UK police block streets, stop traffic to escort storytime drag queen
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Japanese city alarmed by biting, clawing, attacking monkeys
https://apnews.com/article/oddities-japan-animals-monkeys-97f8e316daa48d6f5a6fb43632d1353e
TOKYO (AP) — People in a southwestern Japanese city have come under attack from monkeys that are trying to snatch babies, biting and clawing at flesh, and sneaking into nursery schools.
The attacks — on 58 people since July 8 — are getting so bad Yamaguchi city hall hired a special unit to hunt the animals with tranquilizer guns.
The monkeys aren’t interested in food, so traps haven’t worked. They have targeted mostly children and the elderly.
“They are so smart, and they tend to sneak up and attack from behind, often grabbing at your legs,” city official Masato Saito said Wednesday.
When confronted by a monkey, the instructions are: Do not look them in the eye, make yourself look as big as possible, such as by spreading open your coat, then back away as quietly as possible without making sudden moves, according to Saito.
A woman was assaulted by a monkey while hanging laundry on her veranda. Another victim showed bandaged toes. They were taken aback and frightened by how big and fat the monkeys were.
The monkeys terrorizing the community are Japanese macaque, the kind often pictured peacefully bathing in hot springs.
One male monkey, measuring 49 centimeters (1.6 foot) in height and weighing 7 kilograms (15 pounds), was caught Tuesday by the team with the tranquilizer gun. It was judged by various evidence to be one of the attacking monkeys and put to death.
But more attacks were reported after the capture.
No one has been seriously injured so far. But all have been advised to get hospital treatment. Ambulances were called in some cases.
Although Japan is industrialized and urban, a fair portion of land in the archipelago is mountains and forests. Rare attacks on people by a bear, boars or other wildlife have occurred, but generally not by monkeys.
No one seems to know why the attacks have occurred, and where exactly the troop of monkeys came from remains unclear.
“I have never seen anything like this my entire life,” Saito said.
Trans men will be given help by doctors with 'chestfeeding' in new guidelines aimed to be more inclusive
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11052035/Trans-men-given-help-doctors-chestfeeding-new-guidelines.html
It proposes overhauls of cancer screening, childbirth, and fertility treatment
Says that trans men should be asked about their preferred manner of feeding
The guideline also says that trans women should be put on female wards
Earlier this year the NHS ditched the terms ‘women’ and ‘woman’ from its menopause guidance
"Pfizer documents show 1P36 gene deletion, and that is cause of the boils and skin challenges".
Look up the Pfizer adverse reactions per the released documents.
Then take yourself to:
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34616129/
“EBSS (epidermolysis bullosa simplex superficialis) is mainly caused by gene mutations which targeted protein as plakophilin1, desmoplakin and keratins. 1p36 gene deleted could cause typical clinical manifestations and might also affect the expression of functional genes in other regions. “
2.https://www.malacards.org/card/epidermolysis_bullosa_simplex_superficialis?showAll=True
A complete description of skin problems associated with that gene deleted.
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https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/epidermolysis-bullosa/
“Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex Superficialis
Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is the name for a group of rare inherited skin disorders that cause the skin to become very fragile. Any trauma or friction to the skin can cause painful blisters.”
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https://welovetrump.com/2022/03/03/what-is-1p36-deletion-syndrome-the-first-side-effect-listed-in-pfizers-released-document-video/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34616129/
Novel Point Mutation of EBSS Gene Coexisted with 1p36 Deletion
NYC health officials look to rename monkeypox over stigma in communities of color
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc-health-officials-look-to-rename-monkeypox-over-stigma-in-communities-of-color/
NEW YORK – New York City health officials are calling on the World Health Organization to change the name of the monkeypox virus, saying it has created a stigma that could put vulnerable communities at risk.
While the virus is primarily impacting gay and bisexual men, anyone can get monkeypox. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says two children have now tested positive.
As the city works to get control of the outbreak, it's also working on a name change. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene wrote a letter to the WHO, expressing concern about exclusively using the term "monkeypox."
"Given the stigma it may engender, and the painful and racist history within which terminology like this is rooted for communities of color," the letter read in part.
It went on to say the term "monkeypox" is a misnomer, since the virus does not originate in monkeys.
"Alternative terminology is possible and entities are starting to use such terms as 'hMPXV' and 'MPV,'" the letter continued.
During a June briefing, the WHO said it would change the name, but then never did.
As of Tuesday, almost 1,100 cases of the orthopox virus were detected in New York City, presumed to be monkeypox.
Earlier this week, Gov. Kathy Hochul approved and expanded a new way of testing across the state.
According to the CDC, there are now nearly 2,900 confirmed cases in 44 states, including two children – a toddler in California, and and infant in Washington, D.C.
"There's always been this worry that the more the transmission goes on and the more cases there are, the more it could potentially spill over into other groups," said Dr. Jimmy Whitworth, professor of international public health at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
The virus spreads mainly through skin-to-skin contact, but can also be passed on through sheets or towels. It can cause a rash and flu-like symptoms.
Harun Tulunay told CBS2 he called a nurse, who sent him straight to the hospital, where he spent two weeks recovering.
"I remember clearly that I cried on the phone to her, saying that I think I'm going to die because I can't eat, I can't drink, I can't even swallow my own spit. I am just very tired," he said.
The White House says it might declare a public health emergency amid growing concern over the spread.
"US Not Prepared": Extreme Heat Event Risks Damaging US' Rail Network With Buckling Tracks
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-not-prepared-extreme-heat-event-risks-damaging-us-rail-network-buckling-tracks
>The White House says it might declare a public health emergency amid growing concern over the spread.
Biden Regime Readies to Declare Public Health Emergency Due to Monkeypox – HHS Sec Says “Concern Level is 10/10”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/biden-regime-readies-declare-public-health-emergency-due-monkeypox-hhs-sec-says-concern-level-10-10/
Coffins for Children Ordered in Bulk, 'First Time in Over 30 Years'
https://rairfoundation.com/coffins-for-children-ordered-in-bulk-first-time-in-over-30-years-exclusive-interview/
A Toronto-area casket manufacturer has seen a dramatic rise in orders for smaller-sized coffins since the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. Children are dying.
Ultimately, everything in life comes down to death.
We are raised to believe that there’s a time for living and a time for dying. The time for dying comes with illness, accidents, and old age. Except it doesn’t anymore.
In an exclusive interview with RAIR Foundation USA, Mick Haddock, a manufacturer of caskets in northern Toronto, says things have changed markedly in the industry in the last nine months. “Small people are passing away,” he says. “It’s noticeable in our industry. For the first time in over 30 years, we are receiving bulk orders for smaller-sized caskets.”
Typically, the casket industry remains pretty stable, and an unusually big casket order usually indicates a traumatic event, but recent sales indicate that this has changed. “Not only are all sales up, but in the past, for every five full-sized caskets we sold, we sold one youth size. Now, for every five, it’s two youth sized.”
According to Haddock, he and his colleagues in the industry thought they would see an uptick in 2020 when we were being told that covid was lethal and killing people indiscriminately, in their many thousands. But that didn’t happen. “It wasn’t until the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021 that we saw sales increase. We didn’t see any increase in sales before vaccines were introduced, and people started traveling again,” says Haddock. “And I don’t want to blame it on the travel that’s been killing everybody because, in truth, most of these places around the world are still light on what travelers can do. Even accidental deaths are still limited.”
In fact, in 2020, Haddock saw a 60 percent drop in sales. “It was only once the vaccines were pushed to younger and younger demographics that we started seeing the uptick,” he says. “It was just senior citizens and the very frail at first. Within two months of the approval of the vaccine for the 11- to 15-year-olds, we noticed more demand for smaller units.”
Overall sales have increased by 30 and 40 percent compared to 2019. “It’s staggering how much more there is,” says Haddock. “It started to climb by mid-2021; by 2022, growth was measurable.”
Haddock’s experience mirrors that of British funeral director John O’Looney of Milton Keynes Family Funeral Services, who went public in September 2021 to explain a similar pattern of death. O’Looney remarked that there was no surge in deaths during the initial covid wave, and if anything, fewer deaths. But after the vaccine was introduced in January 2021, O’Looney said that calls soared, going up 300 percent. “I’ve never seen a death rate like it in 15 years,” he said. “Initially, [the deaths were] all exclusively care homes,” O’Looney said. But after the rollout of the mRNA injection, the deaths were no longer exclusively from nursing homes, and the ages of the dead varied significantly.
O’Looney described a woman in her fifties, fit, a runner, and without health issues, who was given a booster and died of liver failure the following week. Haddock confirms that this measurable increase has all happened in Canada in the last six to seven months, “(Initially) it wasn’t at the rate it is now, but by the time we hit the round of boosters was when we started noticing multiple calls a week from the same (casket) distributors. All casket sales are dramatically up,” he says. It’s just that youth-sized sales are up more than any other category.
While Haddock and his colleagues have seen the greatest increase in sales in the mid-sized category, “everyone is at risk with these vaccines,” he says. “It’s hard to deny. What can it be blamed on? What has changed? Why is the death rate exceeding that of before the vaccines?” he ponders.
Children aged six to 12 are robust human beings. “Now, these are the sizes we are selling,” says Haddock. “Children don’t just die. It doesn’t happen. Never in history.”
For 'superstorms' or tsunami weapon defense? or to trap citizens? floods of people?
(2018)
44,600 POUND FLOOD GATES INSTALLED ON NYC TUNNELS TO PROTECT FROM SUPERSTORMS
https://untappedcities.com/2018/02/22/44600-pound-flood-gates-installed-on-nyc-tunnels-to-protect-from-superstorms/
Zelensky does a photoshoot for Vogue in the middle of a war
Ukraine will pursue war-crimes charges against leaders of JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and HSBC over Russia financing, Zelensky's economic advisor says
Ukraine is pursuing war-crimes charges against leaders of major Western banks, an official said.
The Zelenskyy advisor Oleg Ustenko earlier asked the banks to stop financing traders of Russian oil.
Ustenko told CNBC on Tuesday that Ukraine was gathering data on banks and would pass it to the ICC.
Ukraine is pursuing war-crimes charges against leaders of JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and other major Western banks over their purported indirect financing of the Russian state, an economic advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday.
"There is no doubt that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine, against Ukrainians," Oleg Ustenko, the advisor, said in an interview with CNBC. "In our logic, everybody who is financing these war criminals who are doing these terrible things in Ukraine are also committing war crimes."
Earlier this month, Ustenko wrote to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and the bosses of Citigroup and HSBC asking them to cut ties with companies that trade Russian oil and sell shares in Russian oil and gas firms such as Gazprom and Rosneft.
Ustenko said of the banks in his CNBC interview: "We are going to pursue, not maybe companies, but managers of these companies."
He added: "We have different options. The first option is definitely ICC."
Ustenko said Ukraine's justice and security services were gathering information about the banks' activities that would be passed to the International Criminal Court.
The ICC has the power to prosecute people but not entities.
In his letters to the bank CEOs, which were seen by the Financial Times, Ustenko accused the banks of "prolonging" the war in Ukraine.
JPMorgan provides credit to Vitol, which trades Russian oil, and the bank's Russian securities investment trust holds shares in Rosneft, Sberbank, and Gazprom, Ustenko said in his letter to Dimon, per the Financial Times. HSBC's asset-management arm also has stakes in Gazprom and Rosneft, and Citigroup extends credit to Vitol and the Russian energy giant Lukoil, the letters said, per the Financial Times.
JPMorgan, HSBC, and Citigroup didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider.
Citi told the Financial Times it had cut down its business in Russia. JPMorgan told the publication it had helped implement sanctions against Russia.
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>Just give us the fucking asteroid.
https://retractionwatch.com/2020/09/08/covid-19-arrived-on-a-meteorite-claims-elsevier-book-chapter/
COVID-19 arrived on a meteorite, claims Elsevier book chapter
Blackstone Prepares A Record $50 Billion To Snap Up Real Estate During The Coming Crash
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/blackstone-prepares-record-50-billion-snap-real-estate-during-coming-crash
The past two months have seen a barrage of negative news coverage focusing on the US housing market…
… which is predictable: after all, with mortgage rates soaring at the fastest pace on record to decade highs, and sending US housing affordability to the lowest in history…
… only a handful of the "1%" can afford the American Dream.
Alas, it also means that just like in 2007, a housing crash is now just a matter of time.
That much is known. What is also know, is that once housing craters, the largest US residential and commercial landlord - private equity giant Blackstone - is about to get even bigger. That's when it will deploy some (or all) of the record $50 billion in dry powder it has raised to prepare for just the coming housing crash.
According to the WSJ, Blackstone is the final stages of raising a new real-estate fund that would set a record as the biggest vehicle of its kind, defying market volatility and a crowded landscape for fundraising.
The private-equity giant said in a regulatory filing Wednesday it has closed on commitments totaling $24.1 billion for Blackstone Real Estate Partners X, the latest iteration of its main real-estate fund.
According to the WSJ, Blackstone is committing about $300 million of its own capital and has allocated an additional $5.9 billion to investors, which will bring the fund to $30.3 billion when it is finalized. The firm raised the fund, expected to be the largest traditional private-equity vehicle in history, in just three month. It was also Blackstone that set the prior record, with the $26 billion buyout fund it raised in 2019. The new real-estate fund will be 50% larger than its predecessor, a $20.5 billion pool raised in 2019.
Together with funds dedicated to real estate in Asia and Europe, Blackstone will have a war chest of more than $50 billion to do so-called opportunistic investments, which tend to be higher-risk deals with the potential for higher returns.
That, according to the WSJ, "could allow the firm to take advantage of a downturn in the public markets." Translation: at a time when Americans are liquidating their housing en masse to shore up liquidity when the bottom falls out from the economy, Blackstone will step in and buy all the distressed properties at pennies on the dollar, becoming an even bigger presence in US, and global, real estate.
Not surprisingly, many of Blackstone’s best-performing deals—like its 2014 purchase of the Cosmopolitan casino and hotel in Las Vegas and its 2016 deal for life-sciences buildings owner BioMed Realty Trust —were struck during periods of market turmoil.
It won't be just Blackstone that goes bottom fishing in a few months: a slew of private-equity funds are in the market this year, with many trying to raise huge sums even after stocks fell and deal-making dried up. The surge in requests for new cash has overwhelmed investment teams at institutions such as pension funds and endowments and has meant many have delayed making commitments to all but the top managers.
The size of Blackstone’s new fund and the speed at which it was able to raise the money demonstrate that institutional investors are still eager to participate in vehicles being offered by established managers with good records. And while the ranks of $20 billion-plus buyout funds have been growing, there are still relatively few real-estate megafunds comparable with Blackstone’s.
As the WSJ adds, just like the firm as a whole, Blackstone’s $298 billion real-estate business has embraced a thematic investment strategy with the goal of targeting areas of the economy where growth is outpacing inflation. That has led it to focus on four key areas: warehouses used for e-commerce; life-sciences office buildings; rental housing; and hospitality tied to travel and leisure. It has also excelled in all four areas, long ago becoming the largest US residential landlord much to the chagrin of tens of millions of Americans who dutifully pay Steve Schwarzman for the privilege of having a roof over their head.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/07/26/blackburn-big-tech-platforms-like-tiktok-building-profiles-to-track-children/
Blackburn: Big Tech Platforms Like TikTok Building Profiles to Track Children
During an appearance on Tuesday’s broadcast of FBN’s “Fox Business Tonight,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) warned that Big Tech taking information from TikTok and other social media platforms to build profiles of children.
She warned that those profiles could be used against children in adulthood.
“What we do know with these dangerous platforms like TikTok – that what they are doing is they are taking this information,” Blackburn said. “Basically, they own the ‘virtual you.’ Sean, they’re building profiles of our children. They’re building profiles of future leaders. And they’re going to have all of this information. Then, what are they going to do? They’re going to come back around, and they’re going to try to blackmail today’s children when they’re adults in decades yet to come.”
“This is something every parent needs to beware of this,” she continued. “I have done a safety guide. It is on my website. People can pull that down because it is imperative that parents know that they need to take responsibility for protecting their children online, and it is also up to Congress to do something about that. And I’ve got a solution for that, too.”
The Tennessee Republican touted her Kids Online Safety Act, which she is co-sponsoring with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT).
https://neurosciencenews.com/stress-conspiracy-theories-21116/
Stress Increases Beliefs That Underlie Disorders and Conspiracy Theories
Summary: Study examines why conspiracy theories and psychiatric disorders historically tend to peak during periods of social crisis and stress.
Source: Wageningen University
Stress increases the rigidity of the beliefs underlying psychiatric disorders, prejudices and conspiracy theories. Therefore measures aimed at reducing social stress—a basic income or better job protection—could be the most effective approach for tackling problems such as depression, psychosis, discrimination and conspiracy theories.
That is the message of a new publication in the reputable scientific journal PNAS, with Wageningen’s professor Marten Scheffer as the lead author.
Scheffer and his co-authors—the Leiden neurobiologist Sander Nieuwenhuis, University of Amsterdam psychology professor Denny Borsboom and Canadian social scientist Frances Westley—describe recent findings in their fields that demonstrate how stressful circumstances can make harmful beliefs more rigid.
These insights explain why conspiracy theories and psychiatric disorders tend historically to peak during periods of crisis, in other word when there is a lot of social stress.
Scheffer says the findings have far-reaching implications. “If we want to combat psychiatric disorders, prejudices and conspiracy theories, we need to reduce the social stress that is associated with uncertainty about such essential factors as work and income.”
Ineffectual facts
That is very different to countering with facts, the usual reflex when trying to persuade people to change their beliefs. As the publication stresses, facts are ineffectual in changing false beliefs.
“Letting an anorexia patient look in the mirror or providing proof that the US presidential election was not stolen has surprisingly little effect.”
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2203149119
Abstract
Belief traps: Tackling the inertia of harmful beliefs
Beliefs can be highly resilient in the sense that they are not easily abandoned in the face of counterevidence. This has the advantage of guiding consistent behavior and judgments but may also have destructive consequences for individuals, nature, and society. For instance, pathological beliefs can sustain psychiatric disorders, the belief that rhinoceros horn is an aphrodisiac may drive a species extinct, beliefs about gender or race may fuel discrimination, and belief in conspiracy theories can undermine democracy.
Here, we present a unifying framework of how self-amplifying feedbacks shape the inertia of beliefs on levels ranging from neuronal networks to social systems.
Sustained exposure to counterevidence can destabilize rigid beliefs but requires organized rational override as in cognitive behavioral therapy for pathological beliefs or institutional control of discrimination to reduce racial biases.
Black-and-white thinking is a major risk factor for the formation of resilient beliefs associated with psychiatric disorders as well as prejudices and conspiracy thinking. Such dichotomous thinking is characteristic of a lack of cognitive resources, which may be exacerbated by stress. This could help explain why conspiracy thinking and psychiatric disorders tend to peak during crises.
A corollary is that addressing social factors such as poverty, social cleavage, and lack of education may be the most effective way to prevent the emergence of rigid beliefs, and thus of problems ranging from psychiatric disorders to prejudices, conspiracy theories, and posttruth politics.
Significance
Beliefs are a key element of healthy cognition. Yet overly rigid beliefs are the basis of societal problems including prejudices, psychiatric disorders, and conspiracy theories. Recent findings from neurobiology, psychiatry, and social sciences show how resilience of beliefs is boosted by stressful conditions. This implies the possibility of self-propelled societal deterioration where rigid beliefs harm the quality of personal and political decisions, evoking more-stressful conditions that further rigidify beliefs. Measures reducing social stress, including economic policies such as universal base income, may be the most effective ways to counteract this vicious cycle.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2203149119