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After monkeypox failed to capture the newscycle, the scaremongers have settled on measles. Measles! A disease whose mortality was already zero when the vaccine was introduced.
If you want to scare people into compliance, why not pick something like Hanta or Ebola? Those would definitely get people in line for their annual injection of heavy metals.
Lots of news about mayors, councils, and sheriffs de-commissioning Flock cameras.
But that's not the story. The story is that the people's so-called representatives commissioned secret surveillance networks without asking permission or communicating intentions, often re-directing funds approved for something else — and they caved only after they were caught, amid intense public scrutiny.
A few hundred or a few thousand decommissioned cameras will make only a small dent in the ~120,000 cameras deployed nationwide.
This is only the beginning.
In the same breath that Trump is telling European countries that the closed Hormuz Strait is their problem to solve – despite the fact that he created it, Trump is also quietly asking European countries if he can borrow their Patriot missile batteries. "Just for a minute", I'm sure.
Pfizer has cancelled its Comirnaty clinical trials for adults aged 50 - 64 due to lack of interest by participants.
Some folks are upset that a tin can full of hairless apes launched in the general direction of the moon isn't getting enough press.
Maybe folks are tired of (tax payer funded) pointless sequels and remakes.
Been there, done that. Nobody cares about the T-shirt.
Iran took out a $500M AWACS plane (1 of 16 worldwide) with a $10,000 missile/drone – not to mention the billion-dollar radar they disabled previously.
Seventy years and the United States is still getting its butt kicked by asymmetric warfare.
