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Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available
And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot.
It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles.
But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.
I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.
And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot.
It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles.
But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.
I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.
Link: sci-bot.ru
Some colleagues are reporting very long wait times (90-120 min).
Not sure what's going on, because I just ran a search and it gave me a decent response in less than 8 minutes.
Keep in mind that it's probably using full-text papers and not abstracts like most AI apps.
Not sure what's going on, because I just ran a search and it gave me a decent response in less than 8 minutes.
Keep in mind that it's probably using full-text papers and not abstracts like most AI apps.
Govt sold Bill 11 as an amazing idea because shadow bureaucrats (the legions of consultants the UCP govt pays) told them it is a good idea. Govt told ABs "It works in Sweden"... but NOTHING we have here will look like what Sweden has.🧵
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Sharing simple graphics to show just ONE major difference (there are soooooo many differences between our systems!)
Sweden has guaranteed wait times, if you can't get your care in the guaranteed timeframe they will pay for you to go to another region (or approved EU country)
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Sweden has guaranteed wait times, if you can't get your care in the guaranteed timeframe they will pay for you to go to another region (or approved EU country)
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Sweden tightly controls all QUEUES and wait lists, as well as the rates that can be charged in a private or public facility (where govt pays), and pays for vast majority of surgical care publicly (with capped co-pays!)
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How Canada’s Liberal Party wrecked a once prosperous, safe. and happy country in a decade.
13 charts that tell a grim story.
A warning for America.
Courtesy of @nationalpost nationalpost.com/feature/lostde…
13 charts that tell a grim story.
A warning for America.
Courtesy of @nationalpost nationalpost.com/feature/lostde…
Buenos días. Hilo del día 1.525 de la guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania. Kiev resiste. Y Putin lo volvió a hacer. Baja su popularidad y sale de la cueva (eso me suena) para dar la imagen de padre que cuida de los rusos y reparte amor y cariño. Un clásico putiniano.
Detalle maravilloso de ese video es la tipa de atrás con su jersey con las siglas CCCP (URSS en cirílico). Claro, es que te dicen que viene Putin y hay que contentarlo... hasta en los más mínimos detalles.
Y os decía el domingo en el directo que a Putin no le gusta dar malas noticias y siempre intenta cargar las culpas en otros cualdo las hay. Ejemplo: el Kremlin (FSB) corta internet, hay críticas, los culpables son los diputados que se obsesionan con las prohibiciones (él no).
Having a baby physically shrinks part of a woman's brain. Having a second baby shrinks a totally different part. Scientists in Amsterdam just figured out why, and the explanation involves the same process that happens in teenage brains.
This is from a research group in Amsterdam called the Pregnancy Brain Lab. They published their findings in Nature Communications on February 19, 2026. The team scanned the brains of 110 women. 40 were about to have their first baby, 30 were about to have their second, and 40 had never been pregnant. They scanned everyone before pregnancy and again after birth.
The results were so consistent that a computer program could look at any of those brain scans and correctly tell whether the woman had been pregnant. Every single time.
When a woman has her first baby, the biggest changes happen in the part of the brain that handles thinking about yourself and other people. The same region that runs daydreaming and inner monologue. That whole area visibly shrinks. And it stays shrunk for at least six years after birth, according to a 2021 follow-up study by the same team.
When she has a second baby, that same area shifts a little more, but the biggest changes happen somewhere else. They happen in the part of the brain that controls what you focus on, and the part that controls how your body moves. Even the wiring between the brain and the muscles becomes more efficient. Lead researcher Milou Straathof said it looks like the brain rewiring itself for taking care of more than one kid at a time.
The shrinking sounds bad. The lab compares it to what happens in teenage brains during puberty. Hormones flood the brain and trigger a kind of cleanup. Weak connections between brain cells get cleared away. The strong ones stay and get stronger. The brain ends up smaller, but the connections that remain work faster. The hormonal flood of pregnancy seems to do the same thing.
Elseline Hoekzema, who runs the Pregnancy Brain Lab and has been studying this since 2017, told CNN: sometimes less is more.
The pattern is layered. The first pregnancy does the deep work on identity and how a mom thinks about her baby. The second pregnancy adds a new layer focused on attention and movement.
About one in five new mothers globally develops postpartum depression. The same brain circuits being remodeled here are the ones tied to mood and bonding with the baby. Mapping what a healthy maternal brain looks like is the first step toward catching when something goes wrong.
This is from a research group in Amsterdam called the Pregnancy Brain Lab. They published their findings in Nature Communications on February 19, 2026. The team scanned the brains of 110 women. 40 were about to have their first baby, 30 were about to have their second, and 40 had never been pregnant. They scanned everyone before pregnancy and again after birth.
The results were so consistent that a computer program could look at any of those brain scans and correctly tell whether the woman had been pregnant. Every single time.
When a woman has her first baby, the biggest changes happen in the part of the brain that handles thinking about yourself and other people. The same region that runs daydreaming and inner monologue. That whole area visibly shrinks. And it stays shrunk for at least six years after birth, according to a 2021 follow-up study by the same team.
When she has a second baby, that same area shifts a little more, but the biggest changes happen somewhere else. They happen in the part of the brain that controls what you focus on, and the part that controls how your body moves. Even the wiring between the brain and the muscles becomes more efficient. Lead researcher Milou Straathof said it looks like the brain rewiring itself for taking care of more than one kid at a time.
The shrinking sounds bad. The lab compares it to what happens in teenage brains during puberty. Hormones flood the brain and trigger a kind of cleanup. Weak connections between brain cells get cleared away. The strong ones stay and get stronger. The brain ends up smaller, but the connections that remain work faster. The hormonal flood of pregnancy seems to do the same thing.
Elseline Hoekzema, who runs the Pregnancy Brain Lab and has been studying this since 2017, told CNN: sometimes less is more.
The pattern is layered. The first pregnancy does the deep work on identity and how a mom thinks about her baby. The second pregnancy adds a new layer focused on attention and movement.
About one in five new mothers globally develops postpartum depression. The same brain circuits being remodeled here are the ones tied to mood and bonding with the baby. Mapping what a healthy maternal brain looks like is the first step toward catching when something goes wrong.
Thank you for reading my article ❤️
If it held your attention, a follow @anishmoonka keeps more coming.
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Sources:
Straathof et al., Nature Communications, Feb 19 2026 nature.com/articles/s4146…
Amsterdam UMC announcement on second pregnancy findings medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-p…
Hoekzema et al., Nature Neuroscience, 2017 (original pregnancy brain paper) nature.com/articles/nn.44…
Carmona/Martinez-Garcia 2021 six-year follow-up, Brain Sciences mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/2…
Hoekzema’s “sometimes less is more” CNN quote edition.cnn.com/2016/12/22/hea…
If it held your attention, a follow @anishmoonka keeps more coming.
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Sources:
Straathof et al., Nature Communications, Feb 19 2026 nature.com/articles/s4146…
Amsterdam UMC announcement on second pregnancy findings medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-p…
Hoekzema et al., Nature Neuroscience, 2017 (original pregnancy brain paper) nature.com/articles/nn.44…
Carmona/Martinez-Garcia 2021 six-year follow-up, Brain Sciences mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/2…
Hoekzema’s “sometimes less is more” CNN quote edition.cnn.com/2016/12/22/hea…
Part 2. 40 first-time fathers had their brains scanned before their partners got pregnant and again after the baby came. None of those dads carried a pregnancy or went through pregnancy hormones. Their brains still changed.
That’s from a 2022 study in Cerebral Cortex run by labs in Spain and California. The dads lost about 1% of gray matter in the brain’s outer layer. Same kind of streamlining that happens in moms, just at a smaller scale. The regions affected were the visual processing system and the default mode network, the part of the brain that handles social thinking and reading other people.
These weren’t random regions. They’re the exact circuits a parent uses to read a baby’s face, figure out why it’s crying, anticipate what it needs.
The hormone shifts are even bigger. A long-running study in the Philippines tracked 624 men over four and a half years. The men who became new fathers saw their testosterone drop about 26% on waking and 34% in the evening. Single men in the same age range only saw drops between 12 and 15% from normal aging. And dads who spent 3+ hours a day on childcare had even lower testosterone than dads who didn’t. The biology was shifting toward caregiving without any pregnancy involved.
In 2014, neuroscientist Ruth Feldman ran a study on three groups of new parents: biological moms doing primary caregiving, fathers in secondary caregiving roles, and fathers who were the primary caregivers raising the baby without a mother in the home. The primary-caregiving fathers’ brain activations matched the biological moms’. The fathers doing less caregiving showed weaker patterns. The brain was tracking caregiving hours, regardless of who carried the pregnancy.
Pilyoung Kim at the University of Denver calls this the “two open windows” theory. The first months of a baby’s life are a sensitive window for both the baby and the parent’s brain. The brain rewires to match the job it’s actually doing.
About 1 in 10 new fathers globally develops paternal postpartum depression. Same brain regions involved, same vulnerability window, but most screening still focuses only on moms.
Pregnancy hormones drive the heaviest restructuring. But the baby itself is doing real work too. Whoever does the actual caregiving, in the actual hours, gets the brain rewire.
That’s from a 2022 study in Cerebral Cortex run by labs in Spain and California. The dads lost about 1% of gray matter in the brain’s outer layer. Same kind of streamlining that happens in moms, just at a smaller scale. The regions affected were the visual processing system and the default mode network, the part of the brain that handles social thinking and reading other people.
These weren’t random regions. They’re the exact circuits a parent uses to read a baby’s face, figure out why it’s crying, anticipate what it needs.
The hormone shifts are even bigger. A long-running study in the Philippines tracked 624 men over four and a half years. The men who became new fathers saw their testosterone drop about 26% on waking and 34% in the evening. Single men in the same age range only saw drops between 12 and 15% from normal aging. And dads who spent 3+ hours a day on childcare had even lower testosterone than dads who didn’t. The biology was shifting toward caregiving without any pregnancy involved.
In 2014, neuroscientist Ruth Feldman ran a study on three groups of new parents: biological moms doing primary caregiving, fathers in secondary caregiving roles, and fathers who were the primary caregivers raising the baby without a mother in the home. The primary-caregiving fathers’ brain activations matched the biological moms’. The fathers doing less caregiving showed weaker patterns. The brain was tracking caregiving hours, regardless of who carried the pregnancy.
Pilyoung Kim at the University of Denver calls this the “two open windows” theory. The first months of a baby’s life are a sensitive window for both the baby and the parent’s brain. The brain rewires to match the job it’s actually doing.
About 1 in 10 new fathers globally develops paternal postpartum depression. Same brain regions involved, same vulnerability window, but most screening still focuses only on moms.
Pregnancy hormones drive the heaviest restructuring. But the baby itself is doing real work too. Whoever does the actual caregiving, in the actual hours, gets the brain rewire.
Covid cases, positivity, hospitalisations, and wastewater here in the UK are all at their lowest point since surveillance started.
Here are the ten things I'm doing differently:
Here are the ten things I'm doing differently:
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I'm still masking with an ffp3 mask everywhere indoors in public to avoid inhaling viral particles.
I'm still masking with an ffp3 mask everywhere indoors in public to avoid inhaling viral particles.
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I'm still using hepa filtration in my workplace to filter viral particles out of the air.
I'm still using hepa filtration in my workplace to filter viral particles out of the air.
Rofayda Qaoud — raped by her brothers and impregnated — refused to commit suicide, her mother recalls, even after she bought the unwed teenager a razor with which to slit her wrists. So Amira Abu Hanhan Qaoud says she did what she believes any good Palestinian parent would: restored her family’s “honor” through murder.
This is Palestinian culture.
Nothing has changed. Western media just stopped telling you about it.
This is Palestinian culture.
Nothing has changed. Western media just stopped telling you about it.
“Palestinians have such a rich, beautiful culture.” -Ms. Rachel Griffin-Accurso
1/7 The Significance of the King's Visit
The British king and queen will visit America from April 27 to 30 as part of the final stages of the nation’s dismantling of British Admiralty Law, a critical step required for America to legally restore its sovereign state. Stops will be made in Washington, D.C., the 9/11 Memorial, and Virginia, with each location holding specific symbolic and historical significance tied to Britain's long-standing system that has quietly governed America for well over a century.
This process requires the living authority to appear in person at the exact centers of origin, control, and operation. This legal requirement makes the Crown’s participation mandatory as America fulfills the conditions to restore its sovereignty. Physical presence and public witness complete the legal record, with the King and Queen serving as the two living witnesses providing full and lawful testimony that America has fulfilled the conditions necessary to restore its sovereign state. As the living head of the British Crown that has governed America through Admiralty Law, the King carries the essential authority to lawfully sign off on the end of that system, the return of America’s sovereignty, and the shift back to the law of the land.
Together, their appearances at the highest levels of governance create a visible, ceremonial confirmation that the corporate maritime system is being brought to its lawful end in America, at its centers of power within the country. The visit begins where that power is currently concentrated.
The British king and queen will visit America from April 27 to 30 as part of the final stages of the nation’s dismantling of British Admiralty Law, a critical step required for America to legally restore its sovereign state. Stops will be made in Washington, D.C., the 9/11 Memorial, and Virginia, with each location holding specific symbolic and historical significance tied to Britain's long-standing system that has quietly governed America for well over a century.
This process requires the living authority to appear in person at the exact centers of origin, control, and operation. This legal requirement makes the Crown’s participation mandatory as America fulfills the conditions to restore its sovereignty. Physical presence and public witness complete the legal record, with the King and Queen serving as the two living witnesses providing full and lawful testimony that America has fulfilled the conditions necessary to restore its sovereign state. As the living head of the British Crown that has governed America through Admiralty Law, the King carries the essential authority to lawfully sign off on the end of that system, the return of America’s sovereignty, and the shift back to the law of the land.
Together, their appearances at the highest levels of governance create a visible, ceremonial confirmation that the corporate maritime system is being brought to its lawful end in America, at its centers of power within the country. The visit begins where that power is currently concentrated.
2/7 The Kings Visit: Washington, DC
In 1871, Congress created the District of Columbia as a municipal corporation, or a corporate entity. This corporation operates under Admiralty Law (the law of the sea, also called commercial or maritime law under British jurisdiction). This is represented by the gold-fringed flags in government buildings, which signifies admiralty/commercial jurisdiction rather than the original common law of the land.
Washington D.C. remains the administrative headquarters for the corporate United States where contracts are executed, debts managed, and commercial rules enforced nationwide. The King’s visit to Washington therefore centers on the two primary pillars of this corporate structure: the executive branch at the White House and the legislative branch at the Capitol.
The White House
The White House serves as the official home and office of the President, head of the corporate executive branch. The King’s engagements here include a private meeting followed by a public ceremony, each playing a distinct role in the lawful closure of the system.
The Private Tea
This private meeting with the President and First Lady is the first face-to-face engagement. In accordance with long-standing principles of contract and trust law, the parties must first meet privately to acknowledge that the old arrangement is ending.
The king, as the acting authority of the Crown in this process, formally records that the executive branch stands ready to close the Admiralty Law chapter. This quiet encounter serves as the initial living testimony, similar to two trustees confirming terms before any public signing. It is the private closing of the old contract.
Only after this private agreement does the public ceremony formally establish the transfer for the world to see.
The State Arrival Ceremony
The public ceremony on the South Lawn makes the private agreement visible to the nation and the world. With the 21-gun salute, national anthems, military honors, and formal addresses, the king and queen stand on American soil alongside the President.
The South Lawn holds special significance as it constitutes physical land rather than an interior corporate space. By holding this major ceremony on the lawn, the event symbolically moves the closing of the Admiralty Law system from the realm of corporate/maritime jurisdiction onto the sovereign land itself.
The king and queen’s presence as witnesses upon this soil publicly acknowledges the transfer that is now underway. This act marks an important step toward releasing the old jurisdiction and returning power to the land and the people. This ceremony is a key public declaration that initiates the next phase of the lawful process. The full closing of Admiralty Law and the complete return to land jurisdiction will unfold through the remaining steps, starting with the king’s speech to Congress.
Addressing Congress (the Capital Building)
The king is scheduled to address a joint session of both the House and Senate inside the Capitol – a rare event. Congress, as the legislative branch, is the law-making center of the corporate United States. It is the body that has created and maintained the corporate rules and Admiralty Law system since 1871.
By standing in that chamber, the king enters the very heart of the authority that established and upheld the corporate system. The speech to Congress is a legislative act, meaning it belongs to the king as the sovereign authority to close the old contract with the U.S. lawmakers.
The queen is not required for this step, as it is carried out by the king in his role within the legislative process. His authority, presence, and address ensure the lawmakers themselves are physically present to acknowledge the end of that structure they maintained. In contract and trust law, the creators and enforcers must be present when the old agreement is dissolved.
This also explains why congressional arrests have not occurred prior to this event. Even under arrest, unless officially expelled, members of Congress maintain their position within the body. For the record to be complete, the full legislative body must be physically present in the chamber. If members were arrested beforehand, they would not be there to witness the ending, leaving the process incomplete.
In 1871, Congress created the District of Columbia as a municipal corporation, or a corporate entity. This corporation operates under Admiralty Law (the law of the sea, also called commercial or maritime law under British jurisdiction). This is represented by the gold-fringed flags in government buildings, which signifies admiralty/commercial jurisdiction rather than the original common law of the land.
Washington D.C. remains the administrative headquarters for the corporate United States where contracts are executed, debts managed, and commercial rules enforced nationwide. The King’s visit to Washington therefore centers on the two primary pillars of this corporate structure: the executive branch at the White House and the legislative branch at the Capitol.
The White House
The White House serves as the official home and office of the President, head of the corporate executive branch. The King’s engagements here include a private meeting followed by a public ceremony, each playing a distinct role in the lawful closure of the system.
The Private Tea
This private meeting with the President and First Lady is the first face-to-face engagement. In accordance with long-standing principles of contract and trust law, the parties must first meet privately to acknowledge that the old arrangement is ending.
The king, as the acting authority of the Crown in this process, formally records that the executive branch stands ready to close the Admiralty Law chapter. This quiet encounter serves as the initial living testimony, similar to two trustees confirming terms before any public signing. It is the private closing of the old contract.
Only after this private agreement does the public ceremony formally establish the transfer for the world to see.
The State Arrival Ceremony
The public ceremony on the South Lawn makes the private agreement visible to the nation and the world. With the 21-gun salute, national anthems, military honors, and formal addresses, the king and queen stand on American soil alongside the President.
The South Lawn holds special significance as it constitutes physical land rather than an interior corporate space. By holding this major ceremony on the lawn, the event symbolically moves the closing of the Admiralty Law system from the realm of corporate/maritime jurisdiction onto the sovereign land itself.
The king and queen’s presence as witnesses upon this soil publicly acknowledges the transfer that is now underway. This act marks an important step toward releasing the old jurisdiction and returning power to the land and the people. This ceremony is a key public declaration that initiates the next phase of the lawful process. The full closing of Admiralty Law and the complete return to land jurisdiction will unfold through the remaining steps, starting with the king’s speech to Congress.
Addressing Congress (the Capital Building)
The king is scheduled to address a joint session of both the House and Senate inside the Capitol – a rare event. Congress, as the legislative branch, is the law-making center of the corporate United States. It is the body that has created and maintained the corporate rules and Admiralty Law system since 1871.
By standing in that chamber, the king enters the very heart of the authority that established and upheld the corporate system. The speech to Congress is a legislative act, meaning it belongs to the king as the sovereign authority to close the old contract with the U.S. lawmakers.
The queen is not required for this step, as it is carried out by the king in his role within the legislative process. His authority, presence, and address ensure the lawmakers themselves are physically present to acknowledge the end of that structure they maintained. In contract and trust law, the creators and enforcers must be present when the old agreement is dissolved.
This also explains why congressional arrests have not occurred prior to this event. Even under arrest, unless officially expelled, members of Congress maintain their position within the body. For the record to be complete, the full legislative body must be physically present in the chamber. If members were arrested beforehand, they would not be there to witness the ending, leaving the process incomplete.
3/7 The King’s Visit: 9/11 Memorial
To implement a new system, the pillars of the old order had to be removed. The Twin Towers stood as powerful symbols of global trade, finance, and commercial dominance under the maritime system. Their destruction in 2001 created profound shock and chaos, intended to clear the way for the full implementation of a far more expansive system of control — the New World Order. However, despite great effort, that plan was never completed.
Instead, the American people, through their President, are now bringing the old system of Admiralty Law to an end and restoring the law of the land.
Even though the New World Order failed, Admiralty Law’s rules and rituals still require proper closure. The king and queen come as the official living witnesses from the British side for three essential reasons:
• The Twin Towers were the commercial side of the system in operation. This is why it was called the World Trade Center - it was literally designed to be the global hub for trade and finance under Admiralty jurisdiction
• They must stand at the exact location and observe firsthand that those pillars have been removed.
• Their presence creates the required “living testimony” that the old centers of commercial power have ended.
By standing at the 9/11 Memorial, the king and queen complete this necessary step. This forms a formal acknowledgment that closes the old chapter of the previous commercial and maritime system at the very site where its power was once most visibly concentrated. That system has now concluded.
To implement a new system, the pillars of the old order had to be removed. The Twin Towers stood as powerful symbols of global trade, finance, and commercial dominance under the maritime system. Their destruction in 2001 created profound shock and chaos, intended to clear the way for the full implementation of a far more expansive system of control — the New World Order. However, despite great effort, that plan was never completed.
Instead, the American people, through their President, are now bringing the old system of Admiralty Law to an end and restoring the law of the land.
Even though the New World Order failed, Admiralty Law’s rules and rituals still require proper closure. The king and queen come as the official living witnesses from the British side for three essential reasons:
• The Twin Towers were the commercial side of the system in operation. This is why it was called the World Trade Center - it was literally designed to be the global hub for trade and finance under Admiralty jurisdiction
• They must stand at the exact location and observe firsthand that those pillars have been removed.
• Their presence creates the required “living testimony” that the old centers of commercial power have ended.
By standing at the 9/11 Memorial, the king and queen complete this necessary step. This forms a formal acknowledgment that closes the old chapter of the previous commercial and maritime system at the very site where its power was once most visibly concentrated. That system has now concluded.
I interviewed a board-certified physician specialized in women's hormones and longevity.
Dr. Amy Killen shared 10 surprising insights every woman needs to hear to live healthier, more youthful and longer:
1) Women can lose up to 30% of brain energy at 35 years old
Dr. Amy Killen shared 10 surprising insights every woman needs to hear to live healthier, more youthful and longer:
1) Women can lose up to 30% of brain energy at 35 years old
This is what happens during perimenopause, the 2 to 10 year window before menopause when hormones start dropping.
This explains their brain fog, mood swings, suicidal thoughts or anxiety.
Since most women don’t know about this, they typically blame themselves for the symptoms.
This explains their brain fog, mood swings, suicidal thoughts or anxiety.
Since most women don’t know about this, they typically blame themselves for the symptoms.
2) Then menopause hits like a light switch
It is the point when your ovaries run out of eggs and stop making estrogen and progesterone forever.
It usually hits between 40 and 50.
After this, your body loses it’s hormones and every symptoms worsens.
It is the point when your ovaries run out of eggs and stop making estrogen and progesterone forever.
It usually hits between 40 and 50.
After this, your body loses it’s hormones and every symptoms worsens.
1/14 🧵Surrey police have confirmed that the Epsom "gang rape" never happened. A woman sustained an accidental head injury and made a confused report. But before that, Britain's right-wing media helped turn an unverified allegation into violent anti-immigration riots.
#Epsom
#Epsom
2/14. See these headlines:
"Woman raped by several men outside Epsom church." - GB News
"HORROR ATTACK: Woman raped by several men outside church." - Sun
"Woman gang raped outside Epsom church." - Telegraph
Not 'allegedly.' Not 'reported.' Just: raped. As fact. The BBC too:
"Woman raped by several men outside Epsom church." - GB News
"HORROR ATTACK: Woman raped by several men outside church." - Sun
"Woman gang raped outside Epsom church." - Telegraph
Not 'allegedly.' Not 'reported.' Just: raped. As fact. The BBC too:
3/14. This is basic journalism. Allegations are allegations until proven in court. "Alleged" and "reported" aren't weasel words. They're the difference between informing the public and inciting it.
Surrey police's wording was careful about this, unlike the news machine:
#Epsom
Surrey police's wording was careful about this, unlike the news machine:
#Epsom
Una scuola piena di progettini su ogni tipo di competenza relazional-affettiva-civica, che scalzano sempre più le ore curricurali, è la vera macchina "crea privilegio", perché restringe l'unico accesso al capitale culturale (che già vale meno di ieri) per i meno abbienti. /1
Ammettiamo che scuola di ieri fosse solo "nozionismi". Il rischio è che oggi lo sia ancora di più. Meno ore di lezione curricolare, meno tempo per lo studio di docenti e discenti, meno tempo per il rinforzo didattico. Il risultato è il "pillolismo", il discount del nozionismo./2
Allora dobbiamo tornare indietro? Fare una restaurazione tipo Congresso di Vienna? No. Secondo me, dobbiamo capire tre cose. Primo: lo strumento privilegiato per sviluppare le "competenze non cognitive" (scusate per l'espressione, giuro non è mia) sono le discipline stesse. /3
1/ Russian warbloggers are increasingly speculating about what will happen after the war ends and/or the fall of Putin. They predict chaos, disorderly struggles, repression, and not least their own violent elimination. ⬇️
2/ In a since-deleted post, Maxim Kalashnikov sees gloomy prospects ahead for Russia:
3/ “I believe that after the Transition (change of the central figure of power), as a result of this untriumphant war, a period of chaos and instability is inevitable.
No matter what “Sukharev conventions” are signed by the highest beau monde these days. What do I predict?
No matter what “Sukharev conventions” are signed by the highest beau monde these days. What do I predict?
I’m getting called out for not naming names.
Fair.
And there’s a critical piece I left out: congressional staff power is deeply counterintuitive. The people you’ve never heard of often matter more than the people on camera.
Take the perennially underfunded U.S. Coast Guard.
Before we get to names, let’s look at a hypothetical.
Imagine a Democratic senator from somewhere out west who has built her entire reputation as the great champion of the service.
She fights harder than anyone to grow their slice of the budget. The trade press praises her. The maritime community gives her awards. She appoints a single staffer whose only portfolio is the Coast Guard.
Sounds great. Who doesn’t love the Coast Guard? USCG gets more money, the senator gets a wall full of industry plaques and a stack of goodwill she can cash in at her next campaign.
Here’s the problem. She now has a monopoly on Coast Guard appropriations. She can’t admit that publicly, so the staffer exercises the power for her.
When the Coast Guard wants anything, some admiral has to travel to the Hill and kiss the ring. Don’t kiss it, and the project dies in its tracks.
What if you uncovered massive corruption within the SES ranks of the USCG? The very people this staffer works closely with?
What if you tried something worse, like building a coalition of other senators around a Coast Guard priority, and you’ve declared war. The staffer will not surrender the monopoly. The staffer will sink the ship.
Or maybe it’s not the staffer working for one senator. Maybe that staffer is promoted out of the senator’s office to become a senior adviser on the authorizing committee in charge of USCG appropriations?
This is what hypothetically happened to Secretary Noem after her push to the USCG’s Force Design 2028 reforms.
The person blocking it was a staffer who everyone in the maritime trade press calls THE biggest champion of the Coast Guard.
And look what happened to Noem as a result.
Maybe the staffer even plants a story with a journalists friend at WAPO about racist/nooses proliferating around the USCG at the same time the commandant is being confirmed?
Now Noem wasn’t fired because of the Uscg. She was fired because DHS was defunded by Democrats and she could no longer do her job effectively.
What if said staffer, the very person who the USCG praise every chance they get, was THE person who organized other Democrats to kill DHS funding?
And nobody in the USCG can say a word. If that staffer gets angry, she starts cutting the very programs the Coast Guard fought her to get included.
In the upside-down world of the Senate, the people getting the loudest praise in public are often the ones being cursed in private.
And this staffer could hypothetically gain more power than the commandant she tried to sink?
Now that’s all hypothetical of course.
But, a not hypothetical person is @SenatorCantwell’s USCG staffer Nicole Teutschel who is often praised by industry and has several participation trophies like the one she’s holding below.
And according to several senior USCG sources, Teutschel absolutely blocked Noem’s effort to give the Coast Guard its own service secretary.
Fair.
And there’s a critical piece I left out: congressional staff power is deeply counterintuitive. The people you’ve never heard of often matter more than the people on camera.
Take the perennially underfunded U.S. Coast Guard.
Before we get to names, let’s look at a hypothetical.
Imagine a Democratic senator from somewhere out west who has built her entire reputation as the great champion of the service.
She fights harder than anyone to grow their slice of the budget. The trade press praises her. The maritime community gives her awards. She appoints a single staffer whose only portfolio is the Coast Guard.
Sounds great. Who doesn’t love the Coast Guard? USCG gets more money, the senator gets a wall full of industry plaques and a stack of goodwill she can cash in at her next campaign.
Here’s the problem. She now has a monopoly on Coast Guard appropriations. She can’t admit that publicly, so the staffer exercises the power for her.
When the Coast Guard wants anything, some admiral has to travel to the Hill and kiss the ring. Don’t kiss it, and the project dies in its tracks.
What if you uncovered massive corruption within the SES ranks of the USCG? The very people this staffer works closely with?
What if you tried something worse, like building a coalition of other senators around a Coast Guard priority, and you’ve declared war. The staffer will not surrender the monopoly. The staffer will sink the ship.
Or maybe it’s not the staffer working for one senator. Maybe that staffer is promoted out of the senator’s office to become a senior adviser on the authorizing committee in charge of USCG appropriations?
This is what hypothetically happened to Secretary Noem after her push to the USCG’s Force Design 2028 reforms.
The person blocking it was a staffer who everyone in the maritime trade press calls THE biggest champion of the Coast Guard.
And look what happened to Noem as a result.
Maybe the staffer even plants a story with a journalists friend at WAPO about racist/nooses proliferating around the USCG at the same time the commandant is being confirmed?
Now Noem wasn’t fired because of the Uscg. She was fired because DHS was defunded by Democrats and she could no longer do her job effectively.
What if said staffer, the very person who the USCG praise every chance they get, was THE person who organized other Democrats to kill DHS funding?
And nobody in the USCG can say a word. If that staffer gets angry, she starts cutting the very programs the Coast Guard fought her to get included.
In the upside-down world of the Senate, the people getting the loudest praise in public are often the ones being cursed in private.
And this staffer could hypothetically gain more power than the commandant she tried to sink?
Now that’s all hypothetical of course.
But, a not hypothetical person is @SenatorCantwell’s USCG staffer Nicole Teutschel who is often praised by industry and has several participation trophies like the one she’s holding below.
And according to several senior USCG sources, Teutschel absolutely blocked Noem’s effort to give the Coast Guard its own service secretary.
And for those who think I’m being partisan please go read part 1 to learn why @LeaderJohnThune’s staff also hates me:
For 50 years Britain hid these transcripts.
They were even withheld from the Nuremberg trials to protect the secrecy of this eavesdropping operation.
Here’s what Nazi generals really said about Auschwitz and the mass murder of Jews when they thought no one was listening:
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They were even withheld from the Nuremberg trials to protect the secrecy of this eavesdropping operation.
Here’s what Nazi generals really said about Auschwitz and the mass murder of Jews when they thought no one was listening:
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The eavesdropping operation at the three sister sites during World War Two (Trent Park, Latimer House and Wilton Park) gradually revealed the full horror of the Holocaust.
Prisoners spoke of mass shootings of 300,000 civilians, the murder of 80,000 Jews in Lublin, and 5,000 killed in a single day in a Ukrainian village, supplying graphic details of Einsatzkommando atrocities. Infamous names such as Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Bergen-Belsen were mentioned, along with mobile gas trucks, the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the murder of “mental defectives.”
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Prisoners spoke of mass shootings of 300,000 civilians, the murder of 80,000 Jews in Lublin, and 5,000 killed in a single day in a Ukrainian village, supplying graphic details of Einsatzkommando atrocities. Infamous names such as Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Bergen-Belsen were mentioned, along with mobile gas trucks, the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the murder of “mental defectives.”
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Most shocking of all was the range of attitudes captured on the secret recordings. Some prisoners appeared to grasp the scale of the terror inflicted on European Jewry.
A young sailor, recounting a massacre in Lithuania, said: “believe me, if you had seen it, it would have made you shudder.”
A pilot who had stumbled upon a mass shooting near Lviv observed grimly: “We shall have to pay for that.”
Among the generals, one declared after seeing the aftermath of killings in Russia: “The most bestial thing I ever saw.”
When shown photographs and film of the liberated camps, another admitted: “We are disgraced for all time and not 1,000 years will wipe out what we’ve done.”
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A young sailor, recounting a massacre in Lithuania, said: “believe me, if you had seen it, it would have made you shudder.”
A pilot who had stumbled upon a mass shooting near Lviv observed grimly: “We shall have to pay for that.”
Among the generals, one declared after seeing the aftermath of killings in Russia: “The most bestial thing I ever saw.”
When shown photographs and film of the liberated camps, another admitted: “We are disgraced for all time and not 1,000 years will wipe out what we’ve done.”
(continued)
🚨 MORENS INDICTED: "This is the beginning of lab leak coverup accountability."
@JustinRGoodman of @WhiteCoatWaste says @TheJusticeDept indictment of David Morens, a former top Fauci adviser, is only "the tip of the iceberg."
"He was coordinating with Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance, and Fauci behind the scenes... destroying records, evading FOIA, violating records retention laws."
And buried in the indictment? Co-conspirator #1 is believed to be Peter Daszak. NIAID Official #1 is believed to be Anthony Fauci himself.
Goodman says Morens' indictment is a step in the right direction, but warns the same Fauci-era network is still embedded inside @NIH, with Fauci-era holdovers occupying all 5 deputy director positions under the new administration.
"If you want to get Fauci's fingerprints off the NIH and see real reforms, you've got to clean house there."
Accountability cannot stop with one indictment.
@JustinRGoodman of @WhiteCoatWaste says @TheJusticeDept indictment of David Morens, a former top Fauci adviser, is only "the tip of the iceberg."
"He was coordinating with Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance, and Fauci behind the scenes... destroying records, evading FOIA, violating records retention laws."
And buried in the indictment? Co-conspirator #1 is believed to be Peter Daszak. NIAID Official #1 is believed to be Anthony Fauci himself.
Goodman says Morens' indictment is a step in the right direction, but warns the same Fauci-era network is still embedded inside @NIH, with Fauci-era holdovers occupying all 5 deputy director positions under the new administration.
"If you want to get Fauci's fingerprints off the NIH and see real reforms, you've got to clean house there."
Accountability cannot stop with one indictment.
@JustinRGoodman @WhiteCoatWaste @TheJusticeDept Watch the full segement with @EmeraldRobinson and @JustinRGoodman on @AbsoluteWithE here: lindelltv.com/is-americas-fo…