Beware, the red meat allergy caused by lone star tick is a serious health concern that has no cure
It’s common for health reports of “new” health risks to go viral, which has been true of late for tick-induced meat allergies. An internet news search returned more than 13,000 page hits for “alpha-gal syndrome” in the 30 days prior to this writing — nearly as many as a search on “breast cancer.
Post-Covid in-person school attendance in US tanks, over 6.5 million students listed as chronic absentees
All told, an estimated 6.5 million additional students became chronically absent, according to the data, which was compiled by Stanford University education professor Thomas Dee in partnership with The Associated Press. Taken together, the data from 40 states and Washington DC, provides the most comprehensive accounting of absenteeism nationwide.
Inside Moon’s drug empire: Unification Church founder built global empire from fishing and gun manufacturing
Dora Irrazábal, a prosecutor who led the probe into the blaze, said the townspeople and church management were “at war” when she arrived in Puerto Casado. She said Lorenzo Myung, whom she recalled as an “aggressive” man, accused locals of stealing church property but provided no evidence. Locals, meanwhile, accused Irrazábal of being a church stooge after she flew in on a church plane.
FBI arrest of Paraguayan TV queen and politician exposed extent of Unification Church’s role in drug trafficking, money laundering
Last November, Alvarenga, Tarrago’s accomplice, was sentenced to two years of US probation for running an unlicensed money transmitting business. Months later, on March 29, he was arrested in Asunción, accused by Brazilian law enforcement of leading an outfit that shipped at least 17 tonnes of cocaine to Europe over two years. He is in jail awaiting extradition to Brazil.
How Korean Moon’s Unification Church became largest landowner in Paraguay and established world’s largest narcotics empire
The South Korean religious organisation founded by self-proclaimed messiah Sun Myung Moon bought a remote piece of land in Paraguay about a quarter century ago, hoping to create an oasis for followers. Now the area is a hub for global drug trafficking.
Filthy wages: Why crypto’s promise as a means of dancing around banking system crashed
Without a banking partner, crypto firms cannot accept dollar deposits in return for services, or manage the conversion of crypto to dollars for clients, or pay their employees and vendors – they cannot function. The viability of the plan to develop a parallel financial system free of intermediaries is dependent, therefore, on a rapidly disintegrating truce with those same intermediaries: the banks and payments firms.
Blacklisted by banks and payment apps, adult industry gets door slammed on it by cryptocurrency
In the US, full-service sex work (also known as prostitution) is illegal in every state but Nevada, but pornography and online sex work are legal under the First Amendment. Irrespective of this distinction, banking access has been a problem for the entire sex work community since at least the 1960s, says Mike Stabile, director of public affairs at the FSC, and has only become more acute.
Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates and Silicon Valley behind push for ‘farming without farmers, food without farms’
On the latest episode of Russell Brand’s “Stay Free,” scholar, environmental activist and food sovereignty advocate Vandana Shiva, discussed food fascism, the power of “philanthropy,” digital enslavement and how people can free themselves from this system.
It’s chaos in US education as Black teachers quit citing burnout, low pay and politics
Nationally, about 80 per cent of American public school teachers are white, even though white students no longer represent a majority in public schools. Having teachers who reflect the race of their students is important, researchers say, to provide students with role models who have insight into their culture and life experience.
Insight: World battles to loosen China’s grip on vital rare earths for clean energy transition
The West’s push to develop independent supplies of critical minerals took on greater urgency after Beijing imposed export controls last month on the strategic metals gallium and germanium, raising global fears that China could block exports of rare earths or processing technology next.
