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Fears of more regional bank failures grow as Moody’s cuts New York Community Bancorp’s credit rating to junk status

February 11, 2024 -

According to Moody’s, the downgrade was prompted by the news that the bank experienced a surprisingly high loss on exposure to the commercial real estate market, which it focuses on heavily and is currently not faring well. It also cut its dividend in order to adhere to tougher regulatory requirements.

Moody’s highlighted the fact that one third of the bank’s deposits are currently uninsured and "could face significant funding and liquidity pressure if there is a loss ...

SCIENCE under attack by libtards as physics professor may get fired for daring to say physics isn’t sexist

October 10, 2018 -

Alessandro Strumia boldly and unequivocally stated that "cultural Marxism" is responsible for pushing this ridiculous feminist propaganda, highlighting the fact that common leftist buzzwords like "microaggression," "gaslighting," and "mansplaining" are perpetuating the lie that men are somehow "mobilizing their masculinity" to keep women from achieving scientific success.

Entitled, "High Energy Theory and Gender," Strumia's lecture, which took place at the European ...

Surgeon who operated on young Italian vaccine victim: ‘You have never seen anything like this’

July 10, 2021 -

(Article republished from FreeWestMedia.com)

The neurosurgeon on duty in San Martino that night was Alessandro d’Andrea, who also called the chief physician to his side at the operating table. “We decided to have a decompression craniotomy, in which the skull is opened to relieve internal pressure.”

Zona recounted the experience: “All venous sinuses were blocked with thrombi, a scenario I have never seen in my many years in this profession. Think of the venous sinus ...

Light pollution found to disrupt natural balance between insects and predators, impacting ecosystem health

October 30, 2017 -

Artificial night-time lighting is increasing at approximately three to six percent a year worldwide. This has profound effects on the aquatic ecosystems such as rivers and lakes that are heavily interconnected with the ecosystems of their banks and shores. As flying insects gather around the artificial lights, the predatory communities on the ground are left with a scarce food source.

“Artificial lighting at night-time is a major component of global environmental change ...

Can the common cold help fight SARS-CoV-2?

September 29, 2020 -

At the center of the immune system's ability to be trained are T cells, which are specialized white blood cells that seek out and destroy pathogens. Multiple studies have shown that up to 50 percent of uninfected people in some places have T cells that can identify SARS-CoV-2. This may explain why some people have milder infections compared to others; however, the authors note that their findings are "highly speculative" at best, and will need more research to confirm. For ...

Climate change didn’t hurt the dinosaurs… they were thriving until the asteroid struck

July 18, 2019 -

New geological assessment of the Cretaceous Period finds that dinosaurs thrived during climate change

New geological evidence, analyzed by scientists from Imperial College London, University College London and University of Bristol, finds that dinosaur populations were actually thriving before the asteroid hit. The reason why climate change is believed to have contributed to the dinosaur’s demise is merely based on the concentration of fossils found in regions across the world....

Dr. Richard Fleming talks about innate immunity and COVID-19 vaccines – Brighteon.TV

October 06, 2021 -

Innate immunity is the body's first line of defense against pathogens. It involves barriers that keep harmful materials from entering your body. These barriers form the first line of defense in the immune response. "Don't we have to actually use the immune system like it's designed?" Fleming asks.

He explains that the vaccines do not actually help people by blunting and reprogramming the immune system.

"These vaccines that are being used have done something that ...

Italian vineyards turning to robots and automation to fulfill harvest needs as labor shortage worsens

October 05, 2021 -

Many sectors of the Italian economy have increasingly turned to automation due to the labor shortage. This includes much of the country's agricultural industry, which can no longer rely on seasonal workers for labor. As a result, the harvesting of some crops like soybeans and corn is now heavily automated.

The Italian wine industry has resisted automation for the longest time due to concerns that automated harvesting is more likely to damage the grapes. That might affect ...

Immunity to the coronavirus lasts at least 8 months after infection, study says

April 06, 2021 -

"There was a lot of concern originally that this virus might not induce much memory," Shane Crotty, an infectious disease professor at the University of California, San Diego and one of the study researchers, told MIT Review. "Instead, the immune memory looks quite good."How survivors develop long-term immunity to coronavirus

According to the National Institutes of Health, the immune system remembers a virus after a person gets infected with it. Immune cells and proteins ...

Study on coronavirus mouth infection may explain patients’ loss of taste

January 05, 2021 -

Now, an international team of scientists has discovered mouth cells infected with the coronavirus that may explain the loss of taste. Their findings were posted in the preprint server medRxiv.The mouth an important route of infection

The researchers examined ribonucleic acid (RNA), a complex molecule carrying instructions for controlling the synthesis of proteins, for different cell types in the mouth to identify which mouth tissues are most vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2, ...

Amazing aquatic life: Blue-banded sea snakes “breathe” through their heads

August 26, 2020 -

Blue-banded sea snakes (Hydrophis cyanocinctus) are aquatic reptiles that can reach up to around 5 feet or 1.5 meters in length. Endemic to the tropical waters near the coasts and coral reefs of Southeast Asia, they are known for their paddle-like tails and for preying on small crustaceans and fish.

According to lead researcher Alessandro Palci, a biologist at Flinders University, blue-banded sea snakes can actually breathe underwater for a limited time by using a network ...

If you’ve ever had a cold, your immune system may already know how to fight COVID-19

August 14, 2020 -

Since the common cold is a type of coronavirus, bearing many of the same features and attributes as the novel coronavirus, experts say that many people's immune systems have already been "trained" to ward off infection without the need for pharmaceutical drugs or vaccines.

"Your immune system's 'memory' T cells keep track of the viruses they have seen before," researchers at LJI explain. "This immune cell memory gives the cells a head start in recognizing and fighting ...

Scientists use cheap plastic lenses to make solar-powered desalination systems more effective

March 13, 2020 -

This is according to researchers from Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP), who found that by concentrating sunlight into “hotspots” using lenses, they could boost the efficiency of solar-powered membrane distillation desalination systems by more than 50 percent.

“The typical way to boost performance in solar-driven systems is to add solar concentrators and bring in more light,” Pratiksha Dongare, a graduate student in applied physics at Rice’s Brown School ...

Here’s why you should also look at the quality of air indoors

May 10, 2018 -

In this information age, society and business are dependent on technology, which means that most of us spend a good chunk of our time indoors. The air quality of the environment where we live and work directly impacts our health.Pollutants, even in the air inside

Alessandro Miani, head of the non-profit Italian Society for Environmental Medicine (SIMA), warned that ironically, indoor air could be more dangerous to our health than outdoor air. Miani said that aside from the ...

KILLER BILL: Brazil’s “Poison Package” Pesticides Act now on its way to Senate, vastly increasing the spraying of toxic pesticides on foods

April 07, 2022 -

The bill would allow the release of carcinogenic pesticides, giving greater power to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA) to open an "industry" of temporary registrations for pesticides away from the prying eyes of health and environmental authorities.

So far, Brazil's Senate has not yet approved the bill – and the Brazilian civil society has mobilized to keep it that way.

The Poison Package moves forward in the context of record increases ...

Coronavirus harms the brain and nervous system of one in three patients

April 19, 2020 -

Coronavirus-related neurological ailments have been reported before

Around the world, neurologists had observed that some coronavirus patients were developing serious impairments of the brain. In early March, a 74-year-old man was brought into the emergency room in Boca Raton, Florida, twice after he had a fever and trouble breathing. During his second visit, the man had somehow lost the ability to speak and couldn't tell doctors what was wrong with him or even just his name. ...

Study: People who have recovered from coronavirus retain durable immunity to the disease

August 03, 2021 -

Rafi Ahmed, the lead author of the paper, said that the findings disproved early reports during the pandemic that protective neutralizing antibodies did not last in COVID-19 patients.

"The study serves as a framework to define and predict long-lived immunity to SARS-CoV-2 after natural infection. We also saw indications in this phase that natural immunity could continue to persist," Ahmed said. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19.

After people recover ...

Neurologist explains why vaccinated people are still contracting and spreading COVID-19 at a high rate

September 10, 2021 -

Segal wrote that the vaccines only stimulate internal immunity but do nothing to address mucosal immunity. Internal immunity protects the inside of the body while mucosal immunity provides the first line of defense by protecting the nose and mouth, and by doing so also reduces spread to others.

He said that all COVID-19 vaccines "are largely ineffective at stimulating the secretion of a particular form of antibodies called Immunoglobulin A (IgA) into our noses that ...

CIA rebrands as woke leftists and champions of diversity

January 11, 2021 -

(Article by Chris Menahan republished from InformationLiberation.com)

From the AP:

The days of all American spies being white male graduates from Ivy League schools are long gone. The CIA director is a woman and women head all five of the agency’s branches, including the directorates of science and technology, operations and digital innovation.

[...] "We've come a long way since I applied by simply mailing a letter marked 'CIA, Washington, D.C.,'" said ...

Natural immunity and COVID-19: Thirty scientific studies to share with employers, health officials, and politicians

October 19, 2021 -

(Article republished from Brownstone.org)

Even now, there is an absence of open discussion, presumably in the interests of promoting universal vaccination and required documentation of such vaccination as a condition of participating in public life and even the jobs marketplace. Still, the science exists. Many studies exist. Their authors deserve credit, recognition, and to have their voices heard.

These studies demonstrate what was and is already known: natural ...