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Anonymous ID: f6d65d Aug. 29, 2022, 4:22 a.m. No.17458496 🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://mobile.twitter.com/Kevin_McKernan/status/1564047044238606336

Anonymous ID: f6d65d Aug. 29, 2022, 4:24 a.m. No.17458500 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>8507

Kevin McKernan 🙂

@Kevin_McKernan

This is nutz.

An Authorless editorial in Nature advocating the ability to edit papers post publication if they violate someones safe space.

Wokeism is deadlier than C19.

https://nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01443-2.pdf

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Replying to @Kevin_McKernan and @carl_jurassic

Good luck mate, it’s insanity.

Have you seen this op-ed about publishers and editors having the right to change the content after publication?

https://nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01443-2.pdf

https://mobile.twitter.com/Kevin_McKernan/status/1564058598266871809

Science must respect the dignity and rights of all humans

New ethics guidance addresses potential harms for human population groups who do not participate in research

but may be harmed by its publication.

Anonymous ID: f6d65d Aug. 29, 2022, 4:25 a.m. No.17458502 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>8648

https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1564039998495752192

Mark Jacob

@MarkJacob16

Arrest Trump.

If anyone riots, arrest them too.

Enforce the law for everybody.

https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1563988484259549193

Chuck Callesto

@ChuckCallesto

BREAKING REPORT: Feds Declare Emergency in 4 STATES After Oil Refinery Fire in Indiana..

Gunman opens fire at East Bend shopping center, inside Safeway: 3 people dead, including shooter

https://ktvz.com/news/crime-courts/2022/08/28/gunman-opens-fire-at-east-bend-shopping-center-inside-safeway-3-people-dead-including-shooter/

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A gunman armed with a rifle and shotgun fired several shots in the parking lot of a northeast Bend shopping center Sunday evening, then entered a Safeway and fired numerous more shots, killing two people and sending shoppers scrambling for the exits. Officers also found the shooter dead inside the store.

Police Chief Mike Krantz told reporters at a late-night news conference they believe the man entered the shopping center parking lot from a neighborhood behind it.

An AR-15-style rifle and shotgun were found “in close proximity to the shooter” when police arrived, Krantz said, adding that police fired no shots after arriving at the store.

There was a witness who believed there was a second gunman, but Krantz said their investigation has turned up “no evidence of a second shooter anywhere in the area.”

Krantz said close to 100 officers from several agencies were involved in the investigation of the “very large crime scene,” so it will take time to process the scene, including obtaining search warrants.

“Our hearts go out to the victims and their families,” Krantz said. “We know this is frightening for our community and something we would never want to happen in our city,” he said, promising that they are “following up on every lead.”

Krantz said police are aware of “information floating around social media” said to be postings by the gunman and are investigating them as well.

There also have been reports of shootings elsewhere in the city, the police chief said, but officers checking on those reports found “no evidence of other shootings in our community.” Specifically, he said, there was a report of shots fired in the area of Southeast Ninth Street and Reed Market Road, but police “found no evidence of a shooting there as well.”

“We ask the community to be patient as we work through” the investigation and to call in with any leads, to 911 if it’s an emergency, Krantz said. He also said he'd just learned of the one injured person and had no details.

Officers and medics rushed to the Forum Shopping Center just after 7 p.m. after numerous reports of gunshots and one or more victims and/or suspects.

The livestreamed news conference was held shortly before 11 p.m. (it begins about 2 minutes into the YouTube video):

Just before 8:30 p.m., St. Charles spokeswoman Lisa Goodman confirmed that they had received two people, one who was dead on arrival and another reported to be in good condition. A short time later, she said the hospital had been placed in a lockout.

Minutes later, Bend Police Communications Manager Sheila Miller told reporters three people had been shot and killed, including the alleged gunman.

Police responded to numerous calls just after 7 p.m. reporting shots fired at the Forum Shopping Center, she said.

Miller said at the gunman fired shots in the parking lot near the Costco and Big Lots stores, then entered the west entrance of Safeway.

"One person was shot inside the entrance," she said, and was reported dead on arrival at St. Charles Bend.

"Police believe the shooter continued firing through the store, shooting and killing an additional person" toward the back, produce area, Miller said.

Police found the shooter, dead in the store.

The police spokeswoman said that a "shelter in place" warning was still in effect in the area "out of an abundance of caution." Police planned a media briefing around 10:30 p.m. at police headquarters they said would be livestreamed on the city's YouTube page, https://www.youtube.com/user/cityofbendoregon.

Goodman said shortly before 9 p.m. that "the hospital is on lockout and we are encouraging people to stay away unless they are experiencing a medical emergency."

Still “shook up” two hours later, Safeway shopper Josh Caba told NewsChannel 21 about several terrifying minutes on a grocery run.

The Bend resident said his wife had stayed in the car, as she was not feeling well, while he went shopping with their four children.

“About 10 minutes later, we started heading to the front. Then we heard I don’t know how many shots out front – six or seven. I immediately turned to my children and said, ‘Run!’ People were screaming. … it was a horrifying experience.”

Worried about his wife, as it turned out, “by the grace and provision of God,” when he and three of their kids burst through the big black exit doors by the produce department, his wife had driven around back and "is sitting in the car, saying ‘Get in the car! Get in the car!’”

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Caba said he went back in and found their fourth child, rushing her out of the store and to the car as well. He wanted to praise police for their actions.

“When I got out of that store and the kids were rounded up, they (officers) are running into the store. They are wonderful people. They deserve all the praise and credit in the world. It is absolutely more terrifying than you can imagine to have someone shooting at your kids. They are rock stars!”

Deschutes County 911 dispatchers received numerous calls just after 7 p.m. reporting multiple gunshots heard in the area of the shopping center, at Highway 20 and Northeast 27th Street.

Some callers reportedly said they saw someone dressed all black, while others said a male subject holding two duffel bags who may have entered the grocery store.

Others heard gunshots from the nearby Costco, to the east.

Bend police said in a tweet that there was "an active investigation in the area of The Forum Shopping Center. Please avoid the area. More updates to come as the investigation continues."

Bend police, Oregon State Police, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies, Oregon State Police and Bend Fire & Rescue medics converged on the scene, including numerous armed officers and armored vehicles, amid reports one or more suspects may have left the area.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/texas-crypto-miners-ask-use-much-power-all-new-york-state

Texas Crypto Miners Ask To Use As Much Power As All Of New York State

Texas officials have been urging crypto currency-miners to move their operations to the Lone Star State. The campaign is working so well that applications for power hook-ups are piling up to a level far above what state power authorities estimated just four months ago.

According to a new report from Bloomberg, miners have asked the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to use up to 33 gigawatts of electricity over the next decade, a draw that's a third larger than what ERCOT's CEO estimated in April. To put that in perspective, 33 gigawatts would be enough to power all of New York state.

After suffering through disastrous power outages that factored into a 246-person death toll during a bitterly cold storm in Feb 2021, Texans couldn't be blamed for wringing their hands a little over the prospect of miners seeking so much energy.

An ERCOT spokeswoman assured Bloomberg that the organization expects to have sufficient output to meet surging demand. The stakes are high: Unlike other states that can lean on neighbors in times of stress, Texas operates its own, independent electric grid that makes most of the state an electricity island unto itself.

The Texas campaign to woo crypto miners has centered on the state's friendlier regulatory climate, cheap electricity and substantial renewable-energy sources. Per kilowatt-hour, commercial customers pay about a third less than the national average.

"It also has more wind power than any other state, which is appealing to miners pushing to appear more environmentally friendly," write's Bloomberg's Naureen S Malik.

Miners claim they're ideal power customers, ready to devour excess wind and solar energy when it's abundant, but also flexible enough to shut down when the grid is under strain.

That flexibility can pay off big: In July, Riot Blockchain collected a stunning $9.5 million in credits for shutting down its Texas mining rigs as the state faced a historic heat wave and energy was at a premium.

"By reducing power consumption by 21% last month, Riot got ERCOT to pay 100% of its electricity bill. So even though the company created fewer bitcoins in July, the company made about $7 million more than it would have if it had not curtailed its operations," reported the Houston Chronicle.

No wonder crypto miners are rushing to Texas.

https://mobile.twitter.com/EpochTimes/status/1563891653013823489

The Epoch Times

@EpochTimes

#Moderna’s internal documents regarding their #COVID19 vaccine trials—obtained via a FOIA request by

@JudicialWatch

—show that most of their studies submitted for approval to the #FDA were “irrelevant” and did not follow Good Laboratory Practices.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/census-bureau-3-8-million-100000978.html

Census Bureau: 3.8 million renters will likely be evicted in the next two months — why the rental crisis keeps getting worse

For the first time ever, the median rent in the U.S. topped $2,000 a month in June — and the increases show no sign of stopping.

Those rising rents mean that households representing a total of 8.5 million people were behind on their rent at the end of August, according to Census Bureau figures. And 3.8 million of those renters say they’re somewhat or very likely to be evicted in the next two months.

The combination of soaring inflation, the end of most eviction moratoriums and rental assistance payments and an extremely low vacancy rate has pushed rents up — and many renters out.

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Rents up nearly 25% since before the pandemic

Since 2006, rents have risen faster than home prices, but at the same time, the shortage of available rental units has been steadily increasing since the Great Recession.

In the year before the pandemic, the country recorded a shortage of seven million affordable housing units for low-income renters, according to the Center for American Progress, creating a crisis that left just 37 affordable rental homes for every 100 low-income households looking to rent.

And the homes that are available are often still out of reach. Rent rates are up nearly 25% since before the pandemic, with an increase of 15% in just the past 12 months, according to the real estate tracking service Zillow.

Evictions are up, too, according to the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. In August, evictions were 52% above average in Tampa, 90% above average in Houston and 94% above average in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

While the federal government has distributed the bulk of pandemic-related rental assistance grants, some states and cities have been slow to make the money available to landlords on behalf of tenants who can’t pay their rent.

As of May, the National Low Income Housing Coalition reported that 12 states and the District of Columbia had distributed half of their last assistance allocation, while Idaho, Iowa and Ohio hadn’t spent any of that money. Two states — Nebraska and Arkansas — refused to accept the federal rent assistance money.

Nearly half of renters have seen rent hikes

The annual median household income for all renters in the U.S. is about $42,500, according to Zillow, 37% lower than the national median income of $67,500.

As of early August, the Census Bureau reported that while 56% of renters had household incomes of less than $50,000, 24% of renters surveyed were paying more than $2,000 a month in rent.

Nearly half of all renters — more than 30 million people — had been hit with rent hikes in the past 12 months, with 19% paying a monthly increase of $100 to $250, 7% paying $250 to $500 more and 4% needing to find another $500 a month to stay in their apartments.

To meet higher rents, 57% of renters said they relied on credit cards, loans, savings or selling off some assets, including raiding their retirement accounts.

Despite that, 14% of renters told the survey that they weren’t completely caught up on back rent.

Rising rents hurting some more than others

Rising rents are hitting minorities harder than others, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of census data.

Among households headed by Black adults, 58% are renters, while 52% of those headed by Latino adults rented. That compares to a rental rate of slightly less than 40% of Asian-led households and 25% for households led by non-Hispanic white adults.

While inflation gets the blame for much of the problem with high rents, the cure for high inflation also may be contributing to the tight rental market, as renters who wanted to become homeowners are increasingly being priced out of the housing market.

As the Federal Reserve has increased interest rates to cool off the economy and bring down inflation, that move has pushed U.S. mortgage rates up from less than 3% a year ago to 5.13% by mid-August.

The combination of higher home loan rates and already high home prices has resulted in an 18% drop in mortgage applications from August 2021 to a 22-year low.