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#SCIENCE

#CLIMATE #WATER

Netflix’s ‘Seaspiracy’ Is A Powerful Appetite Suppressant

Tampa Bay stares down environmental disaster from Piney Point phosphate plant

Taiwan water shortage: President says to brace for a shortage

How Vincent Bolloré won control of Ghana’s biggest port

What Can We Learn from a Big Boat Stuck in a Canal? – BIG by Matt Stoller

Suez Canal: Egypt’s First Female Captain Falsely Blamed for Ever Given Jam

Barrier Reef doomed as up to 99% of coral at risk, report finds

US fossil fuel companies took billions in tax breaks – and then laid off thousands

India Demands Rich Nations Like The U.S. Clean Up Their Climate Mess, Signaling A Shift

Big Meat and Dairy Companies Have Spent Millions Lobbying Against Climate Action, a New Study Finds

#HEALTH #COVID #CANNABIS

MORE “You are not fully immunized until you are at least 2-2.5 weeks out from complete vaccination- that means 2 to 2.5 weeks after your second Moderna or Pfizer shot, or 2 to 2.5 weeks after your only J&J shot,” she explains. “This is important because you are not fully protected from COVID disease until you are fully immunized.”
“You may go out to dinner with friends who are either vaccinated or are low risk of complicated COVID. However, if anyone in your friend’s household is unvaccinated and has a high risk condition—advanced age or comorbid condition putting them at risk of severe COVID— you cannot eat out with them. In addition, you cannot eat inside of a restaurant. You should be eating outdoors. Indoors, you would be mixing with multiple households of people who may not be vaccinated and may have at-risk individuals in their households.”

Epidemiologist Who Helped Wipe Out Smallpox Issues Stark Warning About COVID-19 Variants

#LongCovid is the pandemic after the pandemic. All the loud voices who’ve been shouting “but the economy..” in the last year should reflect on the effect of LC on it. Highest prevalence (1 in 6 at 12 wks) in working-age adults.

Study suggests that the modern anti-vaccine movement is shaped by Christian nationalist ideology

Panic Rooms, Birth Certificates and the Birth of GOP Paranoia

The world abandoned COVID-19’s best antidote: Whistleblowers

Two-thirds of epidemiologists warn mutations could render current COVID vaccines ineffective in a year or less

Senate will act on marijuana legalization with or without Biden

1st Americans had Indigenous Australian genes

Arabian coins found in US may unlock 17th-century pirate mystery

#ISP #TELCOMS #BROADBAND #HUMAN RIGHTS #INTERNET #TECHNOLOGY #FCC

“The main business of humanity is to do a good job of being human beings, not to serve as appendages to machines, institutions and systems.” – Kurt Vonnegut

Tim Berners-Lee says internet access should be a basic right.

“Fortunately #CCPA regulations state: “The consumer exercises their choice by affirmatively choosing the privacy control, including when utilizing privacy-by-design products or services” Meaning that browsers *can* offer privacy by default.

“Joe Biden commits to cutting internet access prices. That’s either unbundling for telecoms, basically a soft break-up to force competition, or just straight up price regulation by the FCC. [picture]

The FCC Wants Your Broadband Horror Stories: You Know What to Do

AT&T lobbies against nationwide fiber, says 10Mbps uploads are good enough

Android sends 20x more data to Google than iOS sends to Apple, study says

CUTTING THE CORD Five Star 200 mile Indoor/Outdoor Yagi HD TV Antenna Review

Hedy Lamarr – invented and patented the frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology for missile guidance in WW2 that became the foundation of all of our Antenna with bars wifi Antenna with barstechnology today.

#MUSIC

Music makes you smarter

Susan Rogers on the origin of common hearing disorders

Susan Rogers – Music psychology for record makers

Susan Rogers on Prince, production and perception

Covid-19 in the US is a ‘humanitarian disaster”

Covid-19 in the US is a ‘humanitarian disaster,’ and the pandemic is only accelerating, experts say

Pfizer‘s CEO Dumps 62% Of His Stock On COVID Vaccine Announcement

Pfizer‘s CEO cashed out 60% of his stock on the same day the company unveiled the results of its COVID-19 vaccine trial
https://twitter.com/AlbertBourla

“The sale of these shares is part of Dr. Bourla’s personal financial planning and a pre-established (10b5-1) plan, which allows, under SEC rules, major shareholders and insiders of exchange-listed corporations to trade a predetermined number of shares at a predetermined time,” the company said. Mr Bourla, who still has 81,812 shares in the company.

Pfizer CEO Sells Stock Same Day as Vaccine Announcement – it doesn’t matter that this was scheduled to happen, that it he knew all about the everything first before he announced it then allowed the scheduled sale to just  happen anyway was awful optics! just makes you look so so selfish Albert!

#DELETEFOX Fox news now has to head into a post-Trump era

The Real Facebook Oversight Board @FBoversight
Overnight, The Real Facebook Oversight Board observed a “Stop The Steal” private Facebook group gain 19,000 followers even after Facebook said they had removed all “Stop The Steal” accounts.
Suckerburg loves trump and loves them FB money from all the FB vidiots that can’t seem to think for themselves.

Proud Boys leader trying to rebrand the group as explicitly antisemitic

Costco  New Rule it would no longer exempt shoppers with medical conditions from its face covering policy.

On Election Day, Key West voted to ban large cruise ships

Japanese town deploys Monster Wolf robots to deter wild bears

GOOGLE YouTube went down – but now it’s up but it doesn’t look like before – google blows chunks

GOOGLE IS GOING TO DROP IT’S FREE PHOTO STORAGE PROGRAM – THEY DO IT ALL THE TIME – STOP USING GOOGLE FOR EVERYTHING – GOOGLE SUCKS

UPS ends ban on beards and natural Black hairstyles

“Murder hornet” nest with nearly 200 queens destroyed “in the nick of time”

Federal appeals court ruling clears Harvard of racial discrimination against Asian American applicants

Police expose global child abuse ring centered in Australia

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Sumner Redstone IS DEAD!

Lebanon’s entire government resigns over Beirut blast.

Mark your calendars: Kamala Harris versus  Mike Pence October 7, 9 pm ET, 6 pm PT.

BITCON

Kamala Harris’ team will be Ryan Montoya, previously the chief technology officer of NBA’s Sacramento Kings. The Sacramento Kings are one of the most innovative and Bitcoin-friendly sports team out there.

CNN A surprise ‘safe-haven’ investment has surged 180% since March
Bitcoin has surged more than 60% in 2020 and is up more than 180% from its mid-March lows of about $4,000. What’s driving the bitcoin spike? Experts say much of it is due to the weakness in the US dollar.

Appellate court affirms summary judgment in favor of Coinbase @coinbase #conversion #breach of contract & negligence; related to #coinbase not supporting #bitcoingold fork for its users; since it’s precedent in CA, let’s dive in /1
AIRPLANES

LEGAL

“The Republicans are being taken over by right wing extremists.”
“The Democrats are being taken over by the radical left.”

Feds declare Philadelphia a disaster area as a result of civil unrest, qualifying them for federal aid.

Now that everyone finally believes kids can catch and share Covid19 with each other same as adults do, they are keeping kids out of school and not playing school team sports. Sad.y, I still see teams of kids playing sports out on the playgrounds of Delaware County PA and No one is wearing a mask.
900+ Students And Staff Already Quarantined As GA School District Fumbles Reopening

BETSY DEVOS is hiding out at her luxury estate guarded 24/7 by taxpayers money and she is the one driving those kids back to their schools. With 160,000 Americans that didn’t have to die, those who advocated for stocks and schools over safety and health should hope there’s not a lot of people looking to hold a grudge because a loved one is dead.

Gen Michael Hayden @GenMhayden You’re an idiot.
@Mike_Pence America needs College Football! It’s important for student-athletes, schools, and our Nation. These Great athletes have worked their whole lives for the opportunity compete on the college gridiron and they deserve the chance to safely get back on the field!

SCIENCE IS THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
BEFORE THAT  THE AGE OF SUPERSTITION /  WITCHCRAFT / MAGIC POTIONS
What about all those MILLIONS OF conspiracy QAnon believers and Supporters?

Now that it’s proven that promoting QAnon doesn’t sink a candidate’s electoral viability, it’s reasonable expect more in the 2022 midterm elections.
Marjorie Greene, Republican in Georgia’s 14th district Wins Runoff, Headed To Congress clearing the path for her to become Congress’ first open supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Businesswoman Marjorie Greene triumphed over neurosurgeon John Cowan in a Republican runoff for Georgia’s 14th district Tuesday, clearing the path for her to become Congress’ first open supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

Gundlach, who called Trump’s 2016 election, predicts he’ll win again

An election model using data from @Twitter predicts a blowout for @JoeBiden see how it is calculated

 

IN PLAIN SIGHT

Cringing every time I read an article talking about the USPS “reorganization”, when the word they were looking for was “dismantling”.

The Election Is Being Sabotaged Before Our Eyes
As Trump continues his attacks on the post office and issues another round of illegal edicts, Truthout’s Kelly Hayes talks with author and researcher Sarah Kendzior about the ascent of authoritarianism in the U.S. and the potential collapse of democracy as we know it.

This is their full story, from Sneakers-style heist tricks to Kafkaesque legal nightmare. Last fall, Iowa contracted two white hat hackers to break into a series of courthouses as a security test. Then they were arrested and charged with felony burglary.
After Swedish singer Zara Larsson announced she no longer cooperates with Huawei, and called China “not a nice state”, also hinting support for Hong Kong and Uyghurs, her music was removed from a bunch of streaming services in China, including Apple Music.

Guttmacher Institute @Guttmacher
Around the world, policies and programs must recognize that the ability to make your own sexual and reproductive health decisions is a human right!

STRAIGHT UP ELECTION FRAUD

NYT “President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, met privately last weekend with Kanye West, the rapper who has filed petitions to get on the November ballots for president in several states.”