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Key lessons of Covid are being forgotten UK scientists warn
The government promised to learn from the #pandemic but appears to be suffering from #Covid amnesia, forgetting devastating cost of an underfunded #health service & public services cut to the bone
There's no evidence the health service would be any better prepared today should another #lethal #virus appear in the near future, scientists said.
U.S. Army Orders Switchblade Loitering Munitions for $288M
Third delivery part of a $990M contract
https://defensemirror.com/news/38753/U_S__Army_Orders_Switchblade_Loitering_Munitions_for__288M
#AeroVironment #Switchblade #loitering #munitionsystems #USArmy #Lethal #UnmannedSystems #contract #CommandAberdeenProvingGround @AeroVironment #Ukraine @Mistral #GOLAMIImunitions
U.S. Army Orders Switchblade Loitering Munitions for $288M
Third delivery part of a $990M contract
https://defensemirror.com/news/38753/U_S__Army_Orders_Switchblade_Loitering_Munitions_for__288M
#AeroVironment #Switchblade #loitering #munitionsystems #USArmy #Lethal #UnmannedSystems #contract #CommandAberdeenProvingGround @AeroVironment #Ukraine @Mistral #GOLAMIImunitions
Soon, the tech behind #ChatGPT may help #drone operators decide which enemies to kill - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/12/openai-and-anduril-team-up-to-build-ai-powered-drone-defense-systems/ " OpenAI and Palmer Luckey's weapons company sign agreement to explore #lethal drone defense for military use." not problematic at all...
*We have a similar longtime movement in #BritishColumbia for same government approved aerial herbicide toxic spraying issue #StopTheSprayBC *
#FirstNations and #environmentalists have denounced the practice of aerial #herbicide spraying on #forestlands for decades. This year, #Indigenous groups in Northern #Ontario have announced a ban on blanket herbicide use, while in #NovaScotia, residents have resorted to peaceful #DirectAction to enforce their own ban.
The #ForestIndustry routinely dumps tons of chemicals like #glyphosate, the main ingredient in #Roundup weedkiller, on logged areas to kill off naturally-regenerated trees and shrubs in favour of commercial #TreeFarms. The problem is, these herbicides are #lethal to frogs, lizards, and salamanders. They wipe out #MedicinalPlants and berry bushes that Indigenous people and #wildlife rely on. Glyphosate, a suspected #carcinogen, #contaminates #rivers and #groundwater far and wide through indiscriminate spraying.
Considering a Legally Binding Instrument on Autonomous Weapons | Lawfare https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/considering-a-legally-binding-instrument-on-autonomous-weapons #KillerRobots #Lethal AutonomousWeaponsSystems #LAWS
A #human isolate of #bovine #H5N1 is #transmissible and #lethal in animal #models
Source: Nature, AbstractThe outbreak of clade 2.3.4.4b highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses of the H5N1 subtype (HPAI H5N1) in dairy cows in the US has so far resulted in spillover infections of at least thirteen farm workers1-3, who presented with mild respiratory symptoms or conjunctivitis, and one individual with no known animal exposure who was hospitalized but recovered3,4.
#Bovine #H5N1 #influenza from infected #worker transmissible and #lethal in animal #models
Source: US National Institute of Health, WhatA highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus, isolated from the eye of a farm worker who became infected through contact with dairy cows, was lethal in mice and ferrets infected in a high-containment laboratory environment, according to a new study in Nature. The study investigators also found that the…
#Gaza: #Palestinians are dying amid #lethal #evacuation delays https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2024/10/1156121
#Children and disabled people are facing ever more #horrific conditions in war-torn Gaza, with some dying as they wait for medical evacuations, UN officials and rights experts said on Friday.
A #measles virus collective infectious unit that caused #lethal #human #brain disease includes many locally restricted and few widespread copy-back defective genomes
Source: Journal of Virology, ABSTRACTDuring virus replication in cultured cells, copy-back defective viral genomes (cbDVGs) can arise. CbDVGs are powerful inducers of innate immune responses in vitro, but their occurrence and impact on natural infections of human hosts remain poorly defined. We asked…
#Banks and financial institutions profiting from #weapons
By Clare Carlile
Friday 7th of April 2023
High street banks are funding some of the world’s most notorious #ArmsCompanies. We look at which banks are involved and what consumers can do. We also look at the wider financial industry and its links with #NuclearWeapons in particular.
How are banks financing the arms industry?
"Banks are behind almost every industry in the world, through their loans, insurance and other kinds of financing, including the arms industry.
"By funding arms companies, banks allow them to grow and innovate – developing new forms of #lethal weapons.
"In fact, banks are behind companies involved in the very worst forms of arms, such as nuclear weapons and #ClusterMunitions, despite the latter being banned by 120 countries.
"Unsurprisingly, arms companies are not generally picky about who they sell weapons to. This means that if a bank is funding an arms company, it may well be one that is selling to oppressive regimes.
Which banks are involved in financing arms companies?
"Unfortunately, many banks still finance arms companies.
"While some have said they will not fund the most destructive weapons, lots fall far short of refusing funding to arms companies altogether. And it is not just banks that are involved in the global arms trade. Lots of other financial institutions, such as investors, are also involved.
"Over three quarters of the brands included in our ethical current accounts guide lost half a mark under Arms & Military supply for their investments. This included all the five major high street banks: #Barclays, #HSBC, #Lloyds, #NatWest and #Santander.
"Banks such as Barclays, Lloyds, NatWest, Santander and #Citigroup, and other financial institutions such as #Aviva and #OldMutual have been named in relation to funding cluster munitions, nuclear weapons on the sale of arms to #Yemen.
What weapons are banks funding?
Banks funding cluster munitions
“Cluster munitions are indiscriminate weapons that pose a serious threat to civilian populations during and long after an attack. They spread dozens, or even hundreds, of bomblets called submunitions over an area the size of a football stadium or even more. On impact cluster munitions kill or maim anyone that is in that area. Also, many submunitions fail to explode on impact: they remain on the ground like landmines that kill and injure civilians long after the conflict has ended.'
"120 countries have signed a Convention that that bans the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of #ClusterBombs.
"Yet, in 2018, the Cluster Munition Coalition found that financial institutions had invested almost $9 billion in companies producing cluster munitions. Citigroup and Old Mutual were both found to invest in companies involved.
"Amongst the banks named in the report, Triodos, Co-operative Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland were all praised for having divestment policies in place.
"However, Aviva, Axa, Deutsche Bank, Edentree Investment Management, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered were all found to have incomplete policies in place."
What #KamalaHarris Meant by “Most #Lethal Fighting Force” in Her #DNC Speech
https://theintercept.com/2024/08/27/kamala-harris-dnc-military-lethal
The #Pentagon #buzzword can apply to anything from #missiles to pepperoni #pizzas inside the #military — while papering over the #corpses that “lethality” produces.
“#natural #processes and #geographical #features of the #Aegean #archipelago — #currents, #waves, #winds and #uninhabited #rocks — carry out the #expulsion, #distancing the #perpetrators from the #impact of their #lethal #actions.” Good job #Greece /sar #refugees #AsylumIsNotACrime #asylum #refugee
https://theintercept.com/2024/07/09/asylum-rights-greece/
Spontaneous #Lethal #Outbreak of #Influenza A Virus #Infection in Vaccinated #Sows on Two #Farms Suggesting the Occurrence of Vaccine-Associated Enhanced Respiratory Disease with Eosinophilic Lung Pathology https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16/6/955
In conclusion, our findings in the lungs of IAV-infected vaccinated sows suggest the presence of so far unreported field cases of vaccine-associated enhanced respiratory disease.