What's Snowden up to?
>Her ice cream will melt in 10 days of darkness.
tell you what it feels like
erythrocyte, thrombocyte, leukocyte (from left to right)
https://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html
https://endpts.com/breaking-in-a-major-blow-to-vaccine-efforts-senior-fda-leaders-stepping-down-report/
In a major blow to vaccine efforts, senior FDA leaders stepping down
Two of the FDA’s most senior vaccine leaders are exiting from their positions, raising fresh questions about the Biden administration and the way that it’s sidelined the FDA.
Marion Gruber, director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research & Review and 32-year veteran of the agency, will leave at the end of October, and OVRR deputy director Phil Krause, who’s been at FDA for more than a decade, will leave in November. The news, first reported by BioCentury, is a massive blow to confidence in the agency’s ability to regulate vaccines.
The bombshell announcement comes at a particularly crucial moment, as boosters and children’s shots are being weighed by the regulator. The departures also come as the administration has recently jumped ahead of the FDA’s reviews of booster shots, announcing that they might be available by the week of Sept. 20.
A former senior FDA leader told Endpoints that they’re departing because they’re frustrated that CDC and their ACIP committee are involved in decisions that they think should be up to the FDA. The former FDAer also said he’s heard they’re upset with CBER director Peter Marks for not insisting that those decisions should be kept inside FDA. What finally did it for them was the White House getting ahead of FDA on booster shots.
FDA’s former acting chief scientist Luciana Borio added on Twitter, “FDA is losing two giants who helped bring us many safe and effective vaccines over decades of public service.”
“These two are the leaders for Biologic (vaccine) review in the US. They have a great team, but these two are the true leaders of CBER. A huge global loss if they both leave,” Former BARDA director Rick Bright wrote, weighing in on the news. “Dr. Gruber is much more than the Director. She is a global leader. Visionary mastermind behind global clinical regulatory science for flu, Ebola, Mers, Zika, Sars-cov-2, many others.”
In a letter from Marks to staff, he explained:
Janet Woodcock told Endpoints that she wishes Gruber and Krause well and thanks them for their significant service.
Dr. Marion Gruber, the director of the FDA’s vaccines office, will retire at the end of October, and her deputy, Dr. Philip Krause, will leave in November, according to an email that Dr. Peter Marks, the agency’s top vaccine regulator, sent to staff members on Tuesday morning. One reason is that Gruber and Krause were upset about the Biden administration’s recent announcement that adults should get a coronavirus booster vaccination eight months after they received their second shot, according to people familiar with their thinking.
Neither believed there was enough data to justify offering booster shots yet, the people said, and both viewed the announcement, amplified by President Joe Biden, as pressure on the FDA to quickly authorize them.
According to official reports, Marion Gruber, director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review, and her deputy director, Phil Krause, are set to resign in October and November.
The two published a viewpoint in The Lancet on Monday along with other experts worldwide, arguing, that, “Careful and public scrutiny of the evolving data will be needed to assure that decisions about boosting are informed by reliable science more than by politics. Widespread boosting should be undertaken only if there is clear evidence that it is appropriate.”
Gruber and Krause said they and other health officials are outraged that the CDC and Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) was spearheading decisions that should be the sole responsibility of the FDA.
President Biden’s chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci and others said available data indicated protection begins to wane over time and boosters were needed.
Gruber and Krause said they finally decided to step down after the Biden administration went ahead with a booster program starting the week of September 20 – without FDA approval and against scientific evidence.
https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/newly-discovered-borg-dna-unlike-anything-scientists-have-ever-seen
I haven’t been this excited about a discovery since CRISPR. We found something enigmatic that, like CRISPR, is associated with microbial genomes. We have named these unique entities BORGs.
>BORGs
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.10.451761v1
Borgs are giant extrachromosomal elements with the potential to augment methane oxidation
Anaerobic methane oxidation exerts a key control on greenhouse gas emissions 1, yet factors that modulate the activity of microorganisms performing this function remain little explored. In studying groundwater, sediments, and wetland soil where methane production and oxidation occur, we discovered extraordinarily large, diverse DNA sequences that primarily encode hypothetical proteins. Four curated, complete genomes are linear, up to ~1 Mbp in length and share genome organization, including replicore structure, long inverted terminal repeats, and genome-wide unique perfect tandem direct repeats that are intergenic or generate amino acid repeats. We infer that these are a new type of archaeal extrachromosomal element with a distinct evolutionary origin. Gene sequence similarity, phylogeny, and local divergence of sequence composition indicate that many of their genes were assimilated from methane-oxidizing Methanoperedens archaea. We refer to these elements as “Borgs”. We identified at least 19 different Borg types coexisting with Methanoperedens in four distinct ecosystems. Borg genes expand redox and respiratory capacity (e.g., clusters of multiheme cytochromes), ability to respond to changing environmental conditions, and likely augment Methanoperedens capacity for methane oxidation (e.g., methyl coenzyme M reductase). By this process, Borgs could play a previously unrecognized role in controlling greenhouse gas emissions.
>Hey it causes cancer but you should totally keep taking it because it’s FDA-approved.
Thank you Doctor.
Ooh, I'm not a doctor.
https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1439312268701863939
Are you under cover?
https://twitter.com/rothschildmd
The Vaginal Dehydrator
She said "You're not gonna cancel this appointment, you're going to the dermatologist."
"Yes dear, I'll go, I'll go" haha
>"You're not gonna cancel this appointment, you're going to the dermatologist."
and then just minutes later
>and then just minutes later
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/durham-s-sussman-indictment-bizarre-coda-doj-s-russia-investigation-n1279490
Durham's Sussman indictment is a bizarre coda for DOJ's Russia investigation
The Mueller Report spells out all the ways in which the Russia investigation was not a hoax. The only hoax is the charge contained in this indictment.
By Barbara McQuade, MSNBC Opinion Columnist
It is hard to see how the case Durham filed on Thursday against Washington lawyer Michael Sussman meets Justice Department standards.
Although making false statements to an FBI agent is a serious crime, the government must be able to prove each and every element of the offense.
Another clue about why this case is being filed is the amount of detail contained in the 27-page indictment.
>Barbara McQuade, MSNBC
https://twitter.com/BarbMcQuade
Wife, Mom of 4; @UMichLaw prof; legal analyst @NBCNews, @MSNBC; former US Attorney, national security prosecutor, Eastern District Michigan; @Tigers, @UMich fan
https://michigan.law.umich.edu/faculty-and-scholarship/our-faculty/barbara-l-mcquade
Barbara L. McQuade, BA '87, JD '91, is a professor from practice. Her interests include criminal law, criminal procedure, national security, data privacy, and civil rights. From 2010 to 2017, Professor McQuade served as the U.S attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. Appointed by President Barack Obama, she was the first woman to serve in her position.
Professor McQuade also served as vice chair of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee and co-chaired its Terrorism and National Security Subcommittee. As U.S. attorney, she oversaw cases involving public corruption, terrorism, corporate fraud, theft of trade secrets, civil rights, and health care fraud, among others. Professor McQuade also serves as a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Lawfare, Just Security, Slate, and National Public Radio, and she has been quoted in The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Politico, and other publications.
Before becoming U.S. attorney, Professor McQuade served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Detroit for 12 years, serving as deputy chief of the National Security Unit, where she handled cases involving terrorism financing, export violations, threats, and foreign agents. Professor McQuade began her career practicing law at the firm of Butzel Long in Detroit. Professor McQuade previously taught at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law.
Professor McQuade has been recognized by the Detroit Free Press with the Neal Shine Award for Exemplary Regional Leadership, The Detroit News with the Michiganian of the Year Award, Crain's Detroit Business as a Newsmaker of the Year and one of Detroit's Most Influential Women, the Detroit Branch NAACP and Arab American Civil Rights League with their Tribute to Justice Award, and the Council on Legal Education Opportunity with their Diversity Award.
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1439233861611819008
The Big Lie means the Alabama Secretary of State must seek affirmation from a deranged pillow salesman.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-former-mao-aides-diaries-spark-a-custody-battle-over-an-unofficial-history-of-china-11631698202
A Former Mao Aide’s Diaries Spark a Custody Battle Over an Unofficial History of China
The papers of party insider Li Rui were whisked out of China by his daughter and given to Stanford. His widow says they were stolen.
For 80 years, Li Rui, once a top aide to Mao Zedong, penned letters and diary notes detailing his long, topsy-turvy life near the center of the Communist Party. Before his death in 2019, Mr. Li’s daughter spirited the volumes out of China and into a California archive.
Now, “the Li materials” are the subject of a legal fight that pits Stanford University against Mr. Li’s widow in Beijing. It is a custody battle over an unofficial history of China.
For weeks after the strike, senior military leaders have publicly and privately defended the strike and the intelligence it was based on. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley told reporters the strike was "righteous." The Pentagon insisted that there was a large, secondary explosion that could only have been caused by explosives in the trunk of the car, and that secondary explosion was the cause of the high civilian casualty rate.
In the end, almost everything they asserted turned out to be false.
>boogie man
>Designer of AOC’s ‘Tax The Rich’ Met Gala Dress Owes Over $100K in Back Taxes, Accused of Being a Rent Deadbeat and Running ‘Sweatshop’ of Unpaid Interns
bravo
Capitol Locks Down Ahead Of Rally For Jailed Trump Rioters; Trump Voices Support
Rachel Maddow reports on security measures being put in place by twice-shy Capitol security ahead of a planned rally for January 6th rioters, for whom Donald Trump expressed support and solidarity.
"I can't think of another time when there was such a fundamental intelligence breakdown that actually a target that we aimed at and struck with precision, was actually not affiliated at all with anybody who threatens the U.S."
“Michael Sussmann, whoever he is and whatever lie he told, we released his transcript … There is a treasure trove of information of people lying under oath in these,” he declared.
Grenell posited that the original Russia-gate probe carried on past September of 2016 not because of “some lawyer [lying] to the FBI about who he was working for – because the FBI leadership knew this information was wrong – they continued the investigation because it would help Hillary Clinton.”
“Everybody in Washington: lobbyists newsrooms, a whole bunch of people wanted Hillary to win. So what did they do? They allowed this opposition research to become part of the DOJ and FBI. That is so scary to think that politics permeated into the DOJ and to the FBI. This is what we call political prosecution and when it happens in third world countries we call it out,” he stated concerning the false weaponized information that was widely used by Democrats in an attempt to destroy Trump.
Host Lawrence Jones pointed a finger at Biden National Security Adviser Jacob J. Sullivan who served under Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state and then advised her 2016 campaign.
“Sussmann claimed [evidence presented to the FBI] it was a tip from a cybersecurity expert who had nothing to do with Hillary Clinton, even though he worked for her. Total coincidence, sure,” he remarked.
“I guess it is also a coincidence that Hillary tweeted about it around the same time: Jake Sullivan … signed off on that tweet. Now, that’s significant,” Jones added.
Clinton tweeted at the time that “computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank,” according to the Washington Examiner.
https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/793250312119263233
https://twitter.com/SallyQYates/status/1238112571233894400
>https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/793250312119263233
Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.
>Biden National Security Adviser Jacob J. Sullivan who served under Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state and then advised her 2016 campaign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Sullivan
Nearly a third of the classified messages released so far from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s emails came from one man: Jake Sullivan, who served as her deputy chief of staff in the department, and is now the top foreign policy adviser to her presidential campaign.
Cheryl D. Mills, a longtime top Clinton aide who was chief of staff at the department, ranked second, and Huma Abedin, Mrs. Clinton’s close personal assistant who was also a deputy chief of staff, ranked third, with 27 emails sent by her that contain information marked “confidential” by the government, according to a Washington Times analysis.
Mrs. Clinton herself accounts for another 27 of the 186 marked messages that have been released so far, accounting for 2.3 percent of the 7,945 total that have been divulged as of Aug. 31. More than 20,000 messages are still to be released.
All told, 17 different people sent messages that now have been blacked out at least in part, due to classified information, which has become the focus of interest into the former secretary and current Democratic presidential hopeful’s email practices.
https://www.wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/752
To: Abedin, Huma; Sullivan, Jacobi; Valmoro, Lona J; Mills, Cheryl D; Reynoso, Julissa; Jacobson, David
Cc: De Pirro, Velia M; Sheaffer, Gary L; Breese, Terry A; Kelly, Craig A; Gonzalez, Juan S
Subject: FW: Conference Call of Friends of Haiti
Importance: High
7th floor colleagues: Please advise whether Sunday at 1300 would work for S; Canadian-led conference call with Friends of Haiti. Many thanks. Roberta
https://twitter.com/SongbirdTam_83/status/1439350639218368513
https://twitter.com/osler78/status/1438251751858130946
Today in Marseille, France: Police evacuating unvaxxed hospital staff - the unvaxxed staff are suspended without pay.
>Today in Marseille, France: Police evacuating unvaxxed hospital staff - the unvaxxed staff are suspended without pay.
>https://twitter.com/SongbirdTam_83/status/1439350639218368513