Elon Musk’s Neuralink Implant ‘Ruptured’ a Monkey’s Brain – but He Says Its Ready for Humans

A recent investigation has unveiled a harrowing incident involving the results of Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain implant trial on macaque monkeys, sparking a debate about if the technology is ready for human trials. In one gruesome incident, the implant caused a monkeys brain to “rupture,” leading to its untimely death.

Wired reports that an implant trial conducted by Elon Musk’s Neuralink at the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC) at UC Davis has come under scrutiny for causing severe cerebral swelling and subsequent brain rupture in a female macaque monkey. The seven-year-old primate experienced “severe neurological defects” and endured a notably painful 24 hours, during which it “seized and vomited, lost control of her right leg, and shook uncontrollably,” before being euthanized to end its suffering. A postmortem examination revealed that adhesive leakage from the implant had inflamed a part of the brain that secretes cerebrospinal fluid, causing such severe effects that the rear of the monkey’s brain protruded from its skull.

Wired has previously reported on the horrific conditions of the monkeys used in Neuralink tests:

Additional veterinary reports show the condition of a female monkey called “Animal 15” during the months leading up to her death in March 2019. Days after her implant surgery, she began to press her head against the floor for no apparent reason; a symptom of pain or infection, the records say. Staff observed that though she was uncomfortable, picking and pulling at her implant until it bled, she would often lie at the foot of her cage and spend time holding hands with her roommate.

Animal 15 began to lose coordination, and staff observed that she would shake uncontrollably when she saw lab workers. Her condition deteriorated for months until the staff finally euthanized her. A necropsy report indicates that she had bleeding in her brain and that the Neuralink implants left parts of her cerebral cortex “focally tattered.”

The latest incident was recognized as a violation of the US Animal Welfare Act by federal regulators, though the CNPRC attempted to mitigate legal implications by self-reporting the violation. An anonymous former Neuralink employee stated, “the implant itself did not cause death. We sacrificed her to end her suffering.”

The ethical concerns are further exacerbated by the withholding of photographic evidence from the trials. Ethics groups, such as the Physicians Committee, have pressed for the release of hundreds of photos documenting Neuralink’s experiments, arguing that as a public institution, UC Davis is obligated to maintain transparency. The institution, however, has resisted these calls, asserting that the public is not equipped to properly interpret the photographs and that the backlash could endanger scientists and discourage them from taking such photos in the future.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/10/10/elon-musks-neuralink-implant-ruptured-a-monkeys-brain-but-he-says-its-ready-for-humans/

Washington moving ‘illegal’ bioresearch to Africa – Moscow

Documents confirm the activities of key Pentagon contractors in several countries on the continent, the Russian Defense Ministry has alleged

The US is transferring dual-purpose biological research activities to Africa, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Monday, citing Pentagon documents.

According to Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who leads the Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces, the move is in response to Moscow’s efforts to expose Washington's illegal military-biological operations. He also cited the worsening “epidemic situation near biosites in the European region.”

“The documents at our disposal confirm the activities of key Pentagon contractors on the African continent – in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Uganda, and South Africa. Customers on the part of the US government are the DTRA [Defense Threat Reduction Agency], the National Security Agency, and the US Department of State,” Kirillov added.

Moscow has repeatedly accused the US of plotting biological warfare against it and other countries.

Last year, Russian UN representative Vassily Nebenzia told the Security Council that Moscow had discovered at least 30 Ukrainian laboratories engaged in disease research, including anthrax and cholera, funded and supervised by the US. In May, State Duma Deputy Speaker Irina Yarovaya expressed concern over Washington’s interest in biological weapons, describing it as a highly concealed and unpredictable form of mass destruction that could become a global issue.

The US has denied the claims.

On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry reiterated its previous concerns about “unauthorized” sample collection by Metabiota, which it referred to as a “key Pentagon contractor” during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

According to Kirillov, the company’s lack of transparency, which prompted concerns from the World Health Organization, resulted in the illegal export of live Ebola virus samples to the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infections.

“Predictable deterioration of the disease situation near American biosites is forcing the governments of many African states to take another look at the necessity and expediency of co-operation with the United States. For example, in 2022, Metabiota operations in Africa were terminated because the company’s illegal practices raised too many questions at the level of national governments,” Kirillov claimed.

The San Francisco-based Metabiota was a partner in the $200 million USAID-funded ‘Predict’ epidemiological research project, which concluded in 2019.

Several reports, including one by the Associated Press in 2016, claimed that during the 2014 Ebola outbreak the company made a series of “costly” mistakes in its efforts to combat the disease in Sierra Leone.

Metabiota employees contributed to flawed laboratory results, disrupted collaboration, and put people at risk of the deadly virus, according to the agency, which cited leaked documents and interviews with international health responders.

https://www.rt.com/africa/584528-moscow-alleges-washington-illegal-biological-operations-africa/

The rise of the MEGA bankruptcy: 459 US firms have filed for bankruptcy this year - the most since 2020 - and 16 had more than $1 billion in assets

Economists warn large-scale bankruptcies can have devastating consequences

Some 459 firms filed for bankruptcy so far this year - already more than in 2021

Bed Bath and Beyond, trucking firm Yellow and Silicon Valley Bank among the biggest casualties

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/banks/article-12611879/The-rise-MEGA-bankruptcy-459-firms-filed-bankruptcy-year-2020-16-1-billion-assets.html

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Lavrov Says UN Charter Should Become Foundation for New World Order

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov penned an article where he outlined the most vital issues of international relations and urged nations to adhere to the UN Charter instead of the West’s “rules-based order” construct.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A new world order should be based on a solid foundation, namely principles of the UN Charter, as most countries across the globe want to exist in conditions of multipolarity, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday.

"There is a foundation for building a new world, and it is solid — this is the UN Charter. The main thing now is to prevent its destruction as a result of opportunistic selective juggling of statutory principles, to achieve their implementation in their entirety and interconnection with all countries," Lavrov said in his article.

Only if international law is observed, "will humanity have a chance to overcome the harmful legacy of the unipolar era," the Russian foreign minister stated, adding that preparations for the UN Summit of the Future planned for 2024 would show how everyone was realizing their own as well as collective responsibility for the destiny of this world.

The top Russian diplomat also said that responsibility for the current crisis in international relations lies with Western powers, which are pursuing an "aggressive and self-serving" policy.

"It is necessary to ensure that the spirit of multipolarity enshrined in the UN Charter is realized. An increasing number of countries of the global majority are seeking to strengthen their sovereignty and defend national interests, traditions, culture and way of life. They do not want to live under anyone's dictation, they want to be friends and trade with each other and with the rest of the world only on equal terms and for mutual benefit, within the framework of an objectively emerging multipolar architecture," Lavrov said.

Lavrov lambasted the US-led West for “arbitrary imposing itself as the master of humanity's fate," while ignoring the legacy of “the UN's founding fathers.” He added that Western countries use the UN Charter at random, and only when it serves their geopolitical interests.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20231010/lavrov-says-un-charter-should-become-foundation-for-new-world-order-1114058446.html

Over 17,000 WordPress sites hacked in Balada Injector attacks last month

Multiple Balada Injector campaigns have compromised and infected over 17,000 WordPress sites using known flaws in premium theme plugins.

Balada Injector is a massive operation discovered in December 2022 by Dr. Web, which has been leveraging various exploits for known WordPress plugin and theme flaws to inject a Linux backdoor.

The backdoor redirects visitors of the compromised websites to fake tech support pages, fraudulent lottery wins, and push notification scams, so it is either part of scam campaigns or a service sold to scammers.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-17-000-wordpress-sites-hacked-in-balada-injector-attacks-last-month/

PALESTINE ACCUSED ISRAEL OF USING BANNED PHOSPHORUS BOMBS

On October 10, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry accused Israel of using ammunition with white phosphorus, prohibited by international conventions. According to the ministry, the prohibited weapons were used in the al-Karam area in the Gaza Strip.

The official claims came after the following footage from the Gaza Strip was widely shared online:

https://southfront.press/palestine-accused-israel-of-using-banned-phosphorus-bombs/

All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: How private bankers have imposed their system of slavery on the world

https://youtu.be/9y8gxiNzQdU

Israeli Rabbi to Christians: "You Shouldn't be Worshipping One Jew, You Should be Worshipping All of Us"

Israeli Rabbi Chaim Richman, the former director of the Temple Institute, told Christians on his podcast addressing Israel's war with Gaza on Monday that they "shouldn't be worshipping one Jew" Jesus Christ but instead should be worshipping "all of us" Jews because "we're dying for your sins right now."

"I just want to say this to our Christian friends … just to call it as it is and say it straight out, you guys are worshiping one Jew, that's a mistake, you should be worshipping every single one of us because we all die for your sins every single day," Richman said, blaspheming Christ. "And that's exactly what's going on here. We're all God's first born and we're dying for your sins right now, because the Jewish people in the land of Israel are the bulwark against the Orcs, okay? The orcs are coming not to a theater near you but to your home!"

"This grotesque supremacy is expressed by Rabbi Chaim Richman, a former director of the Temple Institute - one of the extreme Jewish groups whose mission is to build the third temple," Keith Woods noted on Twitter/X. "Groups like this are responsible for rising tensions in the holy land, where they have forced Muslim and Christian worshippers out of their holy sites. Supremacists like this have the support of the Israeli government."

In the days before the war broke out, video after video was going viral of Jews in Israel spitting on Christians and attacking them in the streets for preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ and Netanyahu's top police official, National Security Minister Ben Gvir, defended their vile acts as "not criminal."

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64030

Washington Post to cut 240 positions as Americans turn away from corporate media

Employees will be offered a "voluntary separation package" in an effort to cut 240 jobs.

The Washington Post is reportedly cutting 240 employees in the 'hopes of averting more difficult actions such as layoffs — a situation we are united in trying to avoid."

An email obtained by New York Times reporter Ben Mullin states that employees will be attending a 10 am meeting on October 11 to discuss the action.

"Following this meeting, all eligible employees will be notified by email if their position is included in the program, and they are welcome to consider the package. Senior leaders will then share department specific information in meetings to follow throughout the day," the email reportedly read.

This program referenced by the media outlet is a "voluntary separation package" that will be offered to employees in an effort to reduce 240 positions "across all functions of The Post."

"This program will offer generous incentives to employees in specific roles where we believe we can reduce costs if work can be assigned more effectively, where positions do not need to be replaced or where we can otherwise achieve cost savings through a voluntary reduction in our workforce."

The package will be offered to employees in specific areas or with specific titles.

The email states that over the last eight weeks, its sender has "been working with the senior leadership team to review the current state of our business and financial results."

"We have determined that our prior projections for traffic, subscriptions, and advertising growth for the past two years — and into 2024 — have been overly optimistic and we are working to find ways to return our business to a healthier place in the coming year."

According to the New York Times, the Washington Post is set to lose around $100 million in 2023, and the outlet has struggled to increase paying subscribers since 2020, which peaked at 3 million. The outlet now has around 2.5 million.

Earlier this year, the outlet announced that it had laid off 20 newsroom employees, and would keep an additional 30 vacant roles unfilled.

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-washington-post-to-cut-240-positions-as-americans-turn-away-from-corporate-media

Israel Tries to Brand Itself as a Peaceful, Democratic Oasis. Don’t Fall for It

The state of Israel brands itself as a peaceful, democratic, civilized oasis, steadfast in the midst of a hostile desert, surrounded by barbarity and threats to its very existence.

None of it is true.

Greater Israel is increasingly a rampaging Zionist project that has lost its sense of Judaism, and its democratic, civilized ideals.

It is a militarized, racist, apartheid country that denies and negates the rule of international law at every convenience as it deludes itself and its allies by manipulating the memory of one of history’s most hideous moments: the holocaust.

Memories of the obscenity of the holocaust should teach values of cultural pluralism, empathy and acceptance of the “other”, tolerance and respect for the downtrodden.

Instead, it is being exploited to serve the darker agenda of an ethnocentric, imperial, settler/colonial polity.

Renowned author Ilan Pappe explains these subterranean manipulations in The Idea Of Israel:

“From vindication of the brutal killing of Palestinians in 1948 and subsequently, in the war against Palestinian infiltrations, through the instigation of public panic on the eve of the 1967 war, to the justification of intransigent official positions on peace following the war, to the present oppressive policies against the Palestinians in the occupied territories, — Holocaust memory has been a supremely useful and accessible means of silencing criticism and pushing a policy of belligerence.”

A snap-shot of the “policy of belligerence” embraced by modern-day Israel looks like this:

Palestinian Israelis are second-class citizens. The Admissions Committee Law, for example — which was recently upheld by the Israeli Supreme Court — legalizes racial segregation. According to this law, 43% of Israeli residential areas are legally entitled to deny entrance to Palestinian Arab citizens of the Israeli state. Most of this land, to which the Palestinians are not welcome, was originally confiscated from Palestinian refugees. Clearly, legal segregation laws are not compatible with “democracy” or “moral governance”.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-tries-brand-itself-peaceful-democratic-oasis-dont-fall/5835441

U.S. Navy Sailor Pleads Guilty to Transmitting Sensitive U.S. Military Information to Chinese Intelligence Officer

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/us-navy-sailor-pleads-guilty-transmitting-sensitive-us-military-information-chinese

Former Cincinnati City Council member sentenced to 16 months in prison for bribery, attempted extortion

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdoh/pr/former-cincinnati-city-council-member-sentenced-16-months-prison-bribery-attempted

U.S. Air Force member in Great Falls admits to child pornography crime

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mt/pr/us-air-force-member-great-falls-admits-child-pornography-crime

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Israel “Encouraged and Started Hamas” Rep. Ron Paul

In 2009, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) said on the House floor that Israel ‘encouraged and started Hamas.’

Paul’s comments came during a speech about ‘blowback’ due to U.S. intervention in the Middle East.

“What’s happening in the Middle East, in particular with Gaza right now, we have some moral responsibility for both sides in a way because we provide help and funding for both Arab nations and Israel,” Paul said.

“We have a moral responsibility, especially now today the weapons being used to kill so many Palestinians are American weapons and American funds are being used for this,” he added.

“But there’s a political liability, which I think is something we fail to look at because too often there’s so much blowback from our intervention in areas that we shouldn’t be involved in,” he continued.

“You know Hamas, if you look at the history, you’ll find out that Hamas was encouraged and really started by Israel because they wanted Hamas to counteract Yasser Arafat,” Paul commented.

“You say, Well, yeah, it was better then and served its purpose, but we didn’t want Hamas to do this. So then we, as Americans, say, Well, we have such a good system; we’re going to impose this on the world. We’re going to invade Iraq and teach people how to be democrats. We want free elections. So we encouraged the Palestinians to have a free election. They do, and they elect Hamas,” Paul continued.

“So we first, indirectly and directly through Israel, helped establish Hamas. Then we have an election where Hamas becomes dominant, then we have to kill them. It just doesn’t make sense. During the 80s, we were allied with Osama bin Laden and we were contending with the Soviets. It was at that time our CIA thought it was good if we radicalize the Muslim world. So we finance the Madrassas school to radicalize the Muslims in order to compete with the Soviets. There is too much blowback,” he said.

“There are a lot of reasons why we should oppose this resolution. It’s not in the interest of the United States, it is not in the interest of Israel either,” he added.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/flashback-ron-paul-hamas-started-israel/5835470

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Humanitarian groups plead for aid corridors as Israeli warplanes hammer Gaza and death tolls rise

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-11/israeli-planes-hammer-gaza-death-toll-humanitarian-corridor/102961492

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https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/congressman-george-santos-charged-conspiracy-wire-fraud-false-statements-0

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ffs this is such bullshit

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12612253/MAUREEN-CALLAHAN-Women-raped-defiled-children-snatched-Holocaust-Jews-Israel-Hamas-monsters.html