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February 1, 2025
RFK Jr Brutally Attacks Bernie Sanders Over Big Pharma Donors
skynews.com.au
Robert F Kennedy Jr has accused Senator Bernie Sanders of taking millions from Big Pharma during a heated exchange at his Health and Human Services confirmation hearing.The spat on Thursday started when RFK Jr promised to make America healthier but was challenged by Sanders on the need for universal healthcare.
RFK Jr accused the Vermont senator and other panel members of accepting millions from Big Pharma.
The 83-year-old lawmaker denied it, insisting his funds came from worker contributions, not pharmaceutical execs or PACs.
“I ran for president like you. I got millions and millions of contributions – they did not come from the executives … they came from workers,” Senator Sanders said.
RFK Jr. refuted, claiming Sanders was the largest receiver of pharma money during his 2020 campaign, with $US1.5 million.
Sanders argued his donations came from employees and their families, not corporate PACs, and highlighted his overall $US200 million in campaign donations.
Records show Sanders received the most from pharma-related donors in 2020 ($US1.4m) among sitting members of Congress, according to The Daily Mail.
China Now Dominates US in 57 of 64 Critical Technologies as US Stands on Brink of Economic Collapse with AI Bubble
Left image source by Clark Miller. Right image source.
by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
Shock waves rolled through American Big Tech companies last Sunday, as it was reported that the Chinese AI program, DeepSeek, was performing better than any U.S. AI program, for a fraction of the cost.
Meta (Facebook) was one of the first American Big Tech companies to sound the alarm last Sunday night, as reported by The Information:
Meta Scrambles After Chinese AI Equals Its Own, Upending Silicon ValleyArtificial intelligence researchers at Meta Platforms have been in panic mode.
In recent days, leaders of some of the company’s AI teams openly worried that new conversational AI made by a Chinese hedge fund meant Meta was falling behind in the AI race.
Leaders including AI infrastructure director Mathew Oldham have told numerous colleagues they are concerned that the next version of Meta’s flagship AI, Llama, won’t perform as well as the Chinese AI, DeepSeek, according to two Meta employees with direct knowledge of efforts to catch up.
The Chinese fund shocked the AI industry in late December by releasing a version of DeepSeek that matched or outperformed models from Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic in completing various tasks, according to multiple interviews with six researchers at the U.S. AI companies, evaluations published by research firms, as well as anecdotal examples from customers of the DeepSeek models.
This month, Hangzhou-based High-Flyer Capital Management upped the ante by releasing another version of DeepSeek that may be on par with OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model, raising questions about whether some American AI firms have been operating inefficiently or spending too much capital for inferior results.
App developers can freely download DeepSeek or buy access to it through a cloud-based application programming interface. Some smaller app developers say they have switched to using DeepSeek because it’s so much less expensive than using OpenAI or Anthropic models.
Consumers can use DeepSeek through a chatbot mobile app that competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. On Sunday, the DeepSeek app had risen to second place, just behind ChatGPT, in the Apple App Store’s list of top free apps. (Full article – subscription needed.)
When the U.S. stock market opened the next morning on Monday this week, American Big Tech companies had lost over $1 TRILLION in value.
They gained back much of that this week, until today, Friday, Jan. 31st, when the market turned sharply down in afternoon trading over fears of Trump’s tariffs that are supposed to be announced tomorrow, Saturday Feb. 1st. (I will report on that story after I see what the actual tariffs will be.)
However, in an article published in the Russian media this week, it was reported that the U.S. has lost its edge over China in more than just AI models, and that the U.S. is now behind China in 57 of 64 critical technologies.
TikTok Battle: China Won
China Has Edge Over US on Much More Than AI ModelsThe shock release of a new Chinese AI known as DeepSeek that’s cheaper, faster and open source sent shockwaves across Silicon Valley, wiping $1 trln off tech stocks and prompting pundits to dub the development a “Sputnik moment” for the US.
But AI language models aren’t the only area where China is now comfortably in the lead.
A comprehensive, 20-year study released by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in 2024 calculated that China dominates the US in 57 of 64 critical technologies, up from just three in 2007.
The US, which led in a whopping 60 sectors in 2007, now leads in just seven.
ASPI based its rankings on cumulative innovative and high-impact research published and patented by national universities, labs, companies and state agencies.
Where Does China Excel?
advanced integrated circuit design and fabricationhigh-specification machining processesadvanced aircraft enginesdrones, swarming and collaborative robotselectric batteriesphotovoltaicsadvanced radiofrequency communication
The day before Trump’s inauguration, on January 19th, a bipartisan law passed in Congress requiring TikTok to either sell the entire company to the U.S., or be banned, went into effect.
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, had appealed this law all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 9-0 that the law had to be upheld, just days before the law was to take effect.
The Biden Administration made it clear that they would not enforce the ban, stating that it would be futile to do so just one day before Trump took office, and that this was Trump’s problem.
This was not good enough for ByteDance, however, as it wanted assurances that the U.S. Government would not enforce the ban.
This then provided the first showdown between China and the U.S. under the new Trump 2.0 presidency.
In the end, the U.S. and Trump backed down, assuring ByteDance that Trump would issue an executive order the next day on Trump’s first day in office, but only AFTER ByteDance began the process of shutting down the app first.
Trump issued the EO the next day, over-riding U.S. law like most of his EOs, and even defying the U.S. Supreme Court decision.
It was spun in the U.S. media and by Trump’s team as a “victory” for Trump, as the popular app came back online, making hundreds of millions of people in the U.S. very happy that the app was still available to them.
But this was NOT a victory for Trump. It was a victory for China.
Contrary to most everything you may have read in the U.S. media, at least outside of tech publications, the issue was NOT finding a U.S. buyer for TikTok. Oh no, there are a whole list of $billionaires and U.S. companies that would have LOVED to purchase China’s stake in ByteDance.
It was China who said no, and did not allow ByteDance to sell the Chinese-owned shares in ByteDance to American businesses.
Martin Peers, writing for The Information, reported this just two days before the ban was scheduled to take place:
While it’s too early to predict what’s going to happen with TikTok, it’s beginning to look like ByteDance has successfully called the U.S.’s bluff.
For months, ByteDance has refused to contemplate selling TikTok to avoid a ban. And now, days before the ban is due to take effect, politicians are caving in.
Most notably, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer posted on Bluesky on Thursday that “more time is needed to find an American buyer for TikTok. We will continue working to keep TikTok alive.”
Yeah, right—that was the problem all along: ByteDance didn’t have enough time to find a buyer, despite passage of the ban law way back in last April.
Meanwhile, incoming President Donald Trump’s national security adviser to be, Mike Waltz, told Fox News on Thursday that “we will put measures in place to keep TikTok from going dark.”
In another Fox News interview, he said Trump would “create the space to put” a deal in place for TikTok.
Put aside for a moment the complications inherent in delaying the ban-or-sell law (presidential executive orders are frequently challenged in court, and not enforcing the law could have other issues, as Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh noted last Friday).
The problem with the sale isn’t a lack of buyers, as would-be buyer Bobby Kotick could attest.
There’s simply no sign ByteDance wants to sell, and there’s every reason to think China won’t let ByteDance sell TikTok, along with the algorithm that helps the app operate.
Forcing the issue with the ban might have changed minds at ByteDance.
Elizabeth Prelogar, the U.S. solicitor general, told the Supreme Court last week that the ban “might be just the jolt Congress expected the company would need to actually move forward” with a sale.
But by backing away from imposing the ban now, the U.S. will likely lose that leverage.
The question now is whether Trump can change the dynamic by throwing China a bone to get it to agree to TikTok’s sale. You have to wonder, though, how far he would be willing to go to keep TikTok alive. (Source.)
Shutting down TikTok would have lost $BILLIONS for the U.S. economy, NOT the economy of China, as China’s primary investment in TikTok is the value of the stock they own.
But TikTok generates between $15 – $16 billion in revenue in the U.S., and thousands of people, “content creators”, have become millionaires just from content published on TikTok that goes directly into the U.S. economy.
One company that would have probably gone bankrupt if TikTok had remained offline in the U.S., is Larry Ellison’s Oracle, which hosts TikTok’s servers.
Oracle warns that a TikTok ban would hurt businessA U.S. ban of TikTok might hurt Oracle’s business, the software company acknowledged in its annual report on Monday.
Oracle provides cloud infrastructure for TikTok, which has over 150 million users in the U.S.
“If we are unable to provide those services to TikTok, and if we cannot redeploy that capacity in a timely manner, our revenues and profits would be adversely impacted,”
Oracle said in its annual report for the fiscal year ended May 31. (Source.)
So ByteDance called the U.S.’s bluff, and began shutting down the app the day before Trump’s inauguration.
I can almost guarantee that Larry Ellison got on the phone with Trump when that happened, and it did not take long before Trump committed to a 75-day delay in enforcing the ban that is now U.S. Law and declared Constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 9-0 decision.
And Trump has now changed his tune regarding TikTok, and stated that he is negotiating a deal for a U.S. business (perhaps Oracle) to buy a 50% stake in the company, and everyone is hailing Trump as some kind of hero, while U.S. investments into ByteDance and TikTok have probably already been above 50% for quite some time now via hedge fund managers on Wall Street.
And of course, as I have previously reported, Larry Ellison is now jumping into the mRNA “vaccine” manufacturing to produce new “cancer vaccines” in Operation Warp Speed 2.0. See:
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China has already surpassed Tesla in producing a better and less expensive electric vehicle that now outsells Teslas in China, and they have already surpassed Apple in producing a better and less expensive smartphone than Apple, which has decreased sales for both Tech companies in China and around the world, as was reflected in their annual reports earlier this week.
But all these technology companies had to do was sell more hopium about the future of AI to investors this week to keep their stock prices up, as Elon Musk, who has been promising fully autonomous self-driving vehicles for about a decade and a half now, has now promised to have them on the streets by June this year (2025).
And investors on Wall Street continue to keep believing him and all the other Big Tech American CEOs, as their stock values rose this week in spite of slumping sales, at least until today when Trump’s threats of tariffs cooled down the market some.
The only thing that has continued to bring huge earnings to Big Tech companies since the elections last November, has been the hopium drug everyone is on since Trump promised them the moon if he won the elections.
But this hopium drug high won’t last much longer, as this is perhaps the largest stock bubble of our time, maybe since the Great Depression.
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January 31, 2025
Nature Preserve Poisoned After California Lithium Battery Facility Catches Fire
Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images
By Ashe Schow
San Jose State University scientists found increased levels of nickel, manganese, and cobalt.
A recent fire at one of the world’s largest lithium-ion battery storage facilities poisoned a vital nature reserve in Northern California.
High levels of nickel, manganese, and cobalt were found in the soil within 2 miles of the Vistra Moss Landing Power Plant and Energy Storage Facility, KQED reported, citing measurements taken by scientists at San Jose State University. Those heavy metals were found in soil samples shortly after the facility caught fire on January 16.
The fire burned for several days, NBC Bay Area reported, and noted that the increase in toxic metals related to baseline measurements that had been conducted prior to the fire. Initially, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under then-President Joe Biden, along with local authorities, claimed the fire at the energy storage facility released no toxins.
Local officials said they didn’t detect higher levels of pollutants, KQED reported, and a company hired by the power facility also found no evidence of heightened toxic metals. A Facebook group of nearly 3,000 people in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, however, contains allegations that people are suffering from headaches, sore throats, nausea, and other conditions they believe are linked to the fire.
Dr. Ivano Aiello, the chair of San José State’s Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, told KQED that his lab tested soil within two miles of the Elkhorn Slough nature preserve and found that samples from around 100 locations showed concentrations of three toxic heavy metals hundreds of times higher than before the fire. He noted that the fire caused the increase in findings because the heavy metals were only found in the top layer of soil, suggesting they were recent.
“They are clearly the type of material from a battery, so you can link directly the occurrence increasing of this toxic heavy metal to the source, which is a battery,” he told the outlet. “The line of evidence from a scientific perspective is pretty solid. There’s no other explanation as to why before the concentrations were much lower and now are much higher, and those elements are linked to those nanoparticles.”
Though local outlets have covered the story, it has not received national attention, possibly because the facility was used to store solar power during the day and provide it to consumers in the evening. Had the facility been a nuclear power plant, the story would likely have become international news.
Today, however, the same voices who would otherwise oppose nuclear power for the threat it poses to crops and nature are silent about their preferred energy source causing damage to the surrounding area.
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The Forgotten Dangers of Ultrasound
A Midwestern Doctor
Story at-a-glanceThe medical field has historically exposed mothers to harmful treatments for infants. After efforts to stop routine fetal X-rays, prenatal ultrasound (US) was introduced as a “safe” alternativeWhile ultrasound is considered safe, a century of forgotten research shows it can harm tissuesEvidence shows early fetuses are especially vulnerable to ultrasound, with trials in China that gave ultrasound before abortions revealing clear damage to fetal tissuesUS harms are dose-dependent. In 1992, despite safety concerns, the FDA raised permissible US levels 8-fold, which may have contributed to the rise of chronic childhood illnessesThe benefits of prenatal US are often exaggerated, leading to unnecessary treatments that harm both mothers and infantsThe earlier in life an input enters a human being’s system, the more of a profound impact it has. For example, abuse, neglect, or trauma early in childhood often pattern individuals for their entire lives (and in many cases their descendants as well).1
Similarly, it’s well recognized that toxin exposure during pregnancy (especially in the first two months of life2) can create lifelong issues. Sadly, this principle is frequently neglected when convenient (e.g., by pushing the COVID-19 vaccine on pregnant mothers).
‘Safe and Effective’One of the core beliefs medical students are taught from the very start is that vaccines are “safe and effective.” As such, they become unable to see the obvious dangers of vaccines (e.g., the century of evidence linking vaccines to “unexplained” sudden infant deaths — which coincidentally occur at the same time the early childhood vaccines are given).
A similar situation with ultrasound exists, as all doctors are taught that, unlike other imaging modalities, ultrasound is completely harmless. Rather, ultrasound’s only downside is that the image quality is operator dependent — even though many medical devices use high-powered ultrasound to destroy human tissues.
In truth, like vaccines, initially the medical profession was quite skeptical of ultrasound (as there was a great deal of evidence suggesting harm). However, as the decades passed and its ever increasing use was normalized, those concerns were forgotten entirely. For example, in 1983, CNN aired a program on the dangers of ultrasound (where the FDA acknowledged these dangers) almost no one knows about.
The Medicalization of ChildbirthInitially, doctors had no interest in childbirth. However, this changed in 1820 after a prestigious Harvard Doctor pointed out it could create lifelong customers due to the mother’s gratitude towards their doctor for helping her at her most vulnerable time.3
In turn, a variety of ploys were used to turn what had been a natural process into a medical intervention requiring a costly array of (often harmful) medical interventions.
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After the idea of X-raying a fetus throughout pregnancy was proposed in 1923, it was quickly taken up by the medical profession.8 Before long, evidence accumulated that this was very dangerous, but it was not until 1975 that the obstetric field shifted away from it — a shift that largely occurred because an alternative way was found to conduct those routine exams.
Fortunately, at the time, many doctors, including one of the leading reformers of the era, Robert S. Mendelsohn, were aware of the dozens of studies showing ultrasound was not safe and recognized the same mistake was being repeated:
‘Safe’ Levels of UltrasoundAlmost all of the ultrasound research showed its toxicity was dose-dependent. By the late 1970s, leading ultrasound researchers were explicitly warning against giving US to fetuses and that it was imperative to be very cautious of the dose.
Unfortunately, as the technology evolved, higher doses were needed to get the higher quality images customers wanted, so in 1992, the FDA made the controversial decision to raise the permitted ultrasound limits massively.
[image error]This limit (720 mW/cm2), however this vastly exceeded the standard accepted ultrasound dose10 which had already been demonstrated to damage tissues (and sadly, due to poor FDA oversight, many machines often use far higher intensities).
At the time, the change was justified by better training in ultrasound operators being a viable way to prevent fetal damage, but unfortunately, this never happened. Rather, ultrasound became declared “safe and effective,” the existing research was forgotten, funding for future safety research was blocked, medical guidelines gradually eliminated their cautions on ultrasound, and ultrasound operators lost almost any awareness they needed to be concerned about fetal safety.
Most importantly, this 1992 change coincided with the explosion of chronic illnesses that emerged in our children.11
[image error]While the proliferation of vaccines is the most likely explanation for this epidemic, one study found12 ultrasound increased the risk of autism in genetically susceptible children, suggesting ultrasound may have served a contributing role (which may relate13 to its ability to potentiate the cytotoxicity of antibiotics and other pharmaceutical drugs).
Likewise, many others found14 prenatal ultrasound significantly reduced fetal growth, impaired neuronal migration, and in children, increased:
DyslexiaDelayed speechLeft-handednessSchizophreniaPoor academic and physical education performancePassivity and tirednessFetal ReactivityOne of the first things that made me suspicious of ultrasound was noticing that once ultrasound was applied, fetuses would react to it, and often seem as though they were trying to get away from it as the probe was directed towards them — which suggested, contrary to what we were told, ultrasound was not inert. After some digging, I discovered:
Most midwives (and a few physicians) I’d spoken to had made similar observations and also hence questioned its safety.Scientific research showed that ultrasound caused increased fetal movement.16A hydrophone inside the uterus17 determined that ultrasound registers at 100 to 12018 decibels there (which is equivalent to a subway entering a train station19) — whereas OSHA limits workplace ultrasound exposure to between 105 to 115 decibels.20Fetal DemiseAnother pivotal moment came when I saw a despondent mother in the emergency room having a miscarriage who kept saying, “I don’t understand what happened. We saw our gynecologist earlier today, she looked at my baby, and said he was in great health.” As I looked into this, I began to find many similar reports like this one (which includes many other instances she came across):
Likewise, numerous large studies have shown ultrasound can cause miscarriages or premature labor,21,22,23,24 and since I began this series, many readers have shared similar tragic experiences.
Evidence of HarmOver the last century, hundreds of studies have demonstrated the dangers of ultrasound, over 200 of which I summarized here. Collectively they all show dose-dependent biological damage occurs (at levels that were frequently less than 1% of the FDA’s 720 mW/cm2 limit). In cell studies, ultrasound has been repeatedly observed to:
Cause genetic damage similar to that induced by X-raysMake susceptible cells become cancerousDamage cellular structures (e.g., microtubules, mitochondria, the nucleus, and the endoplasmic reticulum)Create damaging free radicalsCreate abnormal cell motilityInitiate cell deathIn animal studies, ultrasound has been shown to:
Cause the same damage observed in those cellular studiesSignificantly impair mice and monkey behaviors (e.g., learning, memory, activity, and sociability)Impair cardiac functionInhibit embryonic growth or kill developing embryosDamage nerves and create motor paralysisDecrease white blood cell countsCause hemorrhages in the lungs and bonesCreate a wide range of congenital malformations (e.g., in the heart, head, and spine)Note: Many of these defects, particularly those of the heart increased in tandem with the widespread adoption of ultrasound.
For ethical reasons, similar studies cannot be conducted in humans. However, in the early 1980s, dozens of studies (e.g., I summarized 41 of them here) were conducted in China on pregnant women immediately prior to abortion, with half of them receiving abortions and the fetuses then being dissected (some of which can be found in PubMed). Collectively, they observed similar damage in each organ that was examined and that ultrasound caused:
The cell death process to initiate — something many Chinese investigators found extremely concerning given that small changes in the initial embryonic cells can be immensely consequential for the rest of lifeAn increase of the proteins associated with cell deathMutagenic changes and cancerous transformationsDNA damageIncreased levels of malondialdehyde (a highly reactive molecule), TNF-α, and lipid peroxidation (a sign of oxidative damage)Decreased activity of many antioxidant enzymes and nitric oxideCellular damage (e.g., swelling, degeneration, disintegration, disorganization, karyolysis, and necrosis)Damage to many cellular structures (e.g., pyknosis, rarefaction, vacuolization, disintegration), particularly within the mitochondriaDepleted glycogen levelsAdditionally, they found specific damage to the placenta, pituitary gland, eyes, immune system, kidneys, liver, ovaries, testicles (and sperm), and the brain’s neurons and glial cells.
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A few large randomized control trials (RCTs) published in premier medical journals have also demonstrated dangers with ultrasound:
• A 1990 RCT28 gave 4691 women ultrasound. They experienced 20 miscarriages and 11 elective abortions (due to diagnosed birth defects), whereas zero of either occurred in the control group. Additionally, it was determined that of the 250 placenta previas diagnosed by ultrasound (a key reason for prenatal ultrasounds), only 4 were present at birth.
• A 1990 RCT compared 57 patients being surveilled for preterm labor who received weekly pelvic exams or cervical ultrasound. Premature labor occurred in 52% of those receiving US, and 25% of those receiving pelvic exams. Those receiving US were more likely to receive tocolytic (labor inducing) agents (55% vs. 21%) and did not see any benefits from ultrasound.29
• A 1992 RCT published gave regular Doppler examinations (a stronger form of ultrasound) to 1,246 women.30 Compared to controls, the perinatal death rate increased 2.4 times, the total pregnancy loss by 1.67 times, the emergency C-section rate by 17%, and the need for resuscitations at birth by 6% (along with a significant decrease in Apgar scores).
• A 1993 RCT gave 1,415 women regular Doppler examinations. Compared to those who only received standard ultrasound, they were 35% more likely to have an intrauterine growth restriction and 65% more likely to have a low birth weight.31
Sadly, rather than changing the standard of care, each of these were ignored.
Is Ultrasound Effective?Numerous studies show ultrasound provides minimal overall benefit, especially if used early in pregnancy when the fetus is most vulnerable to its damaging effect. For example:
• A 2010 Cochrane review (the gold standard for evaluating medical evidence) of 11 trials comprising 37,505 women found early pregnancy ultrasound provided minimal benefit (there were no reductions in adverse outcomes for babies or in health service use by mothers and babies).32
• A 2005 RCT of 4,187 pregnant women found that umbilical Doppler monitoring led to a significant increase in the number of ultrasonographic and Doppler examinations but had no effects on the outcome of the pregnancy.33
• A 1993 meta-analysis found no improvement in birth outcomes or perinatal mortality from ultrasound, but noted it incorrectly diagnosed fetal malformations.34
• A 1993 RCT35 of 15,151 low-risk pregnancies found that routine ultrasound provided no benefit.
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Many of the other benefits of ultrasound are either unnecessary (e.g., getting a picture of their face), possible to determine with other methods (e.g., their age, if there are twins, or if they have a genetic defect), or possible to determine around the time of labor (e.g., if a C-section is necessary).
Rather, the primary benefit is to inform you if the baby has a high-risk condition that requires intrauterine surgery (which applies to roughly 1 in 2000 pregnancies)41 or requires specialized surgical care immediately following childbirth (which can typically be determined with a physical examination).
Note: A 1997 study of 36 children with congenital defects only detected 19% to 36% of them. In those whose defects were detected (and the management of their labor was thus altered), 77% survived, whereas for those whose defects were missed, 96% survived (and had better Apgar scores and birth weights and spent less time on the ventilator). Additionally, while it took 3 times as long for those who needed surgeries to get one, no difference in mortality resulted.42
As such, I believe rather than being routine, prenatal ultrasounds should only be done when there is a specific medical necessity for them (e.g., in high-risk pregnancies where the results of the scan would change its management following unexplained bleeding or to clarify uncertainties during labor), and that when done, care should be taken to minimize fetal ultrasound exposure.
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Via https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2025/01/31/prenatal-ultrasound.aspx
Chinese AI Outperforms US Models
Hua Bin
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, has sent a shockwave through the US tech industry and Wall Street in the last week.
Its LLM R1, trained in 2 months for under $6 million, has outperformed the latest offerings from OpenAI, Meta, Google and Microsoft, who have spent tens of billions and years on their models.
The DeepSeek AI app has topped download charts in the US and China, replacing ChatGPT as the No. 1 AI productivity tool.
Due to its breakthrough technology that shows powerful AI can be developed with very limited investment in computing, DeepSeek’s emergency has sent Nvidia stock reeling, losing as much as 17% on Monday and wiping out $600 billion in market cap.
Interestingly, as we speak, barely a few days after the shockwave on Wall Street, DeepSeek is experiencing a massive denial of service (DoS) attacks from the US on its servers, affecting new registrations.
The US government, including the US Navy, has banned the use of DeepSeek for its personnel. And the congress is already discussing ways to slow down and disrupt DeepSeek.
This episode is eerily reminiscent of the Huawei ban, the TikTok ban, the chip ban, and the EV tariffs. The US regime has fully adopted the Tanya Harding school of how to win by breaking the leg of her competitor. Ask Nancy Kerrigan about it.
As thoughtful people put all these panic-ridden actions in context, the most obvious conclusion emerges – the US regime is not acting from any position of strength. It is behaving like a chicken little who cannot compete, win honestly, and is running scared.
The list of anti-China activities out of successive US regimes is long and varied –
– Trump started to impose 60% tariff on Chinese imports since 2017, a policy the Biden regime continued.
– The Biden regime imposed 100% tax on Chinese EVs, which have not yet even entered the US market. But the competitiveness of Chinese EVs is enough to get Biden to enact pre-emptive tariffs.
– Biden regime imposed dozens of export controls on China, often using coercion against its own “allies” to follow suit such as Holland’s ASML and South Korea’s Hynix and Samsung.
– Biden regime put thousands of Chinese companies on the US entity list with all sorts of made-up justifications in hope of disrupting these companies’ operations.
– Trump is again making noises to impose 100% tariffs on Chinese imports. He is going further to threaten invading Panama and Greenland to contain China.
– The FBI launched the infamous China Initiative to prosecute Chinese scientists working in the US, yielding zero prosecutable case after ruining the lives of numerous scholars and scientists.
McCarthyism is alive and well in the “land of the free”. J Edgar Hoover, the cross dresser, would be proud of the viciousness of the criminal organization he founded.
– The US regime has also harassed the hundreds of thousands Chinese students in the US, who are contributing $150 billion a year to the US economy. It is attempting to prevent Chinese students from studying in advanced technical fields. Anyone studying the defunct neoliberal economics or neoconservative politics and faux democracy is welcome.
– The congress passed a $1.6 billion smear fund in a so-called “anti-CCP propaganda” campaign. The best to counter other’s so-called propaganda is of course to launch a bigger one of your own.
– Every political appointee, as well as elected official, must espouse a fervent anti-China rhetoric in confirmation hearings, TV interviews, and corporate media op-eds. If you are not a China hawk, you have no place in the US power elite.
– Every Pentagon official and military industrial complex funded “think tanker” is expected to sound tough about the coming China US war. They come up frightening concepts like “unmanned Hellscape” strategy in the Taiwan Strait, seemingly unaware China is years ago in drone tech and production.
– The US has tried to mobilize its vassals from Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, and India into anti-China military alliances. It has formed fearsome-sounding acronyms like AUKUS and QUAD, which are looked upon in awe only by itself.
The “most powerful country in the history of the world” (as self-claimed by multiple US regimes) seems unconfident to take on China on its own.
On the other hand, China is playing its own game. There is no political figure or “expert” jumping up and down on national or local TV to shout against the US. There is little attention paid to the theatrics in Washington and its client states.
China is focused on overcoming the difficulties posed by the aggressive US actions, reducing dependencies, and developing its indigenous capabilities.
– China has diversified its trades. Trading with emerging markets now account for more than 50% of China’s total trade. Trade with the US is less than 3% of its GDP as of 2024.
– Huawei has revived its mobile business and dethroned Apple to return to market leadership in China. Its leadership is more entrenched in the core telecom technology area. It is more vertically integrated with its own chip design and manufacturing supply chain.
Huawei has expanded its product offerings to include mobile operating systems (Harmony OS NEXT), electric vehicles, streaming services, and autonomous driving.
– In AI, Chinese companies are making rapid progress. In addition to DeepSeek, ByteDance, Baidu, Alibaba, 01.ai have all developed sophisticated LLM models.
– China leads in industrial AI applications from robotics, drones to autonomous driving. Companies such as Unitree, DJI, BYD, Xiaomi are integrating AI technologies into multiple areas of practical applications beyond generative AI.
China is also translating its industrial, technological and economic power into military power.
It has recently launched the world’s first 6th generation fighter prototypes (not one but two at the same time), the world’s first drone-carrier, the first hypersonic stealth unmanned airplanes for strike and reconnaissance, the first stealth unmanned warship, and the most powerful long-range air defence systems.
It is progressing rapidly in directed energy weapons, military 5G, atomic timing, and space warfare systems.
All these military technological breakthroughs were unveiled in the last 3 months.
While the US politicians and military figures seem to conflate theatrics with reality, China is quietly amassing the capability to overwhelm its opponent in raw military might, industrial might and economic might.
As we watch with amusement the clownish performance of the US elite, the stinking odor of fear reeks so much you can smell it from across the Pacific.
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Via https://huabinoliver.substack.com/p/the-us-is-reeking-the-smell-of-fear
Studies Show WiFi Hastens Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics
By Olle Johansson, Ph.D, associate professor, and former head of The Experimental Dermatology Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden – NASMS, A. McDowell
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The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies carbapenem-resistant bacteria as a global health threat and of the highest priority for research and development of new treatment methods. The ECDC study emphasizes the importance of continuing to develop and improve the conditions for reducing the spread of multi-resistant bacteria.
To map the occurrence and spread of multi-resistant bacteria across national borders is now of paramount importance, as are much more restricted open-border policies across the world, and limits on international work and holiday journeys.
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A high-risk clone is a resistant bacterium of great clinical importance that has the ability to spread with high efficiency in inpatient care, cause serious infection, and cause long-term carriage in humans. High-risk clones are an important explanation for the spread of resistance in society.
The Swedish Public Health Agency closely follows the development of the number of cases and characterizes all findings with the aim of detecting and preventing the national spread of infection as well as changes in resistance mechanisms and resistance patterns. The same protective measures are now implemented in other countries as well.
Previous observations of antibiotic resistance around the worldOn Monday, May 22, 2017, the newspaper ”Metro Stockholm” reported that the Ministers of Health from the so-called G20 countries, including Australia, France, India, Italy, Japan, Canada, China, Russia, Saudi-Arabia, Great Britain, South Africa, Turkey, Germany and the USA, have decided to cooperate to counter the ever-increasing and alarming world-wide resistance of bacteria to antibiotics.
Only within the EU there are yearly more than 35,000 deaths due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and by the year 2050, it has been calculated that more than 10,000,000 people worldwide will die prematurely each year due to antibiotic resistance.
Among the measures presented were national action plans to be in force at the end of the year 2018. Furthermore, the G20 countries are striving to only allow antibiotics to be purchased via formal medical prescriptions, as well as working towards supplying these medicines at lower and more reasonable prices in poor countries.
All of the above sounds very serious and scary, but still in the hands of highly capable authorities, civil servants, politicians, and health care officers, doctors and nurses. But then why do they not pay attention to the following?
Surprisingly enough, nothing is – however – mentioned about the very recent results of several international research units like that of Taheri et al. (2017; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28203122), who have demonstrated that the exposure to 900 MHz GSM mobile phone radiation and 2.4 GHz radiofrequency radiation emitted from common Wi-Fi routers made Listeria monocytogenes and Escherichia coli bacteria resistant to different antibiotics. These findings naturally have direct implications for the management of serious infectious diseases and may potentially lead to a future collapse of the global human population.
Another very important study is the US DARPA-funded one (Rao et al. 2022) which has found that bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus, biofilms communicate using frequencies that are in the range that are used by Wi-Fi and 5G C-band. The experiment found that notable radiation is observed in the 3–4 GHz band coming from the Staphylococcus aureus biofilms.
Radiation from three identical biofilm samples was monitored and recorded over 70 days. Two distinct frequency bands, namely the 3.18 GHz and the 3.45 GHz bands, were identified as potential “communication bands”. Furthermore, long-term and short-term cycles of the total radiation intensity within the band were observed over the course of the experiment.
So this recent study indicates that bacterial cells in biofilms may use electromagnetic signals to communicate which are of the similar type as our own cell phone and WiFi signals! Biofilms are one of the most ubiquitous forms of biological systems on earth, and are commonly associated with infectious diseases. They are also responsible for contamination of medical devices and implants, deterioration of water quality, and microbial-induced corrosion.
This work confirms the presence of electromagnetic radiation within bacterial communities, which is a key requirement to demonstrate electromagnetic signalling among bacterial cells. The insight could lead to breakthroughs in demystifying how cells communicate as well as the advancement of important technologies in biology and communication systems. But, much more importantly, this is a very firm and strong warning to mankind to stop playing with biology here on Earth – we may have to very profoundly regret it.
My personal comment to this is: just imagine what our man-made high-frequency signals, used by cell phones, wireless smart meters, WiFi systems, wireless baby alarms, DECT phones, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Bodies (IoB), and many more gadgets/installations/systems, delivered at colossal power levels compared to the natural ones, may do to these intricate communicative mechanisms!
The above may, in addition – if replicated by independent scientists in further controlled studies – explain the observed occurrence of antibiotic resistance after exposures of common bacteria, like Listeria monocytogenes and Escherichia coli, to the radiation of 2G mobile telephony or WiFi-router fields (cf. above; see also Johansson 2017).
Soil bacteria are also affected by radiation from mobile phone towersIt must also be noted that Sharma Antim Bala and coworkers (2018) have demonstrated the impact of the radiations transmitted by mobile tower base stations on microbial diversity in soil and antibiotic resistance patterns. Soil samples were taken from near four different base stations located in Dausa City, India, while control samples were taken far from any base stations.
Isolation and identification of microorganisms were done using biochemical reactions and antibiotic resistance was observed. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Chryseobacterium gleum, and Kocuria rosea were isolated and identified in soil samples collected near radiation-exposed zones.
A statistically significant greater antibiotic resistance was observed in microbes present in the soil near base stations compared to the control, using nalidixic acid and cefixime as antimicrobial agents (p<0.05). The authors stated that ”our findings suggest that mobile tower radiation can significantly alter the vital systems in microbes and turn them multidrug-resistant, which is the most important current threat to public health”.
With the ongoing huge and highly frightening development into more and more antibiotics-resistant microorganisms around the world, this adaptive phenomenon and its potential threats to human health, according to my view, definitely and rapidly should be further investigated in controlled replication experiments, rather than only spend money and time on national action plans, commercially lowering the prizes, and flying to Mars!
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The functional impairment electrohypersensitivity, food, bacteria, and artificial radiationFinally, it should be noted that people with severe electrohypersensitivity have noticed a direct relationship between the severity of their functional impairment and sugar ingested (not white sugar, but sugary food), and as a result, heightened levels of electromagnetic field sensitivity. Such a direct relationship to their diet/internal bad gut load just from one day of cheating on a diet can result in a massively overwhelming and irritating increase of the electromagnetic field sensitivity during the next day.
So the impact on gut bacteria (E. coli; Candida albicans?) by diet perhaps may trigger attacks of electrohypersensitivity?
Will this also be a symptom of bacteria with a deranged communication due to the impacts of artificial electromagnetic fields and signals from our ’smart’ world, the latter thus being not-so-smart? Perhaps it is high time to start de-smarting our life and our environment, and instead start listening carefully to our bacteria? Maybe they are trying to tell us something?
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Via https://newsvoice.se/2025/01/radiation-exposed-bacteria/
Octopus Game Part VII – The Hidden History of Palestine
Octopus Game Part VII – The Hidden History of Palestine
Press TV (2024)
Film Review
After briefly discussing US military aid to Ukraine, this episode mainly focuses on the major control America’s powerful Zionist lobby exerts over the US congress.
The Russians began their special operation against Ukraine on February 24, 2022. By late fall 2023, the US had spent over $75 billion for military aid to Ukraine. In December 2023 Republicans began selectively blocking additional military aid to Ukraine, after polls showed over half of Republican voters opposed the continuing NATO war in Ukraine.
In contrast, the US Congress has never opposed or sought to scale down a proposal for Israeli military aid.* For decades Israel has consistently been the largest recipient of US military aid, a total of $130 billion since 1979.
The US government funds 15% of Israel’s total military budget. It’s estimated they have 80-400 nuclear bombs. All administrations since Kennedy have taken on responsibility for ensuring Israel’s qualitative edge over other Middle East countries.
In addition to US government support, Israel also receives substantial private corporate funding, given that most of the US economy is controlled by Israeli supporters. Founded by three Zionist financiers, Blackrock controls $9.42 trillion of the $37.5 trillion of “legal” money circulating in the global economy. The four major defense contractors producing the armaments the US sends to Israel (Lockheed Martin, Northup Grummond, Boeing and General Dynamics) depend on BlockRock for a substantial portion of their operating capital. Larry Fink, BlackRock chairman and CEO, is an open Zionist.
After students demanded their universities divest from BlackRock and the defense contractors they finance, Bill Ackman, a US billionaire hedge fund manager, and Larry Fink began identifying and tracking anti-genocide protestors to ensure no companies they fund offer them future employment.
Zionist billionaires also “buy” pro-Israel votes in Congress through the super PACs they fund to finance the elections of compliant lawmakers.
Zionist lobbyists used this influence to force university presidents to led to crackdown on anti-genocide protests. The presidents of Harvard and University of Pennsylvania were both forced to resign after being congressional committee members accused them of antisemitism.
Although many American Jews oppose Israel’s genocidal campaign against Gaza,the 50% of US billionaires who are Jewish all support Zionism.
Cloud platform Oracle, which is run by Zionist Larry Ellison, built a global database for the CIA by monitoring and collecting ted data from activists’ social networks and messaging apps (as NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden described in 2013). Ellison is one of the largest private funders of the Israel occupation army, as well as providing Israel extensive surveillance data on Gaza residents.
*The 2,000 pound bombs Trump just released for delivery to Israel are an except. Beginning in October 2024, the Biden administration held up delivery of some congressionally approved military aid. See https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-confirms-lifting-hold-on-delivery-of-2000-pound-bombs-to-israel/
January 30, 2025
Whistleblower: Multiple FBI Agents Call In Sick With ‘Blue Flu’ To Avoid Helping ICE Round-Up Criminal Illegals In Chicago
Zero Hedge
Multiple FBI agents assigned to assist ICE with illegal alien deportations in Chicago last weekend, called in sick with the “Blue Flu,” according to an FBI whistleblower.
On January 22, Acting Attorney General James McHenry ordered the FBI; U.S. Marshal’s Service; Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); and Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to assist ICE with deportations.
Former FBI Special Agent Steve Friend said Tuesday that multiple agents assigned to assist in the deportation effort in Chicago called in sick to “protest” the mission.
“I’ve been told that agents are calling in sick—”blue flu” style—to protest the directive,” Friend posted on X.
ICE ramped up it’s deportation effort over the weekend, making nearly 1,200 arrests Sunday and nearly 1,000 on Saturday, according to the Wall Street Journal.
President Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan was in Chicago on Sunday, along with US Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, to oversee Immigration enforcements in the city, Fox News’ Matt Finn reported.
A video posted by Finn on X shows Bove saying that the the Department of Homeland Security is running the operation in lockstep with the Department of Justice and urging agents to safely implement Trump policies.
Friend, who is now a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America and an “American Radicals” podcaster, told American Greatness that other field offices have been asking for volunteers to help with the deportation effort, but many agents are afraid of retaliation from their superiors.
“People know if they step forward, then leadership will identify them as MAGA,” he explained.
“The executive management at some field offices aren’t sending out any guidance for the ICE directive. Just ignoring,” he added.
The former G-man said it was important for the Senate to confirm former federal prosecutor Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, “to root this subterfuge out.”
“Everyone is scared of retaliation. Always. But people are coming forward with more for me recently because they think Kash [Patel] is getting in,” Friend told American Greatness.
In September 2022, the special agent/turned whistleblower was stripped of his gun and badge, and escorted out of the FBI field office in Daytona Beach, Florida for refusing to take part in the Bureau’s terroristic SWAT raids at the homes of Jan-6ers.
Friend said at the time he was punished after he complained to his superiors about having to be involved in J6 investigations that were “violating citizens’ Sixth Amendment rights due to overzealous charging by the DOJ and biased jury pools in Washington, DC.”
He said it shouldn’t be hard for the Trump administration to quash the insubordination. “Just suspend clearances like they did to me. SCOTUS says that is legal. Fire every probationary employee,” he told American Greatness.
“I recommend the Trump administration consider an all of the above strategy for handing employees who are unwilling to follow lawful, ethical, and constitutional orders from the chief executive. Suspend security clearances. Terminate probationary employees. End telework. Reassign individuals to work in hardship locations,” Friend advised.
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Trump Plans To Finally Withdraw US Troops From Syria, Israelis Say
AFP/Getty ImagesZero HedgeIsrael and Turkish media reports say that President Donald Trump is planning to finally pull American occupying forces out of Syria. The statements began with a report this week by Israel’s official public broadcasting Kan. However, the Trump White House itself has yet to confirm this, but is likely in talks with regional states, particularly Turkey and close Washington ally Israel, about such a potential move.
Kan reported Tuesday that “senior White House officials conveyed a message to their Israeli counterparts indicating that President Trump intends to pull thousands of US troops from Syria.”
The Israeli reported added that “the withdrawal of American forces from Syria will raise significant concerns in Tel Aviv.” Israeli leaders see the US presence in northeast Syria as a stabilizing factor. Special forces, among some 2000 total troops have been advising and supporting the Syrian Kurds (SDF/YPG) for several years.
Just prior to Trump taking office, Biden’s Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin defended the US presence there as part of the ‘counter ISIS’ mission. US defense leaders have constantly argued over the years that the Islamic State could be resurgent if the Pentagon leaves.
But others would argue that Washington was among the biggest facilitators in the rise of ISIS, given that John Kerry once admitted that the US was trying to ‘manage’ ISIS in order to pressure Assad out.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has said in the wake of Assad’s shock ouster in early December, “We will not allow hostile forces to establish a foothold in the security zone south of Syria, from here to the Sweida-Damascus axis. We will act against any threat.”
Trump stretching back to his first administration had been more brutally honest about what American forces are really doing there, to the embarrassment of US intelligence and defense leaders, and deep state insiders. For example here’s what Trump told FOX years ago:
“I left troops [in Syria] to take the oil. I took the oil. The only troops I have are taking the oil. They’re protecting the oil. I took over the oil“. -Trump on Fox News
This in turn was used as an economic noose against Assad, but in reality it has been strangling the common populace of Syria, who might see one hour of electricity a day during winter conditions.
During Trump’s first term he signaled the we wanted the US out of Syria, but many reports said at the time he was stymied by more hawkish officials within his administration.
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Via https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-plans-finally-withdraw-us-troops-syria-israelis-say
World Economic Forum announces mass-vaccination plans
“Members of the World Economic Forum (WEF) have unveiled plans for permanently mass-vaccinating the general public “every six months” with “long-acting” mRNA “vaccines” as part of an alleged effort to supposedly tackle multiple diseases.” – Slay News
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Via https://theblogginghounds.com/2025/01/30/the-world-economic-forum-announces-mass-vaccination-plans/
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