News Burst 9 February 2024 – Get The News! ~ February 9, 2024

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US journalist Tucker Carlson does not need Moscow’s protection after he recorded an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. Carlson’s visit to Moscow for a sit-down with Putin earlier this week has triggered criticism in Western media, while some politicians have called for the former Fox News host to be slapped with sanctions. “Is Carlson in need of our protection? I don’t think so. I think he can stand up for himself,” Peskov told journalists. “Besides some completely insane voices coming from the US, there are also some sane voices there,” the presidential spokesman added. Carlson’s interview with Putin has caused “extra hype” not only in America, but also in Russia, Peskov admitted, adding that this interest “is sometimes off the charts.” Carlson announced that his interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin will be made available from 6:00 p.m. EST (23:00 GMT) on February 8.

When the World Economic Forum rolled out their advertising campaign for The Great Reset it was supposed to be the victory lap for Globalism. Coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, the subsequent global financial crisis unleashed a flood of government funny money that was supposed to buy our way to their perpetual prosperity. It failed. Don’t take my word for it. Take the word of one of the chief architects of the Great Reset, Klaus von Commie Schnitzel’s right hand man, Yuval Noah Harari: “Populist leaders are on the rise around the world, attacking the liberal global order. They haven’t explained what will replace the order they have destroyed, and the result is the disorder, chaos and violence we are seeing today.” Spoken like the true authoritarian that he is, Harari can only see violence and chaos. He’s not wrong. The violence and chaos coming, however, have their roots in his attempts (or complicity) in trying to force, through violence, a global order on humanity which humanity doesn’t want. This push towards violence, however, can stop tomorrow. All that has to happen is for cretins like Harari, Soros, Schwab, Gates, and all the people behind them, to truly accept the fact that they have failed and cut a deal with us. If they do that we can minimize the violence on the horizon. But that’s not going to happen because they’ve already told us over and over that the abuse will continue until morale improves. ~ Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog

New research is showing that the population of wolves living in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) is genetically different from their counterparts outside of the region. Remarkably, the irradiated wolves appear to have developed protective mutations that increase their odds of surviving cancer. Populations of wolves, as well as other animals, have boomed in the CEZ of Ukraine since the area was abandoned following the infamous 1986 nuclear disaster. In the absence of people, wildlife has been allowed to thrive. However, to enjoy this freedom, animals must confront the glaring problem of radiation. To understand how these animals survive against the odds, Cara Love, an evolutionary biologist and ecotoxicologist at Princeton University, has been studying the wolves of Chernobyl for a decade. The research showed that wolves in the CEZ are exposed to more than 11.28 millirem of radiation every single day for their entire lives – that’s over six times the legal limit for human workers.

From the FBI’s Electronics Reading Room – In the 1950s they were investigating about The Aetherius Society. FBI Documents

A recent study Trusted Source published in The BMJ is reporting that ultra-processed foods can be as addictive as smoking. In their report, researchers say humans compulsively consume foods high in refined carbohydrates and added fats, which people find highly rewarding and appealing in ways similar to how they experience addictive substances such as nicotine. The researchers said some people eating these foods consume compulsively and that consumption may meet the criteria for diagnosis of substance use disorder in some people. The standards of the Yale Food Addiction Scale ultra-processed food addiction is estimated to occur in 14% of adults and 12% of children. Food addiction based on the Yale scale is also associated with core mechanisms of addiction, such as reward-related neural dysfunction, impulsivity, and emotion dysregulation, as well as poorer physical and mental health and lower quality of life.

In his newly published book, Nuclear High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse, Steven Starr shows that all it takes is one nuclear explosion to shut down the United States and send the population back to the Middle Ages. The electricity grid would be destroyed along with the communications system, the cooling systems of nuclear power plants and all electronic devices. The reason is that civil infrastructure is not protected from electromagnetic pulses (EMP). The military has taken measures to protect its weapons and communications systems, but nothing has been done to protect civilian infrastructure. Bills mandating EMP protection have been defeated in Congress. Starr reports that only 4% of the US military budget is needed to protect the power grid and civilian infrastructure. Instead, the idiots in Washington waste trillions of dollars on unnecessary wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Serbia, Syria, Yemen, Palestine and Ukraine. American cities would not suffer the effects of explosions and fires, such as those produced by a ground-level detonation, but the consequences would be just as disastrous. Starr describes them in a summary on his website. Dr Paul Craig Roberts

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergei Naryshkin said on Thursday that he plans to hold contacts with US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director William Burns, but did not specify when. The SVR head did not specify the possible date of the contacts, adding that this information will be announced later. The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service consists of several special agencies. Its activity is overseen by the President of the Russian Federation.

AI could become self-aware within the next ten years even without the use of special quantum computers, Russian researcher Ruslan Yunusov claimed in an interview with TASS published on Thursday. Quantum computers – which use the properties of quantum physics to store data and perform operations – are still in the early stages of development and currently have limited capabilities. However, Yunusov explained that they are “somewhat similar to the associative model of the human brain,” which could make them a suitable candidate to develop conscious AI. According to the expert, who is the co-founder of the Russian Quantum Center, a “truly strong artificial intelligence, which is capable of self-awareness, can be built on a quantum computer.” However, the development of self-aware AI does not necessarily require a quantum computer, Yunusov suggested, arguing that computers with silicon-based processors could also be used.

The Periodic Table of Chemical Elements, a basic tool used by scientists to explore matter and foresee the existence of new elements, was created by Russian scientist Dmitry Mendeleev in 1869. In 2019, the UN celebrated The International Year of the Periodic Table, to mark the 150th anniversary of the discovery it called“a window on the universe.” Humanity has known about several chemical elements since ancient times. In the 17th century, German alchemist Hennig Brand accidentally discovered a new element – phosphorus – and triggered a wave of scientific experiments. A hundred years later, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier wrote ‘Elementary Treatise of Chemistry’, considered to be the first modern chemistry textbook.

Two US soldiers have been arrested and charged with larceny and “bias” for repeatedly stealing LGBTQ pride flags from outside a lesbian couple’s house in Virginia. One of the allegedly bandits wore a cowboy hat as he made off with his rainbow-colored trophy. “In each incident,” the Arlington County Police Department said in a statement last week, “a male suspect approached the property during the early morning hours and stole a Pride flag from outside the residence before leaving the scene.”

The sanctions imposed by the EU on Russia are “weak,” Agiya Zagrebelskaya, the head of the sanctions department at Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NCPA), has told the media outlet EUObserver, adding that she does not believe the bloc is capable of tightening restrictions in the future. “Is this [13th] package weak? Let’s not look at it separately. Rather, we can say all the previous measures were weak,” Zagrebelskaya told the EUObserver, adding that if Brussels had done enough, the conflict wouldn’t be about to enter its third year.

Ukraine became one of the first countries in Eastern Europe to join the Partnership for Peace program, doing so on February 8, 1994. The program was the brainchild of the Clinton administration, which began plotting ambitious eastward NATO expansion almost immediately after entering office in 1993. But to the Russians and President Boris Yeltsin, the PfP was sold by Clinton Secretary of State Warren Christopher as a potential alternative, rather than a precursor, to NATO membership. “Yes, that is the case, there would not even be an associate status,” Christopher assured Yeltsin at a meeting in Moscow on October 22, 1993, when queried by the Russian president on the issue. “This is a brilliant idea, it is a stroke of genius!” Yeltsin excitedly replied, stressing that the PfP would to dissipate “tensions” within Russia regarding NATO’s future plans for Eastern Europe, and fears that Moscow in this situation would be left “in a second class status.”

Zimbabwe’s cabinet has passed legislation abolishing the death penalty, which was inherited from British colonial rule. The move on Tuesday will commute all capital punishments to life imprisonment, should parliament approve it. “It is expected that the new law will impose lengthy sentences without violating the right to life. The existence of aggravating circumstances may attract life sentences,” the ministry stated. The Zimbabwean constitution currently authorizes judges to impose the death penalty on male murder convicts aged 21 to 70. According to government records, 62 inmates are presently on death row. Official figures show that Zimbabwe has executed 79 people since achieving internationally recognized independence from Britain in 1980. The country carried out its last execution in 2005 and will become the eighth member of regional bloc the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to scrap the death penalty.

On Wednesday, the Senate blocked a larger $118 billion supplemental funding bill, which included border policy measures alongside foreign aid and national security funding. The $95 billion version advanced on Thursday includes more than $60 billion for Ukraine and $14 billion for Israel. US Senator Rand Paul voted against advancing the bill and called on lawmakers to address domestic security first. “It’s a terrible idea to put forward and pass a bill that tries to secure other countries’ borders before we secure our own,” Paul said on Thursday via social media platform X (former Twitter). “This bill sends the message to Americans that their elected officials don’t care about them.” US Senator Lindsey Graham also voted against advancing the bill, citing concerns about US border security, but reiterated his support for Ukraine and Israel in a statement on X (former Twitter). The Senate should not rush the legislative process, the statement said.

The Democratic Party politician helped inaugurate a new period of neo-McCarthyism in the United States. Now, with US-Russia relations at their lowest point since the Cold War, observers are taking a look back to understand how Russophobia grew to such epic proportions in the Western world. Security analyst Mark Sleboda joined Sputnik’s Fault Lines program Wednesday to examine the media response to Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and host Jamarl Thomas noted the influence of one person in particular in fueling anti-Russia hysteria. “This all goes back to Hillary Clinton if I’m being honest,” said Thomas as Sleboda noted that Russophobia limited Trump’s options in diplomacy with Russia during his presidency.

Old and new minerals found in lunar samples brought home by China’s Chang’e-5 mission are helping scientists better understand the moon’s history. In 2020, Chang’e-5 returned 3.8 pounds (1.73 kilograms) of rocks and dust from Oceanus Procellarum (the Ocean of Storms), the largest dark region on the moon, which can be seen on its western edge. An analysis of these samples has revealed a new mineral, which has been named changesite-(Y), scientists reported in a paper published Wednesday (Feb. 6). Changesite-(Y) was discovered by researchers at the Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology (BRIUG), and is the sixth new lunar mineral to be found.

These discoveries highlight the vast trading connections of Jeddah. Archeologists have unearthed roughly 25,000 artifacts in the second-largest city in Saudi Arabia. These findings include: more than 11,400 pieces of pottery, more than 11,300 animal bones, more than 1,700 shells, almost 700 building materials as well as 200 glass artifacts, and approximately 70 metal artifacts, according to the Jeddah Historic District Program (JHD). The pottery fragments, some of which were imported from Europe, Japan and China, include “a variety of ceramic vessels and pieces of high-quality porcelain,” archeologists said, some of which were made in the Chinese province of Jiangxi. Ebony pillars that were found on the sides of the mihrab were also analyzed. It’s believed that these likely date back to the 7th and 8th centuries. And the origin of the wood that was used for this part of a mosque came from the Ceylon Island, which is now known as Sri Lanka.

[Hollywoodism] The long lost art of whispering will certainly be resurrected by panicked survivors in the crazy apocalyptic world of “A Quiet Place: Day One”. Paramount’s preview just crept up on us for the official prequel to 2018’s hit sci-fi thriller, “A Quiet Place,” where audiences followed the Abbott family as they battled against blind alien invaders with hyper-sonic hearing abilities which enabled them to hunt prey by listening for loud lifeforms. “A Quiet Place: Part II,” and proves beyond a doubt that silence is golden in this unsettling alien-populated environment.

Researchers from Nagoya University Japan have revealed when Stone-Age technological progress began. The team have defined the moment when prehistoric people became sophisticated toolmakers. They examined how our ancestors crafted advanced stone tools over a period of 50,000 years, straddling six cultural eras. Findings published in the journal Nature Communications suggest that the increase in inventiveness and productivity of primitive humans only began with the spread of Homo sapiens across Eurasia. That coincides with the advancement of small stone blade technology during the early Upper Old Stone Age period or Early Upper Paleolithic. The Japanese team believe their findings partially refute the common theory that early humans overtook Neanderthals and conquered swathes of land thanks to their more-advanced culture and stone tool technology. They posit that these advances only came as our ancestors explored new lands and adapted to their environments over time.
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