The complex origin story of domestic cats: Research points to Tunisia Phys.org
Vance meets Pope Francis on Easter Sunday after tangle over migration, gets chocolate eggs for kids AP
Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday aged 88 Vatican News
Climate/Environment
Microplastics found in human ovary follicular fluid for the first time The Guardian
Pluralistic: Against transparency Cory Doctorow
14 million years ago our ancestor was swinging through the trees & was also the ancestor of all chimps, gorillas & orangutans.
That was the last time CO2 levels were consistently as high as they are today.
The world you think you live in has ended.
(graph by Dr. Thomas Ronge) pic.twitter.com/CKerqWubMC
— Climate Dad (@ClimateDad77) April 19, 2025
Pandemics
Why I Keep Masking Defector
A fascinating thread about ‘methylation’ and what happens when it gets dysregulated by a viral infection.
As Tern says, there are quite a few viruses that do this… “but Covid is probably the only one that people are catching as if it’s candy thrown out by a benevolent uncle”. https://t.co/St28eXQrGh
— Cat in the Hat 🐈⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 (@_CatintheHat) April 20, 2025
Japan
Japan to discuss car safety standards in Trump tariff talks, Nikkei Asia reports The Straits Times
China?
Beijing slams ‘appeasement’ of US in trade deals that hurt China The Straits Times
China’s trade war playbook is coming into focus Semafor
Boeing Flies 737 MAX Aircraft Back To The US After China Bans Deliveries Simple Flying
BYD Semiconductor Deep Dive Nomad Semi
China’s non-nuclear hydrogen bomb generates fireball to burn targets at 1800°F: Report Interesting Engineering
Old Blighty
Shock Poll Shows Reform UK On Course To Win Next General Election Huff Post
Syraqistan
US Airstrikes Pound Yemen, Killing 12 in Capital Antiwar
Netanyahu Is Considering a Limited Strike on Iran – That Is Complete Insanity Haaretz
With Eye on Iran, US Sends Bunker-Busting Bombs to Israel Antiwar
How the West Plays Politics With International Terrorism Larry Johnson
This is moral rot. Israel shot fifteen unarmed medics and a UN worker one by one, crushed and buried them, lied about it—and the New York Times is covering Israel’s internal review with the same restraint it would apply to a government audit. pic.twitter.com/vakTqXuTql
— Linda Mamoun (@mamoun_linda) April 20, 2025
Remembering an artist who gave life to the children of Gaza +972 Magazine
European Disunion
Spa town spies: Czech church linked to Kremlin kompromat campaign Euractiv
New Not-So-Cold War
Trump says he hopes Russia, Ukraine to strike ‘deal this week’ Reuters
‘Easter truce’ in Russia’s Ukraine war marked by accusations of violations Al Jazeera
Easter Ceasefire Brings Brief Glimmer of Humanity Amidst the Chaos Simplicius
It was my profound honor to deliver a very “personal” message to Vladimir Putin today, from the front lines of the war near the Russian border, on behalf of our PA-1 community. The only permissible details to share are that “the message was delivered on target.”… pic.twitter.com/RUd8udc2kU
— Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick 🇺🇸 (@RepBrianFitz) April 18, 2025
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 20, 2025 Institute for the Study of War
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Ukrainian envoy asks for 30% of Germany’s military equipment RT
Germany bets on volunteers to fix a hollowed-out army — but will it work? Politico
Mysterious Thirty Years’ War camp, once home to 80,000 people, unearthed in Germany Interesting Engineering
Trump 2.0
How Trump Is Helping Price Gougers Exploit His Tariffs The Lever
Here’s the real kick about how Trump’s tariffs are going to hike prices for everything: Once that happens, even if the tariffs go away, the prices are never, ever going back down again.
— David DeWitt (@DC_DeWitt) April 2, 2025
First shockwaves of Trump’s tariffs are about to hit the world economy Yahoo! Finance
Threat to US Exceptionalism Spurs Rush for Emerging Local Bonds Bloomberg
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After remarkable Supreme Court rebuke, Trump administration slams ‘meritless litigation’ Politico
How judges can hold Trump admin accountable for defying court orders Axios
COURTS ARE USEFUL, BUT WE CANNOT DEPEND ON THEM TO SAVE DEMOCRACY LPE Project
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Cucks vs. breeders Read Max. “On the animating fetishes of the Trump administration.”
DOGE
Downward DOGE: Elon Musk keeps revising cost-trimming goals in a familiar pattern The Register
DOGE is red tape Can We Still Govern?
In the long-run, even cuts to STEM funding are very good. Top STEM researchers belong in industry, not academia.
— Bryan Caplan (@bryan_caplan) April 17, 2025
SignalGate 2.0
Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat New York Times
Just to quickly review some of the timeline: heat on Hegseth, owner of a Crusader cross tattoo, largely originated back in January with a Jewish Insider piece charging that his allies in the Pentagon were not supportive enough of war with Iran:
Jewish Insider called Caldwell a “leading opponent of traditional Republican foreign policy who advocates for a vastly reduced U.S. presence in the Middle East.” https://t.co/ivTgkQyztc pic.twitter.com/8UvzgqAuug
— Jacob N. Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) April 15, 2025
On March 24 SignalGate 1.0 breaks. On April 15, Dan Caldwell, senior adviser to Hegseth, and others fall.
The Israel lobby call for firing the leakers is from Jewish Insider, an Israeli cutout leading the attack on restrainer/realist Trump personnel opposed to war on Iran
Dan Caldwell, who was recently forced out of the Pentagon, has been a key target https://t.co/9WyAzTAKSV
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) April 17, 2025
Caldwell, 2 others sacked at DoD fight back in fiery joint statement Responsible Statecraft. “At this time, we still have not been told what exactly we were investigated for, if there is still an active investigation, or if there was even a real investigation of “leaks” to begin with.”
Now we have SignalGate 2.0, and Hegseth taking heavy fire.
Former Top Pentagon Spokesperson Details ‘Month From Hell’ Inside the Agency Politico. John Ullyot, “a longtime backer” of Hegseth, with the knife in the back.
At least Pete is having fun while it lasts:
Hegseth wife probably just texted back “that’s so cool, glad you are having fun” pic.twitter.com/nblPHInckK
— Matt Bruenig (@MattBruenig) April 20, 2025
Police State Watch
US citizen wrongfully arrested by border patrol in Arizona held for nearly 10 days The Guardian
ICE Plans Central Database of Health, Labor, Housing Agency Data to Find Targets 404 Media
Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it’s horrifying The Register
AI
Famed AI researcher launches controversial startup to replace all human workers everywhere TechCrunch
Groves of Academe
ENDING 30 YEARS OF RESISTANCE, TRUMP AND ABBOTT BREAK THE ‘PEOPLE’S HOUSE’ Texas Observer
Imperial Collapse Watch
US spending on war vs. diplomacy Polygraph
The Friendly Skies
Airbus Promised a Green Aircraft. That Promise Is Now Unraveling. WSJ
Astro Mechanica Raises $27.1M for Supersonic Flight Tectonic
The Bezzle
The Galaxy Brains of the Trump White House Want to Use Tariffs to Buy Bitcoin The Intercept
Guillotine Watch
The fury at ‘America’s Most Powerful’ Blood in the Machine
Antitrust
Monopoly Round-Up: Monopolies and Fascism BIG by Matt Stoller
Class Warfare
The bastards of neoliberalism The New Statesman. “The eccentrics of the new right aren’t rebelling against our political regime – they are its twisted successors.”
Palestine, College ‘Marxism’ and the Morbid Dialectics of Social Media Rootless Cosmopolitan
Spiritual Women of the Wilderness New Lines Magazine
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
Pallid Gotta Win Man
(melody borrowed from Ballad Of A Thin Man written by Bob Dylan, in 1965.)
Donnie Trump must assume his delinquent demands
Repeatedly stated, makes nations pay what they can
He threatens harm if there’s no cash in hand
“Call me back today on my throne!”
He wants nations living in fear as this big blue planet spins
Skull and femur bones . . .
You’re no thoroughbred, and you’re no kind of whiz
You disappoint your crew when you say, “More fizz!”
Your bulging waistline makes ’em wonder if you’ll live
Then you say, “Hey, Elon, can you spare me a loan?”
Now I hear an orchestra of tiny violins
Skull and femur bones . . .
None of this is quite cricket, but you still have your clique
Though your team doesn’t know what to do, which they tend to leak
They compare The Art Of The Deal with this orange antique
Who’s so irresponsible what comes next is unknown
A toddler who’s learning to steer and who only wants to win
Skull and femur bones . . .
Ask your Cabinet of quacks—how’s a tariff not a tax?
A sales tax to every shopper in our nation?
Now all global trade has been wrecked; supply chains that no longer connect
Profits we can never collect—with stocks dysfunctional, driving us deep in stagflation
Ah, all your tariff endeavors mean that Main Street will stay cooked
Bankrupt employers and those hungry mobs underfoot
Your Executive Orders is all that it ever took
While DOGE cuts our state to the bone
We won’t last through this fiscal year; you have ruined every biz
Skull and femur bones . . .
All your cult followers, doncha know that they’re skippin’ meals?
They’re afraid for their health, and now they doubt your ideals
You may still be the POTUS, you may still be makin’ deals
But they say, “What’s all this blowback? Where’s our stepping stone?”
You’re gonna wind up the King of a land where no one lives
Skull and femur bones . . .
Inflation hits double digits, shrouding the great DOW
There’s no strength or cohesion, farmers can’t plow
In a nation of has been’s you can stand and take a bow
Families getting tossed from their homes
You still want a war with Beijing, that’s your final mortal sin
Skull and femur bones . . .
Well, stupid is in bloom; solar panels are comin’ down
Elon’s blowing up rockets, and he’s too tightly wound
You’ll invade Panama, and then take Greenland down
You’re dreaming of infinity stones
But no one is kissing your ring, and no one will now forgive
Skull and femur bones . . .
“The Galaxy Brains of the Trump White House Want to Use Tariffs to Buy Bitcoin’
With headlines like that, sometimes the satire writes itself. Maybe they would do better putting that money into US Treasury bonds instead because with Bitcoin ‘Poof! Aaaaand it’s gone.’
Thank you, Conor.
For readers who speak French, they may be interested in potential successors:
https://www.cnews.fr/monde/2025-04-21/mort-du-pape-francois-qui-sont-les-papabili-les-cardinaux-consideres-comme-favoris
Mort du pape François : qui sont les «Papabili», ces cardinaux considérés comme favoris pour lui succéder ?
As a Catholic, I’m hoping for someone who will follow Francis’ positioning and accelerate reform.
It was disappointing to see officials surround the Pope over the week-end who look nothing like the 21st century Catholic Church.
Thank you. Colonel. The images in that article showed them to be verging on elderly. Guess they figure that if they mistakenly elect a reformer, then he won’t be there long.
Sclerotic Gerontocracy, wait, it’s not just US?
Colonel Smithers: Thanks for your list. I have seen Pietro Parolin mentioned more than once in articles here in Italy. Yet he is at the center of the administration of the Church, which may make him too much the Vatican insider.
The interesting thing is going to be the antics of the U.S. hierarchy, which tends to the dogmatic, puritanical, and greedy. I wouldn’t rule out some unseemly behavior from some U.S. divine if I were you.
What are the odds it’ll be an insane Nazi like Robert Sarah?
The pope must have found Vance’s visit seriously disappointing.
Probably true. The Pope might have been expecting somebody intelligent but got Vance instead. As proof, after the Pope died Vance said ‘My heart goes out to the millions of Christians all over the world who loved him.’
A quick Google search shows that there are about 1.4 billion Catholics in the world.
I think that number is somewhat inflated. It’s based mostly on inference and self-identification, which is somewhat problematic. For example, 52% of Spanish identify as Catholics, but less than third of them are practising Catholics.
So, given that the lower end of the estimate of the number of Catholics is around 1 billion, and practising Catholics is likely to be below that, his off the cuff remark is probably quite close the mark.
He may be boorish and ignorant, but I believe Vance is very intelligent (for some definition of “intelligent”).
Poor hillbillies don’t get jobs at Palantir easily.
So, you’re saying JD is more akin to a hillwilliam type?
Mt. Wilhelm?
Apropos of nothing, here are (some of) Vance’s investments from his VC days.
Maddeningly, Vance’s VC fund, Narya Capital, is named after something (a ring apparently) from the Tolkien books like Palantir and Anduril.
“It is described as having the power to inspire others to resist tyranny, as well as (in common with the other Three Rings) hiding the wielder from remote observation (except by the wielder of the One) and giving resistance to the weariness of time:”
Investments include Hallow, a Catholic meditation and prayer app, and a gene therapy company . I assume this will be JD Vance’s stake in the enterprise.
Naturally in hobbit land “Thiel, one of Vance’s mentors, is listed as a separate investor in many of the companies, per PitchBook.”
I made a similar comment to the earlier thread where someone announced pope’s death but it hasn’t made it through moderation (maybe too much snark!)
Liz Truss meets QE2; what happened within a day or so?
JD Vance meets Pope; what happened within a day or so? /jk
Maybe heads of state might rethink future plans for meetings with right-wingers who propose economic nonsense or are widely reviled according to the polling data. Such meetings don’t seem good for their health!
I was thinking it could soon become the more fatal version of the Zelensky meme about political longevity after being pictured with him. IOW, that ironic if morbid thought is going to be out there. We’ll know if it has really taken hold when his trips automatically induce the suggestion he be met with the same welcome he and his wife got in Greenland.
Either that, or he had a St. Simeon reaction as recounted in Luke 2:25-32. According to the story, Simeon was a righteous man to whom YHWH had given the promise that he would see the Messiah before he died. The Holy Spirit led him to the temple one day where he encountered Mary and baby Jesus. Simeon took baby Jesus into his arms and declared:
This song from the Greek bible is sung by liturgical Christian denominations every Sunday as the “Nunc dimittis,” the Latin Vulgate translation of the opening words of the song.
So perhaps Pope Francis, like Simeon seeing Jesus, felt he was ready to depart this life having met J.D.
Maybe the Pope misheard the initials J.D. and thought that he was going to meet the original J.C.
ex-PFC Chuck:
Indeed. Worthy of Alfred Hitchcock.
It seemed, though, that Vance spent much time carrying one of his kids as a prop and hoping to make his sour theology and pinched economics seem somehow human. (I recall Musk’s famous press conference in the Oval Office, holding J15-S22*, or whatever that unfortunate child’s name is.)
Now, though, newly minted convert Vance is likely to make some inept statements and involve himself with U.S. Catholic clerics who are only slightly to right of Francisco Franco. It will be a joy to behold.
*snigger*
(Come ON – I’ve made serious posts too today also…..and I’ll use the *allegedly* tag just to cover myself and the site. Plus anyone whose seen those TikTok vids knows what half the world thinks. I’ll keep my own opinions to myself. I only stoop to this level when the level is sooooooo low already thanks to the demonstrable actions of the people involved.)
Gooooooood Mooooooorning Fiatnam!
The platoon was given R & R for Sede Vacante while awaiting chimney smoke as pontiff indicator-along with a Vatican City police report absolving JD of possibly giving Francis serious agita that resulted in the Pope’s passing… and frankly we needed time away from the daily grind of what all too often passes for society norms limbo, how low can you go?
Somehow, I cannot imagine that whoever is elected as the new pope, will in any way be similar to the character ultimately elected as new pontiff in the recent film Conclave.
It is also a good book IMO and might be worth a read at this point. Lots of fictional details about the intrigue and the process.
Nanni Moretti’s 2011 We Have A Pope with Michel Piccoli, available on Kanopy, takes us within
the fresco’d halls of the Vatican as the vote counting for the new Pope is dramatized–Cardinals praying to be passed over. Piccoli is the winner! but he can’t see it so he flees his handlers to wander among his people. A shrink’s brought in to get to the bottom of this; but some hot topics are verboten. And then there are the Cardinals, sealed in together: what to do. Soccer, of course.
Is there any doubt that given the chance, we might see Pope Donald*, as blowback for Francis?
Make America Genuflect Again
And yeah I know that despite adoring the very same Sky Daddy, evangs and Catholics don’t really see eye to eye on anything except breeding.
The Institute for the Study of War piece is an interesting blend of evenhandedness and blatant propaganda. It actually cites Russian sources claiming Russia had observed the snap ceasefire over Easter called for by Putin. In contrast British media merely regurgitate Ukrainian claims that Russia violated the ceasefire on numerous occasions without mentioning Russian claims that Ukraine had failed to observed the ceasefire.
The article then strays into blatant bias claiming Russian forces had attacked and destroyed churches and killed priests etc. I have no idea how accurate such claims are, but I do know the Ukrainians have persecuted Russian orthodox priests and desecrated Russian orthodox churches and monastries as part of attempts to de-Russify Ukraine. Propaganda by omission as usual in western media.
You mean they claim that Russian forces had attacked and destroyed Russian churches and killed Russian priests. Uniats/Catholics are in Galicia, not in Donbass or Kursk. These claims go nicely with those of Russians attacking their own nuclear power plants.
Any update on what happened with the Trump administration possibly issuing a declaration of a state of emergency discussed in Friday’s article by Richard Murphy?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/18/politics/pentagon-dhs-wont-recommend-insurrection-act/index.html
For now, Pentagon and DHS won’t recommend that Trump invoke the Insurrection Act
Good news for the moment then.
“Cucks vs. breeders”
‘[Musk fixer Jared] Birchall was involved in acquiring the property for a compound in Austin where Musk imagined the women and his growing number of babies would all live among multiple residences, according to a person familiar with the matter.’
Didn’t Jeffrey Epstein have a similar plan for a breeding ranch for himslef?
Just sayin’.
Austin? That should be Salt Lake City, or the fictional spacecraft “LDSS Nauvoo.”
When you got more than 1 betrothed in the Zionsist movement, they call ’em:
‘Plural Wives’
It is said in such places that the plural for spouse is spice.
Is there a good way to discern if it’s actually the Israel lobby going after Hegseth, or if that’s just a psyop?
Seeing the above articles on the proverbial sh-show inside the Pentagon….one can’t help wonder if Mr. Secretary Pete Hegseth is over his skies just a bit in this role. Everything falls under scrutiny, for good or for ill. I had his potential departure being early if it wasn’t first.
It’s all seeming or appearing that DoD leadership is, quite likely the polar opposite of the famed Wooderson quote from the film Dazed and Confused …”alright, alright, alright..”
Thanks for the beautiful kitty! Very regal
If it wasn’t for the fur, it would look like a porcelain statue.
Bryan Caplan – no, top STEM researchers belong in the academia to produce public knowledge for the benefit of everybody, incl. industries, not only for one company patenting the inventions and earning monopoly rent. In fact, most important research and researchers should be in the academia to produce publicly owned vaccines, antibiotics, energy technologies and making stuff without planned obsolesence etc.
The “industry” can focus on things that can be privately own like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSqxH6uDkDY
For those unfamiliar with his work, Caplan is among those mentioned in the New Statesman article linked today. He’s one of the lesser/ milder “bastards of neoliberalism” in the piece, coming from one of the hive-minds of libertarianism, George Mason U.
I’ve got tattoos all over my skin
I’ve got you all deep in doodoo with me
So deep in my heart that you’re really a part of me
I’ve got tattoos all over my skin
I’d tried so not to give in
I said to myself, “This SecDef affair never will go so well”
But why should I try to resist when, baby, I know so well
I’ve got tattoos all over my skin
I’d sacrifice anything come what might
For the sake of havin’ war near
In spite of a warning voice that comes in the night
And repeats, repeats in my ear
“Don’t you know, illustrated fool, you never can win?
Use your mentality, wake up to reality”
But each time that I do just the thought of peace makes me stop
Before I begin ’cause I’ve got tattoos all over my skin
I would sacrifice anything come what might
For the sake of havin’ war near
In spite of the warning voice that comes in the night
And repeats, how it yells in my ear
“Don’t you know, little fool, you never can win?
Why not use your mentality, step up, wake up to reality”
But each time I do just the thought of peace makes me stop
Just before I begin ’cause I’ve got tattoos all over my skin
Yes, I’ve got tattoos all over my skin
I’ve Got You Under my Skin, performed by Frank Sinatra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1AHec7sfZ8
I had recently been thinking the opposite: “Imagine the Democrats nominating someone as aggressive as Trump, but in reverse, smashing the oligarchy to protect regular people instead of the other way around. Well, it happened: FDR. He ended the depression, won WW2, and was re-elected three times!”
Does that formulation make any sense? Inequality decreased a lot in the 1930s even before WW2 arrived. And while the war was violent, it wasn’t domestic violence. I’ve been wanting to look up or compute the GINI index changes before the war.
https://agr.wa.gov/departments/business-and-marketing-support/international/statistics
Top 10 Exports:
Rank Product Value % Change
1 Frozen French Fries $1.1 billion 2.87
2 Fish and Seafood $940 billion -12.32
3 Apples $845 million 23.65
4 Wheat $652 million -0.05
5 Dairy $564 million 0.96
6 Hay $485 million -12.26
7 Hop Cones and Extracts $323 mil 1.29
8 Beef $321 million -1.86
9 Fresh Sweet Cherries $293 23.14
10 Pulses $207 million 12.18
And these are the crops and farmers and processors and laborers that will be harmed terribly!
Top 10 Markets:
Rank Country Value % Change
1 Canada $1.4 billion 0.03
2 Japan $1.1 billion -0.05
3 Mexico $908 million 0.32
4 China $693 million -0.19
5 South Korea $508 mil 0.02
6 Philippines $377 mil 0.10
7 Taiwan $315 million -0.02
8 Indonesia $239 mill 0.17
9 Hong Kong $176 mill 0.04
10 Vietnam $159 million 0.01
tariffs will do huge harm to Washington exports
Here is some more numbers about the major drop in soybeans and wheat and exports to China from the US.
Not good. 8 min video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nADbVedF7xw&t=315s
“The bastards of neoliberalism” continues the excellent work Slobodian began with his Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36738613-globalists
Though he doesn’t reference it in this piece, one of the things which struck me most was how profoundly anti-democratic Hayek and Mises were — how they despised the nationalist revolutions characterized by the mass franchise which trailed in the wake of the (first round of) demolition of the European dynastic empires, and yearned for the aristocratic Austrian Empire of their youth. Is it any wonder that all the fruits of their academic works are so virulently poisonous to the well-being of working people?
Spa town spies: Czech church linked to Kremlin kompromat campaign Euractiv
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Growing up as a Bohemian’s Bohemian in the SoCalist Movement meant going to hot springs out in the palm desert, which always attracted those with some accent left over (1948 Czech immigrants) or heavily accented English (1968 Czech immigrants) and little did I know then, but it was as close as it came to a national identity-soaking in hot springs.
I run into soakers from the old country quite a bit in my wanderings, its what we do.
Russians have always been attracted to places such as Karlovy Vary, i’m not surprised with the spy connection…
You think that those Russians spies were trying to find out the secret recipe for the Czech national dish of Vepřo knedlo zelo aka pork roast with dumplings & sauerkraut?
In this war, the Czech government have really gone gung-ho against the Russians while the Slovakians have been very much laid back about the whole thing. Maybe it is just as well they split all those years ago.
I’m 50.0000364% Czech and 49.9999636% Slovak, and the former has always looked down on the latter, so you can only imagine the struggle.
Personally I’m half Scotch and half Soda myself.
I guess i’d be 1/2 Becherovka, ha.
The first time I flew to Prague in 1997, we were waiting for friends coming in on another flight and waltzed over to the bar where a 1/2 liter of Pilsner Urquel was a princely 71¢, hadn’t they got the memo about airport gouging?
My nephew greets us and I tell him about the cheap suds and he shrugs and tells me I got ripped off, as 1/2 liters at his favorite pub in town are 25¢.
Food and booze were equally giveaway cheap for awhile, I remember tasty restaurant meals setting me back $2 to $3.
On COVID and DNA Demethylation.
True, “Covid infection is dysregulating methylation”, but how? They have shown no DIRECT mechanism. Well, let me share one possible indirect mechanism; Viral infections cause nutritional deficiencies the trigger methylation changes. With viruses, the most relevant deficiency is Zinc. Let me explain.
“Tern” brings up methyltransferases, enzymes that methylate genes. These are the DNMT genes, like DNMT1.
It you look up DNMT1, you will see it has a binding site specifically for Zinc.
https://www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/P26358/entry
So, does a zinc deficiency lower DNMT activity? Yes:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28421879/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0946672X21000213
So if COVID lowers methylation rates, and zinc deficiency lowers methylation artes, is that not a relevant correlational study to perform?
IMHO, since Zinc is crucial to immune function, the effect of fighting off the viruses leads to a zinc deficiency in many people which leads to lower methylation rates. I have not seen one study that checks zinc levels before and after viral infection, and that is sad, becawsue we could probably reverse all the diabetes, cancer, and Long COVID caused by the infection.
“Editorial | Netanyahu Is Considering a Limited Strike on Iran – That Is Complete Insanity”
You know what? I say let them go for it. In fact, I give them my blessing. Tell them to hit Iran with all the aircraft that they have. But tell them that they can do it on their own. So no US tanker aircraft, no US EW aircraft, no US rescue helicopters – zip. Make it an all Israeli effort so it they get shot down the US won’t be dragged into that mess. I suppose it might be a bit different fighting a real war than just bombing helpless civilians and embassies but hey, variety is the spice of life. See what happens when some of them have to punch out of their aircraft and parachute into Iran a very long walk from Israel. But just remind them that Iran has just installed a new radar system that will let them see Israeli aircraft taking off right from the get-go and that their radar systems will light up those super-duper F-35s like a Christmas tree-
https://armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/army-news-2024/iran-deploys-800-km-over-the-horizon-radar-in-northwest-capable-of-detecting-us-rq-4-global-hawk
You’d think Kosher Nostra wouldn’t want Bay of Pigs-the sequel?
Not-So-Cold-War
The question of the day for some might be…what does Trump Team mean when they say they’ll move on and walk away from the Ukraine war if they don’t obey his commands and agree to stop fighting? Will he end support to Ukraine? Will he stick to walk away for more than 24 hours?
Will the military high command in the USA itself disobey the orders of Trump, as it did in the past regarding Syria?
I don’t think that Trump will ever leave the Ukraine. For him, it would be walking away from all that money on the table. That would be how he would see it.
It’s a thermobaric bomb. That’s it. I have never seen term nuclear used so many times in an article that has absolutely nothing to do with nuclear stuff. This comment is also non-nuclear.
I think that you are right here. The term ‘nuke’ seems to be there to push a few panic buttons, especialy that video clip of the size of nukes. Oddly enough as I was reading this article, I could not help but ask myself if it was more environmentally friendly than napalm. The mind is a strange thing – and some more strange than others.
>How Trump Is Helping Price Gougers Exploit His Tariffs – The Lever
Good piece on bad outcomes to a no-plan plan. After the prices go up, even for things not even directly linked to tariffs, they will not be coming back down.