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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos invests $1 billion to DESTROY FARMING

22 days ago -

This investment came in the form of the Bezos Earth Fund's (BEF) $1 billion commitment to "food transformation." BEF Vice Chair Lauren Sanchez, also the tech bigwig's current partner, announced an initial $60 million commitment to establish Bezos Centers for Sustainable Protein (BCSPs) as part of the bigger endowment.

She announced this endeavor during the second day of the Aspen Ideas Climate Conference, held from March 11 to 13 in Miami. Sanchez's 10-minute speech on March ...

Biden Administration implements new regulations totaling $1 billion in early 2024

January 09, 2024 -

(Article republished from YourNews.com)The Biden administration, in the first week of 2024, rolled out new regulations with an estimated cumulative cost of $1 billion to the American economy. This figure was reported by the American Action Forum (AAF), which stated that the administration finalized 38 new rules and proposed 19 additional ones between January 2 and January 5. These regulatory actions are projected to impose a combined $1.1 billion in costs and add approximately ...

CDC study: Nearly 1 in 5 American adults diagnosed with DEPRESSION

June 26, 2023 -

CDC researchers looked at the agency's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to analyze how adults answered a 2020 survey about whether they've been diagnosed with a depressive disorder by a health professional — and nearly 400,000 respondents in all 50 states and Washington D.C. responded to the question on depression.

The study published in the CDC's June 16 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) noted that in 2020, 18.4 percent of U.S. adults reported having ...

Report: Biden admin granted UNRWA more than $1 BILLION before funding suspension

February 01, 2024 -

President Joe Biden restored funding to UNRWA in 2021 after former President Donald Trump stopped funding for the UN agency in charge of relief for the Gaza Strip during his term.

"The Biden administration's decision to restore funding to UNRWA in 2021 was based on the belief that the Trump administration's suspension had adversely affected the Palestinian population," reported YourNews.

Based on the UNRWA's donor charts, the Biden administration contributed ...

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un deems South Korea Pyongyang’s ENEMY NO. 1

January 18, 2024 -

In a Jan. 15 speech, Jong Un said he concluded that peaceful reunification was no longer possible. He added that Pyongyang would scrub any reference to South Koreans as fellow countrymen or partners for reconciliation. Instead, North Korea's constitution would deem the South as a foreign country and a hostile state – one that should be occupied, subjugated and reclaimed in the event of war.

The third-generation leader also accused Seoul of seeking the collapse of the ...

Germany passes impossible “green” heating legislation that will cost economy $1 TRILLION

September 13, 2023 -

The scheme, known as the Building Energy Act (GEG), is extremely expensive, estimated to cost the German economy more than $1 trillion over the next two decades.

As politicians celebrated the law's passage, ordinary Germans, many of whom are having trouble making ends meet with skyrocketing inflation and an ever-slowing economy, lamented the mandate. Most Germans are opposed to the new law, according to polling, but it was passed regardless.

Germans says their ...

VAERS data shows 1 in 1,000 covid jab recipients is now DEAD

August 09, 2023 -

In about 30 seconds, investigator Steve Kirsch was able to query VAERS and determine based on the "onset curve" that at least 676,000 Americans have died from Fauci Flu shots. This translates to one death per 1,000 doses of injection given.

This estimate takes into account the fact that some of the vaccines had a double initial dose while others were single dose. No matter how you look at it, these things are far deadlier than anyone is being told, except by people like ...

Rebuilding Francis Scott Key Bridge could cost $1 billion and take 10 years

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This is more than double the cost and time of the bridge’s original construction, which took five years and cost around $200 million (adjusted for inflation). Engineers say that there are a number of factors that can influence the cost and timeline of the project that are still unknown. These include everything from how the new bridge is designed to the amount of time it takes to approve the permits needed for construction.

Johns Hopkins University engineering professor Ben ...

Texas seeks more than $1 BILLION from Planned Parenthood for fraudulent Medicaid claims

August 23, 2023 -

Although abortion has been heavily restricted in Texas following the overturning of Roe v. Wade last year, this particular lawsuit is focused on money it took from the Medicaid system while it was not officially considered a “qualified” care provider.

Texas has asked a federal judge to fine the company more than $1 billion for thousands of Medicaid claims that it believes were fraudulent over a span of several years.

After considering fines, penalties and interests, ...

French rioters have burned 5,600 vehicles and 1,000 buildings in just 1 week

July 05, 2023 -

The numbers come from the Ministry of the Interior, which has been tallying the damage caused to individuals and property in six nights of riots. The violence erupted after a police officer shot a French teenager of Algerian descent to death in a suburb of Paris during a traffic stop.

Among the nearly 6,000 burned vehicles are personal cars, buses, trucks and trams. In one incident, vandals stole a large truck and used it to ram down the doors to a mall so that looters ...

SWIFT’s new central bank digital currency platform could be ready in 1-2 years

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They recently carried out a six-month trial that included 38 central banks, settlement platforms and commercial banks in what was one of the biggest global collaborations of its kind so far. The goal was to see whether the CBDCs of different countries could be used together despite being built on different protocols and underlying technologies.

They found that it will be feasible to use different CBDCs for highly complex trade and foreign exchange payments. Instead of needing ...

April Fool’s? Calling a male person a “man” ILLEGAL in Scotland starting April 1

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Said bill was passed three years ago, but will only just now come into effect on April 1, 2024, also known as April Fool's Day. Because of the bill's ridiculous implications, many are wondering if it is some kind of April Fool's joke.

The bill appears to have been passed because of a "crime" committed by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, who was reported to the police in England for calling "trans woman" broadcaster India Willoughby, a biological male, a "man."

Because ...

COVID-19 mask mandates RETURN in U.S. hospitals amid spread of JN.1 variant

January 03, 2024 -

Medical facilities in some East Coast states – Wisconsin, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and Delaware – have all reinstated face covering rules, mandating that people wear them in certain medical settings.

In one example, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (NYC Health + Hospitals) announced the return of mask mandates at its hospitals. "Due to an uptick in respiratory illnesses like COVID-19, flu & RSV in our communities & our hospital, we must return ...

Oil prices surge by more than $1 per barrel amid ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict

October 25, 2023 -

According to the Epoch Times, Brent crude futures have gained $1.23, pushing the price to $93.61 per barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude also followed suit, rising by the same amount to reach $90.60 per barrel. Both front-month contracts were poised to record their second consecutive weekly gain. Additionally, the December WTI contract showed an even more substantial increase, rising by $1.37 to reach $89.74 a barrel.

In line with these oil price hikes, ...

Mutilated de-transitioner from Texas SUES doctors for $1 million over coerced trans surgeries

July 30, 2023 -

Soren Aldaco, now 21, opted for a "gender transition" at the ripe age of 17. Despite her mental health conditions and the negative direction in which she was clearly headed, Aldaco was advised by her doctors, whom she describes more as "ideologues," to go ahead and cut off her body parts in order to become her "true" self.

Aldaco, who filed her suit last July 21 in the Tarrant County District Court of Texas, says these ideologue medical workers failed to take into account ...

State of insomnia: Study ranks California as the No. 1 most sleep-deprived state

July 27, 2023 -

Sleep experts from Amerisleep recently went on the hunt to find the most sleep-deprived states, reported Sleepopolis. Using the Google Keyword Planner, they compiled a list of 96 terms relating to sleeping disorders and sleep, analyzed them and calculated a monthly search volume per 100,000 residents in each state over the last year.

The study illustrated that people are searching for causes or symptoms of various sleep disorders, such as insomnia, sleep apnea and sleep ...

AI industry leaders: Mitigating risk of HUMAN EXTINCTION should be No. 1 global priority

June 02, 2023 -

More than 350 executives, researchers and engineers from leading AI laboratories have signed an open letter warning the world of the possible catastrophic effects of this technology. Signatories included Sam Altman of OpenAI, Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind and Anthropic's Dario Amodei. Renowned AI researchers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, who both received the Turing Award for their groundbreaking work on neural networks, have also affixed their names to the letter.

"Mitigating ...

NATO wants to give Ukraine 1 MILLION DRONES in 2024… but who will make them?

2 months ago -

Kyiv being given the drones for its war effort was the center of a Feb. 15 meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels, according to the Warzone. The ministers gathered in the Belgian capital to discuss defense investments and present a consolidated front for the alliance. Two NATO member nations, the U.K. and Latvia, will be responsible for the endeavor.

"A group of allies is coming together with the goal of delivering one million drones to Ukraine," said NATO Secretary-General ...

Annual interest on U.S. debt soars past $1 trillion for the first time in history

November 10, 2023 -

The estimation is calculated using data on the government’s monthly outstanding debt balance and average interest. The projected amount has doubled during the past 19 months.

This shocking figure comes as interest costs for the fiscal year that ended on September 30 totaled more than $879 billion, which equaled around 14 percent of the government’s overall total outlays.

In addition, the U.S., which already outspends every other country in the world when it comes ...

Alabama building a $1 billion, 4,000-bed prison – the most expensive prison in U.S. history

October 18, 2023 -

The Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority late last month approved a final price of $1.082 billion for the prison now under construction in Elmore County in east central Alabama.

This hefty price tag is set to devour most of the $1.25 billion that state lawmakers in 2021 initially set aside for the construction of two prisons each housing 4,000 inmates. The chairs of the General Funding committees in the State Senate and State House of Representatives said ...