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
Does anyone else go to Twitter for world news before actually checking the news??!!
Was erwartet die Stimmbevölkerung nach dem klaren Abstimmungsresultat zur SRG-Halbierungsinitiative von Radio und Fernsehen? In Leutschenbach weiss man es: sicher keine Abstriche! https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/nichts-gelernt-nach-dem-nein-zur-srg-initiative-zeigen-die-srf-journalisten-schon-wieder-den-alten-duenkel-ld.1928389?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031069acbc01e077e55d2a04153a
"Mom, I'm not tired, it's really 8:30."
"I know. Take it up with Woodrow Wilson."
They were murdered in captivity. And the whole of Ireland's cultural elite supports the men who killed them.
What do you notice about these cardiomyocytes (heart cells) before and after being “treated” in a recent peer-reviewed paper?
Rolf Schreckenberg et al looked at “function, structure, and viability of isolated adult rat cardiomyocytes over a 72 h period.” after covid messenger RNA genetic pharmaceuticals.
I really don’t think people understand what a significant shift this is from the past 3 decades…
Pathetic response from @covileaks
R to @MaryanneDemasi: The new US polling data confirm what many citizens already feel: decisions about their bodies cannot be separated from informed consent.
Governments and institutions hoping to rebuild trust will need to recognise that reality.
https://blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/the-pandemic-forced-a-reckoning-over
💥The pandemic forced a reckoning over medical consent
People have not forgotten what happened, and it has changed how many now think about the limits of authority in medicine.
LINK below👇👇
@brownstoneinst @theHFDF
5 billion people were injected, 7-15 million died, 29-60 millions are permanently disabled, 500-900 million are injured. If that isn’t a biological weapon, what is??!!
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🚨NEW NATIONAL POLL ALERT: A Supermajority of Americans Support Medical Freedom!
A new national poll initiated by Health Freedom Defense Fund (@theHFDF) and @brownstoneinst and conducted by @zogbystrategies shows overwhelming support for medical freedom across party lines. Americans favor informed consent, open medical dialogue, and the right to make personal health decisions without coercion. Learn more - link below. 🔽
Das Basler Pharmaunternehmen erleidet innert weniger Tage zwei Rückschläge in der Forschung. Anleger befürchten, dass die Roche-Titel für längere Zeit wieder schwächeln könnten. https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/just-vor-der-generalversammlung-schreckt-roche-die-aktionaere-auf-ld.1928357?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031069acbc01e077e55d2a041539
To twits like this person, stability means the FDA gives the pharma bros whatever they want. . .
Dem Politiker der grössten Oppositionspartei CHP werden unter anderem die Gründung und Leitung einer kriminellen Vereinigung sowie Bestechung und Geldwäscherei vorgeworfen. Die Oppositionspartei spricht von einem politisch motivierten Verfahren. https://www.nzz.ch/international/es-drohen-2340-jahre-haft-prozessauftakt-gegen-erdogan-rivale-imamoglu-ld.1928395?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031069acbc01e077e55d2a041538
This sounds like a subtle difference - sure, the quantum vacuum is like an acoustic medium
But this means it is not pure zero-mean fluctuations, just noise, thats unusable
Instead, it means the vacuum can have local structure, that it is in effect a dynamic medium
BREAKING: While a new War for Oil erupts in the Middle East
A Physics Paper just quietly dropped TODAY that will eventually make Oil, and the entire current Energy Industry, irrelevant.
Ushering in the era of Zero-Point Energy
" White, PhD">@EagleworksSonny
Here is the breakthrough🧵
“Preparing for Pandemic” in 2015
“Let's discuss next steps, for example how to officially involve the WHO and CDC”
“I hope we can pull this off”
Bill Gates was planning the pandemic with Jeffery Epstein
🧵 that’s a deeper dive Into the substance of Cardiologist Dr. Wang’s paper on affirmative action published in 2019 that lead to him being sanctioned and demoted.
The colleague who publicly accused him of racism has since been given a prominent role in the American College of Cardiology.
SCOTUS agreed with Dr. Wang, and ruled affirmative action as practiced by universities to be illegal.
The meticulously prepared paper with oodles of citations was retracted in ~2 days with no process for the author to respond on the basis of quotes that didn’t have a following sentence. Outright fraudulent made up papers take months to investigate and retract.
2 days to retract.
I’ve attached the link to the retraction notice at the end of the thread for those who read papers to see how completely absurd the rationale given was.
Von Lugano bis Basel und von Genf bis Steckborn: «Steps», das grösste Tanzfestival der Schweiz, setzt wieder das ganze Land in Bewegung und will die Herzen leichter machen. Welche Veranstaltungen sich besonders lohnen. https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/tanz-festival-steps-2026-der-kantoenligeist-ist-bei-diesem-festival-das-erfolgsrezept-ld.1928102?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031069acbc01e077e55d2a041537
Das Magazin @cicero_online hat vor der Wahl fürs Intendantenamt im ZDF am kommenden Freitag, den 13. März 2026, allen 60 Fernsehräten sowie den derzeit nur elf Verwaltungsräten vier Fragen gestellt. Keiner hat darauf, trotz ausreichender Zeit, geantwortet. Die Fragen lauteten:
"1. Seit Ihrer Wahl in den Verwaltungsrat bzw. Fernsehrat haben Sie mehrere Berichte des Landesrechnungshofes Rheinland-Pfalz sowie der KEF erhalten. In diesen wird wiederholt über Vorgänge beim ZDF informiert, welche den Tatbestand der Untreue sowie des Betrugs erfüllen könnten. Inwiefern halten Sie es vor dem Hintergrund der Sorgfaltspflicht, der Sie in Ihrer Eigenschaft als Verwaltungsrat bzw. Fernsehrat unterliegen, geboten und was haben Sie tatsächlich unternommen, um a) die vom Landesrechnungshof beanstandeten Handlungen zu erörtern und b) sicherzustellen, dass Wiederholungen unterbleiben?
2. In den Berichten des ZDF sind nicht nur die Gehaltszahlungen an den Intendanten offengelegt, sondern auch die Zahlungen vermerkt, die dieser sich für seine Tätigkeit als Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender diverser ZDF-Tochtergesellschaften auszahlen lässt. Inwieweit haben Sie a) diesen Verstoß gegen Compliance-Standards erwiesenermaßen thematisiert und b) was haben Sie unternommen, damit Wiederholungen ausbleiben?
3. Claus Kleber hat im Sommer 2020 bei der Heraeus Bildungsstiftung gesagt, dass er und sein Team des „heute journal“ in der Covid-19-Debatte eher als Regierungssprecher tätig waren, denn als Journalisten gearbeitet hätten. Intendant Himmler hat in den letzten vier Jahren diesen groben Verstoß gegen die elementaren journalistischen Prinzipien weder im Verwaltungsrat noch im Fernsehrat zum Thema gemacht. Was haben Sie nachweislich unternommen, a) um nachvollziehen zu können, wie es zu diesem Verstoß über Monate kommen konnte, und b) was haben Sie erkennbar getan, um jegliche Form einer Wiederholung zu unterbinden?
4. Am 15.2.2026 hat das „heute journal“ eingestandenermaßen gefälschte und aus dem Zusammenhang gerissene Videos über die angebliche Abschiebung von Migranten in den USA gezeigt. Mit den gefakten und zeitlogisch sowie thematisch falschen und geframten Videos hat das ZDF „heute journal“ seine Zuschauer – darunter viele Beitragszahlende – getäuscht. Diese grobe journalistische Verfehlung wirkt um so schwerer, als die Moderatorin der Sendung zuvor in ihrer Anmoderation, einem Framing, explizit vor gefälschten Bildern und Videos gewarnt hatte. Damit sollte offenbar die Glaubwürdigkeit des eigenen gesendeten Materials hervorgehoben werden.Durch die Sendung haben die mit der Auswahl und Aufbereitung Betrauten sowie die Moderatorin der Sendung einen erheblichen Vertrauensverlust für das ZDF herbeigeführt. Das Ansehen des Senders und der Moderatorin wurden erheblich beschädigt.Das Verhalten des Senders im Gefolge dieser Zuschauertäuschung jedoch entsprach der Fehlleistung der Sendung selbst: Eine Entschuldigung beim Zuschauer erfolgte erst drei Tage später. Zuvor waren – lediglich tröpfchenweise – wiederum unrichtige Angaben („technisches Versehen“) zum Zustandekommen der Täuschung aufgestellt worden.Inwieweit haben Sie auf diesen Vorgang in Ihrer Eigenschaft als Mitglied eines Kontrollgremiums nachgewiesenermaßen reagiert und halten Sie die in den Fragen 1-4 beschriebenen Vorgänge ausreichend, um von einer Wiederwahl Himmlers zum ZDF-Intendanten abzusehen?"
Der Autor Roland Schatz kommentiert das so: "Dabei ist der Fernsehrat kein feiner Debattierclub, der mit Praktika für Neffen und Nichten sowie Gratiskarten für „Wetten, dass“ oder Fußballländerspiele mit garantiertem Kameraschwenk über die Sippe billigst abgefunden werden kann. Hier geht es um Verantwortung und Rechenschaft nicht nur des ZDF und seines Managements. Die Mitglieder des Fernsehrates betreffen diese Pflichten sogar in besonderer Weise. Sie haben eine Garantenstellung. Sie stehen ein für die Wahrung des Rechts, den Schutz der Anstalt und die Interessen der Beitragszahler. Dafür können sie juristisch in Haftung genommen werden – so wie es bei Aufsichtsräten längst gang und gäbe ist."
Der Bank-CEO verdient mit 14,9 Millionen Franken gleich viel wie im Vorjahr. Mit der Mässigung will man Bern nicht unnötig provozieren. https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/ubs-chef-sergio-ermotti-bekommt-149-millionen-franken-fuer-das-jahr-2025-ld.1928337?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026030969acbc01e077e55d2a041536
Eine großartige und hörenswerte Rede von unserer lieben @ulrikeguerot.
Wer die Schriftfassung lesen möchte, hier der Link:
https://www.ulrike-guerot.de/esprit-europeen/mein-vortrag-im-hessischen-landtag-am-27022026-im-bereich-politikwissenschaft
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The regime calculated that war offered a better survival chance than a deal.
A US deal would prohibit crackdowns on protesters, guaranteeing their collapse.
War requires outlasting Trump's patience for a few weeks. If they are still standing when it ends, their gamble paid off.