From the Chicago Tribune: We tested popular cellphones for their radiofrequency radiation. Now the FCC is investigating.

The Camille Paglia write-up, A Feminist Capitalist Professor Under Fire, is a wonderful read. A slice:

So why do young women feel victimized? Ms. Paglia cites the near-extinction of “body language” among the young and its impact on sexual relations on campus. The “loss of body language” starts in middle and high school, “where there’s total absorption in social media and projected images on Instagram, and so on. So they don’t know how to read each other, physically.” When they get to college, this social deficiency is exacerbated by the effects of “that stupid law, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, that was passed in 1984.” It effected a nationwide ban on alcohol sales to adults under 21.

“When I got to college,” Ms. Paglia says, “you could go out for a beer, you could talk with a drink in a public place, in an adult environment.” That’s how 18-year-olds away from home for the first time learned the “art of conversation, of looking at each other, reading facial expressions and body language.” After the ban on drinking, “instead of a nice group of people conversing and flirting, you got the keg parties at fraternities on campus, this horrible environment where women milled about with men in this huge amount of noise, with people chugging beers down.”

From Defense One.

325 active-duty soldiers committed suicide in 2018, the highest number since the Defense Suicide Prevention Watch began collecting the numbers in 2001. Over 6,000 veterans died from suicide between 2008 and 2016, and now the Pentagon is scrambling for a solution.

Philip Giraldi, in his excellent new column, Israel’s Many Wars, argues that this is a very real possibility, given Israel’s recent attacks on its neighbors in the region.

Israel is a liability, not an ally. The United States gains nothing from the relationship, while Israel gains everything. Yet to criticize Israel is to risk accusations of Antisemitism, the convenient race card that is brandished almost immediately in order to shut down open discussion of Israel’s hold on U.S. foreign policy.

This story has apparently been ongoing for awhile, but it’s the first I’ve heard of it.

Merck, also the manufacturer of many childhood vaccines, is facing an avalanche of lawsuits over it’s shingles vaccine, Zostavax, due to the fact that many of those who received the vaccine have contracted shingles or chickenpox.

Despite this, the CDC still lists Zostavax as “safe and effective”, a hollow incantation that fewer and fewer people are taking seriously.

The Air Force has captured otherworldly footage from within the eye of hurricane Dorian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvjyXpoPiFk&t=138s

And here is unbelievable footage of the ‘stadium effect’ from the eye of last year’s Hurricane Michael:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-iRXYRRGXQ

Israeli army says the purpose was to trick Hezbollah, but the more likely aim was to incite outrage among Israeli citizens, who would then support a high-casualty revenge attack.

A great editorial has appeared in the California Globe: Why are vaccine adverse events not acknowledged or reported by medical professionals?

When the reports of severe injuries began appearing following the roll-out of the HPV vaccine, the medical profession had a ready-made response: It’s psychosomatic, nothing to see here! Many went so far as to accuse the girls of purposely faking their illnesses in order to derail Gardasil, the new miracle of Science. The pre-teen and teen girls that suffered severe injuries, unbeknownst to them, were about to become part of a growing, ostracized community of the vaccine-injured, due to the fact that the corporate-owned media, corporate-owned governments, and corporate-owned medical profession refused to acknowledge the existence of vaccine injuries. “It’s not possible to be harmed by a vaccine” is the reigning prejudice, and so when someone is in fact injured by a vaccine, everyone up and down the line refuses to admit or even grant the possibility that the vaccine caused it. I believe this attitude is behind the practice of giving multiple vaccines at once. If it were admitted that combining vaccines could be dangerous, in the same way that combining medication is, then it would beg the question of what exactly happens that makes a combo dangerous? Health professionals routinely combine live-virus vaccines with ‘inactive’ ones, while having no idea what the long-term consequences could be for the immune system. A vaccine without a live virus requires an adjuvant to stimulate the immune system, usually aluminum. How is that aluminum interacting with the other vaccines being administered? How is the combination of vaccines affecting the underdeveloped immune systems of children?

These questions aren’t asked, because vaccines are blindly assumed to be safe in an absolute sense. This blind belief has had the effect of ostracizing those who have been severely, and permanently, injured by vaccines. No one believes them, or believes the “one in a million” fiction that so many health professionals unthinkingly parrot. The vaccine-injured don’t even have recourse to sue the manufacturers, but instead go to ‘vaccine court’ and make the case that their injury was indeed caused by the vaccine. If they win then they get a payout, along with an order not to talk about their ordeal or the payout. But if vaccines were truly safe, why the need for blanket legal immunity for vaccine manufacturers? Why the $4 billion in payouts to vaccine victims? Why the desperate effort to keep a lid on the questions regarding vaccine safety? Why the fear-mongering to force vaccine mandates through legislatures?

Why, specifically, the fear-mongering over measles? Out of the around one thousand cases in the U.S., everyone has by now recovered. Measles is a self-limiting infection, it’s gone within a week. Once you’ve had it, you are immune for life. And an inconvenient fact for the pro-vaccine corporate elites regarding their beloved concept of “herd immunity”, the concept itself was developed in reference to natural immunity derived from the majority of a population having previously been infected with measles.

Hundreds of life-threatening infectious diseases exist, yet we only have vaccines for a few. Why aren’t we being wiped out by the rest? Why did every single infectious disease experience the same dramatic decline in mortality during the first half of the twentieth century, despite the lack of a vaccine? Clean water, clean food, hygiene, plumbing, sanitation, all this is the reason that infectious disease has been virtually eliminated, not vaccines. Yet people hold the simultaneous belief that vaccines have saved humanity, and are completely safe. Both are wrong.

PHILIP GIRALDI: Does Israel interfere in American elections?

USA Today: More than 400 police departments working with Ring to view doorbell cam footage

Activist Post: FBI crime lab analyzing two broken cameras from outside Epstein’s cell

J.D. TUCCILLE: The revolving door between government and cable news

JOHN KIRIAKOU: In search of a Russiagate scalp: The entrapment of Maria Butina

BRETIGNE SHAFFER: Are anti-vaxxers violent extremists? Or is this the latest smear tactic?

Reason: Forget the Amazon fires. State-sanctioned deforestation is the bigger problem.

USA Today: Apple apologizes for retaining Siri audio recordings and vows to improve privacy

Digital Trends: Meet the subversive start-up that’s fighting mass surveillance with t-shirts

Quanta: Possible detection of a black hole so big it ‘should not exist’

The mold, Aspergillus, has killed one person, who I assume was a child since it’s a children’s hospital, and sickened five more. The outrageous fact that should receive blanket coverage is that the hospital kept the presence of the deadly mold a secret, and continued to use the operating room. It’s unbelievable, yet how many hospitals across the country also contain a deadly fungi of some stripe, and are keeping quiet about it?

Two Pittsburgh hospitals have seen 5 deaths from mold between 2014 and 2017, and the public only found out about it through a wrongful death lawsuit. Unbelievable. Beyond outrageous. The five deceased had been transplant recipients, and were particularly susceptible to the infection, yet it looks like each hospital continued operating even though they knew the mold was there. The patients, and their families, did not.