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Safety Wars Live October 1, 2024 WW3, Longshoreman Strike, DOL, OSHA and Safety News and Views
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Before we set the program, I want to make sure everyone understands that we often talk about OSHA and EPA citations, along with some other regulatory actions from other agencies, legal cases, and criminal activity. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Proposed fines are exactly that, and they are often litigated, reduced, or vacant. We use available public records and news accounts of press releases. We cannot warranty or guarantee the details of any of the stories we share since we are not directly involved with these stories, at least not most of the time. Enjoy the show! Safety FM! And from the border of Liberty and prosperity behind the border, Safety Wars, for two saps, and a horse. How's everybody feeling out there? I don't know what it means to me. Yeah. Let's start this again. The streamers are taking it right about. So, we'll be playing on those suitors. Anyway, I hope everybody is having a great time, great day here. In the northeast, we are dealing with the beginning. It's a fall. So, that means that we have a lot of holidays, especially if you are of the Jewish faith. We have Russia coming up, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. I don't know if you will come here or not, but you will see. With that. Big news today, I've been keeping up with this all day, is what's going on right now in Israel. This started out. And what you try to do is, with all of these things, again, I'm not a military person per se, but I've had a lot of training in a disaster response to terrorism and things of that nature. As far as disaster preparation, just went through a month of disaster preparation, a commentary year. One of the things that they always teach you in all of these classes, all of these programs, is a multi-vector attack. Meaning that you're going to have a couple of things going out one time, especially if you're using terrorism at tactic, to try to confuse things, to try to overload the system, to try to do whatever. Sort of like the whole rules for radicals things, or you want to keep the pressure on. So, very early this morning, first news that came out was seven murdered in Haifa terror shooting, spelled Jafa J-A-F-H-A, but it's Haifa, as far as I know. Terrorists in many were wounded, seven were murdered, and 17 were wounded, and to varying degrees, the two terrorists were shot at via security forces. And this was like first thing in the morning, this came out. So, seven people were murdered, and dozens were wounded in a terrorist shooting attack, and a light rail station in Haifa on Tuesday morning evening. So, evening there at times, so it was like mid-morning our time. Here, six people were, that's on the east coast of the United States. Six people were taken to a medical center with at least two in critical condition, with head wounds, and others moderately, seriously wounded. Twelve wounded, including a child, were transferred to the Wolfson Medical Center. Five were in serious condition. So, we heard that, and then about an hour later, it was like the people who have been dealing with this stuff, their career, they've been watching this. We were like, "Hey, what's next here?" So, you have a mass shooting, and then about an hour or two later, we got the reports that there was a missile attack. We got the missile attack on Israel. The official word, and we're going to go to VOA news.gov here. Again, I had to restart everything once we kicked in here. Voice of American News. Israel says Iran's rulers made a big mistake in large-scale ballistic missile attack. Now, just to let you know, VOA news, not only did Sammy Hagar write a song about this in the early '80s, VOA, right? Voice of America. That's actual a real thing here, and it's the official news service of the United States to foreign lands. But we are allowed to use it. It's open source. It's finally government here. So, we're appropriate. We're going to be using it here. And this is a story. Israel says Iran rulers made a big mistake in large-scale ballistic missile attack. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran's Islamist rulers had made a big mistake by staging a large-scale missile attack on its nation. Tuesday morning, they will pay for it. "In Israeli and U.S. officials said Iran fired about 200 ballistic missiles at wide swats of Israel after nightfall on Tuesday. Most were intercepted by Israeli forces aided by warships from the U.S. Israelis' main ally. The attack was a major escalation of the year-long conflict between Israel and everybody else. Videos posted online shows some of the Iranian missiles striking the ground in Israel while others landed in neighboring Jordan. There is no immediate reports of Israel through Israeli casualties. Since this happened at night, I imagine they're going to be waiting until the morning until they find out what exactly is going on there. Netanyahu reacted to the Iranian assault in a video statement that he made late Tuesday while addressing his cabinet saying the Islamic Republic's leaders in Tehran are apparently not understood in Israel's determination to retaliate against its enemies, but they will understand he added. Hours earlier, Iranian President Musad Pejishqian. Sorry about that. Aha. Pejishqian posted a message on the ex-platform saying Iran had given a decisive response to the aggression of the Zionist regime, a pejorative for Israel. This action was in defense of the interests and citizens of Iran, let, or Iran, let Netanyahu know that Iran is not a belligerent but stands firmly against any threat. Do not enter into a conflict with Iran," he wrote. U.S. President Joe Biden, speaking Tuesday out of briefing the White House, said, "At my direction, the United States military actively supported the defense of Israel. We are still assessing the impact, but based on what we know now, the attack appears to have been defeated and ineffective. Biden said the thwarting of what he called Iran's brazen and expected attack was a testament to Israel and U.S. military capabilities." And he added, "Make no mistake, that we support Israel and going on with this." This is all because Israel invaded parts of Lebanon. They said, didn't call it an invasion, but it was skirmish for that strategic kind of thing to route out some missile launching sites. But essentially, that's what's going on there in Israel. So we're waiting for the other thing. The IDF, Israeli Defense Forces, says their Air Force remains fully operational, and now they vow Jerusalem will not stand idle from the barrage of 200 missiles fired across the country. Tehran says, fully prepared for any retaliation. So they're saying the article says, "180 missile of whatever." It comes down to that. One of the commentators had said today, and I think this is a very, could be pretty accurate. After what happened to the Hezbollah leader in Lebanon, late earlier this week, it sends a reason that Iran had to do something because, remember, even though they are an Islamic Republic, they do answer to somebody, to the support of leaders who answered to somebody. Usually they're, you know, the population there. And essentially, what they're, you know, essentially, they have to show some response. So did they launch these missiles in the hopes that they were going to be shot down? Because now they can say they did something. I don't know. We'll figure that out in the days to come. But basically, the world is on edge here with this. No, with baited breath. I don't know how this is going to turn out, but no, this is one of those things that, in my opinion, Jimmy Polls' opinion, this is like World War I. Like I was discussing with my wife. This is going to have easily been prevented. And this is stupid that we're doing this. Same thing with Ukraine. It's like, what the hell? Now we have a long drawn out war there. I don't know if that's in our strategic meeting in the United States or the West's best interest to be involved in. I don't know. And I'm okay with saying I don't know because you have these talking heads saying, well, yeah, we got to do that. We got to do that. We got to do that. We got to protect Ukraine. And you got the others saying we can't have anything to do with Ukraine. And I don't think we've gotten an adequate response from the powers that be as to what's going on there with that. And I feel bad for the Ukrainian people. Remember, we covered on February 20th and February 13th, I believe. It was February 2021. We had an interesting Salma talking about my family and her family's experience for dealing with the Soviet Union. And we understand how brutal that is. And apparently Russia is still doing the same stuff 80 years later, right? Over 80 years later. So I get it. But I don't think we're on a very good pathway here. That's my opinion here. Now, what can we do about this? Preparation. And we're going to talk about that, even though it's October 1st. We're still going to talk about disaster preparation because I have a feeling we're all going to need to get our stuff together here. The next few years came on, right, and go out there and be prepared with all different types of stuff. Now, going onward with Hurricane Helena, right, going through there. Now, people are getting, are starting to get the point of what is going on there. So we have some cell phone shot video here, smart phone videos that are coming out from these rescues and everything else. But, you know, it's pretty, it's pretty, you know, a lot of really messed up things going on over here. The same, the least, the rescues. And now, coupled with the port of the Port East Eastern Seaboard in Gulf of Mexico, Port Strike. Again, the perfect storm here with this. And we're already having a possible tropical depression right now. That may be following up on Florida early next week. You're dumping war rain in that whole area. Now, there's been reports of people slashing tires of trucks because that's like the only thing that, and they're like emergency truckers, delivering supplies and things of that nature. I only read a couple of, and they were legitimate news outlets, mainstream news. I haven't heard too much about more about that. Now, also what I want to point out here is now we have a run on basic supplies between the hurricane, ravaged areas, and everyone else on the east coast. So, there's been reports of toilet paper, a run on toilet paper again. I don't get it. I mean, during a pandemic, I mean, there was a, I mean, I know, I had ordered paper towels over the, through Amazon, and there were the same prices, toilet paper. We got like a whole case of toilet paper, and everyone's complaining, "What are you getting all this toilet paper?" I think I ordered paper towels, but they delivered toilet paper. And I said, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." And sure enough, a week later, no toilet paper that we found in Rockland County, New York. So, I was like, "Yeah, it was a mistake, but it was a fortuitous mistake with toilet paper." Now, apparently, that's going on again now. So, here, here we go. Toilet paper, again, I had to restart everything. I had this all lined up. Paper shortage. Let's see if we get some mainstream news here. All right. Strike. This is from W.R.Y.R.K., at a New York, this is country 106.5. Strike could cause shortage of this in New York. Back in March of 2020, right before restaurant schools and other local businesses closed their doors through the COVID-19, New Yorkers are scrambling to gather everything they needed to stay indoors for the foreseeable future. Now, my mother, right back then, she pointed something out. In February, there was all the toilet paper sales and all the supermarkets. Why did my mother notice that? Because mothers noticed that sort of thing. And that was coupled with, no, the supply chain was getting all fouled up, right? And, you know, and the commercial delivers a toilet paper, right? Their supply wasn't disrupted, but everyone else was because they weren't in work. And according, and I have it on very good authority here because I know some custodial engineers out there. They told me, look, that they were running low. They always have run through a lot of toilet paper, not because it's public rest area, rest room. But because the people steal toilet paper. And so you got to be kidding me. People are stealing toilet paper. Really? Yeah, really. But, you know, and so now they couldn't steal toilet paper because they're under lockdown. So thousands of New York State residents went from store to store in panic trying to find the necessities they needed. And one item in particular was especially difficult to find. We don't mean to sign the alarm bells, but there are a huge possibility they could happen again. Beginning Tuesday morning, 12-1 AM, thousands of dock workers along the East Coast are essential for getting goods into the United States. Walked off the job, signing the need for better job security and higher wages. I'm going to tell you this much. Okay, I don't have the complete context here, but this happened in the way back machine. We got to go on the way back machine to the early 2000s, 2002. And on the West Coast, where the union members did not get a lot of sympathy. Because in California, with their thing, right? And here, let's do this. Average day of long Sherman in New York. So according to a, and this is from CBS News, how much do dock workers make? Roughly 25,000 striking dock workers at ports along the East Gulf Coast are rallying for higher pay and stronger guardrails around their jobs being automated out of existence. So only 14, only workers at 14 Gulf East Gulf Coast ports are on strike. West Coast long Sherman are represented by a different union, which negotiated for a different type of thing. So let's go down here. Pay for long Sherman is based on years of experience. Under the former contract, which expired money, starting pay for dock workers was $20 an hour. That rose to $24.75 after two years, $31.90 after three years and topping out at $39 for an hour for workers for at least six years of service. The union is demanding a 77% raise over six years for the equivalent of $5 increase for an hour for each year of the contract. But basically, they are essential workers. So right now, the top tier hourly wage of $39 amounts to just $81,000 nationally, but dock workers to make more on by taking on extra shifts. For example, according to 2019 to 2020, annual report for the Waterfront Commission of New York, that one third of local long Sherman made $200,000 or more a year. So a more typical long Sherman salary can exceed $100,000, but not without locking substantial over time hours. Daggett, the ILA president, maintains that these higher earners were up a work up to $100 a week. So across the industry, including non-union jobs, pay for some dock workers, 75,000 were modest at around $53,000 a year, according to the job site indeed. This is from CBS News. So that puts it into a little bit of context here. Now, I think this article from CBS News Money Watch by Meghan Cerillo and edited by Elaine Schurter, dated today at about $5.30, let's listen to a little bit more context here. Because often people think that their union workers, they're bringing in the money. They're doing not necessarily true because they're tapped out at $39 an hour. But look at the hours that they got to go. And I have family members that have been in this industry, long hours, brutal hours on the water and everything else with this. I mean, it's a hard job, 39 an hour. The New York area, 39 an hour, not $81,000 year base salary. Not going to get you much because the minimum for a modest lower middle class lifestyle in this area, $81,000 ain't groove though. I'm going to tell you that. Especially if you're a single wage earning family unit, not a lot. So I see it from both those points of view. The danger that we have here with this strike is that for the long term is that stuff is automated. It's going to be automated here. That's what I see going on here, eventually. So, be interesting here. Maybe you live in interesting times as the Chinese curse says. Now, how does this impact us? Fruit, like I mentioned last night, a lot of anything that comes in on the ships, fruit, anything from Europe. They're not going to go around the Cape of Goodhofer through the Suez Canal. They're going to be parked right out there along New York Harbor. Come to think of it here. Let me go to commercial break, and there's one thing I want to show you folks that we'll see if we can get it on here. I have the app for it. I don't know if they have an actual real website, so we're going to go in here and here you go. You were listening to Safety Wars. Tomorrow's Safety Today. In the professional safety community, communication and planning are just a few keys to your program's success. The question many practitioners have is where do I start? Dr. Jay Allen, the creator of the Safety FM platform and host of the Rated R Safety Show, has built a global foundation to help you along the way. 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Okay, so here I have this is from marinetraffic.com. And I believe this is fair use, so I'm going to go with it. So all of the shifts out there with a transponder have are located on here. So if I zoom out here, I'm zoomed in on New York City. I know you're looking at this. You're looking at this. You're not looking at this on Safety FM, the audio portion here. But here you have all of the shifts basically in the world you are looking at. And some of the websites, some of the, not this isn't the only one. I don't prefer one over or another. I really have no use of this except for curiosity where things are. So we have all different types of traffic here. So here I'm centered in on the lower New York Bay here. And we have shifts all over here above them. So I am a Staten Island right over here. And all different boating things. You have the grander all different. And this is here and this little harbor here. I have centered. That is basically a marina, the Great Kills Park. There, I'm familiar. I'm somewhat familiar with this because I grew up boating this area as a kid. And then we have Fort Wadsworth and we have pilot ships here over here. Now, if we go over here, this section here, this is over by Bayown, right, we see Bayown. This is the Jersey City area. This is the former military ocean terminal here. And we have one ship in there and that is the mine ship. Yes, I'm not kidding you. Mine ship, which is probably a German vessel. Here, that's Ward over there. And that is over there is also the, where the teardrop memorial is September 11th. And in Bayown, we have the conquest and we have the Captain Dan. That's over at the IMTT terminal. And going here, Martin Explorer over at IMTT. IMTT is very large, right, terminal. And those are most likely oil tanks. We have other ships here. And let's see, and we're talking about Fort Newark. Usually this is loaded up with ships here. And right now, where I'm highlighting, way in on the inlet, that normally is the smaller ship area with the tugboats, things of that nature of support vessels. You have some of the other ones. Here is a dredger JP Bosso. I have a picture of it here. I'm familiar with that boat there. And here we have the Chesapeake, which is another dredge here. And we have the curvy moran. Those are all tugboats here with that. Probably moving around stuff. And those are the moran tugs. And this is all pretty interesting here. And you're not seeing any major ships here in Fort Newark. They sent them all out. And here we have Port Elizabeth. Now in this area, Port Ivory over here in this area. I removed, I was on a project to remove 21 pipelines in that area in the mid-2000s there. Here we have David Winslow. That is a tugboat. William Brewster. But if you look here, this is usually all loaded up with ships here. They're not there now. They moved them out last night. Here we have a at the Bayway Refinery. What do we have? We have the Trinity, which is a crude oil tanker. To my knowledge, the crude oil, the oil business was not, or is not impacted by this. I might be wrong on that one. But that's what's going on there. And if you look here earlier today, this was, I looked earlier today, there was ships all over the place here with, with here, and there you have the Grimaldi lines. Shout out to my friend John Grimaldi. You're a cargo barge that was, I don't know whether in van or outbound, looks outbound according to the map. So what's my point in going through this? You could track a lot of different things here with marine traffic. It's all publicly available. Here we have several cargo ships off the coast of Long Beach over in, off the coast of Long Island here. I think, from my thinking there, not my thinking from what I've heard, they're just hanging out there, waiting for what to do. So, again, for every one day, this stuff is delayed. And one day, it takes anywhere from, I've heard estimates from four to eight days. We're commonly six days to get back on schedule here. So, if this goes more than two, three days, again, it's got a week, and on a week of stuff that essentially of, of, of bad situations. And if this goes much longer than that, now we're talking about a major disruption here to our economy because one-fifth reportedly of the, one-fifth of the U.S. economy goes through the East Coast ports here. Now, my question is this. Let's go down and see how this is impacted the year. Oh, and of course we got the ads coming up because I did not pay for this. So, let's go down to the Gulf Coast. Okay. Wow. So, we're able to see what's going up the mighty Mississippi River and some of the other rivers, we actually have the U.S. Oh, I didn't know that the comfort is over there. U.S. Navy hospital ship there. I didn't know what it's doing, but stuff's all backed up here. Around the New Orleans area. I know, if these are supposed to be there or not there, I don't know, but, I don't know. They're doing their recovery work, just out of curiosity. So, there's a lot of stuff, and if you're a soundtrack fan. Kobe. Yeah, let's see. Hold on, let me try this. How do we spell, I know I'm spelling it wrong. Okay. So, here, I'll call. Almost. The Kobayashi Maru is currently over in Uruguay. So, Argentina. So, yes, the Kobayashi Maru. If you're a soundtrack fan, you know what I'm referring to. So, that's what I got on that. So, what do we do? As always, there's going to be supply disruptions. Anything coming on, be prepared for that. So, your staple items, I would go into, because I think people get, go and get, because I think, but don't go nuts. Because, you know, we don't want to cause a shortage or panic. But, if you have a couple extra bucks to go out there, I would go out there and. I would go out there and get it and prepare a little bit on this. 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So, OSHA issued an alert today on specifically the Preventing Carbon monoxide poisoning while working with portable generators. Working with portable generators can expose workers to carbon monoxide CO, a colorless, odorless, and toxic gas. All of these work practices. Inspector generator for damage or loose fuel lines. That's actually happened. I've seen that happen where a fuel line ruptures. You get oil and gasoline all over the place and, you know, walled gasoline and it lights up. Keep the generator dry and maintain and operated according to manufacturers' instructions. Do not use a portable generator indoors. Generators should be used outdoors and never place a generator near doors. Windows or ventilation shafts or a CO can enter and build up. And make sure the generator has three to four feet of clear space on all sides. And if you or others show symptoms of CO poisoning, dizziness, or headaches, noise, dividing, and tiring its confusion and consciousness, get to fresh air and immediately and seek medical attention. Do not re-enter the area until it's determined to be safe by properly trained people. So that's what they have to say with that. Okay. Department of-- here you go. Department of Labor restructures OSHA regional offices. It creates a Birmingham region to improve operations in Arkansas and Louisiana. US Department of Labor's OSHA and OSHA has completed changes to restructure its regional operations and created a new region. It's better to protect workers and educate employers. So these are the list of the new regions and the previous regions and where their headquarters are. Newly created Birmingham regions will be overseen by Syrian social leaders. What their rationale is in restructuring this is a lot of states out west have their own OSHA, namely California and Washington with that. And what they're saying is, well, maybe we need to restructure and since they have state programs, we don't need to have-- we had to oversee them, but we can need to concentrate our resources otherwise. I don't know if it's a good or bad thing on there, but we'll see on this here. This is the same thing OSHA regional offices here and version San Francisco's Seattle regions to improve operations. That's what OSHA is doing also. And here we have US Department of Labor, a New Jersey Department of Labor's strategic enforcement initiative, combat's illegal child labor. The US Department of Labor's wage and hour division and the New Jersey State Department of Labor and workforce development have launched a joint strategic enforcement initiative to combat violations of federal and state child labor laws. Preventing violations involving children working in dangerous jobs is an urgent priority for both agencies. Officials in Washington, D.C., and Trenton are focused on industries for the history of noncompliance, with existing laws for vulnerable workers or less likely to file complaints of federal or state agencies. This approach augments each department's existing compliance driven enforcement actions. At the wage and hour division, our priority is protecting the most vulnerable workers in our country. Our children. So wage and hour administrator, Jessica Lumen. We will use strategic enforcement innovation in every available tool to hold any employer who tries to profit by using illegal child labor accountable. Since 2019, the US Department of Labor has seen an 88% increase nationwide in children employed illegally. In fiscal year 2022, federal investigators identified 955 child labor violations. With 5792, children at risk between 502 working hazardous occupations illegally. And going on. Now, let's see. Here are my, here's my comment on here. What's happened since 2020 here? What have we had going on here? Economic upheaval. Economic upheaval. Huge illegal immigrant population. Coming in regardless of what your opinion is on this. We're not allowed to call them. We're allowed to call them migrants. However, the law still refers them as illegal immigrants. Now, this is what it comes down to. Maybe if we had better economic conditions, perhaps you wouldn't have so many children working. And dangerous things. And the other thing is this. The workers that come over, the migrants that come over. They don't know what their rights are. I'll have it in when we're working under the table. How many children are working off the books or under the table? Maybe we're under an assumed alias. Remember, I'm used to dealing with people from Eastern Europe. Believe me, they have assumed aliases. There used to be a dude years ago, rumored to be in Pasek County, New Jersey. He had 20 names and 20 social security numbers. And he would rotate people out from Poland and Eastern Europe and assign them those numbers. And then they'd leave and then the new running war people would come over and use those numbers and names. One of my clients had proof of it. And they were forced to manage that legally, of course. But anyway, I'm getting a drink of water here. So I'm clicking on... Here. People rightly said the departments, and this is from 2022. They're talking about reducing labor costs, the dark apartments. And this is Department of Labor, New Jersey. First, strategic enforcement initiatives focused on two industries. Commercial laundromats and multi-unit residential construction. Commercial laundromats for dominantly employ women immigrants who are often fearful of reporting wage staff in other workplace violations. And residential construction, worker misclassification has become embedded in many business models. Yeah, no groove now there. These targets follow months of research. And we're selected to make lasting industry-wide employment. So, construction and laundry. How about fast food? Because we're seeing in a lot of this stuff when I read these news releases, fast food places. With that. What are the dangerous jobs that children go into? Dangerous jobs are awful limits, and this is from the Department of Labor, DOL.gov. And we always hear meat processing and slicing. But here we go. Federal law. Not allowed to do meat processing or slicing. Power-driven woodworking machinery. Compactors or bailers. Forklifts and skid steers. Logging, forestry, and saw-billing. Now, you may say, well, every, uh, every, uh, test that I take related to forklifts and skid steers say that under 18, uh, no, you have to be over 18. And this is where it comes from. It's from this law here. Power-driven bakery machineries. Working with metal. So, I guess that has to do all those 18-year-olds and, uh, younger than 18 that used to be working machine shops. Can't do that. Power-driven saws that, uh, eliminate carpentry. Roofing. Mostly because that's working at height. Here. Ricken tile, radioactive material. Mining. Demolition and trenching and excavation. Not allowed to do it by federal law and states often have, uh, other restrictions on those. So, yeah, we're, we're doing this. We're doing everything here. Okay, the next story is we have to go back to my camera and you get to see me again. Hello. All right. Rise. And this is from the U.S. Sun. New HIV diagnoses on heterosexual men and women in England have surged by over 30% in the last two years. Uh, probably because everybody's having a great time that they're now out of pandemic lockdowns. And I noticed this was, uh, you know, in my sphere of people. Uh, you know, I asked, you know, are you really? No. Uh, what you're doing here and think about it, right? Uh, because I know some people who've gone nuts. They're out of, uh, the pandemic lockdowns. They're like, nope. Hey, let's have a great time. I had pointed out back in 2010 as my departing, uh, uh, message from the people I worked with politically that once people have time to think and once people have time to think, they have time to contemplate and to reflect and everything else, they're going to realize that they're screwed. Uh, they've been screwed and there's going to be hell to pay. I think this is an outgrowth of that. People, you know, lock people up. It's sort of like what I've heard from prisoners that I've worked with, uh, former inmates on my phone. They say once you're in prison, the lights go out often, especially if you're in a minimum security prison. Uh, let's say, or any prison, solitary, you're alone with your thoughts. This is what happened here with this. People are alone with their thoughts. I have no capacity. They didn't use that word, but that's what it was. No capacity, no resilience to change my life. I'm stuck. That's where you had people starting to take online courses more often from what I've seen. That's when you've had people say, you know what? I'm not going to be in the service industry. I'm not going to be doing this. I'm not going to be doing that. I'm not going to do what I want and I'm going to work towards that. In part, that's why safety words is here. Always wanted to do broadcasting. So here we have a situation where people were all pent up, locked away, not allowed on the streets. And now we're shocked where HIV diagnoses of unheterosexual men and women in England has surged by over 30% in the last two years. People are letting loose. People are doing stuff that they shouldn't maybe shouldn't be doing with this. Aren't thinking, taking risk, risky behavior with this stuff. Like I should be wanting to talk. I'm not judging. I'm just saying what this is. Experts are in certain why cases are rising with such as federal access to testing maybe a factor. Okay. It is the second consecutive year that heterosexual diagnoses of HIV have outpaced those among gay men. Experts say this indicates more action is needed. Maybe less action is needed to reduce the new different kind. It is reduced to HIV diagnosis of unheterosexuals. Charities fear the aim of ending new cases of HIV in England by 2030 is now at risk. The latest figures reveal the new diagnosis in England jumped by 15%. What's the age group? They mentioned the age group. Again, they're looking for men exposed to HIV through sex with women. The number of new diagnoses first made in England rose by 36% from 445 in 2022 to 605 in 2023 and rose by 30% from 602 to 780 among women exposed to the virus through sex with men. Rise in cases was great. Stevens and ethnic minority heterosexuals with a 45% rise seen in this group compared to the previous year. In 2022, heterosexual diagnosis of HIV surpass those among gay men. For the first time, HIV diagnoses in England among men exposed to sex with other men rose by 7%. In 2022 and in 2023, ethnic minority men experienced 7% increase while white men saw a 3% rise. Although there is much to celebrate with treatment and prevention and everything else, it's all, you know, I don't know, just the way it is, you know, what's going on here. California passes a law of protecting your brain data. So California has amended its Consumer Privacy Act to include protection for brain data. Users will get opted out of neurotechnology, companies selling or sharing their data and can request to see what data a firm holds, limit the data or demand correction or deletion. It's an important first step on federal and global legislation is needed to ensure neural data is protected worldwide. Amendments to California's Consumer Privacy Act now include neural data. Again, not the first state in doing this. I mean, your medical data is your own. This is a very controversial year with this. James Von, eat your heart out. An incredible 454 foot mega yacht has an underwater dining room. A 32 foot whole pool and a 40 seat theater, but it comes with an eye-watering price tag. The idea of underwater dining room may sound like a concept from the latest James Von Blockbuster, but it could soon become a reality thanks to Dutch designers. Imagine going off the coast of Coney Island with this thing, you'd have amazing views of nothing but Coney Island whitefish. There, you can look that up what that is, and other garbage and everything else. I don't think that that's where this would likely be, but it would be pretty cool for about five minutes. Concepts dubbed "Inspire" features an underwater room that offers a panoramic view of the oceans. And what's for the lucky people on board? We'll able to enjoy them. Sauna, a 32 foot blue hole and a 40 seat theater. Also, exact costs yet to be confirmed. Similarly, size A plus, you have to belong to Manchester City owner, Sheikh Mansour, then Zayed Al Nayan reportedly costs about £333 million to build. I don't think they had their thumb on the scale on that one. But anyway, pretty cool idea. I don't think I'll ever own one. Maybe nice to visit. Now, if they want to safety audit on that, I could do safety audits there. And we would have to get the full experience of it. So, like when I did that at Universal Studios in LA, I was tasked to do lock out, tag out compliance and all the rides. Me and Greg Erdel from BBL. And they gave us free passes in the park. And after work, every day, we wanted to ride one rides because we had to do research. How do they work? What are we doing work on? That's all I got for tonight. A quick night, we're going to do the outro. And then we're going to do our regular patriotic songs here. And we'll go from there. So, for Safety Wars, this is Jim Poelzel. 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