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originally posted by: duncanhidao
Why has Pfizer changed the formulation of its Covid-19 Vaccine for Children to include an ingredient that stabilises people suffering a Heart Attack?
Overseas athletes and spectators visiting the Beijing Winter Olympics will be among the first foreign nationals to be able to trial China’s digital yuan central bank digital currency (CBDC) at event venues, nearby merchants and inside the Olympic Village.
Visitors will be able to acquire, store and use the CBDC in an app or on a physical card or hard wallet, while athletes and coaches will be eligible for wristbands that support contactless payments in digital yuan and will be able to convert foreign banknotes into the digital currency at self-service machines.
It's part of a program commonly known as Made in China 2025, in which the Chinese government actively works with its domestic industries to achieve a dominant position in future technologies—everything from building smart roads to new-generation vehicles and from infrastructure systems to 5G-enabled transportation.
The Metaverse starts today with the development of the AI Research SuperCluster, a supercomputer with NVIDIA's A100 GPUs focusing on AI to assist with Meta's future in technology & virtual reality
Japan will take the initiative in guiding the world towards a brighter future by showing an ideal concept of the next society, which we call Society 5.0. In its latest report, Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) has redefined Society 5.0 as the "Imagination Society".
In Society 5.0, people will be liberated from various constraints that previous incarnations up until Society 4.0 could not overcome, and will obtain the freedom to pursue diverse lifestyles and values. People will be liberated from focus on efficiency. Instead, the emphasis will be placed on satisfying individual needs, solving problems and creating value.
People will be able to live, learn and work, free from suppressive influences on individuality, such as discrimination by gender, race, nationality, etc. and alienation because of their values and ways of thinking. People will be liberated from the disparity caused by the concentration of wealth and information, and anyone will be able to get opportunities to play a part any time, anywhere.
People will be liberated from anxiety about terrorism, disasters and cyberattacks, and live with security with strengthened safety nets for unemployment and poverty. People will be liberated from resources and environmental constraints, and able to live sustainable lives in any region.
In short, we will make Society 5.0 a society in which anyone can create value any time, anywhere, with security and in harmony with nature
By 2030, Africa’s potential workforce will be among the world’s largest,[6] and so, paired with the needed infrastructure and skills for innovation and technology use, the 4IR represents a massive opportunity for growth. Indeed, the 4IR is dramatically changing global systems of labor and production, requiring that job seekers cultivate the skills and capabilities necessary for adapting rapidly to the needs of African firms and automation more broadly.
The vaccine blackmail imposed by the government is not only illegitimate, but in our opinion, it is indisputable that it constitutes a crime.
The sanction of the prohibition to work against those who do not want to get vaccinated is equivalent to preventing people from being able to support themselves, their survival is threatened.
It is a penalty totally contrary to respect for the person and human dignity, something never seen in a state of law.
In these days in various areas of Italy, citizens are going to the Public Prosecutor's offices or alternatively to the police stations with the aim of denouncing the Draghi government, accused of the crime of private violence.
This is an initiative developed by the lawyer Marco Mori who, together with the Italexit party, has made available to Italian citizens a pre-filled report that everyone can easily download and - obviously after having entered their personal data and signature - deliver.
Thus, in several cities, Italians joined the initiative.
The Pentagon has launched a 5-year long project with a possible extension of up to 3 years code-named GG-21: “Arthropod-borne and zoonotic infections among military personnel in Georgia”. According to the project’s description, blood samples will be obtained from 1,000 military recruits at the time of their military registration physical exam at the Georgian military hospital located in Gori.
The samples will be tested for antibodies against fourteen pathogens:
Bacillus anthracis
Brucella
CCHF virus
Coxiella burnetii
Francisella tularensis
Hantavirus
Rickettsia species
TBE virus
Bartonella species
Borrelia species
Ehlrichia species
Leptospira species
Salmonella typhi
WNV
Project UP-8: All deaths of study participants should be reported within 24 h
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has funded a similar project involving soldiers in Ukraine code-named UP-8: The spread of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus and hantaviruses in Ukraine and the potential need for differential diagnosis in patients with suspected leptospirosis. The project started in 2017 and was extended few times until 2020, internal documents show.
DILYANA.BG
Disinfo: US biolabs have been developing new biological weapons in Ukraine
Recurring unfounded claims alleging that the United States develops biological weapons and has secret biological laboratories around the world.
Russian media are continuously spreading disinformation about "secret military biological laboratories in Ukraine". In fact, there are no secret US laboratories in the country.
The U.S. Department of Defense’s Biological Threat Reduction Program collaborates with partner countries to counter the threat of outbreaks (deliberate, accidental, or natural) of the world’s most dangerous infectious diseases. The program accomplishes its bio-threat reduction mission through development of a bio-risk management culture; international research partnerships; and partner capacity for enhanced bio-security, bio-safety, and bio-surveillance measures. The Biological Threat Reduction Program’s priorities in Ukraine are to consolidate and secure pathogens and toxins of security concern and to continue to ensure Ukraine can detect and report outbreaks caused by dangerous pathogens before they pose security or stability threats.
U.S. Embassy in Ukraine
originally posted by: RelSciHistItSufi
Is anyone else experiencing really odd detachment behaviour from family members and friends?
It's almost like they're drifting apart on different 3D timelines. I can't pin it down to the jabbed because some who ARE jabbed AREN'T acting like it.
I don't want to get morose about it but here's a few sad examples from the last week:
a) We're trying to organise a surprise party for mother's 85th, as she's never had one. I text my kids to check they'll come; the eldest is usually most dutiful but made a flimsy excuse about "school night" to avoiding coming and bringing the great grandkids, another hasn't even replied 36 hours later, whilst the third will travel 100 miles to attend,
b) An uncle sent a Christmas card with wishes for the rest of the family but left me and my branch off,
c) Mum's cutting ties with her twin - ostensibly because she can't cope with stressing about him,
d) My brothers, who walk home past ma's door every evening, now only drop in every few days... and then leave within 5 minutes.
I have noted changes in some friends also... I don't think it's just "quarantine fever" as it exhibits in their behaviours - emotion and care have turned to coldness and selfishness.
It literally feels as though their frequencies don't interact with mine anymore - almost as though their "ripples" are passing underneath mine.
Is anyone else experiencing really odd detachment behaviour from family members and friends?
originally posted by: GAPeach3
a reply to: RelSciHistItSufi
Me too, Sufi. It seems more difficult lately to even engage with people, family, and friends. I feel like I'm in a holding pattern, waiting for something. Like you and some others here have said, I am examining my own self for what the problem is. The pall of depression and hopelessness I see almost everywhere I look makes me angry. Our country is being destroyed bit by bit. So many loved ones, and friends, have died needlessly. Heck, I can't even put into words now what I'm feeling. Thanks for the post, at least I know I'm not the only one.
I feel like I'm in a holding pattern, waiting for something.