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Dr. John Day:
You are a man of amazing talents!
Maybe the reason I noticed your unusual kitchen set up is because my kitchen is my office! When I retired over 20 years ago, my Wife retired from the kitchen and in self defense I had to take over not only the cooking but also the food buying.
My wife is terrible at shopping and has no idea of value. This is what forced me to take over the food buying. Also I am much bigger on keeping fruits on everybody’s daily menu to ward off survey! My kids never asked their mother for something to eat. That question is always directed my way! Even my Wife asks what there is to eat!
I write this while busy boiling a big pot of maple sap!
Churchill the Hippocrit
Guess who cut inter war military spending? Yes, Churchill.
Guess who corrected Churchill’s military cuts? Yes, the man who Churchill replaced!
See a pattern?
Only 2 Economic Senarios?
1. Print money and lower interest rates, or
2. Raise interest rates and tighten money supply.Hate break it to you but there is a third option.
3. Only raise interest rates to half the inflation rate and only half tighten money supply.
This is the Fed’s current path.
Today I drilled and installed 3 taps in the sugar maple tree in my backyard. I am thinking of maybe adding a 4th tap. I probably should have done this back in early February, as I may have already missed a week of sap. We will see.
Last year I had 3 taps and after boiling down about 30 litres of maple sap, end up with about 2/3rds of a litre for my efforts!
For me, it gives me something to do and pleasantly pass the time while I wait in my cave for spring and cottage season to arrive. In Canada, maple syrup is the first crop of the year.
AFKTT:
Thanks for reviewing the comments by zzz111.
When I read zzz111’s comments, I thought they made sense but since biology isn’t my strength, I needed second opinions to be sure. These comments were sure out of place at a ZH article on central bank digital currencies. But I will take a germ of knowledge where ever I can find it!
I wonder what Dr. John Day, Dr. Rich, Doc Robinson, and others, think about it?
Oroboros:
Your on a roll tonight! A day or so ago I mentioned that locating Skylink routers shouldn’t be too hard since they are constantly sending/receiving data. Well I spoke none too soon! The Russians are targeting the routers!
Now the Russians are teaching their drones to swim! Must have had another drone take a selfie!
Whew! I think I have just succeeded in my first copy and paste operation times 2 inspire of my tablet repeatedly crashing! Nothing good is ever easy!
I don’t know if zzz111 knows his stuff or not but his comments seem to be a decidedly cut above the average ZH zealot! And this ZH article was supposedly about CBDCs!
Maybe others can review it for accuracy or punch holes in it.
Copied from zzz111 commenting on ZH. This comment was made before above comment.
The mRNA is released into the cell cytoplasm where it goes into a ribosome and through translation of the mRNA codons produces the spike protein. The cell does not need the spike protein so it will lyse it in lysosomes, except the problem might be in many cells that there is too much spike protein, a foreign protein, that is not only not needed and is actually detrimental. The cell is infected with spike proteins, so MHC Class I molecules take pieces of partly lysed spike protein up to the external cell surface and present then to CTL cells which detect the foreign spike protein pices and determine that the cell is infected and must be lysed so CTLs punch holes into the infected cells with perforin proteins and release granzymes which go through the perforin holes and cause apoptosis, and the infected cell is lysed and disintegrates. All the cellular debris now needs to be cleared up from the tissue so other immune cells release cytokines, inflammation is created in the damaged tissue and macrophages move in and eat up the cellular debris. The macrophages may get infected my unlysed spike proteins also. Immune system cells may get infected by the mRNA spike protein also. For many sell types it’s not that crucial because the infected cells get lysed and stem cells produce more cells, but for heart muscle and neurons it’s devastating because no new cells are produced or it may take many years to produce a small fraction of the cells needed. So people get myocarditis and nervous system symptoms.
Another problem with these injections is that the mRNA production is uncontrolled with respect to time and cellular type. To solve the time problem, the injection could have additionally a protein it with the half life of maybe a few days or a few weeks at most. Let’s say this protein is biotin, and the mRNA is bound to avidin. Since the mRNA is bound to avidin, it can’t go in the ribosome and no spike protein translation takes place but once biotin binds to the avidin-mRNA complex, a conformational change happens and the mRNA is released from the avidin and its codon get translated by the ribosome and spike protein is produced.
The problem with cellular types where spike protein is produced may also be solved. Normal cells are not endocrine cells so they should not be used for spike protein production. If it is a trans-membrane protein, the spike protein could signal the immune system of its presence but the cell will need to be lysed because it is infected, so myocarditis and CNS ANS..nervous system symptoms. A better way to have the immune system produce an immune response to the spike protein us to have it produced by only endocrine cells. Non-endocrine cells don’t know what to do with the spike protein but endocrine cell can get rid of it by releasing it into the interstitial fluid, extracellular fluid, lymphatic system, circulatory system. You could have a mechanism where the mRNA is bound to a protein and it unbinds only in an endocrine system cell where a particular endogenous endocrine cell protein binds to the mRNA protein an subsequently the free mRNA is released into the cytoplasm and the ribosomes translate it into spike protein. I wouldn’t pick the beta endocrine cells in the isles of Langerhan in the pancreas, but the adrenal glands exocrine cells may not be as bad.
An easier solution is to have no mRNA injections. Conventional injection with small pieces of the spike protein would stimulate the immune system without all of the problems of the mRNA injections. An even better solution is to have no injections at all. The antibodies produced from injections are probably worse than no good because pathogens mutate and then you are stuck with ineffective antibodies production and no effective or little ab production from immune system detection of actual pathogens. The reliance on antibodies may be misguided. ABs may be effective only in clearing debris after cell lysing such as in myocarditis. AB production takes two weeks to start. The adaptive immune system is kind of late and that is what it may be there for, clearing the infection that the innate immune system has already beaten. The complement system and NK cells function right away and if they are successful there may not be even be a need for ab production.
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Copied from zzz111 commenting in ZH. Thought it might be of some interest? I will try to copy an earlier comment by zzz111 but my tablet keeps crashing!
I”m writing this because I realize that no one else seems to understand it. Someone asked JM why athletes have more problems and she answered that it’s because they use more oxygen. (The graphene oxide researcher said that the graphene moves faster through the bloodstream and t slices the endothelial cells.) Athletes use more oxygen but that doesn’t quite explain it. To me it has been obvious it’s because of more ribosomes. Bodybuilders have a lot of ribosomes because they produce a lot of proteins, so the injected mRNA will more easily find a ribosome and get translated into spike protein. Aerobic athletes also use their muscles a lot and have more muscle breakdown, muscle regeneration, and more ribosomes on the endoplasmic reticulum. So mRNA injected people, it’s probably healthier for them to exercise less or not at all.
On ZH the Ukrainians are supposedly upset about Musk’s Skylink not allowing them to use Skylink for controlling their attack drones. Sometimes such headlines can be a little misleading to say the least.
First, there would be good reasons for Skylink to limit Skylink coverage to inside the Ukraine, while excluding coverage in Russian controlled areas. That means an Ukrainian drone operating over Russian controlled territory would likely lose some access to Skylink. Likely the drones can send but not receive data.
Second, I suspect Russia is able to accurately locate any Skylink routers in the Ukraine, as these routers routinely send and receive internet signals. So a given Skylink router could potentially be targeted by jamming or with a loud bang.
As far as I know Russia hasn’t targeted Skylink at all. I wouldn’t be surprised if Skylink is ironically a big help to Russia.
I often read how the war in the Ukraine is just a repeat of WW1’s trench warfare. It is and it isn’t.
For the Ukrainians, it is WW1 style static trench/bunker warfare, now that they have lost most of their mobile armor and are no longer a mobile army and mostly fight on Shank’s Mare.
For Russia, however, they are still a 100% mobile army, even if they build some defensive trenches and bunkers. Most of the Russian soldiers are not sitting in frontline trenches and bunkers, waiting to be shelled like the Ukrainians are. Instead Russian soldiers stay out of the reach of Ukrainian artillery and ride up to the front in armor protected vehicles, largely protected from Ukrainian artillery (mostly destroyed beforehand).
Russian soldiers are also being rotated out every 3 or 4 months, while the Ukrainian soldiers are not being rotated out until most of a unit’s soldiers are dead or wounded, and the unit needs to be refreshed. I am convinced most Ukrainian soldiers never actually see any Russian soldiers, before they die or get wounded. What a way to fight a war. A one-sided turkey shoot.
One thing I keep looking for is evidence of the long term impacts the covid vaccines are having on the vaccinated.
Are the negative health trends for the vaccinated;
1. improving over time?
2. staying about the same?
3. getting worse over time?So far, would I be correct in saying that in the short term things appear to be getting worse for the vaccinated.
But in the longer term, we still don’t know yet if things will get better or worse?What do other TAEs think is happening?
Certainly the US can’t be too concerned about increased fossil fuel usage.
Obviously there must be plenty of oil around to be able to afford the luxury of making needed fuel production even more costly and energy inefficient.
Clearly there is no limit to the amount of energy used, if it is used to stay in power.Greco:
I have a sneaky suspicion that the real reason Vermeer was forced to do all of his painting in just one room of his house, was because his good wife!
The reasons for this suspicions lies in the nature of a good wife. You know like the never ending demands to take your outdoor shoes/boots off before walking into the house!
No, you can’t paint in the kitchen! No, you can’t paint in the living room either! You are always spilling your paint on the floor! Keep your mess in one place! No, the entire house isn’t your painting studio! Look, you just spilled paint on the kitchen table! How many times have I told you, no painting in the house! The paint stinks up the house! Now look what you have just done! Got paint all over the living room furniture! How could you be so careless! How many times have I told you!
Naturally she never got credit!
Dr. D:
Just more sofiscated deep state propaganda!
Just do the mirror effect.
Replace Russia with the US.
Replace Putin with the deep state.
Replace war in Ukraine with the war on covid vaccine misinformation.Re-read!
We are accusing the enemy of what we are doing!
Last night my Wife informed me that an elderly 84 or 85 year old aunt, suffering from Parkinson, living in Vancouver B.C. will have a medically assisted death (called MAIDS in Canada – a so innocently nice sounding name isn’t it?) on February 28th. (I suspect if she was vaxxed, that this could have speeded up her illness’ down hill progression.)
I have rather mixed feelings about all of this.
I watched both my Mother and Father slowly and painfully die of cancer long before MAIDS was an option.
So I can see that at a certain point, life is no longer worth living, due to the extreme level of suffering.
So, MAIDs could be appropriate.My observation is too often MAIDS is being performed rather too quickly, with little checks and balances.
This seems to be a feature not a bug.
A person goes into the hospital, with a none life threatening illness, then a day or two later the family finds out, too late, that the person was MAIDed.
Sadly, Canadian veterans are routinely offered MAIDS as a solution to their on going illnesses.
I believe the doctor’s fee for performing MAIDS is about $1,400 to $1,500.
Some Canadian doctors have performed over 300 and 400 such MAIDS, so it is very lucrative.Trudeau is now planning on offering this service to the mentally ill.
Only the patient’s signature is required and no public notice is required to be made to next of kin.
Basically there seems to be few external checks, or second opinions, before performing MAIDs.
Legalized murder.
To meet the needs of both dying people but mainly the state’s Death Panel’s need to kill off undesirables.I see in Bukhmut, the Russians are following Sun Tsu’s strategy by allowing the Ukrainians a retreat exit by Shank’s Mare.
After buying a US Himar rocket from the Ukrainians, the Russians have updated their S-300, S-400, and S-500 air defense missile software so these US missiles are now routinely shot down just like all the other Ukrainian missiles. Before the software upgrade, the Russians dispursed and camouflaged all of their ammunition depots.
Looks like total US government and private liabilities now exceed total assets. Could defaults be far behind? The Great Reset?
DR. John Day – A new Medical business opportunity in the Ukraine!
Desparate Ukrainian summoned draft age male, visiting his Doctor. “I have just been summoned!”
Doctor: “I can fix your draft summons, for a fee!”
Desparate Ukrainian. “How can a fee fix it?
Doctor. “Simple, I break your arm, then fix you up!”
Relieved Ukrainian. “Yes, that will work! But only for a few months.”
Doctor. “I can fix that too, for another fee!”
Desparate Ukrainian. “How?”
Doctor. “I will simply break your other arm!”
Relieved Ukrainian. “Yes, that will work!”Good luck to FTX creditors trying to collect the big donations made by SBF to politicians!
The politicians are all busy creating new charities, that they 100% control, so they can “donate” the FTX donations to their own charities, which will then return the said donation back to the politicians, as clean money. All perfectly legal!So Raul has choosen a sunflower painting today.
Painted in New Mexico, a state I lived in for several years.
Maybe to honor AFKTT’s sunflowers? Coincidence?Somehow I think “DAN the AI” will do better than “GPTchat” in the AI community, simply because it is a psychopath!
From what I have been reading, the Ukraine is in the middle of raising/mobilizing it’s fourth army as Russia is currently destroying what is left of the Ukraine’s third army.
Since there are no longer any willing volunteers left, the Ukrainian Nazis are now recruiting previously exempt government employees. They now go into government offices and round up everybody. Even SBU and border guards too.
There are still many Ukrainian men in hiding, as everyone in the Ukraine now knows the war is lost and they don’t want to die for a lost cause. Naturally this has made the Ukrainian Nazis behave even more ruthlessly.
Saw one comment saying there are no longer any young men to be seen on the streets of Karkow, Ukraine’s second biggest city. Another comment speculated if government employees in far western Ukraine were being replaced by the Polish, to free up more manpower for the war.
If the Ukraine keeps feeding in more cannon fodder to the Russian meat grinder, then I see no reason for the Russians to advance quickly. By advancing slowly, Russia keeps it’s supply lines short while forcing the west to maintain their very long supply lines.
I don’t think Russia will make any big moves until they have destroyed this fourth Ukrainian army.
NATO has declared it aims to double the number of Ukrainians being trained but I don’t see how the Ukraine can even find enough willing volunteers to send for train outside of the Ukraine. They certainly can not send the unwilling out of the country for training.
The Ukrainian Nazis are quite willing to trade more cannon fodder for more time. Once the fourth army is destroyed then what?
I have also noticed that the Ukrainians are still heavily shelling civilians with many hundreds of rounds of artillery every day. Several dozen Russian controlled cities and towns are sheeled everyday. Any missiles the Ukrainians have seem to be only targeting Russian civilian targets. I suspect this is in line with US policy of killing as many Russians as possible rather than supporting the Ukrainian army. Getting as many Ukrainians killed as possible, seems also to be part of US policy too.
The US is doing an excellent job of de-militerizing European armies of their hardware. The US is fully expecting the Europeans to buy newer replacement equipment. Maybe Europeans are going along with only the first and easy part of the US’s plan, gifting away their army’s current hardware. I think most Europeans know the US has lost in the Ukraine very badly and is now behaving like a dangerously wounded animal.
I think if I was in European shoes, I would simply drag my feet about ordering and buying any new equipment at all. First, this reduces the neo-con’s future options for new wars. Second, without new equipment European armies are no longer combat capable, now being more poorly trained than ever before. European armies, in a virtuous circle, will continue to shrink even more, as who wants to join a losing outfit as future cannon fodder?
I see Trudeau is currently doing this to the Canadian army. I see Britain is following suit. How are Australia and New Zealand armies doing these days? Shrinking I bet!
China on Ukraine:
I think China is sending subtle messages to the US about the US escalating the war in the Ukraine.
First they had their lacky in North Korea warn the US about the war in Ukraine.
Now a less subtle message sent via a ballon.
The bottom line is China supports Russia.
If the US escalates the war in the Ukraine into àttacks on Russia, China will escalate it’s support for Russia.AFKTT:
Good luck with your sunflowers!
During the depression, in Saskatchewan, Ukrainian farm students in my Father’s class used to eat sunflower seeds all day long, spitting out the shells onto the classroom floor. When class was over for the day, the teacher had to sweep up all the sunflower shells. There was nothing the teacher could do about it as they were hungry, not to mention much bigger than the little teacher!But don’t do what my uncle did. He harvested the sunflowers in bushel baskets leaving them in his garage over winter. In the spring he discovered several dead chipmunks that had died trying to eat all of the sunflower seeds! Too bad your new chipmunk PM couldn’t be enticed to do the same!
D B Smith:
An excellent example of the filtering layers of bureaucrats is the staff of the King of Thialand, keeping him in the dark about the vaccine injury re his own daughter. Hopefully the King will make someone pay the price for this.
AFKTT:
Big Brother’s war is against reality!
There, shortened it for you!Little boys learn not to piss into the wind.
Unless there is a tree in front!Jb-hb:
If you were inside Rome, your reality choices might be whether to stay with unreality or join reality.
Or in other words, remain uncivilized or join civilization.
History says civilization opened the gates of Rome.
And the barbarians left Rome.
Reality was painful for most.So are we really just dreaming or not?
Our dreams seem real to us!
Our lives seem real to us!
Maybe we are just dreaming and nothing is real?Polish Army Size:
Top Polish general just complained that 4,000 “professional” Polish soldiers just resigned in January 2023, one-third more than quit in January 2022. And new recruits are hard to come by.
So that 200,000 sized Polish “cannon fodder”army is now only 196,000!
Dr. D:
I love your history lessons!
It kind of reminds me of my Father.
It was a big mistake to mention the “good old days”.
My Father would quickly say things weren’t so good back then, listing practical examples.One morning during breakfast, I was reading a book on Egypt.
There was an illustration of a Pharroll being fan cooled with palm leaves by a servant.
I said to my Father. “It must have been wonderfull to have lived in Egypt back then”.
My Father quickly replied. “Son, you would have been born a slave!
That forever changed my view of history!Climate Modeling :
With all due respect to AFKTT and his CO2 focus, trying to set up a climate model that accurately reflects the real world is pretty much impossible.
As soon as you think you have set up the perfect model, someone will say did you include the effects ants have on the environment? Then someone will mention the currently changing alignment of the Milky Way?
So as a modeler, you will be forever trying to add in these new constantly changing effects into your model, never mind all the changes going on to what is already in your existing model!
You can not ever hope to get there!
The best you can do is to “assume” everything not already in your model doesn’t matter!
Then you will find that you just made an “ass_u_me”.
Assume is the most dangerous word in engineering!
Bug Fed Chickens:
While working in the Congo, bug fed free range chickens were daily staple.
Our waiter would ask us if we wanted a half or whole chicken for supper?
We used to joke it didn’t really matter, as there was no meat on either half!And the chickens had a barnyard flavor!
P.S. The frog leg entre really did taste like chicken!
After a week of trying, the Russians finally managed to find one Ukrainian tank!
The tank was in hiding but for some unknown reason was driven out into the open for a few minutes.
The Russian MoD actually mentioned that one tank in a footnote.Now we know why we had a paid military troll deflationist dedicated to sowing dis-information on TAE.
I noticed deflationist stopped attacking me, when I said my brother was looking for a new gig and he was much better qualified to be a troll than deflationist was. I don’t think he liked that very much! I think I hit a nerve!
Germ:
Thanks for the link to “I Am Fishead”.
I watched the video and realized several things.As social animals, we develop complex networks through the many people we meet.
It only takes about 6 or 7 percent of the people to figure out something, before everybody then knows.Now I much better understand, when the virus hit, why the authorities behaved the way they did.
It was all 100% scripted exactly like a Hollywood movie.First, the authorities had to isolate and silence the 6 or 7 percent of the people who could figure things out.
They did this by having the media identify and then censor and cancel the troublesome 6 or 7 percent.
They actively discredited ll those who were spreading mis-information.It was critically important to also destroy the existing networks that exists between people.
This was done through isolating people from seeing each other by imposing lockdowns on them.
Masking and social distancing was another method to isolate people and prevent them from interacting.
(Masking, the nose and mouth, totally dehumanizies people as the Arabs discovered 2000 years ago.)
They imposed limits on the number of people that could be together in a home or in public.
They limited how far you could be from your home.Once people’s social networks were destroyed, they were isolated, and dehumanizied, then getting everyone to drink the Kool Aid was a piece of cake.
Clearly this was all carefully gamed out and planned before hand.
Yes, we have been had.
Oroboros:
From yesterday’s comment.
Empire of Lies
Rules like the Lord of the FliesThe first two lines of a poem.
You will have to finish the poem, since I am not very poetic!
