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Episode 591
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OceanGate Was Warned of Potential for ‘Catastrophic’ Problems With Titanic Mission
Years before OceanGate’s submersible craft went missing in the Atlantic Ocean with five people onboard, the company faced several warnings as it prepared for its hallmark mission of taking wealthy passengers to tour the Titanic’s wreckage.
It was January 2018, and the company’s engineering team was about to hand over the craft — named Titan — to a new crew who would be responsible for ensuring the safety of its future passengers. But experts inside and outside the company were beginning to sound alarms.
OceanGate’s director of marine operations, David Lochridge, started working on a report around that time, according to court documents, ultimately producing a scathing document in which he said the craft needed more testing and stressed “the potential dangers to passengers of the Titan as the submersible reached extreme depths.”
Two months later, OceanGate faced similarly dire calls from more than three dozen people — industry leaders, deep-sea explorers and oceanographers — who warned in a letter to its CEO, Stockton Rush, that the company’s “experimental” approach and its decision to forgo a traditional assessment could lead to potentially “catastrophic” problems with the Titanic mission.
Now, as the international search for the craft enters another day, more is coming to light about the warnings leveled at OceanGate as the company raced to provide extreme tourism for the wealthy.
A spokesperson for OceanGate declined to comment on the five-year-old critiques from Lochridge and the industry leaders. Nor did Lochridge respond to a request for comment.
Rush, the company’s CEO, is one of the passengers on the vessel and was serving as its pilot when it went missing Sunday, the company said Tuesday.
An aerospace engineer and pilot, he founded the company, based in Everett, Washington, in 2009. For the past three years, he has charged up to $250,000 per person for a chance to visit wreckage of the Titanic, which sank in 1912 on its inaugural trip from England to New York.
The critiques from Lochridge and the experts who signed the 2018 letter to Rush were focused in part on what they characterized as Rush’s refusal to have the Titan inspected and certified by one of the leading agencies that does such work.
Lochridge reported in court records that he had urged the company to do so, but that he had been told that OceanGate was “unwilling to pay” for such an assessment. After getting Lochridge’s report, the company’s leaders held a tense meeting to discuss the situation, according to court documents filed by both sides. The documents came in a lawsuit that OceanGate filed against Lochridge in 2018, accusing him of sharing confidential information outside the company.
In the documents, Lochridge reported learning that the viewport that lets passengers see outside of the craft was only certified to work in depths of up to 1,300 meters.
That is far less than would be necessary for trips to the Titanic, which is nearly 4,000 meters below the ocean’s surface.
-Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Yahoo News
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U.S. House censures Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)
Could AI make legal rulings in the future? 'Robot judges' may replace humans in deciding 'minor' court disputes, Master of the Rolls Geoffrey Vos says
Robot judges powered by Artificial Intelligence could be used to make court rulings, one of the country's most senior law lords has declared.
Master of the Rolls Sir Geoffrey Vos believes the emerging technology may be utilized in the future to decide low level cases.
The judge thinks AI programmes and machines could be the perfect way to makes some decisions.
But Sir Geoffrey says humans will still be needed for appeals or really serious offences before the courts.
The comments - made to the Law and Technology Conference - may alarm those concerned at the rise of AI.
Numerous sectors are feeling the pinch from the systems replacing human workers and inputs.
Sir Geoffrey said: 'I have already said that I have no doubt that lawyers will not be able to stand aside from the uses of generative AI.
'Clients will insist that all tools available are at least considered for application within the delivery of legal services.
'But will judicial decisions be taken by machines rather than judges? As many of you will know, we are introducing in England and Wales a digital justice system that will allow citizens and businesses to go online to be directed to the most appropriate online pre-action portal or dispute resolution forum. That digital justice system will ultimately culminate at the end of what I regard as a “funnel” in the online court process that is already being developed for pretty well all civil, family and tribunal disputes.
'I believe that it may also, at some stage, be used to take some (at first, very minor) decisions. The controls that will be required are (a) for the parties to know what decisions are taken by judges and what by machines, and (b) for there always to be the option of an appeal to a human judge.'
But while Sir Geoffrey believes that technology could be the future for the judiciary he admits there are limits to his use.
He stressed that he did not think the public would accept robotic judgements of cases involving children or very serious offences.
The justice added: 'The limiting feature for machine-made decisions is likely to be the requirement that the citizens and businesses that any justice system serves have confidence in that system.
'There are some decisions – like for example intensely personal decisions relating to the welfare of children – that humans are unlikely ever to accept being decided by machines.
'But in other kinds of less intensely personal disputes, such as commercial and compensation disputes, parties may come to have confidence in machine made decisions more quickly than many might expect.'
-Dan Sales, Daily Mail
Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 7 For All Humanity – the Future of Outer Space Governance
The challenges that we are facing can be addressed only through stronger international cooperation. The Summit of the Future, to be held in 2024, is an opportunity to agree on multilateral solutions for a better tomorrow, strengthening global governance for both present and future generations (General Assembly resolution 76/307). In my capacity as Secretary-General, I have been invited to provide inputs to the preparations for the Summit in the form of action-oriented recommendations, building on the proposals contained in my report entitled “Our Common Agenda” (A/75/982), which was itself a response to the declaration on the commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations (Assembly resolution 75/1). The present policy brief is one such input. It serves to elaborate on the ideas first proposed in Our Common Agenda, taking into account subsequent guidance from Member States and more than one year of intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder consultations, and rooted in the purposes and the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international instruments.
The present policy brief contains an examination of the extraordinary changes under way in outer space and an assessment of the sustainability, safety and security impacts of these changes on present and future governance. The brief also contains an outline of major trends that are impacting space sustainability and the positive impact that these trends could have on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Also contained in the brief is an outline of major trends affecting the security of outer space activities and the risks to humanity that could materialize if these challenges are not solved. Lastly, it pro vides a practical set of governance recommendations for maximizing the opportunities of outer space while minimizing short-term and long-term risks. In Our Common Agenda, I proposed to Member States that “a combination of binding and non-binding norms is needed” to address emerging risks to outer space security, safety and sustainability. Our common interest in preserving the domain of outer space, a province of humankind that benefits us all, requires agile and multi-stakeholder governance responses.
Emerging risks, driven by increased congestion of the low Earth orbit and competition in space, need to be addressed in concert with the full range of actors now involved in space exploration and use, while maintaining the centrality of Member States and their leadership of intergovernmental processes. During the informal consultations with Member States held in February 2022 on the “Frameworks for a peaceful world –
promoting peace, international law and digital cooperation”, Member States agreed that outer space must be explored and utilized for peaceful purposes and for the benefit of all States. Member States also recognized the need to discuss the ways and means of strengthening global governance of outer space, building on the work of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and the other relevant intergovernmental bodies and in close cooperation with the Secretariat.
-United Nations
Adrenochrome, Child Sex Trafficking & Ukrainian Biolabs: Jesus Actor From ‘Passion of the Christ’ Tells Steve Bannon U.S. Intel Agencies Behind Deadly Slave Trade
Hollywood actor Jim Caviezel, who starred as Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson’s epic film The Passion of the Christ, spoke with political strategist Steve Bannon on Tuesday about disturbing child trafficking networks exploiting kids worldwide.
Caviezel joined Bannon’s War Room to promote his new film Sound of Freedom, which is based on the true story of former government agent Tim Ballard going on a rogue mission to rescue children from Columbian sex traffickers.
Speaking with Bannon, the actor explained he’s been in contact with several law enforcement agents and 30 Navy SEALS while working on the film and that his sources have informed him of a lucrative trafficking scheme used by globalists to get high off human adrenochrome.
Adrenochrome is a chemical compound created when human adrenaline is oxidized, first popularized by writer Hunter Thompson in his hit book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
According to Caviezel, adrenochrome is used as a drug by the elite as it is ten times more potent than heroin and has some qualities that may make the user appear younger.
The actor also said his government sources told him Mexican drug cartels are selling barrels of human body parts to be used for extracting adrenochrome at $77,000 a pop to a network of Ukrainian biolabs.
Infowars readers should be familiar with the Hunter Biden connection to the Ukrainian biolab network as well as the labs being linked to the Pentagon, CIA, Bill Gates, Jeffrey Epstein, Klaus Schwab, Barack Obama and others.
In fact, Hunter Biden’s laptops revealed he once texted his dead brother’s widow, with whom he was having a sexual relationship, to see if she believed he had “children burned alive in DONETSK” or “children killed in Donetsk, Ukraine.”
The message likely referred to Hunter’s connections with Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, who has been funding the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion behind war crimes such as illegally shelling civilians in eastern Ukraine since 2014.
During his interview with Bannon, Caviezel mentioned the Azov Nazis in Ukraine and said their alleged human body part trafficking network appears to be run by Western “three-letter agencies.”
The banks and intelligence agencies are also reportedly running multiple “sex islands” similar to the infamous Jeffrey Epstein Island.
The global child trafficking “business” has reportedly reached a $152 billion yearly market.
-Kelen McBreen, Infowars
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Earth’s inner core may be reversing its rotation
Our planet may have had a recent change of heart.
Earth’s inner core may have temporarily stopped rotating relative to the mantle and surface, researchers report in the January 23 Nature Geoscience. Now, the direction of the inner core’s rotation may be reversing — part of what could be a roughly 70-year-long cycle that may influence the length of Earth’s days and its magnetic field — though some researchers are skeptical.
“We see strong evidence that the inner core has been rotating faster than the surface, [but] by around 2009 it nearly stopped,” says geophysicist Xiaodong Song of Peking University in Beijing. “Now it is gradually mov[ing] in the opposite direction.”
Such a profound turnaround might sound bizarre, but Earth is volatile (SN: 1/13/21). Bore through the ever-shifting crust and you’ll enter the titanic mantle, where behemoth masses of rock flow viscously over spans of millions of years, sometimes upwelling to excoriate the overlying crust (SN: 1/11/17, SN: 3/2/17, SN: 2/4/21). Delve deeper and you’ll reach Earth’s liquid outer core. Here, circulating currents of molten metals conjure our planet’s magnetic field (SN: 9/4/15). And at the heart of that melt, you’ll find a revolving, solid metal ball about 70 percent as wide as the moon.
This is the inner core (SN: 1/28/19). Studies have suggested that this solid heart may rotate within the liquid outer core, compelled by the outer core’s magnetic torque. Researchers have also argued the mantle’s immense gravitational pull may apply an erratic brake on the inner core’s rotation, causing it to oscillate.
Evidence for the inner core’s fluctuating rotation first emerged in 1996. Geophysicist Paul Richards of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y., and Song, then also at Lamont-Doherty, reported that over a span of three decades, seismic waves from earthquakes took different amounts of time to traverse Earth’s solid heart.
The researchers inferred that the inner core rotates at a different speed than the mantle and crust, causing the time differences. The planet spins roughly 360 degrees in a day. Based on their calculations, the researchers estimated that the inner core, on average, rotates about 1 degree per year faster than the rest of Earth.
But other researchers have questioned that conclusion, some suggesting that the core spins slower than Song and Richards’ estimate or doesn’t spin differently at all.
In the new study, while analyzing global seismic data stretching back to the 1990s, Song and geophysicist Yi Yang — also at Peking University — made a surprising observation.
-Nikk Ogasa, Science News
US Approves Nation’s First Lab-Grown Meat for Sale
U.S. regulators have approved the nation’s first lab-grown meat for sale—chicken products grown from animal cells.
The U.S. Agriculture Department (USDA) on Wednesday gave the OK for two California companies to sell their chicken products to restaurants, and eventually, supermarkets.
Startups Upside Foods, formerly known as Memphis Meats, and Good Meat, a subsidiary of Eat Just Inc., made announcements of their USDA approvals on Wednesday.
The USDA decisions mean that from now on, the agency will inspect the companies’ cultured meat facilities, just as it already does for regular meat processing plants.
The two companies plan to serve the new food first in exclusive restaurants. Upside Foods has partnered with a San Francisco restaurant called Bar Crenn, while Good Meat dishes will be served at a Washington, D.C., restaurant run by chef and owner Jose Andrés.
The companies and others like them say their new tech-enabled meat products will be able to feed humans without killing animals, and without the environmental impacts associated with grazing, growing feed for animals, and animal waste.
Upside Foods and Good Meat sell what they refer to as “cultivated chicken” or “cultivated meat.” Their meat will be labeled as “cell-cultivated chicken” when sold to consumers.
Cell-cultivated meat—also known as cell-cultured meat, as well as cell-based or lab-grown protein—is made via animal cell culture technology.
It involves taking cells from a living animal, a fertilized animal egg, or a special bank of stored cells, and putting that into a culture medium so the cells can be fed. Some companies also use animal stem cells.
-Mimi Nguyen Ly, Epoch Times
Elon Musk Declares ‘Cis’ and ‘Cisgender’ Are Slurs on Twitter
Elon Musk has determined “cis” and “cisgender” to be slurs that violate Twitter’s harassment policies. As such, any account engaging in harassment of users via the usage of “cis” or “cisgender” will be subject to a temporary suspension.
Musk said temporary suspensions will be the minimum penalty, leaving the door open for greater punitive measures.
The responses to Musk’s stance on the “cis” and “cisgender” labels have been mixed.
“If that’s a slur why don’t you ban the use of the N word on here and make it fair for everyone and just eliminate all slurs,” one user asked. Their comment did not receive a response from Musk.
However, Musk did reply to a Twitter user who thanked him for the policy update and linked to reading that connects the origins of the “cis” label with German sexologist Volkmar Sigusch and pedophilic thought processes.
“Yup, the contemptible creep that manufactured the term ‘cis’ has serious problems. Ignore him,” Musk said.
Many people called out Musk for his policy on “cis” and “cisgender” seemingly contradicting his “free speech absolutist” stance and repeated instances of arguing in favor of free speech.
“Whatever happened to ‘free speech absolutism’ you hypocrite?” one user wrote. “Now we’re banning words you don’t like (which are completely acceptable in the medical world)?”
“Bit confused on this one,” another user said. “The Oxford English dictionary lists it as not a slur. Are we getting a dictionary according to Elon/Twitter published somewhere?”
Others, however, did not question Musk’s position.
“I agree!” one user said in reply to Musk’s tweet. “I’m a woman not a ‘cis’ these people don’t get to relabel me just because they want to relabel themselves.”
-Robert Carnevale, The Wrap
Wave of empty office buildings about to take down the commercial real estate sector as more companies default
A wave of real estate defaults is coming that will collapse the commercial lending industry as more than 60 percent of many office buildings remain empty years after the COVID pandemic as more people work remotely.
As reported by Nikkei Asia, "office demand has fallen around the world as more people work from home and businesses accelerate job cuts to cope with slow growth," adding that, "at the end of March, vacancy rates hit the highest levels since the global financial crisis of 2008 in 10 of 17 major cities."
Not only office spaces but hotels and other commercial facilities are also experiencing a decline in demand, leading to lower occupancy rates. This situation has raised concerns about the potential financial instability resulting from troubled real estate loans, the outlet noted further:
In fact, some big investors are already pulling out of the hotel business in the U.S. Park Hotels & Resorts, the owner of Hilton San Francisco Union Square, announced on June 5 it had stopped making mortgage payments on the property, surrendering the hotel to the lender. The amount of liabilities involving Hilton San Francisco and another property totaled $725 million.
Park Hotels & Resorts CEO Thomas Baltimore blamed the default on weak demand for business trips and conferences caused by corporate restructuring. The office vacancy around the hotel is at a "record high" as San Francisco has seen a "lower return to office than peer cities," Baltimore said.
According to CBRE, a commercial real estate service provider, the vacancy rate in the San Francisco area reached nearly 20% by the end of March. While IT companies like Salesforce and Twitter (now X Corp) have contributed to the market's resilience, demand has been decreasing since autumn 2022 due to workforce reductions by many IT companies in response to sluggish growth.
-JD Heyes, Natural News
Regional Banks Scramble To Unload Commercial Real Estate Loans, Fearing New Crisis
Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
The work-from-home trend has been taking its toll on office landlords and is now making its way through to banks’ commercial loan portfolios, leading some analysts to predict that more trauma could be on the way for regional banks this year.
And in the current climate of bank failures, short sellers, and nervous depositors, banks with large exposures to commercial real estate (CRE) loans are racing to clean up and sell down their loan portfolios in hopes that they will not fall victim to another round of bank runs.
“There is an estimated $1.5 trillion of commercial property debt that will be due for repayment in about 18 months,” Peter Earle, an economist at the American Institute for Economic Research, told The Epoch Times. “It’s not improbable that even if interest rates have fallen by that time, some of that real estate debt will nevertheless be impaired and have an adverse impact on regional banks.”
In step with a recent trend in the CRE market, tech giant Google announced in May that it was attempting to sublease 1.4 million square feet of vacant office space in its Silicon Valley home base in order to “match the needs of our hybrid workforce.” Despite more employees returning to their offices this year, average office occupancy rates across the United States are still below 50 percent.
According to a report by Bank of America, 68 percent of CRE loans are held by regional banks. Approximately $450 billion in CRE loans will mature in 2023. JPMorgan Chase estimated that CRE loans comprise, on average 28.7 percent of the assets of small and regional banks and projected that 21 percent of CRE loans will ultimately default, costing banks about $38 billion in losses.
Commercial mortgages are getting hit on two fronts: first, by the lack of demand for office space, leading to credit concerns regarding landlords, and second, by interest rate hikes that make it significantly more expensive for borrowers to refinance.
According to a June 12 report by Trepp, a CRE analytics firm, CRE loans that were originated a decade ago, when average mortgage rates were 4.58 percent, are now coming due, and in today’s market, fixed-rate CRE loan rates are averaging around 6.5 percent.
Banks that make CRE loans consider factors like debt service coverage ratios (DSCRs), which measure a property’s income relative to cash payments due on loans. Simulating mortgage interest rates from 5.5 percent to 7.5 percent, Trepp projected that between 28 percent and 44 percent, respectively, of currently outstanding CRE loans would fail to meet the 1.25 DSCR ratio today, and thus be ineligible for refinancing.
These calculations were done assuming current cash flows from properties stay the same and that loans are interest-only, but with vacancies rising, many landlords may have substantially less cash flow available. In addition, whereas interest only CRE loans were 88 percent of the market in 2021, lenders are now switching to amortizing mortgages to reduce risk, which significantly increases debt service payments.
-Tyler Durden, Zerohedge
Governor Abbott Signs Bill Banning DEI Offices In Texas Colleges And Universities
Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott signed a piece of legislation Wednesday banning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices in public higher education.
“Now that these bills are law, institutes of higher education are better equipped to prepare the next generation of leaders, and keep Texas the economic engine of the nation,” said Republican State Senator Brandon Creighton, who introduced the bill earlier this year. He added that “the legislation delivers strong enforcement with mandates to return Texas colleges and universities to their core mission: educate and innovate.”
A press release from Creighton’s office described Senate Bill 17 as “the most significant ban on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in higher education in the nation,” adding that DEI offices had “grown in size and influence across college campuses requiring political litmus tests.”
“With this bold, forward-thinking legislation to eliminate DEI programs, Texas is leading the nation, and ensuring our campuses return to focusing on the strength of diversity and promoting a merit-based approach where individuals are judged on their qualifications, skills, and contributions,” Creighton said.
Creighton’s office said the bill “will close DEI offices on the campuses of state-funded colleges and universities and put an end to all activities that discriminate against students based on their race, ethnicity, or gender.”
In addition, the bill also prevents the use of diversity statements for candidates applying for employment at Texas universities.
The Texas Tribune reported Abbott’s chief of staff spoke out in opposition to DEI programs earlier this year, writing a memo that read, “The innocuous sounding notion of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) has been manipulated to push policies that expressly favor some demographic groups to the detriment of others.”
-Spencer Lindquist, The Daily Wire
Heart disease risk skyrockets 13,200% following covid injections, CDC admits
The top two public health agencies in the United States conducted a joint study showing that the risk of developing autoimmune heart disease among the "fully vaccinated" for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) is a shocking 13,200 percent higher than it is among the unvaccinated.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discovered that compared to the background risk in the general population, the risk of myocarditis is 133 times greater in those who took the mRNA injections from either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna.
Researchers from several top universities and hospitals across America contributed to the study, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Using data from the government-run Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), the CDC and the FDA identified 1,626 cases of myocarditis, which were cross-checked to ensure the results comply with the CDC's official definition of myocarditis.
Based on this, researchers determined that the most high-risk mRNA jab is the one produced by Pfizer-BioNTech, meaning this one is the most dangerous in terms of potential health effects.
The Pfizer jabs, according to the data provided to VAERS, caused 105.9 cases of myocarditis per million doses after the second injection in the male 16- and 17-year-old age and sex demographic. In the 12-15 age group for males, there were 70.7 cases of myocarditis per million doses following the second shot.
The 18-24 male age group had the highest risk at 52.4 cases per million for Pfizer and 56.3 cases per million for Moderna. The median time to symptom onset was just two days for both jabs.
Since VAERS only captures around 1% of vaccine damage, what is the TRUE risk of autoimmune heart disease following covid injection?
As previous studies have found, the vast majority of covid jab-related heart problems, around 82 percent, occur in males. In the vast majority of cases, around 96 percent, those who became inflicted with myocarditis had to be hospitalized, and in most cases were treated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
By the time of discharge, 87 percent of those hospitalized saw symptom resolution, at least initially. There is no telling what these people might suffer as the years go by, especially into older age.
Among the most commonly reported symptoms are:
chest pain, pressure, or discomfort (89 percent)
shortness of breath (30 percent)
abnormal ECG results (72 percent)
abnormal cardiac MRI findings (72 percent)
Recognizing the strong and undeniable link between covid jabs and heart disease, the CDC has commenced an active surveillance program for adolescents and young adults to monitor their progress following these post-injection heart-related incidents.
Since the jabs have only been out since late December 2020, and really only started to get into people's bodies well into 2021, there is still no long-term data to evaluate concerning the long-term impact of covid jab-related heart disease.
The American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) are both advising that people with myocarditis refrain from competitive sports for three to six months, otherwise they could die suddenly on the field.
Only after normal ECG and other test results start to appear should a person afflicted with covid jab-related heart disease even think about resuming strenuous exercise.
By the way, VAERS only captures as little as one percent of all vaccine-related injuries and deaths. So as shocking as these figures and percentages are, one must multiply them by a lot in order to gain a more accurate picture of the injury and death tolls from these injections.
-Ethan Huff, Natural News