Vaccine for Honeybees soon to be mandatory…
World's first vaccine for honey bees, how does it work? Interview with experts, Dalan Animal Health.
Frederick Dunn
https://youtu.be/mBLOQlIo5Xc?si=ipG7QjBOMRj4TSVJ
Terror Alarm
@Terror_Alarm
🚨🇩🇪 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz:
"We signed a security agreement with Zelenskyy. The threat from Russia is real. We have formed a special fund of about 100 billion euros for the Bundeswehr. We have decided to deploy a German brigade in Lithuania."
3:02 AM · Feb 17, 2024
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Army for rent? Merc'ing of German mil paid for by YOU.
Vacant luxury apartment building in Harlem will be used as shelter for long-term New York City families, mayor says
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/harlem-residents-want-clarification-from-city-on-whether-luxury-apartment-building-is-being-turned-into-migrant-shelter/
NEW YORK – There was confusion and anger Thursday night from Harlem residents over a homeless shelter coming to the neighborhood.
CBS New York's Ali Bauman was in the room for a community meeting when Mayor Eric Adams made a surprising change of course.
Harlem residents went looking for answers Thursday night about a once-luxury building on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard.
The building was first marketed as a luxury doorman building. Condos include kitchens with granite countertops and marble bathrooms. Renderings show it even has an indoor swimming pool on its roof.
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Am artist rendering show a swimming pool inside the 35-unit complex on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in Harlem. NY Nesting
But records state its developers defaulted on loans.
The development has sat empty for the past decade, until this week when neighbors noticed boxes of bunk beds being loaded in.
"We were trying to find out what was going on, and we weren't getting any answers to our questions," Harlem resident Regina Smith said.
They learned City Hall was planning to turn the building into temporary housing for asylum seekers.
"No, I don't agree with it turning into a sanctuary for asylum seekers knowing we have people right here that need the space," said Tiffany Fulton, executive director of Silent Voices United Inc.
While neighbors were gathering to share their concerns, the mayor dropped in to answer questions.
"You are the mayor. We do not want to hear excuses," one Harlem resident said.
But the mayor announced a change of course.
"I told the team, 'Find out what's going on here. We're not moving folks into a brand new building when you have long-term needs into a community. That's not gonna happen,'" Adams said.
The luxury building will instead be a shelter for long-term New York City families.
"You will not have migrants and asylum seekers in that property," Adams said.
Watch John Dias' report
Residents told CBS New York they're relieved for the change but frustrated by the city's lack of transparency around opening a shelter in the first place. Many wish they had more input about the building's future.
"We have too many homeless shelters in this community," Smith said.
Smith says she'd like to see it become affordable housing. Forty-four percent of households in the neighborhood are rent-burdened, meaning over a third of their income goes toward rent.
"We have a dearth of affordable housing we're being priced out of the community … The lack of respect is absolutely appalling," Smith said.
"These apartments could be used for us to go into," Leslie Johnson said.
A New York City Department of Social Services spokesperson sent CBS New York the following statement:
"Despite the developer's initial plans for market rate condominiums, development had been stalled and this building left indefinitely empty– it would not have advanced as luxury housing. Instead of sitting vacant, this site will serve as high-quality transitional housing for long-term New York City families with children experiencing homelessness. We will be working with an experienced not-for-profit provider to help these families stabilize their lives and ultimately move into permanent housing. As we have always done, we will continue to maintain open lines of communication and work closely with the community every step of the way to ensure that we are collaboratively working to provide critical services for our neighbors in need."
City officials say they do not yet have a timeline for when this family shelter will open.
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1758524062257619335
End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
…this is an odd thing to say about a new death penalty law for child rapísts
10:09 AM · Feb 16, 2024
Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
This is the most extraordinary thing I have ever seen.
I’m not exaggerating. This is like a mushroom trip without the mushrooms.
Clear your schedule tonight and listen together.
In a week, everyone who has not listened to this will look like an idiot to everyone who has.
2024 is wild.
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@TuckerCarlson
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Ep. 75 The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States. "What I’m describing is military rule," says Mike Benz. "It’s the inversion of democracy."
6:43 PM · Feb 16, 2024
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https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1758653462232093011
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1758529993280205039
Wall Street Silver
@WallStreetSilv
Thousands of Students in Ontario Face Suspensions Over Vaccines…
18,000 students in Canada are facing suspension if they don't update their vaccine records.
They are forcing students to take experimental vaccines that are known to be high risk and unnecessary for young people.
🔊 … 🚨🚨🚨
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8:09 PM · Feb 16, 2024
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1758674983000186881
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Eric Abbenante
@EricAbbenante
Ann Coulter stuns the Bill Maher crowd with a simple heuristic: "If it were a white male shooting, we'd know."
Maher: "We don't know who did this shooting. The Superbowl shooting"
Coulter: "If it were a white man shooting, we'd know."
Maher: "You think they're repressing that reporting?"
Coulter: "They wouldn't tell us about the transgender woman who shot up the Christian school for what like a year. San Bernadino out here remember the crazy terrorist Muslims? That's when I noticed: They're not telling us who it is. It's not a white male. The longer they go without telling you, it's not a white male"
Maher: "We don't officially know. You know, you have super powers"
When common sense becomes "super powers" in liberal world 🤣
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9:37 PM · Feb 16, 2024
https://twitter.com/EricAbbenante/status/1758697037971759184
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/study-finds-80-americans-exposed-fertility-lowering-chemicals-cheerios-quaker-oats
Study Finds 80% Of Americans Exposed To Fertility-Lowering Chemicals In Cheerios, Quaker Oats
According to a recent study, four in five Americans tested positive for an agricultural chemical found in several wheat and oat products, including brands like Cheerios and Quaker Oats.
The peer-reviewed study, published in the JESEE journal on Feb. 15, looked at urine samples from American citizens to determine their exposure to chlormequat chloride—a plant growth chemical. Exposure to the chemical can result in lower fertility and harm developing fetuses even at doses below acceptable levels set by regulators. Researchers detected chlormequat in 80 percent of urine samples collected between 2017 and 2023, with “a significant increase in concentrations for samples from 2023.”
The chemical was detected in “92 percent of oat-based foods purchased in May 2023, including Quaker Oats and Cheerios,” said the Environmental Working Group (EWG), which conducted the study.
Out of 25 conventional oat products tested, 23 had “detectable levels” of chlormequat. One in eight organic oat products had the chemical, while two in nine wheat products had low concentrations of chlormequat.
Researchers collected 96 urine samples, out of which 77 showed the presence of chlormequat. The numbers suggest that the subjects likely underwent “continuous exposure” to the chemical since chlormequat leaves the body about 24 hours after ingestion.
The frequency of the chemical in samples was observed to rise with time. In 2017, 69 percent of samples had chlormequat, which jumped to 74 percent in 2018-2022 and then to 90 percent in 2023.
The study suggested that the higher chemical concentration in 2023 samples “may reflect the likely recent introduction of chlormequat into the U.S. food supply due to EPA regulatory action changes involving chlormequat.”
Such changes include “establishing limits on chlormequat in food in 2018 and raising those limits for oats in 2020,” it said. “These actions permitted import and sale of agricultural products that had been treated with chlormequat, for example, from Canada.”
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At present, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) only allows the use of chlormequat in the United States for ornamental crops, not for food crops. The agency allowed the chemical to be present in imported oats in 2018—raising the allowable limits in 2020.
Following a 2019 application submitted by chlormequat manufacturer Taminco, the Biden EPA proposed in April last year to allow the use of chlormequat on oats, barley, wheat, and triticale grown in the United States for the first time. EWG said it “opposes the plan.”
The study suggested that if domestic use of chlormequat were approved, “chlormequat levels would likely continue to increase in oats, wheat, and other grain foods, leading to higher levels of exposure for the U.S. general population.”
The research was funded by Skyline Foundation. The authors declared no competing interests in the study.
Threshold Levels
The study pointed out that urine sample donors were exposed to chlormequat at “levels several orders of magnitude below” the recommended safety thresholds set by the EPA and the European Food Safety Authority. However, “toxicological studies on chlormequat suggest reevaluation of these safety thresholds may be warranted,” it said.
Researchers pointed to studies showing that mice and pigs exposed to doses lower than these thresholds have displayed “reduced fertility.” One analysis found that exposure to chlormequat at a dose equivalent to a level used for determining the EPA threshold “altered fetal growth as well as metabolism and body composition in neonatal mice.”
“Additionally, the regulatory thresholds do not consider the adverse effects of mixtures of chemicals that may impact the reproductive system, which have been shown to cause additive or synergistic effects at doses lower than for individual chemical exposures.”
These factors raise “concerns about the potential health effects associated with current exposure levels, especially for individuals on the higher end of exposure in general populations of Europe and the U.S.”
Speaking to The New York Post, Olga Naidenko, EWG’s vice president of science investigations, recommended shoppers “buy organic oat products since these oats are grown without the use of toxic pesticides such as chlormequat and glyphosate.”
‘Alarm Bells’
In an interview with Newsweek, Alexis M. Temkin, lead author of the EWG study, said that the prevalence of chlormequat in people’s food and urine “raises alarm bells.”
He called for further investigation into the matter and said that the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration “should be testing grains for chlormequat as part of annual pesticide monitoring.”
The EPA “needs to fully consider the potential risks to children’s health from chlormequat exposure and reconsider their recent decisions to allow chlormequat to be present in children’s foods.”
EPA announced the proposal to use chlormequat in domestic crop agriculture last April. Since then, several organizations like EWG have opposed the move.
In May 2023, Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) said that it collected over 10,000 signatures calling on the agency to reject the proposal.
“All this chemical is used for is to make the stems of small grains a little bit stronger, so fewer of them bend or break. A slightly bigger harvest isn’t worth the risk to our health,” it said in comments to the EPA.
“Research shows that chlormequat chloride disrupts fetal growth and harms the reproductive system. We shouldn’t allow its use on food crops unless and until it’s proven completely safe—especially since we know we can farm without it. “
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US to Build 5 New Military Bases for Somali Army, Which Faces a Rebellion by an Extremist Group
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2024-02-15/us-to-build-5-new-military-bases-for-somali-army-which-faces-a-rebellion-by-an-extremist-group
The U.S. will build up to five military bases for the Somali army in a project that seeks to bolster the Somalia national army’s capabilities amid ongoing threats from an extremist group
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The U.S. will build up to five military bases for the Somali army in a project that seeks to bolster the Somalian national army's capabilities amid ongoing threats from an extremist group.
Somalia’s defense minister and the U.S. charge d’affaires signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday in Mogadishu, the Somali capital.
The agreement comes at a time when the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, known as ATMIS, is scaling back its presence in Somalia.
The new bases will be associated with the Somali military's Danab Brigade, established in 2017 following an agreement between the U.S. and Somalia to recruit, train, equip and mentor 3,000 men and women from across Somalia to build a strong infantry capability within the Somali army. The brigade has been pivotal as a quick-reaction force in efforts to repel the extremist group al-Shabab.
The U.N. Security Council has authorized the reduction of the peacekeeping force in Somalia, and the Somali government says it is achieving progress in improving security.
But al-Shabab continues to carry out sporadic attacks across Somalia, including in public places. The group's latest attack, an incident inside a military base in Mogadishu, killed four Emirati troops and a Bahraini military officer.
Why is the Gates foundation investing in GM giant Monsanto?(2010)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2010/sep/29/gates-foundation-gm-monsanto
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is sponsoring the Guardian's Global development site is being heavily criticised in Africa and the US for getting into bed not just with notorious GM company Monsanto, but also with agribusiness commodity giant Cargill.
Trouble began when a US financial website published the foundation's annual investment portfolio, which showed it had bought 500,000 Monsanto shares worth around $23m. This was a substantial increase in the last six months and while it is just small change for Bill and Melinda, it has been enough to let loose their fiercest critics.
Seattle-based Agra Watch - a project of the Community Alliance for Global Justice - was outraged. "Monsanto has a history of blatant disregard for the interests and well being of small farmers around the world… [This] casts serious doubt on the foundation's heavy funding of agricultural development in Africa," it thundered.
But it got worse. South Africa-based watchdog the African Centre for Biosafety then found that the foundation was teaming up with Cargill in a $10m project to "develop the soya value chain" in Mozambique and elsewhere. Who knows what this corporate-speak really means, but in all probability it heralds the big time introduction of GM soya in southern Africa.
The two incidents raise a host of questions for the foundation. Few people doubt that GM has a place in Africa, but is Gates being hopelessly naïve by backing two of the world's most aggressive agri-giants? There is, after all, genuine concern at governmental and community level that the United State's model of extensive hi-tech farming is inappropriate for most of Africa and should not be foist on the poorest farmers in the name of "feeding the world".
The fact is that Cargill is a faceless agri-giant that controls most of the world's food commodities and Monsanto has been blundering around poor Asian countries for a decade giving itself and the US a lousy name for corporate bullying. Does Gates know it is in danger of being caught up in their reputations, or does the foundation actually share their corporate vision of farming and intend to work with them more in future?
The foundation has never been upfront about its vision for agriculture in the world's poorest countries, nor the role of controversial technologies like GM. But perhaps it could start the debate here?
In the meantime, it could tell us how many of its senior agricultural staff used to work for Monsanto or Cargill?
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/mcdonald-s-french-fries-carrots-onions-all-foods-come-bill-n1270033
McDonald's french fries, carrots, onions: all of the foods that come from Bill Gates farmland(2021)
They own the soil where the potatoes in McDonald’s french fries grow, the carrots from the world’s largest producer and the onions that Americans sauté every night for dinner. But they’re far better known for their work in tech and in trying to save the climate.
Bill and Melinda Gates, who recently announced they’re getting divorced and are dividing their assets, are deeply invested in American agriculture. The billionaire couple, in less than a decade, have accumulated more than 269,000 acres of farmland across 18 states, more than the entire acreage of New York City. The farmland was purchased through a constellation of companies that all link back to the couple’s investment group, Cascade Investments, based in Kirkland, Washington.
Data gathered by The Land Report and NBC News show that their land holdings range from 70,000 acres in north Louisiana, where their farmland grows soybeans, corn, cotton and rice, to 20,000 acres in Nebraska, where farmers grow soybeans. They bought and later sold an additional 6,000 acres in Georgia, NBC News found. In Washington, the Gateses own more than 14,000 acres of farmland that includes potato fields so massive that they are visible from space and some of which are processed into french fries for McDonald’s. And in Florida, farmers grow carrots on their property. These land holdings are separate from their previous investments in companies that support large-scale farming like Monsanto and the tractor manufacturer John Deere.
The buildings of the 100 Circles Farm are at the center of this satellite image.
But Gates, known for his philanthropic work solving some of the world’s most pressing public health and climate problems, has suggested that he does not treat his American farmland investments as part of his broader plans to save the planet.
“My investment group chose to do this,” Bill Gates said on Reddit in March when asked about his farmland purchases while promoting his latest book, “How to Avoid A Climate Disaster.” “It is not connected to climate.” He did acknowledge that more productive farming techniques can help reduce deforestation in other parts of the world.
Though the Gateses are major owners of American farmland, the couple’s holdings only represent a fraction of the 283 million acres of farmland that is owned and rented out by nonfarmers. But that could soon change. About 40 percent of farmland is owned by seniors 65 or older, according to 2014 estimates by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, meaning more farmland is expected to come on the market soon.
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That could spell an opportunity for young farmers hoping to get their start, but for savvy investors scrambling for more places to put their money, it also represents an opportunity. Financial titans like Prudential and Hancock have divisions specifically for investors looking to make money on farmland portfolios.
The trend worries young farmers who cannot compete with the likes of Bill Gates when buying land, according to Holly Rippon-Butler, a farmer in upstate New York and the land campaigns director at the National Young Farmers Coalition.
“If you’re looking at what this means for farmers on the ground looking to access land, there’s significant competition from nonfarmers, and that really affects young farmers because it means that the price that they’re trying to compete with on the marketplace is driven and determined by people who are not dependent on a farming income,” Rippon-Butler said.
Image: The building housing the offices of Cascade Investment in Kirkland, Wash., on May 22, 2021. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
Adjusted for inflation, average farm real estate values have generally risen since 1993, growing from less than $1,500 an acre in the mid-’90s to over $3,000 an acre in 2020, according to the USDA. The agency further found that over 50 percent of cropland is rented to farmers who don’t own their land.
“The attraction that people have to investing in farmland is that it tends to be countercyclical to the stock market. It’s a hedging strategy,” said Daniel Bigelow, a professor of agricultural economics at Montana State University, who previously served as a USDA research economist. In other words, when the economy is struggling, the value of farmland generally doesn’t depreciate.
Cascade Investments declined to comment on its interest in acquiring so much American farmland, but a spokesperson for the firm, Charles V. Zehren said it is “very supportive of sustainable farming.” He pointed out that in 2020, the acreage that Bill Gates’ firm owns was all enrolled in a sustainability program. That program ensures agriculture on the land is audited to meet standards, like soil health and water management, created by the nonprofit Leading Harvest, which counts one of the subsidiaries of Gates’ investment firm as a partner.
“Leading Harvest requires farmland owners to work to continuously improve soil health, biodiversity, and water, air and crop quality on their farms as well as contribute positively to local communities, comply with regulations, and provide a safe and respectful working environment for employees,” Zehren said.
“Shell of a shell of a shell”
Public records suggest Cascade Investments has bought its farmland through a web of at least 22 limited liability shell companies across the country. These shell companies have made it difficult to find out where and how much farmland the Gateses own even for local farmers, like John S. Quarterman, a farmer and landowner who grows okra, corn, squash and other vegetables in Lowndes County on the southern edge of Georgia.
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https://twitter.com/Fynnderella1/status/1753822318437003409
Dr. Lynn Fynn-derella🐭
@Fynnderella1
The world is so much better since you modified aspergillis in the 70’s for the Eastern block BW research.
#operationpaperclip yet here you are.
10:46 AM · Feb 3, 2024
BW= bioweapons
Jikkyleaks 🐭
@Jikkyleaks
Hi Norman,
You keep avoiding my question…
Who signed off on the CDC's transfer of anthrax and mycoplasma to Saddam Hussein (that sparked a war killing 1 million people) when you were head of R&D there?
Thank you.
https://irp.fas.org/congress/2002_cr/s092002.html
6:05 AM · Feb 16, 2024
https://twitter.com/Jikkyleaks/status/1758462541741822422
https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1758827080098127872
RadioGenoa
@RadioGenoa
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar complains that Irish institutions are too white and promises to put more "black and coloured" people in power. So he will do it not based on qualities or meritocracy but will choose based on skin color. What do you think?
6:13 AM · Feb 17, 2024
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/alaska-secession-calls-grow-as-more-than-a-third-want-state-to-leave-us/ar-BB1iohEF
Alaska Secession Calls Grow as More Than a Third Want State to Leave US
Some 36 percent of Alaska residents would support the state breaking away from the United States and becoming a fully independent nation, according to a new poll.
The result made Alaskans the most likely to support their state seceding from the Union, with the result substantially above the national average of 23 percent. The survey of 35,307 U.S. adults was conducted by YouGov between February 2 and 5. Those questioned were asked whether they would "support your state seceding from the U.S.?"
The integrity of the U.S. has been the subject of intense debate amidst aggressive political partisanship, which saw the 2020 presidential election result contested by the losing candidate for the first time in modern American history.
In February 2023, House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested there could be a"national divorce" between Republican and Democratic states resulting in almost all powers stripped from the federal government and devolved to the state level.
The YouGov survey found that across the U.S., 23 percent of adult Americans would back their state leaving the American Union, versus 51 percent who would be actively opposed and 27 percent unsure. Notably, the result differed substantially by party, with 29 percent of Republicans wanting the state they lived in to become independent against 46 percent opposed. For Democrats, just 21 percent said they would back their state leaving the U.S., with 51 percent actively opposed.
After Alaska, the states with the highest proportion of adults supporting independence were Texas at 31 percent, followed by California at 29 percent, and New York and Oklahoma each at 28 percent. By contrast, just 13 percent of those living in Minnesota wanted the state to secede from the U.S., along with 14 percent each of those living in Ohio, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.
The Alaskan Independence Party (AIP) was founded in the 1970s to campaign for a referendum on the state becoming fully independent and became a recognized political party under state regulations in 1984. It received its strongest electoral performance in the 1994 Alaska gubernatorial election, when it polled 13 percent of the vote coming a clear third behind the Republicans at 40.8 percent and the Democrats at 41.1 percent, though this was very much a high watermark and the party received less than one percent of the vote in the 2002 and 2006 gubernatorial elections.
Along with a referendum, the party advocates the abolition of all property and income taxes, supports "all efforts to curtail or eradicate abortion, euthanasia and infanticide" and opposes "the borrowing of money by government for any purposes other than for capital improvements."
Earlier this month, Newsweek published an exclusive survey of 814 eligible voters in Texas, conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies online between February 1 and 3, which asked participants: "Should Texas be a state within the United States or should Texas be an independent country?"
In response, 23 percent opted for "an independent country," and 67 percent wanted to remain part of the U.S., with the remaining 10 percent unsure.
Secessionist campaigners have also been active in New Hampshire where a Republican legislature introduced a bill to the state House of Representatives calling on the state to become fully independent should U.S. debt reach $40 trillion, up from the current level of $34 trillion.
Speaking to Newsweek, Carla Gericke, acting president of the Foundation for New Hampshire Independence, described secession from the United States as "an idea whose time has come and a reflection of the frustration everyone on the political spectrum is feeling."