2021-09-14
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Sadly, there is a more sinister potential cause. An electromagnetic field is emitted by any electrical device and this causes electromagnetic interference (EMI), as we are all aware from restrictions imposed on cell phone use in hospitals2 and broader restrictions on aircraft. Moreover, cell phone use has been linked to concerns regarding disordered brain function and even structural pathology. When standing close to an open fridge, a child will be engulfed by the fridge's magnetic field and remains within in it for the entire duration of the “blindness” they experience. Modern fridges are larger and more powerful than older models, and some even incorporate communication technology increasing the potential for EMI,3 and thus, particularly when associated with low-amplitude vibration, could well exert an effect on sympathetic tone, signal processing or blood flow within the brain.4
Similarly, the male:female predominance would result from EMI readily compromising the simplistic, task-oriented thought processes of the male, but exerting little or no effect on the sophisticated and emotionally savvy workings of the female mind. Females who do show symptoms may be those exposed to higher levels of testosterone in utero; certainly, this group has a greater tendency to behave more like males during some thought sequencing (e.g., when thinking about how to direct someone from point A to point B5).
Worthy
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Catching Errors in Studies That Deny COVID19 May Have Started in a Wuhan Lab
SEGRETO: At one point, I proposed that RaTG13 could have been used as a backbone to make SARS-CoV-2. I thought it was possible because no other sequences of viruses were available. And an anonymous person on a blog proposed that it could also be a virus named 4991. And I looked at this 4991 virus and found it has 100% identical to RaTG13. I got so excited that it could be the same virus, and I wrote to Nature in March 2020. They wrote me that they informed the editors but never answered me if they could be the same virus. And then many months later, they had Shi Zhengli write the correction.
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The Masking of the Servant Class: Ugly Covid Images from the Met Gala Now Common
Even with all of this deceit and manipulation, there is something uniquely disturbing — creepy even — about becoming accustomed to seeing political and cultural elites wallowing in luxury without masks, while those paid small wages to serve them in various ways are forced to keep cloth over their faces. It is a powerful symbol of the growing rot at the core of America's cultural and social balkanization: a maskless elite attended to by a permanently faceless servant class. The country's workers have long been faceless in a figurative sense, and now, thanks to extremely selective application of decisively unscientific COVID restrictions, that condition has become literal.
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BMA adopts neutral position on physician-assisted dying
On 14 September 2021 our policy-making body (the representative body) voted in favour of a motion changing the BMA’s policy from opposition to a change in the law on assisted dying, to a position of neutrality.
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Near Misses at High-Security Lab Illustrate Risk of Accidents with Coronaviruses
Horseshit
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Pre-crime! Australian police to trial AI tool designed to predict and prevent domestic violence
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Things Fall Apart - The Atavist Magazine
By then it was one of the most famous contemporary buildings in Nigeria. When I set foot inside, children were sprawled across the deck playing with a balloon. They were relaxed and enjoying the view of the lagoon, but they weren’t studying. Upstairs, in the classrooms, beams were splitting. The floors were covered in dust. Desks were shoved into a corner. I soon learned that when the school had opened the previous March, toilets and blackboards hadn’t been installed. Since then not a single class had been held.
celebrity gossip
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Steve Wozniak announces private space venture 'unlike the others'
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Gen. Milley took top-secret action to protect nuclear weapons from Trump
Milley took extraordinary action, and called a secret meeting in his Pentagon office on January 8 to review the process for military action, including launching nuclear weapons. Speaking to senior military officials in charge of the National Military Command Center, the Pentagon's war room, Milley instructed them not to take orders from anyone unless he was involved.
"No matter what you are told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I'm part of that procedure," Milley told the officers, according to the book. He then went around the room, looked each officer in the eye, and asked them to verbally confirm they understood.
"Got it?" Milley asked, according to the book.
Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination
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Top NC Doctor Asks to Make Covid Hospitalization Numbers “More Scary”
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Fully vaccinated nurse fears losing his job over getting the wrong vaccine
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Why Did the Staff at the Met Wear Masks, While the Celebrities Went Without? | National Review
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Science Denied: The Biden Vaccine Mandate ⋆ Brownstone Institute
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Doctors, Ethicists Blast Colleagues Who Threaten To Withhold Treatment From Unvaxxed
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After Floyd's killing, Minneapolis police retreated, data shows
Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship
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Facebook denies having '2 systems of justice' for users after WSJ report
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Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show
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What would government censorship of speech look like? - by Branko - Machine Learning Everything
I imagine the government flagging social media posts for removal would be a text book definition of restriction of free speech just ten years ago, but now it’s not even discussed. Has the Overton window on privacy and freedom of speech shifted that much in the last decade?
TechSuck
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The Real Reason Amazon's Making Its Own TVs | The Motley Fool
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Wikimedia: Regarding a series of serious office actions
We have banned seven users and desysopped a further 12 as a result of long and deep investigations into activities around some members of the unrecognized group Wikimedians of Mainland China.[3] We have also reached out to a number of other editors with explanations around canvassing guidelines and doxing policies and requests to modify their behaviors.
Economicon
Poilitcks
Crime / Police
Security / Militaria
World
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Ownership of Chemicals that Exploded at Beirut Port Traces Back to Ukraine - OCCRP
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China Makes Sure Everyone Writes Taiwan Name Just So–Even a Colorado High School
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Two UK energy suppliers collapse amid record surge in European energy prices
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Australian Govt to revoke citizenship based on “confidential information”
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Israel preparing for potential second round of coronavirus booster shots
Health / Medicine / COVID
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Breakthrough Infections in Vaccinated People Less Likely to Cause ‘Long Covid’
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As The Atlantic put it in their own words: "The study suggests that roughly half of all the hospitalized patients showing up on COVID-data dashboards in 2021 may have been admitted for another reason entirely, or had only a mild presentation of disease."
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I Got A ‘Mild’ Breakthrough Case. Here’s What I Wish I’d Known.