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The Man Who Wasn’t There
The ghost of Joe Biden haunts the Democratic convention.
rom the start, Joe Biden’s presidency has existed in a sort of limbo. So will his speech on Monday night to the Democratic National Convention, fittingly.
Anxiety that he was too old to do the job has dogged him since he was inaugurated, when he immediately became the oldest president in U.S. history. As his behavior betrayed evidence of his decline, the anxiety deepened. Ask a group of voters today who’s really been running the country since 2021 and they’ll respond with a variety of names. And after the debate debacle of June 27, Biden’s might not be the most common.
He’s the president, but he isn’t. Limbo.
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/biden-man-wasnt-there-dnc/
>Global Anti-Fascist Congress
Venezuelan President says 'fascism has failed in Venezuela'
Venezuela plans to convene a world anti-fascist Congress, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said.
"We are convening a world Congress against fascism, neo-fascism and other such manifestations and will invite participants from all continents," he said at a meeting of the ruling United Socialist Party and the Great Patriotic Pole alliance, which was aired by Venezolana de Television.
According to Maduro, invitations will be sent to "thinkers, intellectuals, actors, social and political leaders from Africa, Asia, Europe, the US, Latin America, and Caribbean countries.
"Venezuela will be a global epicentre of anti-fascism fight," he stressed.
He said that the anti-fascist forum would be held "much earlier than Venezuela’s Congress scheduled for October 18-20, 2024.
Venezuela's Parliament is considering a bill against fascism amid far-right group's attempts to stir violence and unrest in the country following the July 28 presidential election.
https://daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay?newsID=1219068
Bruce Lipton, PhD: The Jump From Cell Culture to Consciousness
My work was very simple.
It was to identify a single stem cell and put it in a tissue culture dish by itself.
The cells divide every 10 to 12 hours.
I started with 1 cell, 10 hours later there were 2, and 10 hours later 4.
Every 10 hours it was doubling: 4, 8, 16, 32, etc.
After a week, I had about 50 000 in the Petri dish.
The most important insight is that all 50 000 cells were derived from the same parent.
By definition, I have 50 000 genetically identical cells in my culture dish.
I grow these cells in something called culture medium, which is the environment in which cells live. In other words, cells are like fish; they live in a fluid environment. So what is culture medium? It is the laboratory version of blood. If I take the cells out of the body, I want to put them in a very similar environment, so I create a synthetic version of blood for the culture dish. Because I am creating a synthetic version, I can change the composition in my medium.
Now, in the experiment that blew my mind, I created 3 slightly different versions of culture medium, by changing some of the constituents.
I put these 3 different environments in 3 different Petri dishes, but all the dishes had portions from the same culture of genetically identical cells in them.
As a result, cells in environment A became muscle.
In the second Petri dish with genetically identical cells to the first but in a slightly different environment, the cells became bone.
Then in the third dish, again with genetically identical cells but a different environment, the cells became fat cells.
Now you are left with a very profound question: What controls the fate of the cells?
The conclusion was profoundly important.
It is the environment that selects the genetic activity of the cell.
This is profoundly different than the genes making the decisions as to what cells are going to be.
So, this is a pretty interesting story about cells in a plastic dish, but what the heck does this have to do with me as a human? The jumpy part is that, when we look in a mirror and see ourselves as single individual entities, that is an illusion. It is a misperception. Because the truth is, a human body is actually a community of 50 trillion cells.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6438088/
medicine blames you and your genes for your illnesses
when it is the environment created by them which makes us sick
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