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Trail of Odd Anthrax Cells Led FBI to Army Scientist: Washington Post
Today’s front page Washington Post article by Joby Warrick on the Ivins case appears to present the FBI’s side of the story. I will post excerpts from the article and comment (in italics) on its inconsistencies. Abshire focused her lens on a moldlike clump. Anthrax bacteria were growing here, but some of the cells were…
How Good Is the Science on COVID Vaccines?/ AAPS’ Jane Orient, MD
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Saturday Night Live on the masks, the vacccines, the COVID schtick. 5 minutes. I loved it.
As someone said on Twitter (who I was not allowed to retweet) the Overton window has expanded. We can start to make sense of what has been done these past 23 months. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k6xroHtn-8&t=314s
The Imperial Presidency: Wresting $ power from Congress/ NY Times
Excerpts from the NY Times article titled, “Budget Chief Tried to Tilt Power to Executive Branch” by Matthew Bai: Taken together, all of these proposals would seem to represent a clear exertion of executive power over the legislative branch from an administration that was supposed to have been more deferential to Congressional prerogatives. Somewhere along…
CBW attacks in Syria and elsewhere: Proving Who Did It Is the Hardest Part
Identifying an attack with a nerve agent (organophosphate) is not at all difficult. The symptoms are characteristic: pinpoint pupils, increased secretions from all orifices, suffocation. They are the same symptoms experienced by agricultural workers accidentally sprayed with organophosphate insecticides. (I treated one such case 30 years ago.) This is said to be the poison in…
WHO DREAMS UP US FOREIGN POLICY? In Syria, there is no answer that makes sense. Has our foreign policy been privatized?
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Today’s front page Washington Post article by Joby Warrick on the Ivins case appears to present the FBI’s side of the story. I will post excerpts from the article and comment (in italics) on its inconsistencies. Abshire focused her lens on a moldlike clump. Anthrax bacteria were growing here, but some of the cells were…
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Saturday Night Live on the masks, the vacccines, the COVID schtick. 5 minutes. I loved it.
As someone said on Twitter (who I was not allowed to retweet) the Overton window has expanded. We can start to make sense of what has been done these past 23 months. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k6xroHtn-8&t=314s
The Imperial Presidency: Wresting $ power from Congress/ NY Times
Excerpts from the NY Times article titled, “Budget Chief Tried to Tilt Power to Executive Branch” by Matthew Bai: Taken together, all of these proposals would seem to represent a clear exertion of executive power over the legislative branch from an administration that was supposed to have been more deferential to Congressional prerogatives. Somewhere along…
CBW attacks in Syria and elsewhere: Proving Who Did It Is the Hardest Part
Identifying an attack with a nerve agent (organophosphate) is not at all difficult. The symptoms are characteristic: pinpoint pupils, increased secretions from all orifices, suffocation. They are the same symptoms experienced by agricultural workers accidentally sprayed with organophosphate insecticides. (I treated one such case 30 years ago.) This is said to be the poison in…
WHO DREAMS UP US FOREIGN POLICY? In Syria, there is no answer that makes sense. Has our foreign policy been privatized?
from What the demise of the CIA’s anti-Assad program means Washington Post Opinion by David Ignatius July 20, 2017 “What did the CIA’s covert assistance program for Syrian rebels accomplish? Bizarrely, the biggest consequence may be that it helped trigger the Russian military intervention in 2015 that rescued President Bashar al-Assad — achieving the opposite…