April 22, 2026

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Joe’s Hunter Cancer Grows – Precrime AI and You – Corporate CCP America – More

Freedomist Daily Digest – Monday, July 18th, 2022

Editor’s Choice

Top Story

Looks Like Joe Talked to Hunter a LOT About Those Chinese Deals

 

According to Hunter’s laptop records, whenever he made deals with China and other foreign powers, he visited the White House while Joe was the Vice President.  As Hunter Investment firm President, Eric Schwerin, was there for over 2/3 of the meetings, it seems near certain what those meetings were about.  

 

Feature

AI Can Predict Your Crimes Before You Can Do Them

A research group from the University of Chicago has developed a machine learning tool that can predict crime up to a week before it happens with 90 percent accuracy.  The tool has limitations tied to biases in the programmers, as well as legal ramifications depending on how it used.

 

News by Departments

 

US News & Politics

The CCP Might Be in an American Boardroom Near You

After the Chinese Communist Party issued theirOpinion on Strengthening the United Front Work of the Private Economy in the New Era,” the European Chamber of Commerce is warning this new aggressive market nationalism “could lead foreign companies to reconsider future and even current investments in China.”

 

Tweet Hating Jill Biden Now Grounds for Losing Government Contracts

After Jill Biden tweeted about women losing their right to choose after the Roe v Wade overturn, Retired Lt. General Gary Volesky tweeted back, “Glad to see you finally know what a woman is.”  For that, the General lost his consulting contract is being investigated for potential violations.

 

 

Seattle Needs Cops After All

Defunding the Police Has Backfired in Seattle as They Now Scramble to Hire More Cops

From legalinsurrection.com

 

 

Democrats suggest stripping Supreme Court’s appellate jurisdiction over pro-choice bill

From www.theblaze.com

 

Gov. DeSantis tackles gender identity at Moms for Liberty summit

From floridapolitics.com

 

California social media addiction bill drops parent lawsuits

From abcnews.go.com

 

Facing lawsuits, Alaska lawmakers consider new social media policy

From www.frontiersman.com

 

Biden administration continues to spread the myth about gouging gas stations

From www.americanthinker.com

 

Company Suggests Hiding Students in Fortified Boxes So School Shooters Can’t Get Them

From futurism.com

 

 

Culture and Society

LGBT Activists DEMAND MORE Social Media CENSORSHIP!

The shakedown org GLADD is using its position as a collaborator with Facebook is calling on the social media site to target anything remotely unfavorable to homosexuality and transgenderism be blocked, censored, and the user terminated.  They made these calls in their annual “Social Media Safety Index” report.

 

ESPN Needs Plus Price Hike as Woke Crashes Empire

ESPN Adding Massive Price Hike to ESPN+ As Disney Stock Continues To Struggle – OutKick

From www.outkick.com

 

The Biden Administration’s Attempting To Force Doctors To Perform Abortions Regardless Of Legality – Steve Bannon’s War Room: Pandemic

From warroom.org

 

Texas Teachers’ Pension System Votes for Pro-Choice Group’s Proposal at Shareholder Meeting

From thetexan.news

 

Geopolitical

Chinese Apple Supplier is Also Spy, Taiwan Alleges

Taiwan accuses Chinese Apple supplier of stealing secrets, charges 14

From www.reuters.com

 

Burmese Christian Villages Air Bombed

Airstrikes target Christian villages in Burma; two people killed

From thealabamabaptist.org

 

Iran’s Increasingly Decentralized Axis of Resistance

From warontherocks.com

 

U.S. Accuses Russia of Hundreds of Thousands of Deportations

From www.nytimes.com

 

 

Finance

 

China’s Belt and Road Creates De Facto Slavery for Own Worker Citizens

China is sending its citizens to its provinces with job offers that turn into 1/3 less promised pay and unsafe living and working conditions. When workers wanted to go home, they were told. “because you already signed the contract, if you go home now, that is a breach of contract.”

 

 

Biden Strikes Out Getting Saudi Oil

Biden fails to secure major security, oil commitments at Arab summit

From www.tbsnews.net

 

Nepal Might Be Next in Food Shortage Crosshairs

Nepal must brace for food shortages

From www.thestatesman.com

 

Beijing’s assurances on mortgage protests fail to convince investors

From www.reuters.com

 

Amazon executives have discussed ditching Amazon Basics to appease antitrust regulators

From www.vox.com

 

Bank Credit Grows 13.29%, Deposits Rise 9.77%

From www.bqprime.com

 

Intel to start hiking prices on customers due to rising costs, company confirms

From seekingalpha.com

 

 

Defense

Sikorsky delivers King Stallion helicopter to U.S. Marine Corps

From defence-blog.com

 

 

Sci-Tech

A Grown Heart Might Replace Your Own

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have discovered a way to turn organ-creating stem cells into organ farms. Group Leader and Professor Joshua Brickman claims, “We have identified an alternative route that so-called extra-embryonic cells can use to make intestinal organs in the embryo.”

 

Faster Tree Growth Thanks to Gene Editing

This supercharged tree might help fight climate change : Futurology

From www.reddit.com

 

TikTokker Buys Shed to Avoid Rising Rent Costs

From www.louderwithcrowder.com

 

A Constellation Of ‘Swarm’ Satellites Just Dodged A Collision Over Our Heads

From www.forbes.com

 

A graphene-based catalytic condenser makes abundant materials act like precious metals

From www.graphene-info.com

 

People

Alex Jones Defends Himself in Sandy Hook Trial

Alex Jones defiant in deposition in Sandy Hook hoax lawsuit

From japantoday.com

GunSuit CA – FREE AI – ERIC GOT NO ONE – More

Freedomist Daily Digest – Thursday, July 14th, 2022

Editor’s Choice

Top Story

California Using Pre-Crime to Deny Gun Rights

“Nearly every industry is held liable when their products case harm or injury……. gun makers will finally be held to account for their role in this crisis.” – CA Governor Newsome on signing a bill requiring gun sellers use “reasonable controls” to stop bad people from buying guns.

 

Features

News by Departments

Open Source AI Just Got a Powerful New Tool

BLOOM is a demonstration that the most powerful AI models can be trained and released by the broader research community with accountability and in an actual open way, in contrast to the typical secrecy of industrial AI research labs.” said Teven Le Scao, co-lead of BLOOM’s training, in a statement.

 

The NYC City Worker Exodus Has Begun

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US News & Politics

Twitter Lets Death Threat Tweets to Conservatives, Pro-Life Centers Thrive

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Will a National Abortion Ban Come Next?

This New Deal Precedent Will Be at the Center of Any Federal Abortion Ban

From reason.com

 

Uvalde City Council accepts Pete Arredondo’s resignation

From www.cnn.com

 

Tucker Carlson reacts to Hunter Biden’s business dealings: Whatever helps China, Joe Biden has dutifully done

From www.foxnews.com

 

Politico Just Got Caught Trying To Concoct An Imaginary DeSantis Scandal

From thefederalist.com

 

Democrats look ill from too many ‘bogoda’ breakfast tacos

From www.bostonherald.com

 

Culture and Society

No, It’s Not Racist to Teach Black Children About Sumerian Slavery, Court Rules

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Judge Temporarily Halts Abortion Ban in Louisianna

State judge blocks Louisiana from enforcing abortion ban

From news.yahoo.com

 

Title IX Change Will Include Gender Identity Politics As Part Of Its Protections

From warroom.org

 

Geopolitical

Sri Lankan President Jets in Face of Protest Overthrow

President flees Sri Lanka amid crisis as ire turns toward PM

From abcnews.go.com

 

Burkino Faso Fails to Secure Nation

Burkina Faso’s military government struggles to contain violence | Armed Groups News

From www.aljazeera.com

 

Israel on the Brink

From brooklynrail.org

 

Putin’s Daughter Takes Top ‘Import Substitution’ Role

From www.themoscowtimes.com

 

Finance

States Prepare to “Expedite Discovery” on Biden-Big Tech Oppo Collusion

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U.S. inflation unexpectedly hits 9.1%, setting new 40-year high 

From globalnews.ca

 

Germany’s confounding climate move to opt for coal over nuclear power

From www.vox.com

 

Amazon Workers Circulate Petition for a Safer Workplace

From gizmodo.com

 

Defense

Dick Heller is Back, and DC Might Have Another SCOTUS Appointment

Dick Heller Files Lawsuit Challenging DC’s Limits on Ammo Carried by Concealed Carriers

From www.usacarry.com

 

How China Wants to Replace the U.S. Order

From www.theatlantic.com

 

Sci-Tech

Cyber Security Industry Hit by Great Resignation Virus

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Brain-Dead Humans Get Pig Hearts

 

Two pig hearts were successfully transplanted into brain-dead people

From www.sciencenews.org

 

Twitter sues to force Musk to complete his $44B acquisition

From abcnews.go.com

 

Intel, Microsoft, Samsung Risk Russia ‘Blackmail’: Watchdog Group

From www.crn.com

 

Artificial intelligence model finds potential drug molecules a thousand times faster

From MIT

 

Ancient Tomb Linked By Legend To King Arthur To Be Excavated For First Time

From www.huffpost.com

 

People

Jill Filipovic calls ‘Unborn child’ an ‘Orwellian’ phrase

From www.theblaze.com

 

Former senior U.S. official John Bolton admits to planning attempted foreign coups

From www.ctvnews.ca

China Loses Citizens in Pakistan Terror Attack

A suicide bomber killed three Chinese teachers in Karachi Pakistan. Chinese citizens find themselves the same types of targets the Americans and the West have been.  China and Pakistan are working together to deal with the “complicated” situation.

As the Chinese continue to extend themselves into foreign enclaves, from Latin America to Africa, from Eastern Europe to Pakistan, they will increasingly become the targets of various factional groups willing to kill them rather than negotiate with them or submit to them.

China has come along rather late in the colonial version of Empire, where the soft power of the market coupled with strategic brutal violence was enough to keep the natives at bay.  These are different times, and many of the lands China hopes to now de facto possess are long in the tooth in the colonial game, and even more than before willing to commit themselves to life or death struggles to avoid seeing the pattern of colonialization again.

Right to Repair – Turin Science – Abortionist Terror – More – FDD

Freedomist Daily Digest – Thursday, June 9th, 2022

Top Story

A NY First as Right to Repair is Now Law

NY State is the first state in the country to pass a “Right to Repair” Law, a law preventing manufacturers from not allowing their customers to repair their own purchased product.  The bill also compels manufacturers to provide information on how to repair their products to customers and repair shops.

 

Features

New Science Says Shroud of Turin is 2000 Years Old

A new Italian study of the Shroud of Turin suggests the shroud is indeed 2000 years old and from the Judea-Palestine region.  Museum of the Bible exhibit curator Brian Hyland said,  “The pollen samples that were gathered they….are from plants that are native to….the area around Judea, Palestine, and Syria …”

 

Another Pro-Life Center Firebombed

As the Roe v Wade SCOTUS ruling looms, violence from abortionists have only increased,  Following up on a pro-life center being firebombed, and an assassination attempt on Justice Kavanaugh, another Pro-Life clinic in Buffalo, NY has also been firebombed.  Three fire departments put out the fire.  Two firefighters were injured.

 

Top Headlines

From 9,000 Years to Microseconds, the Photonic Quantum Experience

A complex task that would take conventional computers over 9,000 years to process was completed in 36 microseconds by a photonic quantum device, a computer chip called Borealis.  A Toronto-based company called Xanadu accomplished the task and published their study in Nature.  The team used the gold standard of Quantum tests, the Gaussian Bosom Sampling.

Washington Post Spirals into Cancel Culture Black Hole

Washington Post is in danger of breaking down into a circular firing squad after one reporter, Felicia Sonmez, got colleague Dave Weigel fired for a bad tweet, leaving other WaPo reporters to turn on Sonmez.  She tweeted “Fantastic to work at a news outlet where retweets like this are allowed.”

Is USA Today Becoming a CCP Content Marketer?

The Washington Free Beacon is reporting that USA Today has been taking money from the Chinese Communist Party.  China Daily, a CCP-owned and operated agit prop publication, has bought over a quarter million dollars in advertising from USA Today, which lost 62 percent of its circulation in one year.

 

Headlines

SCOTUS Considers Faith-Based School Choice Rights

SCOTUS is reviewing a Maine law that impedes the ability of parents to get vouchers for faith-based schools.  The law affects rural districts with no high schools, the only communities that can use school vouchers in the state.  The ruling could affect limitations on faith-based government funding across the country.

Why is Secret Service Letting Hunter Go Free?

GOP lawmakers are wondering why the Secret Service did not indict Hunter Biden for violating gun laws.  “Before proposing or passing any new federal gun legislation, (Biden) ought to enforce existing laws, regardless of who is violating them, even if that person is the president’s son,” said Senator Johnson

EU Puts Social Media on an Hour Delete Leash

The EU has passed new “terrorist content” regulation that will require Social Media platforms to remove content deemed to be terroristic by any government within the EU.  The law passed last year, but the regulations took effect Tuesday, June 7th.  Content that incites violence is also included.

Xi Outlines New Rural Work Laws in “Book of Xi”

Xi has always viewed work concerning agriculture, rural areas and farmers from a broader historical perspective and made a series of important discourses on the topic. He has answered a series of major theoretical and practical questions, providing an action plan and fundamental guidance for work in the sector….

 

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Domestic

GOP Ready to Concede Light Gun Control with Dems

Cornyn sets expectations for what a bipartisan guns deal would look like

The US Is Now Sending the Bulk of Its Export Gas to Europe – Bloomberg – www.bloomberg.com

Broncos sale: Walmart heirs will soon own almost every Colorado pro sports team – www.sbnation.com

World

Don’t Buy Stolen Russian Grain, Africa

U.S. Warns Starving African Nations to Not Buy Grain Stolen by Russia

Russia Suspends Cooperation with Japan on Marine Fisheries – www.oreanda.ru

Sri Lanka grants 40-year tax relief for China-backed Port City investments – www.devdiscourse.com

Syria’s state TV says Israeli missiles targeted Syrian army – www.washingtonpost.com

Kazakhstan’s citizens approve Constitutional amendments in state-wide referendum – www.neweurope.eu

China’s FM in Kazakhstan as Ukraine, Afghanistan uncertainties rumble – South China Morning Post – www.scmp.com

While the Cat’s Away: EU Advances South Caucasus Peace – cepa.org

Finance

Big Tech, Bank Workers Jumping Ship to FinTechs – www.pymnts.com

Wage gap between CEOs and US workers jumped to 670-to-1 last year, study finds | US income inequality – www.theguardian.com

Amazon Paid Its CEO 6,474 Times More Than It Paid Its Median Worker Last Year – truthout.org

Politics

Did Soros Build an Anti-American Army of DAs?

Pro-police group makes accusation against Soros — RT World News

Tucker Carlson Slams DOJ For Failing To Prosecute Hunter Biden – radaronline.com
Democratic Lawmakers Urge Biden to Ensure Saudi Ties Serve U.S. – www.nytimes.com

Migrant caravan on the move in southern Mexico – abcnews.go.com

Progressives Have a Hissy Fit Because Tampa Bay Ray Players Won’t Celebrate Pride Month – RedState – redstate.com

Sci-Tech

Big Tech Bigs Move Into Senate Ahead of Antitrust Showdown

Lobbying Intensifies Over Senate Undecideds on Antitrust Bill – Bloomberg

New nanoparticles aid sepsis treatment in mice – www.nanowerk.com

Extra

Biden Will Blast Kim if Kim Goes Nuclear

U.S. Vows ‘Forceful Response’ if Kim Holds Nuclear Test

NFL Star Tom Brady In Secret Contact With Hunter Biden During Gun-Toting Death Threat Scandal – radaronline.com

Playing Their Gender Language Games Will Kill Your Liberty

The Social Construct Gender Game is a Language War Against The Right to the Pursuit of Happiness

Making gender a social construct is a way to reinforce the notion that the individual exists in the social.  The paradigm to be replaced is that the social emerges from the minds of individuals.  This is the underlying assumption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, that the government derives its power from the consent of the individuals, as individuals (not as identity groups).

Government itself emerges from the minds of individuals.

By making gender a social construct, it creates a political factionalism in everyday language itself wherever an adoption of this new social reality is coerced on others, as it already has been in America. Dialectically, the alternative-gendered expression is considered individual expression, but it requires social coerced-conformity to be realized.

Imagine creating conditions in which people can lose their means to make a living for merely refusing to adopt to the top-down created and enforced new language standards, breaking the binary constructs overnight, non-consensually, using violence and economic terrorism to do it.

That’s what has already been happening in America today.

The social construct gender game is a philosophical game of sophistry designed to create a new justification for coercion based on the preservation and advancement of the social, where all individuals exist, outside the mind, inside the social institutions managed by experts that are paid by a handful of the most powerful at the top of another pyramid of top-down, monopolized power.

The goal is not to liberate the non-gendered or gender-fluid.  The goal is to change the right to rule standards of the land from an old to a new one.

The American Republic standard for rule assumes boundaries between the state and individual that preserves an individual’s right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness (as further expressed in the first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights).

So long as the state operates within those boundaries (which the state constantly violates, to be sure), the people will grant the state right to rule.

The gender-bending standard is paving the way for the DNC model, one that presumes the appointed, recognized, state-approved, corporate-sponsored experts should be the new definers of happiness, the social mission as defined by these same experts.

The masses vote in cities where the votes are counted twice and the real work of engineering is done as needed by the regulators now unshackled by the pesky limitations placed on it by the Bill of Rights.  Without the Bill of Rights as a construct in the hearts of Americans, the state would surely disregard it openly overnight.

This social construct gender language game is just one of the many language wars the opponents to individual liberty and pursuit of happiness are currently engaged in, but it has become the tip of the spear of their most effective, to date, assault on the hearts of Americans.

Well-meaning humans seeking to follow a core American value, freedom of expression, are being led to support coerced expression in the name of the very value they believe they are supporting.

So long as the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence create a sense of entitlement in the hearts of Americans, no matter their race, creed, gender, sexual expression, expression, etc., the state, while it will always violate its own standards, will do so with much less regularity and open visibility than it would the moment the standards die in the hearts of Americans, and they lose their sense of entitlement.

That sense of entitlement is this, the government is we the people, and the state is merely the representative of the people.  In practice, it’s hardly true, but in spirit, it most assuredly is true.  It is so true that the American, no matter their individual expression or identity, when in a legal pinch, will say at some point, I KNOW MY RIGHTS!!  More often than not, if the American is right, state authority capitulates.

It’s why Americans regularly tell government workers, including cops, I PAY YOUR SALARY!  YOU WORK FOR ME!  It’s that spirit that’s under assault wherever non-binary constructs, gender-fluid constructs, social construct gender language games, are being coerced on others.

It does not matter whether it’s the corporation firing individuals for not using people’s preferred pronouns or the state (though it is even more alarming when an American government chooses to so overtly violate the constitutional rights of its employers, we the people).  They are both forcing a new language game on people against their will.  The results will not be pretty.

Already, people are willingly facing being fired rather than concede to such perverse language game.  The next phase is coming through the courts, as lawsuits become the test for the reality of the Constitution in American Jurisprudence.

I wish I could speak confidently here, but alas, there is more than enough reason to be concerned, but not dismayed.  It will take a year or two for the courts to reveal whether they will hold the line on the social construct gender language game or not.  During that time, I suggest you build where you are, paths to sustainable flourishing at the household level.  Hopefully, you will connect to others doing similar things, and sustainably flourishing communities will emerge.

If it begins to look like the courts have fallen, the reality of power will soon set in atop the hill in DC.  The people are sustainably flourishing outside of your centralized hierarchies of social control.  Laws without the power to enforce them, corporate terms of use without the people to agree to them are no power at all.

America emerged from a happenstance of circumstances that created the necessity of a government that would not be compelled to challenge human action beyond what it could realistically manage.  We who are now citizens should count ourselves privileged and entitled compared to the rest of the world.

However, this gift was given to this land, let us not destroy it in the name of free expression, thus ending free expression for all, across so many more language game parameters to be added to the first one that becomes the new standard of rule in the land

US Wants Taiwan After All – Freedomist Daily Digest

Freedomist Daily Digest
Friday, June 3rd, 2022
Editor Paul Gordon Collier

Top Story
Taiwan-US Announce Aggressive Path to Major Trade Deal
Taiwan looks to get a trade deal with the United States after the Biden administration left the nation out of a an economic deal with 13 other Asian countries.
US, Taiwan to launch trade talks after Joe Biden excludes island from Indo-Pacific group 
From timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Speaking in Taipei, Deng said they hoped there would be an opportunity soon to seal a free trade deal Taiwan has long sought with the United States, adding the island was also still striving to participate in the IPEF.
Top Headlines
Xi Cements Ties to Zambia in Call with President
Chairman Xi was in a phone conversation with Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema in which he declared that the two countries are tied together forever, through good and bad weather, and each should serve the core interest of the other as outlined by the CCP.
China ready to push ties with Zambia to higher levels, broader areas: Xi 
From eng.chinamil.com.cn
He also called for strengthening strategic communication and policy synergy, fully implementing the nine programs announced by China at the 8th Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation(FOCAC) in 2021, deepening mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields, pushing for more Zambian goods, especially quality agricultural products, to enter the Chinese market, and strengthening anti-epidemic cooperation.
Xi called on both sides to carry forward the Tanzania-Zambia Railway spirit, keep it updated in accordance with the trend of the times, and make the railway an important transportation channel in the region, Xi noted.
Instant 3D-Printing Thanks to Lights and Resin Printing
A new type of 3D printing is being developed at Switzerland’s École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) that can use light and volumes of resin to instantly print objects, as opposed to having to add layer upon layer in the much more-time consuming method of most 3D-printers, additive printing.
New Resin Printing Method Creates Objects In Seconds 
From hackaday.com
The method works similarly to existing resin printers by shining a specific light pattern on the resin in order to harden it. The main difference is that the resin is initially placed in a cylinder and spun at a high speed, and the light is shined on the resin at different angles with very precise intensities and timings in order to harden the resin in specific areas. This high-speed method allows the printer to produce prints in record-breaking time. The only current downside, besides the high price for the prototype printer, is that it’s currently limited to small prints.
With the ability to scale in the future and the trend of most new technologies to come down in price after they have been on the market for some amount of time, it would be groundbreaking to be able to produce prints with this type of speed if printers like these can be scalable. Especially if they end up matching the size and scale of homemade printers like this resin printer.
Superbugs Could be Killed with Light-Triggered Nano Drills
Rice University is developing nanoscale drills that are triggered by visible light.  The nanoscale drills are being developed, in part, to kill bacteria, with treatments of real infections showing nano machines are effective.  As bacteria grows more resistance to treatment, new, innovative alternatives are becoming essential to keep up.
Visible light triggers molecular machines to treat infections — ScienceDaily 
From www.sciencedaily.com
“I tell students that when they are my age, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are going to make COVID look like a walk in the park,” Tour said. “Antibiotics won’t be able to keep 10 million people a year from dying of bacterial infections. But this really stops them.”
The breakthrough study led by Tour and Rice alumni Ana Santos and Dongdong Liu appears in Science Advances.
Headlines
Hunter and Uncle Dealt with CCP for Business, Emails Show
The Hunter Biden emails are revealing more ties with the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, and the Biden family.  Hunter and Uncle James were part of an ongoing multimillion dollar business negotiating deal via email after Joe left office in 2012.
Hunter Biden saga: Washington Post cites emails from laptop on business ties with uncle James Biden 
From www.foxnews.com
“James and Hunter Biden were in the midst of a lucrative deal with Chinese executives at the time, while Joe Biden was out of public service for the first time in nearly a half-century, having left the vice presidency a few months earlier,” the Post wrote on Tuesday.
Christian Ordered Not to be Around Non-Chrisitans by American University
Southern Illinois University ordered an order to a graduate students not to contact students that might be offended by her beliefs.  The University called it a no-contact order.   The student, Maggie Dejong, is a Christian conservative.  The student is suing the school with attorneys for Alliance Defending Freedom serving pro bono.
Maggie DeJong sues Southern Illinois University over “no-contact” orders after Christian, conservati 
From www.washingtontimes.com
Maggie DeJong “suffered sleeplessness, anxiety, chest pains, feelings of sadness, loss of appetite, weight loss, lack of concentration, harm to her reputation, and future loss of employment and wages” because of the orders involving the art therapy counseling major, her lawyers said.
Nigeria’s Ex VP Runs for President Again, Against Yoruba Protests
A major political party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has nominated former Vice President Atihu Abukakr for the 2023 Presidential election. Though Muslim himself, his selection has led protests from a Yuruba Muslim group.  The oft-losing Presidential candidate has called for Nigerian unity over tribal and religious divides.
PDP Presents Certificate Of Return To Atiku As Yoruba Muslim Group Threatens Showdown Over Presidential Ticket 
From thewillnigeria.com
THEWILL reports that the Muslim scholars in the South-West in its reaction to the emergence of Atiku as presidential candidate of the PDP, on Wednesday, insisted on a Muslim of Yoruba extraction as the next president or Vice-President of Nigeria in 2023.
Ibe, who faulted the position of the group, said, “This is unfortunate that a religious group will veer off tandem into the political arena. However, the future that His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, envisages for Nigeria is one country of one people with one future in which every tribe, tongue and faith will stand united. Above all, it is incumbent on religious and community leaders to preach peace rather than division.
Amazon Using Threats to Stop Union Vote, Group Alleges
The workers at the Amazon Staten Island site were successful in voting for a union, but now the union is accusing Amazon of using intimidation and fear tactics to try to stop workers from voting for a union.  Accusations include threats to reduce salaries should the union vote win.
Amazon accused of threatening workers during union vote 
From www.protocol.com
“Our focus remains on working directly with our team to make Amazon a great place to work. The allegations in NLRB complaint are without merit, and we look forward to showing that through this process,” Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokesperson, wrote in an email to Protocol.
Wires
WHO Ramps Up Pandemic Epidemics
Outbreaks of diseases like monkeypox becoming more frequent, WHO warns – National 
From globalnews.ca
“Unfortunately, that ability to amplify that disease and move it on within our communities is increasing – so both disease emergence and disease amplification factors have increased.”
Ron and the Florida Legislature Singing the Same Son
How the Florida Legislature is making Ron DeSantis into a GOP juggernaut 
From www.nbcnews.com
“We’re already going full-throttle and we’re not slowing down,” Republican state Rep. Randy Fine, a top DeSantis ally, told NBC News, predicting lawmakers will expand school choice vouchers and gun rights when the Legislature meets next year. DeSantis might take more control over higher education, too.
BIden’s Wage Controls Might Explode Inflation
Biden Pushes Expanded Wage Mandates That Exacerbate Inflation, Make Infrastructure More Expensive For Taxpayers 
From www.forbes.com
“When mandated by government agencies, PLAs can interfere with existing union collective bargaining agreements and needlessly discourage competition from quality nonunion contractors and their employees who comprise 87.4% of the private U.S. construction industry workforce according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,” the 16 governors noted in their letter. “Reducing competition from some of the best union and nonunion construction firms and workers will exacerbate the construction industry’s skilled labor shortage, delay projects, and increase construction costs by estimates of 12% to 20% per project, which will result in fewer infrastructure improvements, less construction industry job creation, and higher taxes.”
Breaking the Exascale Barrier Could Mean Having a Scientist in Your Pocket
The world’s fastest supercomputer just broke the exascale barrier 
From www.sciencenews.org
Exascale computing is expected to allow for new advances in a variety of scientific fields that depend on vastly complex calculations. The exascale milestone “represents an unprecedented capability for researchers around the world to use the computer to ask their specific scientific questions,” says Frontier’s project director Justin Whitt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
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Parts of Ukraine Could Vote to Join Russia in Summer – Lawmaker 
From www.themoscowtimes.com
Ukraine has accused Moscow of plotting to stage sham independence referendums in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
“I don’t rule out that this may happen as early as July,” said Leonid Slutsky, the head of parliament’s foreign affairs committee and a senior member of Moscow’s team of negotiators with Ukraine.
Statement by President Joe Biden on the 101st Anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre 
From www.whitehouse.gov
I went to Greenwood—the first President to visit since the massacre—to help fill the silence. Because in silence, wounds deepen. In Greenwood, I called on all of us to reflect on the deep roots of domestic terrorism and hate in our nation and to recommit to combating systemic racism across our country and institutions. As part of that work, I announced two expanded efforts to help communities like Greenwood build wealth—an aggressive effort to combat racial discrimination in housing, and a bold commitment to increase the share of federal contracts going to small disadvantaged businesses, including Black- and brown-owned small businesses, by 50 percent by 2025.
Christian
Kidnappings: Igbo traders leaving Bayelsa – Traders’ Union lament 
From dailytrust.com
Onyegesi said, “What is happening is bad, as we are talking, most of our prominent business people are leaving Bayelsa because of reoccurrence incident of kidnapping, that is why we call on the government to act now to contain the menace of kidnapping because if they don’t do something about it, it will affect the economy of the state….”
Pastors dabble in brewing and mining to survive Zimbabwe’s burning economy – Baptist News Global 
From baptistnews.com
As for Pastor Fengu the Baptist minister, profiting from mining doesn’t dent his passion for the ministry. “Each Sunday when I wear my dog collar, my side gig as an artisanal gold miner doesn’t diminish my standing as a pastor in any way.”
Ohio’s Steve Dettelbach gains more endorsements for ATF bid 
From www.cleveland.com
A group of faith leaders, including rabbis at The Park Synagogue in Pepper Pike, OH and the Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple in Beachwood, wrote a letter urging his “speedy confirmation” to help fight” an alarming level of anti-religious violence. It cited his prosecution of a white supremacist who sought to burn down a predominantly African American church in Conneaut, Ohio and his work forming “United Against Hate, a diverse group of religious leaders to condemn such violence.”
Sci Tech
Automated drones could scare birds off agricultural fields — ScienceDaily 
From www.sciencedaily.com
“Growers don’t really have a good tool they can rely on for deterring pest birds at an affordable price,” said Manoj Karkee, associate professor in WSU’s Department of Biological Systems Engineering and the study’s corresponding author. “With further refinement and industry partnerships, this system could work.”
“Birds are really clever,” said Karkee, who is also affiliated with WSU’s Center for Precision & Automated Agricultural Systems. “They often find ways around deterrents. We don’t want a system that only lasts for a few months or years before they stop being scared off.”
Spanish Cave Has Been Used For Art And Burials For Over 50,000 Years, According To New Research 
From www.forbes.com
New evidence suggests that a cave in the South of Spain has been regularly visited by prehistoric people for at least 50,000 years. The first visitors to the cave were likely Neaderthals, about 65,000 years ago. After that, modern humans used the cave at different points in time to create art and carry out ceremonial tasks.
Raw Feed
NATO, US say Ukraine war likely to end through talks | Russia-Ukraine war News 
From www.aljazeera.com
“Wars are unpredictable,” Stoltenberg told reporters. “We were able to predict the invasion, but how this war will evolve, it’s very hard to predict. What we do know is that almost all wars end at some stage at the negotiating table.”
Musk to Tesla employees: Return to office or get out | Business and Economy News 
From www.aljazeera.com
“The more senior you are, the more visible must be your presence,” Musk wrote. “That is why I lived in the factory so much — so that those on the line could see me working alongside them. If I had not done that, Tesla would long ago have gone bankrupt.”
Israel and UAE Struck Historic Free Trade Deal. Here’s Why 
From time.com
Israel and the United Arab Emirates deepened ties on Tuesday with a historic free trade agreement—the first of its kind between Israel and an Arab country—at a time of growing criticism of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians
Natural Gas Watch
Russia cutting off natural gas to Denmark, company says 
From japantoday.com
“We stand firm in our refusal to pay in rubles, and we’ve been preparing for this scenario,” Ørsted CEO Mads Nipper said. ”The situation underpins the need of the EU becoming independent of Russian gas by accelerating the build-out of renewable energy.”
European Gas Falls as Russia Expects No Further Supply Cuts – Bloomberg 
From www.bloomberg.com
European natural gas prices declined, with Russia unlikely to cut flows to additional buyers after a dispute over payment terms demanded by Moscow.
Iran gas cuts due to nonpayment will cause shortages 
From www.manisteenews.com
“The Iranian side has demanded payment of the financial obligations for the gas fees from the Iraqi side,” the statement said. Iraq has been unable to make payments totaling about $1.7 billion because of the failure of political elites to form a government eight months after national elections. The caretaker Cabinet that’s in place does not have the authority to make the payments.
Ukraine has ‘promised’ not to target inside Russia with US’ donated long-range weapons 
From www.news24.com
“The Ukrainians have given us assurances that they will not use these systems against targets on Russian territory,” Blinken told a joint news conference with NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg.
“There is a strong trust bond between Ukraine and the United States, as well as with our allies and partners,” he said.
China Watch
Military health service troops leave Shanghai after completing epidemic prevention tasks 
From eng.chinamil.com.cn
China’s military health service troops have completed the mission of pandemic prevention and control in Shanghai recently and started to pull back from the city successively.
Chinese peacekeeping medical contingent to Mali treats foreign wounded soldiers
From eng.chinamil.com.cn
“Our soldiers have received good treatment at Chinese level-II hospital . The Chinese people and Egyptian people have enjoyed friendly cooperation. We are very grateful to them,” said the commanding officer of the Egyptian peacekeeping troops , when visiting the injured at the hospital.
China’s new configuration AG600 large amphibious aircraft makes maiden flight 
From eng.chinamil.com.cn
This new-configuration AG600 amphibious aircraft took off from the Zhuhai Jinwan Airport in south China’s Guangdong Province at 10:55 a.m., and then safely landed at the airport after a 20-minute flight, said the AVIC, the country’s leading plane-maker.
Sci-Tech Watch
Netflix’s crackdown on password-sharing in Latin American countries is proving to be a disaster.- Technology News, Firstpost 
From www.firstpost.com
With the new rules being haphazardly implemented and poor programming which makes the additional fees seem less and less valuable, many subscribers have given up their Netflix subscriptions altogether.
‘Is this real?’: shock and indifference over metaverse sexual assault 
From metro.co.uk
Last week, SumOfUs published a report titled ‘Metaverse: another cesspool of toxic content’ which contains details of the researcher’s violent encounter in Meta’s Horizon World.
Link to Report
Some were appalled at the experience, while others suggested she should just turn the system off.
Amazon just blocked ALL Android users from purchasing Kindle ebooks, and this is why 
From www.express.co.uk
The major change came into force today (June 1), with billing options not only removed from the Amazon Kindle app but also from the Music and Audible apps. This big feature removal comes in response to changes to the Google Play Store billing policy.
Scientists discover world’s largest plant that’s 4,500 years old 
From metro.co.uk
Researchers have located the largest plant in the world that’s roughly as long as the distance between London and Bath.
Th plant is an ancient and incredibly resilient seagrass stretching across 180km and is estimated to be at least 4,500 years old.
Unity CEO John Riccitiello: The metaverse will have millions of destinations 
From venturebeat.com
He said he defines the metaverse as the next generation of the internet that is always real time, mostly 3D, mostly interactive, mostly social, and mostly persistent. He hedged a lot by putting all those “mostlys” in there but it seems like a reasonable definition and one that could very much benefit Unity, the maker of the most popular engine for making games.
Megalodon and great white sharks competed for food 
From cosmosmagazine.com
Researchers have found that the megalodon (Otodus megalodon) and great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) likely shared a similar position in the food chain (at the top!), and both species appeared to enjoy similar foods, including cetaceans (marine mammals) such as whales, dolphins and porpoises.
Instant 3D-Printing Thanks to Lights and Resin Printing

A new type of 3D printing is being developed at Switzerland’s École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) that can use light and volumes of resin to instantly print objects, as opposed to having to add layer upon layer in the much more-time consuming method of most 3D-printers, additive printing.

New Resin Printing Method Creates Objects In Seconds

From hackaday.com
2022-06-01 15:30:31
Bryan Cockfield
Excerpt:

 

The method works similarly to existing resin printers by shining a specific light pattern on the resin in order to harden it. The main difference is that the resin is initially placed in a cylinder and spun at a high speed, and the light is shined on the resin at different angles with very precise intensities and timings in order to harden the resin in specific areas. This high-speed method allows the printer to produce prints in record-breaking time. The only current downside, besides the high price for the prototype printer, is that it’s currently limited to small prints.

With the ability to scale in the future and the trend of most new technologies to come down in price after they have been on the market for some amount of time, it would be groundbreaking to be able to produce prints with this type of speed if printers like these can be scalable. Especially if they end up matching the size and scale of homemade printers like this resin printer.

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The workers at the Amazon Staten Island site were successful in voting for a union, but now the union is accusing Amazon of using intimidation and fear tactics to try to stop workers from voting for a union.  Accusations include threats to reduce salaries should the union vote win.
Amazon accused of threatening workers during union vote

From www.protocol.com
2022-06-01 15:58:09

Excerpt:

The workers at the Staten Island warehouse secured the first successful union election in Amazon’s history on April 1. Amazon immediately challenged the results of the election, accusing both the Amazon Labor Union and the NLRB itself of breaking labor laws before the election. The NLRB will hold hearings on those challenges before the union win can be officially certified.

“Our focus remains on working directly with our team to make Amazon a great place to work. The allegations in NLRB complaint are without merit, and we look forward to showing that through this process,” Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokesperson, wrote in an email to Protocol.

 

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