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وأخيراً بعد أسابيع طويلة من العمل والأبحاث والتجارب فاز لعيد دردابو بلقب الموسم السابع عشر من #نجوم_العلوم! ألف مبروك Finally, after long weeks of work, research, and experiments, Laid Dardabou has won the title of the seventeenth season of #StarsofScience! Congratulations

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A few weeks ago hundreds of proud, hopeful Jamaicans gathered at the Morant Bay Urban Centre, smiling, cheering, and witnessing history. After decades of neglect and underinvestment, St. Thomas finally has a development it can call its own. The Morant Bay Urban Centre is a symbol of possibility, a long-overdue answer to the cries of a “forgotten parish”. While the people of St. Thomas turned out in their numbers to celebrate this milestone, and the rest of Jamaica watched with pride and satisfaction, the Leader of the Opposition chose to belittle, refering to a “so called” centre. This remark goes much deeper than just politics, it speaks to the heart of the Opposition, unable to acknowledge the development happening in our country. Unwilling to witness and appreciate what this means for our people. This is the difference between a government that builds and an opposition that tears down. The difference between leadership that sees Jamaica and leadership that sees only politics. And leadership that focuses on what is good for Jamaica and leadership that focuses on what is good for themselves. We believe in development for every parish and progress for every Jamaican. And while others may scoff from the sidelines, we’ll continue doing the real work of nation-building, because Jamaica deserves nothing less.
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A few weeks ago hundreds of proud, hopeful Jamaicans gathered at the Morant Bay Urban Centre, smiling, cheering, and witnessing history. After decades of neglect and underinvestment, St. Thomas finally has a development it can call its own. The Morant Bay Urban Centre is a symbol of possibility, a long-overdue answer to the cries of a “forgotten parish”. While the people of St. Thomas turned out in their numbers to celebrate this milestone, and the rest of Jamaica watched with pride and satisfaction, the Leader of the Opposition chose to belittle, refering to a “so called” centre. This remark goes much deeper than just politics, it speaks to the heart of the Opposition, unable to acknowledge the development happening in our country. Unwilling to witness and appreciate what this means for our people. This is the difference between a government that builds and an opposition that tears down. The difference between leadership that sees Jamaica and leadership that sees only politics. And leadership that focuses on what is good for Jamaica and leadership that focuses on what is good for themselves. We believe in development for every parish and progress for every Jamaican. And while others may scoff from the sidelines, we’ll continue doing the real work of nation-building, because Jamaica deserves nothing less.

Andrew Holness

14,256 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

🚨 BREAKING JUST NOW – Attorney General Pam Bondi at the podium: The person who planted two live pipe bombs outside the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 5, 2021 has finally been arrested after four years of total inaction. - Suspect: Brian Cole Jr. - Taken into custody this morning in Woodbridge, Virginia. - Charged with violating 18 U.S.C. § 844 – use of an explosive device. - Search warrants executed safely, investigation still active, more charges possible. Bondi laid it out plain: “This cold case languished for four years until Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino came to the FBI… the evidence had been sitting at the FBI with the Biden Administration for four long years.” “There was no new tip, there was no new witness – just good, diligent police work and prosecutorial work.” “Today’s arrest happened because the Trump Administration has made this case a priority. The total lack of movement on this case in our nation’s capital undermined the public trust of our enforcement agencies.” She praised the team effort – FBI, ATF, Capitol Police, Metro PD – and said today is “a significant step toward restoring the public’s trust.”
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🚨 BREAKING JUST NOW – Attorney General Pam Bondi at the podium: The person who planted two live pipe bombs outside the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 5, 2021 has finally been arrested after four years of total inaction. - Suspect: Brian Cole Jr. - Taken into custody this morning in Woodbridge, Virginia. - Charged with violating 18 U.S.C. § 844 – use of an explosive device. - Search warrants executed safely, investigation still active, more charges possible. Bondi laid it out plain: “This cold case languished for four years until Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino came to the FBI… the evidence had been sitting at the FBI with the Biden Administration for four long years.” “There was no new tip, there was no new witness – just good, diligent police work and prosecutorial work.” “Today’s arrest happened because the Trump Administration has made this case a priority. The total lack of movement on this case in our nation’s capital undermined the public trust of our enforcement agencies.” She praised the team effort – FBI, ATF, Capitol Police, Metro PD – and said today is “a significant step toward restoring the public’s trust.”

Gunther Eagleman™

120,974 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten

للليمون العُماني مكانةٌ تتجاوز كونه محصولًا زراعيًا؛ فهو أحد الأصناف المحلية التي شكّلت جزءًا من هوية الزراعة في عُمان، وظل حاضرًا في تفاصيل الحياة اليومية والمائدة العُمانية. وفي مزرعة رحب، نحتفي اليوم بأول حصاد لهذا المحصول، بعد عامين من العمل المتواصل ضمن أول مشروع للاعتماد الكربوني، في تجربةٍ تعكس كيف يمكن للاستدامة أن تحافظ على الأصناف المحلية، وتعزز الإنتاج الزراعي، وتدعم مستقبل الأمن الغذائي في سلطنة عُمان. رحلةٌ بدأت بفكرة... وتُثمر اليوم واقعًا. The Omani lime is more than just a crop. It is a native variety that has long been part of Oman’s agricultural heritage, with a lasting place in everyday life and on Omani tables. Today, at Rahab Farm, we celebrate its first harvest after two years of dedicated care, as part of the first carbon credit project. A milestone that reflects how sustainability can help preserve native varieties, strengthen agricultural production, and contribute to a more resilient food system for the Sultanate of Oman. A journey that began with a vision… Now bearing its first harvest.
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للليمون العُماني مكانةٌ تتجاوز كونه محصولًا زراعيًا؛ فهو أحد الأصناف المحلية التي شكّلت جزءًا من هوية الزراعة في عُمان، وظل حاضرًا في تفاصيل الحياة اليومية والمائدة العُمانية. وفي مزرعة رحب، نحتفي اليوم بأول حصاد لهذا المحصول، بعد عامين من العمل المتواصل ضمن أول مشروع للاعتماد الكربوني، في تجربةٍ تعكس كيف يمكن للاستدامة أن تحافظ على الأصناف المحلية، وتعزز الإنتاج الزراعي، وتدعم مستقبل الأمن الغذائي في سلطنة عُمان. رحلةٌ بدأت بفكرة... وتُثمر اليوم واقعًا. The Omani lime is more than just a crop. It is a native variety that has long been part of Oman’s agricultural heritage, with a lasting place in everyday life and on Omani tables. Today, at Rahab Farm, we celebrate its first harvest after two years of dedicated care, as part of the first carbon credit project. A milestone that reflects how sustainability can help preserve native varieties, strengthen agricultural production, and contribute to a more resilient food system for the Sultanate of Oman. A journey that began with a vision… Now bearing its first harvest.

شركة تنمية زراعة عُمان

12,194 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

مستشفى كمال عدوان ينهض من جديد… والطريق إليه يُفتح للحياة اليوم لم نفتح شارعًا فقط… بل فتحنا طريقًا للحياة. ها هو مستشفى كمال عدوان ينهض من جديد، والعمل جارٍ على ترميمه وتأهيله، ليعود كما كان حصنًا للمرضى، وملاذًا للجرحى، ونبضًا في قلب الشمال. اكتمل فتح الشارع الرئيسي المؤدي إليه بعد أن كان ركامًا يعيق وصول سيارات الإسعاف، ويؤخر لحظة النجاة. كل حجرٍ أُزيل كان يعني فرصة نجاة. وكل دقيقةٍ اختُصرت قد تنقذ روحًا كانت تنتظر على حافة الألم. إعادة تأهيل المستشفى وفتح الطريق إليه ليسا مجرد أعمال هندسية، بل فعل مقاومة للحياة، وإصرار على أن يبقى العلاج متاحًا، وأن تبقى أبواب الأمل مفتوحة. هذه ليست نهاية العمل… بل بداية مرحلة جديدة من التعافي. وسنستمر ما دام في الناس حاجة، وما دام فينا عهدٌ أن تبقى غزة واقفة. #حملة_يد_العون معًا… لنُقرّب العلاج ممن ينتظرونه. Kamal Adwan Hospital Rises Again… and the Road to It Reopens to Life Today, we did not simply clear a street— we opened a road to life. Kamal Adwan Hospital is rising once more, with restoration and rehabilitation work underway, so it may return as a refuge for patients, a sanctuary for the wounded, and a heartbeat for the north. The main road leading to it has been cleared after rubble once blocked ambulances and delayed moments of survival. Every stone removed meant another chance to live. Every minute saved may rescue a soul standing at the edge of pain. Rehabilitating the hospital and reopening its road are not merely engineering tasks— they are an act of devotion to life, a declaration that care will remain accessible, and that the doors of hope will stay open. This is not the end of the work… it is the beginning of recovery. We will continue as long as there is need, and as long as we carry the promise that Gaza stands resilient. #Hand_of_Aid_Campaign Together… let us bring healing closer to those who await it.
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مستشفى كمال عدوان ينهض من جديد… والطريق إليه يُفتح للحياة اليوم لم نفتح شارعًا فقط… بل فتحنا طريقًا للحياة. ها هو مستشفى كمال عدوان ينهض من جديد، والعمل جارٍ على ترميمه وتأهيله، ليعود كما كان حصنًا للمرضى، وملاذًا للجرحى، ونبضًا في قلب الشمال. اكتمل فتح الشارع الرئيسي المؤدي إليه بعد أن كان ركامًا يعيق وصول سيارات الإسعاف، ويؤخر لحظة النجاة. كل حجرٍ أُزيل كان يعني فرصة نجاة. وكل دقيقةٍ اختُصرت قد تنقذ روحًا كانت تنتظر على حافة الألم. إعادة تأهيل المستشفى وفتح الطريق إليه ليسا مجرد أعمال هندسية، بل فعل مقاومة للحياة، وإصرار على أن يبقى العلاج متاحًا، وأن تبقى أبواب الأمل مفتوحة. هذه ليست نهاية العمل… بل بداية مرحلة جديدة من التعافي. وسنستمر ما دام في الناس حاجة، وما دام فينا عهدٌ أن تبقى غزة واقفة. #حملة_يد_العون معًا… لنُقرّب العلاج ممن ينتظرونه. Kamal Adwan Hospital Rises Again… and the Road to It Reopens to Life Today, we did not simply clear a street— we opened a road to life. Kamal Adwan Hospital is rising once more, with restoration and rehabilitation work underway, so it may return as a refuge for patients, a sanctuary for the wounded, and a heartbeat for the north. The main road leading to it has been cleared after rubble once blocked ambulances and delayed moments of survival. Every stone removed meant another chance to live. Every minute saved may rescue a soul standing at the edge of pain. Rehabilitating the hospital and reopening its road are not merely engineering tasks— they are an act of devotion to life, a declaration that care will remain accessible, and that the doors of hope will stay open. This is not the end of the work… it is the beginning of recovery. We will continue as long as there is need, and as long as we carry the promise that Gaza stands resilient. #Hand_of_Aid_Campaign Together… let us bring healing closer to those who await it.

Dr.Muneer Alboursh د.منيرالبرش

13,141 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

The Board of REACT19 regrets to inform our community of the sudden cancellation of this week’s meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) at the CDC. The meeting was cancelled following a federal court ruling that blocked recent vaccine policy changes and invalidated the current ACIP advisory panel while legal challenges move forward. For many in our community, this meeting represented a long-awaited opportunity. After more than five years of waiting, patients and families had prepared impact statements in hopes that the urgent need for clinical recognition, research, and care for those suffering from serious post-vaccination conditions would finally be discussed. For those living with these conditions, this cancellation is deeply painful. It means more waiting, more uncertainty, and more time without the clinical guidance needed to help physicians recognize, diagnose, and treat patients who have been suffering for years. Our hearts are with every member of this community who had hoped their voice would finally be heard this week. However, even in this difficult moment, important progress continues. On March 18, REACT19 will still be part of a historic step forward at the CDC. A proposal for a new ICD-10 diagnostic code related to post-COVID-19 vaccination conditions will be presented, opening a public comment period and moving the medical system closer to formally recognizing these patients. Diagnostic codes are more than administrative tools. They are a critical foundation for clinical recognition, medical education, research, insurance coverage, and ultimately the development of treatments. Establishing an ICD-10 code would represent an important step toward building the clinical infrastructure needed to care for patients who have too often been left without answers. While the cancellation of the ACIP meeting is a heartbreaking setback for our community, the work to achieve medical recognition and appropriate care continues. If the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services prevails in its appeal, the ACIP process may resume. In the meantime, REACT19 remains committed to ensuring that the voices of patients are heard and that progress toward recognition, research, and care does not stop. To every patient and family who has shared their story and stood with us through years of uncertainty: we see you, we hear you, and we will continue advocating for the care and recognition you deserve. — Board of Directors REACT19
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The Board of REACT19 regrets to inform our community of the sudden cancellation of this week’s meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) at the CDC. The meeting was cancelled following a federal court ruling that blocked recent vaccine policy changes and invalidated the current ACIP advisory panel while legal challenges move forward. For many in our community, this meeting represented a long-awaited opportunity. After more than five years of waiting, patients and families had prepared impact statements in hopes that the urgent need for clinical recognition, research, and care for those suffering from serious post-vaccination conditions would finally be discussed. For those living with these conditions, this cancellation is deeply painful. It means more waiting, more uncertainty, and more time without the clinical guidance needed to help physicians recognize, diagnose, and treat patients who have been suffering for years. Our hearts are with every member of this community who had hoped their voice would finally be heard this week. However, even in this difficult moment, important progress continues. On March 18, REACT19 will still be part of a historic step forward at the CDC. A proposal for a new ICD-10 diagnostic code related to post-COVID-19 vaccination conditions will be presented, opening a public comment period and moving the medical system closer to formally recognizing these patients. Diagnostic codes are more than administrative tools. They are a critical foundation for clinical recognition, medical education, research, insurance coverage, and ultimately the development of treatments. Establishing an ICD-10 code would represent an important step toward building the clinical infrastructure needed to care for patients who have too often been left without answers. While the cancellation of the ACIP meeting is a heartbreaking setback for our community, the work to achieve medical recognition and appropriate care continues. If the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services prevails in its appeal, the ACIP process may resume. In the meantime, REACT19 remains committed to ensuring that the voices of patients are heard and that progress toward recognition, research, and care does not stop. To every patient and family who has shared their story and stood with us through years of uncertainty: we see you, we hear you, and we will continue advocating for the care and recognition you deserve. — Board of Directors REACT19

React19 - Official

33,505 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

My upcoming release of "Cinematic AI" has made me think about how bodies of work are formed. I think some are manifested and some are revealed. I think "Cinematic AI" falls into the latter category. It was not something I had a clear vision for and then created, but it was something that was revealed to me over time. I thought I saw a glimmer of it early on, but only after some time had past, could I see the body of work emerge. With a bit more context and watching great artists and how they work and think, it finally came to me that this series of 15-20 pieces that I had created could be a worthy collection to mint. AI art has been going through so many transformations from the early GAN work to Collaborative AI to now AI being widely accessible through platforms like MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, and many others. But one area that I have seen explode in recent months is cinematic AI. I distinguish this from animated AI, which has been around for a while, but cinematic AI is where the movements created by AI are getting closer to what you'd see in a movie or captured on a video camera. It still has a long way to go but it is getting more real than surreal as the technology develops. And this is where I seem to have found my groove, my home, my little corner in the artistic landscape. After Runway launched their image-to-video tool, it just blew my mind and I went down a deep rabbit hole and have created a new cinematic AI piece almost every other day for the past few months. I initially saw many of these pieces as just experiments, but with some time to reflect, I am seeing them as having the potential of being relevant pieces of artwork to mark this time in the development of AI. In some cases, I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to create a similar piece again, since the tools I use are not in my control, but in the control of the AI platforms, who are constantly improving and evolving the tools. Given all of this, there is no better way to mark my place in time than on the blockchain. I truly believe that this body of work has the potential to be an important artifact of this era in AI and AI art. It is always hard to judge ones own work, but what I can do is permanently etch in time on an immutable public database saying that I created this. Only time will tell if the work has any value or is of any significance, but who created it and what was created cannot be disputed. I hope this gives you and especially collectors some perspective on the work I'll be releasing next week. I'm still very early in my artistic journey, but hopefully some of you will see promise in what I'm doing and maybe even put in a early bet on my art practice by bidding on a piece next week. Thanks to all of you who have supported me, taught me, advised me, been a friend to me. Much love and respect.🙏 ------------------------------------- CINEMATIC AI October 25, 2023 Marking on the blockchain, establishing historical provenance for a cinematic AI body of work. Minting on Transient Labs ERC-721TL Listing on SuperRare
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My upcoming release of "Cinematic AI" has made me think about how bodies of work are formed. I think some are manifested and some are revealed. I think "Cinematic AI" falls into the latter category. It was not something I had a clear vision for and then created, but it was something that was revealed to me over time. I thought I saw a glimmer of it early on, but only after some time had past, could I see the body of work emerge. With a bit more context and watching great artists and how they work and think, it finally came to me that this series of 15-20 pieces that I had created could be a worthy collection to mint. AI art has been going through so many transformations from the early GAN work to Collaborative AI to now AI being widely accessible through platforms like MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, and many others. But one area that I have seen explode in recent months is cinematic AI. I distinguish this from animated AI, which has been around for a while, but cinematic AI is where the movements created by AI are getting closer to what you'd see in a movie or captured on a video camera. It still has a long way to go but it is getting more real than surreal as the technology develops. And this is where I seem to have found my groove, my home, my little corner in the artistic landscape. After Runway launched their image-to-video tool, it just blew my mind and I went down a deep rabbit hole and have created a new cinematic AI piece almost every other day for the past few months. I initially saw many of these pieces as just experiments, but with some time to reflect, I am seeing them as having the potential of being relevant pieces of artwork to mark this time in the development of AI. In some cases, I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to create a similar piece again, since the tools I use are not in my control, but in the control of the AI platforms, who are constantly improving and evolving the tools. Given all of this, there is no better way to mark my place in time than on the blockchain. I truly believe that this body of work has the potential to be an important artifact of this era in AI and AI art. It is always hard to judge ones own work, but what I can do is permanently etch in time on an immutable public database saying that I created this. Only time will tell if the work has any value or is of any significance, but who created it and what was created cannot be disputed. I hope this gives you and especially collectors some perspective on the work I'll be releasing next week. I'm still very early in my artistic journey, but hopefully some of you will see promise in what I'm doing and maybe even put in a early bet on my art practice by bidding on a piece next week. Thanks to all of you who have supported me, taught me, advised me, been a friend to me. Much love and respect.🙏 ------------------------------------- CINEMATIC AI October 25, 2023 Marking on the blockchain, establishing historical provenance for a cinematic AI body of work. Minting on Transient Labs ERC-721TL Listing on SuperRare

Chikai

21,517 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

IRANIAN PROF EXPOSES THE PLAN: DESTROY THE U.S. ECONOMY WHILE TRUMP IS PRESIDENT Iranian Professor Izadi just laid out the clearest statement yet of Tehran’s current thinking. After failed talks and repeated U.S. strikes, a growing number of voices inside Iran no longer believe diplomacy can work. Their answer is simple and brutal: raise the cost until the American economy itself is broken. THE CORE THESIS: CRUSH THE U.S. ECONOMY TO END TRUMP ➡️ “Make sure the U.S. economy is destroyed while Trump is the president.” ➡️ That is the explicit goal now being discussed among many Iranians. ➡️ Take 20 percent of the oil coming from the region and prices stay high for at least two years. ➡️ High oil prices for two years mean the end of Trump, the end of his presidency, and the end of the American economy — three goals at the same time. THE MILITARY SOLUTION ➡️ Negotiations have failed for more than 20 years. Every time Iran sat at the table, the United States bombed the table. ➡️ The problem with the United States therefore has no diplomatic solution. It has a military solution. ➡️ Continued attacks are needed to cause enough pain so this never happens again and military deterrence is restored. THE TARGET LIST ➡️ Oil facilities, hit hard enough that repairs take a long time. ➡️ Desalination plants that supply 98 percent of the water for Gulf countries. ➡️ With 50,000 U.S. troops in the region, if those countries lose water the troops have no choice but to leave and drink water back home in America. WHY THIS LEVEL OF FORCE ➡️ For 46 years after the 1979 revolution the United States never attacked Iran the way it is attacking now. ➡️ Only in the last year did the attacks intensify because Washington believed it could handle the cost. ➡️ Iranians are tired of being hit every few weeks, losing civilians and infrastructure. Enough is enough. ➡️ The cost so far has not been high enough. Trump keeps attacking. The equation must change. THE HISTORICAL PLAYBOOK ➡️ America ends wars when its politicians finally realize they made a mistake. ➡️ That is how Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan stopped. Either the executive branch or Congress concludes the price is too high and the funding ends. ➡️ The same logic is now being applied: force the realization that the current policy is destroying the U.S. economy, and the policy will change. THE BOTTOM LINE Iran has decided that only the language of force works. Raise the economic cost high enough, for long enough, and the United States will be forced to stop. This is no longer about limited deterrence. This is about breaking the American economy while Trump is still in office. HT: YouTube Mario Nafwal #IranPlan #USEconomy #OilWeapon #TrumpEnd #DesalinationTarget #MilitarySolution #DeterrenceRestored
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IRANIAN PROF EXPOSES THE PLAN: DESTROY THE U.S. ECONOMY WHILE TRUMP IS PRESIDENT Iranian Professor Izadi just laid out the clearest statement yet of Tehran’s current thinking. After failed talks and repeated U.S. strikes, a growing number of voices inside Iran no longer believe diplomacy can work. Their answer is simple and brutal: raise the cost until the American economy itself is broken. THE CORE THESIS: CRUSH THE U.S. ECONOMY TO END TRUMP ➡️ “Make sure the U.S. economy is destroyed while Trump is the president.” ➡️ That is the explicit goal now being discussed among many Iranians. ➡️ Take 20 percent of the oil coming from the region and prices stay high for at least two years. ➡️ High oil prices for two years mean the end of Trump, the end of his presidency, and the end of the American economy — three goals at the same time. THE MILITARY SOLUTION ➡️ Negotiations have failed for more than 20 years. Every time Iran sat at the table, the United States bombed the table. ➡️ The problem with the United States therefore has no diplomatic solution. It has a military solution. ➡️ Continued attacks are needed to cause enough pain so this never happens again and military deterrence is restored. THE TARGET LIST ➡️ Oil facilities, hit hard enough that repairs take a long time. ➡️ Desalination plants that supply 98 percent of the water for Gulf countries. ➡️ With 50,000 U.S. troops in the region, if those countries lose water the troops have no choice but to leave and drink water back home in America. WHY THIS LEVEL OF FORCE ➡️ For 46 years after the 1979 revolution the United States never attacked Iran the way it is attacking now. ➡️ Only in the last year did the attacks intensify because Washington believed it could handle the cost. ➡️ Iranians are tired of being hit every few weeks, losing civilians and infrastructure. Enough is enough. ➡️ The cost so far has not been high enough. Trump keeps attacking. The equation must change. THE HISTORICAL PLAYBOOK ➡️ America ends wars when its politicians finally realize they made a mistake. ➡️ That is how Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan stopped. Either the executive branch or Congress concludes the price is too high and the funding ends. ➡️ The same logic is now being applied: force the realization that the current policy is destroying the U.S. economy, and the policy will change. THE BOTTOM LINE Iran has decided that only the language of force works. Raise the economic cost high enough, for long enough, and the United States will be forced to stop. This is no longer about limited deterrence. This is about breaking the American economy while Trump is still in office. HT: YouTube Mario Nafwal #IranPlan #USEconomy #OilWeapon #TrumpEnd #DesalinationTarget #MilitarySolution #DeterrenceRestored

Mark

128,920 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

Two weeks ago, I got laid off from my job. I always knew it was a possibility. I’ve worked in tech long enough to see layoffs happen over and over again. When my wife and I moved to Northern California and bought a house, I started thinking that I should probably have a backup plan if it ever happened to me. So I started a stump removal business. I bought a stump grinder and started putting the marketing skills I’ve learned over the years to work. I made flyers, road signs and business cards. Built a website with a bunch of local pages for SEO. Set up my Google Business profile. Reached out to tree companies and started building relationships. A few months later, I’m #3 on Google locally and on track to do around $50k in the first year. Then I actually got laid off. I’m still looking for my next role in marketing, but I’m really glad I decided to build something on the side before I needed it. And with all the uncertainty around AI and what it means for jobs long term, I also like knowing I have a business where the work has to be done in the real world. Bonus: After working in an office for the last 10 years, I forgot how good it feels to work outside and actually see what you accomplished at the end of the day. There’s something pretty satisfying about showing up to a yard with a giant stump and leaving with it gone.
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Two weeks ago, I got laid off from my job. I always knew it was a possibility. I’ve worked in tech long enough to see layoffs happen over and over again. When my wife and I moved to Northern California and bought a house, I started thinking that I should probably have a backup plan if it ever happened to me. So I started a stump removal business. I bought a stump grinder and started putting the marketing skills I’ve learned over the years to work. I made flyers, road signs and business cards. Built a website with a bunch of local pages for SEO. Set up my Google Business profile. Reached out to tree companies and started building relationships. A few months later, I’m #3 on Google locally and on track to do around $50k in the first year. Then I actually got laid off. I’m still looking for my next role in marketing, but I’m really glad I decided to build something on the side before I needed it. And with all the uncertainty around AI and what it means for jobs long term, I also like knowing I have a business where the work has to be done in the real world. Bonus: After working in an office for the last 10 years, I forgot how good it feels to work outside and actually see what you accomplished at the end of the day. There’s something pretty satisfying about showing up to a yard with a giant stump and leaving with it gone.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, who served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) and as Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden during Covid-19, today testified to Congress about Covid vaccines and Covid’s origin. "The first iteration of vaccines did have an effect — not 100%, not a high effect — they did prevent infection, and subsequently, obviously, transmission,” Fauci said. “However, it's important to point out something that we did not know early on that became evident as the months went by: the durability of protection against infection, and hence, the transmission was relatively limited." But there was never definitive evidence that the vaccines would prevent transmission. In December 2020, the FDA determined that “data are not available to make a determination about how long the vaccine will provide protection, nor is there evidence that the vaccine prevents transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from person to person.” The CDC in 2020 and 2021 stated that protection would wear off, that the evidence was unclear, and that the data were limited, noted data analyst Kelley K during the hearing. When Fauci said in May 2021 that a vaccinated person would become a “dead end to the virus,” he was repeating a political talking point and not accurately representing the science. Claiming vaccination would prevent spread was a strategy to increase vaccine uptake among young, healthy people who were not vulnerable to severe COVID outcomes. In other words, the science had not been “settled,” but Fauci and other public health leaders chose to espouse a noble lie to encourage vaccination. To his credit, Fauci testified before Congress today and sat for many hours of a transcribed interview. But Fauci also implied that investigating his role put him at risk. “Every time someone gets up and says I'm responsible for the death of people throughout the world,” he emphasized, “the death threats go up.” We unreservedly condemn any threats Fauci and his family may have received. It is illegal to threaten people with death or physical violence, as it should be. At the same time, we must be free to discuss Fauci’s role in funding the laboratory research to make coronaviruses more infectious, known as “gain-of-function research,” without fear of being accused of inciting violence against Fauci or his family members. It would be an abuse of power to suggest that any effort to hold Fauci accountable is equivalent to threatening him or his family. The responsibility for making threats lies with the person making them and not with those whose statements have ostensibly influenced them. And yet many Democrats repeatedly suggested that there was something sinister and dangerous about criticisms of Fauci for his role in shaping the US response to the pandemic as well as his role advocating for and funding the kinds of biomedical research that may have caused it. And Democrats repeatedly referred to the idea that US taxpayer dollars funded the research that resulted in the creation of SARS-CoV-2 a “conspiracy theory.” Said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-CA), "The investigation of Dr Fauci shows he is an honorable public servant who has devoted his entire career to the public health and the public interest. And he is not a comic book supervillain. He did not fund research to create the Cove in 19 pandemic. He did not lie to Congress about gain of function research in Wuhan, and he did not organize a lab leak suppression campaign today." Said Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL), "The evidence to date points to COVID 19 having originated from an animal market in China... this committee should be doing more to fight for those answers, but instead has wasted significant time and taxpayer money fueling conspiracy theories." Said Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), "Conspiracy theory after another get debunked...." But the lab leak theory is not a conspiracy theory. A few hours before Fauci testified, The New York Times, the most important newspaper for Democrats, published a complete and graphics-heavy case for the lab leak theory of Covid-19’s origin. A “growing volume of evidence — gleaned from public records released under the Freedom of Information Act, digital sleuthing through online databases, scientific papers analyzing the virus and its spread, and leaks from within the U.S. government — suggests that the pandemic most likely occurred because a virus escaped from a research lab in Wuhan, China,” wrote Alina Chan who coauthored the 2021 book, Viral, with Matt Ridley, in the Times. In today’s hearing, Fauci insisted that he did not fund risky gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China. The research his agency funded, he claimed, was not technically gain-of-function under the regulatory definition set by something called “The Guidelines on Potential Pandemic Pathogens Care and Oversight (P3CO).” Asked Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA), "Dr. Fauci, according to the regulatory definitions, for example, in P3CO, that NIH applied to proposed research, did NIH ever fund gain of function research in Wuhan, China?" Responded Fauci, "As you said, Congressman Ruiz, according to the regulatory and operative definition of P3CO, the NIH did not fund gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology." But Fauci and Francis Collins, the former head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent years seeking to weaken oversight of such research. In 2011, after the NIH biosecurity board unanimously recommended that certain dangerous gain-of-function bird flu research not be published, Fauci and Collins published an opinion piece called “A flu virus risk worth taking” in the Washington Post, arguing that the benefits of this research outweighed the potential for a pandemic. The following year, 2012, NIH’s biosecurity board signed non-disclosure agreements and met with Fauci and Collins. The board, apparently under pressure from Fauci and Collins, then revised its previous recommendation to publish the risky bird flu research. According to Fauci and Democrats in Congress, NIH’s grant to EcoHealth Alliance did not fall under P3CO guidelines because it was not anticipated to increase a pathogen’s danger to humans, specifically. But in emails, NIH staff expressed their concerns about EcoHealth Alliance’s work creating hybrid “chimera” MERS and SARS viruses, in order to increase their infectiousness, in 2016. NIH staff pointed out that there was a moratorium placed on that research in 2014. Peter Daszak, the president of the EcoHealth Alliance, persuaded NIH staff to concede to a research threshold, saying EcoHealth would halt its research if the chimeras had enhanced viral growth 10 times that of the original viruses. After reaching an agreement with NIH, Daszak specifically referred to this work as gain-of-function, writing, “This is terrific! We are very happy to hear that our Gain of Function research funding pause has been lifted. Cheers, Peter.” Then, in 2018, EcoHealth went on to seemingly violate its agreement by producing a chimeric virus with a viral load 10,000 times greater than the original virus. As such, Fauci, his colleagues, and the Democrats were playing word games, redefining what they mean by gain-of-function research in ways that allowed them to deny responsibility. And that’s not all. After the Obama administration had established a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) committee to review proposed gain-of-function projects before the NIH could approve them, Fauci and Collins knowingly sought to make changes to NIH policy in order to allow funding for riskier gain-of-function experiments. These changes included removing the committee’s ability to block projects and limiting the type of projects the committee could review. In his testimony, Fauci misrepresented the scientific possibility that NIH funding is associated with the Covid-19 outbreak, as well as his role in the “Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” paper, which infamously and misleadingly, claimed that, “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.” But consider how, in 2018, EcoHealth Alliance applied for a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for a project called “DEFUSE” that would involve Shi Zhengli’s lab group at WIV and Ralph Baric’s lab at the University of North Carolina (UNC). Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the features of SARS-CoV-2 closely resemble the work described in EcoHealth Alliance’s proposal. On February 1, 2020, Fauci and Collins held a meeting called “Coronavirus sequence comparison” with other scientists to compare the spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13, its closest genetic relative which the NIH-funded Wuhan lab discovered. This meeting would lead to the “Proximal Origin” paper. In the hearing, Fauci downplayed his role. After Majority Counsel Mitch Benzine asked, "Did Dr. Anderson send you drafts to review?" Fauci responded, "He sent drafts, but I'm going to jump ahead of you if I might dribble around. I did not edit it. That was mentioned by a few of the Congressmen. I did not edit the paper." While it may be true that Fauci did not “edit” the “Proximal Origin” paper, lead author Kristian Andersen said he “prompted” it, and the authors sent him a final draft for approval. In their private exchanges, the authors repeatedly refer to Collins and Fauci as the “Bethesda boys.” Their offices were located in Bethesda, Maryland. The “Bethesda boys” appear to have directed some of the paper’s content. After Andersen suggested that a first draft should be sent “up the chain,” Fauci and Collins voiced concern that culturing or serial passaging (a process through which a virus can be made more infectious to humans) was still included as a possible origin. Jeremy Farrar, head of the Wellcome Trust, then pressured the authors to remove it. Shortly after publishing the preprint, Holmes told Andersen, “Sorry the last bit had to be done without you… pressure from on high.” Fauci would go on to cite this paper as objective evidence from independent scientists. All of this, and yet, throughout the Oversight Committee’s hearing, Democrats refused to provide oversight and criticized their colleagues who attempted to provide it. “I'm sorry for the personal attacks you have received and may have to deal with today,” said one. “Thank you, sir, and your entire team for saving lives in this country, and I'm sorry you have to continue going on with these attacks,” said another. “The Republicans failed to find, uh, a shred of evidence of their far-fetched conspiracy linking Dr. Fauci to a cover-up of the origins of the pandemic,” said one. “Sir, do you think the American public should listen to America's brightest and best doctors and scientists? Or instead, listen to podcasters, conspiracy theorists, and unhinged Facebook memes,” asked another. Since World War II, Democrats, liberals, and progressives have criticized their political enemies as overly deferent to authority. Today, at the hearing with Fauci and other hearings where mainstream science is questioned, they criticize their enemies for not being sufficiently deferent. What changed?...
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, who served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) and as Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden during Covid-19, today testified to Congress about Covid vaccines and Covid’s origin. "The first iteration of vaccines did have an effect — not 100%, not a high effect — they did prevent infection, and subsequently, obviously, transmission,” Fauci said. “However, it's important to point out something that we did not know early on that became evident as the months went by: the durability of protection against infection, and hence, the transmission was relatively limited." But there was never definitive evidence that the vaccines would prevent transmission. In December 2020, the FDA determined that “data are not available to make a determination about how long the vaccine will provide protection, nor is there evidence that the vaccine prevents transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from person to person.” The CDC in 2020 and 2021 stated that protection would wear off, that the evidence was unclear, and that the data were limited, noted data analyst Kelley K during the hearing. When Fauci said in May 2021 that a vaccinated person would become a “dead end to the virus,” he was repeating a political talking point and not accurately representing the science. Claiming vaccination would prevent spread was a strategy to increase vaccine uptake among young, healthy people who were not vulnerable to severe COVID outcomes. In other words, the science had not been “settled,” but Fauci and other public health leaders chose to espouse a noble lie to encourage vaccination. To his credit, Fauci testified before Congress today and sat for many hours of a transcribed interview. But Fauci also implied that investigating his role put him at risk. “Every time someone gets up and says I'm responsible for the death of people throughout the world,” he emphasized, “the death threats go up.” We unreservedly condemn any threats Fauci and his family may have received. It is illegal to threaten people with death or physical violence, as it should be. At the same time, we must be free to discuss Fauci’s role in funding the laboratory research to make coronaviruses more infectious, known as “gain-of-function research,” without fear of being accused of inciting violence against Fauci or his family members. It would be an abuse of power to suggest that any effort to hold Fauci accountable is equivalent to threatening him or his family. The responsibility for making threats lies with the person making them and not with those whose statements have ostensibly influenced them. And yet many Democrats repeatedly suggested that there was something sinister and dangerous about criticisms of Fauci for his role in shaping the US response to the pandemic as well as his role advocating for and funding the kinds of biomedical research that may have caused it. And Democrats repeatedly referred to the idea that US taxpayer dollars funded the research that resulted in the creation of SARS-CoV-2 a “conspiracy theory.” Said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-CA), "The investigation of Dr Fauci shows he is an honorable public servant who has devoted his entire career to the public health and the public interest. And he is not a comic book supervillain. He did not fund research to create the Cove in 19 pandemic. He did not lie to Congress about gain of function research in Wuhan, and he did not organize a lab leak suppression campaign today." Said Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL), "The evidence to date points to COVID 19 having originated from an animal market in China... this committee should be doing more to fight for those answers, but instead has wasted significant time and taxpayer money fueling conspiracy theories." Said Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), "Conspiracy theory after another get debunked...." But the lab leak theory is not a conspiracy theory. A few hours before Fauci testified, The New York Times, the most important newspaper for Democrats, published a complete and graphics-heavy case for the lab leak theory of Covid-19’s origin. A “growing volume of evidence — gleaned from public records released under the Freedom of Information Act, digital sleuthing through online databases, scientific papers analyzing the virus and its spread, and leaks from within the U.S. government — suggests that the pandemic most likely occurred because a virus escaped from a research lab in Wuhan, China,” wrote Alina Chan who coauthored the 2021 book, Viral, with Matt Ridley, in the Times. In today’s hearing, Fauci insisted that he did not fund risky gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China. The research his agency funded, he claimed, was not technically gain-of-function under the regulatory definition set by something called “The Guidelines on Potential Pandemic Pathogens Care and Oversight (P3CO).” Asked Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA), "Dr. Fauci, according to the regulatory definitions, for example, in P3CO, that NIH applied to proposed research, did NIH ever fund gain of function research in Wuhan, China?" Responded Fauci, "As you said, Congressman Ruiz, according to the regulatory and operative definition of P3CO, the NIH did not fund gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology." But Fauci and Francis Collins, the former head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent years seeking to weaken oversight of such research. In 2011, after the NIH biosecurity board unanimously recommended that certain dangerous gain-of-function bird flu research not be published, Fauci and Collins published an opinion piece called “A flu virus risk worth taking” in the Washington Post, arguing that the benefits of this research outweighed the potential for a pandemic. The following year, 2012, NIH’s biosecurity board signed non-disclosure agreements and met with Fauci and Collins. The board, apparently under pressure from Fauci and Collins, then revised its previous recommendation to publish the risky bird flu research. According to Fauci and Democrats in Congress, NIH’s grant to EcoHealth Alliance did not fall under P3CO guidelines because it was not anticipated to increase a pathogen’s danger to humans, specifically. But in emails, NIH staff expressed their concerns about EcoHealth Alliance’s work creating hybrid “chimera” MERS and SARS viruses, in order to increase their infectiousness, in 2016. NIH staff pointed out that there was a moratorium placed on that research in 2014. Peter Daszak, the president of the EcoHealth Alliance, persuaded NIH staff to concede to a research threshold, saying EcoHealth would halt its research if the chimeras had enhanced viral growth 10 times that of the original viruses. After reaching an agreement with NIH, Daszak specifically referred to this work as gain-of-function, writing, “This is terrific! We are very happy to hear that our Gain of Function research funding pause has been lifted. Cheers, Peter.” Then, in 2018, EcoHealth went on to seemingly violate its agreement by producing a chimeric virus with a viral load 10,000 times greater than the original virus. As such, Fauci, his colleagues, and the Democrats were playing word games, redefining what they mean by gain-of-function research in ways that allowed them to deny responsibility. And that’s not all. After the Obama administration had established a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) committee to review proposed gain-of-function projects before the NIH could approve them, Fauci and Collins knowingly sought to make changes to NIH policy in order to allow funding for riskier gain-of-function experiments. These changes included removing the committee’s ability to block projects and limiting the type of projects the committee could review. In his testimony, Fauci misrepresented the scientific possibility that NIH funding is associated with the Covid-19 outbreak, as well as his role in the “Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” paper, which infamously and misleadingly, claimed that, “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.” But consider how, in 2018, EcoHealth Alliance applied for a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for a project called “DEFUSE” that would involve Shi Zhengli’s lab group at WIV and Ralph Baric’s lab at the University of North Carolina (UNC). Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the features of SARS-CoV-2 closely resemble the work described in EcoHealth Alliance’s proposal. On February 1, 2020, Fauci and Collins held a meeting called “Coronavirus sequence comparison” with other scientists to compare the spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13, its closest genetic relative which the NIH-funded Wuhan lab discovered. This meeting would lead to the “Proximal Origin” paper. In the hearing, Fauci downplayed his role. After Majority Counsel Mitch Benzine asked, "Did Dr. Anderson send you drafts to review?" Fauci responded, "He sent drafts, but I'm going to jump ahead of you if I might dribble around. I did not edit it. That was mentioned by a few of the Congressmen. I did not edit the paper." While it may be true that Fauci did not “edit” the “Proximal Origin” paper, lead author Kristian Andersen said he “prompted” it, and the authors sent him a final draft for approval. In their private exchanges, the authors repeatedly refer to Collins and Fauci as the “Bethesda boys.” Their offices were located in Bethesda, Maryland. The “Bethesda boys” appear to have directed some of the paper’s content. After Andersen suggested that a first draft should be sent “up the chain,” Fauci and Collins voiced concern that culturing or serial passaging (a process through which a virus can be made more infectious to humans) was still included as a possible origin. Jeremy Farrar, head of the Wellcome Trust, then pressured the authors to remove it. Shortly after publishing the preprint, Holmes told Andersen, “Sorry the last bit had to be done without you… pressure from on high.” Fauci would go on to cite this paper as objective evidence from independent scientists. All of this, and yet, throughout the Oversight Committee’s hearing, Democrats refused to provide oversight and criticized their colleagues who attempted to provide it. “I'm sorry for the personal attacks you have received and may have to deal with today,” said one. “Thank you, sir, and your entire team for saving lives in this country, and I'm sorry you have to continue going on with these attacks,” said another. “The Republicans failed to find, uh, a shred of evidence of their far-fetched conspiracy linking Dr. Fauci to a cover-up of the origins of the pandemic,” said one. “Sir, do you think the American public should listen to America's brightest and best doctors and scientists? Or instead, listen to podcasters, conspiracy theorists, and unhinged Facebook memes,” asked another. Since World War II, Democrats, liberals, and progressives have criticized their political enemies as overly deferent to authority. Today, at the hearing with Fauci and other hearings where mainstream science is questioned, they criticize their enemies for not being sufficiently deferent. What changed?...

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