Dr. Anthony Fauci said in an interview last week that the Justice Department’s effort to reinstate the COVID-19 mask mandate on planes is about control and not about the need of the mandate itself. The DOJ On Tuesday called on a federal appeals court to overturn U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle’s decision to strike...
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STUDY: GET ‘BOOSTED,’ GET SICKER THAN UN-BOOSTED
More “boosted” Americans came down with COVID-19 than those vaccinated without a third jab in April, leading health officials to offer theories on how that could be possible. John Moore, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical Center, told CBS News that he believes one of the factors in play is that people who...
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ISRAELI STUDY: GET THE COVID JAB, GET CARDIAC
A recent study by Israeli researchers found that the number of cardiovascular-related emergency calls jumped 25 percent in the country among young adults following the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines. 7 Israel National News reported that the increase occurred in both men and women, and a similar increase was not found “due to COVID infection...
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DYING TO WEAR A MASK? WEAR ONE, GET COVID AND DIE
A new study out of Kansas found that mask mandates could be associated with a higher rate of death in the population due to COVID-19. The observational study, which was published in Medicine in February considered “whether mandatory mask use influenced the case fatality rate in Kansas” from August 2020 to October of the same...
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GERMANY TAKES TOUGHER STANCE AGAINST CHINA: ‘SELF-SUFFICIENCY’ TOP TREND
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz came hot out of the gate when it comes to how he will approach China during his chancellorship. In April, he used his first visit to Asia as chancellor to visit Japan instead of China, Berlin’s top trading partner. Scholz did not hide the significance of the trip to Tokyo and...
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UNIONIZATION, TOP TREND 2022: MICROSOFT ON-TREND
The president of Microsoft wrote in a blog post last week that the software giant will not discourage its employees from forming unions. “Recent unionization campaigns across the country—including in the tech sector have led us to conclude that inevitably these issues will touch on more businesses, potentially including our own,” Brad Smith, the president,...
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SUICIDE IN U.S. MILITARY HAS BEEN MAIN DRIVER OF DEATHS SINCE 9/11
The rate of suicides in the military is at its highest in nearly 90 years and there has been a noticeable jump in women personnel who end their lives, according to a new study from Brown University. The Defense Department saw a 16 percent jump in suicides among troops in 2020, with 580 deaths total,...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
NEW AI STREET SURVEILLANCE FINGERS YOU AND EVERYONE YOU MEET. The company is called Vintra and their motto is “Know what the cameras know.” A new surveillance product leverages AI to analyze video footage and make startling connections that provide a creepily invasive and detailed interaction map of people on public streets. Not only does...
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WILL TECH ANTITRUST BILL CAVE TO LOBBY CASH BLITZ?
Big Tech companies might finally have to brace for the idea of curbing some of their anti-competitive practices if a bi-partisan American Innovation and Choice Online Act gets a vote-up before the Senate recesses for the summer. Co-sponsored by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the bill would prevent some of the largest...
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DARPA WANTS TO LEAD “THIRD WAVE” OF WEAPONIZED AI
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has put out a new contract call to speed advances in Artificial Intelligence Exploration. DARPA specifically wants to advance algorithmic processing within military artificial intelligence projects, according to the government and tech conduit web platform Nextgov. “The pace of discovery in AI science and technology is accelerating worldwide,”...