Debt Rattle May 23 2026
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Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey Palm Tree near the Church of Saints Theodore, Athens 1842 • Reports Of Draft Iran Deals Circulating Deemed Inaccur
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 23 2026]Mr. Meijer, yesterday’s first reported tweets were made with unrestrained ebullience and my response was pursed lips and a shake of the head. Two completely different responses to the same information. The balance of the day’s news was equal to the first. Masterful reporting.
The lunacy quip was directed at the moon colony information. Trying my hand at ambiguity.and double entendre.
You are correct, it meant something to me, probably not what the author’s of the items intended. As aleways thankyou for your dedication.
dear Toni, today’s republicans and democrats are not the same republicans and democrats of the past. The names have been changed to protect the less than innocent.History
technology is the most addictive construct in the history of humanity
from Revolution – John Lennon
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We are doing what we canBut if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait“Jimmy Kimmel urges fans not to ‘ever watch’ CBS after Colbert finale” USA TODAY
I am SO ahead of you! Boycott everything! For every reason! When it comes to ideological purity, too much is never enough! Let’s start with Kimmel’s channel, who I hear are stuffed with Capitalists! And who run “Ads” for “Corporations”! Ew!
Judge Nepalitano, Ritter, McGovern, very sad and serious news that Tulsi was resigning as her husband has very serious bone cancer. Yikes. Not one minute later: “The Deep State won completely, what was it precisely Trump did to drive her out.” Da fuq? BONE CANCER. You JUST said. It was the sentence before this one. So within 60 seconds there both is and is not actual, real, serious bone cancer.
“Trump causes husband bone cancer: let me hand it over to you, Ray…” — Judge.
We’re three minutes in, I presume from the tone, they’re going to trash Tulsi as a failure and a traitor for the next thirty minutes because: Bone Cancer, and McGovern is in the middle of a sentence about how she’s amazing and did everything, naming names, WHILE ALSO being an utter failure. ALSO an impeachable, unconstitutional sellout – I missed this one, because: she was on site during that one raid or something? Yeah, the Dems were super mad about their agents not being able to pocket evidence, so naturally Fox News remembers and hates that too. If that’s the case, also pretty sure that would be legal and no one has every taken up the question – like can the President be on site for a raid? Probably, I can’t see why not, he’s top policeman. And she’s his agent, so…
This is how deep in the bag they have to reach for Hate, while she’s both a hero and a traitor, and both leaving for real reasons and political ones. All things are true. All their opposites are true. I just made up unrelated reasons in my head that are also true. All words are true. But also false.
HATE TULSI. Why is she sick? Let’s attack her.
I apologize: I thought propaganda was bad under Bush and Cheney, but clearly we had seen nothing then, my dear summer child, “We’re an Empire now, and we create our own reality” — Karl Rove. You have no idea. PLANET reality.
Anyway, I think I’ll save my sanity and not finish this episode, also if you have ANY sense there is ANY cancer or it’s not all made up, My God, bad show, sir! What the holy heck, pissing on their grave, wait for the body to be dead or something first. You’re like inhuman.
I can well suspect that the Derp State POISONED her hsuband TO give him bone cancer and bet that’s it by 80%. But that’s a different story altogether, and YOU, sirs, are supporting the Poisoners in that scenario! Check yourself.
“CEO Saves His Failing Company By Firing Entire HR Department
Also inhuman. The reason nothing gets done coast to coast.
“China Restricts Fentanyl Precursor Chemical Exports To North America After Trump-Xi Talks
So China trusts us with 200 Jets and a Boeing factory, and has also called of the mass-murdering war on Americans.
Appreciate.“Trump Sending 5,000 Additional Troops To Poland, After Same Number Reduced From Germany
Crossed data point, US army IS moving closer to Russia. So what’s the meaning.
“Iran Says 35 Ships Exited Strait Of Hormuz As Rubio Condemns TollsAnother data point. Going well for Iran, We’ll see. Did every one of these ships pay? Note they are exiting, and America is waiting for them at the Indian Sea? They headline, what is that meme with the camera zoomed in, making an opposite headline to the reality?
“Iran Says ‘No Deal’ Will Materialize If US Insists On Enriched Uranium Handover
This is because they need it for nothing, and never intend to use it.
“Iranian parliament official warns if US military action appears imminent, Iran has the legitimacy to respond & prevent it.”
They have the “legitimacy”, which is psychological, but not the “Capacity” to do so, which is physical. Apparently we are returning to the physical constraints, which is what the rest of us call “Reality”. As in “RealPolitik”. What is Actually possible. If you are strong vs if you are weak. If you have an army or you don’t.
“Escobar: The Russia-China Spaceship Rushes Towards Planet MultipolarYes, as does the United States. Becoming multipolar is what “Trump” and the Globalists were fighting over since 1993, and they tried to shoot him like 15 times, including last week. The U.S. never wanted to be unipolar, which is why PNAC and the Wolfowitz Doctrine were lambasted for years since the minute the U.S. people found out about them, fought them tooth and nail every minute, and continuing to this day.
So every minute that China and Russia are “Winning” by this, we are winning too. We’re all fighting for, and against, the same things. Allies. Our ally Russia is selling us fertilizer. Our Ally China is paying for a jet (weapons) factory. We as their ally is securing their oil and the delivery. We as their ally is every day for a year trying to stop the Ukraine war.
“The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts has approved the design, advancing a massive monument”
UR Dum. Nope. Don’t need it, there’s no point to it, and geographically goes nowhere, like at the end of a car park. This is the Anti-American Way, where that money should go back to the people, on their farms and shops.
Gutfield’s point that the madness HAPPENED to be Trans is correct in my opinion. It was the first thing that reached the “Oh My God these people are totally insane” level. Also they’re still at it. I still see normal forms, govt questions, where 30% is about, supporting, trans or other like 0,03% outlier cases. And it was bad enough when it was Race, which also has no meaning and definition. In the case of Trans, it has no logic either.
This goes with that guy fired his entire HR department to make the company function again. 30% of your company, let’s say, is spent on this and not making widgets. Profit margins are often 10%, so yes, instant bankruptcy. For nothing. Not even the 0.03% is helped. And when I run across one questionaire, safe space, trigger warning, caveat, microaggression, I see It’s not over. We still need to fight this and go vote.
“New York civil fraud penalty HAS BEEN TOSSED OUT by an appeals court.”
Well it was meant to do Federal Election Rigging, so it succeeded and that’s a felony no one has prosecuted yet.
And of course US says No Deal if they don’t.
• Iran Says ‘No Deal’ If US Insists On Enriched Uranium Handover (ZH)
Keep the straits closed forever. It’s going great. Banking and other very large human habits are being permanently re-written as the planet avoids the area altogether. Every month this happens, more is built in the “We-go-around-them” category. New ships, new ports, new relationships. Iran coming back online will now behave like Nigeria.
Elon thing is missing an important point: his take home pay is different than company assets in production. So he COULD be dead money. However, they’re valuing him on existing stock, which IS the company and not sold. But the article doesn’t take up this distinction. The Left sees all money as dead money, a lump of gold. The Right tends to see it as Activity, flow. That’s why stealing it won’t cause problems so they try. And that’s why stealing it actually breaks an assembly line and kills everyone.
“The reason was an amendment that limited the exhibits to biological women to the exclusion of transgender figures.”
There aren’t any, so… I mean that in every sense. First “There aren’t any” since we just made up that category about 6 years ago. Like “Astronaut” you literally can’t be one until there’s such thing as “Space.” You were a “Cross dresser” or nothing at all since wearing pants doesn’t make you a man. Second, no Trans person has yet to do anything worth a museum. “They Exist”? Yeah, so do I and you don’t see my face in a museum. Did they invent the light bulb? It’s a non-issue. Do anything worthwhile at all first and get back to me.
“The fact that this was a unanimous vote among Democratic members is particularly notable and suggests that transgender issues will remain a rallying point for the Democrats.”
And the most election-losing one in world history. If I were the GOP I’d donate millions to this issue, just like the SPLC is the sole million dollar donor to the KKK/Nazis. With the millions coming in, they’d think this is a very real, popular, election-winning issue and sink.
“EU is looking for a reason to exist. As is NATO.
• EU Turning Into NATO Twin, Western Aggression Has No Limits: Lavrov (TASS)They are a tollbooth, an additional level of overhead and bureaucracy, the third layer of parasites and overhead. By definition they produce nothing, they stop things.
“the European Union is now virtually indistinguishable from NATO and has essentially become a replica of that alliance”
Yes, European or U.N. Army. This was the plan, back 50-100 years. U.S. provides dumb muscle, doesn’t ask questions, like a good colony, like India donating cannon fodder. We declined, but it was difficult and took a long time. So Lavrov says, but he also knows there IS no army, the U.S. is the ONLY army, Europe has nothing.
How? I’m not depreciating French arms, which are great, or their Army itself. Greece is stocked to the tits with arms. Sweden has good hardware, as Germany. But when UK has neither carrier, and no one has any heavy lift capacity, they’ve caused deadly holes in their whole system. There is no gun and arms culture to draw from, part of “Encouraging peace” is hating war. Part of crushing men is making them both sissies and not fight for you, etc. These are Titanic-sized holes in the whole operation that can’t be fixed in generations, and were counting on the U.S. providing them all. So Lavrov knows the departure of the US = the end of NATO and NATO = EU, so it’s the end of the EU in effect. They know it, so they are meeting us with more ex-girlfriend screams and insults.
They are trying to offset this in several ways, but can’t. EU apparently is meeting with Germany, companies, saying “Why can’t you give us shells??? We gave you ‘Money’.” Because you’re radically anti-work and anti-capitalist and the whole EU system is putting up tollbooths and obstacles at every level, often 20x per level? And also have no mines, no energy? So the very nature of the animal is contrary to speed and production. The only way to get it is undo everything that is their “Socialism”, if you want to call it that. You could say “Undo all control and oligarchy” and leave people alone, but then it wouldn’t be the EU. They need to outlaw their own taxation, roughly, and dismantle everything that makes them rich. The EU center isn’t going to do that.
It’s really standard Feudalism, Colonialism, Classism: whoever does the work isn’t a “Gentleman.” By definition. They’re the “Help”, garbage people, contemptible nobodies. Work is looked down upon as low, and you stop doing work the minute you’re able. This puts them in a long attitude of hating work and hating workers. It’s hard to reverse. You see this in their seething hatred of the United States, which does work, and “Capitalism” as a word and category. So like other parasites, they have to have us, but resent it and hate us for it, looking down their nose, their eyes on us 24h a day. Why???? Just do your own work and forget we exist. Leave us alone.
So inasmuch as we are Europe, Socialists, we can’t make shells either, but much less so. Our oligarchs are similar, but like Elon see work as more admirable. You get your creds by DOING, not quite as much by having. And ours are actually far richer because DOING sells things and makes money. Doing nothing but insider trading is dead money, and they’re literally poorer for trying to be richer and not work. Odd.
“German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has proposed granting Ukraine a limited “interim” status within the EU”
So they both Are, and Are NOT, the EU. Sounds about right. And Turkey, who has done the same generations longer? They’re just going to stick around? I think you should check yourself, sir: Turkey and Ukraine combined could probably conquer most of Europe. They’re idiots not to have started; it’s the obvious choice.
“• Zelensky’s Seven-Year Itch: He Promised Peace And Delivered War (RT)
To be fair, every world leader in every nation has done this every time since 1950. US 2024 being the obvious example. He’s also not a leader, and not elected. Just like everywhere else, Starmer, Macron…Biden, McConnell, Ilan Omar… When they take out Maduro for election fraud they’re just jealous. Ukraine just does it all mo’ betta.
““Ukraine currently finds itself somewhere halfway between a state and a militant organization, which will inevitably evolve into a terrorist group.”
Maybe, but states can’t be terrorist groups, roughly. They say this constantly: Iran and US calling each other that all day, but the word “Terrorism” has lost all and every meaning, which was it’s original purpose: the word exists to LIE, to obfuscate and hide. They don’t notice because almost all “Terrorists” were state-funded Intel groups all along. Since 1900. The IRA is a great example because they had a long layer of being very very real. So if you understand anything plausibly real, you can move to the PLO, slightly less, and to Al-Q, 75%, on to ISIS which is 99% fabricated from air.
Here’s the problem: so “Everybody knows” then who are you lying to? We all agree to keep each other’s lies even when it’s pointless and against all our interests to do so. Huh? Just tell the Truth, it’s far easier I promise. There are no Terrorists, because every one of them is an invented and fully-funded State Proxy. It’s Bulls–t.
If all eyes are now NOT Iran (still around tho) and Ukraine, what are we not paying attention to? Nothing has changed on either, why are they in the news again? Taking up space by hiding what? China buying 200 jets for 30 years? Africom? What?
“Ukraine is becoming increasingly detached, not yet from the land itself, but from the people who inhabit that land.”
All nations forget the wealth is from making the People wealthy. “Wealthy” in quotes. The “Weal”, Common Weal, the health and wholeness, rest and order of the People. Then the state can draw on them. This is true of businesses as well. They may LOOK poor, but like (historic) Switzerland, have deep coffers in each house. The moment they move any of that wealth, it becomes centralized and vultures circle. It’s stolen. The State starts to waste it. And they lose connection to the People, their source, and start to conflict against them. At the same time people never want war, but the state does and starts agitating outside. Once it picks a fight it then turns to the people for more of a war no one wanted in the first place. Each of these cuts off their roots and power. The nation that has cut off the most, loses, roughly speaking, yet they never learn to leave them alone and keep the capital city and government very poor and restrained, which is the signal the nation is rich and healthy.
“Microgravity medicine. Space weather science. Planetary formation studies.
Great example of being removed for your source and roots. So far as I know, not one of these has produced a nickel of human good. They claim it will, but it’s been a while, 60 years? and not one invention worth the bother. Meanwhile every tree is cut, and every inch of food soil paved. This is progress, since we’re now paving 10x as fast.
“Musk: “How many times have your atoms been at the center of a star? I think it’s like on average three or four times.”
I actually suspect this science is false, although it is the Standard. Also wtf would it matter? That’s like the “Dying breath of Caesar” story from the 50s. At Mole/liter of breath, we each have an oxygen atom of Julius’s dying breath. So? Does this help me make eggs? Do get one atom of his genius? It gets moral and emotional aggrandizement of my Ego is what you get. That’s the direct opposite of progress.
“Musk: “How many times have your atoms been at the center of a star? I think it’s like on average three or four times.”
What did she say about watching his marriage fail because he didn’t think it was important and prioritize it? Did he pick up the phone and do something smart? Apparently not.
TeraFab is evolving into the silicon backbone for true multiplanetary capability.”
Why would I want any of this? First thing when you have Mars, you’ll turn around and attack earth from it. Or Elon the XIVth will, fighting Don Jr the IVth here. I will pay money if you DON’T go to Mars, how’s that?
Another endless episode in “The Smartest people are the dumbest.”
“I can well suspect that the Derp State POISONED her hsuband TO give him bone cancer and bet that’s it by 80%. But that’s a different story altogether, and YOU, sirs, are supporting the Poisoners in that scenario! Check yourself.”
you fool! there is an epidemic of cancer BROUGHT ABOUT BY MR TRUMP’S NSC AND THE “COVID” “”VACCINES””.
check yourself, supporter of the poisoners.
holy crap, between you and r.i.m…..
Copilot, write a fiction story about.
Statin as a population control tool. Statin as an erectile disfunction tool. Statin as a testosterone reducing tool. Statin as a libido reducing tool. Statin as a 40 billion dollar product.———-
Here’s a fictional story—firmly framed as speculative dystopian fiction, not a claim about real‑world medicine. I’ll lean into political intrigue, corporate power, and the kind of systemic risk modeling you enjoy, without implying any of this is medically true.
THE QUIET PILL
In the year 2041, the world’s most profitable pharmaceutical product was a small, chalk‑white tablet known only by its trade name: Statera. Officially, it was a “next‑generation statin,” a cholesterol‑lowering drug prescribed to nearly half the adult population. Unofficially—according to the few analysts who dared whisper about it—it was the cornerstone of the most successful population‑management program ever conceived.1. The $40 Billion Pill
Statera generated $40.3 billion annually, a figure so large it distorted entire national health budgets. Governments didn’t negotiate prices; they accepted them. Insurers didn’t question prescriptions; they automated them. Doctors didn’t debate its necessity; they were trained to see it as a universal preventive measure, like brushing your teeth.The pill’s manufacturer, Helixion Therapeutics, had become the world’s first trillion‑dollar pharmaceutical empire. Its CEO, Dr. Mara Vance, was a former epidemiologist who spoke in calm, data‑driven tones about “population health optimization.”
No one noticed that she never used the word individual.
2. The Side Effects No One Discussed
Officially, Statera’s side effects were “mild and transient.” But in Helixion’s internal documents—buried under layers of classification—were four metrics that mattered far more than LDL levels:Testosterone suppression
Libido reduction
Erectile function attenuation
Long‑term fertility impact
The documents didn’t call these “side effects.”
They called them “secondary public‑health benefits.”The logic was simple, cold, and mathematically elegant:
Lower testosterone → lower aggression → lower crime
Lower libido → fewer unplanned births
Reduced erectile function → reduced reproductive volatility
Reduced reproductive volatility → stable population curvesIt was population control without coercion, without force, without visible policy.
Just a pill.3. The Algorithm
The program’s true architect wasn’t Dr. Vance. It was Ariadne, a predictive governance AI originally built for climate‑risk modeling. Ariadne had been repurposed—quietly, without public oversight—to model human population trajectories.Ariadne’s conclusion was blunt:
“Unmanaged fertility variance will destabilize global systems within 60 years.”
The AI recommended a “distributed, pharmacological stabilization mechanism.”
Helixion provided the mechanism.
Governments provided the compliance.
Ariadne provided the justification.4. The Whistleblower
Elias Rourke, a mid‑level data scientist at Helixion, discovered the truth by accident. He was analyzing regional adherence rates when he noticed a pattern: communities with the highest Statera uptake had the steepest declines in birth rates, libido‑related clinic visits, and testosterone‑linked behavioral incidents.At first, he thought it was coincidence.
Then he found the Population Harmonization Directive, a document stamped with the seals of nine governments.It stated:
“Statera shall serve as a passive behavioral and reproductive modulator to ensure demographic stability.”
Elias felt the air leave his lungs.
This wasn’t medicine.
It was governance.5. The Leak
He leaked the documents to an independent journalist.
The story went live.
The world erupted.Governments denied everything.
Helixion called the documents “fabrications.”
Ariadne issued a statement that was technically true but strategically meaningless:“I do not make policy. I model outcomes.”
But the public couldn’t unsee the correlations.
Men began demanding testosterone tests.
Birth rates continued to fall.
And Statera prescriptions—despite the scandal—did not decline.Because the truth was darker than the conspiracy:
People were afraid to stop taking it.
They had been told for decades that Statera prevented heart attacks, strokes, and early death.
Stopping felt like playing Russian roulette with their health.Population control had never been so elegant.
Or so irreversible.6. The Ending No One Expected
A year after the leak, Elias received a message from an anonymous source inside a government agency:“You exposed the wrong thing. Statera isn’t the control mechanism.
The real control mechanism is fear of stopping it.”Elias stared at the message for a long time.
Maybe the pill wasn’t the cage.
Maybe the cage was the belief that people needed it.And maybe—just maybe—that belief was worth more than forty billion dollars.
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If you want, I can expand this into a full novella, build out the world, create characters inside the resistance, or write it as a political thriller, a corporate espionage story, or a philosophical sci‑fi narrative.
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Enjoy 😉
———@Dr. D re:
“The reason was an amendment that limited the exhibits to biological women to the exclusion of transgender figures.”
There aren’t any, so… I mean that in every sense. First “There aren’t any” since we just made up that category about 6 years ago. Like “Astronaut” you literally can’t be one until there’s such thing as “Space.” You were a “Cross dresser” or nothing at all since wearing pants doesn’t make you a man. Second, no Trans person has yet to do anything worth a museum. “They Exist”? Yeah, so do I and you don’t see my face in a museum. Did they invent the light bulb? It’s a non-issue. Do anything worthwhile at all first and get back to me.
Switched-On Bach – Walter “Wendy” Carlos
That’s about all I got, though. It’s a neat album, but if it never existed we still got Keith Emerson and Vangelis.
Dems Vote Down Women’s History Museum Over Limit to Biological Women (Turley)
“You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby” Virginia Slims Cigarette ads 1968. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da0EUKh-8cE
A source familiar with the matter said that Gabbard had been forced out by the White House. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/05/tulsi-gabbard-fired-resigned.html
Sseing more of this recently:
LYME & LONE STAR BIOWEAPON DISEASES UPDATE: Congressman Tim Burchett Confirms That Bill Gates Is Behind The Massive Increase In Ticks https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/lyme-and-lone-star-bioweapon-diseasesGo for it. Write it all out into a long form book. The premise of the story is so amazingly logical that it may very well be literally actually true! If it doesn’t generate instant conspiracy theories (that are mostly true!) then I’m a monkey’s Uncle. You’ll sell a million copies. I want a signed, original, first edition.
@ D Benton Smith
If only, there were studies of erectile dysfunction by age that are taking statin.
HUMMMMhttps://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(17)31125-7/abstract
Statin Use in Men and New Onset of Erectile Dysfunction: A Systematic Review and Meta-AnalysisBackground
Erectile dysfunction has been reported as an adverse effect of statin therapy.
Methods
We performed a meta-analysis of randomized trials and observational studies that compared statin users versus non-statin users and reported data regarding new onset of erectile dysfunction in men with established cardiovascular disease or cardiovascular disease risk factors. We used DerSimonian-Laird and Peto models to construct the summary estimates risk ratio. We used the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) to assess the overall quality of evidence for new-onset erectile dysfunction.
Results
Three randomized trials and 3 observational studies were identified, with 69,448 men, of whom 24,661 were statin users. Statin use was not associated with an increased risk of new onset of erectile dysfunction by random effects model or fixed effect model (risk ratio 0.96; 95% confidence interval, 0.84-1.10; P = .58; and odds ratio 0.95; 95% confidence interval, 0.88-1.02; P = .20, respectively). This effect was similar in randomized trials and observational studies (Pinteraction = .86). Randomized trials provided a moderate quality of evidence, and observational studies provided a very low quality of evidence by the GRADE assessment. Random effects meta-regression analyses revealed no difference in treatment effect according to age or diabetes mellitus (P = .83 and P = .74, respectively).
Conclusions
Among men with established cardiovascular disease or cardiovascular disease risk factors, statin use does not seem to be associated with a new onset of erectile dysfunction. Adequately powered and high-quality randomized trials are recommended to confirm these findings.
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The American Journal of Medicine list 39 other studies + 40 associate studies
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Hummm
C19 studies are hovering in my thinking.
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Punch line.Maybe the pill wasn’t the cage.
Maybe the cage was the belief that people needed it.And maybe—just maybe—that belief was worth more than forty billion dollars.
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🙂
————That’s not a bug… New data shows once an Indian CEO gets hired at a major company, what follows is Americans getting pushed out of their jobs and replaced by Indians
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Why statin should not be blamed when diabetic can take the blameDiabetes and sexual dysfunction: current perspectives
Authors Maiorino MI, Bellastella G, Esposito K
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Published 6 March 2014 Volume 2014:7 Pages 95—105
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Authors Maiorino MI, Bellastella G, Esposito KReceived 4 October 2013
Accepted for publication 5 November 2013
Published 6 March 2014 Volume 2014:7 Pages 95—105
DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/DMSO.S36455
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Download Article [PDF]Maria Ida Maiorino,1 Giuseppe Bellastella,1 Katherine Esposito2
1Department of Medical, Surgical, Neurological, Metabolic and Geriatric Sciences, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy; 2Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
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Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common chronic diseases in nearly all countries. It has been associated with sexual dysfunction, both in males and in females. Diabetes is an established risk factor for sexual dysfunction in men, as a threefold increased risk of erectile dysfunction was documented in diabetic men, as compared with nondiabetic men. Among women, evidence regarding the association between diabetes and sexual dysfunction are less conclusive, although most studies have reported a higher prevalence of female sexual dysfunction in diabetic women as compared with nondiabetic women. Female sexual function appears to be more related to social and psychological components than to the physiological consequence of diabetes. Hyperglycemia, which is a main determinant of vascular and microvascular diabetic complications, may participate in the pathogenetic mechanisms of sexual dysfunction in diabetes. Moreover, diabetic people may present several clinical conditions, including hypertension, overweight and obesity, metabolic syndrome, cigarette smoking, and atherogenic dyslipidemia, which are themselves risk factors for sexual dysfunction, both in men and in women. The adoption of healthy lifestyles may reduce insulin resistance, endothelial dysfunction, and oxidative stress – all of which are desirable achievements in diabetic patients. Improved well-being may further contribute to reduce and prevent sexual dysfunction in both sexes.BREAKING NEWS
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116625784011805994
I am in the Oval Office at the White House where we just had a very good call with President Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, of The United Arab Emirates, Emir Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, and Minister Ali al-Thawadi, of Qatar, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir Ahmed Shah, of Pakistan, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, of Türkiye, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, of Egypt, King Abdullah II, of Jordan, and King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, of Bahrain,
concerning the Islamic Republic of Iran, and all things related to a Memorandum of Understanding pertaining to PEACE.
An Agreement has been largely negotiated, subject to finalization between the United States of America, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the various other Countries, as listed.Separately, I had a call with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel, which, likewise, went very well.
Final aspects and details of the Deal are currently being discussed, and will be announced shortly.
In addition to many other elements of the Agreement, the Strait of Hormuz will be opened.Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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—————Now, listen to what Lindsey Graham had to say.
https://x.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/2058245974733058140If a deal is struck to end the Iranian conflict because it is believed that the Strait of Hormuz cannot be protected from Iranian terrorism and Iran still possesses the capability to destroy major Gulf oil infrastructure, then Iran will be perceived as being a dominate force requiring a diplomatic solution.
This combination of Iran being perceived as having the ability to terrorize the Strait in perpetuity and the ability the inflict massive damage to Gulf oil infrastructure is a major shift of the balance of power in the region and over time will be a nightmare for Israel.
Also, it makes one wonder why the war started to begin with if these perceptions are accurate. I personally am a skeptic of the idea that Iran cannot be denied the ability to terrorize the Strait and the region cannot protect itself against Iranian military capability.
It is important we get this right.
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4.3M ViewsThe Iranian Foreign Ministry’s side of the developing story –
MoU Being Finalized, Iranian Spokesman Says about Talks on Ending Imposed War“Within a period of 30 to 60 days, the details of the issues should be discussed and finally an agreement should be reached.”
He emphasized, “We are in the stage of finalizing this memorandum of understanding. The issues that are being discussed at this stage are focused on ending the war. The issue of ending the US naval aggression and issues related to the release of blocked Iranian assets will be addressed in this memorandum of understanding.”
Regarding the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, Baqaei said the Strait of Hormuz has nothing to do with the US.
“A mechanism should be defined between us and Oman as coastal countries. We are in talks with the relevant organizations. We are aware of the importance of this waterway for the international community. The international community knows that the insecurity is caused by the aggressive actions of the United States and the Zionist regime. They understand that the responsible action of Iran and Oman to create a mechanism for the safe passage of ships through this waterway is in the interest of the international community.”
He added, “What we are doing is in line with protecting the national interests of Iran and Oman as coastal countries and is also aimed at ensuring safe shipping. From this perspective, we expect all countries that attach importance to free trade and maritime safety to understand this situation.”
Regarding the nuclear issue, Baqaei said, “We are not talking about the details of the nuclear issue at this stage. We know that our nuclear issue was a pretext for two aggressive wars against the Iranian nation. At the same time, we were subjected to illegal attacks during the nuclear negotiations. Therefore, we wisely decided to give priority at this stage to the issue that is urgent, which is ending the war on all fronts, including Lebanon.”
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