It would be headline news EVERYWHERE if it were real.
'Buildup for War': US Spins COVID Lab Leak Narrative to 'Pin Blame on China'
Ostensibly "bombshell" new leakssuggesting the coronavirus likely originated from a lab incident in China's Wuhan stem from a need to pin the US and global financial mess related to the pandemic on China, which is deemed a rising threat in the Washington establishment, international relations expert Emanuel Pastreich told Sputnik.
The US Energy Department and the FBI have alleged that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely spread "via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory," according to a Wall Street Journal report co-authored by Michael R. Gordon. The report cited a classified intelligence paper provided to the White House and American lawmakers.
However, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on February 26 that there remained "a variety of views" in the US intelligence community about whether the virus emerged naturally, jumping from an infected animal to a human, or escaped from a lab. Sullivan stated that he "can’t confirm or deny" The Wall Street Journal report on the matter.
The timing of the newly-resuscitated allegations has raised numerous questions.
"There are several issues at play here. The first is that the entire COVID-19 project and the medical and general policy enacted in the United States and around the world has increasingly been subject to question. A lot of the policies are now being criticized through all sorts of legal actions being taken. There's a need to try and pin all this on somebody. And China, the 'rising threat' in Washington establishment chatter, is a nice place to pin it on," said Pastreich, president of the Asia Institute think tank, which he founded in 2007.
"I think there's clearly a split within the establishment, the military defense establishment, as to how to deal with this COVID-19 crisis. Those looking for a solution ranges from those who want to pin it on the Chinese Communist Party, or who prop up the experts who say we need even more vaccines. And there are other people who are saying on the inside that this story is just not going to hold, that it has come time to clean house."
https://sputniknews.com/20230301/buildup-for-war-us-spins-covid-lab-leak-narrative-to-pin-blame-on-china-1107899842.html
>Looks like they want to set precendent of quarantine and forced treatment
In their defense, TB is actually highly contagious and dangerous/incurable. It poses real danger to healthy people.
Protocols in place for healthcare workers and/or visitors maybe. I recall getting the TB test when I went to boot camp in the early 90's. They told us that, if anyone in the room (auditorium) tested positive for TB, we would all be discharged. There were probably a couple hundred people in the auditorium at the time.
I listened but I can't recall a single word that she said.
What time is it on the moon? Europe and others push for a standard lunar time zone
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — With more lunar missions than ever on the horizon, the European Space Agency wants to give the moon its own time zone.
This week, the agency said space organizations around the world are considering how best to keep time on the moon. The idea came up during a meeting in the Netherlands late last year, with participants agreeing on the urgent need to establish “a common lunar reference time,” said the space agency’s Pietro Giordano, a navigation system engineer.
“A joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this,” Giordano said in a statement.
For now, a moon mission runs on the time of the country that is operating the spacecraft. European space officials said an internationally accepted lunar time zone would make it easier for everyone, especially as more countries and even private companies aim for the moon and NASA gets set to send astronauts there again.
NASA had to grapple with the time question while designing and building the International Space Station, which is fast approaching the 25th anniversary of the launch of its first piece.
While the space station doesn’t have its own time zone, it runs on Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC, which is meticulously based on atomic clocks. That helps to split the time difference between NASA and the Canadian Space Agency, and the other partnering space programs in Russia, Japan and Europe.
The international team looking into lunar time is debating whether a single organization should set and maintain time on the moon, according to the European Space Agency.
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https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-03-01/moon-standardized-lunar-time-zone
>==People seemingly Don’t know what the work “likely” means=
Ford wants to allow your car to lock you out — and even drive itself to an impound lot or scrapyard — if you miss payments
Ford wants to patent a system that would let cars repossess themselves if drivers miss payments.
At first, the cars would lose the use of features like GPS, air conditioning, and the radio.
If the owner still skips payments, the car could lock them out and drive itself to a repo agency or even a scrapyard.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-patent-cars-repossess-themselves-drive-away-if-missing-payments-2023-2
Scientists Find Cure For Stephen Hawking's Disease (ALS, aka Lou Gehrig's Disease)
Russian scientists from the National Research University ‘Belgorod State University’ (BelSU), as part of an international research team, have demonstrated the effectiveness of treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with a bioavailable derivative of vitamin B1.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurological disease characterized by rapid degeneration. The most famous patient suffering from this disease was the English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
According to the WHO, the incidence of this disease is 2.5 cases per 100,000 people, which means that in Russia there are approximately 7,500 patients. There are hereditary forms of the disease, when the descendants inherit the "broken" gene from their parents. There is also a non-hereditary form of the disease, where the risk is roughly 1 in 300 and increases with age (the most at-risk being men, military personnel, smokers and handball players).
Researchers from the National Research University "Belgorod State University" (BelSU) have shown that the drugs at present used to treat ALS prolong patients' lives by only two to three months. As part of an international team of scientists, they conducted research on an animal model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis created in Russia - FUS transgenic mice.
These mice develop the same symptoms of the disease as humans, and without treatment, they die of paralysis at the age of four months. The model created by scientists makes it possible to study drugs which are showing promise without traumatizing patients.
The scientists' experiments on transgenic mice have confirmed that the treatment reduced levels of inflammatory signaling molecules in the spinal cord. The study results were published in the peer-reviewed medical journal Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy.
"We have found that the studiedbioavailable vitamin B1 derivative (O,S-Dibenzoyl Thiamine), which is a powerful antioxidant, showed efficacy against ALS in transgenic mice. The mice that received the treatment showed greater mobility, less weight loss, and less brain damage," Alexei Deikin, Associate Professor at the BelSU Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Director of the Joint Center for Genetic Technologies, told Sputnik.
https://sputniknews.com/20230301/scientists-find-cure-for-stephen-hawkings-disease-1107904108.html
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Bird flu HAS mutated to infect people: Fresh pandemic fears as scientists on ground zero in Cambodia find H5N1 strain that killed 11-year-old girl had evolved to infect human cells better
Scientists on the ground who made the find said it was of the 'utmost concern'
11-year-old girl from Prey Veng province became the world's first victim this year
A bird flu strain that claimed the life of a girl in Cambodia has evolved to better infect human cells, in a worrying sign.
Scientists on the ground who made the discovery said the finding 'needs to be treated with the utmost concern'.
They added that there were 'some indications' that the virus had already gone through a human based on the new mutations.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11807961/H5N1-bird-flu-mutated-infect-people-scientists-ground-zero-Cambodia-say.html