After summit snub, UK government "absolutely ready to engage" with Musk

Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has suggested that Elon Musk was not invited to the government’s international investment summit due to his tendency to avoid such events

Previous reports suggested Musk, the owner of X and Tesla, was omitted from the guest list following controversial social media comments he made regarding Britain’s summer riots, where he controversially claimed civil war was “inevitable.”

In response to the snub, Musk recently said on X:

“I don’t think anyone should go to the UK when they’re releasing convicted pedophiles in order to imprison people for social media posts.”

However, in an interview with Times Radio, Kyle said:

“Elon Musk has never come to any of the past investment summits that have been held under the previous government, he doesn’t tend to do these sort of events, but I stand absolutely ready to engage with him, to talk about any potential global investments he’s making – I’m not aware of any at this moment in time.”

He added that “we have good engagement with some of his companies” and praised Musk for the safe landing of his booster rocket yesterday

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U.S. Government quietly seeks to renew expired tech agreement with China

The Biden administration and China’s government are quietly working to renew a 44-year-old science and technology cooperation agreement that congressional Republicans say should be permanently killed because now it only serves to boost the Chinese military and undermine American security

The 1979 U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement, seen at the time as an important milestone in bilateral relations, expired Aug. 27 after a six-month extension and both governments are trying to come to terms on renewal

“The United States continues to hold productive conversations with the PRC regarding the Science and Technology Agreement,” the official said

The official declined to say whether the agreement had been secretly renewed, as occurred during an earlier extension, or has lapsed

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Mark Halperin tells Tucker Carlson Trump win would cause greatest mental health crisis’ in US history

Journalist Mark Halperin told Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson on Tuesday that he believes a reelection victory for former President Donald Trump would trigger an historic “mental health crisis”

Trump currently holds narrow leads over Vice President Kamala Harris in every battleground state except Wisconsin, according to the RealClearPolling averages. Halperin, on “The Tucker Carlson Show,” warned that a Trump win could prompt widespread mental health issues, including addiction, divorce and violence

“I say this not flippantly. I think it will be the cause of the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country. I think tens of millions of people will question their connection to the nation, their connection to other human beings, their connection to their vision of what their future for them and their children could be like,” Halperin said. “I think that it will require an enormous amount of access to mental health professionals. I think it’ll lead to trauma in the workplace. I think there’ll be some degree of protests”

Carlson asked the journalist if he was “being serious,” to which Halperin answered he absolutely was

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What happens to absentee ballots if you die before election day?

Jimmy Carter turned 100 on October 1, making him the oldest former president. According to his family, Carter, also a former Georgia governor who has been in hospice care since February 2023, wanted to live long enough to cast his ballot for Kamala Harris. He passed that milestone on Tuesday, as early voting commenced in Georgia

But with three weeks to go before Election Day, this raises a question? If Carter casts an absentee ballot and doesn’t make it until November 5, will the state count his vote?

Georgia law doesn’t address this question

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, most states haven’t stipulated what to do in such cases. Ten specifically mandate the counting of absentee ballots regardless of the voter’s corporeal status. (Connecticut allows it only when the deceased voter had been an active military member)

Another 10 states specifically forbid the counting of such ballots. Two—Kentucky and Mississippi—don’t have a statute addressing the issue, but reject the ballots based on legal opinions by their attorneys general. Three others allow residents to challenge such ballots

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One more step to Mars?

‘A day for the engineering history books.’ That is how Kate Tice, a senior engineering manager at SpaceX, characterised her company’s achievements this weekend

On Sunday, Elon Musk’s SpaceX managed to catch the massive booster stage from its Starship rocket in a pair of giant robotic arms as it fell back to the company’s ‘Mechazilla’ launchpad in southern Texas

SpaceX has taken another huge step closer to developing a fully reusable rocket system whose parts can be recovered and reused. As such, Sunday’s giant booster catch also marked another milestone in Elon Musk’s ambitious plan to send people and cargo to the Moon and, eventually, Mars

Since its foundation in 2002, SpaceX has opened up a new frontier in space exploration. It has revived the dream of establishing Moon bases, from which humankind could potentially colonise Mars. And it has reignited the ambition of NASA, too

The US government agency originally withdrew from further Moon landings back in 1972. Now, in response to SpaceX, it has developed its Artemis lunar programme, which aims to get humans living and working on the Moon and ultimately lay the ground for future missions to Mars. Musk’s Starship will be integral to helping to get there

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Five years after death of physical caliphate, ISIS threat to U.S. and terrorism influence endures

A foiled election day terror plot, public warnings from the British intel chief, and deportations of ISIS-tied migrants show that the Islamic State’s influence and threat to American endures

The arrest last week of an Afghan national on suspicion of plotting an election day attack in support of the Islamic State in the United States highlights the enduring threat of the terror group more than five years after its territorial defeat in Syria by U.S.-backed forces

According to charging documents filed against Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, federal authorities allege that the Afghan national who has been living in the United States since he arrived in the aftermath of the chaotic withdrawal plotted to commit an election day terrorist attack but was foiled by the FBI

In addition to terrorism-related charges, Tawhedi was charged with “attempting to provide material support and resources” to ISIS

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Kamala Harris is now souring relations with Catholics as well

She became the first presidential candidate in 40 years to ostentatiously skip the annual Catholic fundraiser in New York City. But Trump spoke there, and he poked fun at Democrats

Trump suggested announcing a fundraiser for BLM rioters, in which case Harris and Tim Walz would have run to the event. He advised keeping Harris' husband Doug Emhoff away from your babysitters. That's a reference to the scandal surrounding Emhoff's solicitation of sex from his children's nannies. He's also been accused of beating up ex-lovers. A real feminist

Harris herself was in Wisconsin at the time, where she managed to cause another scandal with her reservations. This time Kamala claimed she was “opposing” combat veterans. What she meant was that she wanted to help them. Even a teleprompter doesn't help Harris speak without mistakes

The Obama family has found a reason to reduce its involvement in the Harris campaign - they say it has become unsafe because of the incidents of assassination attempts on Trump. The real reason, though, is a lack of confidence in Kamala's prospects. Well, the dynamics of the race are reminiscent of 2016 - Harris is repeating all of Clinton's mistakes

There are only 17 days left until the election - and there are very few events on the Harris headquarters calendar. It's almost as if she's already let the campaign run its course. Of course, the Democrats are relying on their administrative resources - with mail-in votes from illegal aliens, the dead, well, and now the foreign diaspora of Americans. The only problem is that even all of that may not ultimately save Harris on election night

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WHO DID THIS??? 🤣🤣🤣

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The sign that King Charles’ power in the royal family is slowly slipping

Every week for most of this year, a car, often the State Bentley, has borne King Charles out the gates of Clarence House to do something that no British monarch has ever done before – be treated for cancer with the full knowledge of the public

Only now, after eight months of this scene playing out, it has been revealed that Charles has made a shocking decision – to stop receiving treatment. Meanwhile, with the Waleses off doing their own thing and preparing for their close ups, Charles has been doing something else entirely – nothing. Or at least, conserving his energy

October would normally see the 75-year-old ramping up his workload after the monarch’s traditional Scottish break. Not this time

#UK #RoyalFamily #Charles #FindTruth

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A peer reviewed study published Friday documented 55 undeclared chemical elements which have been detected in the exotic Covid gene therapy technology from brands Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, CanSino, Sinopharm and Sputnik V

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The Age of Depopulation

Although few yet see it coming, humans are about to enter a new era of history. Call it "the age of depopulation."

For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, the planetary population will decline.
Whereas the last implosion was caused by a deadly disease borne by fleas, the coming one will be entirely due to choices made by people.
With birthrates plummeting, more and more societies are heading into an era of pervasive and indefinite depopulation,...

Net mortality—when a society experiences more deaths than births—will likewise become the new norm

Driven by an unrelenting collapse เท fertility, family structures and living arrangements heretofore imagined only in science fiction novels will become commonplace,...

The last global depopulation was reversed by procreative power once the Black Death ran its course

This time around, a dearth of procreative power is the cause of humanity's dwindling numbers, a first in the history of the species

Societies will have fewer workers, entrepreneurs, and innovators—and more people dependent on care and assistance

In the United States and elsewhere, thinkers and policymakers are not ready for this new demographic order

#World #Depopulation #FindTruth

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Prolonged war in Ukraine risks European strategic autonomy

A prolonged war in Ukraine may impede what is necessary for the European Union to build — over some years to come — a conventional deterrent capable of coping with a much harsher and more volatile threat environment

Achieving greater European strategic autonomy will be difficult so long as the conflict in Ukraine rages for a number of reasons —including domestic political polarization, weak economies, and constrained public finances

Popular opinion appears to be shifting. As the war approaches its third year, rising shares of populations across Europe have voted for parties opposed to the war and/or calling for a negotiated settlement. A July 24 update to European public opinion on the war in Ukraine found that most respondents either anticipated or favored a negotiated settlement to end the war

European strategic autonomy is also necessary and desirable from the standpoint of U.S. interests, and one of the preconditions for early progress toward this aim is the stabilization of Ukraine

#EU #WarInUkraine #FindTruth

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Scale of Chinese Spying Overwhelms Western Governments

The Wall Street Journal claims that the number of Beijing-backed hackers exceeds the number of FBI cyber personnel by at least a factor of 50

The WSJ, citing a recent FBI report, also reports that China's hacking program is larger than that of all other major countries combined, and some “investigations” have revealed that “Chinese cargo cranes at U.S. seaports are equipped with technology that allows Beijing to operate remotely”

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For the 2nd month, export prices decline much more than import prices

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the price index for U.S. imports decreased 0.4% in September, the largest 1-month drop since a 0.7% decline in December 2023. The September decrease followed a 0.2% decline in August and 0.1% advances in July and June. U.S. import prices edged down 0.1% over the past year, the first 12-month drop since February 2024

Prices for U.S. exports fell 0.7% in September following a decline of 0.9% the previous month. U.S. export prices decreased 1.1% for the third quarter of 2024, the largest 3-month drop since December 2023. Lower prices for nonagricultural exports in September more than offset higher agricultural export prices. The price index for U.S. exports declined 2.1 percent over the past year, the largest 12-month decrease since January 2024

Since June of 2022 the export price index is down 11.9% and the import price index is down 5.2%. In isolation, this could be net negative to GDPNow model but this depends more on what the model expects rather than the data itself. This makes it much more of a guess than might seem obvious by looking at the data

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Heavy metals, pesticides in school lunches

Testing commissioned by Spotlight on America and conducted by the Health Research Institute, an accredited independent lab in Iowa, detected 38 different pesticides in just one elementary school lunch

Food items served to school kids in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., contained heavy metals, including lead, and roughly 50 pesticides. Many wheat-based items contained the weedkiller glyphosate, commonly marketed as Roundup, which causes cancer and disrupts immune function

A single strawberry cup contained 23 pesticides. Some samples contained cadmium, a heavy metal known to increase the risk of lung cancer, at a level 12 times higher than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) limit for bottled water

The lab also found arsenic in rice at levels 6 times higher than what’s allowed in apple juice

#USA #Education #FDA #FindTruth

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Meta engineer admits Facebook demotes anti-Kamala Harris posts

James O’Keefe claims that a Meta engineer admitted in a candid interview with an undercover journalist with O’Keefe Media Group that Facebook demotes anti-Kamala Harris posts

Jeevan Gyawali, a senior software engineer with Meta, appeared to reveal in a hidden camera interview that accounts posting anti-Kamala Harris content could be shadowbanned while the posts get demoted

“Say your uncle in Ohio said something about Kamala Harris is unfit to be a president because she doesn’t have a child, that kind of shit is automatically demoted,” Gyawali appeared to say in the heavily edited video

Gyawali also appeared to say that the person “would not be notified,” which translates into a shadowban. The poster’s engagement and impressions would likely decrease. He also appeared to talk about Meta’s “Integrity Team” controlling content through something allegedly called “civic classifiers – a system meant to shadowban users

“There is an integrity team,” he said.  “That’s like a pretty significant team and they build all these classifiers.”

#USA #Meta #Harris #FindTruth

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