News Burst 16 November 2024
>> “Satan is here”: Romanian MEP Diana Iovanovici-Sosoaca has sparked controversy in Brussels, where she was seen with an Orthodox priest blessing the seat of the European Parliament. Diana Sosoaca has proposed bringing in a priest to sanctify the European Parliament and rid it of “devils”, reported Politico. “Just like in the Romanian parliament, here the devils meet,” Sosoaca told reporters earlier this week, according to Politico. “I will bring a priest to consecrate the offices and wherever else I can. It is my right to religion, to the expression of my religious faith,” she added. She wrote “NEVER FOR UKRAINE, NEVER FOR LGBT, NEVER FOR THE EU DICTATORSHIP” on her ballot, and went on to slam the EU’s support for Ukraine in her inaugural speech to the European Parliament. Furthermore, the MEP is known for her Covid denialist positions and for accusing the European Commission of deaths during the pandemic. Last Monday, having arrived in Brussels with two Orthodox priests.
>> The United Nations has officially accused Israel of committing a massive genocide against Palestinian civilians living in Gaza. The UN special committee, comprised of comprised three member states – Malaysia, Senegal and Sri Lanka – claims Israel used starvation as a weapon of war. Middleeasteye.net reports: The report, released amid ongoing scrutiny of Israel’s military response to the October 7 Hamas attack, highlights the difficult conditions facing Gaza’s 2.3 million residents, particularly in terms of restricted access to food, water, medical care and shelter. “The policies and practices of Israel during the reporting period are consistent with the characteristics of genocide,” the report states, urging immediate steps to be taken to protect civilian lives. The special committee also concluded that Israel is committing several violations of international law, and not just in Gaza.
>> In a major development with potential impact on Bill Gates’ trial in the Netherlands, a Dutch government official has disclosed that the Covid pandemic was orchestrated as a “military operation.” The official went on to admit that, throughout the pandemic, the nation was operating under direct orders from NATO. According to the government official, the pandemic played out according to a coordinated, behind-the-scenes strategy, suggesting that the forced vaccinations and brutal lockdowns had nothing to do with public health, and everything to do with advancing a hidden agenda. This news is a major setback for Bill Gates and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, both of whom are on trial in the Netherlands, facing accusations of misleading the public about Covid vaccines.
>> It has been discovered, not surprisingly, that radiation from cell phones has led to changes in the brain tissue of lab rats. According to a team of scientists from Tomsk State University (TSU) in Russia, controlled exposure to the 5G radiation spectrum has resulted in changes to the brain tissue of laboratory rats. The study was part of the International Electromagnetic Field Project, initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) to obtain science-based answers to questions of public concern about the possible health risks from 5G electromagnetic fields. It is apparantly still unclear whether the changes in their brain tissue will lead to positive or negative changes in the rats’ cognitive abilities….
>> A Reddit user shared a worrying conversation with Google’s chatbot. A student was chatting with an AI model to get responses to a homework task that seemed to be a test. After entering a question into the prompt area, the chatbot went rogue and provided a completely irrelevant and, in a sense, threatening response. “This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources,” responded Gemini. “You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please,” continued the chatbot.
>> As the meltdown continues in the wake of President Trump’s landslide election victory, a new trend has emerged among individuals with extreme cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome: advising women to secretly poison their husbands if they voted for Trump. We have already seen calls for a sex strike, endorsed by Kathy Griffin and Whoopi Goldberg, and even intentionally downgrading personal appearance to punish patriotic American men. Now, however, some are escalating the rhetoric, openly suggesting more drastic, even dangerous, responses to a spouse’s political beliefs. The New York Post reports that “Women online have taken to filming ghoulish murder-fantasy videos in which they romanticize lacing men’s beverages with deadly poison as a justifiable response to fears about abortion rights under a second Donald Trump presidency.” “Many of the videos have been viewed millions of times on X or TikTok and feature young women fiendishly grinning as they adulterate a cup of tea or other drink with an unknown substance,” the report adds. It further explains that “Some of the women have dubbed the videos part of a ‘Make Aqua Tofana Great Again’ (‘MATGA’) movement, a nod both to President-elect Trump’s campaign slogan, ‘Make America Great Again’ (MAGA), and ancient killer Giulia Tofana, who has been adopted as the disturbed group’s heroine.”
>> Incredible footage shows the meeting of lava and snow as molten rock from an Icelandic volcano creeps across the snowy terrain. The video was captured by Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove during the eruption of the Sundhnúkagígar Volcano in February 2024. Van Nieuwenhove recently shared the footage on his social media. Some viewers, however, were skeptical and assumed the footage was generated using artificial intelligence (AI). The videographer confirmed that the footage was the real deal – definitely not AI – and was not manipulated or even sped up.
>> A 35-year-old Lebanese man was kicked out of a facility run by nuns along with his pregnant wife and one-year-old son. Jubilee: the tourists are coming.
>> A Swedish minister’s phobia of bananas has reportedly led to government officials asking for rooms to be free of the fruit. Local media outlet Expressen has quoted from leaked emails it has seen, in which staff working for minister Paulina Brandberg ask for any bananas to be removed before official visits. Brandberg, the country’s gender equality minister, is said to have posted on X in 2020, saying she has the “world’s weirdest phobia of bananas”. The posts have since been deleted. Fellow Swedish politician, Teresa Carvalho, also said on X that she too had bananaphobia, and was united with Brandberg on the issue.
>> The South African government says it will not send help to hundreds of illegal miners who are believed to be hiding inside an abandoned mine in the country’s North West province. Authorities have cut off food and water to the miners, a day after cabinet minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni vowed that the police will “smoke them out.” “We are not sending help to criminals. We are going to smoke them out. They will come out. Criminals are not to be helped. Criminals are to be persecuted,” Ntshavheni told reporters on Wednesday. The move is part of SAP’s operation Vala Umgodi (Close the hole), which includes blocking off access to supplies to force the illegal miners out of the pits and arrest them. Most of them are said to be undocumented migrants from neighboring countries, including Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and Mozambique. South Africa is one of the world’s top gold producers, although mining output has been in decline for decades. According to authorities, the downturn is in part due to thousands of illegal miners who hinder operations and are viewed as a source of criminality by locals.
>> Anti-government protestors in the Peruvian capital Lima burned US flags on Thursday to denounce President Dina Boluarte and Peru’s hosting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. The unrest coincided with the arrival of world leaders, including American President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping. Footage shared online showed activists torching American flags while chanting slogans such as “Get out, imperialist Yankees.” Banners declaring “APEC trash looters out” and “APEC accomplices to dictatorship” highlighted widespread discontent over Peru’s economic ties with global powers. Protesters argue that these alliances benefit elites while exacerbating inequality and crime.
>> German Economy Minister Robert Habeck has pressed charges against a 64-year-old man from Bavaria for sharing a meme calling him an idiot. Sometime in June, Stefan Niehoff shared a meme featuring a photo of Habeck with an altered logo of a popular shampoo brand, changing it from Schwarzkopf (black head) to Schwachkopf (weak head). Police raided his home in Lower Franconia at dawn on Tuesday and seized his tablet. Habeck’s lawyers have filed a criminal complaint against Niehoff, prosecutors in the town of Bamberg told the German news agency dpa on Friday. They added that Niehoff also faced charges of uploading an image to X that “referenced the Nazi era.” The court warrant had authorized a search and seizure of all of Niehoff’s mobile phones, internet-enabled devices and digital storage media, according to documents obtained by the outlet Nius.
>> In 1975, NASA’s Viking 1 spacecraft entered orbit around Mars, carrying a mission to unlock the secrets of the Red Planet. Soon, it released twin landers that drifted toward the Martian surface and eventually made history as the first American spacecraft to touch down on the world. For over six years, Viking 1 continued to orbit Mars’ Chryse Planitia region while its landers collected soil samples using robotic arms and onboard laboratories, marking a groundbreaking chapter in humanity’s exploration of the Martian environment. At the time, however, little was known about environmental conditions of the Red Planet, and the Viking life detection experiments were modeled after culturing techniques commonly used to identify microbes on Earth. These methods involved adding water and nutrients to those aforementioned soil samples, then monitoring for any signs that suggest microbes might be living in the samples. One day, both Viking landers reported a potential positive detection of microbial activity in their soil samples, and the findings naturally sparked decades of intense debate. Had we finally found proof of life elsewhere in the universe? However, most scientists now believe the results were negative or — at best — inconclusive. They think it’s more likely that the positive readings have an alternative explanation.
>> “Satan is here”: Romanian MEP Diana Iovanovici-Sosoaca has sparked controversy in Brussels, where she was seen with an Orthodox priest blessing the seat of the European Parliament. Diana Sosoaca has proposed bringing in a priest to sanctify the European Parliament and rid it of “devils”, reported Politico. “Just like in the Romanian parliament, here the devils meet,” Sosoaca told reporters earlier this week, according to Politico. “I will bring a priest to consecrate the offices and wherever else I can. It is my right to religion, to the expression of my religious faith,” she added. She wrote “NEVER FOR UKRAINE, NEVER FOR LGBT, NEVER FOR THE EU DICTATORSHIP” on her ballot, and went on to slam the EU’s support for Ukraine in her inaugural speech to the European Parliament. Furthermore, the MEP is known for her Covid denialist positions and for accusing the European Commission of deaths during the pandemic. Last Monday, having arrived in Brussels with two Orthodox priests.
>> The United Nations has officially accused Israel of committing a massive genocide against Palestinian civilians living in Gaza. The UN special committee, comprised of comprised three member states – Malaysia, Senegal and Sri Lanka – claims Israel used starvation as a weapon of war. Middleeasteye.net reports: The report, released amid ongoing scrutiny of Israel’s military response to the October 7 Hamas attack, highlights the difficult conditions facing Gaza’s 2.3 million residents, particularly in terms of restricted access to food, water, medical care and shelter. “The policies and practices of Israel during the reporting period are consistent with the characteristics of genocide,” the report states, urging immediate steps to be taken to protect civilian lives. The special committee also concluded that Israel is committing several violations of international law, and not just in Gaza.
>> In a major development with potential impact on Bill Gates’ trial in the Netherlands, a Dutch government official has disclosed that the Covid pandemic was orchestrated as a “military operation.” The official went on to admit that, throughout the pandemic, the nation was operating under direct orders from NATO. According to the government official, the pandemic played out according to a coordinated, behind-the-scenes strategy, suggesting that the forced vaccinations and brutal lockdowns had nothing to do with public health, and everything to do with advancing a hidden agenda. This news is a major setback for Bill Gates and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, both of whom are on trial in the Netherlands, facing accusations of misleading the public about Covid vaccines.
>> It has been discovered, not surprisingly, that radiation from cell phones has led to changes in the brain tissue of lab rats. According to a team of scientists from Tomsk State University (TSU) in Russia, controlled exposure to the 5G radiation spectrum has resulted in changes to the brain tissue of laboratory rats. The study was part of the International Electromagnetic Field Project, initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) to obtain science-based answers to questions of public concern about the possible health risks from 5G electromagnetic fields. It is apparantly still unclear whether the changes in their brain tissue will lead to positive or negative changes in the rats’ cognitive abilities….
>> A Reddit user shared a worrying conversation with Google’s chatbot. A student was chatting with an AI model to get responses to a homework task that seemed to be a test. After entering a question into the prompt area, the chatbot went rogue and provided a completely irrelevant and, in a sense, threatening response. “This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources,” responded Gemini. “You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please,” continued the chatbot.
>> As the meltdown continues in the wake of President Trump’s landslide election victory, a new trend has emerged among individuals with extreme cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome: advising women to secretly poison their husbands if they voted for Trump. We have already seen calls for a sex strike, endorsed by Kathy Griffin and Whoopi Goldberg, and even intentionally downgrading personal appearance to punish patriotic American men. Now, however, some are escalating the rhetoric, openly suggesting more drastic, even dangerous, responses to a spouse’s political beliefs. The New York Post reports that “Women online have taken to filming ghoulish murder-fantasy videos in which they romanticize lacing men’s beverages with deadly poison as a justifiable response to fears about abortion rights under a second Donald Trump presidency.” “Many of the videos have been viewed millions of times on X or TikTok and feature young women fiendishly grinning as they adulterate a cup of tea or other drink with an unknown substance,” the report adds. It further explains that “Some of the women have dubbed the videos part of a ‘Make Aqua Tofana Great Again’ (‘MATGA’) movement, a nod both to President-elect Trump’s campaign slogan, ‘Make America Great Again’ (MAGA), and ancient killer Giulia Tofana, who has been adopted as the disturbed group’s heroine.”
>> Incredible footage shows the meeting of lava and snow as molten rock from an Icelandic volcano creeps across the snowy terrain. The video was captured by Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove during the eruption of the Sundhnúkagígar Volcano in February 2024. Van Nieuwenhove recently shared the footage on his social media. Some viewers, however, were skeptical and assumed the footage was generated using artificial intelligence (AI). The videographer confirmed that the footage was the real deal – definitely not AI – and was not manipulated or even sped up.
>> A 35-year-old Lebanese man was kicked out of a facility run by nuns along with his pregnant wife and one-year-old son. Jubilee: the tourists are coming.
>> A Swedish minister’s phobia of bananas has reportedly led to government officials asking for rooms to be free of the fruit. Local media outlet Expressen has quoted from leaked emails it has seen, in which staff working for minister Paulina Brandberg ask for any bananas to be removed before official visits. Brandberg, the country’s gender equality minister, is said to have posted on X in 2020, saying she has the “world’s weirdest phobia of bananas”. The posts have since been deleted. Fellow Swedish politician, Teresa Carvalho, also said on X that she too had bananaphobia, and was united with Brandberg on the issue.
>> The South African government says it will not send help to hundreds of illegal miners who are believed to be hiding inside an abandoned mine in the country’s North West province. Authorities have cut off food and water to the miners, a day after cabinet minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni vowed that the police will “smoke them out.” “We are not sending help to criminals. We are going to smoke them out. They will come out. Criminals are not to be helped. Criminals are to be persecuted,” Ntshavheni told reporters on Wednesday. The move is part of SAP’s operation Vala Umgodi (Close the hole), which includes blocking off access to supplies to force the illegal miners out of the pits and arrest them. Most of them are said to be undocumented migrants from neighboring countries, including Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and Mozambique. South Africa is one of the world’s top gold producers, although mining output has been in decline for decades. According to authorities, the downturn is in part due to thousands of illegal miners who hinder operations and are viewed as a source of criminality by locals.
>> Anti-government protestors in the Peruvian capital Lima burned US flags on Thursday to denounce President Dina Boluarte and Peru’s hosting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. The unrest coincided with the arrival of world leaders, including American President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping. Footage shared online showed activists torching American flags while chanting slogans such as “Get out, imperialist Yankees.” Banners declaring “APEC trash looters out” and “APEC accomplices to dictatorship” highlighted widespread discontent over Peru’s economic ties with global powers. Protesters argue that these alliances benefit elites while exacerbating inequality and crime.
>> German Economy Minister Robert Habeck has pressed charges against a 64-year-old man from Bavaria for sharing a meme calling him an idiot. Sometime in June, Stefan Niehoff shared a meme featuring a photo of Habeck with an altered logo of a popular shampoo brand, changing it from Schwarzkopf (black head) to Schwachkopf (weak head). Police raided his home in Lower Franconia at dawn on Tuesday and seized his tablet. Habeck’s lawyers have filed a criminal complaint against Niehoff, prosecutors in the town of Bamberg told the German news agency dpa on Friday. They added that Niehoff also faced charges of uploading an image to X that “referenced the Nazi era.” The court warrant had authorized a search and seizure of all of Niehoff’s mobile phones, internet-enabled devices and digital storage media, according to documents obtained by the outlet Nius.
>> In 1975, NASA’s Viking 1 spacecraft entered orbit around Mars, carrying a mission to unlock the secrets of the Red Planet. Soon, it released twin landers that drifted toward the Martian surface and eventually made history as the first American spacecraft to touch down on the world. For over six years, Viking 1 continued to orbit Mars’ Chryse Planitia region while its landers collected soil samples using robotic arms and onboard laboratories, marking a groundbreaking chapter in humanity’s exploration of the Martian environment. At the time, however, little was known about environmental conditions of the Red Planet, and the Viking life detection experiments were modeled after culturing techniques commonly used to identify microbes on Earth. These methods involved adding water and nutrients to those aforementioned soil samples, then monitoring for any signs that suggest microbes might be living in the samples. One day, both Viking landers reported a potential positive detection of microbial activity in their soil samples, and the findings naturally sparked decades of intense debate. Had we finally found proof of life elsewhere in the universe? However, most scientists now believe the results were negative or — at best — inconclusive. They think it’s more likely that the positive readings have an alternative explanation.
