April 24, 2026

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China’s Genetic Scientists Might Be Violating H

China is exposing the private medical information of minority families and exposing experiments being done on these families without their consent in a series of genetic studies published in Chinese scientific peer-reviewed journals.  This is what was alleged in a paper discovered in 2017 bio bioinformationist Yves Moreau.  What Moreau discovered was a paper called “Human Genetics.”  In this paper, Moreau discovered what seemed to be basic ethical standards violations, which led him down a rabbit hole of other such Chinese genetics reports with even more ethical and scientific issues created for reasons that don’t appear to reflect objective scientific curiousity.

Genetic papers containing data from China’s ethnic minorities draw fire |

From www.sciencemag.org
2021-08-10 05:00:00

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When Yves Moreau, a bioinformatician at KU Leuven in Belgium, noticed a 2017 paper in Human Genetics that described the “male genetic landscape of China” based on a set of almost 38,000 Y-STR sequences, he saw a red flag. Y-STR stands for Y-chromosomal short tandem repeat polymorphism, bits of repetitive DNA often used in forensic investigations. Some of the samples came from Uyghurs and other minorities in China, and Moreau was skeptical that they had given informed consent for the use of their genetic data or understood that China might use it to profile their people. In June 2020, he asked the journal’s editors to retract the “indefensible” paper.

Springer Nature, its publisher, launched an investigation that is still ongoing. So last month, Moreau stepped up the pressure: He wrote to the journal’s entire editorial board to complain about the lack of progress. For Moreau, the paper is just one of many studies, primarily in forensic genetics, that deserve scrutiny because of consent problems in China and the potential for abuse of the data. He says he has flagged about 28 papers at six journals over the past couple of years.

And his campaign is gaining traction. Eight of 25 members of the editorial board of Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, published by Wiley, recently resigned to protest the lack of progress in investigating a number of papers flagged by Moreau, as The Intercept reported last week.

 

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Yellen Co

Did Janet Yellen violate ethical and legal standards when she allegedly accepted money for speaking engagement from banks she is also in charge of regulating?  That’s the accusation that has been leveled at Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen by Bitcoin thought leader Bruce Fenton, who tweeted a table that showed Yellen receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees from major banks over a short period of time.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Accused Of Banking Corruption Following Move Against DeFi Space

From bitcoinist.com
2021-08-10 14:56:50
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Janet Yellen has recently been accused of corruption. The U.S. Treasury Secretary was accused of accepting ‘speaking fees’ from banks. The Secretary filed an earnings limited disclosure which showed that Yellen had received millions in speaking fees from different banks. With $7.2 million in speaking fees coming from just the Citadel hedge fund and Citi Bank.

The rate at which Yellen was being paid for these speaking engagements was alarming. Which prompted Bitcoin enthusiast Bruce Fenton to point out the earnings. Fenton took to Twitter to post a screenshot of Yellen’s earnings. And highlighted amounts that were paid to the Secretary by banks.

 

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The totals showed that Yellen had received over $7 million from Citadel alone. Yellen received $450,000 from City National for just three days of speaking. Investors accuse Yellen of collecting bribes from banks in form of speaking fees in order to help them work against the DeFi space.

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NFL

Lamar Jackson of the Baltimore Ravens has recently stated he’s not sure he’s ready to get the Covid-19 Vaccine, despite having gotten the virus twice already.

NFL QB Lamar Jackson Won’t Commit To Vaccine, Despite Catching COVID Twice

From www.huffpost.com
2021-08-09 16:47:18

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The NFL star wouldn’t commit this week to getting vaccinated for COVID-19, even though he has already caught the coronavirus twice.

Jackson, 24, returned to the Ravens’ training camp on Monday after being forced to isolate at home while his teammates began workouts without him.

“When I was at home I wasn’t doing too good because I was missing my guys,” Jackson said Monday, according to NFL.com. “It was like, man, I need to get back out there with my guys.”

Jackson admitted his second COVID experience was no walk in the park.

“Just like last time probably — fatigued, if anything. I was sleeping a lot,” he said of his most recent bout of illness. “But I’m glad to be back.”

 

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US Navy Protect Nigerian Coast from Pirates

U.S. Navy Ship Arrives in Nigeria to Back Anti-Piracy Push

From radarr.africa
2021-08-10 08:13:27
Radarr Africa
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USS Hershel “Woody” Williams, the first ship permanently assigned to Africa, arrived in Nigeria’s commercial capital city of Lagos on Saturday as part of the U.S. government’s support to combat piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.

“Ship visits like this one clearly demonstrate the U.S.’s continued dedication to our partners in the Gulf of Guinea as they strive for the security of their resources, their economy, and their people,” Claire Pierangelo, U.S. Consul General in Lagos, told reporters Saturday.

West African loses about 800,000 tons of fish a year, worth almost $2 billion in gross revenue, to illegal activities by both foreign and domestic vessels, Pierangelo said. This removes vast seafood protein from the region.

Nigerian waters are at the centre of the Gulf of Guinea, a vast expanse of the Atlantic Ocean stretching from Senegal to Angola that’s the most dangerous part of the world for sailors, accounting for almost all kidnappings at sea in recent years.

 

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Nasdaq Diversity Rules Give Investors More Tools in Proxy Fights

From news.bloomberglaw.com
2021-08-10 14:14:45

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The stock exchange’s rules, approved by the SEC last week, aim to push companies to get more serious about not just recruiting qualified directors from underrepresented communities, but also push stragglers to disclose why they’re falling behind.

Under Nasdaq’s rules, companies on the exchange are required to have at least one female board member and at least one who identifies as an underrepresented minority or LGBTQ—or provide statements explaining why they can’t meet the requirements. Companies also must annually disclose the gender and racial composition of their boards, as early as next year’s proxy season for some firms.

Shareholders concerned about diversity will have the data to vote against directors and offer proposals to spur diverse boards. Investors will also be able to scrutinize corporate statements about why they can’t recruit female or minority board directors. Companies will need to publish those statements on their websites or in the proxy materials they send to investors before annual meetings.

 

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Corpo-Woketarianizm  Will End Lifelong Friendships and Destroy Quality

PGC – The Corpo-Woketarianizm is a highly authoritarian, highly coercive morality code that demands that you place at the top of your sin hierachry acts of racism and bigotry and sexism and genderism.  Any act that promotes or protects the previous orthodoxy of normative should be considered first and foremost the sins that should separate you from the ones committing such unforgiveable sins.

Not only must one not commit such unpardonable sins, but to not work to find, to expose the ones that commit such sins is also a form of sin that is as bad as the sin that the now sinner failed to find and expose.  Scalps on the drawer aren’t there to brag, they’re there to send a signal to the hierarchy of moral supremacism that corpo-woketarianizm always creates.  That signal is simly this, “I am a good egg see, and pleasing you is all that consumes every part of my being, my identity, my hope.  I am yours and yours alone.”

Most humans will be unwilling to accept this diminishment of self-percieved power, so instead they will enter into the role of the burdened executioner/zealous martyr.  It is better to believe you are fulfilling a grand hope through suffering than to imagine your suffering, your diminishment, is a reflection of your real lack of power to even think for yourself, let alone dare to express yourself outside the frame of the new normative.

As this latest experiment in rule through social intimidation, continues (one almost always revenge and victim rescue based), freinds of decades, loved ones, will find themselves in the terrible position of having to choose to continue to be friends with the new pariah, risking their own status as acceptable member of the cult, or stand by their lifelong friend and go down with them.  This has already happened and more is happening.

As this spreads throughout our professional ranks, the competent and self-stewarded will find themselves either forced out or leaving while the leaving is good, and our major institutions will experience the result of building moral supremacist institutions, the rise of coercion as an increasingly acceptable means of doing business beteeen others, including your own co-workers.  It will not be, in aggregate, the most competent at executing the product or service in its lifespan to the clients that rises to the tops of these systems, it will be the ones most effective at being deceptive, at concealing, at attacking, using all the Corpowoketarainz’d weapons of war inherit in its ‘ethical’ codes.

In short, woketarian corpo-cults are set to create terrible, dangerous, unsafe products and services wherever this new ethics takes hold.

Woke, Inc: has big business hijacked politics for profits? – The Times

From www.thetimes.co.uk
2021-08-10 19:01:00

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When Vivek Ramaswamy turned up late for a gathering of his Indian-American extended family, he looked around for a relative he was very close to when he was growing up. But this man had deliberately left early: he and his wife, a diversity and inclusion officer with a US company, had avoided Ramaswamy because of his views. More recently Ramaswamy was on the phone to a former employee when she mentioned an article he’d written in The Wall Street Journal and began to cry. “I had such high hopes for you,” she said. “I don’t know what happened.”

It is hard, says Ramaswamy, “when someone who loves you, or loved you in some meaningful way as a colleague, as a friend, says something like that.

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Flexodes Could Rev

More Efficient, Superfast Charging Lithium Batteries Closer To Markets

From scienceblog.com
2021-08-10 15:21:23
Texas A&M
Excerpt:

With the support of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Office of Commercialization and Entrepreneurship, Texas A&M University researcher Choongho Yu, professor in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, and entrepreneurial partner Ranga Vasudevan have successfully launched a lithium-based battery technology startup called Flexodes…..

The basis of the commercial venture is research from Yu’s laboratory on lithium-sulfur batteries. In particular, Yu’s team has patented the design of a 3D trench-wall carbon nanotube framework for the battery’s electrodes. These high-performing electrodes dramatically increase the battery’s ability to store charge.

The electrodes also discharge easily, generating large quantities of current to power up devices rapidly. The experts added that batteries built with their technology are more resistant to the formation of finger-like deposits called dendrites that cause most commercially available lithium-based batteries to overheat and rupture.

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It Looks that Temporary Junta is Looking to Become Permanent in Myanmar

Myanmar junta leader aims to solidify grip on power: UN

From www.channelnewsasia.com
2021-08-10 17:50:02

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UNITED NATIONS: The UN special envoy on Myanmar said on Tuesday (Aug 10) the country’s military leader appears determined to solidify his grip on power following a February coup and ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party could soon be disbanded.

Christine Schraner Burgener cited military ruler Min Aung Hlaing’s announcement this month that he was now prime minister in a newly formed caretaker government and also a formal annulment of the results of a November election, which was…

 

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Texas One Step Closer to Banning CRT in Schools

Texas is the latest state to push forth legislation attempting to ban what is called CRT, or Critical Race Theory.

Bill banning critical race theory in Texas schools passes Senate committee

From www.kxan.com
2021-08-10 18:46:25

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The bill that would expand the ban on teaching critical race theory concepts in Texas classrooms passed a Senate Committee on State Affairs hearing 5 to 2 on Tuesday.

It’s one of the governor’s priorities this special session, even though the bill itself does not contain the words critical, race or theory.

“The bill would prohibit teaching concepts that one race or sex is superior to another, that one race or sex should be held to blame for actions committed in the past by other members of that race or sex,” Republican State Senator Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) said, defending the bill in Tuesday’s hearing.

“No teacher we’ve heard from wants to teach those things. We have seen words creeping into teaching materials. And so we want to make sure we’re teaching the truth and the whole truth to our students,” Rep. Hughes said.

 

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System trains drones to fly around obstacles at high speeds — ScienceDaily

From www.sciencedaily.com
2021-08-10 15:34:49

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If you follow autonomous drone racing, you likely remember the crashes as much as the wins. In drone racing, teams compete to see which vehicle is better trained to fly fastest through an obstacle course. But the faster drones fly, the more unstable they become, and at high speeds their aerodynamics can be too complicated to predict. Crashes, therefore, are a common and often spectacular occurrence.

But if they can be pushed to be faster and more nimble, drones could be put to use in time-critical operations beyond the race course, for instance to search for survivors in a natural disaster.

Now, aerospace engineers at MIT have devised an algorithm that helps drones find the fastest route around obstacles without crashing. The new algorithm combines simulations of a drone flying through a virtual obstacle course with data from experiments of a real drone flying through the same course in a physical space.

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