfuss of the U.S. Army for Europe and Africa, based in Germany, said Saturday.
To Maj. Randall Moran, “bringing all these groups together is something very unique.”
Divers were still checking the port’s 7-meter ( 23-foot) deep draft. But the two logistic support vessels transporting the vehicles can operate in shallow water and were working nonstop to bring in the military equipment.
A British military vessel will also arrive in the next few days.
Defender-Europe this year has involved around 28,000 U.S., allied and partner forces from 27 nations to conduct simultaneous operations across more than 30 training areas in more than a dozen nations, from the Baltics and Africa to the Black Sea and the Balkans.
Besides offering six naval, land and air bases, Albania, a NATO member since 2009, will commit 1,000 troops to what Defense Minister Niko Peleshi called “a historic event because it is the biggest exercise in Albania and the region.”
U.S. military officials praised Albania’s welcome, good food and natural beauty.
Muckenfuss said “Albania has been an amazing host and have greeted all of our soldiers with warmth.”
“It’s a great choice for the exercise,” Moran said. “I think you guys are coming up more or less like a hidden gem. So that the people are great, the food’s wonderful and the views are magnificent."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-army-warmly-welcomed-ahead-135720654.html
>Michael McFaul, who served as ambassador to Russia for two years during the Obama administration
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Chemical attack? Like back in the day? Only WW?
In 1850, an upstate New York farmer named “Old Bill” Rockefeller moved to Cleveland, listed himself as a “physician” in the city directory and began to palm off bottled raw petroleum on the yokels as a cure for cancer. Calling it “Nujol” (“new oil”), it was the beginning of the Rockefeller medicine and energy monopoly – a mega-cartel that truly began when Bill’s cunning and determined son John tried his hand at selling oil. (4)
In 1856, just six years after “Old Bill” began to play doctor, an 18-year-old English chemistry student named William Henry Perkin stumbled upon a process to make purple dye from coal tar. Until then, all dyes were made from natural sources such as insects, barks, flowers, berries, animal organs and eggs. German chemists eventually made the connection between the mountains of coal tar left over from massive steel production in the Ruhr, and the new, cheaper way to make the costly dyes. Three companies emerged and dominated the new German dye industry – Hoechst, Bayer, and BASF. (5)
In 1916, Bayer chemist Carl Duisberg would organize a loose association of the eight biggest German chemical companies, and formalize this association in 1925, joining with their Swiss counterparts Ciba, Geigy and Sandoz in 1929. (6) From the beginning, the association was called the “Interessen Gemeinschaft der Deutschen Teerfarbenindustrie” – the “Community of Interest of the German Dyestuff Industry” – I.G. Farben for short.
Aspirin’s twisted history
In 1884, Carl Duisberg began his career at Bayer. (7) He was General Manager at Bayer when in 1897 another prominent chemist, Arthur Eichengrun – a Jew – discovered Aspirin. Eichengrun was prolific, with 40 patents to his name and was promoted to the head of pharmaceutical research upon his discovery. (8)
Eichengrun was never given credit for discovering Aspirin. When he was promoted head of research, his assistant, German Felix Hoffmann – the man Bayer claims to this day (9) invented aspirin – was moved to the sales department. As it turns out, IG Farben made the Hoffmann story up in 1933 as the Nazi’s came into power. To be fair, Bayer would never forget the inventor of their best seller – “the world’s favorite painkiller.” They used their influence to make sure Eichengrun got sent to the best of concentration camps. (10) He even got his own room.
Richard Willstatter, a Jewish Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1915) who had been forced to flee Germany in 1939, wrote a book while in exile in Switzerland. In it there is a short passage in which the scientist criticized Carl Duisberg for making anti-Semitic comments when Willstatter resigned from the University of Munich in 1924. (11) These anti-Semitic tendencies within I.G. Farben would become more pronounced as the company became more political.
Meanwhile, John D. Rockefeller had been busy. By 1880, Rockefeller owned or controlled 95% of all oil produced in the United States. Shortly after the turn of the century, Rockefeller became America’s first billionaire. (12) It was around the turn of the century that Rockefeller began to give money to the Foundations, Funds, Research Centers and Institutes that would promote all the drugs his chemists churned out in the years to come.
The most richly endowed research center – the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research – was established in New York in 1902. By 1928 it had received from John D. $65 million in endowment funds. In contrast, as late as 1938, as little as $2.8 million in federal funding was budgeted for the entire U.S. Public Health Service. (13) By 1929, the Rockefeller Foundation, first created in 1909, had received $300 million. (14)
“Eugenics” or “good genes” was a science based on “social Darwinism” or “survival of the fittest” applied to humans. It was very popular with those who had most of the wealth and felt like they needed a scientific rationale for it – to validate the great poverty and suffering that also would occur. After 1900, Rockefeller, along with the Harriman family – the family that gave the Bush family it’s start – began to spend million on “eugenics” research. (15)
Some of the Rockefeller Foundation money went to a Swiss psychiatrist named Ernst Rudin. He later went on to head the German “Racial Hygiene Society,” a section of the new Nazi state. (16) Rockefeller would also hire William Lyon Mackenzie King as a “Director of Industrial Research” for the Rockefeller Foundation – shortly after he began the racist war on opium-smoking Chinese in Canada. (17)
Long read. Good dig
https://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2003/03/01/3292/
What all does BioLab do?
Industry publications started reporting on the shortage of chlorine tablets last year. Supply was squeezed due to a fire at a chlorine manufacturer called BioLab as well as an increase in demand for pools and pool upkeep as homeowners weathered the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns, Pool Magazine reported in September. (pic related)
Chemical fire near Lake Charles finally out after 3 days; investigation into cause begins
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality officials said the fire at theBioLabchlorine plant in Westlake, just west of Lake Charles, was finally put out at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, more than 50 hours after it was first reported Thursday morning.
https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_6227ac8a-ebbc-11ea-92f2-67f719ac6c7c.html
Remember when the Fake News was making fun of Trump for talking about injecting Bleach? Which wasn't what he was referring to?
Here is the full list of ingredients in Pfizer's shot:
A nucleoside-modified messenger RNA (modRNA) encoding the viral spike glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2 (this is what makes the shot work)
Lipids (i.e. fatty substances) including:
(4-hydroxybutyl)azanediyl)bis(hexane-6,1-diyl)bis(2-hexyldecanoate),
2-[(polyethylene glycol)-2000]-N, N-ditetradecylacetamide,
1,2-distearoyl-snglycero-3-phosphocholine,
and cholesterol
Potassium chloride (in other words, potassium andchlorine)
Monobasic potassium phosphate
Sodium chloride (a.k.a salt)
Dibasic sodium phosphate dihydrate
Sucrose (yes, that's sugar)
https://www.businessinsider.com/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-ingredients-allergic-reactions-2020-12