Important Takeaways:
- Red Alert! 6 Absolutely Gigantic Geomagnetic Storms Are About To Hit Earth, And Authorities Won’t Know Their True Power Until Friday Night
- A series of enormous geomagnetic storms is about to start pummeling our planet, and some of the most important technologies that we depend on are potentially at risk. For the very first time in nearly 20 years, the NOAA has issued a severe geomagnetic storm watch. We were initially warned that “at least five earth-directed coronal mass ejections” were headed our direction, but now it is at least six. These coronal mass ejections originated from Sunspot AR3664, which has now become almost as large as the infamous Carrington sunspot of 1859. It is being reported that Sunspot AR3664 is nearly 200,000 kilometers wide. That is about 15 times wider than Earth. Six gigantic coronal mass ejections that have been unleashed by this sunspot will hit our planet over the next few days, but authorities won’t know their true power until Friday night.
- Until authorities know the true power of these storms, we won’t know how much danger we are facing.
- Hopefully this will turn out to be a minor event
Read the original article by clicking here.
Important Takeaways:
- Canada’s wildfire season re-erupts forcing thousands from homes, prompting air quality alerts
- An evacuation alert was issued for Fort McMurray in Alberta as crews responded to what they described as an “out-of-control wildfire” southwest of town that had burned more than 13,500 acres as of Sunday.
- The combination of warm temperatures and an ongoing drought have helped fuel several fires in western Canada, which has triggered thousands to leave their homes.
- One of the largest fires burning in the province of British Columbia is called the Parker Lake Wildfire. As of Sunday, the blaze had burned more than 6,100 acres, and firefighters said it was continuing to show extreme behavior due to dry brush and winds.
- Conditions in many parts of B.C., and especially in the Prince George Fire Centre (PGFC), are unseasonably dry and more typical of those observed in the late summer. As a result, fuels are more susceptible to ignition and wildfires can spread more quickly,” the British Columbia Wildfire Service said.
Read the original article by clicking here.
Important Takeaways:
- Germany is considering introducing conscription for all 18-year-olds, as it looks to boost its troop numbers in the face of Russian military aggression.
- Both men and women could be called up to boost numbers in the armed forces
- Military planners in Berlin are in the final stages of discussing three options, two of which involve a form of conscription, according to leaked plans reported in the German media.
- Defense Minister Boris Pistorius is set to go public with the official plans by June.
Read the original article by clicking here.
Important Takeaways:
- Seventy Americans in one state are being monitored for bird flu due to potential exposure – after FDA said H5N1 could trigger pandemic
- The dairy farm workers are being monitored in Colorado as of May 6
- Details about their ages, gender and conditions have not been revealed, but they all worked on a farm in the northeastern part of the state.
- Only one person so far – a farmer in Texas – has tested positive for H5N1 virus this outbreak, but the CDC fears many more could be infected and not coming forward.
- It comes as the FDA’s top official revealed the agency is gearing up for a bird flu pandemic in people that could kill one in four of those it infects.
Read the original article by clicking here.
Important Takeaways:
- Congress continues to intensify scrutiny of China’s influence and technology transfers in American academia
- A U.S. congressional committee on China has asked leading research university Georgia Institute of Technology to detail its collaboration with a Chinese university facing U.S. government restrictions due to its alleged ties to the country’s military.
- Georgia Tech partnered with China’s northeastern Tianjin University on cutting edge technologies despite its documented ties to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
- Tianjin University and numerous affiliates had been added in 2020 to the Commerce Department’s export restrictions list for actions contrary to U.S. national security, including trade secret theft and research collaboration to advance China’s military.
- The U.S. Justice Department under the Biden administration ended a Trump-era program called the China Initiative intended to combat Chinese espionage and intellectual property theft, but which critics had said spurred racial profiling toward Asian Americans and chilled scientific research.
Read the original article by clicking here.
Important Takeaways:
- U.S. still sending some weapons to Israel despite holding up bomb shipment over Rafah assault plans
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defiantly vowed his country would “stand alone” after President Joe Biden’s threat to suspend arms supplies.
- The rupture between the two allies comes as talks stalled in a U.S. push for a cease-fire with Hamas in Gaza.
- So far U.S. officials have said the Rafah operation is limited in scope, but have not ruled out Israel defying the president and expanding it.
- Netanyahu said Thursday Israel would “fight with our fingernails” in order to pursue its proclaimed goal of eliminating Hamas — with or without the backing of the United States
- We will do what we have to do to protect our country, and that means to protect our future. And that means we will defeat Hamas, including in Rafah. We have no other choice,” he said.
Read the original article by clicking here.
Important Takeaways:
- Rioting charges against 211 illegal migrants caught on video by The Post pushing past Texas troops and attempting to break into the US on March 21 have all been dismissed — based on a technicality
- El Paso County Judge Ruben Morales dismissed the cases at a hearing Wednesday, May 8, saying his “hands [are] tied” after the state did not provide a required transfer order, a simple document, to move the matter from district to county court
- The migrants were all arrested by Texas authorities on riot-related charges after the rush at an area known as Gate 36, as seen in the shocking footage captured by The Post.
- The riot charges carried a maximum penalty of 180 days in jail and up to a $2,000 fine.
- The migrants were mostly adult males who severely outnumbered the guardsmen, who had been trying to place them into groups so they could be taken into CBP custody.
- Nine migrants were later singled out as the “ringleaders” of the stampede and eight of them are in custody facing additional felony charges, which are being heard separately from the riot charges.
Read the original article by clicking here.
Important Takeaways:
- People in southern Brazil, already reeling from deadly floods, are bracing for more disruption as meteorologists warned of 12 straight hours of heavy rain Friday and more throughout the weekend.
- The storms have affected more than 1.9 million people in Brazil, and displaced hundreds of thousands, many of whom are staying in temporary shelters. Over 140 people are still missing.
- Scenes of the devastating weather event have been beamed all over the world, including video footage of a horse that had to be rescued after being stranded for several days on a rooftop.
- Uruguay has also been flooded by the storms. More than 1,300 people there have been displaced there, while thousands more are without electricity
Read the original article by clicking here.
Important Takeaways:
- At least five streams of plasma, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), are heading toward Earth, prompting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to issue a severe geomagnetic storm watch for Friday into the weekend
- It follows a series of solar flares that began on Wednesday, tipping officials off
- The prospective storm could cause disruptions to GPS, the internet and power
- This is the first such alert aired since 2005 when Earth was hit with the highest dose of radiation in a half-century.
- The ‘unusual event’ may also drape a huge portion of the country, as far south as Alabama, in colorful natural lights.
Read the original article by clicking here.
Important Takeaways:
- The company has built a brain-computer interface that could help patients with paralysis control external technologies with their minds.
- Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink on Wednesday said part of its brain implant malfunctioned after it put the system in a human patient for the first time.
- Neuralink has built a brain-computer interface, or a BCI, that could eventually help patients with paralysis control external technology using only their minds.
- The company’s system, called the Link, records neural signals using 1,024 electrodes across 64 “threads” that are thinner than a human hair, according to its website.
- In January, Neuralink implanted the device in a 29-year-old patient named Noland Arbaugh.
- A number of threads have retracted from Arbaugh’s brain, Neuralink said in a blog post on Wednesday
Read the original article by clicking here.
