The Financial Times reports that declining birthrates are correlated with smartphone use. It isn’t because couples are having fewer children, they say; It is because there are fewer couples to begin with.
So put your phone down and go flirt with someone in person like it’s 1997. Humanity depends on it!
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Lead: Ebola Fear Is Back on the Menu
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Is it time to panic about Ebola? The BBC says that the World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak a “global health emergency.”
That’s a lie. The WHO has only designated the specific outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo “a public health emergency of international concern.” The organization clarified that the outbreak “does not meet the criteria of pandemic emergency.”
This is due to only 8 confirmed cases. Eight. The WHO cites “246 suspected cases and 80 suspected deaths.” Suspected?
But the US has restricted travel to Africa. The CDC invoked Title 42, which is a public health law that restricts entry into the US during outbreaks of communicable diseases for at least 30 days starting Monday.
Incidentally, the FDA approved an Ebola antibody treatment for Ebola in 2020. There is also an Ebola vaccine but authorities say that it does not address the strain of the current outbreak. How do they know that from only 8 confirmed cases?
That certainty is interesting. During Covid, the public was repeatedly assured that each new vaccine rollout would be effective against future strains long before real-world data existed to prove it. Now the public health establishment is confidently telling us that the existing Ebola vaccine is not effective against the current strain, again without meaningful real-world evidence to support the claim.
It is worth noting that the last time the WHO managed an Ebola outbreak in Congo, their doctors and staff entrapped women as sex slaves and paid them a $250 apology. So this is the organization that is once again in Congo managing an outbreak.
You might think that the Kars4Kids charity is a donation for underprivileged kids. It’s not. It exists to fund a Jewish non-profit group called Oorah that organizes Jewish summer camps and gap year trips to Israel for teenagers.
The court ruling came after a California man donated his Volvo thinking he was helping unfortunate children in California.
Esti Landau, COO of Kars4Kids, told the court that “the primary function of Kars4Kids is to fund Oorah, an organization dedicated to Jewish heritage and summer camps in New York and New Jersey” and that “while 25% of revenue is derived from California, Kars4Kids has no functional programs in California beyond a ‘backpack giveaway.'”
Kars4Kids showed IRS forms showing that in 2022 Kars4Kids maintained $199 million in set-aside assets, $34 million in liquid assets and spent $16.5 million to purchase a building in Israel with the purpose of growing “the Israel program.”
According to court documents, “Ms. Landau explicitly testified that the organization’s primary purpose is not to help economically disadvantaged children.” She admitted that even though the organization exists to help “Jewish kids and families throughout their lives,” consumers wouldn’t know unless they visit the website.
The court ruled that the organization was guilty of “fraudulent omissions.”
“The message that the charity helps “needy” children is not “inherently vague.” In the context of a charitable appeal, “needy” implies socio-economic disadvantage. Using funds for “gap year” trips to Israel for 17-18-year-olds or a $16.5 million real estate acquisition contradicts the “needy child” persona cultivated by the ad.”
In essence, Kars4Jews to go to summer camp doesn’t have the same emotional appeal.
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News By the Numbers
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20 acres. That is the size of the burial mound of a massive ancient tomb that researchers say may be linked to Alexander the Great. Photos of the excavation were released by the Greek Ministry of Culture last week.
326. That is how many days the USS Gerald R. Ford was at sea, making it the longest deployment in half a century. The ship returned home with 4,500 crew members last weekend, raising questions about the military’s ability to maintain both equipment and morale during the war in Iran.
160 feet. That is how deep a group of scuba divers were aiming to go in the Maldives when they died during their dive last week. The group was on a shark cave dive, which is considered more dangerous than ordinary recreational diving, and aiming to dive deeper than the maximum depth for recreational diving in the Maldives, which is around 100 feet. Dives that deep, especially cave dives, typically require specialized training, gas mixtures, and/or technical diving equipment.
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