Preliminary lab studies at the Salk Institute find THC reduces beta amyloid proteins in human neurons
LA JOLLA–Salk Institute scientists have found preliminary evidence that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and other compounds found in marijuana can promote the cellular removal of amyloid beta, a toxic protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
While these exploratory studies were conducted in neurons grown in the laboratory, they may offer insight into the role of inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease and could provide clues to developing novel therapeutics for the disorder.
“Although other studies have offered evidence that cannabinoids might be neuroprotective against the symptoms of Alzheimer’s, we believe our study is the first to demonstrate that cannabinoids affect both inflammation and amyloid beta accumulation in nerve cells,” says Salk Professor David Schubert, the senior author of the paper.
If you would’ve asked me like 20 years ago… but still she says it well. It’s a KOBK world. Defend yourself or die. White people are typically very mild-mannered until they’re not. The sooner we are not, the better. We are at war. We are in a war not of our making. ABN
Currently only DNI Tulsi Gabbard and Sec of State/Nat Sec Advisor Marco Rubio are rising to the challenge. As collaborating NSA and DNI, they are slowly -but effectively- deconstructing the corrupt Intelligence Community tools. DHS Secretary Kirsti Noem is also doing an effective job, but her focus is narrower on the IC elements.
Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, Pam Bondi and John Ratcliffe need to get their asses in gear!
Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; instead, what they did was take the preexisting system and retool it so the weapons only targeted one side of the political continuum. This point is where many people understandably get confused.
In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose.
What Barack Obama and Eric Holder did with that new construct was refine the internal targeting mechanisms so that only their ideological opposition became the target of the new national security system. This is very important to understand as you dig deeper into this research outline.
Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01. DHS came along in 2002 and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed. When Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition.
The preexisting Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Dept of Justice (DOJ) were then repurposed to become two of the four pillars of the domestic national security apparatus. However, this new construct would have a targeting mechanism based on political ideology. The DHS, ODNI, DOJ and FBI became the four pillars of this new institution. Atop these pillars is where you will find the Fourth Branch of Government.
UPDATE: This is high school, college level speech. Mildly engaging and I can see why Vance did it. Von lets him glide over whatever issue is raised. Vance is planting political seeds that will grow to his advantage. The giggling they do perplexes me as I can’t believe it’s real and yet they must be representing something. He is the VP and therefore worth listening to once in awhile. As long as he toes Trump’s line I support him. There is no alternative line today. ABN
New details surrounding a White House brawl between Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have spilled out into the open – with one insider saying the Tesla CEO rammed his shoulder into Bessent’s ribcage ‘like a rugby player.’
Former Chief Strategist Steve Bannon revealed that there was more to the mid-April tussle, insisting that both men ended up landing blows.
They lost their patience with one another following a tense meeting in the Oval Office in which Trump snubbed Musk and instead took Bessent’s advice on whom to name as acting IRS Commissioner, Bannon said.
When Bessent and Musk exited the Oval Office, they began hurling insults at one another in the hallway. But it was Bessent who struck Musk where it hurts.
Apparently this is the real origin of Musk’s black eye. Grave lack of decorum but my take is it shows they care and throwing a couple of shots should be no big deal. Enough time has passed for them to laugh about it now. The country does not benefit from feuding within the comitatus. It does appear that Musk has a significant drug problem, but that too is forgivable, especially if he makes amends. His texts on X were awful and showed a lack of self-control, however. ABN
Layoffs due to AI are sweeping America, nixing hundreds of thousands of jobs at Microsoft, Walmart, and other titans. The newly jobless speak of a ‘bloodbath’ on the scale of the pandemic.
This time, it’s not blue-collar and factory workers getting whacked — it’s college graduates losing white-collar jobs to AI in tech, finance, law, and consulting.
Entry-level jobs are vanishing the fastest — stoking fears of recession and a generation of disillusioned graduates left stranded with CVs no one wants.
College grads are now much more likely to be unemployed than others, official data show.
Chatbots have already taken over data entry and customer service jobs. Next-generation ‘agentic’ AI can solve problems, adapt, and work independently.
These ‘smartbots’ are already spotting market trends, running logistics operations, writing legal contracts, and diagnosing patients.
The choice is fewer people working more. Or more people working less. If it’s more people working less, this could be the start of a wonderful new era. This should be a soluble problem. Simply stated, it’s an embarrassment of riches. If machines can output more, we will be wealthier with less work. There have to be ways to benefit everyone under those conditions. ABN
Multiple women recount organized abuse including ritual ceremonies conducted by people they knew, even close family members – after months of interviews with victims, their families, treatment professionals and experts in Israel and abroad, a disturbing picture emerges with descriptions difficult to read.
“I suffered painful sodomy, truly felt like I was splitting in two. It’s a terrible experience, but there’s something about these things, perhaps in their strangeness, that’s like… maybe the hardest component is that if you tell people about these things, they’ll think you’re crazy. I remember many types of severe sexual abuse, but there’s something about these ritualistic abuses that makes them the bottom of darkness.”
In direct words and with a clear voice, Emunah (pseudonym, like all victims’ names in this article) describes the severe abuse she allegedly experienced in her childhood. Organized sexual abuse that included “ceremonies” with supposed religious significance. Horrifying ceremonies in which religious people, some from her own family, sacrificed her as an offering for spiritual transcendence or redemption.
Emunah is not alone. More than ten women between the ages of 20-45 with whom we spoke describe a severe phenomenon raising serious concern that in Israel, like many countries worldwide, organized sexual abuse of children is occurring right under everyone’s nose.
“Perhaps the world knows that rape occurs, that incest exists, but this the world doesn’t know,” Emunah said. “These acts have been kept secret for years, perhaps because of their insanity… it was always very, very strange. As if there was an internal logic, but it was so crazy… very strange things happen there, normalized in a ritualistic and orderly manner. There’s a specific time, there’s when to say this verse and when to say that verse, there’s an order as if things are supposed to be done this way…”
Each woman we interviewed during our investigation has a different life story. They come from different areas of the country, from north to south. Each is at a different place in her life. Some are students, others work and manage careers and family lives, and there are also young women barely surviving, clinging to life by their fingernails.
These women did not know each other previously, grew up in different communities, and come from different sectors and religious streams. Yet the ritual abuse stories they describe are similar in ways that compel us to listen and not turn a blind eye. Some were harmed in early childhood educational settings or in girls’ schools, others in their family homes, yeshivas or synagogues. In this article, we present only a very small sample from many hours of interviews and information, and some descriptions in this article are difficult to read. The great fear expressed by everyone who spoke with us is that organized sexual abuse of children continues even today.
The link to the headline above is here. Below I have provided excerpts about the same story from a different publication, The Jerusalem Post, because the Haaretzarticle is behind a paywall but it has a better headline. ABN
‘Doctors, educators, police officers, and past and present members of the Knesset were involved in these abuses,’ survivor says.
Survivor, Yael Shitrit, testified: “You have no idea what ritual abuse is. The human brain cannot comprehend it. You can’t imagine what it means to program a three-year-old girl through rape and sadism so they can do whatever they want without anyone knowing.
“Their trafficking of me happened all over the country. They moved me from ceremony to ceremony. Naked men stood in a circle. My therapist, her husband, and her son harmed me, and there were dozens of other girls and boys who harmed me.
“There were ceremonies and rituals meant to make me forget,” Shitrit continued. “The police have known about this for a year, but they don’t have the tools to deal with it.
The people who will fall are very, very senior figures. These people run communities and government agencies. They threaten us. I have children I need to protect. Something needs to be set up that can deal with this.
They tried to make us like them – the people who caused us endless pain,” Shitrit said. “Your role is to make this stop in Safed, Jerusalem, Jaljulya, or anywhere else,” she declared.
DR. NAAMA GOLDBERG, head of an NGO called Lo Omdot MeNegged (Hebrew for “Not Standing Idly By”), which assists prostitution survivors, explained that the depictions are sometimes so gruesome that they are hard to believe, but this incredulity serves the abusers, who convince victims not to complain by arguing that they will not be believed.
Something like this is done to non-Jews throughout the West. The purpose is sadistic enjoyment couched as revenge for false historical crimes and more importantly to punish the entire West by parasitizing and destroying it; thus allowing total takeover by Jewish Supremists. What Goldberg says above in the highlight is a major way these crimes are concealed: ‘so gruesome that they are hard to believe, but this incredulity serves the abusers, who convince victims not to complain by arguing that they will not be believed‘. That argument is correct: If you tell true stories about lobotomies, poison, sensory damage done by Jewish Supremists to non-Jewish children and young adults, most people will not believe you. And even if they do, they will not know what to do about it. My deepest societal hope is our already present surveillance state will map these groups of Jewish Supremist sadists and madmen and catch all of them. Completely break them up and destroy their ability to continue destroying Western people. I do not care about punishing them. The ultimate victory is they themselves realize their own evil. I just want to see them stopped. I do this website to further this goal and also to present FIML to the world. Those are the main reasons I am here. ABN
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