• SURPRISE FOR MANY ABOUT CELL PHONES: (1) Based on a 10-year government study, Electronic Radiation (EMR) from cell phones, as well as laptops & tablets, is confirmed as emitted within a few inches of the device and can penetrate most materials including wood/plastic/pillows/blankets/& clothes. (2) CA Dep’t of Public Health guidelines advise keeping instruments away from bodies, and away from bed at night. (3) Since 2023, California LAWS prohibit all drivers (resident or not) from using a cell phone or similar electronic communication device while holding it (i.e. must be hands free), and bans drivers under age 18 from using a cellphone for any reason. (4) “Leading doctors & scientists have connected EMR to Alzheimer, Parkinsons, asthma, insomnia, autism, childhood obesity, cardiac stress, ADD, fertility, skin and other health problems.” (5) In an unprecedented release the CDPH guidelines emphasize risk to children, and suggest avoidance of using devices on your lap,.  [EPOCH TIMES – 6/12/24]   
• THE ‘CLIMATE CRISIS’ HAS BEEN FRONT & CENTER FOR OVER FOUR DECADES, with global media & politicians marketing to public consciousness the criticality of this issue. But campaigns to ‘solve’ the problem have fizzled in most regards, as emissions grew to an all-time high last year, with consumption of coal/ oil/ natural gas at record levels providing some 80% of energy needs for the developing world. “In Europe, consumers are now rebelling at the voting booths; In America, despite generous subsidies, deployment of low-emission technologies cannot meet the surge in electricity demand owing to data centers, artificial intelligence and electric vehicles… The annual cost of this 30-year decarbonization effort is estimated above 5% of the global economy and a weight on national budgets, while the world has many more urgent needs – including provision of reliable & affordable energy to all… As climate fatigue sets in and action fades into the background, today’s ineffective, inefficient and ill-considered climate-mitigation strategies will be abandoned.”  [WALL STREET JOURNAL – 6/10/24]  
• ‘TRUST IN SCIENCE’ BASED ON PUBLICATIONS IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS IS THE LATEST SHATTERING OF CONFIDENCE. One major publisher (Wiley) has now closed 19 Journals and retracted over 11,300 papers in the last two years, after discovering industrial scale fraudulent research content. Since “world-over, scientists are under pressure to publish in peer-reviewed journals to win grants or as conditions for promotion, it motivates them to cheat the system. And, since many academic journals derive their publishing revenue from selling space, needy scientists who need to move from the underpaid gypsy status of a post-doctoral researcher in order to acquire and maintain academic tenure, this leads to fraudulent data, insipid & irrelevant subjects, and incoherent writing… The next time someone tells you to ‘trust the science,’ just remember that you are being asked to rely upon a deeply corrupted system that hosts a lot of people who are much more interested in moving their careers forward than in the cause of science.”  [RED STATE – 6/5/24]
• AND TRUST IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS OF FURTHER CONCERN, as two published studies, led by MIT and University of Stuttgart researchers, found that the OpenAI GPT-4 Large Language Model exhibited “deceptive behavior in simple test scenarios 99.2% of the time, seeming to have learned how to engage in premeditated deception the more A.I. gets used… The tests stemmed from a model built and trained solely to play the game Diplomacy – which encourages ‘pulling one over’ on opponents, so the machine was essentially trained for explicit manipulation and became a master of deception.”  [FUTURISM – 6/7/24]
• THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK:    Finally, the secret to a happy marriage: https://biggeekdad.com/2022/05/happy-marriage-logic-map/
• —  Drinking alcohol on airflights, particularly if sleeping along the way, is bad for health. Latest study by researchers at German Institute of Aerospace Medicine found that combining alcohol consumption with the hypobaric conditions of a typical airplane cabin: (1) decreases blood oxygen levels by a dangerously low level; (2) increases heart rate by a level usually associated with reasonably vigorous exercise; and (3) reduces time spent in the REM stages of sleep, important for replenishing both brain & body, by up to half.  [POPULAR SCIENCE]
• – Notwithstanding New Jersey’s failed experiment with reusable plastic bags, which led to a 500% increase in greenhouse gas emissions, California liberals are now (after previously banning single-use bags) pushing a plan to ban multi-use bags at grocery stores. While America in total is responsible for less than 1% of global plastic waste (versus 20% from China), “if California liberals can find any way to ‘save the planet’ while making life more difficult for residents, you can be assured they will jump at the chance to implement it.”  [WASHINGTON EXAMINER]
• — Speaking to media reporters, Senator John Kennedy’s takes on Biden’s new Border Exec Order:   “President Biden is in trouble politically. Part of the reason for that is that he gave in to the loon wing of his party and he dissolved the Southern border. Now, five months before an election, he has to appear to be willing to do something about it, hence this executive order. And he expects you to report this epiphany that he has had, take what the White House is telling you, balance it on your noses like trained seals, and report it uncritically… Now, for three years, President Biden told us all there is no crisis at the Southern border for reasons clearly stated on the teleprompter. And his plan to deal with the crisis was to pretend that there wasn’t a crisis. Well, when the American people figured it out, the administration shifted strategy and said “well, we know there’s a crisis at the border but we don’t have any authority to fix it.” That didn’t work either, because the American people aren’t cell-deep stupid… This is one of the most cynical things that I have ever seen a politician attempt to do five months before an election. It is insulting, it is cheap, it is contemptuous – the American people see that, and I hope you do too.”