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"The bought journalist has a weapon: silence - and he uses this weapon often enough." (Kurt Tucholsky)
Jul 25 4 tweets 2 min read
Yellowstone National Park: 2.1m years ago an eruption resulted in 2,450 cubic KMs of material ejected. If another eruption of that kind were to occur, falling ash could cover much of the western US & the global climate would likely fluctuate for years to decades after: USGS. Image Biscuit Basin is a smaller basin near Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park. It's named after the biscuit-shaped geyserite formations that can still be seen around parts of the Sapphire Pool, according to the National Park Service.
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Apr 28 16 tweets 9 min read
BioNTech: The three principal shareholders, CEO Ugur Sahin & Germany’s Strüngmann twins, Andreas & Thomas, who provided much of the initial seed capital (of €150 million from MIG Capital & AT Impf) for the company’s founding in 2008 (Banking collapse!).
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The German Govt was the company’s state sponsor, sponsoring its very founding & helping to keep it afloat w/ subsidies during the many years when BioNTech produced nothing.
2018 World Health Summit: German Govt-sponsored event w/ Gates, Merkel, Tedros & Sahin... Image
Apr 18 13 tweets 9 min read
Rosanna Gaffney born in Ireland (1819-1892) married James Grady born in Ireland (1815-died before 1880).
Their son Michael Andrew Grady was born (1844-1924) in the U.S. & he married Mary Louisa Kenney born in the U.S. (1848-1921) in 1867.
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John Henry Grady Sr born (1887-1974) in U.S. He married Ellen "Nellie" Sweeney (1890-1974) in U.S. All of Nellie's grandparents were born in Ireland
Their son John Henry Grady Jr married Barbara Hannon
Their daughter Christine Grady married Anthony Fauci
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Jan 7 9 tweets 7 min read
THE DOCTOR'S WORLD; AIDS Epidemic Puts An Unusual Microbe Under New Scrutiny.
Dr. Montagnier was advancing research from Dr. Shyh-Ching Lo, an American scientist at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington.
nytimes.com/1990/06/26/sci…
'In 1986, Shyh-Ching Lo, claimed to have isolated a new virus from AIDS patients with Kaposi’s sarcoma...
It turned out that Lo had not discovered a virus. Instead, he appears to have found evidence of another type of microorganism, known as a mycoplasma.'
latimes.com/archives/la-xp…
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Nov 16, 2023 24 tweets 14 min read
Discovered in 1898, was known initially as a parasitic infection to animals & has become most commonly known in modern medicine for the subspecies, Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP)
MP is the most widely studied Mycoplasma species due to its increasing prevalence
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53692…

Image Genus Mycoplasma- unique bacterium that lacks a cell wall, causes a wide range of symptoms & infections
Subspecies mycoplasma pneumoniae is associated with "atypical pneumonia" & can lead to infections of other anatomical sites: skin, central nervous system, blood, heart & joints Image
Oct 30, 2023 5 tweets 6 min read
Zaha Hadid Architects:
Charles Walker - Director

Previously: Charles Walker, leader of the Advanced Geometry Unit [AGU] at Arup & Partners
zaha-hadid.com/people/charles…
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Patrik Schumacher - Principal

Parametricism has become the dominant single style for avant-garde practice today...suited to large-scale urbanism as exemplified by a series of competition-winning master-plans by Zaha Hadid Architects
zaha-hadid.com/people/patrik-…
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Oct 26, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
Cervical screening tests to resume at Coombe Hospital
It is expected that the hospital will eventually handle around 10% of Cervical Check programme slides, around 30,000 a year.
Most screening's (still) done by Quest in US 🤔
24 Oct 2023
rte.ie/news/health/20… Ireland’s Cervical Cancer Crisis Began in the US
Between 2008 and 2014, 208 women who later developed cervical cancer were incorrectly cleared as normal. A 2014 audit revealed these false negatives.
221+
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Sep 16, 2023 5 tweets 4 min read
Amid the largest anti-racism protests the🇬🇧 has seen in centuries, following the killing of George Floyd in the US, Swiss (Pierre Neil) resurrected the idea of economic activism as a way to redirect & sustain the momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement
theguardian.com/world/2020/oct…
Meet Swiss, The Creator Of Black Pound Day In The UK
“This is an initiative specifically for Black people because the discrimination that we face is specific to Black people.”
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Sep 1, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Jonathon Greenblatt "So literally we opened a centre in Silicon Valley back in 2017...I have Software Engineers & Data Scientists working at ADL. We're monitoring all this stuff & we're working with all the platforms by the way...From like Apple to Zoom, we work with all of them" Jonathon Greenblatt had a 'conversation' with Linda Yaccarino (who reached out to ADL) about X, what works & what doesn't & where it needs to go to address hate effectively...🤔 Image
Aug 28, 2023 11 tweets 7 min read
Pfizer Enters into Agreement w/ Acuitas Therapeutics for Lipid Nanoparticle Delivery System for Use in mRNA Vaccines & Therapeutics
Pfizer gains option to license Acuitas’ LNP technology for up to 10 targets for vaccine or therapeutic development -Jan 2022
pfizer.com/news/press-rel…
Image Acuitas partners w/ pharmaceutical & biotechnology Co's & academic institutes to advance nucleic acid therapeutics into clinical trials
It has agreements in place with several partners to use its proprietary lipid nanotechnology in development of C-19 💉
pfizer.com/news/press-rel…

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Aug 22, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
Lessons the NHS needs to learn after Lucy Letby case
Public inquiry that is now almost inevitable will need to examine failings of people and processes – and result in meaningful changes
theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a…


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Inside Lucy Letby Private Life, Husband? Is she even married?
She was born 1990 in Hereford, England to working-class parents John & Susan Letby. She grew up as an only child in a small rural city along the River Wye, She had a boyfriend named Jordan Sands
hollywoodstimes.com/lucy-letby/
Jul 24, 2023 5 tweets 5 min read
2013 Basie Award Nominations Announced
Shannon Eadon, Director of Development, Count Basie Theatre (Daughter of G. Lee Thompson, an economic advisor to both President Ronald Reagan and President George Bush Sr)
https://t.co/xMTgVGAWhD https://t.co/4Z8bMZrMlmthemonmouthjournal.com/basie-award-no…

Image In January 2020 Shannon Thompson Eadon was installed as the new President & CEO of Old School Square
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Jul 22, 2023 12 tweets 8 min read
Farnborough, Hampshire was founded in Saxon times & is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as part of the settlement of Crondall & has the remains of a Roman villa. Population of 57,486

https://t.co/Fh5jde6hFA https://t.co/ydA8Iyozek https://t.co/F2FfsxPa6topendomesday.org/place/SU7948/c…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnborou…

Image The town is probably best known for its association with aviation - Farnborough Airshow, Farnborough Airport, Royal Aircraft Establishment & the Air Accidents Investigation Branch.
Since 2003 Farnborough Airport has been a business airport


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Jul 19, 2023 8 tweets 5 min read
2013: UK blood plasma company sale to Bain Capital 'endangers NHS supplies'
Plasma Resources UK (PRUK) turns plasma, the fluid in blood that holds white & red cells in suspension, into life-saving treatments for immune deficiencies, neurological diseases & haemophilia. 🤔 The Haemophilia Society...asked the Dept. of Health for guarantees that PRUK would continue to [make a rare blood-clotting concentrate] to treat people with a deficiency of factor XI in their blood & continue to research drugs for those with an even rarer factor X deficiency. 🤔
May 18, 2023 4 tweets 4 min read
Bilderberg list of participants 2023
bilderbergmeetings.org/meetings/meeti… ImageImageImageImage 18 - 21 MAY 2023 LISBON, PORTUGAL
2 - 5 JUNE 2022 WASHINGTON, D.C., USA
FYI: The Meetings 2020 and 2021 had to be cancelled, due to travel and meeting restrictions. ImageImage
May 18, 2023 7 tweets 4 min read
IDT Biologika opens vaccine manufacturing facility in Germany - Jul 29, 2019
IDT 10-year contract, won 2018 from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Image The $80 million indefinite quantity & delivery contract requires that IDT stay on call during the contract period as NIAID hammers out the exact content & quantity of each individual project along the way. IDT also won a contract from CEPI to work on a vaccine against MERS.
May 17, 2023 16 tweets 7 min read
2016 Barack Obama B/F the 'CSforAll movement'
Free Streamble Kode Lessons & Courses: Virtual co-teachers for any classroom teacher, providing baseline CS learning for all K-5 grades. Kode5 courses & other resources free at Infosys Foundation USA's Pathfinder's Online Institute Image Infosys Foundation USA's Pathfinder's Online Institute.
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“‘Computer Science for All’ is a national & even global movement to make sure that youth live in a digital world & can navigate that fluently” said Leigh Ann DeLyser executive director of the org." Image
May 12, 2023 6 tweets 5 min read
DEVAX, which began in 2000 as a student project at the Harvard Kennedy School, is the media platform for the Global Development Community.
Devex delivers insider reporting that drives the global development agenda e.g., AERAS - Contract Awards
devex.com/organizations/… ImageImage Devex report's from the front lines of the fight to achieve the SDGs – driving the most important debates, providing the most critical analysis & backing it all up with the events, career info & funding opportunities professionals require
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May 11, 2023 15 tweets 11 min read
Robert W. Malone is the Chief Medical & Regulatory Officer at The Unity Project. Additionally, Robert W. Malone has had 1 past job as the CEO at Atheric Pharmaceutical. 🤔
crunchbase.com/person/robert-… ImageImage Founded in 2013, Atheric™ Pharmaceutical LLC is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the rapid development and commercialization of re-purposed drugs to prevent and treat Zika and other Flavivirus disease.
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May 10, 2023 11 tweets 8 min read
Biden family 'got $1 MILLION from ROMANIA' while Joe vowed to clean up corruption: GOP 'influence-peddling' probe into $10M in foreign cash reveals Hunter set up 15 companies AFTER his dad became VP and lay out how money came from China
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… EXCLUSIVE: Elusive former British special forces officer who helped secure Joe Biden's '10% stake in dirty China deal' is pictured for the first time in Prague where he founded consultancy firm involved in secret arrangement
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May 10, 2023 12 tweets 7 min read
Climate Change-ESB Networks is upgrading 2.4m electricity meters across the country
The standard meter that you have in your home now will be replaced with a smart meter
Smart meters will help us all become more energy-efficient & environmentally friendly
electricireland.ie/smart-meters ImageImage Are smart meters compulsory?
It’s not compulsory to have a smart meter installed but everyone will be given a chance to upgrade to a new smart meter...you can continue using your current meter until its certificate expires.
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