US troops were in Afghanistan for 20 years, in Vietnam for 8, in Iraq for 8. Putin thought he could take Ukraine in a matter of weeks; the war has now lasted 4 years. Why does Trump not learn anything from history? For how many years will how many people die in the Iran war?
Das Volk hatte die Hoffnung auf eine demokratische Wende. Doch dann führte Ayatollah Khomeiny das Volk in die Irre. https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/revolution-von-1979-wie-die-mullahs-das-volk-taeuschten-und-einen-gottesstaat-errichteten-ld.1928347?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031069acbc01e077e55d2a041543
Cem #Özdemir will die grün-schwarze Zusammenarbeit fortsetzen – doch in der CDU sitzt der Ärger über den Wahlkampf der Grünen tief. Zwischen Koalition, Rotationsmodell oder einer Minderheitsregierung stehen mehrere Wege offen, schreibt @HugoMuellerVogg. https://www.cicero.de/innenpolitik/patt-in-baden-wurttemberg-die-cdu-hat-mehr-moglichkeiten-als-den-grunen-lieb-sein-kann
Der nächste absurde Fall eines Angriffs auf die Meinungsfreiheit: Die Berliner Polizei ermittelt gegen den Publizisten Rainer Zitelmann, weil er Wladimir Putin mit Adolf Hitler verglichen hat.
@nathan_giwerzew berichtet für die @NZZ https://www.nzz.ch/international/hitler-putin-vergleich-berliner-polizei-ermittelt-gegen-rainer-zitelmann-ld.1928314?gift=bqWBIYgu
FDA is so totally corrupt and so totally steered by Big Pharma’s useful idiots among politicians, the media and patient organisations that it will never come to work for patients. When FDA finally employed the right person, Vinay Prasad, they fired him twice: https://bit.ly/4sw37Aj.
In 1837, a nine-year-old girl in Portland, Maine, was struck in the head by a rock thrown by a classmate.
She spent three weeks unconscious. Her skull was permanently damaged.
She emerged from it with seizures, visual disturbances, difficulty concentrating, and an inability to hold a pen steadily for years. She could not complete her formal education. She suffered neurological episodes for the rest of her life.
She interpreted these episodes as divine visions.
The visions, helpfully, were very specific. God was not merely offering general spiritual encouragement. God had views about diet.
Specifically: meat was corrupting the faithful. It was inflaming their animal passions. It was producing lust, aggression, and physical debasement, and it was making the congregation difficult to keep properly pious.
Ellen G. White published these revelations. She preached them. She built institutions around them. She co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church and became the single most influential figure in the history of organised Western vegetarianism.
Her writings shaped an entire denomination's theology, which shaped an entire set of research institutions, which shaped the dietary guidelines that are currently framed on the wall of every NHS waiting room in the country.
The woman whose neurological damage gave her hallucinations she attributed to God is, through a very direct and thoroughly documented line of institutional causation, the reason your doctor suggested you eat less red meat.
She also, for the record, ate meat herself. Privately. Her own household records confirm this. Multiple contemporaries documented it. Her personal physician noted it. The church has never fully resolved the discrepancy.
The visions, it turns out, were not binding at dinner.
I am not mocking a woman who suffered a serious childhood injury. That would be unkind and it is not the point.
The point is that the origin of modern mainstream nutritional dogma is not a randomised controlled trial. It is not a century of dispassionate scientific enquiry.
It is a vision, from a head injury, in 1837, that told a woman meat was sinful, and that woman's followers built laboratories and professional associations and dietary guidelines, and here we are.
Start there. Then work forward.
Associated Press (AP) misrepresents seriously FDA’s reservations about using antidepressants in pregnancy and refuses to correct their errors. https://bit.ly/4cDYL5G. As I explained, we cannot trust US legacy media; they are Big Pharmas’s useful idiots. https://bit.ly/4rfCjTY.
Decoupling-Versuch gescheitert:
Nexperia China produziert dieselben Chips jetzt selbst. Auf 12-Zoll-Wafern, die Nexperia in Europa nicht hat.
Wir wollten derisken. Stattdessen: ungewollter Kapazitätsaufbau in China 🇨🇳 der deren Vorsprung weiter vergrößert.
Iranische Revolutionsgarde:
„Jedes arabische oder europäische Land, das israelische und amerikanische Botschafter von seinem Territorium ausweist, wird ab morgen die volle Freiheit und Befugnis haben, die Straße von Hormus zu passieren.“
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Die Suche nach einem Vizepräsidenten für den Verfassungsschutz steht offenbar vor dem Abschluss. Nach WELT-Informationen soll der Chef einer unscheinbaren Bundesbehörde neuer Stellvertreter an der Spitze des Inlandsdienstes werden. https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus69af2976234864f234f02f98/verfassungsschutz-dieser-mann-soll-neuer-vize-chef-des-deutschen-inlandsgeheimdienstes-werden.html
CHIEF NZ COVID VAX SAFETY ADVISORY GROUP RECOMMENDATIONS IGNORED - THEN REMOVED FROM PUBLIC RECORD
Today the NZ media is talking about a particular aspect of the NZ Royal Commission of Inquiry report that some of us were SCREAMING about years ago.
Nobody was interested...but now it's in the report, suddenly legacy media is all over it.
I'm talking about the chief Covid vaccine technical advisory group (CVTAG) making the safety recommendation that children aged 12 to 18 should not be MANDATED to take TWO doses of Pfizer mRNA to keep their job or get a vaccine pass.
Why? Because they clearly knew this was the highest risk demographic for Myocarditis...on the second dose.
THE RECOMMENDATION WAS NEVER PASSED TO CABINET AND OUR CHILDREN TOOK TWO MANDATED DOSES
But there's something else that the Royal Commission has not mentioned.
CV tag also recommended that people aged 18 - 30 should have an EIGHT WEEK INTERVAL between dose one and two...to lower their risk of Myocarditis.
THIS WAS NEVER IMPLEMENTED
But wait there's more...
Why do the minutes from CV TAG’s 17 August 2021 meeting record that it was requested that references to increasing dosing intervals potentially providing some protection against myocarditis be
REMOVED FROM PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS?
Who made the request and for what purpose?
@winstonpeters @chrisluxonmp @dbseymour @CaseyCostelloMP @BrookevanVelden @ShaneJonesNZ @SimeonBrownMP
Auf der von Zitelmann geteilten Bildmontage war an Hitlers Arm eine Hakenkreuzbinde zu sehen. Unterlagen zu diesem Strafverfahren liegen der NZZ exklusiv vor. Es ist nicht der erste Fall, in dem deutsche Strafverfolgungsbehörden aufgrund zugespitzter... https://www.nzz.ch/international/hitler-putin-vergleich-berliner-polizei-ermittelt-gegen-rainer-zitelmann-ld.1928314?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031069acbc01e077e55d2a041542
There is a microORF in the SV40 promoter.
We’ve sequenced fragments that encode entire genes with mammalian promoters so Terrys statement is false.
It would be up to Pfizer to prove they are not translated or transcribed.
First step for Yale healthcare affordability lab is to give back the $250 million Yale got from CMS for making quality metrics.
And then to kill the quality metric program it’s been pushing that drives up the cost of care for everyone.
The average hospital has 7 FTE devoted just to quality metrics and the average independent clinic has 1/2FTE per doctor.
That’s all to meet your arbitrary metrics. Eliminate it all.
Der Wahlsonntag hielt Überraschungen bereit. https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/wahlen-zh-gruenen-urgestein-fliegt-aus-parlament-israel-kritikerin-zieht-ein-ld.1928380?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031069acbc01e077e55d2a041541
🔴 NIUS-Moderator Alexander Kissler @DrKissler begrüßt die stellv. NIUS-Chefredakteurin Pauline Voss @Pauline__Voss und Journalist Wolfgang Herles. 👉 Einschalten und weitersagen! https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1mxPaLWAnEMKN
Die SPD ist keine Partei der arbeitenden Menschen mehr. Konzepte jenseits von Steuererhöhungen gibt es kaum. Doch statt einer Fehleranalyse nach dem Debakel in Baden-Württemberg versucht die Parteispitze, die Krise schönzureden. https://www.nzz.ch/der-andere-blick/von-der-volkspartei-zur-funktionaersriege-die-sozialdemokraten-machen-sich-ueberfluessig-ld.1928435?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031069acbc01e077e55d2a041540
Hospitals kill between 250,000 and 400,000 Americans per year through preventable medical errors. That makes “your doctor’s mistake” the third leading cause of death in the United States, behind only cancer and heart disease.
Everyone reads advice like “stay with your loved one in the hospital” as a family values tip. The actual reason is darker. A board-certified physician is publicly admitting the system he operates in has enough failure points that an untrained person sitting in a chair provides a meaningful safety layer.
The math explains why. A landmark Penn study tracked 170,000+ surgeries across 168 hospitals. Each additional patient added to a nurse’s workload raised the odds of dying within 30 days by 7%. Staffing ratios across US hospitals range from 4.3 to 10.5 patients per nurse. That means one hospital gives your family member 2.4x less nursing attention than the hospital down the street, and you have zero way of knowing which one you walked into.
So what does a family member in the room actually do? They catch the wrong medication bag. They notice breathing changes at 2am when the nurse is covering nine other beds. They flag a deteriorating condition 6 hours before anyone on staff would have checked. They function as an unpaid, around-the-clock monitor compensating for a staffing model designed around reimbursement rates, not patient survival.
When a physician says “be cordial with staff but watch everything like a hawk,” he’s describing a system where the margin between good outcome and catastrophe is one missed check during a shift change. Hospitals don’t optimize for your family member’s recovery. They optimize for throughput.
700 people die from preventable hospital errors every single day. Your presence in that room isn’t emotional support. It’s a rounding error in a broken staffing equation that nobody has the budget to fix.
And Captain Boaty Boatiseas is the group captain for the Navy. @Kevin_McKernan @boriquagato
Die Zürcher Filmemacherin Anka Schmid ergründet in ihrem Dokumentarfilm «Melodie» die Urkraft des Singens. Die facettenreiche Darstellung wirkt allerdings unkritisch und stellenweise esoterisch. https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/gemeinsames-singen-ist-mehr-als-lebenshilfe-ld.1928108?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031069acbc01e077e55d2a04153f
🇮🇷🚢🛢IRAN’S AMBASSADOR TO CHINA: PASSAGE THROUGH THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ WILL BE CONTROLLED, BUT THE STRAIT WILL NOT BE CLOSED (https://mktnews.com/flashDetail.html?id=019cd5df-df48-7001-80dc-07e797d8fa3a)
It’s almost as if those calls wouldn’t be necessary if the Lebanese gov’t had fulfilled its commitments to prevent Hezb from rearming, especially south of the Litani.
SHOCKING: Johns Hopkins patented Mebendazole Polymorph (US 11,110,079 B2, 2021) for TREATMENT & PREVENTION of TUMORS— a cheap, safe deworming drug with 40+ years of use that hits brain tumors hard!Yet it's buried while Big Pharma rakes in $250+ BILLION/year on toxic designer drugs.They suppress real cures to protect profits.
How can they get away with this?
#CancerIndustry #Mebendazole #SuppressedCure"
Spaniens Klubs dominieren seit Jahren den europäischen Klubfussball, doch in der Vorrunde wurden sie von Gegnern aus England vorgeführt. In den Achtelfinals bietet sich die Chance zur Korrektur. https://www.nzz.ch/sport/dreimal-gegen-england-die-spanischen-klubs-kaempfen-in-der-champions-league-um-ihren-status-als-hegemonialmacht-ld.1928375?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031069acbc01e077e55d2a04153e
Ukraine has moved from a handful of garage-built ground robots to industrial-scale fleets. The story of how it did so is replete with lessons for the US military. https://mwi.westpoint.edu/networked-for-war-lessons-from-ukraines-ground-robots/
Die Milliarden aus dem Infrastrukturfonds fliessen und zeigen bereits Wirkung https://www.nzz.ch/finanzen/bau-energienetze-industrie-das-sind-die-gewinner-der-deutschen-finanzwende-ld.1928057?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031069acbc01e077e55d2a04153d
You are correct that the SV40 promoter is not a gene. However, it is incorrect to say that it cannot affect gene transcription.
The SV40 promoter is one of the most potent viral promoter/enhancer elements used in molecular biology and is routinely employed to drive high levels of gene expression in mammalian cells. That is precisely why it is used in all sorts of applications. If such a promoter were integrated into the genome, particularly upstream of a gene, it could easily influence transcriptional activity. This is a well-established property of strong viral promoter/enhancer elements.
And DNA integration does not require more than reverse transcription. Integration of exogenous DNA (especially linearized DNA fragments) can occur through normal DNA damage repair pathways (eg. NHEJ), particularly in the presence of double-strand breaks (DSB). These breaks arise routinely during DNA replication and can also be induced by cellular stress, inflammation, or oxidative damage.
Laboratory experiments have quantified integration to be ~1-10% of cells when DNA is encapsulated in LNPs. LNP-delivered DNA is the bedrock for transgene expression after integration. This is actually the basis for gene-therapy that is used in people. Measurable integration has been demonstrated in vivo when the system is explicitly designed to create or exploit DNA breaks (i.e., genome editing contexts). For example, there are in vivo LNP-enabled DNA knock-in studies where integration is a goal and is driven by genome editing/repair processes rather than “spontaneous” integration of plasmid DNA in the absence of targeted breaks.
The key scientific issue is therefore not whether integration is theoretically possible as the molecular mechanisms for it are well established. But whether it occurs from the byproducts found in the vaccines and, if so, at what frequency.
We do not know the fate of the DNA present in the vaccines. No safety data has been provided on LNP-encapsulated DNA . Not having data on this 6 years after deploying the technology in people is a regulatory failure.
THE ACIP MEMORANDUM is in final editing and should be released 3/12 in time for the 3/18 meeting.
ACIP Memo = 39 pages (draft form)
ACIP Memo EXHIBITS = 177 pages of records (draft)
No peer review
No statistics
Just facts anyone can understand
CDC hides vaccine deaths
BREAKING: Bitcoin reclaims $70,000 as markets price-in a potential Iran peace deal.
The pandemic forced a reckoning over medical consent, by @MaryanneDemasi https://open.substack.com/pub/maryannedemasi/p/the-pandemic-forced-a-reckoning-over?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Irgendetwas zwischen Sprachphilosophie und Sprechdurchfall: Der junge Wiener Autor Elias Hirschl hat einen rauschhaften Text geschrieben. https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/der-sprachverrueckte-elias-hirschls-roman-schleifen-ist-ein-wunderwerk-der-verwirrung-ld.1926789?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031069acbc01e077e55d2a04153c
Peer review was supposed to be science’s quality filter, but somewhere along the way it started acting more like a bouncer who only lets in the regulars. It’s slow, it tends to favor established labs and familiar names, and it gets uncomfortable around anything too unconventional. Papers loaded with mountains of data tend to cruise through, while bold ideas that actually challenge the consensus get stuck in limbo or turned away at the door.
The irony is that where a paper gets published almost never determines its real worth. What actually matters is what the scientific community does with it afterward, whether people cite it, argue with it, build on it, or use it to blow up a long-held assumption. That’s where the value lives, not in the journal’s logo.
A major survey a few years back found that roughly 70% of researchers think the current system is fundamentally broken, and it’s not hard to see why. Publicly funded research hides behind paywalls, editors chase whatever topic is hot that month, and the whole incentive structure pushes toward safe bets over genuinely risky and potentially important work.
Science has always been complicated and deeply human and full of ego and inertia, but the conversation is shifting.
I was injured by Gardasil HPV vax in 2007. I was never given full and proper informed consent.
In 2023 for about 6 months my oncologist’s office was threatening to drop me as a patient because I refused to keep taking their post chemo therapy drug called Letrozole. Letrozole contains some synthetic compounds that can add to toxic load in some individuals over time and it was actually making me sicker. Letrozole can also drastically drop vitamin D levels and calcium levels leading to poor bone health and bone depletion. At the time I was only 40 years old. No patient should be threatened like this or potentially lose access to care for refusing a treatment that makes them sick and could cause them more long term harms. All patients deserve the right to informed consent, the right to be able to discuss any and all medical interventions, and not be threatened to lose access to care for saying no to an intervention.
Vor der Residenz von Bürgermeister Zohran Mamdani prallen am Wochenende rechte Aktivisten und Gegendemonstranten aufeinander. Plötzlich fliegt ein «improvisierter Sprengsatz», später wird ein zweiter Sprengsatz gefunden. https://www.nzz.ch/international/ermittlungen-zu-sprengsatz-vor-mamdanis-amtssitz-in-new-york-ld.1928344?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031069acbc01e077e55d2a04153b
Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors
https://www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-datasets-are-riddled-with-copy-paste-errors/ via #MarkusEnglund
Americans believe in health freedom, transparency, and accountability. I know because @jeffreytucker of Brownstone and I via @theHFDF funded a poll to find out. Here we break down the staggering and hopeful results.
The Business Model of Forever War
This is a 2011 Julian Assange clip from a Berlin press conference in which he argues that the Afghanistan war was never really built to end cleanly, but to keep money moving through endless conflict and back into private security networks, contractors, and political interests. That is why the clip is resonating again in 2026. It fits a broader view that war can become self perpetuating once the financial incentives behind it become large enough. In that framing, the roughly $2 trillion spent on Afghanistan did not just represent national sacrifice. It represented a massive transfer of taxpayer money through a system that rewarded duration, opacity, waste, and fraud far more than resolution.
If that view is right, then a U.S. and Israeli conflict with Iran would be structurally unlikely to end as quickly as Trump claims. A short war would cut off the very incentives that sustain it, ongoing demand for missiles, air defenses, logistics, intelligence, reconstruction, and security contracts for firms like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. Iran’s size, terrain, and asymmetric network of proxies would make mission creep highly likely, expanding the objective from initial strikes into a much broader campaign against Hezbollah, the Houthis, and other regional actors, much like Afghanistan evolved from a limited military response into a two decade quagmire. In that framework, taxpayer money moves through Pentagon appropriations and contractor pipelines into a self reinforcing cycle in which every escalation generates new threats, new spending, and new justifications for staying longer. The public is then managed through familiar narratives, imminent danger, humanitarian stabilization, fears of regional collapse or Russian and Chinese gains, patriotic appeals, and economic warnings around oil and security. In that sense, the promise of a swift end is less a forecast than the opening pitch for a conflict whose incentives favor duration, expansion, and permanent extraction.
Senior Iranian source on Iran’s stand off with President Trump over the Straight or Hormuz:
“We hold the screw of the global oil price in our hands and for a long time the US will have to wait for our actions to control the price. Energy prices have become unstable and we will continue to fight until Trump declares defeat,” an Iranian official tells me.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/iran-war-us-israel-trump-03-09-26?post-id=cmmjtahqh0000356rykgruw0b