https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/28/two-aircraft-involved-in-minor-collision-on-runway-at-heathrow

The British Government is Experimenting With Feeding African Kids Worms, Locusts, and Flies.

The British government is funding projects pushing Africans to farm and consume insects, including school-age children, in randomized trials, to assess their effects.

The United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) – a subsidiary of the country’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy – is responsible for backing the projects taking place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zimbabwe.

With a roughly $320,000 grant from the aid office, researchers in Zimbabwe will be experimenting with using mopane worms in porridge served to children in schools. Poor children aged seven to 11 in the towns of Gwanda and Harare will be fed the concoction derived from the caterpillars, which researchers allege are high in vitamins and minerals.

Ultimately, a randomized trial will be carried out to compare if children consuming insects perform better in school than their counterparts.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, researchers will use a roughly $55,000 grant to “promote the production of insects for human food and for use in the manufacture of animal feeds,” according to a synopsis from the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office’s development tracker website. The funds are being provided by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (Cafod).

Among the insects being pushed for consumption are caterpillars, migratory locusts, and black soldier flies. The project, which began in March and will conclude in December, is a response to water shortages allegedly due to stress placed on the environment from animal farming.

It is unclear whether or not the conclusion from the work in Africa will be applied back in the United Kingdom, though, experts in the field interviewed by mainstream media outlets have claimed it is likely.

Dr. Sarah Beynon, for example, the founder of the Bug Farm in Pembrokeshire and an academic entomologist, claimed these aid projects were “a sure way to save lives and improve nutrition of the poorest people on planet Earth,” while speaking with The Guardian.

“We are also actively encouraging people in the developed world to include insects in their diets,” she later added.

“With a population that has an appetite set to far exceed the planetary limits, and with current agriculture decimating biodiversity and changing the climate, we have no option but to change how we produce and consume food … and our views on the topic too,” Dr. Benyon continued.

Similarly, a spokesperson from the UKRI admitted:

“We support specific research projects with funding, but we anticipate that the learnings and knowledge gleaned will benefit citizens around the world irrespective of their economic status. The protein and environmental benefits of consuming insects have been widely reported globally.”

The unearthed grant is the latest example of the environment and climate being used as an excuse to push radical changes to traditional diets and farming practices.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/09/28/uk-funds-african-research-into-edible-insects/

Alberta Will Not Comply with Trudeau Government’s Gun Confiscation Plans

Canada's federal government prohibited the sale or use of more than 1,500 rifle models in 2020 and has instituted a buyback program

The Canadian province of Alberta will not comply with federal gun control laws and potential confiscation, according to Justice Minister Tyler Shandro. Since May 2020, Justin Trudeau’s government has prohibited more than 1,500 different models of “assault-style” firearms from being used or sold in Canada, CBC reported. To this point, the federal government has set up a buyback program, but confiscation of outstanding weapons is expected soon.

Alberta Justice Minister Tyler Shandro said he received a letter from Canada’s ministry of public safety asking for police resources to begin confiscating firearms starting this fall. In response, Shandro said that Alberta will not agree to having Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers act as confiscation agents. He also vowed to protest any confiscation measures under the provincial-federal agreement that concerns policing.

“Alberta taxpayers pay over $750 million per year for the RCMP and we will not tolerate taking officers off the streets in order to confiscate the property of law-abiding firearms owners,” Shandro said during a press conference in Calgary.

Alberta also plans to seek intervener status in six ongoing judicial review applications challenging the constitutionality of the legislation, according to CBC.

Marco Medicino, who serves as Canada’s minister of public safety, condemned Alberta’s refusal to comply and claimed that the buyback will cut down on gun crime. “It’s very disappointing that Alberta has put out their statement before seeing the full plan,” said Medicino’s press secretary, Audrey Champoux.

Shandro’s proposal has found plenty of support in the province, however, including that of Alberta’s chief firearms officer, Teri Bryant.

“I have previously expressed strong opposition to the federal government’s plans to prohibit and confiscate some 30,000 lawfully acquired firearms from Albertans,” Bryant said. “The planned confiscations represent a fatal approach to reducing violence in Canadian society and are unwarranted and unacceptable infringements on the property rights and personal freedoms of Albertans.”

Canada moved to prohibit the sale of handguns earlier this year in an expansion of its earlier moves against rifles. Self-defense is not a valid reason for obtaining a firearms permit in Canada.

https://nationalfile.com/alberta-will-not-comply-with-trudeau-governments-gun-confiscation-plans/

LIES EXPOSED. JUDGMENT IS COMING – Kash Patel

https://rumble.com/embed/v1ja9us/?pub=4

The SEC's Reckless Crusade To Crush The Cryptocurrency Market

The laws of physics dictate that nature abhors a vacuum, an interesting phenomena considering how many federal regulatory agencies simply love one. Harkening back to the New Deal, it has become accepted that wherever a gap may exist in the regulation of human activity, a federal agency will soon appear, mobilizing its vast and frequently questionable powers to fill the space.

Whether it is the Department of Energy deciding to pull the plug on a popular type of light bulb, or the Environmental Protection Agency dictating the allowable volume of water in toilets, our vast administrative state lurks behind every corner, poised to assert itself within every nook, crevice, and cranny that presents an opportunity for regulatory interference. Last year federal agencies created over 74,000 pages of new rules and regulations to fill the perceived vacuums in our lives, and we are currently on track this year to surpass that tree-crushing total.

As frustrating – and costly – as never-ending meddling from Washington bureaucrats can be, light bulbs and plumbing are small potatoes compared to the mayhem that erupts when an agency jumps the median to rewrite the entire rulebook for an industry to which it is, at best, a casual acquaintance. Just over a year ago our organization sounded the sirens on a lawsuit by the “stone-age” bureaucracy of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against an American crypto company, Ripple Labs. In that time an overwhelming consensus has emerged among crypto industry leaders, analysts, and legal scholars that the SEC’s lawsuit is not only absurd, but extremely dangerous.

Imagine the reaction to a referee throwing a penalty flag on the field for a play that happened 30 minutes ago. There would certainly be a healthy mix of incredulity and outrage, and the strong view the official is irrationally and arbitrarily ruining the game. The SEC lawsuit against Ripple is just as irrational and arbitrary, but the stakes involve billions of dollars held by innocent users of the digital currency XRP as well as the larger issue of federal agency overreach, and their power to capriciously extend their tentacles into places where they do not belong. The outcome of the case will further have a substantial impact on America's position within the exponentially growing digital currency markets.

In December 2020, the SEC retroactively declared XRP to be an unregistered security and all its trades for the previous seven years to have been illegal, even on the secondary markets. The regulator accused Ripple, which built its business on the use case of XRP as a bridge currency, of selling securities despite the fact that billions of XRP tokens have circulated among hundreds of thousands of other users since 2013 with no connection to the company. Gensler has now upped the ante, saying the SEC, not the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), should call the shots on all digital assets. With even greater hubris, Gensler insists to the court that the SEC is under no obligation to set clear, defining, and transparent rules to provide guidance for traders and holders of digital assets, essentially claiming decisions can be made by the agency at their whim on a case-by-case basis, an absolutely ludicrous position.

The recklessness of the SEC’s case against Ripple is simply astounding, not to mention unjust and void of due process. Prior to its lawsuit the SEC gave nearly a decade of confusing and contradictory public signals on XRP to consumers and investors while billions of tokens traded on secondary markets. The SEC gave even more unclear guidance to Ripple in private, according to the evidence filed in the case.

https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2022/09/26/the_secs_reckless_crusade_to_crush_the_cryptocurrency_market_855400.html