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Pakistan expels Iranian ambassador after air strike
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
The main tenet of Western ideology turned out to be false
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Sergey Khudiev

[REGNUM] According to a study by Definitive Healthcare,
...they do healthcare analytics...
since 2018 in the United States, the proportion of minors with gender dysphoria has increased from 17.5% to 20.4%.
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Posted by: badanov || 01/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The main tenet of Western ideology is that these who scream & demand loudest are the most deserving.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/18/2024 2:34 Comments || Top||


#3  "Bent"?
Posted by: Frank G || 01/18/2024 7:46 Comments || Top||


#5  /\ Or a lobster.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2024 8:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Binary? Non-binary? Ah'm so confused.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/18/2024 9:03 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Is that Biel or Loki?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/18/2024 9:06 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
DNA Contaminants In COVID Vaccines Are 'Beyond The Pale': Florida Surgeon General
[ET via ZERO] On the Jan. 12 episode of EpochTV’s "American Thought Leaders," Dr. Joseph Ladapo explained why he called for a halt, saying that while there are also safety concerns with the COVID mRNA vaccines linking them to a multitude of adverse events, the recent discovery is "beyond the pale."

"DNA is a common contaminant of many biological products," he told the show’s host, Jan Jekielek. "We can use DNA to produce different drugs like insulin, other biologics—and that’s a wonderful innovation, and normally, that DNA doesn’t pose a problem."

Human cells are resistant to DNA entry, and this prevents harming the integrity of the cell’s DNA.

However, since the mRNA vaccines use lipid nanoparticles, which deliver mRNA into the cells directly, DNA contaminants could also be able to enter the cells. Some scientists, like Dr. Ladapo, are concerned that the DNA from the vaccine may integrate with the human genome.

Prominent officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) disagree.

On Dec. 6, Dr. Ladapo sent a letter to FDA commissioner Dr. Robert Califf and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director, Dr. Mandy Cohen.

In his letter, he asked if there have been risk assessments of the vaccine DNA integrating into human DNA, especially regarding the controversial SV40 promoter/enhancer region found in Pfizer’s vaccine.

Other questions included whether risk assessments have been done on DNA integration in reproductive cells and if the current levels of DNA residuals are acceptable under the FDA’s standards.

Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, replied to Dr. Ladapo on Dec. 14.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2024 01:59 || Comments || Link || [38 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How the f*ck they managed to contaminate them - as I understand the tech: the vaccine is produced by amplifying mRNA in vitro?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/18/2024 2:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Easy big fella, don't get started again.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/18/2024 6:45 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 Maybe it's the (secret) staff that makes the cells incorporate foreign mRNA without breaking it down first.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/18/2024 6:59 Comments || Top||


#5  /\ Sounds rather bizarre. Will these monkey-humans, still shop at wet markets ?

Probably an inappropriate, 'Donner Pass' sort of question I suppose.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/18/2024 8:10 Comments || Top||

#6  ^Not sufficiently abusive to get SPAMMED.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/18/2024 8:58 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ #1
Don't tell him.
Let Professor (r)eflective figure it out on his own.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 01/18/2024 14:08 Comments || Top||

#8  How the f*ck they managed to contaminate them - as I understand the tech: the vaccine is produced by amplifying mRNA in vitro?

* Contaminated RNA samples
* Contaminated base in which RNA was amplified
* Manufacturing facility insufficiently cleaned and sanitized between batches
* China dunnit, whether accidentally or deliberately, and covered it up

There have been several Covid vaccine recalls for contamination — at least one was for solids in the vials that was traced to a contractor factory. Unfortunately, factories are not as persnickety as laboratories, though in general they do their best. And once standards and key tests are established, factories do not test their raw materials as carefully, trusting the suppliers to be honourable and trusting that doing the few key tests is all that’s needed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/18/2024 17:49 Comments || Top||

#9  Nope, you are wrong TW.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 01/18/2024 21:36 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ Yeah, wrong, wrong, wrong. Triply wrong! Q.E.D.
Posted by: Clyde McCoy5295 || 01/18/2024 21:55 Comments || Top||

#11  Instruct me, please, Walking Unvaxxed. How am I wrong? I know you have been paying attention to this issue.

My experience in this case is working with factories — I was on several product development teams that were subsequently involved in getting production started in the factories. So I wasn’t a line worker or a production manager, but I had to learn what to plan for to avoid the kinds of stories that are told as awful lessons for years afterwards.

I also heard some of the stories Mr. Wife and his colleagues told about the projects and factories they were working with/on. Mr. Wife told about this one supplier’s factory in Egypt... The Third World really has a different mindset.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/18/2024 23:28 Comments || Top||


The Truth About Billy Mitchell, Martyr of Military Air Power


Bonus film/video, The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell

Posted by: badanov || 01/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Truth lives after facts are forgotten.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/18/2024 0:34 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Sadly, the truth: William Lendrum Mitchell was an a$$hole. His efforts to create an independent Air Force actually set it back by at least a decade or so, and he simply could not accept in any way shape or form that he might be wrong.

USAF itself is allergic to any mention of his name. When I was at Langley AFB VA, my NCO Leadership School class took as a class project the identification and restoration of the site where Mitchell's crews built and loaded their bombs, and the renaming of then-TAC HQ as Mitchell Hall. It was made very, very clear to us that Mitchell was not considered a suitable exemplar for modern Air Force officers.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 01/18/2024 6:41 Comments || Top||

#3  After the court martial, he was sent to work in (iirc inventory and logistics) at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio - he had a tiny office in the old Quadrangle building, that is now part of the Fort Sam museum. His (and probably over time a lot of other military members') office now presently a small conference and break room. There was a little plaque on the wall, making note of this interesting little factoid.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 01/18/2024 8:32 Comments || Top||


The Largest and Most Expensive Helicopter
The Sikorsky CH-53K Heavy Lift King Stallion, the latest of the CH-53 series.

Posted by: badanov || 01/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [27 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Interesting it has a stinger.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/18/2024 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  The “stinger” is a refueling pod for mid air refueling.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For ignorance || 01/18/2024 2:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/18/2024 6:48 Comments || Top||

#4  All 53's come with the refueling probe these days. Mounted on the pilot's side, so he can 'shoot the birdy', the drogue from a C-130. they usually work in teams.
Posted by: ed in texas || 01/18/2024 8:42 Comments || Top||

#5  how would you make this stealthy?
Posted by: irish rage boy || 01/18/2024 10:52 Comments || Top||

#6  It can lift 7,000 pounds more than a Sky Crane at 29,000 pounds. That's some lift.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/18/2024 11:08 Comments || Top||

#7  How...
Be kinda like taking a tow truck to the prom.

Works same as the other nose jobs I guess.
Refuel after lift, then in route and/or on return.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/18/2024 13:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Wonder how slow a loaded KC and how fast a loaded 53 must go to match up.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/18/2024 23:37 Comments || Top||



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