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All of those links are for the same book from 2015 (the fourth isn't direct to the relevant article but it's easy to find on the page). Has there been any new information since then?

The 50 studies in the cited 2015 book ought to span a range of time, and their keywords could be used to search literature for more recent material.

> Has there been any new information since then?

Since you asked, there apparently was a 2017 followup book by the same author. These links are for that book:

https://harvoa.org/chs/pr/dusbk2.htm

https://www.amazon.com/Ultrasound-Causation-Microcephaly-Vir...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36466945-ultrasound-caus...


That book claims:

> Microcephaly incidence increased 1000x within the area of The Network. This was first observed seven months after The Network began its remote prenatal ultrasound program. Do the math.

Almost every baby is exposed to prenatal ultrasound. What do you think was different about that ultrasound program? Why would prenatal ultrasound cause microencephaly there, but not everywhere?


> not everywhere?

Are you absolutely certain that there is not an unexplained uptick in brain damaged newborns/children in the USA?

And that its cause is not some thing(s) that "almost every" one of them is subjected to repeatedly?

And that it is not just a case of better/more/over diagnosis?

IDK about by you, but there are literal nurseries/schools for the brain-damaged kids popping up on Main Street. That's how many there seem to be.

So yeah, maybe they're not in that study. But that means they don't exist?


I don't think that's comparable to what happened in Brazil at that time.

That policy changed a long time ago. The last declaration of war was June 4, 1942.

After Vietnam, Congress passed the War Powers Resolution to limit the ability of Presidents to conduct military action without Congressional approval, but it still allows military action for up to 60 days. Every President since then has used that power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution


That 60 day limit was ignored so frequently in the past it might as well not exist.

Pretty much every attempt at stopping the president (from Clinton onwards) ends the same way: house votes on it, senate might agree with the slimmest of majority, it reaches the president's desk, president vetoes it, it goes back to the senate where it needs 2/3 majority to overthrow the veto, and it never gets that 2/3 majority.


Yep, it’s a case of are they willing to impeach the president over this. And the answer is likely no. Some of the America first lot might vote against on ‘How does this help America’ grounds but I don’t see them getting near the threshold.

What does impeachment even achieve anymore?

Same as it always has. The senate has to vote on whether to convict. And they always vote no.

Even your link doesn't say what you imply.

> It provides that the president can send the U.S. Armed Forces into action abroad only by Congress's "statutory authorization", or in case of "a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces".

There was not at attack on the United States.


I don't know why we're getting mired in the details here. The administration certainly isn't. We all work for trump now. Lawyers, journalists, universities, tech companies, state, local and foreign governments. Anything trump or one of his designated people wants, you need to do. If you start sputtering about your agency or your rights or your sovereignty, then expect as much shit thrown at you as the trump organization can muster. That's it, there is no legal justification. There are no fine points to argue. Obey or be punished.

The point is that someone claimed the law was changed, and then linked to something that didn't support the claim.

Yes, Trump is ignoring the law, but you have to be aware that he is crossing the line rather than gas lighting that there wasn't a line at all.


So the president can wage war without the Congress, but it can't officially rename the department that supports these wars autocratically. That's interesting.

Iraq war was the last declared war. Afghanistan war was also declared.

Incorrect. The only times America has formally declared war were the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II.

In the case of the Barbary Wars, Vietnam War, the Iraq War and War on Terror / Afghanistan War, etc... congress approved military engagement but DID NOT issue a formal Declaration of War.


You mean that they were special military operations? j/k

Interesting though, I never knew this.


For the sake of mutual understanding, let's say Israel are the good guys, Hamas are terrorists, and the IDF is a righteous force whose only goal in Gaza is to capture terrorists.

What happens to everyone else in Gaza? Is "starve them all" an acceptable response to a hostage situation?


Yes, the Israeli government seems convinced that hostages don't need to eat


I agree the results after one year of a keto diet don't prove much, but getting that test seems like a good idea. I hope they'll keep testing and reporting the results for years, so we can learn more about the long term effects of a keto diet. And if it does cause problems, they'll want to know ASAP.


CAC tests come with a non-trivial radiation exposure if someone is getting them every few years.

The other problem is that they’re picking and choosing which tests to believe and which to ignore.

They disregard their cholesterol tests because they don’t like the results, but embrace one or two CAC tests because they do like the results (when they’re young).

However the CAC results are a lagging indicator of cumulative damage that has been done. Cholesterol tests are correlated with the rate of damage occurring.

So embracing CAC and using it to justify ignoring LDL and others is the problem.


I think the unknown factor here is whether other benefits of keto over a standard American diet--possibly including reduced inflammation, BP, blood glucose, and body weight--balance out the effect of cholesterol. CAC measures actual damage already done, while cholesterol is just one of many factors.

The downside, of course, is that once the damage is done, it's done, so it's a risk. (And as you said, they won't see the damage in their 20s.)


In short: approximately 4% of the population of the island nation of Tuvalu will migrate to Australia each year.

I wonder what life will be like there when half the population have left. Some people will be left living in a mostly abandoned island nation for years.


Yes, that's one of the angles.


row row row your boat gently down the stream merrily merrily merrily life was but a dream

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Who does chargebacks on Steam? They'd lose their whole account.


What makes it utopian?


Only the "best people" will live and work there, I guess.


To be clear, this is something that would be wrapped around a fusion power plant (capturing neutrons produced by fusion), not a viable fusion plant itself nor a way to generate gold from just any power plant, right?


mRNA vaccines like the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines don't enter the nucleus nor have a permanent effect. The mRNA breaks down after a few days.


Do we have any studies that show this fast clearance? From what I understand at least one of them used a pseudo-uradine that there isn't an efficient direct metabolic pathway to process, which was kind of the whole point. The idea being it would circulate longer and be "more effective"


The uridine modification was intended to reduce immunogenicity of mRNA - some of our immune cells have pattern-seeking receptors in the TLR family that recognize ssRNA and dsRNA. The presence of modified uridines throws this pattern recognition off. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2015.08.051)

The modifications to increase mRNA half-life concerned mostly the caps and poly(A) tail. But even with those the persistence was in the range of days (sort of depending on how sensitive a method you picked).


That's right, they use N1-Methylpseudouridine instead of uridine (the nucleoside contained in uracil, which is the U in mRNA sequences) to last a bit longer (but not forever) and to avoid triggering immune reactions to the mRNA itself (the immune system can detect foreign mRNA).

Certainly the vaccine's mRNA sequence breaks down into separate nucleotides. If it did not, continued production of the antigens would cause a chronic immune reaction and/or immune exhaustion that would make the vaccine ineffective.

I don't know what happens to the N1-Methylpseudouridine though. That's an interesting question.


> Certainly the vaccine's mRNA sequence breaks down into separate nucleotides. If it did not, continued production of the antigens would cause a chronic immune reaction and/or immune exhaustion that would make the vaccine ineffective.

I suspect you just described "long COVID" or "vaccine injury" for some fraction of folks.


Also, people are usually like LOL it's just mRNA it goes away

But evidence does show it CAN go back to DNA with mechanisms familiar to anyone edgycated in molecular genetics - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35723296/

Now, that particular study is in whatever cell line, highly dubious how it pertains to a human body, a few steps removed. But if you say "will you see this if you vaccinate 500 million times in 500 million people each with 500 trillion cells" - yea probably you would


Numerous studies have found vax-derived spike persisting for months and even years after vaccination, giving rise to concerns expression of spike can continue long after the claimed 24-48 hours.

A recent study found spike protein persisting for 17 months in the cerebral arteries of stroke victims. [1]

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096758682...


That is interesting, but the authors point out:

> In our study, in situ hybridization detected both mRNA derived from the vaccine and mRNA from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. ... our in situ hybridization method has high sensitivity and could detect trace amounts of mRNA, possibly reflecting unrecognized asymptomatic infections. These findings emphasize the need for caution in interpreting the presence of spike protein as exclusively vaccine-related.

We should also note that the study doesn't show that the original vaccine mRNA somehow survived for months, only that mRNA matching the vaccine sequence was detected by complementary probes.

I wonder if, in these cases, the vaccine was administered to someone with an active (but asymptomatic) COVID infection, and the vaccine mRNA was copied by the same RNA-dependent RNA polymerase that copies the viral RNA.

That might explain why both vaccine and viral RNA were found.


How much of that $100 million goes to Colbert himself?


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