News Burst 9 October 2023 – Get The News! – October 9, 2023

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• More than 2,000 people have perished and over 9,000 sustained injuries in western Afghanistan following a series of powerful earthquakes on Saturday, Taliban authorities have said. Twin quakes struck within around 30 minutes of each other on Saturday morning, 35km (20 miles) northwest of the city of Herat. These were followed by several significant aftershocks. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), at least one of the quakes reached 6.3 magnitude. During a press conference on Sunday, Janan Sayeeq, a spokesperson for the Taliban’s Ministry of Disasters said that at least 1,320 households had been damaged or destroyed. According to Sayeeq, ten rescue teams are currently working in the affected areas.

• A cult led by self-proclaimed Queen of Canada Romana Didulo has occupied an abandoned school in a small village in the province of Saskatchewan and is now threatening villagers with dire judgment and “execution” if they do not obey the group leader’s orders, CBC reported on Friday. The state broadcaster alleged that the threat has caused growing concern in the community. The Queen of Canada group appeared in Richmound, Saskatchewan, in mid-September after being forced out of Kamsack, where hundreds of townspeople had protested their presence. CBC reported that one of the letters from Didulo’s followers stated that if the villagers of Richmound didn’t comply with the “queen’s” decrees, they would face “publicly broadcast execution” and “undeserved devastation upon their children, grandchildren and families.” The sect also urged people to be “forewarned and prepared.”

• Hunter Biden raided his daughter Maisy’s college fund to the tune of $20,000 after his bankers said he had just 44 cents left in his account amid a months-long drug and hooker binge. On Dec. 17, 2018, Hunter’s money managers warned of his extremely low balance, according to records obtained by the Daily Mail. That’s exactly when, according to Hunter’s Memoir, he was in his “penultimate odyssey through full blown addiction,” when he was dropping thousands of dollars on prostitutes and crack cocaine. “Liquidate what you can’ and ‘Live [love] you both,” Hunter wrote. Emails and messages from his laptop show money he took from Maisy’s educational savings account went in part to paying various suspected prostitutes who visited him at hotels in the following days, his Porsche 911 car loan, sex webcam subscription fees, and other personal expenses.

• After paying out $56.5 million as part of the settlement with federal and state governments in 2014 for allegedly misleading the public, US and state agencies by claiming Adderall would ‘normalize’ its users and Vyvanse would provide ‘less abuse liability’, a former executive from Shire Pharmaceuticals (now Takeda Pharmaceutical Company), in charge of Data Science, has taken legal action against the company. The whistleblower, Dr. Vincent Polito, alleges that Shire failed to comply with Drug Enforcement Administration mandates, such as monitoring and reporting suspicious drug orders for a certain period. The whistleblower asserts that his termination from the company resulted from repeatedly blowing the whistle and ultimately informing the company’s Chief Compliance Officer against the wishes of his management. At the Distribution facility, Dr. Polito found drugs that were marked for destruction – which were contained in bottles marked 50% full as a default measurement – were not verified by either counting or weighing the pill bottles’ contents. He claims to have found that Shire’s internal company sales data did not match the data supplied to the DEA. The court filings state Dr. Polito reported his discovery to top execs, but, shortly after, was removed from the project.

• The surprise attack by Hamas on Israel suggests a massive intelligence failure as the Israeli government appeared blindsided by the infiltration of Hamas fighters across the southern border and the launch of thousands of rockets. The Hamas assault by air, land and sea also raised questions as to why U.S. intelligence agencies apparently did not see it coming, experts and former intelligence officials said. U.S. officials said that if the Israelis knew an attack was imminent, they did not share it with Washington. “This is Israel’s 9/11. Not since 1973 has there been such a catastrophic intelligence failure in Israel,” said Marc Polymeropoulous, who worked for 26 years for the CIA, where he specialized in counterterrorism, the Middle East and South Asia. Israel has arguably the most extensive and well-funded intelligence services in the Middle East. It has, in the past, carried out precisely timed assassinations of militant leaders, knowing all their movements intimately.

• Instead of war being a calamity, a catastrophe, a realm of death and destruction, dare I say even a mortal sin of grievous evil, we’re told that instead it’s an investment that’s paying dividends, especially in that growth stock known as Ukraine. Even body counts and truck counts from the Vietnam War era are being brought back to show what a great “investment” the Ukraine War has been for the U.S. In her latest, Caitlin Johnstone cites war-lover Max Boot for his advocacy of the Russia-Ukraine War as a continuing investment opportunity for the U.S., including the use of body and truck counts as a measure of progress. ~ William Astore

• [ How to discredit the sightings ] Ring recently announced a contest offering $1 million to anyone who submits any alien footage captured on their Ring device. Of course, Ring will need to determine the authenticity of the footage before doling out the winner’s prize. Ring users (and the aliens) only have between October 4 to November 3 to capture (and be captured) to qualify, which is right smack in Halloween month. Once Ring users believe they’ve gotten the winning footage, they’ll need to upload their own “Scientific Evidence of the Extraterrestrial” form. Entrants are also amusingly reminded that, “No extraterrestrials or other living creature or organism to be harmed in any way in the fulfillment of this promotion,” otherwise it could lead to immediate disqualification.

• In the heart of the Forbidden City , China’s political and ritual center for over 500 years, the lives of imperial concubines were far from the fairy tales one might imagine. These women were not permitted to fall in love with anyone other than the emperor himself. The consequences were severe – a branded forehead with hot metal, signaling betrayal. Such a mark meant either banishment or execution, leaving no room for sentiment. The men who dared to engage with a concubine met a similar fate, facing castration or even a gruesome death. Privacy was a luxury they relinquished. Designated eunuchs, like shadows, followed them everywhere, ensuring no unsanctioned connections were made. Some concubines became spies and assassins, eliminating those deemed threats to the emperor’s power. Poison was a favored method, lurking in the palace’s plants, and their victims included courtiers, maids, and guards. The life of an imperial concubine in the Forbidden City was a treacherous path, far removed from the romanticized notions often associated with it.

• Anonymous diplomats told media this week that Brussels is preparing to kick off formal talks on Ukraine’s accession into the European Union, with an announcement on the matter expected as soon as December. The news has prompted senior serving and former EU officials to give contradictory views on the potential consequences of such a radical move. Ukrainian membership in the EU would fundamentally undermine Poland’s economic interests and constitute a form of political suicide, independent Polish journalist and commentator Lukasz Warzecha has warned. “Please imagine this: in a few years, in the perspective new budget, Poles will be made to pay not only gigantic amounts of money due to the EU’s absurd climate policy, but be informed that tens of billions of euros’ worth of our money will be flowing to Ukraine, which will be our direct rival in the bloc,” Warzecha wrote.

• In the world of social media business, where revenues are on the decline and the social media industry faces pressing commercial challenges, a fundamental principle comes to the fore: Adapt or risk fading into obscurity, reminiscent of MySpace’s fate. To everyone’s surprise, Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, chose to launch two new platforms amidst the shifting sands of the social media world. Was it a personal vendetta against Elon Musk, or did he simply bypass the innovation that typically fuels platform success, opting instead to replicate the ideas of others? The results, alas, were far from stellar. In this realm, where new social media players perpetually strive to challenge established giants, Meta, under the leadership of the somewhat uncharismatic Mark Zuckerberg, has consistently sought to redefine the game. However, recent endeavors, notably Threads and WhatsApp Channels, have cast doubt on Meta’s strategy and Zuckerberg’s approach.

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) is likely to substantially improve quality of life for the next generation of workers, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has suggested. He noted, however, that the technology could cost some people jobs. In an interview with Bloomberg aired this week, Dimon said AI would be part of every single process, adding that the technology is already being used by thousands of employees at his bank. “Your children are going to live to 100 and not have cancer because of technology,” Dimon stated. “And literally they’ll probably be working three-and-a-half days a week.” Dimon has been describing AI “an absolute necessity,” claiming it is critical to his company’s future success. The chief executive, however, warned of some associated risks, including the replacement of jobs.

• Chinese firms are “fueling the fentanyl crisis that is poisoning communities across the United States,” Chuck Schumer said after arriving in Shanghai on Saturday. “Every one of us knows families who have lost young men and women to fentanyl.” The New York Democrat stressed that it’s businesses – not China’s government – that are supplying ingredients for production of fentanyl and other opioids in Mexico. Schumer leads a bipartisan delegation of six senators who are visiting China amid deteriorating Sino-US relations. They are focused on economic and security issues, and the majority leader has emphasized that Washington doesn’t wish to “decouple” the world’s two largest economies.

• Thanks to the HESS Observatory in Namibia, researchers have picked up on the space the most powerful gamma rays ever. They are so strong that their power measured is equal to 20 teraelectronvolts, “about ten trillion times the energy of visible light,” the discoverers explained in a press release. The source of these monstrous energy impulses, the pulsar Vela in the southern constellation of the same name, it is located at 1,000 light years from our planet. We currently do not know how such extreme electromagnetic radiation is produced. The HESS Observatory (High Energy Stereoscopic System) iss located in Namibia, Africa, where some of the darkest and most starry skies on Earth are located, extremely precious for astronomical and astrophysics studies.

• “US weather warning: America to plunge into two week arctic freeze”, this new headline is exactly what the climate engineers want in order to distract populations from what is actually unfolding around the world. Chemical ice nucleation cloud seeding operations are a primary component of climate engineering operations, weather and temperature whiplash is the result. In the Western US the exact opposite scenario is unfolding, “snow to record heat, wild weather swings to jolt west”. Rutgers University scientists have now acknowledged that “blocking the sun may kill our crops”, though this scenario has long since been reality. Is the crushing of crops just a consequence of climate engineering? Or an objective? The consistency with which agricultural regions are being targeted leaves little doubt as to the answer. Water temperatures in the Amazon River have hit 102 degrees while September 2023 is officially declared “the most anomalously hot month ever” by Scientific American. Where do we go from here? The latest installment of Global Alert News.

News Burst 9 October 2023