I’ve wondered why Dianne Feinstein so persistently defends NSA and other surveillance abuses. Now she is proposing a bill designed to avoid reining in these abuses–an attempt to circumvent other, more substantive bills such as that of Jim Sensenbrenner and Pat Leahy–and yesterday she penned a paean to surveillance in USA Today that, more than anything, sounds…
From yesterday’s Japan Times comes a sobering piece quoting the last chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Jaczko only stepped down in 2012) suggesting there isn’t any way to safely manage nuclear power in a world of earthquakes and natural disasters. The ongoing crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 plant is a sign that the world…
By Madlen Davies, Ivan Ruiz, Jill Langlois, and Rosa Furneaux — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism Feb. 23, 2021 Republished by Stat, this report includes many of the details missed in the video published earlier. COURTESY ADRIAN JOHNSON Pfizer has been accused of “bullying” Latin American governments during negotiations to acquire its Covid-19 vaccine, and the company has asked some countries…
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/fauci-us-out-of-the-pandemic-phase.html “We are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase,” Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a televised interview April 26. The nation’s top infectious disease expert made the statement on PBS’ NewsHour in response to host Judy Woodruff’s question on how…
Why is the country practically bankrupt and mired in corruption? Can the parts of our economic culture that enable huge government giveaways be identified? We certainly don’t know about how most decisions are made at the federal level, nor do we have any idea how much money changes hands and how. But there are some…
Here is some amazing information from the UK’s Office of National Statistics. It is a list, by age group, of deaths in which no other comorbidities, besides COVID, are listed on the death certificate. From the start of the pandemic until the end of December 2021, 23 months, there were only 3 child deaths IN…