Governed By Physics,
Surplus Energy Economics, Without the elixir , OWNING OUR CHALLENGES [Picture yourself at the top, in control, and those beneath you don't know this.]
Growth in the economy, we’re told, has made the average citizen successively more prosperous over time.Historically, though, growth has had another, perhaps even more important quality – it has rescued us from our own mistakes and misfortunes. Now that growth has ended, we’ll be compelled to ‘own’ these mistakes and misfortunes, and find innovative ways of fixing our problems within the resources that we have...
..Mr Starmer has conceded that tough choices have to be made about taxation and public expenditures, but he has also said that things will subsequently get “better” once the economy has been restored to a path of growth.
Realistically, this isn’t going to happen. Since 2004, British material prosperity has flat-lined, but the population has grown by 14%, leaving the average person poorer by 12%. At the same time, the estimated cost of essentials – defined here as the aggregate of public services and household necessities – has increased by 40%.
This means that the PXE – the prosperity excluding essentials – of the average British person is 24% lower now than it was back in 2004. At the same time, financial exposure is extreme, and the government’s revenue base can be expected to erode even as demand for public spending rises...
Realistically, this isn’t going to happen. Since 2004, British material prosperity has flat-lined, but the population has grown by 14%, leaving the average person poorer by 12%. At the same time, the estimated cost of essentials – defined here as the aggregate of public services and household necessities – has increased by 40%.
This means that the PXE – the prosperity excluding essentials – of the average British person is 24% lower now than it was back in 2004. At the same time, financial exposure is extreme, and the government’s revenue base can be expected to erode even as demand for public spending rises...
..American prosperity per capita inflected into contraction even earlier, back in 2000. The average person in almost all of the Western advanced economies has been getting materially poorer since no later than 2007...
..The same process of inflexion is now looming for those EM (emerging market) economies which, for the past decade and more, have been portrayed as carrying the global economy forwards...
..The simpler fact is that EM economies tend to be a lot less complex than their Western comparators. Lesser complexity results in lower system upkeep costs, giving EM countries greater resilience in the face of the trend that, across the entire global economy, is pushing prior growth into reverse.
That trend is the relentless rise in the Energy Cost of Energy. The prosperity of the average Westerner started to decline once trend ECoEs were at or near 5%. Now that global ECoEs have broken the 10% barrier, not even China or India can carry on growing their prosperity much longer... In fact, these countries are now at, or close to, the same inflexion-point in disposable prosperity long since experienced in the West...
..The enormous, hyper-complex modern economy is entirely the product of the harnessing of fossil fuel energy. Because we’ve always used lowest-cost energy resources first, and left costlier alternatives for later, we have, over time, depleted the economic value of coal, oil and natural gas. When the coal economy started to succumb to the effects of depletion in the 1920s, oil was waiting in the wings to take over.Now, as the economic impetus of petroleum, in its turn, is running down, no such complete successor form of energy exists...
..The most important depletion effect of the lot applies to the finite ability of the environment to tolerate the harmful effects of human economic activity.
One way to look at this is the concept of overshoot. As of 1960, almost all of the World’s potentially productive agricultural land was already under cultivation. Since then, the global population has increased from 3 billion to 8 billion...
One way to look at this is the concept of overshoot. As of 1960, almost all of the World’s potentially productive agricultural land was already under cultivation. Since then, the global population has increased from 3 billion to 8 billion...
..Contrary to an almost universal misconception, GDP isn’t a measure of economic output, but of the flow of financial transactions taking place in the system, which is a wholly different concept...
..The average American may have enjoyed an increase of $21,000 in his or her share of real GDP since 2000, but his or her share of aggregate public and private debt rose by $102,000 over that same period, whilst the per capita equivalent of broad liabilities increased by about $200,000...
..None of this means that our predicament is hopeless, but it does tell us that we need solutions of quality rather than of quantity, and this in turn requires new ideas.
One example is the concept of the circular economy. We can increase the re-use of resources by factoring ease of recycling in from the very start of the product design process. We can extend the life-expectancies of products, not just by improving their quality but also by making them easier to repair...
..The main reason why this doesn’t happen is that incentives are skewed towards the linear economic model of rapid disposal and replacement...
Neither can we wish our way past the constraints imposed by the laws of physics. We can’t, for example, turn wind or solar power into dense energy sources.
The levers which are within our control include the system of incentives which reinforces the destructive linear economic system and, as things stand, blocks progress towards greater circularity. https://
One example is the concept of the circular economy. We can increase the re-use of resources by factoring ease of recycling in from the very start of the product design process. We can extend the life-expectancies of products, not just by improving their quality but also by making them easier to repair...
..The main reason why this doesn’t happen is that incentives are skewed towards the linear economic model of rapid disposal and replacement...
..Two obvious priorities are that we strive to improve the lot of the average person, whilst pulling back from the brink of environmental disaster. These objectives require, not just fairer allocation of resources, but also a move towards greater sustainability in the categories of activity that are within our control.
There are no simple solutions – we cannot, for instance, improve the living conditions of the ‘ordinary’ person by confiscating the assets of ‘the rich’. Most of these assets exist only in paper form, and their prices can be expected to succumb to the forces of economic gravity when the bloated system of assets and credit reaches its point of inflexion. Wealth taxes can’t, in themselves, contribute much to the public purse when the yield on this wealth is at, or close to, historic lows.Neither can we wish our way past the constraints imposed by the laws of physics. We can’t, for example, turn wind or solar power into dense energy sources.
The levers which are within our control include the system of incentives which reinforces the destructive linear economic system and, as things stand, blocks progress towards greater circularity. https://
The United Kingdom has announced it will suspend a portion of its current arms and defense sales to Israel, citing a "clear risk" to civilians and that they could be used to violate international humanitarian law.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy informed parliament Monday that the suspension will impact of 30 of 350 arms export licenses to Israel. The partial ban covers supplies "which could be used in the current conflict in Gaza" against Hamas. However, parts for F-35 fighter jets are exempt from the ban. He emphasized that the country still backs Israel's right to self-defense, and thus the UK is not enacting a blanket ban on all items. https://www.zerohedge.com/
Foreign Secretary David Lammy informed parliament Monday that the suspension will impact of 30 of 350 arms export licenses to Israel. The partial ban covers supplies "which could be used in the current conflict in Gaza" against Hamas. However, parts for F-35 fighter jets are exempt from the ban. He emphasized that the country still backs Israel's right to self-defense, and thus the UK is not enacting a blanket ban on all items. https://www.zerohedge.com/
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not want the hostages back," wrote former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Haaretz last week.
Olmert accused Netanyahu of bowing to the pressures of his extremist cabinet members by seeking an all-out confrontation that includes not only Hamas, Yemen's Houthis, Lebanon's Hezbollah and Shia militias in Syria and Iraq, but even Iran. "In the choice between what's good for Israel and what's good for Bibi – the result is known."...
..A new poll found that 69% of Israelis think Netanyahu should resign when new elections are held, against just 22% who think he should seek re-election. While she may have been making her statements under coercion, one of the recently discovered dead hostages, Eden Yerushalmi, condemned Netanyahu in a video released by Hamas on Monday:Olmert accused Netanyahu of bowing to the pressures of his extremist cabinet members by seeking an all-out confrontation that includes not only Hamas, Yemen's Houthis, Lebanon's Hezbollah and Shia militias in Syria and Iraq, but even Iran. "In the choice between what's good for Israel and what's good for Bibi – the result is known."...
"Benjamin Netanyahu and the government of Israel: Do what is necessary to release us now...The bombing here never stops and we are afraid for our lives. We are scared of dying here.
Benjamin Netanyahu, you freed 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for [captured IDF soldier] Gilad Shalit [in 2011]. Now they are asking for less than a quarter of that number for each one of us. I am not able to comprehend...am I worth less? ... I ask all the people of Israel to take to the streets and demonstrate...Everything that happened to us is because of failure of the State of Israel and its security forces on Oct. 7." https://www.zerohedge.com/
Estimates by journalists said the anti-Netanyahu protest ranged anywhere from 300,000+ to 750,000 people. They accuse the Israeli prime minister of intentionally stalling and thwarting a hostage swap deal with Hamas, instead prioritizing the military operation which could put some 100 remaining captives in harm's way...
..Meanwhile, exacerbating the political divide over Gaza policy is the new announcement by Israel's largest labor union the Histadrut, which has called a general nationwide strike to begin Monday. This marks an unprecedented first of the Gaza war.....The union said it is striking as it's become clear that a truce deal is "more important than anything else," according to the words of Arnon Bar-David, the head of Histadrut. "We are getting body bags instead of a deal." https://www.zerohedge.com/
The USS Wasp is in regional waters to as part of efforts to "deter potential threats to Israel" amid the Gaza war, and as the potential for escalation with Hezbollah and Iran looms. "Protesters have issued a firm warning to the Izmir Governorship, stating they will remain at the port until the ship departs," Almayadeen writes. "They also condemned the United States for its role in causing suffering and violence in Iraq, Syria, and the broader West Asia region." ...
..American military personnel have been directly targeted, despite Turkey being a NATO ally and playing host to US bases, as was seen with Monday's dramatic events where on the streets of the southern city of Izmir US Navy and Marine service members were brutally assaulted, though they managed to escape to safety when local police intervened. The US troops had been on weekend liberty after the USS Wasp amphibious ship docked there.....Turkiye Youth Union (TGB), which is the youth branch of the nationalist opposition Vatan Party, declared that the soldiers were attacked because they have "blood" on their hands. "US soldiers who carry the blood of our soldiers and thousands of Palestinians on their hands cannot dirty our country. Every time you step foot in these lands, we will meet you the way you deserve," TGB said in the aftermath. https://www.
Schools across the U.S. have altered policies and even landscapes in an attempt to make a repeat of last spring’s Palestine protests impossible. The result is a far-reaching war on free expression and the increased militarization of higher education. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/
NOOOO!!! Not PARADOX! Kremlin Spokesman Suggests Moscow Prefers Kamala Harris Over Donald Trump
It really seems to me that now, this time before potential US elections in November, is the critical time for struggles between Globalist and Nationalist elite factions in our world.
Eric Weinstein: 'I Don’t Know Whether Trump Will Be Allowed To Become President'From the point of view of, say, the State Department, the intelligence community, the defense department, and major corporations involved in international issues—from arms trade to, oh, I don’t know, food—they have a series of agreements that are fragile and could be overturned if a president entered the Oval Office who didn’t agree with them. And if the mood of the country was, “Why do we pay taxes into these structures? Why are we hamstrung? Why aren’t we a free people?” So what the two parties would do is run primaries with populist candidates and pre-commit the populist candidates to support the candidates who won the primaries. As long as that took place and you had two candidates that were both acceptable to the international order—that is, they aren’t going to rethink NAFTA or NATO or what have you—we called that "democracy"...
..Under that structure, everything was going fine until 2016, when the first candidate ever to not hold any position in the military nor any position in government in the history of the Republic, Donald Trump, broke through the primary structure. Then there was a full court press: “Okay, we only have one candidate that’s acceptable to the international order. Donald Trump will be under constant pressure—he’s a loser, he’s a wild man, he’s an idiot, and he’s under control of the Russians.” And then he was going to be, you know, a 20-to-1 underdog, and then he wins. There was no precedent for this. They learned their lesson: you cannot afford to have candidates who are not acceptable to the international order and continue to have these alliances. This is an unsolved problem.
I don’t have a particular dog in this fight. I believe in democracy; I also believe in international agreements. And it is the job of the State Department, the intelligence community, and the defense department to bring this problem in front of the American people and say, “We have a problem. You don’t know everything that’s going on, and if you start voting in populist candidates, you’re going to end up knocking out load-bearing walls that you don’t understand.” https://www.zerohedge.com/
This is the part of the falsification they can admit to. Musk-X got 74% Trump, 26% Harris: Harris' So-Called 'Surge' Is Thanks To Oversampling: Pollsters
Last month we noted how the founder of the main outside spending group backing Kamala Harris for president says their own internal opinion polling is "much less rosy" than public polls. "Our numbers are much less rosy than what you're seeing in the public," said Future Forward super PAC president Chauncey McLean said during a Monday event hosted by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.
..Polling analysis site FiveThirtyEight shows Ms. Harris' approval rating ticking up to 42.3%, up from 37.1% in early July. Yet, doubts persist over how she has managed to rise in the polls without significantly improving her historically low job approval ratings. https://www.zerohedge.com/
The Biden-Harris Pentagon is refusing to answer questions from Congress and the media regarding Democrat vice-presidential nominee Governor Tim Walz’s (D-MN) frequent travel to China. The lack of transparency has raised concerns about potential risks to U.S. military members and whether Walz properly disclosed these trips to the Army National Guard during his service...
..Typically, U.S. military members, especially those holding a security clearance, are required to report or request permission from their command before traveling overseas—particularly to countries considered adversarial to U.S. interests, such as China...
..Walz has publicly stated he visited China about 30 times, with many of these trips occurring while he was an Army National Guard member. However, it remains unclear if Walz consistently reported his travels to China to his military command, whether he sought proper permission, or whether he possessed a security clearance during these trips. https://www.
..Walz has publicly stated he visited China about 30 times, with many of these trips occurring while he was an Army National Guard member. However, it remains unclear if Walz consistently reported his travels to China to his military command, whether he sought proper permission, or whether he possessed a security clearance during these trips. https://www.
Not if Trump hangs himself with a sheet first: Epstein client list will be made public – Trump The Republican candidate for US president dropped a hint in a podcast interview https://swentr.site/news/
Eugyppius, State Elections in Thuringen and Saxony deliver another humiliating defeat for the sclerotic and incapable German political establishment.
After eight months of near-constant media hysteria, desperate Interior Ministry campaigns against the political opposition and unceasing warnings from every last establishment political figure about the crypto-fascist antidemocratic menace of Alternative für Deutschland, Thüringen and Saxony have elected new state parliaments. All of that hue and cry, all of those protests against “the right,” all those false panics and all that disingenuous saccharine moralising was for nothing. The AfD emerged as the strongest party in Thüringen, with 32.8% of the vote; and as the second-strongest party in Saxony, with 30.6% of the vote. The results represent an intensely humiliating defeat for the parties of the coalition government, just months after their earlier humiliation in the EU elections. The SPD, the Greens and the FDP together could claim only 13.3% support in Saxony and 10.4% in Thüringen. It is a repudiation of historic proportions.
Our betters are very angry about this...
..More than 30% of voters in Thuringia and Saxony voted for the far right. The vast majority of them are not neo-Nazis, but – and this is no less shocking – they don’t care about voting for the far right.
Former SPD Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has called the election results “catastrophic.” The SPD Finance Minister of Brandenburg, Katrin Lange, with an eye towards the upcoming 22 September elections in her own state, has demanded that SPD leaders stop appearing in talk shows, because every time they do, the voters get even more tired of them...
..Germany is governed by a political oligarchy that is formally arranged in a system of interlacing establishment parties. Together, the establishment parties function like a cartel, competing with each other for votes and taking carefully coordinated positions on a limited array of issues to limit the options of the electorate. Since Angela Merkel opened the borders in 2015, the cartel system has been bleeding support to the AfD, who are hated and smeared as fascists not because they are evil National Socialists, but because their growing strength threatens the cartel system itself. As the establishment parties grow weaker and the AfD gathers strength, it becomes harder and harder for the oligarchy to achieve the parliamentary majorities that are necessary to control the state apparatus. https://www.eugyppius.com/p/
Our betters are very angry about this...
..More than 30% of voters in Thuringia and Saxony voted for the far right. The vast majority of them are not neo-Nazis, but – and this is no less shocking – they don’t care about voting for the far right.
Former SPD Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has called the election results “catastrophic.” The SPD Finance Minister of Brandenburg, Katrin Lange, with an eye towards the upcoming 22 September elections in her own state, has demanded that SPD leaders stop appearing in talk shows, because every time they do, the voters get even more tired of them...
..Germany is governed by a political oligarchy that is formally arranged in a system of interlacing establishment parties. Together, the establishment parties function like a cartel, competing with each other for votes and taking carefully coordinated positions on a limited array of issues to limit the options of the electorate. Since Angela Merkel opened the borders in 2015, the cartel system has been bleeding support to the AfD, who are hated and smeared as fascists not because they are evil National Socialists, but because their growing strength threatens the cartel system itself. As the establishment parties grow weaker and the AfD gathers strength, it becomes harder and harder for the oligarchy to achieve the parliamentary majorities that are necessary to control the state apparatus. https://www.eugyppius.com/p/
Everyone was able to witness president Lula da Silva’s drift, demanding from Bolivarian Venezuela what he doesn’t demand of any other country with elections — that it demonstrate that its institutions work, not in accordance with its respective national law, but in accordance with the Rules-Based Order — it is also true that this behavior startled everyone who, like me, longs and fights for a fairer world. The truth is that the Brazilian president’s slipping into the narrative sphere imposed by the U.S. and its “international” order raises many questions when it comes to BRICS...
..India is currently a major exporter of light weapons, essentially. And who is its biggest buyer? The Unite States (France and Israel too). Much of this weaponry consists of ammunition, particularly 155mm ammunition, the ammunition most lacking in Ukraine. It’s good to see that Ukraine is now a destination for Indian ammunition, indirectly, if necessary, transiting from New Delhi to Washington and Paris and, there, replenishing stocks and freeing up others — or the same ones — to be thrown at its “strategic” Russian friend and partner. Do you want a bigger contradiction than that? India, directly and indirectly, buys military technology and supplies weapons that will be used by the army hired by NATO against Russia. India, now one of the world’s largest military exporters, has a direct interest in the Donbass war. A war waged by NATO against one important friend.And if India’s “support” for Kiev, in itself, puts everything in very unethical and transparent terms, making hypocrisy and cynicism the main facilitators of bilateral and multilateral relations in the BRICS, what about the supply of Brahmos missiles, as also announced by The Print, to the Philippines? Brahmos missiles are supersonic cruise missiles (Mach 2.8) and were developed in a joint project with Russia. These missiles are also anti-ship and will be used by the Philippines against… China! But it doesn’t stop there: the Philippines is on its way to becoming the “Ukraine” of the South China Sea, used by the U.S. as a monumental naval base for its “containment” project against the Asian giant. Finally, the U.S. now has privileged access to one of Russia’s most advanced missile technologies. The new version of these missiles (the Brahmos II) is hypersonic and has evolved from the first version. https://strategic-culture.su/
..As the article makes clear, Turkey realizes that it will never be able to take economic advantage of its strategic location if it allows membership in NATO to dictate opposition to the very countries—Russia, China, Iran—that could transform Turkey into an international crossroads for commerce. By the very terms of that scenario, Turkey’s distancing from NATO will increase, which will have serious consequences for Anglo-Zionist power projection in the entire West Asia region. This is a major setback for the Anglo-Zionists and comes at a time when Turkic Azerbaijan is also pivoting toward Russia and China and Turkey is establishing closer ties with Iran. https://meaninginhistory.
Ankara “seeks to bolster its global influence and forge new ties beyond its traditional Western allies,” the sources said. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan believes “that the geopolitical center of gravity is shifting away from developed economies” and that the push to join BRICS “reflects its aspirations to cultivate ties with all sides in a multipolar world, while still fulfilling its obligations as a key member of NATO.”
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in early June that BRICS serves as a good alternative to the EU. [Touche'!] https://thecradle.co/
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in early June that BRICS serves as a good alternative to the EU. [Touche'!] https://thecradle.co/
The vaccines may be seen by some as a minimal help to Palestinians in Gaza, preventing yet another disaster. And the minimal pauses resulting may be seen as baby steps toward permanent ceasefire, but this seems quite optimistic, especially given Israel’s posture. It is quite possible that the nOPV2 vaccine is largely being done for public relations reasons...
..Moreover, this is useful to distract from the failure of the UN to stop Israel’s carnage. Most especially the US-dominated UN Security Council has refused to implement orders from the International Court of Justice and virtually all states — with the notable exceptions of South Africa and Nicaragua — have failed in responsibilities under the Genocide Convention. The General Assembly has failed to take meaningful action using “Uniting for Peace”...
..Perhaps most ominously however, it may be problematic to give attenuated oral polio vaccine to a population that is immunocompromised — which most certainly includes the Palestinians in Gaza. They desperately need food and clean water and basic medical care. A host of diseases are ravaging Gaza and reportedly, 100,000 people in Gaza have contracted acute jaundice syndrome, or suspected hepatitis A. From Options for Poliomyelitis Vaccination in the United States: “Those in whom OPV is contraindicated include individuals with immunodeficiency disorders…The risk of VAPP [Vaccine-Associated Paralytic Poliomyelitis] in immunodeficient children is 3,000 times that in normal children.” https://www.globalresearch.
..Moreover, this is useful to distract from the failure of the UN to stop Israel’s carnage. Most especially the US-dominated UN Security Council has refused to implement orders from the International Court of Justice and virtually all states — with the notable exceptions of South Africa and Nicaragua — have failed in responsibilities under the Genocide Convention. The General Assembly has failed to take meaningful action using “Uniting for Peace”...
..Perhaps most ominously however, it may be problematic to give attenuated oral polio vaccine to a population that is immunocompromised — which most certainly includes the Palestinians in Gaza. They desperately need food and clean water and basic medical care. A host of diseases are ravaging Gaza and reportedly, 100,000 people in Gaza have contracted acute jaundice syndrome, or suspected hepatitis A. From Options for Poliomyelitis Vaccination in the United States: “Those in whom OPV is contraindicated include individuals with immunodeficiency disorders…The risk of VAPP [Vaccine-Associated Paralytic Poliomyelitis] in immunodeficient children is 3,000 times that in normal children.” https://www.globalresearch.
RFK Jr: There Has To Be “A Reckoning” For “Immoral, Homicidal” COVID Criminality [Nothing about Israeli genocide of Palestinians, though.]
He charged that Fauci and others used their positions during COVID to enforce “totalitarian controls that were not science-based.” “It’s a story, really, of people involved in really terrible, immoral, homicidal criminal behavior,” Kennedy urged.....“By depriving people of Ivermectin, many, many people, millions of people around the globe, died, and they didn’t need to,” Kennedy added, charging that Fauci and others pressured the FDA to discourage such treatments in favour of relentlessly pushing unproven and untested vaccines.
“There were cures for COVID from day one, very effective cures. But they didn’t want that. They wanted the vaccine only,” Kennedy posited, adding “if they admitted that any of [the treatments] were effective, the whole vaccine project would have fallen apart.”
Kennedy added that after the vaccines, myocarditis cases among young people, particularly athletes, exploded. “On average, it was, I think, 29 a month globally, athletes who died on the field. We’re getting down to hundreds a month now,” Kennedy emphasised.
He concluded that “the science is out there now, and it’s devastating.”
After endorsing Donald Trump last month, RFK Jr. declared that he is ready to help “make America healthy again.” https://modernity.news/2024/
“There were cures for COVID from day one, very effective cures. But they didn’t want that. They wanted the vaccine only,” Kennedy posited, adding “if they admitted that any of [the treatments] were effective, the whole vaccine project would have fallen apart.”
Kennedy added that after the vaccines, myocarditis cases among young people, particularly athletes, exploded. “On average, it was, I think, 29 a month globally, athletes who died on the field. We’re getting down to hundreds a month now,” Kennedy emphasised.
He concluded that “the science is out there now, and it’s devastating.”
After endorsing Donald Trump last month, RFK Jr. declared that he is ready to help “make America healthy again.” https://modernity.news/2024/
Steve Kirsch, COVID vaccinated kids are dying regularly from cardiac arrest
It's baffling that they try to normalize this as always happening. It was never a thing before the COVID vaccines rolled out. https://kirschsubstack.com/p/ Peter McCullough MD, Most Variation in All-Cause Mortality Explained by Mass COVID-19 Vaccination
Australian Ecological Analysis Points to Vaccine Campaign Causing Rising Death Counts https://petermcculloughmd. Meryl Nass MD, David Bell expands on the confirmed Moneypox numbers and the false emergency
BTW, It is only an STD if lesions are confined to the genital area. If it is elsewhere it spreads like chicken pox/shingles. This is more likely the type of spread in Africa. https://merylnass.substack. Nitazoxanide, the "monkeypox ivermectin"?
"We therefore set out to try to elucidate the mechanism by which the drug inhibits vaccinia virus.”...
..This study is the first to demonstrate the ability of NTZ to inhibit a poxvirus, and establishes the potential use of NTZ to control poxviral infections. Although the exact mechanism of action of the broad antiviral effect of NTZ remains unclear, the authors have uncovered a metabolic impact that will be further explored. https://www.fredhutch.org/en/From Virology, May 2018, Inhibition of vaccinia virus replication by nitazoxanide https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
The episode was of interest because the couple are voice-over performers and - like many other creatives - fear that human-sounding voice generators could soon be used to replace them.
This particular podcast had a unique hook – they interviewed an AI-powered chat bot, equipped with text-to-speech software, to ask how it thought the use of AI would affect jobs in Hollywood. But, when it spoke, it sounded just like Mr Lehrman. "We needed to pull the car over," he said.
"The irony that AI is coming for the entertainment industry, and here is my voice talking about the potential destruction of the industry, was really quite shocking."
That night they spent hours online, searching for clues until they came across the site of text-to-speech platform Lovo. Once there, Ms Sage said she found a copy of her voice as well. "I was stunned," she said. "I couldn't believe it." "A tech company stole our voices, made AI clones of them, and sold them possibly hundreds of thousands of times."
They have now filed a lawsuit against Lovo. The firm has not yet responded to that or the BBC's requests for comment...
That night they spent hours online, searching for clues until they came across the site of text-to-speech platform Lovo. Once there, Ms Sage said she found a copy of her voice as well. "I was stunned," she said. "I couldn't believe it." "A tech company stole our voices, made AI clones of them, and sold them possibly hundreds of thousands of times."
They have now filed a lawsuit against Lovo. The firm has not yet responded to that or the BBC's requests for comment...
..Lovo co-founder Tom Lee has previously said its voice-cloning software only needs a user to read about 50 sentences to create a faithful clone.
"We can capture the tone, the character, the style, the phonemes, and even if you have an accent, we can capture that as well," he told the Future Visionaries podcast in 2021. In their lawsuit, the couple set out how they say Lovo obtained just such a recording from them. https://www.bbc.com/news/
David Hughes, Electromagnetic Warfare, History and Dangers (20 min lecture, with transcript, brief excerpt here)
Professor Anthony Hall, Durov is an Internet Freedom Fighter. Israel is Seeking to Destroy Pavel Durov in France as If He is a Proxy for Hamas.
..All signs point to the finding that France is one of several players in a case developed at the highest levels by the most aggressive enemies of privacy and free speech on the Internet.
The sturdiness of Telegram’s encryption system is reflected by the fact that the Armed Forces of both Russia and NATO’s puppet Ukraine, regularly do their secret messaging through Durov’s company. Durov and his brother have built up Telegram’s ramparts against all sorts of spy wear, but especially the invasions on data bases facilitated by so-called backdoors, the digital nuke of Internet integrity.
The sturdiness of Telegram’s encryption system is reflected by the fact that the Armed Forces of both Russia and NATO’s puppet Ukraine, regularly do their secret messaging through Durov’s company. Durov and his brother have built up Telegram’s ramparts against all sorts of spy wear, but especially the invasions on data bases facilitated by so-called backdoors, the digital nuke of Internet integrity.
One of Durov’s supposed crimes is to have stood up to the security state’s most aggressive thugs in denying them backdoor access to Telegram. All the other major platforms, including that of the Israeli government’s servile puppet, Elon Musk, have by now handed over the security keys to the likes of Mossad-CIA-MI6, the FBI, the US Department of Justice and a host of other Internet predators, public and private. Durov, however, is the main holdout. He hasn’t complied in the past. What will he do now? ...
..The duplicitous tactics deployed in the surprise hit on Durov in Paris, reflects the sense of urgency felt by the protagonists of Zionist intrigue. These protagonists are intent on protecting their concocted narratives to misrepresent their vicious war mongering in the Middle East and Eurasia. The desperation to hold onto the force of their fake narratives is giving rise to the explosive symbolic implications of the Durov case in Paris.
The ongoing false flag event that is taking place in the battle for the minds of the world’s people began on October 7, 2023. In the ongoing false flag that continues yet, Durov’s Telegram has emerged as one of the most strategic resources in the psychological warfare accompanying the unrelenting genocide.
Macron’s shameful and duplicitous operation was likely done on behalf of Israel and its Zionist network of now-discredited operatives. https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/durov-is-an-internet-freedom-fighter
The ongoing false flag event that is taking place in the battle for the minds of the world’s people began on October 7, 2023. In the ongoing false flag that continues yet, Durov’s Telegram has emerged as one of the most strategic resources in the psychological warfare accompanying the unrelenting genocide.
Macron’s shameful and duplicitous operation was likely done on behalf of Israel and its Zionist network of now-discredited operatives. https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/durov-is-an-internet-freedom-fighter
Elon Musk has vowed to seek the seizure of Brazilian government assets in the US if Brazil does not return property belonging to his companies X (Twitter) and SpaceX.
Last week, the Supreme Court of Brazil ordered the operations of X to be “immediately suspended” and threatened a fine of 50,000 Brazilian reals ($8,874) per day against anyone trying to sidestep the ban on accessing the platform using a VPN. The judge gave Google and Apple five days to remove X from their app stores. https://swentr.site/business/603455-elon-musk-seize-brazil-assets/
Last week, the Supreme Court of Brazil ordered the operations of X to be “immediately suspended” and threatened a fine of 50,000 Brazilian reals ($8,874) per day against anyone trying to sidestep the ban on accessing the platform using a VPN. The judge gave Google and Apple five days to remove X from their app stores. https://swentr.site/business/603455-elon-musk-seize-brazil-assets/
Kyle Young chases a bunch of dead ends with dead men and missing papers (part-2): Is “Ripple Technology" the real reason for the Trump/Kennedy alliance? https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/is-ripple-technology-the-real-reason
Ripple, Grateful Dead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmMjY6tXaEo
Treated Like A Mushroom (pictured with okra, onion and tomatoes from garden)
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