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News Burst 8 February 2022 – Featured News
- Meta has said it is considering shutting down Facebook and Instagram in Europe if it can’t keep transferring user data back to the U.S. Facebook said: “If a new transatlantic data transfer framework is not adopted and we are unable to continue to rely on SCCs (standard contractual clauses) or rely upon other alternative means of data transfers from Europe to the United States, we will likely be unable to offer a number of our most significant products and services, including Facebook and Instagram, in Europe.” “Meta cannot just blackmail the EU into giving up its data protection standards,” European lawmaker Axel Voss said via Twitter, adding that “leaving the EU would be their loss.” Voss has previously written some of the EU’s data protection legislation.
- Tonga’s broken submarine telecommunications cable is not where it is supposed to be. A search last night by an ROV from the cable ship Reliance, could not locate the break, after it arrived in the area yesterday. “They have a good idea of where the break is. However, their search last night, did not find the cable break. It appears that the shockwaves or tsunami waves pushed the cable away from where it is supposed to be,” the CEO of Tonga Cable Ltd., James Panuve, told Matangi Tonga this afternoon. The international fibre optic cable broke on Jan. 15, following the eruption of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai (HTHH) submarine volcano, which generated powerful radial tsunamis. The break plunged Tonga into digital darkness, and since then limited communications have been established using satellite connectivity. After the Reliance arrived off Tongatapu at around midday on Thursday Feb. 3, James said that it travelled to the suspected “cable break site” and checked that the submarine site is safe and secure for them to work in. He said that the Reliance had since moved closer to land to pick up the cable path from its Tongatapu end, and then follow it back out to the open sea to try and reach where the break is.
- One of the leading newspapers in Denmark issued a public apology for spreading the government’s lies about COVID-19 and narratives without sufficient skepticism throughout the pandemic. Ekstra Bladet published an article last month with the title “Vi fejlede,” which means “We failed.” Ekstra Bladet is a Danish tabloid newspaper, published by JP/Politikens Hus in Copenhagen and was founded in 1904. “THE CONSTANT mental alertness has worn out tremendously on all of us. That is why we – the press – must also take stock of our own efforts. And we have failed,” Ekstra Bladet journalist Brian Weichardt wrote.
- In a statement on Sunday, China said it would support Argentina in its claims over the Falklands Islands – also known as Islas Malvinas – a self-governing British overseas territory in the southern Atlantic. The remote archipelago is a subject of an almost 200-year sovereignty dispute. Beijing said that it hoped negotiations over the islands would resume soon in accordance with relevant UN resolutions to resolve the dispute peacefully. China’s announcement, which was part of a joint statement on deepening relations between Beijing and Buenos Aires, has angered Britain.
- Documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws by RT investigative unit The Detail include startling records revealing how the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP) moved to shut down any and all public debate about the cause of Jeffrey Epstein’s death. Along the way, evidence was distorted, material facts ignored, and key anomalies unexplored and unpublicized. The result was international news outlets universally and unquestioningly reporting that Epstein had taken his own life from the word go, despite Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson having reached no conclusion at that time, and making clear in a statement the next day that the investigation was open and ongoing. It was not until August 16 that Sampson publicly declared Epstein’s death had been a suicide. The ruling was contested by leading forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, who’d been hired by the billionaire’s brother to monitor the autopsy process. Speaking to the Miami Herald two months later, he charged that “the autopsy did not support suicide,’’ and that the pathologist who conducted it had recorded this.
- After decades of disputes over the authenticity of remains believed to be those of Russia’s former imperial family, who were murdered by Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1918, the Russian Orthodox Church has concluded a new six-year investigation into the matter, and will issue an official decision later this year. Among the findings that the report summarizes, the commission compared samples from the bones said to belong to Nicholas II with DNA taken from the remains of his father, Alexander III, and found that the likelihood of paternity was 99.9999988%.
- Astronomers from the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland have published a study, claiming to have identified a wandering black hole in the Milky Way galaxy for the first time. Kailash Sahu, who led the research, reported that his team had made the “first unambiguous detection and mass measurement of an isolated stellar-mass black hole.” The study has been submitted to the Astrophysical Journal, and is also available for peer review on the pre-print server arXiv. The celestial object is said to be traveling at approximately 45 kilometers (28 miles) per second and is located some 5,200 light-years away from Earth. Scientists believe the black hole was propelled into space when its parent star exploded – hence the unusually high speed for an object of its kind. The discovery was made with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope, and dates back to 2011.
- The latest intense cyclone Batsirai hit Madagascar this weekend, with gusts reaching 146 miles per hour (235 kph). Coastal areas were hit with particularly high waves, while strong wind and rain devastated the east coast, causing “significant and widespread damage.” Entire villages had been destroyed by the storm, officials said, adding there is more risk of landslides and flooding. The storm even ripped open graves in cemeteries.
- US national debt topped $30 trillion for the first time in history last month, according to data from the Treasury Department. However, Jim Rogers, legendary investor and co-founder of the Quantum Fund alongside George Soros, says the actual debt amount is likely to be much higher than Washington admits. According to Rogers, the US has no chance of climbing out of the current debt hole, and the strategy that’s being implemented is to sit and wait until the younger generation has to deal with the problem.
- With an aim to save birds in the national capital, a resident of Delhi’s Ashok Vihar area has built more than 2.5 lakh nests in his life, is called the “Nest Man” in the city. Rakesh Khatri, also known as the Nest Man, also teaches people to create nests and taught more than lakhs of students till now. He has also received many awards for building these shelters for birds.
- Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson declared a state of emergency in Canada’s capital on Sunday following ten consecutive days of trucker protests against Covid vaccine mandates in the downtown part of the city. Jim Watson said in a statement that his decision “reflects the serious danger and threat to the safety and security of residents posed by the ongoing demonstrations.” Watson also called for “support from other jurisdictions and levels of government.” The mayor pointed out that the Freedom Convoy protesters outnumbered law enforcement personnel.
- Avalanches and landslides are common across the Line of Actual Control that divides India from China. Temperatures can drop to as low as minus 60 degrees Celsius during the winter. Seven Indian Army personnel are reported to have been buried by an avalanche near the deltoid junction of China and Bhutan in Arunachal Pradesh. The Indian Army said on Monday that the incident took place at an altitude of 14,500ft at the Kameng Sector in Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday. “Search and rescue operations are at present underway. Specialised teams have been airlifted to assist in rescue operations,” Lt Col Harsh Wardhan Pande, the Indian Army’s spokesman in Tezpur, said on Monday. Pande added that over the past few days, the weather in the area has been horrible and there as been heavy snowfall. According to estimates, more than 35,000 troops are deployed at great altitudes across the eastern and northern commands of the Indian Army.
- The world’s most prolific researchers are already exploring every gene and cell in the human body to try and tackle the ageing process with the help of so-called “rejuvenation science”. The main focus of the research, which by the way, is sponsored by billionaires such as Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, has been placed on extending something called healthy life expectancy, or “healthspan”. The medicines, among them rapamycin and metformin, researchers believe, can increase overall life expectancy and have a rejuvenating effect on a person’s immune system.
- According to Macron, the main goal of his visit is “not Ukraine, but a clarification of the rules…with NATO and the EU”. After the meeting with Putin, Macron is expected to travel to Kiev for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
News Burst 8 February 2022
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