News Burst 27 March 2020 – Live Feed ~ March 27, 2020


News Burst 27 March 2020

  • Charles Leiber- professor from Harvard who was arrested focused on integrating electronics into the Brain via syringe. From their website: β€œThe Lieber group is focused broadly on science and technology at the nanoscale, harnessing the unique physical properties of novel nanomaterials to push scientific boundaries in biology and medicine. We are focusing on a novel approach for integrating electronics within the brain and other areas of the nervous system, which involves non-invasive syringe delivery of neural network-like mesh electronics into targeted distinct brain regions.”
  • A Maryland man who was shot and killed by a police officer was asleep in his bedroom when police opened fire from outside his house, an attorney for the 21-year-old man’s family said on Friday. The man’s girlfriend was also wounded. The Montgomery county police department said in a news release Duncan Socrates Lemp β€œconfronted” police and was shot by one of the officers early on Thursday. But Rene Sandler, an attorney for Lemp’s relatives, said an eyewitness gave a β€œcompletely contrary” account of the shooting. She said police could have β€œabsolutely no justification” for shooting Lemp based on what she has heard about the circumstances.
  • The Russian Aerospace Forces plane delivered more than 1 million medical masks and 200,000 coronavirus test systems, handed over to the Russian Ministry of Defense by Jack Ma, Alibaba founder, as a gift, the Ministry told journalists Thursday.
  • The cruise industry, which has dodged US taxes and regulations for years by registering their vessels overseas, is in dire need of cash in order to remain afloat – and aren’t confident that they can borrow from any of the existing taxpayer-funded loan programs due to their offshore registrations. Carnival, the largest cruise company in terms of market share, is incorporated in Panama according to Panama’s registry and the other two major companies in the industry employ similar tactics. Norwegian is incorporated in Bermuda, and Royal Caribbean has been incorporated in Liberia since 1985. Despite the fact that all three of their corporate headquarters are in Miami, annual filings show that these companies are part of an industry that paid an average tax rate of under 1%, which is well below the required 21% corporate tax rate in the United States.
  • Jeff Bezos and other corporate executives across the country sold approximately $9.2 billion in shares of their own companies between early February and the end of last week, salvaging potential losses of up to $1.9 billion, according to an analysis of more than 4,000 regulatory filings. The largest seller was the richest man in the world – Jeff β€˜Malware’ Bezos, who sold $3.4 billion in Amazon shares the first week of February.
  • [Cabal Tentative Reset] Since Federal Reserve resources were barely able to prevent complete collapse in 2008, it should be expected that an even larger collapse will overwhelm the Fed’s balance sheet. That’s exactly the situation we’re facing right now. The specter of a global debt crisis suggests the urgency for new liquidity sources, bigger than those that central banks can provide. The logic leads quickly to one currency for the planet. The task of re-liquefying the world will fall to the IMF because the IMF will have the only clean balance sheet left among official institutions. The IMF will rise to the occasion with a towering issuance of special drawing rights (SDRs), and this monetary operation will effectively end the dollar’s role as the leading reserve currency.
  • [The UN should be disbanded.]
  • [End of EU] The EU refused to sell the meds needed to respond to the crisis to Serbia. President Aleksandar Vucic has now officially declared that the EU solidarity β€œexists only on paperβ€œ. He then openly appealed for China to help, and help China did – the Chinese sent aircraft filled with much needed medical equipment and doctors. Then Russia followed suit and sent 10 heavy transporters filled with gear and specialists.
  • [The Cabal is planning to put Draghi, somehow, in charge in Italy, MSM already pushing, all politics flocked in.]
  • Four prefectures in the greater Tokyo metropolitan area are urging residents to avoid all unnecessary travel to the capital to stave off a possible explosion in coronavirus infections in the densely populated area. People are finally staying home? Check the webcam here.
  • The Nepal Astronomical Society has urged Gandaki province residents to provide further evidence on an unknown β€˜burning’ object observed entering the atmosphere from space, as many people had reported sighting a bright object flying towards the Earth followed by a crashing sound. The society stated that the object could be a fireball or a bolide (very bright meteor, one that explodes in the atmosphere.)
  • [QAnon] Occam’s razor is the problem-solving principle that states that β€œEntities should not be multiplied without necessity.” The idea is attributed to English Franciscan friar William of Ockham (1287–1347), a scholastic philosopher and theologian who used a preference for simplicity to defend the idea of divine miracles. It is sometimes paraphrased by a statement like β€œthe simplest solution is most likely the right one”. Occam’s razor says that when presented with competing hypotheses that make the same predictions, one should select the solution with the fewest assumptions, and it is not meant to be a way of choosing between hypotheses that make different predictions.

Sun Activity

Sunspot number: 0
Spotless Days
Current Stretch: 16 days
2020 total: 66 days (77%)
2019 total: 281 days (77%)

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Deepest EQ M4.5 154 km Peru News Burst 27 March 2020

News Burst 24 March 2020 – Live Feed ~ March 24, 2020


Tension continues at the Greek Evros border, with chemicals and stones β€˜rainingβ€˜ down on the Greek forces from illegal immigrants and Turkish police on the other side of the fence. The war-like scenery begun again when illegal immigrants attempted to storm and β€˜tear down’ parts of the fence. It has also come to light from Turkish media footage, that the migrant camp on their side of the fence is being disinfected. This evidence raises questions if there are coronavirus cases among the illegal immigrants, or if the Turkish authorities are concerned for their health.

News Burst 24 March 2020

  • [Moar Pelosi] Anons are tired. This long game has been played with little to no reward. The carrot is becoming dull and mediocre. We’re tired boss. [ALL THESE POLITICIANS]
  • The EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council approved the proposal of the European Commission to suspend for the first time the Stability and Growth Pact – the baseline document of the Euro zone – for economic support measures in response to the Wuhan Virus pandemic, the EU Council says in a statement released on Monday.
  • German police arrested a 51-year-old man late last week after investigators determined he purposefully removed bolts from the tracks of a high-speed rail bridge in a possible attempt to cause a derailment. The man, who is now facing charges of attempted murder, was found to have β€œspecialist equipment” used for loosening track bolts in his vehicle. Authorities were made aware of the situation by an Intercity Express operator who reported that he saw β€œsomething unusual” on the bridge during his Friday shift.
  • India: In a slew of extraordinary measures, authorities announced a complete lockdown of 75 districts in 22 States and Union Territories and suspended all passenger trains, inter-state buses and metro services across the country till March 31. Delhi, Jharkhand, Punjab and Nagaland declared a statewide lockdown, exempting only essential services, while similar curbs were announced in a number of districts in Bihar, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Mumbai’s local trains have been suspended till March 31, and Section 144 of the CrPC is being invoked in several cities and towns in Maharashtra to prevent people from gathering at a spot.
  • Quote of the Day: β€œDo you know what the American people are thinking right now? They’re thinking that the brain is an amazing organ. It starts working in a mother’s womb, and it doesn’t stop working until you get elected to Congress.”
  • Police in Greece arrested members of a Turkish terrorist organisation after a tunnel containing a cache of military-grade weapons was discovered under Athens. Eleven members of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party (DHKP-C) were arrested. Police discovered a 47-metre (154-foot) tunnel that contained an arsenal of weapons including an anti-tank rocket launcher, grenade launchers, AK-47 rifles, and pistols, according to the Greek newspaper Kathimerini. The Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party is a revolutionary communist organisation that is classified as a terrorist organisation and wishes to topple Islamist president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and establish a Marxist state.
  • Singapore Airlines will cut 96% of its capacity that had been scheduled up to the end of April, said the airline on Monday (Mar 23). About 138 SIA and SilkAir planes, out of a total fleet of 147, will be grounded as a result. Scoot, the company’s low-cost unit, will suspend β€œmost of its network” and will ground all but two of its 49 planes. This comes amid the β€œgreatest challenge that the SIA Group has faced in its existence”, the company said.
  • [For What It Matters] It is a bad idea to publish coronavirus data from China as if it were factual, given ample anecdotal evidence the numbers are inaccurate and the CCP’s persistent history of lying about such things. There is 0 chance the Chinese numbers are accurate.
  • A Chinese kindergarten run by a US-listed group is under investigation after claims of sexual molestation and needle marks on children. The scandal broke out at the nursery in Beijing’s eastern suburb of Guanzhuang. The incidents were reported in two groups; each had some 25 children aged from 2 to 6. The kindergarten is run by RYB Education Institution, which is currently listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Several parents found needle marks on her children’s bodies, Caixin media group, which initially reported the story, said on Thursday. Medical examination of eight children confirmed that the injuries were indeed caused by needles, Guanzhuang police later said. Mr. Joel A. Getz is Independent Director of the Company. Prior to that, Mr. Getz served as Director of Development for the William J. Clinton Foundation in New York and was President of the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City.
  • The PG&E Corporation has agreed to plead guilty to charges of felony involuntary manslaughter for its role in sparking a wildfire in Butte County, California, that killed 84 people in 2018. The indictment charges the company with 84 counts of manslaughter and one count of unlawfully causing a fire. β€œPG&E acted with criminal negligence, which is a much higher standard than ordinary negligence. … They acted in a way that created a high risk of death,” said Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey. This indictment ends a year-long criminal investigation led by Ramsey. A centerpiece of Ramsey’s investigation was a piece of metal called a β€œC-hook,” which broke off from a transmission tower, allowing a high-voltage power to fall and start a fire in the brush below the tower. Fire investigators determined that the hook had worn through about 80% before finally snapping. The ensuing flames essentially destroyed the town of Paradise, California, in addition to becoming the deadliest wildfire in state history.
  • Tension continues at the Greek Evros border, with chemicals and stones β€˜rainingβ€˜ down on the Greek forces from illegal immigrants and Turkish police on the other side of the fence. The war-like scenery begun again when illegal immigrants attempted to storm and β€˜tear down’ parts of the fence. β€œEvros won’t fall” patch on the shoulder of a Greek soldier. The immigrants who want to illegally enter Greece and Europe, are encouraged by Turkish police, who launched tear gas grenades against the Greek defending forces. In response, a specialised armoured vehicle β€˜DAVID’ was sent to the Kastanies border. The firefighting vehicle which has a tank capacity of 12.5 tons (12500 kg) of water and a β€˜cannon’ range of about 35 meters, can extinguish fires in particularly inaccessible areas. It has also come to light from Turkish media footage, that the migrant camp on their side of the fence is being disinfected. This evidence raises questions if there are coronavirus cases among the illegal immigrants, or if the Turkish authorities are concerned for their health.
  • The National Health Commission of the Mainland claimed that 39 new cases of Wuhan pneumonia were confirmed the day before yesterday, but all of them were imported from abroad. There have been no new confirmed cases in the country for two consecutive days. However, Japanese media Kyodo News quoted Wuhan doctors as saying that authorities had suspended some tests, official figures were unreliable, and a second wave of outbreaks appeared at any time. The doctor quoted by Kyodo News Agency said that the Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping had visited Wuhan earlier, and the number of local diagnoses of Wuhan pneumonia was officially β€œmanipulated.” Many symptomatic patients were suddenly released without isolation for less than 14 days to show that β€œXi Jinping’s government successfully repelled the epidemic.”

Sun Activity

So far this year, the sun has been blank, without sunspots, 76% of the time. That’s verging on the Space Age record set just last year in 2019 when the sun was blank 77% of the time. This means Solar Minimum is still underway despite recent signs of life from the next solar cycle. Stay tuned for more quiet. -spaceweather.com

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News Burst 21 March 2020 – Live Feed ~ March 21, 2020


News Burst 21 March 2020

  • YouTube and Netflix have said they will reduce the streaming quality of videos to avoid straining the internet due to the unprecedented usage during the coronavirus pandemic. β€œStreaming platforms, telecom operators and users… have a joint responsibility to take steps to ensure the smooth functioning of the internet during the battle against the virus propagation,” the EU’s markets and services commissioner, Thierry Breton, said yesterday.
  • Even as the US stock market continued its free-fall due to the coronavirus pandemic, the top banker at Goldman Sucks got a pay raise to $2 million a year, $7.65 million cash bonus, plus stock options worth $17.85 million. David Solomon β€œled our development of the firm’s three-year business plan and a clear long-term strategy that leverages our foundational advantages, enhances the firm’s long-term mindset and instills a culture of innovation,” Goldman Sucks said in a federal filing disclosing the compensation.
  • In an effort to find a cure for the COVID-19 coronavirus, researchers are using the world’s most powerful supercomputer, the IBM-built Summit, to find potential compounds that could be used to fight the pandemic. Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee are screening through more than 8,000 compounds to determine which ones can bind to a so-called S-protein spike. Viruses infect host cells when they inject them with a β€œspike” of the virus’s genetic material. If scientists find compounds that bind to the spike, they could potentially stop the virus from infecting host cells.
  • US crude prices fell 29 percent on the week, recording their biggest weekly loss in almost 30 years, as the world’s top oil producers struggled to cope with the demand destruction caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic. A fight for greater market share by Saudi Arabia, which has been underpricing its oil against competing for crude from rivals Russia and the United States, also weighed on the market.
  • At least 14,854 migrants and refugees entered Europe via sea from the beginning of the year until mid-March. At least 219 people died in the attempt to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. This marked an increase of almost 50% on the same period last year, when there were 10,771 arrivals.
  • United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today, federal criminal charges against 35 individuals for their role in two separate drug trafficking rings. β€œThese methamphetamine trafficking organizations were fueling some of the violence that the citizens of central Indiana have been experiencing.” said Minkler. β€œThirty illegally possessed guns, twenty-two pounds of methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl, and approximately $70,000 in drug money support the decision to make custodial arrests today. Violent drug trafficking organizations should know that this national health crisis offers no safe harbor for them.”
  • Finland is the happiest country in the world for the third time in a row, reveals the 2020 World Happiness Report by United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Finland’s top spot is followed by Denmark and Switzerland. Norway held P3 last year but has now dropped to the fifth place. All Nordic countries are featured in the top seven. The happiest country from the Americas region is Canada, which is P11 on the list. Last year it was ninth. The United States is in the P18 place preceded by Australia, Costa Rica and Germany. Italy P30, Philippines last of the list is P52.
  • Almost a week since the Afghan Taliban trumpeted the defeat of the Islamic State in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, U.S. officials remain wary, though they concede the terror group’s grip on territory in rural areas appears to be slipping. The latest assessment is consistent with U.S. appraisals of previous claims by both Taliban and Afghan government officials, which they say, while based in fact, have at times overstated gains against one of the Islamic State’s most resilient and dangerous affiliates. β€œThe Taliban’s campaign against ISIS-Khorasan in Kunar province is consistent with Taliban public statements to rout the group from Afghanistan,” a U.S. counterterrorism official said.
  • On Saturday, Air Tahiti Nui set a record for the longest ever scheduled passenger flight – 15,715km from Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia, to Paris. The flight usually stops over in Los Angeles, but due to US travel restrictions it flew straight from Tahiti to France. It broke the distance record previously held by Singapore Airlines’ 15,343km flight between Singapore and Newark, New Jersey. The journey took just under 16 hours, well under the record time of 18 hours and 45 minutes still held by the Singapore-Newark flight. The arcraft is a twin-engine Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
  • This year’s Northern Hemisphere snowfall data, collated by those who know a thing or two about snow β€” the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) β€” reveals that the 2019/2020 season has become one of the snowiest Northern Hemisphere Winters on record, joining the uptick witnessed over the past few years.
    • In 2013, the Guardian ran with the story that the Arctic would be β€œice-free by 2015” due to a catastrophic methane-induced warming β€œpulse” and a lack of snowfall and ice.
    • Ten years ago, the same rag claimed that Greenland was going to β€œcollapse” within 10 years. And yet, according to NASA, its largest glacier, the Jacobshavn, has been growing for the past three years, and in Jan, 2020 the island actually set a new all-time record low temperature.
    • In 2008, the AP ran with the headline β€œwe’re toast,” and reported that NASA scientists claim β€œthe Arctic will be ice-free by 2018” due to rapid ablation and a lack of snowfall.
    • In 2000, the Independent wrote that scientists at the University of East Anglia are warning that β€œchildren won’t know what snow is,” as the white stuff β€œis starting to disappear from our lives.”
    • Way back in 1988, the AFP were scaring us into believing the Maldives would be β€œcompletely under water in 30 years” due to warming temperatures and a melting Arctic, with that apocalyptic date potentially arriving as early as 1992 β€œif drinking water supplies dry up.”

Sun Activity

Sunspot number: 0
Spotless Days
Current Stretch: 10 days
2020 total: 60 days (75%)

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News Burst 21 March 2020

News Burst 15 March 2020 – Live Feed ~ March 15, 2020


News Burst 15 March 2020

  • The Great Awakening (β€˜Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a BACKCHANNEL to the public (away from the longstanding β€˜mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of β€˜group-think’), but, more importantly, aid in the construction of a vehicle ( A β€˜SHIP’ ) that provides the scattered (β€˜free thinkers’) with a β€˜starter’ new social-networking platform which allows for freedom of thought, expression, and patriotism or national pride (the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to a homeland and alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment). – Q
  • The Effect of Adrenochrome and Adrenolutin On the Behavior of Animals and the Psychology of Man – This chapter describes the activity of adrenochrome and some of its derived compounds. The effect of adrenochrome is considered first upon simple systems, then more complex systems, then simple animals, and finally, upon the most complex animal, the man. animals that are given adrenochrome range from spiders, fish, and pigeons to the mammals including rats, cats, dogs, monkeys, and man. The chapter gives much original data on cats and man. Chemically, adrenochrome and adrenolutin are very reactive substances. Some of the changes produced by adrenochrome may persist several days, and in some cases, the effects lead to nearly disastrous results. Two cases of prolonged reactions are discussed in the chapter. There is also a discussion regarding the reaction that lasted more than one day after a single administration of adrenolutin as well as reactions up to one week. The changes in thinking induced by adrenochrome are similar to those observed in schizophrenia. Adrenochrome causes an elective inhibition of the process, which determines the content of associative thinking. This occurs in doses that do not heighten the lability of basic processes, do not reduce excitation, and do not loose temporary connections as is the case with LSD. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0074774208600252
  • Ronaldinho scores five goals in Paraguay prison game. The famous footballer ended up in Paraguayan prison over accusations of using a fake passport to enter the country. Several media outlets earlier reported that the now-retired athlete was stripped of his Brazilian and Spanish passports by authorities over debts and unpaid taxes.
  • Major European airlines are set to axe thousands of jobs and, without bailouts, some are facing collapse as the coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc on the industry. The French government said it is not considering a bailout of Air France-KLM at this stage, as the airline struggles for survival amidst the public health crisis. Scandanavian Airlines is reportedly laying off 100 pilots and 100 cabin crew on a temporary basis while Swiss International is taking half its fleet out of service and reducing working hours for flight personnel. British Airways reportedly tell employees that it is to ground flights β€œlike never before” and lay off workers both in the short term, and β€œperhaps long term.” The usually robust Ryanair also told staff they may be forced to take leave from Monday. The wave of uncertainty comes hot on the heels of Flybe, one of biggest airlines, collapsing into administration, leaving flights canceled and passengers stranded.
  • On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death in the United States was announced, brothers Matt and Noah Colvin set out in a silver S.U.V. to pick up some hand sanitizer. Driving around Chattanooga, Tenn., they hit a Dollar Tree, then a Walmart, a Staples and a Home Depot. At each store, they cleaned out the shelves. Over the next three days, Noah Colvin took a 1,300-mile road trip across Tennessee and into Kentucky, filling a U-Haul truck with thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer and thousands of packs of antibacterial wipes, mostly from β€œlittle hole-in-the-wall dollar stores in the backwoods,” his brother said. β€œThe major metro areas were cleaned out.” Matt Colvin stayed home near Chattanooga, preparing for pallets of even more wipes and sanitizer he had ordered, and starting to list them on Amazon. Mr. Colvin said he had posted 300 bottles of hand sanitizer and immediately sold them all for between $8 and $70 each, multiples higher than what he had bought them for. To him, β€œit was crazy money.” To many others, it was profiteering from a pandemic. The next day, Amazon pulled his items and thousands of other listings for sanitizer, wipes and face masks. The company suspended some of the sellers behind the listings and warned many others that if they kept running up prices, they’d lose their accounts. EBay soon followed with even stricter measures, prohibiting any U.S. sales of masks or sanitizer.
  • The largest waste dump in Ethiopia has been converted into an energy plant that turns trash into power. The Koshe waste dump has been operational for nearly 50 years, but after a terrible accident that killed 140 people in March of 2017, local officials began to consider other possible uses for the site. Ultimately, the site was turned into the first energy plant in Africa that converts trash into power and is expected to have the capacity to incinerate 1,400 tons of waste every day. Trash at the site will be burned in a combustion chamber to create heat that will be used to boil water until it turns to steam, which will then drive a turbine generator to produce electricity. It is also said that the plant will have very low emissions, which will comply with the emissions standards of the European Union. The fact that trash won’t be breaking down in the environment is another advantage.
  • β€œMy biowarfare antiterrorism act was specifically designed to not only to deal with regular biological weapons but also with DNA genetic engineering for biological weapons that was just coming into its infancy when the BWC was being drafted. Even though the BWC would cover DNA genetic engineering, I wanted to make it clear by name that it was covered. I also made it clear [that] it covered synthetic biology as well. So, when these unexplained mysterious illnesses break out, I monitor them a while and usually I just conclude they can be explained by normal reasons: lack of sanitation, poverty, things of that nature. But in Wuhan it seemed pretty suspicious to me. There is this Biosafety Level 4 facility there in Wuhan. It’s the first in China, and it was specifically set up to deal with the coronavirus and SARS. SARS is basically a weaponized version of the coronavirus. There have been leaks before of SARS out of this facility, and indeed the only reason for these BSL-4 facilities, based on my experience, is the research, development, testing and stockpiling of offensive biological weapons. For that reason, I stated my opinion: That this Wuhan coronavirus leaked out of that BSL-4 facility … maybe mid-November … and the Chinese government has been lying about it and covering up ever since.” – Francis Boyle, the one who called for biowarfare legislation at the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972, and the one who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989.
  • The former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, has released a cache of audio files, secretly recorded in 2015 during the bailout talks with the Eurogroup – a powerful group of eurozone’s finance chiefs. The recordings and their transcripts were released by Varoufakis on the website of his β€˜pan-European’ DiEM25 party on Saturday. The files –dubbed β€˜Euroleaks’– were recorded between February and July 2015, when cash-strapped Athens was entangled in painful talks with its creditors. In 2015, Varoufakis was the chief negotiator for then-ruling Syriza party, dealing with the Eurogroup and those behind it – the so-called β€˜troika.’ It comprises the three main lenders of the eurozone nations – the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. While the Eurogroup is de-jure an informal group, it is actually a powerful decision-making institute that lacks accountability and transparency – and does not keep any records. The main goal in releasing the recordings is to shed light on its secretive activities, Varoufakis said in a video announcing the Euroleaks. The lenders took a tough, β€˜take it or leave it’ stance on Greece, effectively presenting it with an ultimatum. At the same time, they blamed Greek negotiators for stalled talks – and no records were available to prove them wrong. β€œYou will hear the [then-]president of the Eurogroup [Jeroen Dijsselbloem] and other ministers warn me that if I dare table written proposals within the Eurogroup meetings, that would be the end of the negotiations,” Varoufakis said. β€œAt the very same time they were leaking to the press that I was arriving at Eurogroup meetings without any proposals.” Apart from bringing into the limelight the β€œintransparent action by an unelected group of politicians who influence all our lives,” the leaks also serve another purpose. The putting in the public domain of the secret recordings is aimed at fighting attempts by the incumbent Greek government to β€œweaponize fake news,” produced by the Eurogroup back in 2015 to justify new austerity measures for the country, Varoufakis said. VIDEO

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News Burst 11 March 2020 – Live Feed ~ March 11, 2020


News Burst 11 March 2020

  • Wikipedia is generally thought of as an open, transparent, and mostly reliable online encyclopedia. Yet upon closer inspection, this turns out not to be the case. Moreover, studies have shown that 80% of all Wikipedia content is written by just 1% of all Wikipedia editors, which again amounts to just a few hundred mostly unknown people. Obviously, such a non-transparent and hierarchical structure is susceptible to corruption and manipulation, the notorious β€œpaid editors” hired by corporations being just one example. Indeed, already in 2007, researchers found that CIA and FBI employees were editing Wikipedia articles on controversial topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo military prison. Also in 2007, researchers found that one of the most active and influential English Wikipedia administrators, called β€œSlim Virgin”, was in fact a former British intelligence informer.
  • In what is likely the most epic story to come out of China as a result of the coronavirus. While schools have been suspended, teachers have been using an app called DingTalk to assign their students online lessons and homework. Students figured out eventually that if they had enough users spam the app with one star ratings, they could get it kicked off of the app store, which would then in turn prevent them from having to do homework. As a result, β€œthousands of reviews” flooded into and DingTalk saw its app rating fall from 4.9 to 1.4 overnight.
  • The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission to Mars recently produced some unexpected results, providing researchers with some rather interesting data about the nature of the Red Planet. Scientists established that the magnetic field at the site where the InSight lander had touched down is actually ten times stronger than originally anticipated, β€œand fluctuates over time-scales of seconds to days”.
  • Researchers at Brandon University in Canada have made progress in understanding the nature of a tiny worm that can apparently survive on a diet of plastic. This species of worm, which normally lives in beehives and eats wax, with another 60 frens were able to eat more than 30 square centimeters of a plastic bag in less than a week, excreting glycol, β€œa form of alcohol”, in the process.
  • Vietnam announced a program on popularizing smartphones to 100 percent of the population. Under the program, mobile network operators, app developers and manufacturers will join forces in a subsidy project to lower prices of certain smartphones from the current $45-$50 to $20.
  • Now that both OPEC+ and OPEC no longer exist, and it’s a free-for-all of β€œevery oil producer for themselves” and which Goldman described as return to β€œthe playbook of the New Oil Order, with low cost producers increasing supply from their spare capacity to force higher cost producers to reduce output”, the key question is just how long can the world’s three biggest producers – shale, Russia and Saudi Arabia sustain a scorched-earth price war that keep oil prices around $30 (or even lower). While we hope to get an answer on both Saudi and US shale longevity shortly, and once the market reprices shale junk bonds sharply lower, we expect the US shale patch to soon become a ghost town as money-losing US producers will not be solvent with oil below $30, assuring that millions in supply will soon be pulled from the market, moments ago we got the answer as far as Russia is concerned, when its Finance Ministry said on Monday that the country could weather oil prices of $25 to 30$ per barrel for between 6 and 10 years.
  • Vietnam imported nearly 66,000 tonnes of meat in the first two months of this year. Of which, pork imports reached 13,816 tonnes, an increase of 150 per cent over the same period of 2019. The largest pork import volume was from Canada, accounting for 33.06 per cent of the total pork imports. Following was Germany (accounting for 25.4 per cent), Brazil (16.1 per cent), Poland (15.8 per cent) and the US (7.8 per cent). Meanwhile, the nation imported 12,459 tonnes of beef and 12,934 tonnes of buffalo meat during the first two months. All buffalo meat imports came from India and beef was imported mainly from the US, Australia and Canada. It bought 26,656 tonnes of poultry meat from abroad in the first two months, mainly from the US, South Korea and Brazil. In 2019, the country imported over 280,000 tonnes of meat, a year on year increase of 17 per cent, mainly from the US, South Korea, the Netherlands, Poland, Brazil and Canada.
  • President Xi Jinping on Tuesday inspected the COVID-19 outbreak epicenter in central China, pledging a continuous fight toward victory as prevention and control efforts have β€œturned the tide.” The inspection to Wuhan, Hubei Province, took the president to a hospital treating severely ill COVID-19 patients and a residential community. He visited patients, medics, community residents and workers, police officers, military personnel, officials and volunteers who have been fighting the novel coronavirus. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, called for firm, solid and meticulous prevention and control efforts to defend Hubei and Wuhan. Xi said thanks to hard work, the situation in Hubei and Wuhan has shown positive changes with important progress, but the task of prevention and control remains arduous.

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