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Biden White House desperate for Ukraine funding, claims GOP is 'playing chicken with our national security' by demanding border closure
As the White House continues pressuring Congress to authorize more aid for Ukraine following the news that current funds will run out by the end of the year, a number of Republicans have made it clear that they will only vote to allow more money for the war-torn nation if it is tied to support for securing the southern border.
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden suggested that the policies being sought by the GOP members of Congress were "extreme," and accused them of "playing chicken" with the United States' national security by potentially paving the way for Russian advances."Extreme Republicans are playing chicken with our national security, holding Ukraine's funding hostage [for their] extreme partisan border policies."
Biden called on the GOP to work with Democrats, who he said had proposed a bill that would provide funding for Ukraine and the border, and allow for amendments to the latter part of the proposal.He suggested that Republicans' desire to see the southern border given the same attention as Ukraine proved that they're "willing to literally kneecap Ukraine on the battlefield and damage our national security the process."
-Jarryd Jaeger, The Post Millennial
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Catholic nuns sue Smith & Wesson to halt sales of AR-15 assault rifles
A group of Catholic nuns on Tuesday sued the board of Smith & Wesson to try to force the gunmaker to abandon the manufacture, marketing and sales of assault-style rifles that have been used in US mass shootings.
The nuns, in a lawsuit filed in state court in Nevada, allege that Smith & Wesson’s directors and senior management exposed the company to significant liability by intentionally violating federal, state and local laws and failing to respond to lawsuits over mass shootings.
“These rifles have no purpose other than mass murder,” the nuns said in a statement.
Smith & Wesson, which is incorporated in Nevada, did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
AR-15 assault-style rifles have been used in a number of mass shootings that have shocked Americans.
The first page of the lawsuit contains a photo from a mass shooting at a Colorado cinema in 2012 that showed a Smith & Wesson assault rifle on the blood-splattered ground next to pink sandals. Twelve people died and 70 were injured in the attack.
The group of nuns filed the lawsuit in their role as Smith & Wesson shareholders, in what is known as a derivative lawsuit. Such lawsuits seek to hold corporate boards liable for breaches of their duties to shareholders, although courts generally find boards are protected from lawsuits for good-faith decisions.
If successful, the lawsuit would hold the company’s directors liable for any costs associated with the allegedly illegal marketing of assault rifles and any damages would be paid to Smith & Wesson, not the plaintiffs.
The lawsuit is the first derivate case against a board over assault rifles, according to Jeffrey Norton, an attorney for the nuns.
The nuns alleged that the directors of Smith & Wesson have ignored growing legal risks from making assault-style rifles.
For many years, gunmakers enjoyed broad immunity for liability from mass shootings due to a 2005 US law known as the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. But last year, rival gunmaker Remington agreed to pay $73 million to settle claims by families of the victims of the 2012 shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, which has encouraged others to sue over mass shootings.
In addition, New York, Illinois and California are among the states that have adopted laws that either ban assault rifles or make it easier to sue over their use.
At the same time, the US Supreme Court and many other states have taken steps to expand gun-owner rights.
Smith & Wesson warned in its 2022 annual report that it might have to pay significant damages due to legal proceedings against the company.
The case in Nevada was brought by the Adrian Dominican Sisters of Adrian, Michigan; Sisters of Bon Secours USA of Marriottsville, Md.; Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia of Aston, Pa.; and Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus & Mary, US-Ontario Province of Marylhurst, Ore.
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-The New York Post
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Biden Admin Pledges $3 Billion To The UN’s Neocolonialist ‘Green Climate Fund’
Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the United States will send $3 billion to the “Green Climate Fund,” an organization financed by rich countries committed to keeping underdeveloped countries poor and vulnerable. The announcement was made this week at the United Nations (UN) COP28 climate summit in Dubai. This $3 billion comes in addition to the $2 billion the U.S. has already contributed to the fund.
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is a UN organization that claims to promote “climate action in developing countries.” The GCF collects billions of dollars from developed nations and supposedly invests said funds into green energy projects in poor nations. The organization is known for its lack of public transparency, and its higher-ups have been accused of victimizing employees via abuse of power, racism, sexism, harassment, and inappropriate relationships.
But it isn’t just secrecy and alleged workplace harassment that should worry the American taxpayers who are bankrolling and expanding the GCF. Indeed, the GCF is part of a neocolonialist movement to prevent developing countries from using the life-saving fossil fuels the Western world obtained decades ago.
Contrary to what UN climate cultists would have us believe, green energy is unreliable and insufficient. Additionally, fossil fuels improve the lives of billions of people by providing them with heating, air conditioning, weather warning systems, mass irrigation, and durable buildings. It is largely thanks to fossil fuels that climate-related disaster deaths have reduced by 99 percent compared to 100 years ago.
In his 2018 book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change, climatedepot.com founder Marc Morano included a speech delivered by South African development activist Leon Louw at the 2011 UN Climate Conference. During his speech, Louw explained how the GCF is hurting the citizens of poor nations. “Government to government aid is a reward for being better than anyone else at causing poverty,” stated Louw. “It enriches the people who cause poverty. … The UN is saying to poor countries: ‘Those of you who adopt more anti-prosperity, anti-jobs, and anti-growth policies—under the pretense of environmentalism—we will enrich you.’”
According to Louw, crooked leaders in Third World countries, who are supposed to be investing in green energy projects, instead often spend the funds “on themselves, meaning various government projects, creating bigger departments—bigger bureaucracies, it’s called big bureaucratic capture. They build empires, they build conference centers, and they buy political support. They go and distribute the money to communities where they want support and votes.”
“Climate policies have a cost, and these predominantly hurt the poor,” explained Danish political scientist and statistician Bjørn Lomborg in Morano’s book. “So in choosing to spend that $10 billion on renewables, we deliberately end up choosing to leave more than 70 million people in darkness and poverty.”
The UN doesn’t just promote pointless green energy projects and corrupt politicians. Western nations, including the U.S., collectively and purposely conspire to squash fossil fuel energy projects in developing nations. For instance, during the UN’s COP26 conference, 25 wealthy nations pledged to either stop or radically limit financial support for international fossil fuel projects.
-Marc Morano, Climate Depot
US military grounds fleet of Osprey aircraft following deadly crash
The U.S. military announced Wednesday the grounding of all its Osprey CV-22 aircraft, one week after eight Air Force Special Operations Command service members died in a crash off the coast of Japan.
Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind, head of Air Force Special Operations Command, directed the grounding "to mitigate risk while the investigation continues," the command said in a statement.
The military said that the "standdown" of the Osprey CV-22 aircraft will "provide time and space" for a thorough investigation and to ensure a safe return to operations.
The extraordinary decision to ground the entire fleet of Ospreys came after a preliminary investigation revealed that a material failure was the cause of the devastating crash — not a mistake by the crew.
In a release, the Air Force Special Operations Command said that the underlying cause of the failure was still unknown at that time.
The military did not immediately say when the fleet would be back in commission.
Air Force Special Operations Command
Eight service members died during the devastating crash off the shore of Yakushima Island, Japan on Nov. 29.
On Tuesday, military officials identified the service members who were on board the Air Force CV-22 Osprey.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the families, friends and peers of all who are impacted by this mishap and loss of life," said Bauernfeind. "In times like these, where service to our nation is not just a personal commitment but also a legacy woven into the fabric of our families, the depth of sorrow is immeasurable.
"The honorable service of these eight Airmen to this great Nation will never be forgotten, as they are now among the giants who shape our history."
-Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News
U.S. warship, commercial vessels UNDER ATTACK in Red Sea, Pentagon confirms
The Red Sea region is erupting into war as numerous commercial vessels and United States warships incur maritime attacks reportedly carried out by Houthi rebels.
Reports indicate that in just one day, four separate attacks occurred against three separate commercial vessels connected to 14 separate nations. The Arleigh-Burke Class destroyer USS CARNEY responded to distress calls from these vessels, detecting that it was an anti-ship ballistic missile attack from Houthi that fired at them.
The CARNEY was conducting a patrol in the Red Sea at the time of the detection, which also included an anti-ship ballistic missile attack on the UNITY EXPLORER, a Bahamas-flagged, United Kingdom-owned and -operated bulk cargo ship crewed by sailors from the two countries.
While in international waters, the CARNEY engaged and shot down a UAV that was launched from Houthi-controlled regions of Yemen. It is unclear whether or not the CARNEY itself was one of the targets, but reports explain that there was a drone headed towards it at the time of the detection.
As far as we know, there has been no actual damage caused to the U.S. vessel and all of its personnel are fine.
Yemeni Houthis disrupting international commerce, maritime security
In another separate attack not long after, the UNITY EXPLORER reported that it was struck by a Houthi missile coming out of Yemen. While the CARNEY was responding to the UNITY EXPLORER's distress call, it detected yet another inbound UAV that destroyed the drone with no damage or injuries to either the CARNEY or the UNITY EXPLORER, save for reports of minor damage to the UNITY EXPLORER.
Later that same day, the M/V NUMBER 9 was struck by a missile fired the same Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen while operating shipping lanes in the Red Sea. That vessel, flagged for Panama, Bermuda and the U.K., reported damage but no casualties.
An hour after that, the M/V SOPHIE II sent a distress call indicating that it had been struck by a missile from the same Houthi source in Yemen. The CARNEY responded to this call and reported no significant damage. While traveling to provide support, the CARNEY shot down another UAV headed in its own direction.
These numerous incidents all in one day illustrate that there is now a direct threat to both international commerce and maritime security, at least in the Red Sea region. This threat is already jeopardizing the lives of international crew members from multiple countries.
"We also have every reason to believe that these attacks, while launched by the Houthis in Yemen, are fully enabled by Iran," one report claims about the matter. "The United States will consider all appropriate responses in full coordination with its international allies and partners."
A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tweeted (Xed?) that a U.K.-based commercial ship was also targeted in the same Houthi attack while traversing the Red Sea.
"We're aware of reports regarding attacks on the USS Carney and commercial vessels in the Red Sea and will provide information as it becomes available," the Pentagon announced.
As all this is taking place, one of the top-trending topics on X (formerly Twitter) right now are the words "Gulf of Tonkin."
"Biden can draft his 81 million 'ballots' because my kids and I aren't going anywhere," one commenter wrote on a story about all this, suggesting that neither he nor his family are going to go to war for the United States should this situation escalate further.
"The war that never ends or begins is eternal and profitable," wrote another about how war means profit for the fat cat bankers.
-Ethan Huff, Natural News
Saudi Arabia urges US restraint as Houthis attack ships in Red Sea
RIYADH/DUBAI, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has asked the United States to show restraint in responding to attacks by Yemen's Houthis against ships in the Red Sea, two sources familiar with Saudi thinking said, as Riyadh seeks to contain spillover from the Hamas-Israel war.
The Iran-aligned Houthis have waded into the conflict that has spread around the Middle East since war erupted on Oct. 7, attacking vessels in vital shipping lanes and firing drones and missiles at Israel itself.
The group which rules much of Yemen says its attacks are a show of support for the Palestinians and has vowed they will continue until Israel stops its offensive on the Gaza Strip - more than 1,000 miles from their seat of power in Sanaa.
The Houthis are one of several groups in the Iran-aligned "Axis of Resistance" which have been attacking Israeli and U.S. targets since the start of the conflict on Oct. 7, when their Palestinian ally Hamas sparked the war by attacking Israel.
Their role has added to the conflict's regional risks, threatening sea lanes through which much of the world's oil shipped, and worrying states on the Red Sea as Houthi rockets and drones fly towards Israel.
Riyadh, the world's top oil exporter, has watched with alarm as Houthi missiles have been fired over its territory.
With the Houthis stepping up attacks on shipping over the past weeks, two sources familiar with Saudi thinking said Riyadh's message of restraint to Washington aimed to avoid further escalation. Riyadh was so far pleased with the way the United States was handling the situation, the sources added.
"They pressed the Americans about this and why the Gaza conflict should stop," one of the sources said.
The White House declined to comment.
The Saudi government did not respond to an emailed request for a comment on the discussions.
As Saudi Arabia presses for a ceasefire to halt what it has called a "barbaric war" in Gaza, its diplomacy reflects a wider policy aimed at promoting regional stability after years of confrontation with Iran and its allies.
Focused on expanding and diversifying the Saudi economy, Riyadh this year normalised ties with Tehran and is seeking to exit the war it has been waging with the Houthis in Yemen for nearly nine years.
The sources said Saudi Arabia was seeking to advance the Yemen peace process even as war rages in Gaza, worrying it could be derailed. Yemen has enjoyed more than a year of relative calm amid direct peace talks between Saudi and Houthi officials.
The Houthi attacks during the Hamas-Israel war have elevated their profile in the Iran-aligned camp which also includes Hamas, Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iran-backed militias in Iraq.
The Houthis have emerged as a major military force in the Arabian Peninsula, with tens of thousands of fighters and a huge arsenal of ballistic missiles and armed drones.
Senior sources in the Iran-aligned camp told Reuters the Houthi attacks were part of an effort to put pressure on Washington to get Israel to halt the Gaza offensive, a goal that Iran shares with Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region.
-Aziz El Yaakoubi and Parisa Hafezi, Reuters
Billionaire Palmer Luckey Unveils Jet-Powered VTOL Kamikaze Drone
Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus, is positioning Anduril Industries, his Southern California startup defense firm, to challenge military-industrial complex giants such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and General Dynamics.
Luckey revealed on X that Anduril Industries has developed an affordable vertical takeoff and landing drone that can be reused on surveillance or kamikaze missions.
Anduril told Forbes that the US Special Operations Command signed a $12.5 million contract last year for the autonomous jet-powered drone called "Roadrunner. "
"Roadrunner-M is a variant model equipped with a high explosive warhead and Anduril seeker capable of intercepting, surveilling, and destroying fast-moving threats. It is effective against a wide range of threats, including full-size aircraft that cost 100x more," Palmer wrote on X.
-Tyler Durden, Zerohedge
This New AI-Powered Drone Is Both a Bomb and a Boomerang
Image Credit: Anduril's Roadrunner jet drone is about 5 1/2 feet tall and can hit its target (and destroy itself on impact) or return to its launch spot for another attempt. (Anduril/TNS)
What if a missile could jet toward a moving target — and then fly back home to try again if it missed?
That's the idea behind the Roadrunner, a novel combination of AI-powered drone, bomb and boomerang designed by the defense tech company Anduril Industries and announced on Thursday.
The company unveiled the product at its Costa Mesa headquarters to a scrum of journalists, showing videos of what the new machine can do. In one sequence, the Roadrunner takes off vertically from a rocky hillside and then flies out to hit a Reaper-style drone in midair. The Roadrunner itself is destroyed on impact, effectively serving as a guided missile. In another sequence, the Roadrunner takes off, flies around and then returns to its launching point, where it lands nose-up on a series of pop-out landing struts, much like one of SpaceX's reusable rockets.
Christian Brose, Anduril's chief strategy officer, said the product was designed to provide the U.S. military and its allies with a way to destroy hostile airborne threats, from small drones up to cruise missiles and manned aircraft, while keeping costs down.
"A few years ago, what we saw coming," Brose said, "was a new class of threats": exploding drones that can be launched en masse, which blur the lines between cruise missiles and traditional drones, and cost only tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to launch.
"There just wasn't a reliable capability available to bring these types of threats down," Brose said, short of advanced defense systems like the Patriot missile. "That definitely works, but you probably don't want to shoot multimillion-dollar weapons at drones that cost a few hundred thousand dollars," he added.
The Roadrunner moved from a concept to a finished product in the last two years, and costs in the "low six figures," Brose said, though he declined to provide more details.
Measuring about 5½ feet long and equipped with twin turbojets manufactured in-house by the company, the Roadrunner can be kitted out with a variety of payloads. The black Roadrunner-M is the self-destroying version equipped with a warhead depicted in the video on Thursday. The company also has a model with cameras and other sensors mounted on its nose on display. All models can be held for months before deployment in another product, the Nest, which can serve as a storage container and launchpad, and periodically runs maintenance checks on the Roadrunner to make sure that it's ready to launch on command.
Palmer Luckey, Anduril's 31-year-old founder, said that there are plans in the works to build Roadrunners that can destroy targets without self-destructing in the process. He also said that the machine was created to allow other people to build their own payloads for the platform.
"That's the type of thing that's possible when you build a modular platform that allows you to have hundreds of different payloads potentially hosted on it," Luckey said. "I'm supposed to love all my children equally, but this one's definitely my favorite."
Luckey added that a handful of Roadrunners had already been sold to a U.S. government agency, but declined to share any more details on the customer's identity or how the weapons were being used.
To date, the drone has been produced at the Costa Mesa facility, but Luckey said that he has ambitions to produce "hundreds of thousands" of the drones and expand to additional facilities if demand is high enough.
-Sam Dean, The Los Angeles Times via Military News
Kyiv says organised killing of pro-Russian politician near Moscow
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Kyiv said it orchestrated the assassination of a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician on Wednesday after an ex-lawmaker who had defected to Russia was shot dead outside Moscow.
Since Russia invaded last February, Ukraine has claimed to be behind a spate of assassinations and attacks on pro-war Russians and former Ukrainian officials who have backed Moscow’s invasion.
A source in Ukraine’s defence sector told AFP that its SBU security services had orchestrated the assassination of Illia Kyva, a former pro-Russian Ukrainian lawmaker who defected to Moscow when Russia invaded last year.
Russian investigators said Kyva had been shot.
His body was discovered in a park in the Moscow suburbs on Wednesday.
“An unknown person fired shots at the victim from an unidentified weapon. The man died on the spot from his injuries,” Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement.
It said it had opened a case into his death.
The Russian news agency TASS cited a police officer as saying the investigation was being treated as a “Ukrainian plot” and that search operations for the killer were underway.
Speaking on national TV, Ukraine’s military intelligence spokesperson Andriy Yusov said: “We can confirm that Kyva is done. Such a fate will befall other traitors of Ukraine, as well as the henchmen of the Putin regime.”
Yusov called Kyva “one of the biggest scumbags, traitors and collaborators” and said his death was “justice”.
The day before Russia’s invasion, Kyva said the country had been “soaked by Nazism” and needed “liberating” by Russia — echoing talking points regularly advanced by Russian officials and on state TV.
He had written to Russian President Vladimir Putin requesting Russian citizenship, and a court in Ukraine had sentenced him in absentia to 14 years for high treason.
Kyva said in a Wednesday morning post on his Telegram channel that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would “be better off killing himself”.
– Car bombs –
Kyiv used to rarely comment on whether it was behind several killings of pro-Russian figures, both inside Russia and in parts of Ukraine occupied by Russian forces.
But lately, it has started to claim responsibility for a number of attacks and openly threatened to hunt down other “collaborators” and “traitors”.
Moscow has previously said Ukraine was behind other audacious assassinations deep inside Russia’s borders.
In August 2022, Russian nationalist Darya Dugina was killed outside Moscow in a car bombing, while an explosion at a Saint Petersburg cafe in April killed Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky.
Ukraine has not publicly claimed responsibility for those attacks, though US intelligence and media reports have linked Kyiv to them.
Several lower-ranking Ukrainian officials and politicians who have welcomed Russia’s invasion and worked for Russian-backed authorities in occupied parts of Ukraine have also been killed.
In a separate incident, a proxy lawmaker in Ukraine’s eastern Lugansk region was killed in a car bombing attack also on Wednesday, Russian investigators said.
Oleg Popov, who served as a deputy in the pro-Moscow Lugansk regional parliament, was killed after the “detonation of an unidentified device in a car”, Russia’s Investigative Committee said, without providing details.
-Insider Paper
Venezuela mobilizes army – El Pais
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has sent troops to the border with Guyana in preparation for claiming 160,000 square kilometers of territory known as Essequibo, according to the Spanish daily El Pais.
An unknown number of Venezuelan troops has been dispatched to Puerto Barima, in the state of Delta Amacuro, the Spanish outlet said. Meanwhile, Maduro has unveiled a new map of Venezuela incorporating the territory, dubbed ‘Guyana Essequiba,’ after 10.4 million Venezuelan voters approved such a move in a referendum on Sunday.
“We want the peaceful rescue of the Guayana Esequiba,” Maduro said on Tuesday. “Our Guayana Esequiba has been de facto occupied by the British Empire and its heirs and they have destroyed the area.”
Maduro also appointed Major-General Alexis Rodriguez Cabello as the region’s new governor. His seat at the moment is in Tumeremo, a mining town in the state of Bolivar.
Following Maduro’s announcement, Guyanese President Irfaan Ali gave a televised address, accusing Venezuela of attempting to annex more than two thirds of his country.
“This is a direct threat to Guyana’s territorial integrity, sovereignty, and political independence, and a violation of fundamental principles of international law,” said Ali, adding he will “intensify precautionary measures” to safeguard its territory.
In 1899, the US assigned the disputed territory to what was then the British colony of Guiana, accepting London’s arguments while exercising the Monroe Doctrine, under which the US considered the Americas its sphere of influence. Venezuela has never accepted the decision as legitimate, however, and in 2018 referred the dispute to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The dispute has been exacerbated by the discovery of major oil reserves in the Atlantic Ocean, in the coastal zone claimed by both countries. Exxon Mobil already has an oil drilling platform in the area.
On Tuesday, Maduro said that foreign companies exploiting resources in the area without the permission of Caracas have three months to “comply with the law.”
-RT News
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Vegas shooting leaves THREE people dead and one in critical condition after 'man in his 60s' went on 40 minute rampage across University of Nevada Las Vegas before being shot dead by cops
Three people are dead and one critically injured after a gunman reportedly in his 60s opened fire at the University of Nevada's campus, Las Vegas police confirmed on Wednesday evening.
Three sources told NBC News that the gunman - who is also dead - was a man in his 60s. His connection, if any, to the university is unclear.
A fourth victim was shot but is in a stable condition, said Sheriff Kevin McMahill, speaking at a press conference on Wednesday night.
He said four additional people are in hospital after suffering panic attacks, and two officers were treated for minor injuries.
McMahill praised the 'heroic' officer who stopped the gunman, but said they have 'no idea on a motive'. He said they had not moved the body yet, and were unable to specify what weapon was used.
Joe Biden said the shooting - coming the day after six were shot dead in Austin and San Antonio - was 'not normal, and we can never let it become normal.'
Biden said he was saddened that the university 'became the latest college campus to be terrorized by a horrific act of gun violence.'
He thanked the first responders, and said it showed that more must be done to end the epidemic of gun violence.
'This year alone, our nation has experienced more than 600 mass shootings, and approximately 40,000 deaths due to gun violence. This is not normal, and we can never let it become normal,' he said, in a statement issued by the White House.
'For all the action we have taken since I’ve been President, the epidemic of gun violence we face demands that we do even more.
'But we cannot do more without Congress. Republican lawmakers must join with Democrats in Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, pass a national red flag law, enact universal background checks, require the safe storage of guns, and advance other commonsense measures that will help stem the tide of gun violence.
'And together, we must do more to prevent more families, and more communities like Austin, San Antonio, and Las Vegas, from being ripped apart by gun violence.'
Biden was already set to visit Las Vegas this Friday to deliver remarks on infrastructure, and the shooting has not changed his plans.
He is expected in Vegas on Friday, and will travel to Los Angeles for the weekend.
Adam Garcia, the director of university police services, said the first 911 call came in at 11:45am.
'Officers immediately responded and engaged the suspect,' said Garcia. He said the suspect was shot and killed by the officers.
'The entire Nevada system of higher education and campuses are closed, out of an abundance of caution. There is no threat to other campuses, but they are closed out of an abundance of caution.'
A huge police presence including tactical teams were seen scrambling to the college after an alert was issued to students, warning them to 'RUN-HIDE-FIGHT.'
In response to the campus shootings, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop of all flights coming into Harry Reid International Airport. The university is roughly two miles north of the airport.
Less than an hour after the alert was released, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced the suspect was deceased. The force said the investigation is ongoing.
Officials said 'multiple victims' had been targeted in the attack.
It remains unclear how many of the three 'victims' were killed or injured, or what the extent of their injuries are.
Early reports indicate additional shots may have been fired in the college's student union, and officials are continuing to evacuate buildings one at a time.
-Will Potter and Harriet Alexander, Daily Mail
NYC Will Spend $4.3 BILLION on Hotels & Services for Migrants This Year
Spending on hotels and other services for migrants in New York City will hit $4.3 billion by the end of 2023. This is an increase of 48 percent on earlier estimates.
Democrat Mayor Eric Adams and the city government have been reluctant to provide a breakdown of the spending. Its contract with the Roosevelt Hotel, now a major migrant processing facility, has only recently been released. Key details are redacted, such as the amount the city is paying “per room per day”. The city claims this is a “trade secret” – despite the fact hotels advertise their rates publicly.
The contract was made through a city-controlled Health and Hospitals Corp rather than a bona fide city agency. This allowed the contract to escape comptroller scrutiny.
In terms of known costs, the Floyd Bennett Field migrant camp is already costing $1.7 million a month. This includes the cost of ferrying minors to subway stops by bus and providing them with city-funded MetroCards, so they can attend school. There are only around 195 minors in the camp, but transport costs will hit $625,000 by the end of 2023.
-Jack Montgomery, The National Pulse
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Giant hole in the sun, bigger than 60 Earths, is now exploding
Image Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA
A massive hole in the Sun, more than five times the size of Jupiter, is blasting a strong solar wind that’s traveling across the Solar System, Science Alert reported.
A massive hole in the Sun bigger than 60 Earths released strong solar wind directly to Earth
This immense area of darkness, appearing near the sun’s equator on December 2, has grown to an astonishing width of nearly 497,000 miles. To put it in perspective, that’s more than 60 Earths lined up next to each other, India Today reported.
The coronal hole reached its maximum size in just one day and has been directly facing Earth since December 4. While such holes are not rare, the size and timing of this particular one have captured the interest of the scientific community.
The coronal hole is currently moving away from Earth. However, a few days ago, when it was positioned along the equator, it was directly facing Earth, sending a stream of particles our way.
This resulted in a mild solar storm, but there’s no need for concern. The hole is part of the Sun’s regular pattern of active behavior during the solar maximum phase, according to ScienceAlert.
The Sun has been quite active lately, which is normal during its cycles of increased activity. These cycles include sunspots, solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and coronal holes.
This heightened activity reaches its peak, called solar maximum, before calming down during solar minimum, a phase of relative quiet and reduced activity.
Sun’s magnetic moves and the mystery of coronal holes
This cycle seems to be linked to the Sun’s magnetic cycles, which coincide with the reversal of the solar magnetic field’s polarity. During this process, the north and south poles of the Sun switch places.
In contrast, a coronal hole is a large area where the solar magnetic field opens up. Unlike sunspots, we can’t see them in regular light, but in ultraviolet wavelengths, they appear as large, dark patches that are cooler than their surroundings.
Because the magnetic field is open in these areas, the solar wind can escape more easily. This results in a more robust flow of solar particles and plasma into the Solar System, swirling around any planets that may be in their path.
-Insider Paper
China launches world’s first fourth-generation nuclear reactor
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China began commercial operations of the world’s first next-generation, gas-cooled nuclear reactor power plant, state media reported Wednesday.
The Shidao Bay plant in eastern Shandong province is powered by two high-temperature reactors cooled by gas rather than pressurised water, according to state news agency Xinhua, making it more efficient and cost-effective.
Conventional reactors produce electricity from nuclear energy. However, these advanced models — known as small modular reactors, or SMRs — can be used for other applications that include heating, desalination or steam for industrial needs.
China is seeking to free itself from coal-fired power plants and reduce its dependence on foreign technologies against a backdrop of tensions with Western countries.
More than 90 percent of the Shidao Bay plant’s equipment is of Chinese design, project manager Zhang Yanxu told Xinhua.
Construction of the plant began in 2012 and the first SMR was connected to the power grid in 2021.
According to proponents, multi-use SMRs could play a central role in decarbonisation and energy transition thanks to their compact and simplified architecture, with their modular design reducing costs and construction time.
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, more than 80 SMR projects are currently under development in 18 countries.
-Insider Paper
Guinea pigs: Pfizer gets FDA approval to experiment on pregnant women with new RSV vaccine linked to premature birth
After profiting from one of the most dangerous and ineffective vaccines in world history, Pfizer is ready to advance a new RSV vaccine that is linked to premature birth and neonatal death risk. Pfizer just received approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to experiment on pregnant women with their new RSV vaccine, which goes by the brand name Abrysvo. The new jab was fast tracked through phase three clinical trials and will be recommended to pregnant women 32-36 weeks of gestational age. The new jab will be promoted as a preventative for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). It was also approved by the European Commission in August 2023, and is awaiting approval in the United Kingdom.
First clinical trials find increase in premature birth and neonatal death after RSV vaccination
The first clinical trials for RSV vaccines found an increase in premature birth and neonatal death after pregnant women were vaccinated. The majority of the commissioners at the FDA are ignoring these safety signals because they believe the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risk of severe RSV in infants. While Pfizer admits to studying preterm birth as an “adverse event of special interest,” the company did not inform pregnant women of this risk when women were lined up to participate in the phase three clinical trials.
This safety signal was first detected during clinical trials for a similar vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Both Pfizer and GSK's RSV vaccines are similar because they use recombinant RSV F protein as an antigen.
When the issue of preterm birth and neonatal death was first raised, GlaxoSmithKline halted their Phase 3 vaccine study on February 28, 2022. Pfizer, on the other hand, carelessly plunged forward with their experiment on pregnant women and unborn babies.
GSK had to halt their trials because there was a marked increase in preterm birth in pregnant women living in low and middle-income countries, especially in South Africa. Pfizer also documented a numerical increase in preterm birth in the phase 2 and 3 clinical studies, but the risk was later considered "not statistically significant."
Of the 14 members on the FDA’s vaccines and related biological products advisory committee, four of the members voted against the Pfizer RSV vaccine. The other ten members supported the vaccine as safe and gave it FDA approval for pregnant women. The FDA is requiring Pfizer to conduct post-marketing studies to “assess the signal of serious risk of pre-term birth.” This means another risky vaccine experiment will be carried out on pregnant women who are told to just "trust the science."
Pfizer refuses to provide adequate informed consent to pregnant women
An article published in the British Medical Journal discusses the ethical concerns over informed consent for pregnant women in Pfizer’s RSV vaccine trial. Charles Weijer, a bioethics professor at Western University in London, Canada spoke with the BMJ about the importance of informing pregnant women about the preterm labor risks in Pfizer’s clinical trial.
Because life-threatening risks were observed in GSK's RSV vaccine trial, Pfizer had an ethical duty to inform participants of this risk beforehand. If Pfizer would have provided adequate informed consent, then women considering the injection would be able to reconsider the serious risks, and women who already got the vaccine would be able to seek additional medical advice and follow-up.
"Any failure to provide new and potentially important safety information data to trial participants is ethically problematic," Weijer said.
To make matters worse, Pfizer’s trial consent forms claimed that the RSV vaccine candidate was “risk free for the baby.” However, when ethics experts reviewed the claim, they called it “misleading” and “irresponsible.”
Moreover, when BMJ researchers contacted government health authorities in 18 countries where Pfizer had setup trial sites, they were told by more than 80 trial investigators that none of the pregnant women received informed consent on this life-or-death issue! This is a serious breach of medical ethics and scientific integrity. Babies are being sacrificed to boost Pfizer’s profits, and pregnant women are being exploited. More researchers and regulators must relinquish their blind trust in vaccination and take a principled stand against medical fraud and malfeasance that is taking place behind the scenes.
-Lance D Johnson, Natural News