I personally know many friends, relatives and acquaintances who were destroyed by alcohol, but none who were harmed by psychedelics unless alcohol was also involved.
LSD is not a panacea but it can be helpful to many people, including helping alcoholics get off that terrible poison.
Buddhists should recognize that the Fifth Precept for lay Buddhists restricts alcohol and alcohol only.
I am not trying to promote the use of psychedelics but rather want to clear the air on their genuine and provable value.
Of course, when used, they should be used wisely or in micro-doses as in the above trial. ABN
Epstein to Bannon: “Reminder. Money, medicine, law, JEWS only,” to which Bannon responds, “I’ve only had Jewish doctors and lawyers since leaving the Navy.” At least part of the Epstein story is about Jewish supremacy/exceptionalism, whatever you want to call it
I personally experienced serious criminal malpractice at the hands of a Jewish surgeon, who was obviously a militant Jewish Supremist. To this day, I fear JS doctors and so should you. ABN
Childfree people—people who do not have children and do not want to have children in the future—represent and large and growing percentage of the population in wealthy countries. However, less is known about childfree people in developing countries. To facilitate this research, we developed software to identify childfree people in data from the Demographic and Health Surveys. Using this software, we estimated the prevalence of childfree people in 51 developing countries. Among single women ages 15–29, we found substantial cross-national and within-region variation in childfree prevalence, ranging from 0.3% in Liberia to 15.6% in Papua New Guinea. We also estimated the association between being childfree and country-level indicators of human development, gender equality, and political freedom. Results suggest that the prevalence of childfree people in a country is associated with the country’s level of human development, and to a lesser extent their gender equality and political freedom. These results suggest that some developing countries have large populations of childfree people, and thus that being childfree is not a choice restricted to those living in the West or in wealthy countries. As developing countries evolve in terms of their human development, gender equality, and political freedom, it will be important to continue studying their childfree populations, both to understand demographic transitions in this part of the world, and to support its members’ reproductive health and other needs.
Winston Churchill. Blind drunk. March 1940. A US envoy walks in, reports it to Roosevelt, and the embarrassing details are later wiped from the official record. The archives still show what really happened… and it isn’t the Churchill myth you were sold.
The U.S. State Department has cleared a $330 million Foreign Military Sales package of non-standard spare parts and support services for the Republic of China Air Force (RoCAF), specifically for its F-16C/D, C-130 and Indigenous Defence Fighter fleets.
The order should help the Air Force with “maintaining the operational readiness of the… fleet of F-16, C-130” and other planes, the U.S. Department of War announced.
The RoCAF has operated F-16A/B fighters since the late 1990s, when an order for 140 of the aircraft was placed alongside a similar number of indigenous F-CK fighters, and 60 French Mirage 2000 fighters.
The service is set to become the largest foreign operator of the F-16, as both Israel and Turkey retire the aircraft, while 66 modernized F-16C/D Block 70 aircraft are brought into service from the late 2020s.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Thursday said the Trump administration is planning to have all Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries reapply for the program due to alleged fraud.
The secretary said after receiving data on SNAP recipients from 29 red states that “186,000 deceased men and women and children in this country are receiving a check.”
“Can you imagine when we get our hands on the blue state data what we’re going to find?” she asked during a Thursday appearance on Newsmax’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight.”
“It’s going to give us a platform and a trajectory to fundamentally rebuild this program, have everyone reapply for their benefit, make sure that everyone that’s taking a taxpayer-funded benefit through SNAP or food stamps, that they literally are vulnerable, and they can’t survive without it,” she added.
Researchers have demonstrated that a compound made in the gut, produced by consuming foods like pomegranate and walnuts, can rejuvenate the immune system in middle age, shielding us from cell damage, inflammation and chronic diseases, including cancer.
Researchers at Germany’s Georg-Speyer-Haus, Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy, have spent years investigating the metabolite urolithin A (UA), a natural compound that’s produced by gut bacteria in response to ingested ellagitannins from foods such as pomegranates, almonds, walnuts and some berries.
The new study follows on from a breakthrough in 2022, when the team found that UA induced a biological pathway that rejuvenates the cellular power plants – mitochondria – in T cells, equipping these immune cells with more cancer-fighting might. But it goes far beyond cancer.
“Three years ago, we discovered that urolithin A could powerfully expand a special population of long-lived, anti-tumor T cells in our laboratory models,” said principal investigator Dr Dominic Denk, a physician-scientist at University Medicine Frankfurt. “Our goal was always to translate our findings from the lab into the clinic.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has launched an initiative with state and local law enforcement partners to find roughly 450,000 “unaccompanied alien children” who were illegally smuggled into the U.S. during the Biden administration and placed with unvetted sponsors.
The new UAC Safety Verification Initiative is focused on protecting children from sexual abuse and exploitation through a broader collaboration among so-called 287(g) partners.
“The primary focus of this initiative is to conduct welfare checks on these children to ensure that they are safe and not being exploited,” the Department of Homeland Security said.
Florida on Monday became the first state in the nation to implement the initiative.
Under the Biden administration, ORR placed UACs with unvetted sponsors, background checks weren’t performed, UACs were released to alleged gang members, human traffickers, non-family members and sent to non-residential addresses, federal inspector general audits and a Florida grand jury found.
•Merrick Garland’s DOJ had already raided, arrested, and charged more than 650 Trump supporters — the most expansive political dragnet in modern U.S. history.
•They had pressured over 100 defendants into guilty pleas through aggressive stacking of charges, pretrial detention, and threat-driven tactics — and more than two dozen people were already sentenced.
•Democrats were nearly five months into their January 6th Select Committee, having subpoenaed thousands of documents and interviewed or deposed well over a hundred people, building a massive, one-sided investigative machine.
By contrast, the Bondi DOJ has led to no meaningful arrests, no answers, and with statutes of limitations expiring in a matter of weeks- no hope for justice for supporters of President Trump’s whose lives were destroyed.
This was the prediction for her. I doubt Trump wanted this. The Deep State always protects itself. Patel appears to be no better. Together they reveal the limits of political power. The previous admin had a field day with many bogus arrests and convictions, which is equally revealing of the DC power structure. ABN
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