Current headlines may give the impression that the Middle East is the exclusive region facing fatalities. However, Sudan has recently reported a staggering 15,000 deaths due to genocide in a single town. This grim situation involves young men being deliberately shot in the legs by Arab militias to impede their mobility, while women and children are being brutally massacred. Despite the straightforward nature of the crisis, such as allegations that the UAE exports gold to fund ethnic violence, it remains largely overlooked, dragging millions of people into a worsening humanitarian disaster.

In a broader context of underreported tragedies, the Dengue virus has been significantly increasing a death toll worldwide, with children being particularly affected.

2019 research warned it would become a global threat that can’t be ignored, yet who really was talking about it during COVID?

Dengue causes the greatest human disease burden of any arbovirus, with an estimated 10,000 deaths and 100 million symptomatic infections per year in over 125 countries.

Le Monde hints even harder about the future with “worst dengue epidemic on record“, and predictions of death tolls dramatically increasing.

Never before has Bangladesh seen such an explosion of cases. Between January 1 and December 1, 2023, more than 310,000 people were infected with the virus and 1,628 died, according to official figures. This is the deadliest year since the country’s first dengue epidemic in 2000. The current death toll is already more than five times higher than last year, when the country recorded 281 virus-related deaths.

Pandemic Prevention Institute:

Severe dengue was rare in India before 1996, but India now bears the majority of the global dengue burden. Although dengue follows a general pattern associated with the monsoon season, the annual incidence of dengue in India has increased dramatically in the last ten years. […] Dengue cases have surged in other endemic areas, such as in Vietnam, where cases in 2022 are four times the number of cases reported in 2021.

World Health Organization:

From 2000 to 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) documented a ten-fold surge in reported cases worldwide increasing from 500,000 to 5.2 million. The year 2019 marked an unprecedented peak, with reported instances spreading across 129 countries.

Airfinity:

France could see local dengue cases rise 50-fold by 2030 as temperatures rise. […] Airfinity forecasts, which consider temperature, precipitation, humidity, windspeed, and time of year, have predicted between approximately 290,000 – 390,000 cases of dengue in Peru by the end of the year compared to approximately 50,000 in 2021 and 73,000 in 2022.

European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC):

Autochthonous/non-travel associated dengue cases have been reported in Europe from Italy (82) France (43) and Spain (3).

Singapore National Environment Agency:

Fast rate of dengue transmission has been observed…

And ReliefWeb on Sudan:

The spread of dengue fever and the lack of food is gradually worsening the dire humanitarian and health crises faced by displaced people.

The Associated Press seems to have just published whatever Tesla told them to say without any analysis.

The electric vehicle maker said in a statement Thursday night that its factory near Berlin, which makes Model Y vehicles and batteries, will pause from Jan. 29 to Feb. 11. …Tesla said. “The significantly longer transport times create a gap in the supply chains.”

Let’s start by asking why no other car factories are announcing such an extended shutdown. Volvo has said they are waiting two extra days for gearbox delivery. The specifics of that news make it believable.

Tesla seems either so empty-headed and over-exposed in their logistics that they shouldn’t be allowed to run a factory, or they are colossal liars. It could be both. Consider the news that demand for Tesla has totally cratered as nobody in Germany wants to buy old and unsafe designs manufactured with notoriously low quality.

Just as Tesla loses the EV crown, Elon Musk’s biggest market in Europe pulls the rug out from under him… Sales of Tesla cars in Germany, home to its only European manufacturing plant, plunged a breathtaking 77% in December year on year…

The German politicians who fell over themselves to allow Tesla to build a factory are now beset explaining all the safety and logistical failures since it opened in 2022 under false promises to generate 500,000 vehicles a year. Production has been slowing, although to be fair concerned Germans might just be better than most at counting real cars.

Tesla’s actual internal production targets are significantly lower. Internal documents from July and August show the production target of 870 vehicles per day and 4350 vehicles per week. So the target is 650 fewer cars per week than was originally announced by the US automaker in March.

There’s been much suspicion that lack of integrity in American accounting systems, not to mention lack of information security within Tesla, has allowed wildly inflated “production” numbers to game the stock market for years. In fact, Tesla in June of 2023 started to carelessly claim that the Berlin factory was going to roll out 1,000,000 cars per year. Presumably such a bald-faced lie was meant to target politicians who are easily fooled or corrupted, by simply throwing out numbers larger than the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, which delivers around 800,000 vehicles a year

Instead of producing cars promised, so far the egregious liars at Tesla mostly have produced injuries and environmental spills.

15,000 litres of paint, 150 litres of diesel and 13 tons of aluminium have been spilled at the Tesla Berlin factory.

What a mess. I expect someone will tell me next that workers are expected to take a diesel-powered train to reach the factory and many of them are illegal immigrants from Eastern Europe exploiting visa loopholes, even as the CEO of Tesla hypocritically rants about clean energy and closing borders.

Related: 2019 Police in Nevada discuss with workplace safety regulators how Tesla causes problems, as a signed warrant is blocked from being executed.

Tesla Factory Bodycam Footage: Case No. 19-491 May 21, 2019 9:47 AM

“Typically anywhere else, if you deny entry on a warrant you go to jail. That’s contempt of court, signed by a district judge. Period.

Tesla’s CEO caught lying.

Why?

Without fraud there would be no Tesla.

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