Story in a flash:<ul><li>Novo Nordisk, the manufacturer of Ozempic and Wegovy, has become “Europe's most valuable listed company.”</li><li>Ozempic and Wegovy have helped some patients gain control over blood pressure and reduce weight, allowing them to enjoy life.</li><li>Many other patients have experienced serious life-altering side effects; many lawsuits have been filed claiming that Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, the manufacturer of Mounjaro, did not warn them about the drugs' risks.</li></ul>&nbsp;<h2>Novo Nordisk's profits go up as customers' weight goes down</h2>Are the new weight loss drugs, such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro, the miracle solution that will help millions of people achieve a healthier weight, improve their health, and enjoy life again? For the Danish company, Novo Nordisk, which makes Ozempic and Wegovy, they are a miracle solution — for greatly and rapidly increasing the company’s bottom line as they have become blockbuster drugs, <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/wegovy-the-weight-loss-drug-flying-off-the-shelves/ar-BB1i82DW" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">according</a> to BBC reporter Adrienne Murray:<blockquote>Such has been the rise in its global sales that its manufacturer, Danish drug-maker Novo Nordisk, last year became Europe's most valuable listed company.</blockquote>As Murray has shown in the graph below, the company’s profits are soaring.<h3><img src="https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1i89QC.img?w=768&amp;h=600&amp;m=6" alt="Wegovy, the weight-loss drug flying off the shelves"></h3><h3>&nbsp;</h3><h3>Can't keep up with demand</h3>To keep up with demand, Novo Nordisk’s parent company, Novo, will buy Catalent, a contract manufacturer in New Jersey, for $16.5 billion cash, as Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/02/05/wegovy-maker-inks-165-billion-deal-to-boost-supply-of-the-weight-loss-drug">reported</a>:<blockquote>Novo Holdings, the parent company of Danish pharma giant Novo Nordisk, agreed to buy New Jersey-based contract manufacturer Catalent for around $16.5 billion in cash.. . . The $63.50 per share purchase price represents a 16.5% premium to Friday's closing price, and a 39.1% premium to trading before Catalent's board announced a strategic review in late August.As part of the deal, Novo Nordisk will buy three&nbsp;of Catalent's fill-finish sites from Novo Holdings for $11 billion.</blockquote><h2>Has a diabetes drug become a weight loss miracle?</h2>Ozempic was originally developed as a drug to help type 2 diabetics lower their blood sugar and improve their health. It was discovered that weight loss was a “side effect” of the drug and it began being <a href="https://www.forbes.com/health/weight-loss/how-to-get-ozempic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">prescribed</a> for people with a BMI of at least 27 with weight-related health conditions or people with a BMI of 30 or more with/without health-related illnesses. Self-injected once a week, Ozempic is being prescribed off-label for weight loss, Wegovy is a higher dosage of semaglutide than Ozempic and is FDA-approved for weight loss. Mounjaro is a <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/fda-approves-diabetes-drug-zepbound-obese-patients-lose/story?id=104720127">similar</a> drug manufactured by Eli Lilly. Mounjaro’s active ingredient is tirzepatide which targets 2 hormones instead of just one hormone as Ozempic and Wegovy do. In addition to the drugs, diet and exercise are key components in weight loss.<figure class="image image-style-align-right image_resized" style="width:43.99%;"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/aflds/image/upload/v1708002298/Ozempic_aaad004f9f.jpg"></figure>Some people who have been taking it for Type 2 diabetes (TD2) and/or weight loss have been very happy with the results. Overweight individuals, including the morbidly obese, have found it life-giving. Seven people who’ve been on the drug for 1 ½ and 2/ ½ years, who NBC News Breaking Health reporter Aria Bendix <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/ozempic-what-its-like-to-take-for-years-rcna93921">located</a> and talked with agreed that while the medication helped them lose weight and/or lower their blood sugar, they still had to work to maintain those changes: &nbsp;<blockquote>All generally agreed that the medication was not a fast pass to good health. Although Ozempic has helped them either shed pounds, lower their blood sugar levels or both (reasons for taking the medication vary from person to person), maintaining those changes takes effort, they said.</blockquote>One person she spoke with was Edward Matias, 45, who had been on Ozempic for a year and seven months. He told Bendix that you can't just take the drug to lose weight and to continue eating as before. As a diabetic, despite his 80-pound weight loss, he still has to be careful about foods high in sugar or carbohydrates:<blockquote>“This isn’t a magic bullet or pill . . . “It’s not the fountain of youth. It takes work and commitment. If people are asking for this med because they want to lose weight and think they can eat anything at all, they’re in for a rude awakening.”Matias said that because of his diabetes, he still has to be careful about eating foods high in sugar or carbohydrates. But his weight has dropped from about 310 pounds to 230 while taking Ozempic, he said.&nbsp;</blockquote>According to most of the people Bendix interviewed, Ozempic isn’t a cure-all, or a magic bullet, as Matias described it. Instead, it helped them lose enough weight so that they could make lifestyle changes they previously couldn’t, such as exercising. One such individual is Barbie Jackson-Williams who weighed 400 pounds before starting Ozempic and is now 180 pounds lighter. &nbsp;<blockquote>Jackson-Williams said that losing weight has led her to feel more energetic and less inclined to be stationary.“I want to be active. I want to be doing stuff. I can’t sit and watch TV like I used to,” she said.Jackson-Williams credits her 180-pound weight loss to a combination of taking Ozempic and working out. She previously weighed more than 400 pounds, used an oxygen mask and slept in a recliner because she couldn’t breathe while lying flat.&nbsp;“Just walking out from my apartment to my mom’s car, I’d have to sit for 10 minutes just so I could catch my breath,” she said.Now, Jackson-Williams said, she walks around the track and uses the cross-trainer at the gym. Her blood sugar dropped to prediabetic levels and she no longer needs oxygen support.“I used to be dead from the waist down. Very dead. But I’m not now,” she said.</blockquote><h2>Lifetime prescription needed</h2>These weight-loss drugs must be taken for life to maintain the benefits. People who have gone off them have found that the weight has come back. Bendix noted that even people on these drugs have noticed weight creeping back up if they neglected their exercise routine or went off their diet.&nbsp;<h2>Weight loss drugs help offset weight gain caused by other drugs</h2>Ozempic and Wegovy are also being <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12707439/psychiatrists-prescribing-ozempic-weight-loss.html">prescribed</a> to a different patient population than the one it is generally approved for. To offset the adverse effects of other prescribed drugs, psychiatrists are prescribing these to patients whose weight has increased as a result of anti-depressants and antipsychotics, the UK's Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12707439/psychiatrists-prescribing-ozempic-weight-loss.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>. This is particularly astonishing since anecdotal, yet credible, evidence shows that drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are associated with an increased risk of suicide. Senior Health Reporter Cassidy Morrison reported that of the "13 leading mental health facilities nationwide, nearly half were recommending the diabetes drug-turned-fat-loss jab for their patients.”She also noted that suicidal ideation was an adverse effect reported by the manufacturer; people who had suicidal thoughts were not included in the study:<blockquote>Clinical trials for Wegovy and Ozempic, both versions of semaglutide but different dosages, screened for depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts or behavior, meaning all patients with those conditions were excluded.At the same time, Wegovy’s drug information label does include a small section that reads: ‘Suicidal behavior and ideation have been reported in clincal trials with other weight management products. Monitor patients treated with WEGOVY for the emergency and worsening of depression, suicidal thoughts or behavior, and/or any nusual changes in mood or behavior.’The label also said patients should immediately stop taking the medications if they being to experience these symptoms.</blockquote><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/aflds/image/upload/v1707999900/image_cff7c34649.png"></figure><h2>Many people cannot stay on Ozempic and Wegovy&nbsp;</h2><h3>Price</h3>The price tag is one reason why people may stop taking it, since at over $1,200 per month, this drug is ultimately unaffordable if insurance doesn’t cover the cost of the prescription, or greatly subsidizes it.<h3>Serious side effects</h3>Price is not the only reason why people may go off these drugs. There are also some common adverse effects of the drug such as diarrhea, constipation, vomiting, nausea, heartburn, and abdominal pain.&nbsp;Some of the adverse effects many find intolerable. Best Life reporter Lauren Gray <a href="https://bestlifeonline.com/ozempic-side-effects/">lists</a> seven of them:<ul style="list-style-type:disc;"><li>Gastrointestinal effects:</li></ul><blockquote>These often include nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, constipation, gassiness, excessive belching, bloating, and diarrhea. For some people, those side effects can become too much to bear.</blockquote><ul style="list-style-type:disc;"><li>Stomach paralysis, also called gastroparesis:</li></ul><blockquote>This past summer, two patients—Joanie Knight and Emily Wright—came forward to share their harrowing Ozempic horror stories with CNN. Both women told the outlet that they now suffer from the condition even after stopping their Ozempic regimen, leaving them to contend with unrelenting vomiting, pain, and stomachs that can no longer empty properly after eating."I wish I never touched it. I wish I'd never heard of it in my life," Knight told CNN. "This medicine made my life hell. So much hell. It has cost me money. It cost me a lot of stress; it cost me days and nights and trips with my family. It's cost me a lot, and it's not worth it. The price is too high," she warned.</blockquote><ul style="list-style-type:disc;"><li>Painful rash:</li></ul><blockquote>In rare instances, patients may also find that they are allergic to Ozempic. When this occurs, it can cause a painful rash on the skin.In fact, Maria. E. Rosas, MD, a professor in Texas, shared her own experience of developing serious dermatological symptoms in a Sept. 2023 article for Newsweek. Soon after being prescribed Ozempic to treat her type 2 diabetes, Rosas developed an "excruciating pain" that "never disappeared" in her back, shoulders, and arms.However, that wasn't the worst of it. "In August, a worse burning pain in my genital area and buttocks appeared," Rosas wrote. "I noticed 'pieces' of skin on my toilet seat and on the tissue paper when I cleaned the area. I checked, and my genitals, anus, and buttocks were severely burned, some areas with charred skin. . .</blockquote><ul style="list-style-type:disc;"><li>Skin aging:</li></ul><blockquote>Known as "Ozempic face," the skin changes associated with the medication seem to accelerate the signs of premature aging, including wrinkling and hollowing.</blockquote><ul style="list-style-type:disc;"><li>Eating disorders:</li></ul><blockquote>Weight loss drugs fundamentally change your relationship with food: While taking them, your cravings dissipate. While most people find that they revert to old habits and regain the weight after discontinuing Ozempic, others find it difficult to recalibrate and turn to disordered eating habits.</blockquote><ul style="list-style-type:disc;"><li>Blurred vision:</li></ul><blockquote>According to some patient reports, people taking Ozempic may also experience acute vision loss. . . .&nbsp;However, research has yet to confirm the anecdotal evidence suggesting vision loss as a side effect. "They [doctors] said there are probably more people out there with vision problems, but they're not correlating it with the Ozempic," [Pam} Peters [who experienced acute vision loss] said.</blockquote><ul style="list-style-type:disc;"><li>Gallbladder problems:</li></ul><blockquote>[S]ome patients have reported serious gallbladder problems while taking Ozempic, leading to a spike in emergency room visits, The New York Post reported in June 2023."When you don't eat for a long period of time or you lose weight quickly, your liver releases extra cholesterol into the bile. Fast weight loss can also prevent the gallbladder from emptying properly," the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) explains.. . . In some cases, this can result in hospitalization or even the surgical removal of the gallbladder.</blockquote>Many who have used these drugs have found the adverse effects, especially those associated with gastroparesis, so serious that many lawsuits have already been filed against Novo Nordisk, as Daily Mail reporter Lewis Pennock <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12952757/Ozempic-Novo-Nordisk-lawsuits-gastroparesis-stomach-paralysis.html?ico=related-replace">explained</a>:<blockquote>A woman who will suffer diarrhea for the rest of her life after using Ozempic is among dozens of patients who are suing the maker of the blockbuster weight loss drug over claims it left them with crippling stomach paralysis, a DailyMail.com investigation reveals.Novo Nordisk, the maker of Ozempic and Wegovy, is facing lawsuits from patients across America who say they experienced extreme side effects which they were allegedly not warned about.Thousands more patients have also come forward to claim they suffered adverse reactions to the drugs and attorneys say many more could join the growing legal campaign.Most of the patients claim they suffered from gastroparesis, which is the medical name for paralysis of the stomach. The condition, which can be life-threatening, causes a build-up of food in the gut and symptoms include nausea, vomiting and severe pain.DailyMail.com reviewed more than a dozen lawsuits filed since November by patients who were diagnosed with gastroparesis after using Ozempic and Wegovy, including some who suffered 'life-threatening' bowel injuries and face lifelong consequences.In all of the lawsuits, Novo Nordisk is accused of failing to properly warn about the risk of gastroparesis on the drugs' packaging.</blockquote>Pennock also reported that at least ten lawsuits have been filed against Eli Lilly for failing to properly warn about Mounjaro's risks.<h3>Thyroid cancer risk</h3>Dr. Chuck Dinnerstien, in an article for the American Council of Science and Health, <a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/11/18/ozempic-goes-way-label-16674" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">explained</a> that Ozempic also has a black-box warning, the most severe warning that the FDA has for a drug.<blockquote>Ozempic comes with a black box warning, the FDA’s highest safety warning, for the possible development of medullary thyroid cancer and multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2 (MEN-2). [2]&nbsp;</blockquote><a href="https://easyhealthoptions.com/wegovy-from-rebound-weight-to-that-black-box-warning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wegovy</a> and <a href="https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/drugs-mounjaro-side-effects" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mounjaro</a> also have black-box warnings.&nbsp;Check back with Frontline News to learn what is responsible for these adverse effects, the different causes of weight gain, and how some manage their weight without weight loss drugs.&nbsp;

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Adverse effects may have lifetime impact

Is weight loss with Ozempic and Wegovy worth the price?

<h2>Move over book burning, hello de-platforming?</h2>Closed out of your Facebook or Instagram account? Maybe your website suddenly disappeared, or your YouTube channel was demonetized or deleted? Perhaps you lost access to thousands of hours of posts and videos you produced, and your years of work were gone in an instant? That's de-platforming; the modern version of book burning, a “punishment” for going against the mainstream narrative. And, the censorship doesn't stop with social media, it includes PayPal accounts and more.<h3>Getting up again</h3>How do individuals who went afoul of the globalists, who didn't keep quiet and let others do their thinking for them, respond when they find themselves de-platformed by social media companies and other services? Here's what London Real's Brian Rose, Americas Frontline Doctor founder Dr. Simone Gold, and independent researcher James Roguski did to pick themselves up and continue their work despite the heavy-handed censorship they experienced.Brian RoseWhen London Real YouTuber Brian Rose publicly began trying to understand COVID-19 and its countermeasures, he soon found his entire life seemingly deleted from the internet by the social media giants.&nbsp;Not only did he lose all his years of work, amounting to thousands of videos which he had uploaded to the internet. He also lost access to his Paypal account, and more, because in his search for the truth about the pandemic; his counter-narrative interviews with David Icke were too dangerous for the globalists to allow. &nbsp;In his below documentary, Rose&nbsp;recounts his experiences and how he ultimately started a channel of his own. He explains that he was wholly unprepared for what happened on May 3, 2020, even though he knew that many would want to stop the interview (@about 3:36):<blockquote>Over the past few weeks, our entire world has been transformed. Everything we took for granted has now been taken away and our freedoms have been replaced with fear. All those rights we fought centuries for have been handed over without a second thought.&nbsp;We all process fear in different ways. I cope by immersing myself in my work and today my job is to ask questions. One million people will be watching and they all want answers.&nbsp;Countless others are trying to stop this from happening. At any moment they can walk through that door or lock this broadcast. I'm scared but I don't know what else to do. I prepared my whole life for a moment like This. But nothing would prepare me for what happened next. . .</blockquote>&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">WATCH THE MOVIE THAT YouTube DOES NOT Want YOU TO SEE (and SHARE IT Far And Wide ) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LondonReal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LondonReal</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeWillNotBeSilenced?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WeWillNotBeSilenced</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StopCensorship?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StopCensorship</a> <a href="https://t.co/txcVpjPDWz">https://t.co/txcVpjPDWz</a>— Brian Rose, Founder &amp; Host of London Real (@LondonRealTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/LondonRealTV/status/1796285778517221575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>&nbsp;Dr. Simone GoldDr. Simone Gold, founder of <a href="https://www.aflds.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">America's Frontline Doctors</a>, was one of the first doctors to understand that how she was being told to treat COVID patients wasn't normal. Very alarmed at what was taking place she, along with other doctors, held the “<a href="https://www.whitecoatsummit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">White Coat Summit</a>” on July 27, 2020, as well as a press conference on the Supreme Court steps. As she tweeted below, the press conference went viral, garnering millions of views before Big Tech and Big Media took the video down.She concluded by explaining their purpose and the result:<blockquote>Our fight was to show America the propaganda vs the truth, and then we were censored.</blockquote>&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Our press conference in front of the Supreme Court on July 27th, 2020 was a turning point in the fight against COVID Tyranny. After 20 million views in 8 hours, Big Tech colluded to wipe the video from online platforms. We knew in this moment that we would win the fight. <a href="https://t.co/9CP0Ogpnfp">pic.twitter.com/9CP0Ogpnfp</a>— Dr. Simone Gold (@drsimonegold) <a href="https://twitter.com/drsimonegold/status/1610416861723729921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Dr. Gold continues to <a href="https://aflds.org/about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">advance</a> the mission of America's Frontline Doctors, to protect medical freedom and civil liberties.'James RoguskiIndependent researcher James Roguski who, <a href="http://jamesroguski.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">according</a> to his website, has been calling out lies and propaganda for decades, found years of work gone when the company that hosted most of his websites terminated his account for what they said were “terms of service” violations. It did not deter him from continuing his work, either.<blockquote>They deleted many of my websites, but they ignited my passion to burn even brighter. I now have most of my work on Substack.&nbsp;</blockquote>Roguski is interested in building a holistic alternative to the WHO and <a href="https://jamesroguski.substack.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">recruits</a> others to join him.<blockquote>The old system is crumbling, and I intend to help speed its demise, but we must build its replacement quickly.If you are fed up with the government, hospital, medical, pharmaceutical, media, industrial complex and would like to help , then feel free to contact me directly anytime.</blockquote>&nbsp;The information contained in this article is for educational and information purposes only and is not intended as health, medical, financial or legal advice. Always consult a physician, lawyer or other qualified professional regarding any questions you may have about a medical condition, health objectives, or legal issues.&nbsp;Related articles:<ul><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/covid-sceptics-won-out-globalists-fear-an-increasingly-disbelieving-public" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">'COVID skeptics won out' — Globalists fear an increasingly disbelieving public</a></li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/colorado-governor-signs-off-on-bill-establishing-state-ministry-of-truth-students-atarget-of-new-law">Colorado governor signs off on bill establishing state 'ministry of truth'? Students a target of new law</a></li></ul>

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How three individuals got up again after being de-platformed

Who's afraid of Big Bad Tech? 

A British vigilante group known as the “Blade Runners” is receiving widespread support from British taxpayers as it continues to destroy climate surveillance cameras across London.<h2>The ULEZ mandate</h2>By order of London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the city is peppered with ultra-low emission zones (ULEZs), areas accessible only to low-emission vehicles. Cars that do not meet the city’s environmental standards are charged £12.50 ($16) for entering the ULEZ. Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras positioned around the zones read license plates and check them against the vehicles’ make and model in real time. If a vehicle does not meet the environmental threshold, a fine is levied against the car owner.&nbsp;The ULEZ climate mandate has drawn heavy&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/london-hundreds-protest-against-climate-mandates">protests</a> from residents, including&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/british-veteran-launches-hunger-strike-as-unrest-grows-over-climate-mandates">hunger strikes</a> and refusals to pay fines. Taxpayers have also taken to disabling the ANPR surveillance cameras which Transport for London (TfL), the city’s transportation department, said will be used both for climate and law enforcement.<h2>Taxpayers cheer the ‘Blade Runners’</h2>Since the climate restrictions were expanded last year, the Blade Runners have taken to disabling and destroying hundreds of cameras. Between April and September 2023, Metropolitan Police recorded 200 reports of cameras being stolen and 595 reports of cameras being vandalized.TfL began placing black boxes around ULEZ camera wirings to protect them from being cut, but taxpayers found other ways to disable the cameras — like removing them completely.<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"> MUST SEE: Blade Runners topple THREE ULEZ cameras in a coordinated strike… The people are fighting back! <a href="https://t.co/Yvr2Xr7Lun">pic.twitter.com/Yvr2Xr7Lun</a>— David Morgan #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) <a href="https://twitter.com/david_r_morgan/status/1802726912050995623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>In response, the city&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/london-taxpayers-attack-surveillance-vans-in-continued-revolt">deployed</a> mobile surveillance vans mounted with ANPR cameras across London in the hopes of evading attacks, but Blade Runners soon began targeting those as well. Some surveillance vans have been spotted covered in graffiti with their tires slashed, while others have been completely covered in tarp.Last month, 21 cameras were destroyed in the hours after Sadiq Khan was re-elected mayor of London, the&nbsp;Daily Mail&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13538797/Moment-Blade-Runner-uses-power-tool-cut-ULEZ-camera-traffic-light-latest-attack-Sadiq-Khans-hated-scheme.html">reported</a>. Last weekend, Blade Runners used power tools to topple a ULEZ camera and traffic lights to the delight of some fellow taxpayers. In a video that was posted to social media, passing cars can be heard honking in support.The video received over 37,000 likes. Comments on the post were largely supportive, with users writing that, “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty,” and “Fair play to them, it's a complete scam that does nothing.”Blade Runner Matt Hardy told the&nbsp;Daily Mail&nbsp;that the Blade Runners are “people pissed off about the tyranny reigning over us and getting out and doing things about it – real votes, real boys here.”<h2>‘These cameras are not about the climate. They are about control’</h2>British actor and influencer Laurence Fox said this week he was just given back his electronic devices by police after being arrested earlier this year for cheering on the Blade Runners:<blockquote>These cameras are not about the climate. They are about control. They are the primary infrastructure for all sorts of things that ideologues like the midget dictator [Sadiq Khan] would like to impose upon us.I can now finally say the word ‘Bladerunners’ again. One of the ridiculous restrictions on free speech imposed by the police.It’s a dreadful shame to see so many of these cameras dying suddenly. I’m not at all thrilled about it. Just because I am smiling like a Cheshire Cat, it doesn’t mean that I am over the moon that these scameras continue to topple in high winds.&nbsp;Vive la résistance!</blockquote><div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">POLICE UPDATE Following 6 coppers bursting into my house earlier this year to arrest me for saying how pleased I was that the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ULEZ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ULEZ</a> scam was meeting such robust resistance, this morning the <a href="https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@metpoliceuk</a> were ordered by the magistrate to hand back all my devices, including my…— Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1803030521095622912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> &nbsp;

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Climate Change

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British taxpayers cheer vigilante group destroying climate cams

Fisker is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the electric vehicle (EV) company announced Tuesday.<h2>‘Like other companies in the electric vehicle industry’</h2>“Fisker has made incredible progress since our founding, bringing the Ocean SUV to market twice as fast as expected in the auto industry and making good on our promises to deliver the most sustainable vehicle in the world,” a spokesperson <a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/cghen8gr8e1n/6W19OiEBJDVIFVEmo4feHA/df902c5cb2b067251a300efb0b35f611/Fisker-Filing-FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a>.The California-based company added it is not the only EV maker that has been struggling to stay in business.“We are proud of our achievements, and we have put thousands of Fisker Ocean SUVs in customers’ hands in both North American [sic] and Europe. But like other companies in the electric vehicle industry, we have faced various market and macroeconomic headwinds that have impacted our ability to operate efficiently. After evaluating all options for our business, we determined that proceeding with a sale of our assets under Chapter 11 is the most viable path forward for the company.”Fisker’s collapse is the latest indication that the EV industry is folding due to sinking demand. Other EV industry players are also cutting their losses as they jump ship.<h2>Hertz</h2>In March, Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr&nbsp;<a href="https://www.motorfinanceonline.com/news/hertz-ceo-resigns-amid-ev-investment-setback/#:~:text=Scherr's%20departure%20coincides%20with%20Hertz's,electric%20vehicle%20(EV)%20rentals">resigned</a> after his bet on EVs cost the car rental giant its biggest quarterly loss since 2020. Hertz had been praised by the Biden administration for its ambition to convert 25% of its fleet to EVs by the end of this year. In January, however, the company announced it would instead be selling its 20,000 EVs — including Teslas — at heavily discounted prices and replacing them with gas-powered cars.<h2>Mercedes-Benz</h2>Mercedes-Benz also recently had to give up its ambition to only sell electric cars by 2030. Instead, EVs are expected to make up only 50% of the German carmaker’s sales over the next decade.<h2>Apple</h2>In February, Apple abandoned its multi-billion dollar effort to create an electric car. Despite being a decade in the works and employing 2,000 people, Project Titan was axed due to falling consumer demand.<h2>Aston Martin</h2>A lack of consumer demand is also partly to blame for Aston Martin&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13138123/Aston-Martin-puts-brakes-new-electric-supercar-2026-bosses-say-drivers-want-engines-throaty-roar.html">placing</a> its battery-operated “supercar” on hold until 2026.“Demand, certainly at an Aston Martin price point, is not what we thought it was going to be two years ago,” said Aston Martin Executive Chairman Lawrence Stroll.&nbsp;<h2>Ford</h2>In December, Ford slashed production of its flagship EV at its assembly plant in Dearborn, Michigan by half. The automaker cut the monthly production quote for the all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck from 3,200 units to 1,600 units per month.<h2>Biden administration continues to force EV production</h2>Nevertheless, the Biden administration in March issued new climate mandates aimed at forcing more EV production. The new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contain tight emissions standards that will&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/epa-electric-vehicles-emissions-limits-climate-biden-e6d581324af51294048df24269b5d20a">require</a> 56% of new vehicle sales to be fully electric by 2032, with an additional 13% required to be hybrids.

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For the last two years, British authorities have been testing AI-powered emotion recognition cameras on travelers in train stations, according to recently disclosed documents.<h2>What can the cameras see?</h2>In each of eight train stations around the UK, five to seven cameras or sensors scan the passing crowds. Using AI software from Amazon, the cameras use object recognition algorithms to spot criminal activity, trespassing, weapons, wet floors, overcrowding, and overstuffed trash cans.&nbsp;They can also alert authorities when passengers engage in “unusual behavior,” such as shouting, running, smoking, or skateboarding.&nbsp;A combination of existing cameras and newly installed smart cameras are being used for the surveillance project. All are equipped with Amazon’s Rekognition surveillance system.<h2>Emotional recognition</h2>Through a combination of facial and behavioral analyses, the Rekognition software allows officials to also <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ai-cameras-emotions-uk-train-passengers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">analyze visitors’ emotions</a>. Internal documents note that the cameras can detect whether a passenger is “happy, sad [or] angry.” They can also recognize passenger satisfaction, which “could be utilized to maximum advertising and retail revenue.”<h2>Anti-social behavior</h2>Authorities can also detect passengers who exhibit “anti-social behaviour,” which&nbsp;<a href="https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/asb/asb/antisocial-behaviour/what-is-antisocial-behaviour/">according</a> to London’s Metropolitan Police Service means “behaviour by a person which causes, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or distress to persons not of the same household as the person.”<h2>Social distancing, face masks, and demographics</h2>Other&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24757655-usecases_dpas_review_managed_stations?responsive=1&amp;title=1">use cases</a> for the surveillance cameras include detecting whether passengers are keeping to social distancing rules and wearing face masks. The cameras can also scan for demographics by identifying people’s age profiles and “socio-economic classification,” which the documents note can create “revenue opportunities for better targeted advertising and product placement.”<h2>‘Quite a concerning step’</h2>The documents were obtained by Big Brother Watch, a civil rights and government watchdog group, in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. Network Rail, a body within the Department of Transportation which manages most of the country’s train network, has been overseeing the surveillance project.&nbsp;“The rollout and normalization of AI surveillance in these public spaces, without much consultation and conversation, is quite a concerning step,” Jake Hurfurt, head of research and investigations at Big Brother Watch,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ai-cameras-emotions-uk-train-passengers/">told</a> Wired.As of now, the surveillance systems do not use facial recognition technology, which analyzes faces and matches them against facial images stored in certain databases.

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