Trump picks Jay Bhattacharya, who backed COVID herd immunity, to lead National Institutes of Health

Just for the record, there where scientists who actualoy read the literature.  Understand that the whole topic of masks and lockdowns was deeply studied and reviewed after the 1918 spanish flu epidemic.  This was really settled science.

Inconvenient for the scamdemic perps. So suppression was order of the day.  And yes, i found the related papers right off.  We really should have a universery course reviewing our two centuries of science with a focus on period controversy.

My reason for doing this is many problems are literally forgotten when unsolved two generations before.  My favorite is the Ice Age problem which only disappears when you shift the global crust fifteen degrees.  suddenly you have conforming consequences.  Current science is just coming to grips with the Pleistocene Nonconformity Impactor.  They are looking and finding evidence.

Trump picks Jay Bhattacharya, who backed COVID herd immunity, to lead National Institutes of Health

FILE - President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with the House GOP conference, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (Allison Robbert/Pool via AP, File)

BY CARLA K. JOHNSON

Updated 7:00 AM PST, November 27, 2024Share

https://apnews.com/article/trump-nih-bhattacharya-national-institutes-health-454874e66e842ef8c953ece905c00fe1

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen health economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to lead the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s leading medical research agency.

Trump, in a statement Tuesday evening, said Bhattacharya, a 56-year-old physician and professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, will work in cooperation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, “to direct the Nation’s Medical Research, and to make important discoveries that will improve Health, and save lives.”

“Together, Jay and RFK Jr. will restore the NIH to a Gold Standard of Medical Research as they examine the underlying causes of, and solutions to, America’s biggest Health challenges, including our Crisis of Chronic Illness and Disease,” he wrote.

The decision to choose Bhattacharya for the post is yet another reminder of the ongoing impact of the COVID pandemic on the politics on public health.

Bhattacharya was one of three authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, an October 2020 open letter maintaining that lockdowns were causing irreparable harm.

The document — which came before the availability of COVID-19 vaccines and during the first Trump administration — promoted “herd immunity,” the idea that people at low risk should live normally while building up immunity to COVID-19 through infection. Protection should focus instead on people at higher risk, the document said.

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“I think the lockdowns were the single biggest public health mistake,” Bhattacharya said in March 2021 during a panel discussion convened by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The Great Barrington Declaration was embraced by some in the first Trump administration, even as it was widely denounced by disease experts. Then- NIH director Dr. Francis Collins called it dangerous and “not mainstream science.”

His nomination would need to be approved by the Senate.

Trump on Tuesday also announced that Jim O’Neill, a former HHS official and Silicon Valley investor, will serve as deputy secretary of the sprawling agency. Trump said O’Neill “will oversee all operations and improve Management, Transparency, and Accountability to, Make America Healthy Again,” the president-elect announced.

O’Neill is a longtime associate of billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel, one of Trump’s leading backers from the tech industry. Thiel and O’Neill co-founded Mithril Capital Management, a venture fund that invests in medical technology and other startup companies. O’Neill previously served in HHS under George W. Bush and was considered to head the Food and Drug Administration during Trump’s first term. He has expressed disdain for federal regulation, including FDA’s approach to regulating emerging drugs and other technologies.

O’Neill also worked on some of Thiel’s signature projects, often reflecting his libertarian philosophy.

He served on the board of a Thiel-funded nonprofit that aimed to develop man-made islands that would float outside U.S. territory, allowing them to experiment with new forms of government. He also helped form and run the Thiel Fellowship, which awards $100,000 to young entrepreneurs who want to leave 

O’Neill is the only one of Trump’s health picks so far who brings previous experience working inside the HHS bureaucracy. Trump’s previous choices to lead public health agencies — including Kennedy, Dr. Mehmet Oz for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator and Dr. Marty Makary for FDA commissioner — have all been Washington outsiders who are vowing to shake up the agencies.

Bhattacharya, who faced restrictions on social media platforms because of his views, was also a plaintiff in Murthy v. Missouri, a Supreme Court case contending that federal officials improperly suppressed conservative views on social media as part of their efforts to combat misinformation. The Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration in that case.

After Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, he invited Bhattacharya to the company’s headquarters to learn more about how his views had been restricted on the platform, which Musk renamed X. More recently, Bhattacharya has posted on X about scientists leaving the site and joining the alternative site Bluesky, mocking Bluesky as “their own little echo chamber.”

Bhattacharya has argued that vaccine mandates that barred unvaccinated people from activities and workplaces undermined Americans’ trust in the public health system.

He is a former research fellow at the Hoover Institution and an economist at the RAND Corporation.

The National Institutes of Health falls under HHS, which Trump has nominated Kennedy to oversee. The NIH’s $48 billion budget funds medical research on vaccines, cancer and other diseases through competitive grants to researchers at institutions across the nation. The agency also conducts its own research with thousands of scientists working at NIH labs in Bethesda, Maryland.

Among advances that were supported by NIH money are a medication for opioid addiction, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, many new cancer drugs and the speedy development of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

Wireless ultrasonic knife glides through most things like butter

I am a touch skeptical here because the idea is good, but their lack of tested materials is troubling.

40,000 vibrations per second screams 40,000 windings and a serious design constraint.

Then what is contacting the material.  So far i see something cutting plastic.

This is a long lasting intractible problem specific to every combination of cutter and material.  It has been attended to since we flaked obsidion.   I might be more keen if i saw it cutting glass.

Wireless ultrasonic knife glides through most things like butter

By Bronwyn Thompson

November 26, 2024

The Hanboost C1

https://newatlas.com/electronics/ultrasonic-wireless-cutter/

From a handheld soldering gun to the 'playbird mansion' and, of course, the marvel of a smartphone microscope, there are some gadgets that we come across that we instantly want – and this wireless ultrasonic cutter is definitely another.

And much like the soldering gun, this little jigger has such a broad range of applications that, while it's aimed at the do-it-yourself maker and crafter, its appeal is certainly not limited to this.

The Hanboost C1 wireless ultrasonic cutter can precisely slice through a vast array of materials – wood, plastics, leather, rubber, paper – silently, using 40,000 vibrations per second to make even the most fiddly jobs look easy. No tearing, no scratching or scoring, it just glides through calmly, slowly and with effortless precision.

The Hanboost C1 is designed to resemble a pen, with a tip that features an easily replaceable blade for smooth, accurate cutting. This makes it a handy tool for everyone from sculptors to 3D-printers and miniature model builders.

Three power modes let you adjust to the material you're working on, and a built-in LED light shines on the target, enabling use in low-light settings or when finicky projects require better eyesight than many of us are blessed with. Switching between modes is simple, and the straightforward interface makes it perfect for beginners to 'point and cut.'

The wireless cutter allows for precision work

"'Hanboost' is a word we made up from two words we loved: 'handy' and 'boost,'" write the makers, who have had four successful crowdfunding campaigns so far. "Every product we sell is driven by a desire to increase performance, ease of use, or productivity."

At just 250 g (or just under 9 oz), the wireless metal tool is free of the cables that typically burden these kinds of precision gadgets, and you'll get two- to three- hours of continuous use from its USB-C-charged 3,000-mAh battery.

Hidden hex wrench storage is handy for blade switching, and the C1 is designed to fit common blade types available in stores and online. So, you don't need to buy replacements from Hanboost (but, naturally, you can if you want).

The C1 works on a wide range of materials

Given its prodigious cutting power, there are also safety features built in – a two-second long press to power it up, to lower the risk of accidental use, and it will turn off after five minutes of inactivity, which also conserves the battery's charge. It also has a transducer for energy conversion and a titanium alloy amplifier with 'high-hardness' alloy chuck.

With eight days left on its Kickstarter campaign, the Hanboost C1 cutter is available for US$109 (40% off MSRP of $179) and there are a suite of different add-ons and packages on offer. The basic set comes with the gadget, charging cable, neat carry case, blade shield and a 24-piece blade set. And it can be shipped anywhere in the world, with delivery expected in March 2025.

Check out this rather soothing demo of the C1 gliding through a piece of rubber below.

Legislation Submitted to Get Commercial Space Transportation Approvals Out of the FAA

 

It has to be this way.  All commercial craft will be drone style heavy lifters able to launch at up to six gs at least and leaping halfway around the earth in an hour.  No human lives involved or ever planned until years of operational success.

And just who wants to be launched a six gs?  It already is working and we need to get on with it.  Those thirty engines can be set out in a larger ring shell to increase the casing to hold ten times the original volume.  Many more engines can also be added.

And suddenly we are lifting 70 tons already and expansion can take this to a 1000 tons using a ten fold volume expansion.  The best design approach is the one which is working and launch and crash works well..

Sending 68 tons from India to New york every day  in two hours is potentially very useful.

This is full speed ahead and no one can catch us.

Legislation Submitted to Get Commercial Space Transportation Approvals Out of the FAA

November 26, 2024 by Brian Wang

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/11/legislation-submitted-to-get-commercial-space-transportation-approvals-out-of-the-faa.html

Rep. Kiley has introduced legislation to make the Office of Commercial Space Transportation report directly to the Secretary of Transportation. This comes after Rep. Kiley questioned Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Whitaker before the Aviation Subcommittee with respect to the FAA’s decisions with SpaceX launches in September.

The bill streamlines the oversight process by moving the Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) out from under the FAA and requiring AST to report directly to the Secretary of Transportation. This eliminates the middleman in the reporting process and enables AST to keep pace with a rapidly growing industry.

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Marc Andreessen Describes "Alarming" Meeting With Biden Admin That Prompted His Trump Endorsement

What has been reported here is horrendus.  It is a clear rejection by government authority of all the salient features of US Technical ascendency.  Just how did we get so much wrong that folks can even think like this?

This is the mouthings of a bunch of neo Stalinists.  Do we have to hunt them down and band them in order to fully inform our future?

I wished that he had spoken up before the election, but then it would have been buried under a pile of slander.

Marc Andreessen Describes "Alarming" Meeting With Biden Admin That Prompted His Trump Endorsement

by Tyler Durden

Wednesday, Nov 27, 2024 - 08:05 AM

Marc Andreessen, the billionaire investor and co-founder of the influential Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, revealed in a new episode of Joe Rogan's podcast that after an "alarming" meeting with Biden administration officials earlier this year was the moment he would have no other choice but to support Donald Trump.

For decades, Andreessen has supported Democrats, including Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton. However, a troubling spring meeting with Biden administration officials caused major concerns. During the meeting, officials explained their plan to control AI through government regulatory capture—a strategy reminiscent of Communist policies in China.

"We had meetings [Biden officials] this spring that were the most alarming meetings I've ever been in. 

Where they were taking us through their plans, and it was - basically just full government - full government control - like this sort of thing, there will be a small number of large companies that will be completely regulated and controlled by the government, they told us. They said don't even start startups - there's just no way that they can succeed - there's no way that we're going to permit that to happen."

In mid-July, Axios reported that Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz had donated to President-elect Trump's campaign. At the time, their support was attributed to Trump's pro stance on crypto and AI regulation. It's another telling example of just how far-left Democrats in the White House spooked Silicon Valley heavy hitters, such as Elon Musk.

Back to the podcast, Rogan asked Andreessen: "When you leave a meeting like that, what do you do?"

Andreessen responded: "You endorse Donald Trump."

Fossilised droppings tell the story of dinosaurs' rise to power

Suggestive and certainly helpful, but likely not the whole story. the dinosaur was the new thing chasing plants also a new thing.

Lizards somehow not so lucky. unlikely though.  diet change is an easy useful adaptation.

After all we have seen the global grass culture does not eliminate the global weed culture and critters can adjust.  We adjusted by using fire and are millions of years in.  huge numbers of lants have adjusted to our needs.

All of which is Terraforming the Earth.

Fossilised droppings tell the story of dinosaurs' rise to power

An analysis of hundreds of bromalites – fossilised faeces and vomit – shows how changes in diet enabled dinosaurs to take over the world in the early Jurassic

By Christa Lesté-Lasserre

27 November 2024

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2458090-fossilised-droppings-tell-the-story-of-dinosaurs-rise-to-power/?

Sauropodomorph dinosaurs feeding on newly evolved plants in a wet early Jurassic environment

Marcin Ambrozik

The contents of 200-million-year-old faeces and vomit are helping show how dinosaurs took over the world at the start of the Jurassic Period.

Well-preserved plants, bones, fish parts and even whole insects embedded in widely varying shapes and sizes of ancient animal droppings suggest that dinosaurs’ broad diets made them survivors in a changing ecosystem, compared with other groups of animals. That then led them to grow larger and ultimately establish their “dynasty on land”, says Martin Qvarnström at the University of Uppsala, Sweden.

Fossil evidence shows that the first dinosaurs – marked notably by hip joints that position the legs under the body like mammals, rather than sprawled out to the sides like lizards – appeared more than 230 million years ago during the Triassic Period. For tens of millions of years, these early dinosaurs blended into a landscape filled with many other kinds of reptiles. By about 200 million years ago, however, dinosaurs had essentially taken over the planet, while most other reptiles disappeared during the end-Triassic extinction at around that time.

What led to this domination has remained somewhat mysterious. Qvarnström and his colleagues suspected they might find significant clues hidden in bromalites – fossilised stool and vomit – from dinosaurs and other animals. So they gathered 532 examples stored in the Polish Geological Institute, which prior research groups had collected between 1996 and 2017 from eight sites in Poland.

The team estimated the age of each bromalite based on the layer of sediment it was found in and then used its size – ranging from a few millimetres to “pretty substantial faecal masses” – and shape to match it to the animal that probably produced it. The researchers then 3D scanned the fossils to explore their contents. “We realised that they’re packed with food remains,” says Qvarnström.

Coprolites, or fossilised dung, of herbivorous dinosaurs containing plant remains

Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki

Combined with known fossil records and past climate information, the researchers determined that the rise of dinosaurs occurred in several distinct steps. First, omnivorous ancestors of early dinosaurs started outnumbering the non-dinosaurs. Then, they evolved into the first meat-eating and plant-eating dinosaurs.

At that point, an increase in volcanic eruptions and shifts in tectonic plates led to flooding and the development of waterways. The resulting humidity and related changes in the climate seem to have triggered a greater range of plants, leading to the evolution of bigger and more diverse herbivore dinosaurs. Meanwhile, non-dinosaurs – like the 1-tonne, plant-eating dicynodont Lisowicia, whose faeces contained mainly conifer remains – were less able to adapt to the changing variety of vegetation.

As the herbivore dinosaurs grew bigger, so did their predators. When large carnivorous dinosaurs started to appear by the beginning of the Jurassic Period – about 30 million years after the first dinosaurs emerged – the transition to a dinosaur-dominated world was complete, says Qvarnström.

“The study shows how climate mainly affected the dominant plants, which in turn gave opportunities for new herbivores at certain points,” says Michael Benton at the University of Bristol, UK, who wasn’t involved in the study.

Although it is hard to be sure that the researchers matched the droppings to the right animals, the findings nonetheless support earlier work from South America suggesting that dinosaur species were already significantly expanding prior to major climate change, he says. “But it took the end-Triassic mass extinction to put in place the final steps of the takeover.”

For Emma Dunne at Friedrich-Alexander University in Germany, the study helps answer long-standing questions about the rise of dinosaurs. “It’s not every day that you see fossil poop in such a high-impact journal,” says Dunne, who didn’t participate in the research. “It’s obviously funny, but it’s also really useful for understanding prehistoric environments. So if you think of early dinosaur evolution as kind of a jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces, it’s just thrown a huge chunk of new pieces in there.”

Obituary: The Mainstream Media (1920–2024)

A little satire is in order.

MSM took it upon itself to become the propaganda purveyor for friends of the owners.  Hardly smart, but so tempting to think you really control the narrative until you do not.

Today, thanks to social media a thousand voices can be heard at least briefly and false narrative's can be outed.  No one told me that Walter Cronkite was lying because he believed he was telling the truth.  And when it became obvious, he shifted gears and said so.  You could listen to a man like that.

Today we are asked to listen to vacuous heads spouting propaganda and we drift away..

Obituary: The Mainstream Media (1920–2024)

TOPICS:Get Woke UpMediaPropagandaWokism

November 26, 2024

By Get Woke Up!

https://activistpost.com/2024/11/obituary-the-mainstream-media-1920-2024.html

The Mainstream Media has died from a terminal case of TDS combined with an aggressive infection of the woke-mind virus. The MSM, as it was nicknamed by its critics, was first diagnosed with TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) in 2016 when it couldn’t accept that Donald Trump won the presidency, beating the projected winner and war criminal Hillary Clinton. Critics of the MSM say that the slow painful death was both ‘deserving’ and ‘a long time coming.’

Starting in the 1920s with broadcast radio, the MSM grew into a respected and trusted source of news and information during the Golden Age of television in the 1950s, thanks to luminaries such as broadcast journalists Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, and Fred Friendly. Remembered fondly for giving a voice to the voiceless and holding truth to power it later devolved into The View’s Joy Behar lecturing her viewers about vaccines and dragons.

Tuning into the Manosphere

The death of the MSM was widely celebrated in the podcast and alternative media world. Dragon believer and podcaster Joe Rogan said: “It’s so possible that something that flew like a pterodactyl, like we think of pterodactyls as being like bat wings, maybe they had feathers, maybe that was a gigantic predatory bird and maybe some of those things looked like dragons.” He also once murdered CNN Medical Expert Dr. Sanjay Gupta on his podcast.

Rogan’s unlikely ascent from comedy podcaster to un-cancellable media empire of one boils down to the fact that Rogan, untrained in journalism or broadcasting, had a quality that the MSM had forgotten, the ability to listen. Rogan and others like him such as the Nelk Boys, Theo Von, Candace Owens, Adin Ross, and the even edgier James Evan Pilato never shied away from entertaining alternative views and perspectives and interviewing sources the MSM labeled ‘dangerous’ such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Yeonmi Park and Jordan B. Peterson and even, yes, Donald J. Trump.

The tell-tale signs of TDS had been obvious to viewers for years. Bias, left-wing activism, and elites talking to themselves were all hallmarks of the disease that led to the MSM actually being beaten in the ratings by the Hallmark channel itself. Some TV viewers say that TDS was only part of the health issues MSM was suffering from and that they were in fact the ones who pulled the plug when they cut the cord from cable in favor of alternative Internet media.

Chuck Your Sources

The shifting nature of viewing habits may also have played a part in viewers no longer sitting down with the 6 o’clock news. Podcasts and YouTube videos have given consumers the choice to watch or listen to information at their own time, while washing the dishes, going for a walk, or even taking a dump.

With trust in media at an all time low due to its lies over COVID, drag time story hour, the popularity of Kamala Harris, immigration and the economy, it was Tesla founder Elon Musk who gave an eclectic boost of life to free speech when he bought Twitter in 2022. It was Musk who allowed Substack journalist Matt Taibbi to expose Twitter’s secret internal files, proving the cover up of media manipulation by the government, public institutions, and even the FBI.

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After a decade of calling Trump ‘Hitler’ and a ‘Nazi’ the American public slowly realized that by extension that’s what they were calling them. They really were Fake News and the Enemy of the People. It was at this point that viewers changed the channel and stopped giving their life force to the parasite known as the MSM.

Good night and good luck

The MSM is survived by Chris Cuomo, who suddenly found out vaccines weren’t safe or effective when he was fired from CNN, that one local news hot weather girl who never mentions climate change, and the cursed horn-rimmed glasses that are controlling Rachel Maddow.

Elon Musk who was with the MSM when it passed tweeted that with its last dying breath it said to the millions of users on X: “You are the media now.”

Record-breaking diamond storage can save data for millions of years

Let us be simple here.  We have all known that a diamond will provide the best data storage media.  Getting there is the issue.  So any report on progress is good news.

Here it appears that we are approaching a work around.

No- one expects a quick solution but this confirms an ongoing effort and it is not hidden in a military lab.

Record-breaking diamond storage can save data for millions of years

Researchers have used lasers to encode information in diamonds, demonstrating record-breaking data density in an ultra-stable and long-lasting system

By Jeremy Hsu

27 November 2024

Diamonds can store data stably for long periods of time

University of Science and Technology of China

The famous marketing slogan about how a diamond is forever may only be a slight exaggeration for a diamond-based system capable of storing information for millions of years – and now researchers have created one with a record-breaking storage density of 1.85 terabytes per cubic centimetre.

Previous techniques have also used laser pulses to encode data into diamonds, but the higher storage density afforded by the new method means a diamond optical disc with the same volume as a standard Blu-ray could store approximately 100 terabytes of data – the equivalent of about 2000 Blu-rays – while lasting far longer than a typical Blu-ray’s lifetime of just a few decades.

“Once the internal data storage structures are stabilised using our technology, diamond can achieve extraordinary longevity – data retention for millions of years at room temperature – without requiring any maintenance,” says Ya Wang at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei.

Wang and his colleagues worked with small pieces of diamond only a few millimetres long, although they say future versions of the system could be in the form of larger storage discs. Their method used ultrafast laser pulses to knock some of a diamond’s carbon atoms out of place, leaving behind empty spaces the size of single atoms that each exhibited a stable brightness level.

By controlling the energy of the laser, the researchers could make multiple empty spaces at specific sites within the diamond, and the density of those spaces influenced each site’s overall brightness. “The number of empty spaces can be determined by looking at the brightness, which allows us to read the stored information,” says Wang.

The team then stored images – including Eadweard Muybridge’s 1878 sequence of photos showing a rider on a galloping horse – by mapping the brightness of each pixel to the brightness levels of specific sites inside the diamond. The system saved this data with more than 99 per cent accuracy and completeness.

This storage method isn’t yet commercially viable because it requires expensive lasers and high-speed fluorescence imaging cameras, along with other devices, says Wang. But he and his colleagues expect that their diamond-based system could eventually be miniaturised to fit within a space the size of a microwave oven.

“In the short term, government agencies, research institutes and libraries focused on archiving and data preservation would likely be eager to adopt this technology,” he says.

This is a good review and update of the problems and challenges facing the aquaculture industry.  Otherwise ignore the bias.  The first problem ignored by everyone is that the wild catch has steadily declined as a delivered fraction of our seafood intake.

Fact is that the wild catch cannot ever deliver enough product and should not.  As well habitat restoration and augmentation has really only begun.  We are now removing dams.

augmentation also properly combines wilderness husbandry with agriculture. Imagine the Maitland river basin in Midwest Ontario supporting a full beaver population and a Pacific Northwest Biome.  All the salmon species have already been introduced to the great lakes..

now imagine all this totally penetrating our boreal forest.  After all, our boreal forest is a mere 10,000 years old and barely evolved while the Pacific Northwest rotates into Alaska and is millions of years old.

Essentially Salmon aquaculture did not ex8st in my lifetime.  It is slowly getting better.  It will get infinitely batter as we add centuries of husbandry.

The Farmed-Fishing Disaster

TOPICS:Fishingfood safetyRosanne LindsaySustainabilityVaccines

November 26, 2024

By Rosanne Lindsay

Problems in the Tank

In the 21st century, wild fish are are being replaced with farmed fish, as livestock, in the aquaculture industry.

However, the growth of aquaculture has come at the expense of the environment and the health of the fish. This results in the potential for major disease problems and food safety issues, according to a 2022 article in Frontiers Immunology.

As livestock, fish succumb to the same synthetic treatments as other commercial livestock. According to MDPI, a member of the United Nations Global Compact, in the name of Sustainability: vaccines have a significant role in managing live stocks.

Vaccines have been applied as “preventive measures” in fish to reduce the chance of diseases such as rabies, as well as parasitic and bacterial pathogens, which occur as part of the commercial farming process. Rabies in fish? [That is another fish story for another time]. Meanwhile…

Salmon farms, consequently, are ideal incubators for parasites and infectious diseases that are then spread to adjacent farms and to wild fish. These outbreaks are impossible to quarantine; mass escapes from salmon farms and the normal flow of tides and currents spread diseases and parasites to other fish over very wide areas.

Even though fish are not of the animal kingdom, fish vaccines are delivered in the same way as warm-blooded animals. If we investigate all modes and vectors of disease transmission then we can also say that disease-causing pathogens may also be introduced through live-attenuated vaccines.

A vaccine contains an agent resembling a disease-inducing microorganism– a bacterium, virus or toxin – that activates the body’s immune system. A vaccine is essentially a pathogen-imposter. —Carrington College,

A Fish Story

Fish story: noun, an extravagant or incredible story

The $20-billion-a-year farmed salmon industry is the world’s fastest growing food producer, and it has made farmed Atlantic salmon the most popular fish on dinner tables North America. But at what cost?

As early as 2004, scientists found levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, a probable carcinogen known as PCBs, seven times higher in farmed Atlantic salmon than in wild salmon. In addition:

Untreated waste from excess feed, decomposing fish, excrement, and chemical residue forms a toxic stew that kills or drives away marine life for hundreds of yards.

The management of farmed fish includes antibiotics, probiotics, injectable vaccines, breeding maintenance, nano-based drugs, and edible vaccines, all with monitoring requirements. Of course, disease resistant mutant strains result from antibiotic treatments. Hence, the vaccine program. When it comes to drug use in global aquatic products:

Long-term use of chemical inputs not only increases pathogenic bacteria resistance but also damages the fish and aquaculture environments, resulting in drug residues in aquatic products.

Disaster in the Making

In 2021, 81,000 fish escaped from an open-pen fish farm in Norway. In 2023, thousands of fish escaped an Icelandic farm. Escapees have been found in at least 32 rivers across north-west Iceland, many covered in deadly sea lice, lethal to wild fish. Escapees also breed with wild fish to cause wild fish declines.

A 2012-2022 study determined that 865 million farmed salmon have died in mass die-offs in the last decade due to aquaculture practices and technologies.

It’s the same old fish story, replayed over and over. When any life form is placed in crowded unsanitary conditions, and genetically modified, it becomes a pre-medicated disaster, for generations to come.

“In today’s fish-eat-fish world, you either take or you get taken.” Productivity runs economies! The result? Wild caught fish are harder and harder to find. Thus, commercially-farmed, diseased fish will be served up at restaurants, and at home until none are left.

You’d think cooking would destroy the parasites. But destroying the nematodes at 145 degrees is like cooking a burger well-done. – Harold McGee, Food and Cooking, 2016

A Medley of Injectables

If you’ve ever had tetras in your aquarium, you have supported the Glofish industry of genetically modified fish injected with florescent dyes. Glofish are one symptom of an injectable aquaculture. If you are a Koi Hobbyist, you will be told to inject vaccines. Whether injected with dyes, dipped in chemicals, or tattooed, the fish have not given their permission to painfully modify their body. To reduce death by dyeing, simply avoid purchasing modified fish.

The aquaculture industry is suffering significant financial losses as a result of the worsening water quality and increasing frequency of aquatic disease outbreaks caused by the expansion of aquaculture. However, vaccination, is still the answer.

According to a review of aquaculture vaccine technologies, old technologies of killed and live-attenuated vaccines, are being replaced with a new generation of recombinant, synthetic peptides, mucosal vaccines, subunit, DNA and RNA vaccines, nanoparticle-based and plant based edible vaccines, reverse vaccinology, and monovalent and polyvalent vaccines.

Parasites in Farmed Fish

Farmed salmon are bred to grow fast in cages so crammed that they are rife with parasites and disease. The fish eat pellets of fishmeal, vegetables, and animal byproducts; they are doused regularly with pesticides and antibiotics. – Time Magazine, July 2022

Do not assume that just because the fish are vaccinated that parasites do not still live on or in their slippery bodies. Conditions of overcrowding and poor sanitation have always been indicators of disease and infection in farmed animals, even in organically-farmed pork. In this way, the spironucleosis parasite can infest farmed fish through the freshwater source in hatcheries:

The parasite has been detected in wild salmonids living in freshwater that is used as a water source for hatcheries, which therefore represents a potential source of infection that we must try to control. — Lill-Heidi Johansen, scientist and project manager at Nofima.

While parasites (in the larval stage) can be eaten in uncooked, or undercooked, unfrozen wild seafood, they are also present a human health hazard in cooked farmed fish.

Salmon farms harbor two especially virulent parasites: sea lice and kudoa (soft-flesh syndrome). Sea lice infestations have been reported by operators in Canada, Norway, Scotland, and Ireland. – Pure Salmon Campaign

If you dine only on wild caught fish, be aware that parasites found among wild caught species are the nematodes or roundworms: (Anisakis spp., Pseudoterranova spp., Eustrongylides spp. and Gnathostoma spp.), cestodes or tapeworms (Diphyllobothrium spp.) and trematodes or flukes (Chlonorchis sinensis, Opisthorchis spp., Heterophyes spp., Metagonimus spp., Nanophyetes salminicola and Paragonimus spp.).

Farmed fish may be more resistant to the anasakis parasite infection. But, that is only one parasite studied. As always, more studies are needed.

The fish spend two to three years in open-net farms that contain up to a million salmon jammed into 10 or 12 cages, which extend 30 feet below the surface and are anchored to the seabed. The crowded cages are petri dishes for tiny parasites called sea lice. —Time Magazine, July 2022

Know Your Fish

Not long ago, wild Atlantic salmon were an abundant species, living free. Today, they are an endangered species, gone from most rivers in the U.S.. Claims made by farmers that their fish are sustainable and natural are deceptive. Most consumers rarely have enough information to go on.

Up to 85 percent of the salmon we eat is imported from farms along the coasts of Norway, Chile, Scotland, and Canada. Yet the Food and Drug Administration, which is responsible for food safety, pays scant attention to farmed salmon at a time when food-borne pathogens are on the increase. —Time Magazine, July 2020

According to the book, Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish, a single meal per month of farmed Atlantic salmon can expose consumers to contaminant levels exceeding standards from the World Health Organization. The risk is greatest for infants, children, and pregnant women. The authors, in their article, 3 Reasons to Avoid Farmed Salmon, suggest “farmed Atlantic salmon from open-net pens is off our menu and should be off yours.”

So much for Sustainability.

Trump Selects Dr. Oz to Run Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Do notice that trump is collecting talented outsiders who also understand media No passes here.

This looks like a god pick and not overwhelming either. I believe he can do it and he reports to RFK jr.

Oz has shown himself to be fully up for throwing anything against the wall to see if it will stick.  We need that.

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Trump Selects Dr. Oz to Run Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

CMS handles matters related to Medicare and Medicaid.

Republican Pennsylvania Senate nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks at an event with Nikki Haley in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 26, 2022. Mark Makela/Getty Images

By Jackson Richman

11/19/2024

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/trump-names-dr-oz-to-lead-centers-for-medicare-and-medicaid-services-5762527?

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Nov. 19 that he will nominate famed television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

CMS has approximately 6,700 employees, according to the agency, which started in 1977. There are 12.5 million people who receive both Medicare and Medicaid, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

In a statement, Trump cited Oz’s work as a physician and heart surgeon, among other talents. He also noted Oz being an alum of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton Business School, the latter of which Trump is an alum.

Trump also mentioned that Oz was a professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Columbia University.

Trump said Oz will “work closely” with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, “to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake.”

The president-elect said Oz will also be tasked with cutting waste and fraud in the agency, which he said makes up “a third of our Nation’s Healthcare spend, and a quarter of our entire national budget.”

In a statement to media outlets, Trump said Oz will incentivize disease prevention “so we get the best results in the world for every dollar we spend on healthcare in our great country.”

Oz was the host of “The Dr. Oz Show” between 2009 and 2022. The show won nine Daytime Emmy Awards.

Oz, who is of Turkish descent, was the GOP nominee in Pennsylvania for U.S. Senate in 2022, losing to Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.). Oz was endorsed by Trump.

Trump’s CMS administrator during his first term was Seema Verma, who is known for pushing for the repeal of Obamacare. The GOP failed to do so.

CMS administrator is not part of the Cabinet, but it requires Senate confirmation.

The Oldest Evidence For Water on Mars Reveals It Was Extremely Hot

What we have is super hot with a working water component.  for both Earth and Mars.

For some reason Venus lacks water while the rock is super hot.  We need to bombard mars with comets to deliver ample water.  This should induce heat radiation and establish a cap of rotting rock holding water.

If Venus is hollow. it may also be internally dry as well.  Or simply the water is unable to break out to the surface.  After all alternative sources tell us it is good there.  just saying, but if all our planets are incubation eggs, then all becomes plausible.  

Swedenborg may well have been correctly informed.

The Oldest Evidence For Water on Mars Reveals It Was Extremely Hot

Space26 November 2024

ByMichelle Starr

Mars meteorite NWA 7034, AKA 'Black Beauty'. (Institute of Meteoritics, UNM)

There was water on Mars as early as 4.45 billion years ago, just a short time after the planet formed from the leftover dust of the growing Sun.

The evidence? A tiny grain of zircon, smaller than the width of a human hair, with minerals trapped inside that could only have formed in the presence of water. The sting in the tail? That water had to have been hot, like hot springs, or hydrothermal vents under the ocean.

The discovery tells us several things. First, that the delivery of water to Mars during the early days of the Solar System was similar to that of Earth. Second, the presence of hot water could be consistent with the kinds of extremophile microbial life we see in geothermal and hydrothermal environments.

"The emerging picture is that early Mars and Earth had something in common – both were wet. It is known from analysis of the oldest zircons on Earth that liquid water existed by at least 4.3 billion years ago. We now have evidence for water on Mars that is even older," geologist Aaron Cavosie of Curtin University in Australia told ScienceAlert.

"The evidence for early water on Mars is consistent with the abundant evidence for water on Mars during the Noachian period, which lasted from 4.1 to 3.7 billion years ago. There is good geologic evidence for vestiges of life on Earth at this time, so why not Mars if the conditions were similar? These two planets have clearly taken different paths since then."

Micrograph image of the zircon. (Gillespie et al., Sci. Adv., 2024)

The water history of Mars is difficult to piece together because, well, it's all the way over at Mars, where our exploration efforts are pretty great, but limited. Every now and then, though, a piece of Mars comes to us. One of these is the famous Martian meteorite NWA 7034, or 'Black Beauty', discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2011.

NWA 7034 is a 320-gram (11.3-ounce) piece of volcanic breccia, a chunk of rock that's made up of other chunks of rock, a bit like Christmas pudding. Some of the pieces that make up the meteorite are tiny crystals of zircon – an absolute goldmine for geologists wanting to study the history of Mars, and the history of the meteorite itself.

Not long ago, scientists at Curtin University studied NWA 7034 zircon and found evidence that the chunk of rock had been smacked by a huge asteroid impact 4.45 billion years ago.

Now, researchers led by geochemist Jack Gillespie, of Curtin University at the time of the study, have taken a closer look at some of the minerals trapped inside zircon. Using nanoscale microscopy, they discovered traces of iron, yttrium, aluminum, and sodium that were caught up inside the zircon as it formed.

It took looking around a bit closer to home to figure out what the deposition process for these minerals

 must have been.

The Black Beauty meteorite. (NASA)

"Elements like iron, aluminum, and sodium form a series of nice layers in the Martian zircon, similar to those found in an onion. These elements are not normally found in zircon; after finding them in the Martian zircon, we turned our attention back to Earth to find what environments that form in," Cavosie explained.

"One of the few places on Earth where zircons are found with nice layers of these elements is from Olympic Dam, a giant copper, uranium, and gold deposit in South Australia. The connection is that the Olympic Dam zircons are known to have formed in a magmatic-hydrothermal system. That means hot aqueous fluids were present and interacting with the granite when the zircons were forming. These fluids delivered the unusual trace elements, and at Olympic Dam, also concentrated the economic metals."

We don't know the water temperature on Mars. It could have been anywhere from a few hundred to even more than 500 °C (932 °F), similar to the waters of Yellowstone. Nor do we know how much water there was.

But the discovery does show that there was water on Mars not long after the planets formed some 4.5 billion years ago, circulating in the planet's crust, and heated by the volcanic activity that was much more rampant when the planet was young. And this means that Mars may have been actually pretty soggy, with water delivered the same way water arrived at Earth – via comets and asteroids, and incorporated into the planet as it was forming.

"We can't say for sure if liquid water was present on the surface at this time, but we think it's possible. Some of these magmatic fluids would likely have escaped to the surface and contributed water to the atmosphere," Cavosie said.

"This means a lot of warm and wet places within, and probably on, the crust of Mars. Data like those found in our study help to better flesh out the concept of early habitable conditions based on direct analysis of materials formed at that time."

A diagram of the life history of the zircon crystal in the Black Beauty meteorite. (Gillespie et al., Sci. Adv., 2024)

Now that the researchers have discovered evidence that hot water once existed on Mars, they can work to flesh out their findings further. We don't know whether the magmatic activity that heated the water was generated by activity inside Mars, or from the asteroid bombardment that pummeled the early Solar System, for example. We also don't know whether hydrothermal systems were prevalent on Mars.

It would be pretty incredible if there was just one ancient Martian hydrothermal system, evidence of which just happened to end up in human hands billions of years later. But NWA 7034 is already pretty incredible.

"The zircon … has a bonkers crazy survival story! It formed in a wet hydrothermal shortly after Mars came together as a planet 4.45 billion years ago, it got smacked during an early meteorite impact event and later got violently ejected to land in a pile of rock rubble, where it got buried and altered with fluids billions of years later, and then finally got smacked again by another meteorite, this time getting ejected from Mars!" Cavosie told ScienceAlert.

"Instead of heading out into the endless nether-world of space to be lost forever, it ended up crashing into Earth, where it survived being melted away to dust in our atmosphere, just to land in the Sahara desert. Somehow it didn't get buried and lost forever under a sand dune, and instead was found by someone who recognized it as an important stone.

"This rock has only been in the hands of scientists for about 10 years, and look how much it's taught us about Mars."