2022-02-19

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• Cargo ship fire caused by Electric Car Batteries

• We shouldn’t push a positive mindset on those in poverty

• The Sun Has Erupted Non-Stop All Month, And There Are More Giant Flares Coming

• NYC’s Giant Water Tunnel Begins Final Work After 50 Years of Construction

• SmartWater: The forensic spray helping keep women safe

Horseshit

• FDA warns consumers not to use certain Family Dollar products in 6 states after discovering more than 1,000 dead rodents at plant - CBS News

celebrity gossip

• Jeffrey Epstein Associate Jean-Luc Brunel Found Dead in Prison Cell

  • Longtime Epstein associate/French modeling agent found hanged in prison cell

Obit

• Minnesota Rep. Jim Hagedorn has died at 59 after a battle with cancer

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• "The People's Convoy" Heading To Washington, Organizers Unveil Their Plans | ZeroHedge

• Who Is Behind QAnon? Linguistic Detectives Find Fingerprints

• Galactic levels of projection about fascism, Justin Castreau and BLM edition | Spin, strangeness, and charm

Castro's Canada

• Heavily-Armed Ottawa Police Arrest At Least 70 'Freedom Convoy' Protesters, Will Run "24 Hours A Day" To Clear City | ZeroHedge

• Photos: Ottawa police push to end weeks-long trucker occupation

• Ontario government staffer out of a job after $100 donation to Ottawa blockade, others under scrutiny | CTV News

• Bank Accounts to Be Frozen, Double Standard for Protesting

• Canadian Police Push to Restore Normality to Capital

• Ottawa Police Excuse for Horses Running Over Freedom Convoy Protesters Departs From Reality – RedState

• Ottawa Arrests Top 100 As "Freedom Convoy" Organizers Face Judge For First Time | ZeroHedge

COVID / VaxCult

• Science of Happiness students beat lockdown blues

• Ivermectin doesn't prevent severe disease from Covid-19, new study finds

• Bill Gates: Covid risks have dramatically reduced but another pandemic is coming

• America's doctor, family get COVID-19 despite safeguards

• Clerk shot patron who refused to wear mask then killed self

• Ending all UK Covid restrictions ‘premature and not based on evidence’, says BMA

• Unvaccinated COVID-19 survivors 5 times more likely to get reinfected.

• Bill Gates Credits Natural Infection With Doing "A Better Job" Of Bolstering COVID Immunity | ZeroHedge

• Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and President of the Senate on the Continuation of the National Emergency Concerning the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic | The White House

  the national emergency declared in Proclamation 9994 of March 13, 2020, beginning March 1, 2020, concerning the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, is to continue in effect beyond March 1, 2022.

• Six African countries to begin making mRNA vaccines as part of WHO scheme

• The U.S. States That Are Ending Mask Mandates

• How Long Covid Exhausts the Body

• Was Sweden right about Covid all along?

• Study: Which messages won over Covid-19 vaccine skeptics?

• Vulnerable to Covid, High-Risk Americans Feel Left Behind

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• The Black American Amputation Epidemic

• BLM protest organizer pleads guilty to 20 counts of possession of child pornography | The Post Millennial

• Americans are fleeing to places where political views match their own

• Executive Order 9066 - Wikipedia

  signed and issued during World War II by United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. This order authorized the secretary of war to prescribe certain areas as military zones, clearing the way for the incarceration of nearly all 120,000 Japanese Americans during the war. Two-thirds of them were U.S. citizens, born and raised in the United States.

  • How to remember the Japanese incarceration, 80 years later

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Louisiana teacher admits giving kids cupcakes laced with sperm

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Zuckerberg Has Burned $500B Turning Facebook to Meta

• How news organizations are using timestamp disclaimers to reduce misinformation - Poynter

• This is big: Facebook is actively attempting to suppress reporting about one of its directors allegedly getting caught in an underage sex sting | Not the Bee

TechSuck

• Plaid is an evil nightmare product from Security Hell

  Plaid thus joins the ranks of Uber, AirBnB, and others like them in my reckoning as a “move fast and break laws” company. This platform can only exist if they are either willfully malignant or grossly incompetent. They’ve built something that they know is wrong, and are hoping that they can outrun the regulators. This behavior is not acceptable. This company needs to be regulated into the dirt and made an example of. Shame on you Plaid, and shame on everyone involved in bringing this product to market.

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Federal Reserve Rolls Out Tough Trading Restrictions After Scandal

• America’s Power Grid Is Increasingly Unreliable

• One in five Canadian home purchases is made by an investor

  • (Feb 17) Investors bought a record share of U.S. homes in 2021

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• National Archives confirms Trump had classified material at Mar-a-Lago

• Far-right Oath Keepers leader to stay in jail until Capitol attack trial, judge rules

• Protest, Looting In Minnesota After Sentencing Of Ex-Officer In Duante Wright Case | ZeroHedge

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• F-22s Scrambled To Investigate A Mysterious High-Altitude Balloon Off The Coast Of Hawaii (Updated)

• Unseenlabs reveals ships that vanished from conventional geolocation systems - Naval News

Ukraine

• Metadata reveals that DNR and LNR leaders recorded evacuation announcements two days in advance — Meduza

• Powerful Gas Pipeline Explosion Rocks Eastern Ukraine | ZeroHedge

  (Update Feb 18 4:48pm ET): In the overnight hours local time a massive gas pipeline explosion is being reported, with a fire raging at the site. Early unconfirmed reports suggest the powerful explosion rocked a part of the pipeline in the pro-Russian separatist region, in or near the city of Luhansk.

• Watch Live: President Biden Addresses The Russia/Ukraine Situation | ZeroHedge

• Pro-Russian separatists order mass evacuation of eastern Ukraine

• Biden says he's now convinced Putin has decided to invade Ukraine

  "As of this moment, I am convinced he's made the decision," Biden said during remarks at the White House. The President also said the US believes Russian forces intend to attack Ukraine "in the coming week" or sooner, and that an attack will target the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

• Nearly half of Russian forces in attack position, US defense official says

• US Warns of Imminent Russian Invasion of Ukraine with Tanks, Jets, Cyberattacks

• Last piece of Putin’s puzzle slots into place: preparing Russians for war

• Ask HN: What Will War Between Russia and Ukraine Mean for the World?

• Ask HN: What are the West's offesive cyber attack capabilities toward Russia?

• Waiting for the Russians in Ukraine

• Russia Plans Post-Invasion Arrest and Assassination Campaign in Ukraine, US says Archive link

• Russia – About 3,400 people were evacuated from Donbass

• Putin To Personally Oversee Massive Nuclear Drill On Saturday With Tensions On Knife-Edge  | ZeroHedge

• Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine call to mobilize as Putin oversees nuclear drill

• Ukrainian Separatist Leaders Declare 'Full Military Mobilization'  | ZeroHedge

• Moscow Claims Two Artillery Shells Hit Russian Territory; Ukraine Counters That Two Soldiers Killed In Shelling | ZeroHedge

World

• Foreign Office IT issues hampering UK’s response to Ukraine crisis, say insiders

• Australia says China warship fired laser at its patrol plane

Health / Medicine

• FDA says parents should avoid certain powdered baby formula

  The FDA is advising that people should avoid using Similac, Alimentum or EleCare powdered infant formulas if the first two digits of the code are 22 through 37; the code on the container contains K8, SH or Z2; the expiration date is April 1, 2022, or later.

• Does the sex of your surgeon matter? A new study says yes