Reddit and BlueSky have both gone down
https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1859338556067676175
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Reddit and BlueSky have both gone down
https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1859338556067676175
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https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/jeff-bezos-bill-gates-funding-methane-vaccine-cattle/
âA Little Dystopianâ: Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates Bankrolling Methane Vaccine for Cattle
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is investing $9.4 million to develop a vaccine designed to reduce the number of methane-producing microbes in a cowâs stomach, Agriland reported.
The funding comes from his Bezos Earth Fund, a philanthropy he established with $10 billion in 2020. The fund intends to distribute all of its money by 2030, by funding projects to âfight climate change and protect nature.â
Researchers at the United Kingdomâs Pirbright Institute and Royal Veterinary College, and New Zealandâs AgResearch are among the groups receiving funding to research how a vaccine could reduce the methane emitted by cows as they digest and expel food through manure, flatulence and burping.
âVaccines have proven to be an incredibly cost-effective way to deliver global health solutions,â said Bezos Earth Fund President and CEOAndrew Steer in a press release. âIf we can apply this approach to vaccinate cattle and reduce emissions, the scalability and impact could be phenomenal.â
Although scientists have sporadically researched methane vaccines for over four decades, no vaccine yet exists. The projectâs first goal is to show that such a vaccine is possible.
âThis grant is a moonshot for proof-of-concept â risky bets like this are essential to tackling the climate crisis,â Steer said, according to Agriland.
The researchers will study how methanogens, or methane-producing microbes, colonize the digestive tract of calves and how their immune system responds to those methanogens.
Researchers will then determine which antibodies would effectively target the methanogens, as the first step in developing the criteria for their methane vaccine.
Professor John Hammond, Immunogenetics Group leader at the Pirbright Institute, said that before they could develop a methane vaccine, they had to first define âwhat a successful vaccine needs to achieve. By understanding the precise antibody responses required, we can provide a clear path forward for vaccine development.â
âThis approach reduces the trial-and-error aspect and focuses on targeted, high-resolution immunology,â Hammond added. Researchers can use that knowledge to trigger an immune response in cattle that will inhibit methane production, he said.
Crop scientist and regenerative farmer Howard Vlieger told The Defender such a vaccine could be damaging to cows because it is being designed to target the organisms living in cowsâ digestive system â organisms the animals need to digest fiber.
Vlieger cited research on glyphosate showing that when necessary microorganisms in a cowâs rumen are eliminated, even in small amounts, it seriously affects the animalâs health.
However, Hammond said dramatic interventions are necessary to cut global methane emissions.
âVaccination is a widely accepted farming practice that is auditable and can be used in combination with other strategies, such as chemical inhibition, selection for low-methane genetics or early-life interventions to permanently alter microbiome composition in livestock,â he said, according to Agriland.
But Vlieger said that regenerative farmers take a different approach, which is to be attentive to cattle nutrition and to keep their cattle in balance with the environment.
Bill Gates also funding methane vaccine
Shortly after the Bezos Earth Fund announced in August that it was funding the methane vaccine, ag-biotech startup ArkeaBio announced it also had raised $38.5 million to develop a methane vaccine.
Investors include the Bill Gates-backed Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Rabo Ventures, the Grantham Foundation and others. The Series A funding ArkeaBio announced was from its second round of funding.
Breakthrough Energy had fully funded its previous seed funding round with $12 million, Axios reported.
Gates founded Breakthrough Energy in 2015 to fund start-ups focused on innovating to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Bezos and other well-known billionaires, including Richard Branson and Jack Ma, are also investors.
That means Bezos is funding the methane vaccine through his for-profit investment group and his philanthropic organization.
So is Gates. The Pirbright Institute, which receives Bezos grant funding for the methane vaccine, will use technologies developed in its Pirbright Livestock Antibody Hub, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Both the Bezos Earth Fund and the ArkeaBio initiatives were launched following a meeting in Dubai in 2023, during which the Gates Foundation brought together approximately 40 interested parties to discuss expanding a global effort to develop a methane-reducing vaccine, Beef Central reported.
The meeting included the few researchers working on methane vaccines and potential investors, vaccine producers and regulators who will need to sign off on a vaccine once it is developed. Researchers predict that will happen within five years.
Paul Wood of the Global Methane Hub organized the meeting. Promotional materials and media reports about the vaccine cite the hubâs claim that reducing methane emissions by 45% by 2030 could cool the earth by 0.3 degrees Celsius as justification for why the vaccine is needed.
The Global Methane Hub is also funded by the Gates Foundation and the Bezos Earth Fund. Google, which produces tens of millions of metric tons of carbon per year, also is a funder.
Gates said it is imperative to address the issue of cows when it comes to global emissions.
Bill Gates: âCows are about 5% of global emissions, which is pretty unbelievable. Wild. And if your goal is to get to zero, you donât get to skip the cows or the steel or the cement or any of those big areas. So thereâs a whole class of solutions of making meat without cows.â⌠pic.twitter.com/TUx9FIyOtM
â Camus (@newstart_2024) November 17, 2024
As Microsoft founder Gates, Amazon and Google pour money into changing the biology of cows to reduce methane, their own carbon footprints are soaring due to the increased energy needed to power their artificial intelligence.
Wood said the Global Methane Hub is also pushing for countries to sign the Global Methane Pledge, which aims to reduce methane from fossil fuels and livestock by 30% between 2020 and 2030.
He said the methane pledge stimulated investments of up to $200 million into the Global Methane Hub research program.
âA little dystopianâ
âThe whole thing feels a little dystopian,â according to Axios, âbut agribusiness sailed over the dystopian hurdle long ago.â
ArkeaBio CEO Colin South said other strategies â including breeding, feed additives and gene editing microbiomes in the rumen â all could address the methane issue. But a vaccine would be a âholy grail in methane mitigation,â because it could scale easily.
Although their focus is cattle, he said, he thought the vaccine could also be used for other species.
The company says it doesnât yet have a viable product but aims to have something soon that will reduce methane by 15-20% for three to six months and be administered to cattle twice a year.
South said the idea for the vaccine has been around for a long time, âbut there has never been the confluence of money, markets, and technology to make it happen until pretty recently.â
Will Harris: âCattle are like carbon converting machinesâ
Regenerative cattle farmer Will Harris said the whole project is unnecessary because cattle are actually good for greenhouse gas emissions.
When properly grazed on well-managed rangeland, rather than in confinement, âcattle are like carbon converting machines,â a reality that Harris has demonstrated on his Georgia farm.
Excess greenhouse gases are a problem, he said, but technological fixes like this one are not the right solution. He said such interventions generate unanticipated problems that require more technological fixes â a never-ending cycle he said began with the post-WWII shift to industrial agriculture.
âSince then it has become a real game,â Harris said. âAnd big tech companies solve problems that create another problem requiring another solution. Itâs never-ending and a lot of money is being made on it, and itâs not being made by the farmer and itâs not being made by the consumer.â
Harris said he believes people have broken the carbon cycle, but theyâve also broken the water cycle, the mineral cycle and the microbial cycle.
âThere is more discussion of the carbon cycle,â he said, âbecause it is easily monetized â there is a lot of money to be made in technological climate fixes. There are also a lot of people out to vilify cattle,â he said, âand it is unjust.â
Trump Launches Unprecedented âHostile Takeoverâ Against Biden To Avert World War III
A forewarning new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared about President Joe Biden authorizing Ukraine to strike Russia with American long-range missiles yesterday: âKiev couldnât have struck Russia with ATACMS missiles without Washingtonâs participationâ, says this declaration followed President Putin most factually revealing about ATACMS long-range missiles in September: âFlight assignments for these missile systems can, in fact, only be entered by military personnel from NATO countriesâŚUkrainian servicemen cannot do thisâŚAnd therefore, it is not a question of allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons or notâŚIt is a question of making a decision whether NATO countries directly participate in the military conflict or notâ.
Also in September, this report notes, President Putin warned the NATO alliance about authorizing long-range missile strikes into Russia: âThis will mean that NATO countries â the United States and European countries â are at war with Russiaââwith a state of war now existing because President Biden didnât heed the warning, President Putin signed a decree yesterday authorizing nuclear strikes against all NATO countriesâabout which Director Sergey Naryshkin of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) proclaimed: âThey realize that the revisions Putin outlined have largely undermined the attempts by the United States and NATO to achieve a strategic defeat of our nationâŚFurthermore, the expanded criteria for using nuclear weapons essentially rule out the possibility of defeating the Russian Armed Forces on the battlefieldâ, then he warned: âAttempts by some NATO members to participate in the facilitation of long-range strikes with Western weapons deep inside Russian territory will not be left unpunishedâ.
With a state of war now existing between the Russian Federation and NATO, this report continues, the United States Embassy in Ukraine issued the alert today: âThe U.S. Embassy in Kyiv has received specific information of a potential significant air attack on November 20âŚOut of an abundance of caution, the Embassy will be closed, and Embassy employees are being instructed to shelter in placeâŚThe U.S. Embassy recommends U.S. citizens be prepared to immediately shelter in the event an air alert is announcedââan alert joined by Germany activating its 1,000-page âOperation Deutschlandâ strategy plan for World War IIIâand United States Congressman Thomas Massie warningly declared: âBy authorizing long range missiles to strike inside Russia, Biden is committing an unconstitutional Act of War that endangers the lives of all US citizensâŚThis is an impeachable offense, but the reality is heâs an emasculated puppet of a deep stateâ.
In what the Kremlin assesses is a bid to avert World War III, this report concludes, President Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented transfer of power against the Biden Regime by refusing to cooperate with them in any way, to include his not allowing the FBI the vet any of his Cabinet picks, his refusal to consult with the State Department about the calls he makes to foreign leaders, he refuses to collaborate with the General Services Administration, which is tasked with the complex work of handing over control of hundreds of agencies, his transition teams have yet to set foot inside a single federal office, and his top ally President Mike Davis of the Article III Project explained what is actually occurring: âThe American people rendered their verdict by putting him back in the White HouseâŚHe should not trust the politicized and weaponized intelligence and law enforcement agencies that hobbled his presidency the first timeâŚItâs a hostile takeover on behalf of the American peopleâ.
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Super creepy Moderna commercial, welcome to the MRNAge
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On October 23, Russia destroyed America's Intelsat 33e with one of their hunter killer satellites. This was done to stifle America attacking Iran. Russia has a LOT of hunter killer satellites in orbit. And they take time to reach their targets at about 150 MPH. Space is a big place . . . . . and America needs satellites to wage war. What's going to happen if suddenly all the military satellites are gone?
Poking the bear is not the same thing as poking Saddam. America's military can be totally neutered without taking a single life - just kill the satellites and cut internet cables. How's that going to work for the Millenial crew once "Steam" is down? No steam = no game.
Russia is in a lot better position than anyone is giving credit for.
America posted a picture of Intelsat 33e exploding by itself. RUSSIA POSTED A PICTURE OF A HUNTER KILLER SATELLITE DESTROYING INTELSAT 33e.
Why would Russia do that?
EU parlaiment applauds missile strikes
Safe bet: If war comes to their doorstep, they will flee like roaches and let the peons get nuked.
Highly credible: Alex Soros has ordered World War 3 to be started before Trump takes office.
This sounds like a "too much to be true" headline, but after examining it, I don't think it is.
FOR REAL FOLKS, from The People's voice.tv
Alex Soros Urges Biden To Ignite WW3 Before Trump Has Chance to Create Peace
Alex Soros - who just wasted $1 billion backing the biggest Democrat loser in recent history - has urged Joe Biden to start World War 3 before President-elect Donald Trump has a chance to create world peace.
"According to Soros, it is "great news" that Biden has authorized Ukrainian forces to use American-made long range weapons to bomb targets deep inside Russian territory. Soros is also urging the lame duck president to authorize US and NATO troops to join the war and invade Russian sovereign territory".
Elon Musk wants to meet Alex Soros
>https://fortune.com/2024/11/20/elon-musk-alex-george-soros-meeting/