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DARPA's Chilling Pre-COVID Blueprint: Predict, Manufacture, & Deploy Pandemics On Demand Authored by Jon Fleetwood, via Substack, A sprawling, multi-institution effort for "predicting" future pathogen characteristics, developing vaccines "in advance of need," and building the very systems intended to validate those predictions. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) spent the early 2010s constructing what may have been the most ambitious predictive vaccine-development infrastructure ever attempted: a sprawling, multi-institution effort designed to determine the future characteristics of purported pathogens before they emerged and ultimately use those predictions to develop drugs and vaccines before they...

The Supreme Court Needs A Clock Authored by Frank Miele via RealClearPolitics, The Supreme Court decides cases. But it also decides when to decide them – and that timing can be just as consequential as the ruling itself. Now we have a real-world example. In a closely watched decision last week, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Louisiana’s creation of a second majority-black congressional district violated the Constitution, holding that race cannot be used too heavily in drawing political maps, even to comply with the Voting Rights Act. Reasonable people can agree with that...

More Than 5,500 Residents Ordered To Evacuate In Hawaii Over Dodgy Dam Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), More than 5,500 people on Hawaii’s most populous island have been ordered to evacuate on March 20 as weather conditions continue to worsen and threaten the integrity of a 120-year-old dam. Map of the evacuation zone in response to the risk of a dam failure amid torrential rains on Oahu, Hawaii, on March 20, 2026. Screenshot/Hawaii Emergency Management Agency That island, Oahu, which is home to the capital, Honolulu, is forecast...