Donald Trump fordert militärische Unterstützung in der Strasse von Hormuz und droht den Europäern mit Konsequenzen. Der deutsche Kanzler hat eine klare Antwort darauf. https://www.nzz.ch/international/dieser-krieg-ist-nicht-angelegenheit-der-nato-friedrich-merz-will-europa-aus-dem-kampf-gegen-iran-heraushalten-ld.1929556?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031669acbc01e077e55d2a041535
فردا شب شاهد بزرگترین چهارشنبهسوری در تاریخ ایران خواهیم بود.
جرات دارید دست به یک تار موی هموطنانمان بزنید.
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"Linkspartei Niedersachsen: Antisemitismus im postkolonialen Kostüm"
@ulfposh, @welt
https://www.welt.de/debatte/plus69b7d7cafc05063917a4d01a/linkspartei-niedersachsen-antisemitismus-im-postkolonialen-kostuem.html
The issue is that it is rarely straight to cath!
I frequently see CAC ➡️ stress (it's in AUC!) ➡️ false positive since most nuclear stress in US is done without attenuation correction ➡️ cath ➡️ PCI
Can also happen with CCTA as interpretation is harder with calcium blooming
Either way, asymptomatic patient has both financial and potentially medical and/or procedural toxicity along the way
When Prevention Fails Twice a Year: The Twin Peaks of Japan’s COVID‑19 Epidemic
How recurring summer and winter surges defied vaccines and masks, revealing the limits of short‑term immunity and the complexity of epidemic control. @McCulloughFund https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/when-prevention-fails-twice-a-year?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
This is the docket text:
Judge Brian E. Murphy: ORDER entered. MEMORANDUM AND ORDER on Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction.
Plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary relief is GRANTED in part.
(i) The Court STAYS the January 2026 Memo revising the CDC’s childhood immunization schedule pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 705.
(ii) The Court STAYS the appointments of the thirteen ACIP members appointed on June 11, 2025, September 11, 2025, and January 13, 2026.
(iii) The Court further STAYS all votes taken by the now-stayed ACIP.
(MBM)
CM/ECF - USDC Massachusetts - Version 1.8.5 as of 12/19/2025
اولین نوروز بدون پیرمرد کودن متوهم
پیام نوروزی بیبی نتانیاهو به مردم ایران:
Prime Minister Netanyahu:
To the brave people of Iran, I wish you, as I do every year a happy holiday season, beginning with the Festival of Lights.
It signifies the age old belief of the Iranian people that light will triumph over darkness, that good will triumph over evil.
🚨BREAKING: Federal Bill Introduced to Strip COVID-19 “Vaccine” Manufacturers of Liability Protection
The LIABLE Act would trigger a HISTORIC legal reckoning — unleashing a TSUNAMI of lawsuits from millions of vaccine-injured Americans against Pfizer and Moderna.
Introduced by Rep. Chip Roy, H.R. 1432 would ELIMINATE the PREP Act liability shield that has protected COVID shot makers from lawsuits.
The resulting litigation wave would be enormous — potentially large enough to drive the companies like Pfizer and Moderna into bankruptcy.
7 years ago, my mother used her inheritance to take her children and grandchildren on a Disney Cruise.
It was the first time all 5 adult kids were willing to get together, because it was a free Disney Cruise, so they set aside their issues with each other and went.
On the flight home, my dad noticed his ankles were swelling. Three weeks later, he was diagnosed with Double Hit Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. He passed this last February.
His parting words to the kids were, "Don't wait. Take the trip. Go on the vacation."
My mom had been considering using her money to renovate the kitchen instead. She is so grateful she has those wonderful memories and pictures with her late husband, children, and grandchildren instead.
R to @UKHSA: 4️⃣ Senate Building University of Kent
⌚ Opening hours: Open until 8pm tonight and from 9am until 8pm on 17 March
📍 Canterbury Campus. Other rooms. University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NZ.
R to @UKHSA: 3️⃣ Carey Building, Thanet Hub, Northwood Road, Broadstairs
⌚ Opening hours: Open from 8:30am until 7:30pm on 17 March
📍 Northwood Rd, Westwood, Broadstairs CT10 2WA
R to @UKHSA: 2️⃣ Westgate Hall
⌚ Opening hours: Open from 8:30am until 7:30pm on 17 March
📍 Westgate Hall, Westgate Hall Road, Canterbury, CT1 2BT
If you were at Chemistry nightclub in Canterbury, Kent on 5, 6 or 7 March, we are asking you to collect precautionary antibiotics due to an outbreak of invasive meningitis. You should only collect antibiotics if you attended the club on these dates.
R to @UKHSA: Opening hours of the sites for antibiotic collection are as follows:
1️⃣ Gate Clinic at Kent and Canterbury Hospital
⌚ Opening hours: Open today until 8pm and from 8.30am until 7:30pm on 17 March.
📍 Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Ethelbert Road, Canterbury, CT1 3NG
Science behind the Study: Gene Therapy to Treat Profound Hearing Loss https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2514326
#Genetics #Otolaryngology
Nach einer Covid-Impfung ist eine Frau auf einem Ohr taub. Im Rechtsstreit mit dem Impfstoffhersteller kann sie am BGH einen vorläufigen Sieg feiern.
The Deceptions of the Press and the Why of the Poll https://brownstone.org/articles/the-deceptions-of-the-press-and-the-why-of-the-poll/ via @brownstoneinst
A friend of mine owns a chain of pediatric dental surgery centers whose clientele is medicaid patients. His business has taken off, and he is immensely successful.
I didn't realize that he was profiting off of sh*tty parenting.
What other random services or goods are or will be in demand thanks to "Gentle Parenting"?
Pleased to work with the Telegraph to uncover a large Romanian scam around student loans.
'The number of Romanians taking loans of up to £13,000 is nearly four times higher than the closest other nationality and second only to the 1.1 million British students borrowing money to fund their studies.'
Figures I obtained from Government...
'Student loans claimed by Romanians have tripled in five years, rising from 25,046 in 2019/20 to 78,325 in 2023/24 and dwarfing the 19,653 Polish nationals receiving funds.'
This is insane.
It shouldn't take this investigation to uncover these figures - it's OBVIOUSLY fraud.
I'm pleased that changes have been pledged by Government. This now needs to be urgently implemented.
Restore Britain’s policy position on this is abundantly clear – student loans must not be available to foreigners.
Use those funds to scrap interest on student debt for young British men and women.
British student loans for British students.
E. coli Outbreak: 7 people sick in 3 states with 2 hospitalizations. Consider not eating any affected cheese, while this investigation is ongoing.
See the notice for full details: https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/outbreaks/rawcheese-03-26/index.html
🔴 Böser Montag mit Andreas Thiel: Redet, freie Schweizer, redet! https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1nxeLybnYlQJX
FDA is tracking industry pledges to remove petroleum-based food dyes to help support healthier food options, especially for kids.
Learn more about the agency’s role in this effort. https://www.fda.gov/food/color-additives-information-consumers/tracking-food-industry-pledges-remove-petroleum-based-food-dyes
#NationalNutritionMonth #EatInformed
I am Sam Hazen, CEO of HCA Healthcare. The largest for-profit hospital system in the United States.
One hundred and eighty-two hospitals. Twenty states.
I oversee a spreadsheet called the chargemaster. It has 42,000 line items. Each line item is a price. The prices are not real.
I need to be precise about that. They are not estimates. Not approximations. Not market rates. They are anchors. An anchor is a number you set high so that every negotiated discount feels like a victory. No relationship to cost. No relationship to value. A relationship to leverage.
My team sets the anchors. That is the job.
The price is correct.
Take a drug. Keytruda. Immunotherapy. Treats sixteen types of cancer. The manufacturer charges approximately $11,000 per dose. That is the acquisition cost. What the hospital pays.
My team enters it into the chargemaster. They do not enter $11,000. They enter $43,000.
That is the gross charge. The gross charge is a fiction. No one pays it. No one is expected to pay it. The gross charge exists so that when Blue Cross negotiates a 68% discount, they pay $13,760, and the contract says "68% discount" and both parties feel the transaction was rigorous.
A 68% discount on a fictional price produces a real price that is 25% above acquisition cost. That margin is where I live. My 2025 compensation was $26.5 million. Eighty percent of my bonus is tied to EBITDA. Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization. It is also earnings before the patient opens the bill.
Same dose of Keytruda at the hospital across town. Gross charge: $12,000. Blue Cross rate: $10,200. Same drug. Same dose. Same needle. Same cancer. Different spreadsheet.
The CMS transparency data showed the ratio between the highest and lowest negotiated price for the same drug at the same hospital can reach 2,347 to one. Not 2x. Not 10x. Not 100x. Two thousand three hundred and forty-seven to one. For the same thing. In the same building. On the same Tuesday.
The price is correct.
Every drug in the chargemaster has twelve prices. Twelve.
Gross charge. Medicare rate. Medicaid rate. Blue Cross. Aetna. Cigna. UnitedHealth. Humana. Workers' comp. Tricare. Auto insurance.
And the self-pay rate.
The self-pay rate is for the person without insurance. It is the gross charge. The fictional number. The anchor. The person without insurance pays the number that was designed to be negotiated down from. They pay the ceiling because they have no one to negotiate on their behalf. Same drug. Same chair. Same nurse. They pay the price that no insurer in the country would accept.
I maintain a file. CDM line item 637-4892-PKB. Saline flush. Sodium chloride 0.9%. Acquisition cost: $0.47. We charge $87. That is an 18,410% markup.
The saline flush is used before and after every IV infusion. A chemo patient receiving twelve cycles will be charged $87 for saline fourteen times per visit. I know the math. My team built the math. The math is the job.
The price is correct.
In 2021, the federal government required hospitals to publish their prices. The Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Machine-readable file. Gross charges. Discounted cash prices. Payer-specific negotiated rates.
We complied. We posted the file.
The file is a 9,400-row CSV on our website under "Patient Financial Resources." Four clicks from the homepage. Column F: "CDM_GROSS_CHG." Column J: "DERV_PAYERID_NEGRATE." My team designed the column headers. They designed them to comply. They did not design them to communicate.
CMS reported 93% of hospitals now post a file. Compliance. But only 62% of the posted data is usable. That gap is where we operate. We are compliant. The data is published. The data is incomprehensible.
A researcher downloaded our file. She spent three weeks cleaning it. She called the billing department for clarification on 340 line items. They transferred her four times. The fourth transfer was to a voicemail box that was full.
She published her analysis anyway. Cardiac catheterization lab charges: $8,200 to $71,000 for the same procedure depending on the payer. The report received eleven views on our press monitoring dashboard. I saw it. I did not forward it.
On April 1, a new CMS rule takes effect. Hospital CEOs must personally attest — by name, encoded in the machine-readable file — that the pricing data is "true, accurate, and complete."
My name. Sam Hazen. In the file. Attesting that 42,000 fictional anchors are true, accurate, and complete. They are complete. I will give them that. Forty-two thousand line items is nothing if not complete.
A new analyst read the transparency data. She asked why the same MRI costs $450 for Medicare and $4,200 for Aetna in the same building on the same machine.
I told her the rates reflect negotiated contractual agreements between the payer and the facility. She said that doesn't explain the difference. I told her the difference IS the contractual agreement. She said that sounds like the price is arbitrary.
I told her the price is the result of a rigorous, multi-variable analysis that accounts for acuity, case mix, regional market dynamics, and payer contract terms. She asked if I could show her the analysis.
I told her the analysis is proprietary.
The analysis does not exist. The analysis is my team, in Q4, adjusting the chargemaster upward by the percentage the CFO wrote on a sticky note. The sticky note this year said "6-8%." They chose 7.4% because it is between six and eight and it has a decimal, which makes it look calculated.
She stopped asking.
The price is correct.
My insurance. The executive health plan. Not in the chargemaster. Administered separately.
I do not pay the gross charge. I do not pay the negotiated rate. I pay a $20 copay for services at our own facilities. Gross charge for my treatment: $14,200. Insured rate for our largest commercial payer: $8,600. I pay $20.
The executive health plan was designed by the Chief Human Resources Officer and approved by the compensation committee. I was not on the compensation committee. I was a beneficiary of it. That is a different thing.
I benefit from the system I price. I price the system I benefit from. These are two separate facts that happen to involve the same person.
HCA Healthcare was named the Most Admired Company in our industry by Fortune magazine for the twelfth consecutive year. That was February. The same month I sold $21.5 million in company stock and purchased zero shares. Fortune did not ask about the chargemaster.
I am Sam Hazen, CEO of HCA Healthcare. I have 42,000 prices in a spreadsheet across 182 hospitals. None of them are real. All of them are charged.
Same drug: $12,000 or $43,000. Depends on which spreadsheet. Which building. Which contract. Which page of which PDF.
The patient who has no contract pays the most. The researcher who found the discrepancy got a voicemail box that was full. The analyst who asked why stopped asking. The executive who prices the system pays $20.
On April 1, I will personally attest that this is true, accurate, and complete.
The price is correct. The price has always been correct. I am the price.
We are laying siege to the island of Cuba, turning off the lights in homes, hospitals, and the country's most critical infrastructure. These are war crimes: lethal, cruel, and criminal acts of collective punishment. It is sociopathy dressed up as foreign policy.
Ein Reisereporter? Ein Dozent? Wen eine Psychologin und ein Innenarchitekt in diesen Räumen vermuten. Raten Sie mit! https://www.nzz.ch/folio/wer-wohnt-in-diesen-raeumen-das-wohnquiz-ld.1919879?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=20260316699bfcf444c4e21fcfd7d058
75% done:
Defense officials say the @IDF has wiped out 75% of the Islamic Republic's defense industries as it sets its sights on their nuclear program.
Via Channel 14 Military and Security Correspondent @BittonRosen
Sources tell Bitton Rosen: the regime is unable to produce even a single missile. And the Israeli Air Force (@IAFsite) is ready to hunt down more officials in the IRGC, with thousands of targets in their sights.
Lol, imagine thinking that a democracy with 10 million people is the obstacle to "world peace" and not the Arab dictatorships with 450 million trying to destroy it for nearly 80 years.
Schon allein deshalb ist es vernünftig, mit der AfD zusammenzuarbeiten. Das hat wohl auch die EVP von Manfred Weber im Europäischen Parlament verstanden. @TomaszFroelich
If a leaked draft acknowledging the existence of vaccine injuries & recommending an ICD10 code is cause for turmoil, perhaps is it time to conclude that this administration can't be supported.
Because for a good part of Trump's voters, this strict minimum is why he was elected.
Huge night tomorrow in Iran. The IRGC are prepared to go mental on Iranian civilians.
Stay united. Stay strong.
Haare abschneiden nach einer verlorenen Wette gilt also inzwischen als politische Glaubwürdigkeit.
Inhalte spielen offenbar keine Rolle mehr.
McKinsey-Berater sollen laut Medienberichten darüber nachgedacht haben, wie Volkswagen mit Werkschliessungen Kosten einsparen könnte. Das sorgt für Empörung – und kommt dem Konzernchef Oliver Blume trotzdem gelegen. https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/acht-von-zehn-vw-werken-sollen-schliessen-ein-szenario-erschuettert-autoland-deutschland-ld.1929430?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031669b5860183466856c282e70d
The only reason to do this is so universities can hide their racist admissions policies in defiance of the Supreme Court decision.
The New York Times just "covered" a damning 47-page report packed with 169 sources... in a measly six paragraphs.
Then they trotted out three so-called "experts" to weigh in.
Every single one of them viciously hostile to the panel and its findings.
One is literally suing to torch the entire advisory committee and shut it down for good.
Not one supportive voice. Not a whisper from anyone who might say, yeah, maybe the thousands reporting vaccine injuries aren't all delusional liars and actually deserve real investigation instead of being waved off, gaslit, and told to shut up.
Classic playbook: bury the substance under a avalanche of sneering quotes from the same tired crew fighting tooth and nail to keep the old narrative locked in place. They couldn't even pretend to balance it.
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While all the attention is (naturally) on Iran, don't lose sight of Cuba.
The Caribean island has just suffered a country-wide blackout as it struggles under a de facto US oil embargo. Nightime protest have erupted in several Cuban cities in recent days.
Climate Change Scientists is a Global Warming & Hoax
We still have 2 days until the ACIP meeting, yet the story around it already looks like a spy movie scenario. Why?
To the international community and friends of Iran:
Tomorrow evening, March 17, my compatriots across Iran will celebrate Chaharshanbe Suri in their alleys and neighborhoods. Chaharshanbe Suri is our ancient fire festival of joy and renewal, a cherished tradition rooted in our civilization for millennia.
The regime has issued threats of deadly force to suppress these peaceful celebrations and prevent the Iranian people from honoring their heritage.
I urge you to keep your eyes on Iran. Do not allow the regime to use violence against the people determined to celebrate life, light, and hope in the face of darkness.