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TIL that In 1971, the crew of Apollo 15 left a tiny statue on the moon called Fallen Astronaut, alongside a plaque listing the names of 14 astronauts and cosmonauts who had died. It remains the only memorial to lost space explorers on the moon, silently honoring their sacrifice.
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From the todayilearned community on Reddit: TIL that In 1971, the crew of Apollo 15 left a tiny statue on the moon called Fallen…
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Forwarded from I Fucking Hate Science (late empire mindset)
>In December 2014, Axovant acquired rights to the drug intepirdine from GlaxoSmithKline. Intepirdine is a potential add-on treatment to donepezil. GlaxoSmithKline had sold the rights to Axovant for only $5 million, a very small amount in the pharmaceutical industry, because four clinical trials had resulted in failure. Intepirdine was Axovant's only product.
>Although no clinical development took place, Axovant held its IPO in June 2015 and raised $315 million, the largest biotech IPO ever, based on new phase IIB trials that were more promising. The lock-up period against reselling stock was reduced to an unusually short 90 days for hedge funds that showed interest in the IPO.
>In July 2017, Axovant announced that the results of a phase III trial indicated that the drug was not effective for treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Axovant's stock lost 75 percent of its value in a single day. It has been accused of being a pump-and-dump scheme.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sio_Gene_Therapies
>Although no clinical development took place, Axovant held its IPO in June 2015 and raised $315 million, the largest biotech IPO ever, based on new phase IIB trials that were more promising. The lock-up period against reselling stock was reduced to an unusually short 90 days for hedge funds that showed interest in the IPO.
>In July 2017, Axovant announced that the results of a phase III trial indicated that the drug was not effective for treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Axovant's stock lost 75 percent of its value in a single day. It has been accused of being a pump-and-dump scheme.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sio_Gene_Therapies
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The Vyne Ring or the Ring of Silvianus
Thought to be fourth-century, it is made of 12g of gold and comes with an intriguing tale. It was discovered in 1785 by a farmer in a field at Silchester (the Roman town Calleva Atrebatum), in Hampshire, not far from The Vyne. No one knows how the ring came to The Vyne Tudor house, but there it has stayed.
Moving on to the early 19th century, and, 100 miles away, at Lydney in Gloucestershire (once the site of a Roman temple), a small leaden tablet, also from the fourth century, was found. On it was engraved a curse imprecating woe on the person – one Senicianus – who had taken this very ring. The curse named the owner of the ring as Silvianus, and in the text he called upon the god Nodens, a Celtic deity adopted by the Romans, for help.
In the 1920s the archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler was directing excavations at Lydney. Aware of the tablet (now in private hands) and its connection to the ring, he asked JRR Tolkien, scholar of Old and Middle English at Oxford, to look into ‘Nodens’. ‘Did Tolkien see the ring?’ asks Dominique Shembry, house steward at The Vyne. ‘We can’t be sure, but he was clearly aware of its connection to the tablet and its curse.’
The ring comes with unanswered questions. It is engraved with a primitive face and the word ‘VENVS’ is inscribed on the reverse. But is it Venus? ‘It could be a lion’s head,’ Dominique explains, ‘or the profile of a Celtic tribal chief, wearing a headband of feathers, or perhaps boar’s bristles, which were a symbol of fertility and strength. The ring is large, a modern size T, so it must have been worn on the thumb, or over a glove.’
What is known is that the curse clearly failed: Silvianus never had his piece returned. Yet the tale of a ring and a curse, thanks to Tolkien, lives on.
Thought to be fourth-century, it is made of 12g of gold and comes with an intriguing tale. It was discovered in 1785 by a farmer in a field at Silchester (the Roman town Calleva Atrebatum), in Hampshire, not far from The Vyne. No one knows how the ring came to The Vyne Tudor house, but there it has stayed.
Moving on to the early 19th century, and, 100 miles away, at Lydney in Gloucestershire (once the site of a Roman temple), a small leaden tablet, also from the fourth century, was found. On it was engraved a curse imprecating woe on the person – one Senicianus – who had taken this very ring. The curse named the owner of the ring as Silvianus, and in the text he called upon the god Nodens, a Celtic deity adopted by the Romans, for help.
In the 1920s the archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler was directing excavations at Lydney. Aware of the tablet (now in private hands) and its connection to the ring, he asked JRR Tolkien, scholar of Old and Middle English at Oxford, to look into ‘Nodens’. ‘Did Tolkien see the ring?’ asks Dominique Shembry, house steward at The Vyne. ‘We can’t be sure, but he was clearly aware of its connection to the tablet and its curse.’
The ring comes with unanswered questions. It is engraved with a primitive face and the word ‘VENVS’ is inscribed on the reverse. But is it Venus? ‘It could be a lion’s head,’ Dominique explains, ‘or the profile of a Celtic tribal chief, wearing a headband of feathers, or perhaps boar’s bristles, which were a symbol of fertility and strength. The ring is large, a modern size T, so it must have been worn on the thumb, or over a glove.’
What is known is that the curse clearly failed: Silvianus never had his piece returned. Yet the tale of a ring and a curse, thanks to Tolkien, lives on.
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Forwarded from Robin Monotti + Cory Morningstar
The truth about "polio" paralysis: it was DDT poisoning.
"The great expectations held for DDT have been realized.” Penn Salt chemicals advertisement. (Time Magazine, June 30, 1947)
https://dissolvingillusions.com/graphs-images/
"The great expectations held for DDT have been realized.” Penn Salt chemicals advertisement. (Time Magazine, June 30, 1947)
https://dissolvingillusions.com/graphs-images/
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Forwarded from BioClandestine
Media is too big
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If you were curious why Igor Kirillov was just assassinated, watch this video.
In August 2023, Kirillov outlined how the US and Big Pharma “rule the world” by “manufacturing biological crises”.
He also discussed how all of this evidence has been submitted to the UN many times, and gets vetoed every time by the US, because the US cannot refute the documentation.
Essentially, Kirillov found the paper trail proving that the US government, along with NGOs and oligarchs, created C19, and used it to generate trillions in profit for pharmaceutical companies via vaccine production, as well as advancing government overreach via emergency powers.
This is the reason they just killed him. He was trying to expose the biggest crime in human history.
In August 2023, Kirillov outlined how the US and Big Pharma “rule the world” by “manufacturing biological crises”.
He also discussed how all of this evidence has been submitted to the UN many times, and gets vetoed every time by the US, because the US cannot refute the documentation.
Essentially, Kirillov found the paper trail proving that the US government, along with NGOs and oligarchs, created C19, and used it to generate trillions in profit for pharmaceutical companies via vaccine production, as well as advancing government overreach via emergency powers.
This is the reason they just killed him. He was trying to expose the biggest crime in human history.
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"Mr Modi and his BJP are acutely aware of this. Their election manifesto in 2014 called the diaspora “a vast reservoir to articulate the national interests and affairs globally” that would be “harnessed for strengthening Brand India”. The next year the party’s general secretary said the BJP saw the diaspora as India’s voice abroad, “the way the Jewish community looks out for Israel’s interests in the United States”."
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https://archive.is/W6Eba
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Forwarded from Today I Learned
TIL: At age 17 Neil Armstrong was accepted into MIT but choose Purdue University instead because he liked the Purdue Boilermakers' Quarterback, and because his uncle advised him that he didn't have to go all the way to Cambridge to receive a good education
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No Meritocracy Without Nationalism
With apologies to Lee Kuan Yew: “In multiracial societies, you don’t hire in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you hire in accordance with your race and religion.”– Vox Day DISCUSS ON SG
https://voxday.net/2024/12/29/no-meritocracy-without-nationalism/
With apologies to Lee Kuan Yew: “In multiracial societies, you don’t hire in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you hire in accordance with your race and religion.”– Vox Day DISCUSS ON SG
https://voxday.net/2024/12/29/no-meritocracy-without-nationalism/
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Forwarded from Edward Dowd
Brownstone Institute has been tracking a little-known federal agency for years. It is part of the Department of Homeland Security created after 9-11. It is called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA. It was created in 2018 out of a 2017 executive order that seemed to make sense. It was a mandate to secure American digital infrastructure against foreign attack and infiltration.
And yet during the Covid year, it assumed three huge jobs. It was the agency responsible for dividing the workforce between essential and nonessential. It led the way on censorship efforts. And it handled election security for 2020 and 2022, which, if you understand the implications of that, should make you spit out your coffee upon learning.
More than any other agency, it became the operationally relevant government during this period. It was the agency that worked through third parties and packet-switching networking to take down your Facebook group. It worked through all kinds of intermediaries to keep a lid on Twitter. It managed LinkedIn, Instagram, and most of the other mainstream platforms in a way that made you feel like your opinions were too crazy to see the light of day.
The most astonishing court document just came out. It was unearthed in the course of litigation undertaken by America First Legal. It has no redaction. It is a reverse chronicle of most of what they did from February 2020 until last year. It is 500 pages long. The version available now takes an age to download, so we shrunk it and put it on fast view so you can see the entire thing.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-spies-who-hate-us/
EDWARD DOWD
And yet during the Covid year, it assumed three huge jobs. It was the agency responsible for dividing the workforce between essential and nonessential. It led the way on censorship efforts. And it handled election security for 2020 and 2022, which, if you understand the implications of that, should make you spit out your coffee upon learning.
More than any other agency, it became the operationally relevant government during this period. It was the agency that worked through third parties and packet-switching networking to take down your Facebook group. It worked through all kinds of intermediaries to keep a lid on Twitter. It managed LinkedIn, Instagram, and most of the other mainstream platforms in a way that made you feel like your opinions were too crazy to see the light of day.
The most astonishing court document just came out. It was unearthed in the course of litigation undertaken by America First Legal. It has no redaction. It is a reverse chronicle of most of what they did from February 2020 until last year. It is 500 pages long. The version available now takes an age to download, so we shrunk it and put it on fast view so you can see the entire thing.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-spies-who-hate-us/
EDWARD DOWD
Brownstone Institute
The Spies Who Hate Us ⋆ Brownstone Institute
The most astonishing court document just came out. It is a reverse chronicle of most of what CISA did from February 2020 until last year.
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The Azerbaijani parliament has warned Russia of potential deterioration in relations over what it describes as lies surrounding the downing of a plane near Aktau, The Moscow Times reports.
Rasim Musabekov, a member of the Azerbaijani Mejlis's international affairs committee, stated that an Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) Embraer 190, flying from Baku to Grozny, was struck by a Russian air defense system (ADS) before crashing in Aktau. "The plane was shot down on Russian territory, in the sky over Grozny, and it is impossible to deny this," Musabekov said in an interview with Turan.
Musabekov criticized the Russian authorities for their response, accusing them of attempting to cover up the incident through media manipulation rather than offering an apology or holding those responsible accountable. "Those who did this must be held criminally liable, and compensation must be paid for the deaths and injuries. If this does not happen, relations will undoubtedly take a negative turn," he warned.
The crash claimed the lives of 38 of the 67 people on board. Before crashing in Kazakhstan, the plane was reportedly fired upon by Russian air defenses repelling a drone attack over Chechnya.
Russian federal TV channels have avoided reporting the missile strike, instead attributing the crash to a collision with birds, which allegedly damaged the engines and caused an oxygen tank to explode. However, passengers, Western experts, and Ukrainian intelligence have all confirmed that the plane was hit by a missile fired by a Russian Pantsir system.
Rasim Musabekov, a member of the Azerbaijani Mejlis's international affairs committee, stated that an Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) Embraer 190, flying from Baku to Grozny, was struck by a Russian air defense system (ADS) before crashing in Aktau. "The plane was shot down on Russian territory, in the sky over Grozny, and it is impossible to deny this," Musabekov said in an interview with Turan.
Musabekov criticized the Russian authorities for their response, accusing them of attempting to cover up the incident through media manipulation rather than offering an apology or holding those responsible accountable. "Those who did this must be held criminally liable, and compensation must be paid for the deaths and injuries. If this does not happen, relations will undoubtedly take a negative turn," he warned.
The crash claimed the lives of 38 of the 67 people on board. Before crashing in Kazakhstan, the plane was reportedly fired upon by Russian air defenses repelling a drone attack over Chechnya.
Russian federal TV channels have avoided reporting the missile strike, instead attributing the crash to a collision with birds, which allegedly damaged the engines and caused an oxygen tank to explode. However, passengers, Western experts, and Ukrainian intelligence have all confirmed that the plane was hit by a missile fired by a Russian Pantsir system.
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💲🇨🇭🇷🇺 About $7.9 billion in private assets have been frozen in Switzerland as part of sanctions against Russia.
Switzerland will never again be able to claim the status of a neutral country and a country as a platform for any peace negotiations.
Switzerland will never again be able to claim the status of a neutral country and a country as a platform for any peace negotiations.
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