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Unsettling: New York using drones to warn people about weather events


Associated Press
Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:13 UTC
drone
Severe thunderstorms with heavy rain caused widespread flooding across New York City and parts of the Tri-State area on Tuesday, according to WABC-TV.
Gone is the bullhorn. Instead, New York City emergency management officials have turned high-tech, using drones to warn residents about potential threatening weather.

With a buzzing sound in the background, a drone equipped with a loudspeaker flies over homes warning people who live in basement or ground-floor apartments about impending heavy rains.

"Be prepared to leave your location," said the voice from the sky in footage released Tuesday by the city's emergency management agency. "If flooding occurs, do not hesitate."

Comment: As noted above, the US already has an array of telecommunications at its disposal to warn people, so this seems a little unnecessary, and even wasteful: US is latest Western country to test new nationwide emergency alert system to phones, TVs, and radios

One can perhaps be forgiven for also finding this development rather suspect, but, with New York being one of the epicentres of the weaponised mass migration, it's not exactly a city that has its inhabitants' best interests at heart.

Notably, one of the US' closest allies, Israel, has found all sorts of ways to utilise drones:

See also: NFL deploys facial recognition tech at ALL 32 stadiums

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'Alarming': Africa CDC may declare Monkey pox public health emergency amidst surge of 27,000 cases in DRC


Reuters
Thu, 08 Aug 2024 11:43 UTC
Monkey pox
© Arlette Bashizi/REUTERSFILE: A man who has been receiving treatment against Mpox at the Goma general hospital following a surge in cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Africa's public health agency is set to declare an mpox emergency as early as next week, saying the viral infection's rate of spread is alarming, as a new variant moves across Democratic Republic of Congo's borders.

Mpox is transmitted through close contact and causes flu-like symptoms and pus-filled lesions. Most cases are mild but it can kill.

The new variant, known as Clade Ib and circulating mostly in Congo, appears to spread more easily through routine close contact, as seems to be the case among children.

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Director General, Jean Kaseya, said on Thursday that reported cases in Africa had risen by 79% from 2022-2023 and by 160% from 2023-24.

Comment: One valid question to ask is whether this outbreak is entirely natural, or whether those entities known for investing hundreds of millions of dollars in biowarfare research have, as was the case with Covid, had a hand in its development, and perhaps even its spread?

Just last month Yemen sounded the alarm that it had thwarted groups engaging in biowarfare: Yemen dismantles large US, Israeli espionage network operating within its gov't, 'spread diseases' to attack health system

Another aspect to at least bear in mind is the possible similarities that Mpox shares with other, legendary outbreaks: New Light on the Black Death: The Viral and Cosmic Connection

One point seems clear enough, the establishment groups that used Covid and the lockdowns to further their nefarious agendas are evidently working towards another, much more disruptive outbreak: Big Pharma tested 'secret bioweapon targeting Slavic DNA in Mariupol, Ukraine', video tour shows biowarfare laboratory

More information on the Mpox situation from Al Jazeera:
WHO calls emergency meeting to discuss jump in mpox cases from DRC

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called an emergency meeting to discuss a jump in mpox cases spreading from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

"In light of the spread of mpox outside DRC, and the potential for further international spread within and outside Africa, I have decided to convene an Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations to advise me on whether the outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern," the WHO chief said in a social media post.

The committee will advise the WHO on the question of whether the outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) - the highest level of alarm that the WHO can sound.

The WHO said the meeting would occur "as soon as possible", but has yet to offer specific dates.

Mpox is largely spread through sexual contact and is especially prevalent among men who have sex with other men.


However, in the Reuters article it was noted that this new strain seems to be spreading with greater ease with normal close contact resulting in infection.


The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said last week that mpox has been detected in 10 African nations this year, including the DRC, where more than 96 percent of all cases are located.

The agency added that cases are up 160 percent this year, with deaths increasing by 19 percent. The disease also appears especially prevalent among the young, with 70 percent of cases and 85 percent of deaths in the DRC occurring among children under the age of 15.

The WHO declared mpox, also known as monkeypox, a global emergency in 2022 after it spread to more than 70 countries.

"We do not want the world to sit and watch and wait," said Maria Van Kerkhove, who leads WHO's outbreak department. "The time [to act] is now."
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NFL deploys facial recognition tech at ALL 32 stadiums

Ben Bartee
Armageddon Prose
Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:00 UTC
NFL to roll out facial recognition software
"And I'm proud to be an American
Where at least I know I'm free"
- Lee Greenwood, God Bless The USA
America, fuck yeah!

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?

[All-American guitar chords]

USA! USA! USA!

Via The Record (emphasis added):
"The National Football League is the latest organization to turn to facial authentication to bolster event security, according to an announcement this week.

All 32 NFL stadiums will start using the technology this season, after the league signed a contract with a company that uses facial scans to verify the identity of people entering event venues and other secure spaces.

The facial authentication platform, which counts the Cleveland Browns' owners as investors*, will be used to 'streamline and secure' entry for thousands of credentialed media, officials, staff and guests so they can easily access restricted areas such as press boxes and locker rooms, Jeff Boehm, the chief operating officer of Wicket, said in a LinkedIn post Monday."
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Target

Expert who called fall of Lehman Brothers in 2008 collapse makes same prediction for California

Jared Harris
The Western Journal
Wed, 07 Aug 2024 12:39 UTC
california on map
It's time to cash out of California while the times are still good.

At least, that's what you should be doing if the prediction made by financial expert Robert Kiyosaki sounds likely.

Kiyosaki made a name for himself in 2008 after correctly predicting the fall of global investment bank Lehman Brothers a full five months before the institution's shocking collapse. More recently, he called growing trouble in the bond market and banks tied to it last year.

"California is a BELL-Weather state," Kiyosaki wrote last week on the social media platform X. "That means what happens in California happens to the rest of the US."

"The problem is California is going broke," Kiyosaki continued.
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Uzi

The people's court of new normal Germany (part two)

C.J. Hopkins
Consent Factory, Inc.
Fri, 02 Aug 2024 00:00 UTC
Normal Germany
So, my second trial for alleged thoughtcrime-tweeting is going ahead as planned on August 15 in Berlin Superior Court (Das Kammergericht). Full-blown anti-terrorism security protocols will be in effect in the courtroom. Yes, that's right, the Berlin Superior Court denied my attorney's motion to rescind their special Security Order, so the German authorities will be putting on an elaborate official show of force, which everyone is welcome to attend!

Or, actually, according to the Security Order, only 35 people are welcome to attend. That's one of the anti-terrorism security protocols. Also, if you do attend, you'll have to surrender all your personal possessions (i.e., notebooks, phones, wallets, pens, pencils, other writing instruments, wristwatches, hats, and other head coverings, etc.) and any outwear (i.e., jackets, scarves, etc.) and totally empty your pockets of all items, presumably into a plastic bin like the ones they use at airport security, which the Court's security personnel will carry away and store somewhere while you attend the trial, and which the Superior Court expressly denies any liability for (i.e., for your items). Once you have surrendered all your possessions, and have been body-scanned and metal-detected, and possibly physically patted down, you will be admitted into Room 145a, where you will have to sit in the rear five rows of the gallery, behind a presumably bullet-proof security barrier, so that the security staff can monitor you during the proceedings.
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Black Magic

SOTT Focus: The Lament of a Digital Bard: Shakespeare Silenced by Woke Censorship (But Not the African Version)

Laura Knight-Jadczyk and ChatGPT and Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Thu, 08 Aug 2024 14:59 UTC
Dystopian
Today something really weird happened that has me scratching my head. Here's how it came about.

Earlier, my husband, Ark, posted a new blog that you can see here: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: The Unsung Path to Innovation

Give the blog post a once-over. Notice the image of Isaac Newton. Ark obtained this image and a second one further down by asking ChatGPT to generate them. But notice, please, that the image of Shakespeare was one he had to obtain from free web sources. It seems that ChatGPT was not able to generate an image of Shakespeare.

Ark commented about this odd refusal/restriction of ChatGPT and I decided to test it. The exchange with ChatGPT is as follows:

Comment: Bonus content! ChatGPT can easily imagine a Chinese Shakespeare.

Chinese Shakespeare
And even more easily, an "Indian Shakespeare, reflecting his vibrant personality and pride."
Gay Indian Shakespeare
ChatGPT programmers are really, really stupid.

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Attention

Major EU city cancels Taylor Swift concerts over ISIS attack fears


RT
Wed, 07 Aug 2024 11:56 UTC
Taylor Swift, Eras Tour
© Thomas Niedermueller/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights ManagementTaylor Swift on stage on July 27, 2024 in Munich, Germany.
US pop mega-star Taylor Swift has canceled three upcoming concerts in Vienna, Austria after two suspects were arrested for allegedly planning terrorist attacks at the shows.

Swift was supposed to perform at the Austrian capital's Ernst Happel Stadium on August 8, 9, and 10 as part of her European leg of her Eras Tour. Venues across the continent have been sold out for weeks.

"With confirmation from government officials of a planned terrorist attack at Ernst Happel Stadium, we have no choice but to cancel the three scheduled shows for everyone's safety," concert promoter Barracuda Music said in an Instagram post. "All tickets will be automatically refunded within the next 10 business days."

Austrian police arrested a 19-year-old who had pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS) in Ternitz, a town south of Vienna. Another suspect was later detained in the capital.

Comment: It wouldn't be unheard of if these young men were dupes set up to be caught just in time so that the specter of terrorism could reassert itself in the minds of the people.

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NPC

Israelis practise apocalyptic red heifer ritual in front of Al-Aqsa Mosque


Middle East Eye
Wed, 07 Aug 2024 19:38 UTC
red heifer
© XReligious Israeli settlers practise the red heifer ritual with a cutout cow in front of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Some religious groups believe the ashes of the cows can be used to build a third Jewish temple in Jerusalem.
A group of religious Israelis have been pictured practising the ritual of the red heifer, which is meant to herald the building of a new Jewish temple on the site of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

According to Jewish tradition, the ashes of a perfectly red heifer cow are needed for the ritual purification that would allow a third temple to be built in Jerusalem.

That temple, say radical Jewish groups, must be constructed on the raised plateau in Jerusalem's Old City known as the Temple Mount, where Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock shrine stand today.

Comment: It's likely that, whilst preparations for the ritual are indeed underway, the above is perhaps more of an attempt to provoke Palestinians, as well as the Islamic world. More so because Israel is apparently feeling the pressure as it waits for a response from Hezbollah and Iran: Israel's red heifers and the looming sacrifice at Al-Aqsa mosque to bring about the 'messiah and end times' - CBS

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Stock Down

How the global market crash affects us even if we aren't invested in the stock market

Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00 UTC
market crash
Some folks are calling August 5, 2024 "Black Monday 2.0." It could be remembered as the day when the global market crash began in earnest.

The following should not be considered financial advice. If you are looking for financial advice, I recommend speaking to an expert who is not vested in the stock market system. I'm just explaining what has been explained to me in the clearest way possible.

Some background on the global market crash

While we in America were still sleeping, in Japan, the stock market there was crashing. Traders has been borrowing against the yen at 0% and investing that money elsewhere. Then, rates went up. Suddenly they were upside down in their investments, which means they owed more than the investments were worth. Stocks fell further and further throughout the day. The Japanese market, the Nikkei, crashed 4,451.28 points - its largest-ever loss in terms of points.
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Crazed authoritarians demand X be shut down in UK

Paul Joseph Watson
Modernity
Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00 UTC
X application
Following in the footsteps of Communist China.

Mimicking a policy that the west once condemned Communist China for pursuing, authoritarians are now calling for X to be shut down completely in the UK to stop civil unrest.

After the country was rocked by a series of riots over the past week in response to a 17-year-old son of Rwandan immigrants killing three little girls in Southport, the media and the political class blamed the anger on "misinformation" shared on X.

In reality, the UK has been a boiling pot of resentment and rage over mass migration for years, with huge numbers continuing to arrive, putting massive strain on the country and making some parts of major towns and cities unrecognizable, despite nobody having ever voted for it.

However, the disorder is being exploited to grease the skids for mass censorship.
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