The race is now on to convert body heat into battery power. Just like the action/sci-fi movie The Matrix.
In The Matrix, it was revealed to Neo (Keanu Reeves) that humans are flesh batteries powering artificial intelligence machines that have taken control of Earth.
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have come one step closer to harness the human bodies’ thermoelectric energy to power low-cost wearable devices.
“In the future, we want to be able to power your wearable electronics without having to include a battery,” said Jianliang Xiao, senior author of the new paper and an associate professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU Boulder.
As we noted above, the human-powered battery to power machines is straight out of The Matrix film. Xiao said the battery could generate about 1 volt of energy for every square centimeter of skin – allowing it to power wearable devices, such as fitness trackers.
In a short informational video, CU Boulder explains how the new battery works.
“Whenever you use a battery, you’re depleting that battery and will, eventually, need to replace it,” Xiao said. “The nice thing about our thermoelectric device is that you can wear it, and it provides you with constant power.”
Though the technology is still in its infancy, he said it generates less voltage per area than a conventional battery.
While more research is needed to increase the amount of power produced before it can be commercialized. He figured it would take about a decade before the new battery is introduced for the retail market.
“Just don’t tell the robots. We don’t want them getting any ideas,” Xiao concluded.
Bill Gates, who was a part of event 201 before the coronavirus scamdemic “plagued” the world, is predicting there will be two other crises. And since we know he’s neck-deep in the COVID-19 scam, he’s probably got a role in these other crises as well.
According to a report by The Hill,Gates revealed his “predictions” during an interview on Derek Muller’s YouTube channel Veritasium. Gates pointed out two prominent threats facing the modern world: climate change and bioterrorism.
“Every year that [climate change] would be a death toll even greater than we’ve had in this pandemic,” Gates said during the interview.
“Also, related to pandemics is something people don’t like to talk about much, which is bioterrorism, that somebody who wants to cause damage could engineer a virus. So that means the chance of running into this is more than just the naturally caused epidemics like the current one,” he said.
Bill Gates thinks we should be further enslaved to prevent the crises he’s planning on from happening. He’s all about control and power over everyone else.
While Gates said there will certainly be more pandemics in the future, he said humanity could increase its preparedness for one to the point where the world would never have a death toll anywhere near what is occurring today with the coronavirus outbreak, which has infected more than 107 million people and killed more than 2.3 million around the globe.
“Pandemics can be worse in terms of fatalities. Smallpox was over 30 percent fatality,” Gates said. “We were lucky that the fatality here is not, not super high, but we can nip in the bud…the number of deaths with the right system should be a tenth of what we’ve seen here.”
Gates said the world could prepare for the next pandemic by advancing mRNA research, the technology used in the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, increasing testing to 10 million PCR tests a day, and making more investments in diagnostic machines and therapeutics. –The Hill
The biggest crisis facing humanity is not climate change, or pandemics (even if they are real.) The biggest crisis is people’s belief in slavery and belief that others have the right to rule them. It’s time to wake up and realize that government, in all aspects is slavery. Changing the wording or voting for a new master won’t change the reality that some other person thinks they have a higher claim over your life and property than you do. That is literally the definition of slavery and currently, that’s the crisis we should be concerned about.
Texas has been ravaged by a freezing storm. On Sunday night, while the storm raged on, the power grid took a beating leading to rolling blackouts across the state for around 4.3 million residents. As the power outages continue, they have set off a cascade of other problems, knocking some water treatment plants and cell phone networks offline.
Winter storms are just one more reason to prepare. Normally Texans don’t have to deal with storms of this magnitude as far south as they are, but there are always acceptions.
Due to a prolonged power outage at the water treatment plant, Pflugerville is under a boil water notice. We are working with Oncor to restore power, but until further notice, all city water customers must boil their water prior to consumption. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/alhpeSfyaN
Officials in Abilene said the city has lost water service altogether, leaving 124,000 residents entirely without a reliable source of drinking water as of Monday night, according to a report by RT.
People at the Austin Fire Department are battling with the element that is usually on their side when they deal with blazes. Water pipes have been bursting by the hundreds throughout the city as it was gripped by extreme cold. Responding to them was a challenge since the AFD have their plate full with other emergencies, RT reported further.
The situation is quickly becoming dire for the many who have ailed to adequately prepare for a storm and the loss of the grid.
At 9:30 PM we are up to 582 Broken Water Pipe calls since midnight. Over 500 are since noon. We are attempting to respond to as many as we can amongst other priority calls. Dispatchers are almost continuously answering additional calls.
Governor Greg Abbott has been taking a lot of flak from Texans who are unhappy with how he has dealt with this crisis. He deployed the National Guard and allocated other resources to deal with the power outages, but people say the troops can’t help them make their homes warm again. Deploying the military when people need heat in their homes is about the most useless thing a politician has done since they shut down the economy in March of last year.
If you can help please do so. People in Texas are struggling and the solution seems to be to call in the military. Welcome to 2021. This is our dystopia. But we have a chance to prove we don’t need these tyrants by helping each other and doing the right thing.
Head medical tyrant, Dr. Anthony Fauci says that April will begin “vaccine open season.” That’s an interesting choice of words normally reserved for hunters…
“By the time we get to April, that will be what I would call, for better wording, ‘open season,’ namely, virtually everybody and anybody in any category could start to get vaccinated,” he said on NBC’s “Today” show. The remarks echoed his sentiment from days earlier that he expects the pace of vaccinations to improve in the months ahead.
Other countries are locking down again or extending already months-long lockdowns as the mainstream media and the ruling class continue with the fear facade.
The government’s (slave masters) coronavirus vaccination program is ramping up so quickly that the vaccine should be available by April for almost all Americans, not just people in high-risk groups. “As we get into March and April, the number of available doses will allow for much more of a mass vaccination approach,” he saidThursday on the Today show.
Pulling on the heartstrings of Americans on Valentine’s Day, President Joe Biden urged Congress to implement unprecedented gun bans, magazine bans, ammo bans, and going after gun manufacturers. He pushed for these draconian measures by evoking an emotional reaction, through the exploitation of the Parkland shooting.
“The Parkland students and so many other young people across the country who have experienced gun violence are carrying forward the history of the American journey. It is a history written by young people in each generation who challenged prevailing dogma to demand a simple truth: we can do better. And we will,” Biden said in a statement.
“This Administration will not wait for the next mass shooting to heed that call. We will take action to end our epidemic of gun violence and make our schools and communities safer. Today, I am calling on Congress to enact commonsense gun law reforms, including requiring background checks on all gun sales, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who knowingly put weapons of war on our streets.”
For those who remember, this was a tactic employed by Donald Trump as well, who took to his pulpit after Parkland to call for removing due process.
“I like taking the guns early like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time,” Trump said at a meeting with lawmakers after the shooting.
“Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said.
WATCH: President Trump: “I like taking the guns early … Take the guns first, go through due process second.” pic.twitter.com/aydEZdAGq0
In the afternoon on Feb. 14, 2018, a man identified by authorities as Nikolas Cruz, now 22, walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and opened fire with an AR-15 rifle. The shooting left 17 dead, including 14 students. Since then, this tragedy has been exploited by the anti-gun crowd as a means of removing guns from the hands of law-abiding citizens. Dozens upon dozens of “red flag” gun laws and other such bills have been passed and are being used across the country.
Although the ostensible intention of these laws is to stop a future tragedy, it is important to point out that there were already laws on the books that should’ve stopped Nikolas Cruz from ever getting a gun. This is a fact that is ignored by Biden and the rest of the anti-second amendment ilk.
Citing Cruz as the reason for advocating the erosion of the 2nd Amendment, the anti-gun activists are claiming he should’ve had his guns taken which would have prevented the tragedy. Sadly, however, they are ignoring the fact that he was accused of multiple felonies—and should’ve never been able to purchase a gun in the first place—but law enforcement failed to act on any of it.
According to a report by CNN, records obtained from the sheriff’s office by CNN show the law enforcement agency received at least 45 calls for service relating to Cruz or his brother from 2008 to 2017.
As TFTP previously reported, Cruz warned that he was going to shoot up a school and kill people and the FBI did nothing. “I’m going to be a professional school shooter,” A YouTube user named Nikolas Cruz commented on a video on Sept. 24, 2017. The video was posted on the channel “Ben The Bondsman,” and the owner, Ben Bennight, immediately took a screenshot and submitted it to the FBI. Nothing happened.
While this is bad enough, the Sheriff’s department records show that police were given this exact same warning—a year before—because Cruz had been declaring his wishes to shoot up the school publicly.
According to the records, in 2016, a neighbor warned police that Cruz posted on Instagram that he said he “planned to shoot up the school.” The person who made that call came forward in March and said that she begged the sheriff’s office to intervene. Instead of intervening though, police told her that they couldn’t act until Cruz actually did something.
The incompetence is staggering, especially given the fact that making a direct threat of violence is illegal.
A few months after he said he wanted to shoot up the school on Instagram—because the police failed to heed this warning and the dozens of other ones—Cruz bought the rifle he would use in the shooting—none of the gun control laws or the actual laws on the books designed to stop him from getting a gun worked.
In Florida, if a person making death threats intends for the victim to fear for his or her safety, specifically fearful of death or bodily harm, it is considered a credible threat under the law, which changes the crime from stalking, a first-degree misdemeanor, to aggravated stalking, a felony of the third degree. Cruz was reported at least 4 times for this very crimebefore he bought his AR-15 — and police did nothing.
The reactionary nature of disarming Americans because deranged psychopaths kill people is dangerous and only serves to keep the guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens. Moreover, deranged psychopaths don’t even need guns to cause mass death.
Biden has been outspoken about his desires to disarm Americans and gun-control advocacy groups are pushing both executive orders and legislative packages to make sure this happens. As Democrats control both chambers of Congress and the White House, these actions have an even better chance of getting rammed through.
A top court in The Hague issued a “shock” ruling that curbs the power of civic authorities to impose sweeping coronavirus-related curfews which should have significant reverberations legally for similar scenarios in other countries.
“The curfew must be lifted immediately,” the court said in a statement, underscoring that the Dutch government is abusing its powers by violating freedom of movement and assembly in particular. The pandemic curfew must be reversed immediately, the government has been told, which comes after weeks of fierce protests by an angry population that seems to have rejected it in unison.
In the official court statement, the Hague deemed the invocation of the Extraordinary Powers of Civil Authority Act to impose a national curfew is not justified on the basis of the COVID-19 emergency. The law allows the government to circumvent normal legislative channels to impose curfew in “very urgent and exceptional circumstance”.
“The curfew is a far-reaching violation of the right to freedom of movement and privacy and (indirectly) limits, among other things, the right to freedom of assembly and demonstration,” The Hague court said.
“The Preliminary Relief Judge ruled that the introduction of the curfew did not involve the special urgency required to be able to make use of the [act],” the Hague said. One key issue cited is that the government had plenty of time to discuss and consider such a curfew through the normal legislative process, thus “the use of this law to impose curfew is not legitimate,” according to the ruling.
The Netherlands’ curfew had been among the most draconian in Europe and the world. While early in the pandemic during the first wave of lockdowns a number of countries had imposed such curfews, since January 23 Dutch citizens were ordered to remain home between the hours of 9 pm and 4:30 am, which would result in steep fines if violated. It was to be in effect until March 2.
The curfew, the first in the Netherlands since World War II, sparked several days of riots when it was introduced on 23 January https://t.co/SeOaDKuTrr
While there were “exceptions” in cases of medical emergencies or work deemed “essential”, Dutch citizens by and large were an outrage, expressing their frustrations through multiple nights of protests and rioting, which resulted in hundreds of arrests.
The Hague ruling was triggered by the Virus Truth Foundation filing a lawsuit that sought to get the curfew overturned as a violation of civil rights and the national Constitution.
Meanwhile, in a sign of a continuing legal fight to come… because “science”:
DUTCH PM RUTTE: CURFEW STILL NEEDED EVEN AFTER A COURT FOUND IT HAS NO LEGAL BASIS
Virus Truth Foundation noted on its website, “We fight for the preservation of a democratic constitutional state in which our children still have the opportunity to develop themselves in freedom and to live a life with their own beliefs and opinions.” It’s hailing the ruling as a major victory.
Crucially this had been the first such curfew imposed on The Netherlands since World War II, which is in part why it was greeted with such hostility among the public. Demonstrators noted it was neither wartime, nor is the country under threat of invasion.
The Dutch court has reinstated the COVID-19 curfews initially removed. The court has overturned a ruling handed down hours earlier ordering the government to lift the “illegitimate” measure immediately.
If this doesn’t prove that government will do what they want and those in it believe they own other human beings and get to dictate their rights, I’m not sure what does. We need to wake up as humanity. Government is slavery and it is so in every single country.
According to a report by RT, a three-judge appellate panel granted an emergency injunction following a request from the Dutch government on Tuesday, agreeing to vacate the earlier order from a lower court to end the nightly curfew, DWreported. The decision came just moments before the 9 pm curfew was set to take effect, with the judges scheduling a full hearing on its legality for Friday.
The appeals judges argued that they wanted to avoid what they called a “yo-yo effect,” referring to public confusion around whether the curfew was still in force, adding that “in this case, the state’s interests weigh more than that of Virus Truth’s,” the activist group that brought the initial complaint against the curfews to court – also known by its Dutch name, Viruswaarheid. –RT
While the Dutch Justice Ministry noted it was reviewing the decision after it was handed down, Prime Minister Mark Rutte continued to insist the curfew would be enforced regardless, urging citizens to “keep respecting the curfew” even if the government’s appeal failed. Later on Tuesday night, Rutte tweeted: “Curfew applies, even tonight. The coronavirus is not yet under control. It remains important to stay at home, meet as few people as possible, and adhere to all measures, such as curfews.”
De avondklok geldt, ook vanavond.
Het coronavirus is nog niet onder controle. Het blijft belangrijk om thuis te blijven, zo min mogelijk mensen te ontmoeten en je aan alle maatregelen te houden, zoals de avondklok.
We don’t need masters or rulers or owners. We are free. It’s time to start acting like it. Government is slavery and until we figure that out we are doomed to suffer under this oppressive feedback loop.
James Corbett has been putting out videos detailing the solutions to the oppressive system we are living under, and in his recent video, he suggests we “unplug from the Matrix.” Corbett asks “do we really need to be constantly connected technologically?
Do we need to be connected to the grid 24/7 and to be online at all times living lives virtually, and not in reality? As people are increasingly enslaved and locked in their homes being banned from being human, many have had time to ponder this very issue.
Understandably, it is really difficult to completely break away from this manufactured reality the system has designed for us. But we can all begin by first realizing no one owns us (no president, no mayor, no governor, no senator, no police office, no IRS agent, no one.) No one makes a rightful master and no one makes a rightful slave. Once we figure this out, slowly the solutions begin to emerge.
While we should all be aware and stay alert to what is going on, we also need to have an understanding that those in “power” only have it because we believe that they do. Once we know that they are mere humans as we are, the facade falls away, and the veil is lifted presenting solutions.
As Corbett mentions, start small. Unplug. Turn off your wi-fi at night, turn off your phone. Get rid of Facebook and Twitter. “If you haven’t deleted Twitter yet, Twitter is deleting you…surprise surprise,” Corbett says. There are deeper issues than just censorship too. There are deeply embedded structural issues with continuing on a path of addiction to social media.
Take the little steps to make sure you can “carve out some space” for reality instead of being in a constant manipulated feedback loop. If we can all make small changes as individuals, we can all learn from each other and grow instead of being stuck in and unhappy.
It’s a small step, but one that’ll make a world of difference,
Joe Biden is promising that his COVID-19 policies will make Americans better off, but you’re going to have to wait until next year. He also said that “we don’t know” when you’ll be allowed to have another link in your chain.
According to The Hill, Biden made the comments at a town hall event hosted by CNN in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Biden said he would like to see schools reopen for in-person instruction by summer, urged Americans to do everything possible to get vaccinated against COVID-19, and said he empathizes with public confusion and fear about everything from byzantine online vaccine appointment systems to shifting scientific predictions about the impact of coronavirus mutations.
Biden says that mass vaccination of as many people as possible will help move things back to “normal.” “If you’re eligible and it’s available, get the vaccine,” he said, adding “thus far there is no evidence” that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines don’t offer protection against new strains of COVID-19 first identified in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Brazil.
Maybe not, but there is plenty of evidence that this vaccine is killing or permanently injuring plenty of people who otherwise would have lived a lot longer even if they got COVID.
Ever wonder why people are skeptical about all the vaccines? The ruling class can’t see to figure this out:
Creepy Uncle Joe pretends to care, but as a member of the ruling class, we would all understand he’s about one thing: the consolidation of power over everyone else.
So far, 55.2 million Americans have gotten the vaccine. There have also been (according to the ruling class and their misuse of the PCR tests) 27.8 million cases of COVID-19 in the United States. Anyone else notice something odd about those numbers? Are people really in such a panicked state of fear that they’ll inject themselves with whatever the master tells them to? Apparently.
The lifestyle you ordered in the euphoria will be out of stock in the panic.
Humans running Wetware 1.0 (which is all of us) love to gamble, and we are entranced by the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. When there’s a market for speculation, these wild swings of emotion manifest as euphoria (I’m winning!) and fear (I’m losing).
Thus the soaring price of goats due to speculation in 1740 B.C. Babylon so vexed Hammurabi that he ordered the execution of those he deemed responsible for profiteering off their clever speculative manipulation.
Speaking of goats, let’s ask a GOAT (greatest of all time) question: what’s the greatest bubble of all time (GBOAT)? The easiest way to measure speculative bubbles is the starting price and the peak price, but that may not do justice to the question. Perhaps the number of people drawn into the speculative frenzy is a better measure of GBOAT: after all, if only a handful of speculators lose their shirts, how that can be the greatest bubble of all time?
To even qualify, a bubble must draw the masses into the euphoria and then slaughter them as mercilessly as Hammurabi massacred the goat profiteers.
Another qualifying factor is the scale of disconnect from reality. Even if you overpaid for a goat in a speculative mania, at least you can still milk the goat and make cheese. But tulips, which drove the remarkably excessive speculative Tulip Mania in 1636 Holland, are not even edible.
At least tulips offer a bit of beauty in a world besmirched by speculative ugliness, but the shares of the South Seas Company that sucked in the best and brightest in 1720 Britain and proceeded to lay waste to their wealth did not even have that saving grace.
Another qualifying factor is the power of the delusion driving the bubble. To qualify as a contender for GBOAT, the mania has to be utterly convincing and persuasive to everyone involved. In other words, it isn’t even speculation to invest all your money in the bubble, it’s simply common sense due to the dead certainty of the proposition fueling the mania.
The 1999-2000 Dot-Com Bubble is a good example of the universality of belief in the obviousness of the gains to be reaped: the Internet was changing the world and would expand for decades, so obviously the companies involved would grow for decades, too, as would their profits (obviously!).
The chart of the dot-com bubble offers a textbook example of how a bubble gathers momentum, spikes to insane heights, falters as the smart money exits but soars to a lower high as true believers buy the dip. Once the buying is exhausted, the bubble collapses back to its starting level.
But not all bubbles follow this trajectory. Here is a current chart of IWM, the Russell 2000 index, courtesy of NorthmanTrader.com. (I added the black box and the red line in the center panel to indicate the previous bubble top.) The violence and amplitude of this speculative mania over the past year makes the dot-com bubble appear quaintly staid in comparison.
So let’s make the case that we’re experiencing the greatest bubble of all time in real-time. The magnitude of the price movement is extreme: check. The number of people sucked into the mania is extreme: check. The power of the delusion is extreme: check. (The Fed will print trillions forever, the federal government will borrow and blow trillions forever, the world is about to enter the Roaring 20s, technology is changing the world, etc. etc. etc.) The gains to be reaped are extremely obvious: check.
History leaves no doubt that all speculative bubbles pop, and much sooner and more violently than the euphoric participants believe possible. Before Hammurabi shut down the mania in goats, a rare goat with distinctive markings could be traded for an entire house. After the bubble popped, it was just another goat.
The lifestyle you ordered in the euphoria will be out of stock in the panic. Everyone running Wetware 1.0 is prone to getting caught up in a mania in which a tulip or goat can be traded for a house. But then euphoria flips to fear and after the mania fades and the losses have crushed spirits, hopes, and dreams, a tulip is once again just a tulip and a goat is once again just a goat.
NOTE: I made up the story about the bubble in goats and Hammurabi. That is fiction, not history.
