23 Oct 2024

Three fireballs light up the skies over the Great Lakes, AMS receives hundreds of reports 
Three bright fireballs lit up the skies over the Great Lakes on Monday, October 21, 2024, according to the American Meteor Society (AMS), which received hundreds of reports.

5 reported dead after widespread floods hit Bengaluru, India 
Five people were confirmed dead in Bengaluru on Tuesday, October 22, 2024, following three days of intense rainfall that led to widespread flooding across the city, prompting a Yellow Warning for several districts.

Over 1 million tons of rice destroyed by floods in Bangladesh
Floods in Bangladesh destroyed around 1.1 million tons of rice this year with August and October 2024 having had the worst impact.

Xi, Putin Hail Ties As Advancing ‘Fair World Order’ Amid ‘Chaos’ Sown By Western Hegemony
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have discussed the Ukraine war and other global issues at a meeting on the sidelines of the 16th annual BRICS Summit being held in the Russian city of Kaza, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has confirmed. Peskov hailed the bilateral meeting as “very open” and “constructive.”

Cows That Are Dropping Dead From H5N1 Avian Flu Are “Piled Up Along The Roadside” In California
This wasn’t supposed to happen. We were told that even though millions of birds were dying, H5N1 avian flu would not start spreading widely among mammals. But now it is. At this moment, dead cows are “stacked along roadsides rotting in the heat” in some areas of California.

Terry McMahon: One word sums up what the controlling class is doing to Ireland – Treason
Without words, we lose sight of the fact that the truth of a single word declared clearly and unambiguously can still cut through all the ideological noise and divisive smoke screens and sum up precisely what these banks and politicians and controlling class psychopaths are doing to our country. “And that word is treason.”

Digital ID project Worldcoin introduces new version of tool that scans people’s eyeballs
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman isn’t giving up on his controversial digital ID project, Worldcoin. He, or, rather, formally – the startup behind it, that he is behind, i.e., Tools for Humanity – has instead gone for a rebrand.

McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers linked to deadly E. coli outbreak, CDC says
McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers are being linked to an outbreak of E. coli that has sickened nearly 50 people in 10 states, killing one person. Most of the illnesses occurred in Colorado and Nebraska, with 26 sickened in the former and nine stricken in the latter, the CDC stated. Of the 26 who fell ill in Colorado, an older adult died.

Massive Surge in Chinese Immigrant Encounters at Border
The number of Chinese migrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border has increased significantly over the past two years, prompting concern from some lawmakers over national security and border policy.