RAIDER 1 Citizen News for Thursday, Mar. 2, 2023
CPAC, New Giza Discovery, Japanese Expansion, Migrants Going to Canada, Bluesky, Drug-Resistant Shigellosis on the Rise and much more!
2024 Hopefuls Gather at CPAC
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) traces back to 1974 and touts itself as "the largest and most influential gathering of conservatives in the world," but observers say its attendance list this year -- and those who chose not to attend -- reflect broader debates over the identity of the GOP as the next presidential primary takes shape.
New Corridor Discovered in Giza Pyramid
Have we not been over these things with fine-toothed comb!?!
Egyptian antiquities officials announced on Thursday the discovery of a hidden nine metre-long corridor behind the main entrance of the Great Pyramid of Giza that they said could lead to further findings.
Japan Has 7,000 More Islands Than They Thought
Again, are all the fine-toothed combs out of stock?
Japan has recounted its islands – and discovered it has 7,000 more than it previously thought. Digital mapping by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) recently found there to be 14,125 islands in Japanese territory, more than double the figure of 6,852 that has been in official use since a 1987 report by Japan’s Coast Guard.
Migrants Moving to Canada
Though the numbers of migrants at the southern border of the United States are far higher, the numbers entering Canada are also surging. Nearly 40,000 migrants crossed unlawfully into the country last year — more than double the number in 2019 — and the number arriving monthly has spiked recently, including almost 5,000 people in January.
Jack Dorsey’s New Twitter Alternative
Jack Dorsey, Twitter's former CEO and founder launched his own social media platform today, called Bluesky. Bluesky is based on the principle of allowing users to build a shared and open social media platform.
Twitter, under Dorsey, was a thought prison. The censorship was ungodly, so we are not eager to see what Bluesky is all about. We already know.
Drug Resistant Shigellosis on the Rise
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning about a rise in extensively drug-resistant cases of the bacterial infection Shigella, a major cause of inflammatory diarrhea. The agency calls the new form of the stomach bug, which causes the diarrheal condition known as shigellosis, a “serious public health threat.” Evidence suggests the illness is spreading among gay and bisexual men in particular, apparently through sexual contact, both in the U.S. and abroad.
No Parole for Sirhan
A California panel on Wednesday denied parole for Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, saying the 78-year-old prisoner still lacks insight into what caused him to shoot the senator and presidential candidate in 1968, Sirhan’s lawyer said.
U.S. Regulators Deny Elon Musk Human Testing Rights for Neuralink
Musk has said his brain implant company, Neuralink, will make the paralyzed walk, the blind see and eventually turn people into cyborgs. But the firm still struggles to secure clinical-trial approval for the relatively modest goal of helping disabled people type.
The Bill is Signed - No Nuclear Arms Pact Between U.S. and Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed a bill formally suspending the last remaining nuclear arms treaty with the United States, amid soaring tensions with Washington over Moscow’s action in Ukraine. Putin had declared a week ago in his state-of-the-nation address that Moscow was suspending its participation in the 2010 New START treaty. He had charged that Russia can’t accept U.S. inspections of its nuclear sites under the pact at a time when Washington and its NATO allies have openly declared Russia’s defeat in Ukraine as their goal.
U.S. Approves Arms Sale to Taiwan
The United States has approved a potential sale of missiles and related equipment to Taiwan worth $619 million to be used on its F-16 fighter jets, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The approval by the State Department and formal notification to Congress the same day are almost certain to inflame tensions with Beijing, which regards Taiwan as part of its territory to be brought under its control by force if necessary.
Unknown Fleet Helping Russian Ship Oil Around the World
Russian oil is still finding its way to buyers around the world. But even those who spend their days tracking its movement across oceans struggle to work out exactly who is ferrying it. As Western sanctions against Russia have escalated over its invasion of Ukraine, more ships have joined an existing fleet of mysterious tankers, ready to facilitate Russia’s oil exports. Industry insiders estimate the size of that “shadow” fleet at roughly 600 vessels, or about 10% of the global number of large tankers. And numbers continue to climb.
Palantir Gets Limited in Germany
Peter Thiel’s Palantir rides the forefront of the government access wave. The CIA-backed data analytics company provides its services to a number of US agencies, including the rightfully reviled ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). Palantir scrapes up everything that isn’t nailed down and serves it up to people with the power to stop, arrest, or kill persons of interest generated by proprietary algorithms criminal defendants are often denied access to.
Research Palantir!
Murdaugh Trial Update
The Defense presented their Closing Argument today. The State rebutted, the Jury stated Deliberations about 4pm.
We are on Verdict Watch!
From the Conspiracy Archives
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
In 1932 the United States Public Health Service which was a precursor to the CDC, joined with the Tuskegee Institute in a study on the natural progression of untreated Syphilis, specifically in black males.
The study started with 600 black men, 399 with syphilis and 201 without. Participants were unwitting and had submitted no informed consent about what would happen to them during the study.
Participants told they were receiving treatment for multiple ailments. In return for their inclusion, the men would receive free medical exams, meals, and burial insurance. Hmmm, that probably should have been a red flag!
The study ended 40 years later in 1972 after an advisory panel investigated the meager results and deemed them “ethically unjustified”.
By then, 28 of the men had died of syphilis. 100 died of complications related to syphilis. 40 wives were infected and 19 children were born with congenital syphilis. All of which could have been cured with a shot of penicillin, which became widely used for syphilis by 1944.
President Clinton formally apologized in 1997.
The reason this is conspiracy-related is because a United States sanctioned health organization conducted a study and didn’t bother to tell the participants they could die and that the organization never planned to treat them for a fatal disease.
Yet, we are supposed to blindly trust everything organizations like this say. A modern-day example is the CDC. We are expected to accept their guidelines as gospel and without question.
To which we say:
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
~ George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905
For some reason, asking questions makes you on the level with criminals.
To which we say:
Truth is treason in an empire of lies.
~ George Orwell
The Good News
Jurassic-era Insect Believed Extinct in Eastern U.S. Found at Walmart in Arkansas
A giant Jurassic-era insect missing from eastern North America for at least half a century has been spotted clinging to the side of a Walmart big box in Arkansas. The identification of the giant lacewing – Polystoechotes punctata – in an urban area of Fayetteville, Arkansas, sent scientists into raptures. The discovery of a species that was abundant in the age of the dinosaurs but which was thought to have disappeared from large swaths of North America has stoked speculation that there may be entire populations tucked away in remote parts of the Ozark mountains.
Dog Found Alive in Turkish Rubble an Astounding 22 Days Following Devastating Quake
A dog has been rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building in southern Turkey, more than three weeks after a powerful earthquake hit the region and killed more than 50,000 people, officials say.
The dog’s owner, Murat Arici, called for help on Tuesday after hearing his Siberian Husky in the rubble of a two-story building near Antakya in Hatay province, one of the worst-hit regions.
Ontario Woman Strikes Up Conversation with a Homeless Man and Ends Up Hiring Him - A Life Transformed by Kindness
An Ontario woman’s decision to hire a man experiencing homelessness to work on her farm on a whim is showing the power of kindness and the ability of community to change lives. Three weeks ago, Danielle MacDuff saw Brian Bannister reading a book and collecting change in her town of Newcastle, Ont. She decided to strike up a conversation, she said, and they ended up talking for 25 minutes before she invited Bannister to work on her farm the next day.