Are music festivals poisoning rivers?

Are music festivals poisoning rivers? Experts discover spike in ecstasy and ketamine after public event that could affect aquatic life.

As reported in the journal Environmental Research, scientists at Bangor University in Wales collected water from the Whitelake River in Somerset following the UK’s Glastonbury Festival 2019 and found worrying levels of both MDMA and cocaine. The researchers tested the river upstream and downstream of the festival site in the weeks before, during, and after the festival. Traces of the drugs were found to be significantly highest during the weekend after the festival in the Whitelake site, downstream of the festival.

MDMA was detected at “environmentally damaging levels,” according to the paper, while levels of cocaine were high enough to impact the local population of European eel, a dwindling species that’s critically endangered and at high risk of extinction. Unfortunately for the eels, cocaine doesn’t provide much of a buzz. Instead, as previous studies have shown, it can result in muscle damage and disrupts their complex lifecycle.

Scientists from Taiwan spotted a spike in the levels of a range of contaminants such as such as ecstasy and ketamine in rivers that flowed in Kenting National Park – home to the annual Spring Scream event. 

The experts said that not only does this highlight drug abuse at the concert, but that the drugs may also be having an effect on aquatic life in the region.

Wastewater treatment plants are not set up to remove them efficiently, so they often end up in soil and water. The scientists conclude that drug abuse and its environmental effects are a growing concern.

The findings are published in the ACS journal Environmental Science and Technology.

In a separate study, tests on water collected from indoor swimming pools in the US revealed evidence that everyday pharmaceuticals, such as makeup, could be reacting in a harmful way with the chlorine in the pool.

The analysis found traces of chemicals typically found in skin care products, insect repellent and flame retardants, all of which have the potential to be ingested by swimmers. Previous research has shown that elements of urine including urea, uric acid, and amino acids, interact with chlorine to produce potentially hazardous disinfection by-products in swimming pools.

recall: Cancer-Causing Chemical Found In Dozens Of Brands Of Deodorants.

Body spray recall: What the finding of a cancer-causing chemical means for you.

Benzene, a known cancer-causing chemical, was found in over half of 108 batches of antiperspirant and deodorant body sprays from 30 different brands, according to a citizen’s petition filed this month with the US Food and Drug Administration.

“Exposure to benzene can occur by inhalation, orally, and through the skin and it can result in cancers, including leukemia and blood cancer of the bone marrow and blood disorders which can be life-threatening,” the recall notice said from Procter & Gamble Co.

The Food and Drug Administration classifies benzene as a “Class 1 solvent” and warns that it “should not be employed in the manufacture of drug substances, excipients, and drug products because of their unacceptable toxicity,” However, the FDA does have an emergency exemption for some products and allows them to contain two parts per million of the chemical.

Unlike Proctor & Gamble, No recalls have been issued for other products identified as having trace amounts of benzene, including Tag, Sure, Equate, Suave, Right Guard, and Brut. They all had levels of benzene above the 2 ppm limit set by the FDA.

P&G (PG) wants people who purchased the affected products — which were sold in stores across the United States, as well as online — to throw them away, and the company is offering full refunds. Customers can fill out an online form or contact a hotline at 888-339-7689 Monday through Friday from 9 am to 6 pm ET.

Retailers have been told to remove the products from shelves.

The recall includes the following products with an expiration date before September 2023:

• Old Spice High Endurance AP Spray Pure Sport
• Old Spice Hardest Working Collection Invisible Spray Stronger Swagger
• Old Spice Hardest Working Collection Invisible Spray Pure Sport Plus
• Old Spice Hardest Working Collection Invisible Spray Stronger Swagger
• Old Spice Hardest Working Collection Invisible Spray Ultimate Captain
• Old Spice Below Deck Powder Spray Unscented
• Old Spice Below Deck Powder Spray Fresh Air
• Secret Aerosol Powder Fresh Twin Pack
• Secret Aerosol Powder Fresh
• Secret Aerosol Powder Fresh
• Secret Fresh Collection Invisible Spray Waterlily
• Secret Fresh Collection Invisible Spray Lavender
• Secret Fresh Collection Invisible Spray Light Essentials
• Secret Fresh Collection Invisible Spray Rose
• Secret Outlast Invisible Spray Completely Clean
• Secret Outlast Invisible Spray Protecting Powder
• Old Spice Pure Sport 2021 Gift Set

Personal Data on 1.5 Billion Facebook Users Hacked.

https://ww1.5 Billion Facebook Users’ Personal Information Allegedly Posted for Sale.

The global Facebook outage experienced on 4 October 2021 is claimed by some to be a cover for a massive hack on the FB servers. (Again.) The private and personal information of over 1.5 billion Facebook users is allegedly being sold on a popular hacking-related forum, potentially enabling cybercriminals and unscrupulous advertisers to target Internet users globally.

If authentic, this may constitute one of the biggest and most significant Facebook data dump to date. It is seemingly unrelated to an earlier 2021 Facebook data dump, where 500 million users were affected.

According to the forum poster, the data provided contains the following personal information of Facebook users:

• Name
• Email
• Location
• Gender
• Phone number
• User ID

Samples shared by the user appear to have been authentic, according to Privacy Affairs. The outlet also checked the information against previous leaks and found that alleged info was a legitimately new leak, not old data being resold. The hacker claimed to be in charge of a four-year-old data scraping operation with 18,000 clients.

“We’re investigating this claim and have sent a takedown request to the forum that’s advertising the alleged data,” Jason Grosse, a Facebook company spokesperson, told Newsweek in a statement.

Grosse also directed Newsweek to other reports highlighting the probability that the “leak” was actually a scam.

Man Throws His Penis Out of Car While Fleeing Police.

September 3, 2021

Man cuts off penis and throws it out car window during police chase.

Tyson Gilbert, 39, of Cookeville, Tennessee, was parked on a Tennessee highway and had blocked traffic – and when police arrived and attempted to pull him over, he ultimately sped away.

Officers ultimately ended up pursuing Gilbert across two counties, from Dowelltown to Lebanon. Somewhere along the way, he managed to cut off his own penis. At one point during the chase, he turned onto a side road and opened his car door, He was naked and covered in blood. He then shut his door and kept driving.

Police eventually slowed him down with spike strips This disabled the left front tire. Yet again, Gilbert refused to stop for law enforcement as he drove at slow speeds westbound. Law enforcement then boxed in the vehicle being driven by Gilbert and forced him to stop.

Gilbert said that he severed his own penis because he had been instructed to do so by voices coming from the radio, according to officers, as reported by local media. The voices, he explained, told him he needed to do so in order to save the world.

Gilbert had previously been arrested and charged with several offences in Cookeville, and spent time at Putnam County Jail in 2017.

He was taken to nearby Vanderbilt Hospital for treatment.

The investigation into the incident is ongoing.

Police chase ends at McDonalds’ drive-thru.

July 07, 2021 Worcester, Massachusetts.

Around 8:45 a.m. police got a 911 call about a stolen pick-up truck in the eastern part of the city, reported ABC News. The man that made the 911 call told officers that a woman, whom he said he didn’t know, climbed into his car and drove away. He said his pick-up truck had GPS and he could see its location.

Johanna Gardell, 38, was identified as the person accused of stealing the truck and officers said they found her in the stolen truck a few blocks away. As officers made their way to the area of the stolen truck, they were flagged down by another driver who said their car had been hit by the truck minutes before, police said.

“The officer activated his blue lights, got out of his cruiser, and approached the stolen vehicle,” said the Worcester Police Department said in a statement on Tuesday. “The operator … drove away as the officer walked toward her. The officer got back into his cruiser and followed her at a low rate of speed, but she did not stop. Ms. Gardell began to increase her speed on Main St and drove through red lights. The officer deactivated his lights and sirens and stopped following her for safety reasons.”

The woman allegedly crossed into the wrong lane and oncoming traffic, hitting a van, officers said. “She backed up the vehicle at a high rate of speed and struck a cruiser behind her, and knocked down and dragged one of the detail officers.”

Gardell allegedly pulled into the drive-thru at a nearby McDonald’s to try and order food but officers found her and tried to arrest her. Officers approached her in two vehicles but she intentionally struck one before veering off the road and getting the stolen pick-up truck stuck in a pile of mulch that was on the McDonald’s property, police said.

Officers were then able to pull Gardell out of the vehicle as she fought and struggled with them during the arrest, according to police.

Gardell is facing a litany of charges including failure to stop for police, leaving the scene of an accident with personal injury, assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon malicious mischief to motor vehicle, disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct and use of motor vehicle without authority, among several others.

sex with kangaroo is not cheating.

Australian judge rules in favor of husband in divorce settlement “sex with kangaroo is not cheating.”

Judge Andrew Reynolds settled the dispute this week between a divorced couple after the former wife believed she was entitled to a larger property settlement after disclosing pictures of her ex-husband partaking in sexual activities with their domestic kangaroo.

Alan Montgomery, 59, admitted to the affair with their 12-year-old domestic kangaroo but defended himself by claiming it was a “100% consensual” relationship. “I was very lonely and depressed. I was at a low point in my life and Snuffles was there for me in those difficult times,” Alan Montgomery admitted in court. “I was drunk and I guess Snuffles was horny and eventually, one thing led to another and we just indulged in the moment,”

In 2016, a similar court case occurred when a wife sued her husband after he had allegedly infected her with chlamydia that he had contracted during a sexual relationship with a koala.

Trio of rioters arrested for breaking into sperm bank.

Trio of rioters arrested for breaking into sperm bank and stealing hundreds of samples.

Latifah White, 29, Ivory Pepper, 31, and Yve Peach, 28, of Minneapolis were arrested yesterday after video surveillance cameras caught images of the three suspects breaking into the local fertility clinic. “It is believed that the three suspects were intoxicated and under the influence of alcohol and crystal meth and may have fled the crime scene with hundreds of samples.” according to authorities.

Officer Darnell Williams of the Minneapolis Police Department described to reporters during a press conference the disturbing images caught by surveillance cameras showing the intoxicated suspects allegedly inseminating themselves and even drinking several specimens of sperm.

Lewis Thomson, the attorney representing the three women, told reporters that his clients were upset with the present climate of racism in America and did this to honor the memory of George Floyd.

Legal experts believe that the three suspects could face charges of third-degree burglary as well as first-degree murder for destroying hundreds of specimens of living sperm and could each face up to 1,037 years in jail.

The Church Is Seized.

‘Police State’: Cops Swarm ANOTHER Canadian Church for COVID Defiance and the Woke Crowd Cheers

Church Responds as Police Barricade Sanctuary While Pastor Awaits Trial for Breaking COVID Orders

200 Armed Police Officers Are Deployed To Canadian Church After Christians Allegedly Take Down Fence Put Up By The Government

Jailed Canadian Pastor’s Church Now Barricaded With Eight-foot Fencing; Neighbors Rejoice

At dawn on a Wednesday morning, April 7, in Edmonton, Alberta – in an area that looks like it’s the middle of a prairie – Alberta Health Services police and cops with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) swarmed the GraceLife Church to cut off the building from its parishioners. In one video, the RCMP is seen setting up the barriers, while nearby a visibly emotional Pastor Coates appears to be wiping away tears. Several parishioners and local residents gathered at the scene in support, some carrying signs and Charter Rights, as the authorities guarded the site to block anyone from entering the facility.

Police and crews arrived at oh-dark-30 to erect fencing around the church property to send a message that the church would not be able to worship on site until the government gave permission.

The church’s pastor was previously jailed for 35 days for defying shut-down orders. Rebel News reported that Pastor James Coates turned himself in to the “maximum security” lock-up in February for defying the COVID shutdown of churches for a “crime” that wasn’t even punishable by prison time.

After receiving AHS’s closure order back in January, Coates continued to preach on Sundays. “We have met for 37 Sundays in a row without a single COVID case, let alone a breakout, and so we are exposing the reality, not only that these lockdown measures are unjust but that they are harmful and unnecessary,” said Coates.

Ezra Levant, the founder of Rebel News, noted the obvious “police state” tactics of locking people people out of church. “The government is embarrassed at this point in time,” Coates told Rebel News reporter Sheila Gunn Reid on April 8. “We are a black eye on our government because we continue to meet. I think the closing of our facility is necessary in order to prevent any further embarrassment to the government.”

Lot more to read on each linked site.

Biden’s Chinese Secretes.

Biden Tells States Their Input on Refugee Resettlement is No Longer Welcome.

On the same day he issued an executive order to sharply increase refugee & Illegal alien admissions to the U.S., President Joe Biden moved to block state and local governments from having a say about settlements in their communities. Revoking a Trump administration consent policy, Biden gave federal officials 90 days to recommend future refugee resettlement protocols. It is unlikely that states will have much of a voice going forward.

While several states subsequently opted back into the refugee program, Texas — a leader in resettlement for several years – announced it would remain on the sidelines. Gov. Greg Abbott said the state and nonprofit organizations should concentrate their resources on people already in Texas, including the state’s expanding homeless population.

However the local-federal tussle turns out, no state can stop refugees from moving in once they’ve landed on U.S. shores. Citing a hypothetical example, Voice of America noted, “If a refugee family would rather be in Florida instead of their assigned destination in Arizona, the state cannot object to the family’s moving there, but the family may forgo services that would have been provided to them in Arizona.”

Whatever administrative window dressing Biden might apply, his radical increase in refugee / illegal alien admissions, while at the same time inviting people to abuse our political asylum process, keeps states in a subservient position as he decides, via executive order, what is “in the national interest.”