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Singapore president predicts future pandemic after Gates Foundation announcement

by Angeline Tan Wed May 14, 2025

President Tharman warned of a future pandemic after the Gates Foundation announced on May 5 plans to open a Singapore office with the support of the Economic Development Board.

Singapore’s President Tharman Shanmugaratnam, a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF), believes that the next pandemic is a foregone conclusion. He made his remarks the day after it was announced the Gates Foundation will be setting up an office in the Asian city-state.

During a high-level networking dinner hosted by Singapore’s Temasek Foundation on May 6, Tharman claimed that scientists believe that the next major pandemic is a matter of “when,” and not “if.” Moreover, the next pandemic could happen either next year or in ten years’ time.

The dinner was held during the Philanthropy Asia Summit 2025, which took place in Singapore from May 5 to 7. According to the summit’s website, “the 2025 Summit theme, ‘Priming Asia for Good,’ planned to discuss “solutions, innovations, and actions in Asia to address global challenges across the interconnected areas of climate, education, and health.”

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), was among the guests who spoke at the Summit.

President Tharman claimed at the dinner that the world stands on the brink of forgetting the lessons learned during the outbreak of 2019, with complacency, wishful thinking and insularity being the greatest challenges,

The world has to deal creativiely with that challenge and “avoid further polarization,” he added in remarks cited by The Straits Times (ST).

“We have to do so through arrangements that appeal to nations’ sense of self-preservation, and which recognize the practical reality that we can prevent and prepare for the next pandemic only through a major step-up in internationally coordinated investments and actions,” he continued.

The same ST article reported that he also said that “the world has to first reclaim lost ground and rebuild local healthcare systems, as the Covid-19 pandemic had set them back by more than just the first few years of that event. It has to continue to invest at much higher levels in the global health ecosystem, especially in pandemic prevention and preparedness, as well as strengthen international and regional cooperation.”

Tharman’s predictions of a future pandemic came the day after a May 5 announcement that the Bill Gates Foundation is setting up an office in Singapore with the backing of Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB).

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/singapore-president-predicts-future-pandemic-after-gates-foundation-announcement/

Canada $76

Canada's largest cricket farm under receivership, despite millions in subsidies

Aspire Food Group, the world's largest cricket-processing facility, has gone into receivership, halting its insect-based food production.

Alex Dhaliwal May 13, 2025

A London-based insect protein plant, once a flagship for 'climate-friendly' food, has entered court-supervised restructuring. Aspire Food Group, the world's largest cricket-processing facility, has gone into receivership, halting its insect-based food production.

Billed as the world's largest cricket processing facility, Aspire's 150,000 square-foot facility sold crickets for human consumption beginning in October 2022. It was only sold as a pet food additive until that point.

The company envisioned crickets as a powder for drinks, in baked goods and protein bars. However, it fell flat despite millions invested by taxpayers, reported the Western Standard.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation reports that the federal government signed eight deals with five companies, in addition to $8.5 million given to Aspire.

According to a Research and Markets report, the edible insect market was expected to reach $3.5 billion by 2029 and grow 28.6% annually between 2022 to 2029.

However, Canada's edible insect industry struggles with public acceptance despite investment. Aspire laid off 100 of 150 employees last November after claims of high cricket demand.

Former CEO Mohammed Ashour anticipated demand reaching 13 million kilograms annually by early 2024, but lower-than-expected growth led to production scaling back and uncertainty about a second facility.

David Rosenberg, the company's current CEO, warned that the company "needs to pull back production" to bolster cricket yields. Aspire intended to rehire those workers in July.

Proponents of alternative proteins like crickets include the World Economic Forum (WEF), which says they offset emissions compared to other meat products.

According to the Forum, cricket food production uses about one-eighth of the water and generates one-third of the carbon emissions of a cattle farm.

Ashour, who refuted claims of a global conspiracy to compel insect consumption, says crickets are high in protein, low in fat and not costly.

Founded in 2013 by five McGill students, the company won the $1 million Hult Prize from the Clinton Global Initiative for student entrepreneurship focused on solving world hunger.

Rosenberg later acknowledged that set-up costs for the cricket sector are often expensive.

On the company's financial standing, he said: "We have signed a term sheet and are working to close our financing at the end of the month. Demand still remains strong, but we have to scale up and produce consistently."

Ashour's March 2023 claim of securing "significant contractual commitments" for most production costs contradicts subsequent comments.

Government grants, including the $8.5 million contribution from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in June 2022, provided about 25% of the plant's funding.

https://www.rebelnews.com/canada_s_largest_cricket_farm_under_receivership_despite_millions_in_subsidies

>>23035005

Maybe this has something to do with it?

The Entire B-1 Lancer Fleet From Ellsworth AFB Just Mobilized

By Peter Suciu February 27, 2025

U.S. Strategic Command noted that redeploying the entire fleet of Lancer aircraft from one base to another is no small feat.

The United States Strategic Command announced that the entire fleet of Rockwell B-1B Lancer strategic bombers from Ellsworth Air Force Base (AFB), South Dakota, has been mobilized—with most of the aircraft now relocated to Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota, while an undisclosed number were sent to Anderson AFB, Guam, for a Bomber Task Force (BTF) deployment.

Residents near Ellsworth won’t be hearing the Lancers overhead, and it is the first time in three decades that the flightline at the base was empty of the Cold War strategic bombers. However, those near the base will likely hear the sound of construction—as Ellsworth prepares to host the incoming Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider.

“The temporary relocation is necessary to complete a runway construction project tied to the future bed down of the B-21 Raider and as the last B-1 departed January 25, 2025,” the base announced.

The B-1B aircraft, aircrews, and maintainers have now deployed to Grand Forks AFB, which will be their home for most of 2025. It will be a welcome home of sorts as the Cold War-era Lancers were previously assigned to the North Dakota base until 1994. Hosting 17 aircraft—along with as many as 1,000 personnel—took careful planning, to ensure it would have the housing, health care, and amenities for the extended deployment.

A Major Endeavor

U.S. Strategic Command noted that redeploying the entire fleet of aircraft from one base to another is no small feat, and it praised the team of aircraft maintainers that were tasked with readying the Lancers for the deployment.

“The mighty B-1 has been around for over 40 years and the foundational mission remains the same: win today, dominate tomorrow,” explained U.S. Air Force Maj. Andrew Feigen, 37th Bomber Generation Squadron commander. “From production to the technicians to the lowest level, elevating the lethality of the B-1 maintainer in partnership with Grand Forks will cause pause in our enemies.”

The Unsung Heroes That Get the Mission Done

The aircraft maintainers certainly aren’t noted for having an easy time of it. They must deal with all sorts of weather, including the harsh winters—with this one being no exception, apart from the colder-than-average temperatures and heavy snowfall. It is the maintainers that prepare the Lancers for their sorties and that the aircraft are combat-ready. That includes a laundry list of tasks that includes ensuring every maintenance action is accounted for, and the aircraft receives a detailed inspection.

“It’s a very high-paced mission from where I stand. You’re always going from one job to the next. The game plan is always changing, quite literally by the minute on the flight line,” added U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Lane Benefield, 37th Bomber Generation Squadron B-1 crew chief. “This gave [our team] the opportunity to step up into different roles, showing great flexibility from enduring the cold and being away from family and loved ones.”

Guam Deployment

While nearly a dozen and a half B-1Bs headed to Grand Forks, a few Lancers were also sent to Andersen AFB in Guam. At least one of those aircraft deployed to the Indo-Pacific took part in joint air force drills with South Korean F-35 Lightning II and F-15 Eagle jets, along with U.S. F-16 Fighting Falcons. This marked the first exercises over the Korean Peninsula since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term.

The joint training mission came in response to North Korean nuclear and missile threats, the South Korean Ministry of Defense announced, per a report from Military Times/The Associated Press.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/the-entire-b-1-lancer-fleet-from-ellsworth-afb-just-mobilized

>>23035019

Zee bugs would have to be in "special" brownies and similar baked goods like those available in Colorado

Zen JA, we eat zee bugs and be happy

>>23035024

Ah yes, the Picts

Fucked up the Romans so bad Emperer Hadrian went "that's it, Empire ends there, build a wall, provide garrisons and keep those blue painted fucknuts out of the Empire!"

>>23035047

>what her plans were for taking the frog embryos through customs,

Wait, Cossack Pepe babies?

>>23035056

Pict

people

Pict, (possibly from Latin picti, “painted”), one of an ancient people who lived in what is now eastern and northeastern Scotland, from Caithness to Fife. Their name may refer to their custom of body painting or possibly tattooing.

The origin of the Picts is uncertain; some evidence suggests that they were descendants of pre-Celtic aborigines, but some linguistic evidence suggests they spoke a Celtic language. The Picts were first noticed in ad 297, when a Roman writer spoke of the “Picts and Irish [Scots] attacking” Hadrian’s Wall. Their warfare with the Romans during the occupation was almost continual. By the 7th century there was a united “Pict-land,” which already had been penetrated by Christianity. In 843, Kenneth I MacAlpin, king of the Scots (centred in Argyll and Bute), became also king of the Picts, uniting their two lands in a new kingdom of Alba, which evolved into Scotland.

The Pictish kingdom is notable for the stylized but vigorous beauty of its carved memorial stones and crosses. The round stone towers known as brochs, or “Pictish towers,” and the underground stone houses called weems, or “Picts’ houses,” however, both predate this kingdom.

Pictish language

Pictish language, language spoken by the Picts in northern Scotland and replaced by Gaelic after the union in the 9th century of the Pictish kingdom with the rest of Scotland. Knowledge concerning the Pictish language is derived from place-names, the names in medieval works such as the Pictish Chronicle and the writings of Bede, inscriptions from the Pictish areas of Britain, statements about the language by medieval writers who wrote while the language was still in use, and names from northern Scotland found in classical works.

Pictish was apparently a Celtic language (more closely related to Gaulish and Brythonic than to Goidelic), but some scholars think that it was not Celtic, nor even Indo-European.

More:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pict

>>23035107

>She didn't say videos with elites raping children

But the elites in those videos know the truth and they may be getting rather concerned

>>23035093

Sinatra will have them taking all night

Chef can help

>>23035115

Well shit

Blue light hunh?

And I thought all that time I was fine avoiding the green jello

>>23035123

Nope

>>23035131

No UV lights in a CIC, regular flourescent tubes with blue plastic covers over them

>>23035135

Yes

>>23035142

Try harder

Kek

Seems the Smurfs experimented with eugenics and steroids, became tall and rabid then found Romans made fun toys

>>23035159

>Originally approx 70% female

Hang on!

Where'd they go?

When do I get scheduled to be "milked like a cum cow" for my unvaxxed sperm?

>>23035196

Don't recall having to sign in at anytime

>>23035248

25 Abrams rolling through DC

Maybe a nice mix of AP, HE, and good old-fashioned beehive rounds onboard?

>>23035259

Do they even have WP for those 120mm?

>>23035274

We were all young once

>>23035311

Yeah, they may have invented the mullet

>>23035358

Juice Newton?

>>23035539

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Recipients of Reparations will agree in writing that any Furniture, Vehicles, Household Goods or other Personal Property will not be shipped at the expense of the United States. Recipients of Reparations wishing to Move such properties must arrange shipment with a Third-Party at Personal Expense.

Recipients of Reparations payments will accept that First Payments will be in check form and no larger than $50,000 USD in amount. Second and any other Payments due may be picked up at a United States Embassy or Consulate and signed for in person with appropriate National Identification once every two years on the Anniversary that First Payment was issued. Cash Payments will not be made.

Descendants of Union Forces $10,000 for each year of Enlisted Service, $15,000 for Officer. Wounded receive an additional $20,000 and Died while in Service Additional $50,000. Payments for WIA and KIA are tax exempt