On a day in early June, state forester Will Phifer carried a pill bottle-orange canister into a southeastern Oklahoma forest, tied it to a shaded tree trunk and left. The area was a confirmed spot for a growing population of tree-killing beetles called emerald ash borers, which likely seeped into the state from the east.
The container held what scientists hope is a solution to controlling the harmful pest: more than 100 minuscule parasitoid wasp eggs.
“These emerald ash borer eggs are laid on the outer bark of the tree,” Dieter Rudolph, forest health specialist for Oklahoma Forestry Services, said. “So, this wasp will go find them and basically inject an egg into the emerald ash borer egg.”
Instead of producing an emerald ash borer larva, the host egg will hatch a new wasp.
I am skeptical but it is Napolitano saying it, so worth knowing. The core issue is not Epstein files or lists or even videos but control of USA by Mossad/ Israel/ Jewish Supremists. If Trump was caught doing something he should not have, it might be best for him and USA for him to come clean on all of it. Expose everything. ABN
I like talk radio. I want to listen to NPR. Many of your topics are good. But almost all of them are heavily slanted left, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, pro-Ukraine War, etc. I want to hear your side but I also want to hear the other side. It is bad media, bad for USA, and super-boring radio to feature only one side of an issue as if there is no other side at all. Indeed, most issues have several sides all worthy of discussion. Your shows would gain listeners and respect if you provided real balance. ABN
UPDATE: A good example of how bad NPR can be happened a few days ago. I was driving and a show came on NPR about how American evangelicals were supporting Trump in large numbers. One commentator was some journo who has been reporting on religion in USA for forty years; the other was some college professor of religious studies. I forget who the host was. The entire program entailed describing how evangelicals had a psychological need to be accepted and heard and that’s why they support Trump. If I am remembering correctly the speakers implied if not stated outright that evangelicals had that need because they were uneducated and lacked sophistication. I found the program extremely irritating because all three of the supposedly educated and sophisticated speakers never onceconsidered that evangelicals might like Trump’s policies because they are good policies. My sense of those three speakers is they themselves are small-minded, incurious, and selfish in how they waste airtime by telling only one side of a potentially great story. Such a waste. It was a very good topic. Next time, get some people who are able to sympathize with evangelicals and who understand Trump’s policies as they are and not as NPR frames them all the time. To be clear, I am 100% willing to listen to all positions on all topics, including what amounts to NPR propaganda, but I really really want to hear all sides. Forty years he’s been a religion journo and many years she’s been a college religion prof and they both just cooed at each other over NPR lefty banalities the entire time. The host was no better. ABN
UPDATE: I posted the above in April and am reposting it today because it provides an example of the kind of bias that has been a constant feature of NPR. Most of their broadcasting has been like this. It’s not only what they say but what they don’t say. ABN
“The era when humans program is nearing its end within our group”, says Softbank founder Masayoshi Son. “Our aim is to have AI agents completely take over coding and programming. (…) we are currently initiating the process for that.”
Son made this statement on Wednesday at an event for customers organized by the Japanese corporation, as reported by Light Reading. According to the report, the Softbank CEO estimates that approximately 1,000 AI agents would be needed to replace each employee because “employees have complex thought processes.”
AI agents are software programs that use algorithms to respond automatically to external signals. They then carry out tasks as necessary and can also make decisions without human intervention. The spectrum ranges from simple bots to self-driving cars.
A single dose of psilocybin, a psychedelic that acutely causes distortions of space–time perception and ego dissolution, produces rapid and persistent therapeutic effects in human clinical trials1,2,3,4. In animal models, psilocybin induces neuroplasticity in cortex and hippocampus5,6,7,8. It remains unclear how human brain network changes relate to subjective and lasting effects of psychedelics. Here we tracked individual-specific brain changes with longitudinal precision functional mapping (roughly 18 magnetic resonance imaging visits per participant). Healthy adults were tracked before, during and for 3 weeks after high-dose psilocybin (25 mg) and methylphenidate (40 mg), and brought back for an additional psilocybin dose 6–12 months later. Psilocybin massively disrupted functional connectivity (FC) in cortex and subcortex, acutely causing more than threefold greater change than methylphenidate. These FC changes were driven by brain desynchronization across spatial scales (areal, global), which dissolved network distinctions by reducing correlations within and anticorrelations between networks. Psilocybin-driven FC changes were strongest in the default mode network, which is connected to the anterior hippocampus and is thought to create our sense of space, time and self. Individual differences in FC changes were strongly linked to the subjective psychedelic experience. Performing a perceptual task reduced psilocybin-driven FC changes. Psilocybin caused persistent decrease in FC between the anterior hippocampus and default mode network, lasting for weeks. Persistent reduction of hippocampal-default mode network connectivity may represent a neuroanatomical and mechanistic correlate of the proplasticity and therapeutic effects of psychedelics.
It is my understanding that the Buddha and/or the Buddhist tradition was and always has been well aware of psilocybin and probably other psychedelics and herbal drugs, like opium and cannabis.
In light of this, it is significant that the Fifth Precept for lay Buddhists proscribes only alcohol, and it does this very specifically by mentioning two types of alcoholic beverages (fermented and distilled) and nothing else. The Fifth Precept does not mention any other drugs.
As modern Buddhists, we can see that this conforms with what many of us have experienced with psychedelics and cannabis, among other ‘recreational’ drugs. Of course those drugs can be harmful but they can also do people a lot of good. Alcohol use, on the other hand, too often leads to very dangerous and spiritually stultifying mental conditions that do no one any good.
I have no problem with Buddhist teachers extrapolating the meaning of the Fifth Precept to include other drugs and sensory indulgences, but also believe that paying attention to the original meaning and its socio-environmental context (when people knew lots about plants) is important to keep in mind.
A woman has been charged with extortion in Thailand after allegedly recording herself having sex with Buddhist monks and then demanding money to support her lifestyle.
Wilawan Emsawat, 35, known as Sika Golf, is accused of blackmailing senior monks at popular temples in several provinces, as well as money laundering and receiving stolen goods, the Bangkok Post reports.
Police said they had uncovered a cache of some 80,000 sexually explicit pictures and videos involving multiple senior monks at various temples across the country after sweeping devices found at her home.
One video shared by police shows a monk reclining on Emsawat on a sofa before she slaps him on the head.
Five mobile devices were said to contain clips and stills of her engaged in sexual acts with several monks, some of whom were still wearing their traditional orange robes, according to the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB).
Emsawat was arrested on Tuesday at her home in Nonthaburi province.
The case has rocked Thailand and brought into focus perceived corruption within the temples.
Prayut Prathetsena, vice-president of the Dharma Army Lawyers Foundation, told Thai PBS that many temples are rich in cash and assets, managed by senior monks.
Monks earn money for leading private Buddhist ceremonies, she explained, and do not pay taxes on their earnings, ‘so their wealth simply accumulates’. Temples receive state funding, and some monks earn fortunes from selling temple amulets.
She explained that ‘it is not unusual for a senior monk to have 50 million baht (£1,147,958) in his personal account’ – in a country where the average wage is around 16,000 baht (£367.35) per month.
‘Neither the donors nor the monks are really at fault. The blame mostly lies with the system,’ Prathetsena told the outlet.
In recent years, earwax has gone from a relatively untapped biological resource to the focus of scientific study, particularly diagnostics.
In 2019, scientists developed a new way to detect cancer using earwax, publishing their findings in Nature. The researchers called the new method the Cerumenogram. The study collected earwax from two groups: people with cancer (lymphoma, carcinoma, or leukemia) and those without cancer.
When tested, 27 biological markers contained in the earwax were able to discriminate between cancer patients and healthy controls 100 percent of the time. The new test has the potential to be a quick, noninvasive, inexpensive, and highly accurate test for cancer diagnosis.
As lead operative and narrative engineer on the ‘tick-tock’ effort, John Solomon has once again pushed his way to the front of the narrative engineering effort. As a genuinely glowing Solomon picks up the flag of attention, many people once again start to follow the shiny thing into the dead end of DC silos.
After a few weeks of heavy firing for effect, the people around President Trump, also glowing, organize an interview. John Solomon and Amanda Head then conduct an interview with President Trump. {Direct Rumble Link Here}
John Solomon used to write for The Hill, until the people within the editorial team began to label all of Solomon’s reporting as “opinion” regardless of the content. Solomon then went freelance as a journalist (backing undetermined) until eventually ending up with RealAmerica’sVoice.
Solomon’s primary source of information before and during Term-1 was Mark Meadows. Meadows fed Solomon information from his position in the House of Representatives, then from his position in the Trump administration.
Within the information control space, when you understand how “positioning” takes place, you start to notice patterns. Solomon fits a pattern of controlled information release and tradecraft. Notice how Solomon steers the conversation back to the FBI over and over again.
“If the FBI choose to _______, would you support?”… It is a repeating pattern. Once you see it, you can never return to that moment in the pantomime when you do not see it. Solomon consistently relies on structuring his reporting around FBI and DOJ activity.
“Yep”, “Yep”, “Yep.” That is what you hear from a person who understands influence by stimulating the victim’s head nodding. In professional sales it is a form of cognitive affirmation. Listen for it, listen for “yep” and count how many times you hear it. There are open conversations in/around my proximity where Solomon is considered a CIA asset.
Keep that in the back of your mind as you watch Solomon position himself to narrate what the FBI and DOJ are doing.
The Radical Left Democrats have hit pay dirt, again! Just like with the FAKE and fully discredited Steele Dossier, the lying 51 “Intelligence” Agents, the Laptop from Hell, which the Dems swore had come from Russia (No, it came from Hunter Biden’s bathroom!), and even the Russia, Russia, Russia Scam itself, a totally fake and made up story used in order to hide Crooked Hillary Clinton’s big loss in the 2016 Presidential Election, these Scams and Hoaxes are all the Democrats are good at – It’s all they have – They are no good at governing, no good at policy, and no good at picking winning candidates. Also, unlike Republicans, they stick together like glue. Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this “bullshit,” hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years. I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country’s history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax. Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore! Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
He and his administration could not have handled this worse, or so it appears. Maybe there is something else going on. Maybe he is being poisoned or his family is being threatened. It is true that there are more important issues than Epstein himself, but the core of this tragedy is who is president of USA? Is it Trump or his shadowy handlers? I usually do not ask without answering but in this case, there does not seem to be a clear answer. No serious politician would write the line highlighted above. ABN
Trump is either living in a bubble of Jewish Supremist handlers and cannot see the writing on the wall or he is compromised.
It is all but certain that whatever evidence the FBI had has been destroyed or distorted. I am still a Trump supporter because even if he is compromised, he can still do much good and he is president.
Someone should ask Lutnick if he is a JS.
If Trump is controlled in this way, we will see other signs. It is possible he is in a JS pickle and is doing all he can under those conditions.
Another possibility is Trump is doing what he often does by letting his enemies destroy themselves.
The American public is fast catching on to JS infiltration into all major American institutions. Trump may be thinking by playing along, by sacrificing himself, he exposes them. ABN
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