#NewsBurst 7 October 2024 :mega: Get The News!
>> A Brazilian politician is making an interesting campaign pitch: Ozempic for all. Eduardo Paes, the current mayor of Rio de Janeiro, is seeking reelection and just promised to make a generic version of Ozempic available through the city’s public health network, if he wins. “I took a lot of Ozempic, that little medicine that is helping everyone lose weight,” Paes told the Brazilian newspaper Extra on Tuesday, adding that he lost 66 pounds. “Its patent will expire next year, and it will be available as a generic and I will introduce it to the entire public health system,” Paes said. “Rio will be a city where there will be no more fat people, everyone will be taking Ozempic at family clinics.”
>> Control over and the effective use of the online space has proven crucial over the past two US election cycles, with a groundswell of pro-Trump memes helping propel the candidate to victory in 2016, and unprecedented censorship of a damaging story about Hunter Biden by tech companies aiding Joe Biden in his quest for the White House in 2020. Former first lady, secretary of state and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called on social media companies to ramp up the moderation and monitoring of content on their platforms if the powers that be want to maintain control of the information space. “There should be a lot of things done. We should be, in my view, repealing something called Section 230 [of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, ed.], which gave, you know, platforms on the internet immunity because they were thought to be just pass-throughs – that they shouldn’t be judged for the content that is posted,” Clinton said in a interview ~ Ilya Tsukanov
>> Hillary Clinton has warned that if social media companies don’t censor stories about Pizzagate and elite pedophilia then the establishment risk “losing total control” of the narrative. Clinton complained that the lack of censorship on platforms like X is infuriating. “We should be, in my view, repealing something called Section 230, which gave platforms on the internet immunity because they were thought to be just pass-throughs, that they shouldn’t be judged for the content that is posted,” Clinton stated.
>> Hurricane Helene tore through Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina, unleashing catastrophic winds and relentless rain, leaving behind a trail of suffering. In the wake of this disaster, the Biden-Harris administration was quick to assert that this hurricane settles the debate on man-made climate change. But does it really? Or does the fact that Helene defied nature’s laws and behaved like a finely calibrated weapon suggest there is something deeper and more sinister lurking behind this narrative? Hurricane Helene didn’t behave the way any hurricane in history has ever behaved. This region has seen many storms before, but no one alive can remember weather like this. How did Helene get so much power, so much rain? And why did Helene power up after it made landfall?
>> About nine months ago, the WSJ Editor-in-Chief admitted to Davos elites that legacy media outlets no longer had a monopoly on information and narratives. In other words, misinformation and disinformation campaigns to brainwash the masses were no longer working. “We owned the news. We were the gatekeepers, and we very much owned the facts as well … Nowadays, people can go to all sorts of different sources for the news. And they’re much more questioning about what we’re saying,” WSJ EIC Emma Tucker said.
>> Britain and Mauritius announced an agreement this week which would cede the UK-administered Chagos Archipelago to Port Louis in exchange for long-term access to the strategic Indian Ocean military base at Diego Garcia. Five years after the historic 2019 United Nations-backed International Court of Justice ruling that British Indian Ocean Territory control over the Mauritius-claimed Chagos Archipelago is unlawful, London has announced readiness to cede control over the island territory, pending a formal treaty. “Under the terms of the treaty the United Kingdom will agree that Mauritius is sovereign over the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia. At the same time, both our countries are committed to the need, and will agree in the treaty, to ensure the long-term, secure and effective operation of the existing base on Diego Garcia which plays a vital role in regional and global security,” the UK and Mauritius said in a joint statement.
>> Germany’s Tollense river valley was the scene of Europe’s oldest known battle, new research published in the journal Antiquity suggests. Ground-breaking new analysis of dozens of bronze and flint arrowheads found there, along with the discovery of bones from some 150 individuals, tells a story of a brutal conflict that erupted in 1250 BC. To date, no evidence of earlier battles of such tremendous scale has been unearthed. The site was discovered in 1996 by an amateur archaeologist who spotted a bone sticking out of the mud. Numerous excavations have been made at the Tollense site since then.
>> An explosion and release of gas at a pool and spa chemical plant outside Atlanta, Georgia threatens residents with long term environmental consequences, while the response to the incident is shining a spotlight on corporations’ influence over US regulatory agencies. An explosion occurred Sunday at a facility run by the company BioLab, Inc. in the city of Conyers, Georgia, about 20 miles outside Atlanta city limits. A fire on the roof of the plant was extinguished, but a massive plume of smoke shot into the air after water from a malfunctioning sprinkler came in contact with a water-reactive chemical. Thousands of people in the surrounding area were ordered to evacuate while others remain under a shelter-in-place order. Air quality data from a local meteorologist has since brought the government response into question; one reading suggested airborne chlorine was at 22 times the so-called “action level” for the US Environmental Protection Agency to investigate the matter.
>> According to estimates, criminals earn SEK 100 billion to 150 billion (€8.8 billion to €13.2 billion) annually in Sweden, reports Swedish state television SVT. A new police report says the crime economy is taking a huge toll on society. That money, if diverted to the real economy, could triple the child allowance for all Swedish families with children, notes the report. Annika Öhmark, coordinator of criminal economy in police region East says things will be getting worse before they get better, although she remains optimistic about the future. In addition to the black market money creating unhealthy competition, the growing criminal economy is also directly connected to the increase in murders, shootings and explosions Sweden has seen in recent years. Fraud is estimated to be the biggest source of income for criminal gangs, who use extortion and threats to collect fictitious fines or debts. Last year, around 9,000 extortion crimes were reported, 30 percent more than in 2022.
>> From poor air quality to the presence of unwanted litter and pests, living in dirty and polluted cities can have detrimental effects on quality of life. In the ranking, over 300 major cities are scored on four main categories of pollution, infrastructure, living conditions, and resident dissatisfaction. Some metrics included in the score calculations include: air quality index, greenhouse gas emissions per capita, water quality violations, quantity of waste in landfills per capita, population density, and share of overcrowded rooms. San Bernardino County in California is home to two of the top 10 dirtiest cities in the U.S., including first-ranked San Bernardino city and fifth-ranked city Ontario. California, Texas, and New Jersey were each tied with two cities ranking in the top 10.
>> I always knew that Brexit was a fight between UK elites beholden to Davos, the same folks that overthrew Margaret Thatcher in the 1990s, and the people themselves, backed by what I’m now calling The British Remnant. This group is easy to understand, they are the group still clinging to the glory of an Empire lost and will graft themselves to whoever they have more influence with. The heroes are few and far between. The people of the UK are victims. Their governments have been the villains. But the question always arises, is there a bigger villain? To me that answer is yes, the EU. Divide and rule. It is the prime strategic ploy of abusers, narcissists and villains. Triangulate two factions into fighting each other while you sidle up to both of them. It’s worked brilliantly for the British and their allies for hundreds of years. ~ Tom Luongo
>> Netflix has been hemorrhaging subscriptions this past week after cofounder and CEO Reed Hastings came out in support of Kamala Harris for president. Hastings is said to be so excited at the idea of Kamala becoming the next President that he donated a whopping $7 million to her campaign to defeat Trump. Naturalnews.com reports: On July 23, Hastings went on X to publicly announce how much he loves Kamala. This prompted the worst business day ever for Netflix, which lost 2.8 percent of its subscriber based in July alone. Another part of the reason for this mass exodus was Netflix’s decision to phase out its basic tier and force all subscribers into a more costly one. Many Americans are sick and tired of the “woke” virus that infects modern programming as it is, and having to pay even more for it was enough to cause tens of thousands of Netflix subscribers to cancel.
>> The Hessdalen Lights, a mysterious phenomenon witnessed in a remote valley in Norway, continue to baffle scientists, locals, and UFO enthusiasts alike. These strange, pulsating lights in the sky have sparked debates, theories, and numerous investigations over the years. In a recent expedition, retired F-16 pilot and UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon) investigator Chris Leos, along with fellow YouTuber Carl Crusher, ventured into Hessdalen to capture the elusive lights on camera. Their journey raises the question: could these lights be real evidence of UAPs, or is there a more conventional explanation? The expedition took place in Hallin, Norway, a region famous for such sightings. As the team watched the sky through night-vision equipment, they saw bright flashes in the otherwise clear sky. The flashes were distinctive because they lacked the rhythmic patterns typical of aircraft or satellite lights. Chris, initially suspecting an airliner, quickly dismissed the idea due to the absence of clouds and the irregularity of the lights.
