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A part of Western civilization produced a culture of men who created the entire modern world

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I personally do not descend from that part of Europe. I am descended from the slaves/serfs of Northeastern Europe. How can anyone deny that the modern world was created by a culture of men from that region on the map? Why should I feel ashamed of my ancestry? Why would I not admire the men who created the modern world? To me, it’s asinine for slave societies, which is virtually all the rest of the world, to boast of their meagre accomplishments or pretend their ancestors did anything we still value today. I loved my peasant grandma and her pagan ways. She was very clever, very low education, but an absolute delight to be around. I don’t feel ashamed of her. To speak dishonestly about her is to shame her and myself. I can love my ancestry without making up stories about it. And I can understand and appreciate who created the wonders of the world we live in today. Those men could have concealed their inventions and kept them from the rest of the world. More on this topic: The Faustian impulse and European exploration. ABN

Direct evidence of the use of multiple drugs in Bronze Age Menorca (Western Mediterranean) from human hair analysis

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Human hair dated to Late Prehistory is exceedingly rare in the Western Mediterranean. Archaeological excavations in the Bronze Age burial and cult cave of Es Càrritx, in Menorca (Balearic Islands) provided some human hair strands involved in a singular funerary rite. This finding offered the opportunity to explore the possible use of drug plants by Late Bronze Age people. Here we show the results of the chemical analyses of a sample of such hair using Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry (UHPLC-HRMS). The alkaloids ephedrine, atropine and scopolamine were detected, and their concentrations estimated. These results confirm the use of different alkaloid-bearing plants by local communities of this Western Mediterranean island by the beginning of the first millennium cal BCE.

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‘The variants monitored across the globe in the most decentralized sequence surveillance ever performed show no sign of your swarm’ — Kevin McKernan to Mathew Crawford and probably JJ Couey

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This Twitter thread will not unroll. It can be found here. It is a strong refutation of the idea (first proposed by JJ Couey, I believe) that covid has been a psyop ornamented with swarms of ‘infectious clones’ deliberately released to provide newsworthy symptoms and positive PCR tests in enough parts of the world to make the pandemic look real. McKernan believes the pandemic is based largely on fraudulent PCR tests. The open debate and evidence based ideas presented are healthy and I am glad to see this happening. ABN

FLASHBACK 1946: Operation Highjump in Antartica

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In this issue of the Army-Navy Screen Magazine series (No. 85), viewers are treated to a short documentary on the U.S. Navy’s Antarctic expedition, Operation Highjump, a 1946-1947 mission to Antarctica to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV, to assess the feasibility of maintaining a permanent base, and further American understanding of the continent that led to global peace treaty that restricts research and travel to Antarctica.

The Antarctic Treaty was signed in Washington on 1 December 1959 by the twelve countries whose scientists had been active in and around Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957-58. It entered into force in 1961 and has since been acceded to by many other nations. The total number of Parties to the Treaty is now 56.

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New Analysis Shows How The CDC Spread False Information That Exaggerated The Severity of COVID-19

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Public health agencies should be held to a high standard, yet they are getting away with spreading false information and accusing others who have posted factual information, of doing the same.

“It’s like a horror movie I’m being forced to watch and I can’t close my eyes,” one senior FDA official said. “People are getting bad advice and we can’t say anything.”

It’s a shame that the agencies tasked with protecting us may be doing the exact opposite. It’s nearly impossible to rely on them for accurate information, guidance and data when it comes to all things health.

If physicians and public health officials in the US remain silent and fail to admit past mistakes, harmful policies will persist or resurface in the next pandemic. Why wouldn’t they? Without us defining what went wrong or creating an ethical framework to prevent the same mistakes, why would they stop?

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The study is here: Statistical and Numerical Errors Made by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention During the COVID-19 Pandemic. ABN

Bombshell Vax Analysis Finds $147 Billion In Economic Damage, Tens Of Millions Injured Or Disabled

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A new report estimates that 26.6 million people were injured, 1.36 million disabled, and 300,000 excess deaths can be attributed to COVID-19 vaccine damages in 2022 alone, which cost the economy nearly $150 billion.

Research firm Phinance Technologies, founded and operated by former Blackrock portfolio manager Ed Dowd, Yuri Nunes (PhD Physics, MSc Mathematics) and Carlos Alegria (PhD Physics, Finance), split the impact of the vaccines into four broad categories to estimate the human costs associated with the Covid-19 vaccine; no effect or asymptomatic, those who sustained injuries (mild-to-moderate outcome), those who became disabled (severe outcome), and death (extreme outcome). Data on vaccine disabilities and injuries comes directly from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), while the excess death figures are derived from official figures on deaths in the US via two different methods (methodology here).

It’s important to note that people in one category (injured, for example) can move into latter categories of severity – which this analysis does not take into consideration.

“We need to remember that not only are these groupings an attempt to characterize different levels of damage from the inoculations, they are not static and could interact with each other,” reads the report. “For instance, there might be individuals who had no visible effects after vaccination but nonetheless could still be impacted.”

“Individuals with mild injuries from the inoculations could, over time, develop severe injuries to the extent of being disabled, or an extreme outcome such as death.”

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The Phinance study and data can be found here just below. ABN

US Disabilities Project

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The analysis of disabilities is split into 5 parts that can be read independently but are related and complement each other. Each section is written in a different web page within which at the top the user can find the links to navigate to the other sections. The 5 parts are:

Part 1 – Overview of the Data.  Go to Part 1
This part provides the overall description of the data and shows the historical time series of disability rates for different population cohorts and age groups. It allows us to put in perspective the changes in disability rates, that started in 2021.

Part 2 – Rise in disabilities from 2021.  Go to Part 2
This part provides a detailed examination of the changes in disabilities that ocurred from early 2021, which coincided with the vaccine rollouts.

Part 3 – Relationship with Vaccine uptake.  Go to Part 3
This part analyses the relationship between the rise in disabilities with the Covid-19 vaccine rollout.

Part 4 – Relationship with Excess Deaths.  Go to Part 4
This part investigates the relationship between excess mortality and the rise in disabilities that ocurred since early 2021. It also provides us with an estimate of how many disabilities occurred for each excess death, during the period.

Part 5 – Relationship with SAEs in mRNA clinical trials  Go to Part 5
This part investigates the relationship between Serious Adverse Events (SAEs) from the mRNA clinical trials with the rise in disabilities that ocurred since early 2021.

Part 6 – Relationship with Severe AEs in Pfizer vaccine clinical trial  Go to Part 6
This part investigates the relationship between Adverse Events (AEs) and Severe Adverse Events (Sev AEs) from the Pfizer clinical trial with the rise in disabilities that ocurred since early 2021.

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Researchers from Stanford and Google have created a new phase of matter, known as a time crystal

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There is a huge global effort to engineer a computer capable of harnessing the power of quantum physics to carry out computations of unprecedented complexity. While formidable technological obstacles still stand in the way of creating such a quantum computer, today’s early prototypes are still capable of remarkable feats.

For example, the creation of a new phase of matter called a “time crystal.” Just as a crystal’s structure repeats in space, a time crystal repeats in time and, importantly, does so infinitely and without any further input of energy – like a clock that runs forever without any batteries. The quest to realize this phase of matter has been a longstanding challenge in theory and experiment – one that has now finally come to fruition.

“The big picture is that we are taking the devices that are meant to be the quantum computers of the future and thinking of them as complex quantum systems in their own right,” said Matteo Ippoliti, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford and co-lead author of the work. “Instead of computation, we’re putting the computer to work as a new experimental platform to realize and detect new phases of matter.”

“Time-crystals are a striking example of a new type of non-equilibrium quantum phase of matter,” said Vedika Khemani, assistant professor of physics at Stanford and a senior author of the paper. “While much of our understanding of condensed matter physics is based on equilibrium systems, these new quantum devices are providing us a fascinating window into new non-equilibrium regimes in many-body physics.”

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The Universe is a hologram: Stephen Hawking’s final theory, explained by his closest collaborator

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Hawking’s final theory of the Big Bang provides a bold and surprising answer. It envisages the Universe as a holographic projection.

Stephen liked to visualise this idea in a disk-like image of the kind shown above. The outer circle depicts a timeless hologram consisting of countless entangled qubits.

The disk shows the evolution of an expanding Universe that projects down from this. The origin of the Universe lies at the centre of the disk and it expands outward in the radial direction.

It is as if there is a code operating on the entangled qubits that brings about the Universe and this is what we perceive as the flow of time.

Crucially, by taking a fuzzier view of the hologram, one ventures farther back in time, toward the interior of the disk. It is like zooming out. Eventually, however, one runs out of bits. This is the origin of time, according to our theory.

There can be nothing before the Big Bang, because the past that holographically emerges doesn’t extend further back.

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