China: Researchers to Grow Replacement Organs for Humans in Genetically Modified Animals
August 18th, 2019Via: Bloomberg:
Recently, a Chinese startup named Qihan Biotech raised $20 million to develop replacement organs for humans. The smallish deal would hardly have rated a headline, except for the fact that the Hangzhou-based gene-editing company is aiming to grow those organs in pigs and other animals. If successful, such transplants could well transform medicine. And, thanks to a unique confluence of need, money, timing and culture, China is poised to lead the way in developing them.
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Xenotransplantation has since become a recognized branch of medicine. Heart valves from pigs, for instance, are commonly used to replace faulty human ones.
However, transplanting a complete, functioning animal organ such as a heart presents far more formidable barriers, the most crucial being the need to suppress or fool the human body’s immune response. China’s scientists have become world leaders in editing the pig genome to do just that. The hope is to produce organs that can help people with a range of illnesses, from heart disease to blindness.
Forensic Pathologist, Dr. Cyril Wecht, On Epstein “Suicide”
August 17th, 2019Via: Fox:
Trump Administration Shutting Down JASON Advisory Group
August 17th, 2019Despite relatively prosaic disclosures about the JASON group’s activities, most of their work is classified. I’ve always wondered if the main, and unspoken, purpose of the JASON group was related to the UFO situation. After World War 2, the U.S. government was definitely struggling to understand the nature of UFOs; their flight characteristics and their fascination with military (specifically nuclear weapons related) installations. My guess is that JASON was tasked with looking into this in some capacity. UFOs were such an inscrutable enigma that whoever was in charge of trying to understand the issue might have come up with the idea of drawing top scientific personnel from around the black world to consider it.
UFOs or not, it would be very interesting to know what the actual motivation is for closing JASON down. The Reuters piece below offers some explanations, cost cutting and personal axes to grind, but given the decades long links of the JASON group to the black world, these seem laughable.
Via: Reuters:
They’re members of a prestigious academic panel with top-secret clearances who’ve advised the Pentagon on some of America’s most vexing national security issues since the Cold War. Over 60 years, they’ve won 11 Nobel prizes and conducted hundreds of government studies.
The advisory group, known as Jason, is a team of some 60 of America’s top physicists and scientists who spend each summer in La Jolla, California, conducting studies commissioned by the Pentagon and other U.S. government agencies.
On March 28, Trump appointee Michael Griffin – the Pentagon’s chief technology officer – unexpectedly moved to terminate the group.
Research Credit: Pookie
Sperm Sorting Method Could Reduce Chances of Girls Being Born, Scientists Warn
August 16th, 2019“Like most Asian nations, China has a traditional bias for sons.”
Via: New Scientist:
The finding that some chemicals slow down sperm that carry the X chromosome could lead to gels for home use that make a couple less likely to conceive a girl, scientists have warned.
“I am concerned about the social impact of this,” says Alireza Fazeli of Tartu University in Estonia. “It’s so simple. You could start to do it in your bedroom. Nobody would be able to stop you from doing it.”
It was thought that the sperm of mammals that lead to male and female offspring are identical except for the DNA they carry. But Masayuki Shimada of Hiroshima University in Japan and his colleagues have found that 500 genes are active in sperm that carry the X chromosome, which give rise to female offspring, that aren’t active in sperm that carry the Y chromosome, which lead to male offspring.
Of these genes, 18 code for proteins that stick out from the sperm cell’s surface. The team has found that chemicals that bind to two of these proteins can slow down the movement of X-carrying sperm without affecting the Y-carrying ones.
This discovery makes it simple to separate sperm according to the sex of the offspring they could produce. When the researchers used this method on mouse sperm, they found that selecting the fastest swimmers for conception led to 90 per cent of the resulting pups being male. When they used slowed-down sperm, the pups were 81 per cent female.
Dayton Gunman Had Cocaine, Xanax, Alcohol in His System During Attack
August 15th, 2019Flashback: Xanax Link to Mass Shootings Confirmed Yet Again
Via: Reuters:
The gunman who killed nine people outside a bar in Dayton, Ohio, had cocaine, Xanax and alcohol in his system at the time of the shooting rampage, the county coroner said on Thursday.
Ghislaine Maxwell Spotted at In-N-Out Burger Reading Book About Deaths of CIA Operatives
August 15th, 2019Update: Maxwell Staged Photo
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Fascinating.
Book: The Book of Honor : The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives by Ted Gup
Via: New York Post:
Jeffrey Epstein’s former gal pal Ghislaine Maxwell isn’t holed up in her British manor or summering on the Massachusetts coast.
The Post found the socialite hiding in plain sight in the least likely place imaginable — a fast-food joint in Los Angeles.
Maxwell, 57, the alleged madam to the multimillionaire pedophile, was scarfing down a burger, fries and shake al fresco at an In-N-Out Burger on Monday while reading “The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives,” a nonfiction best seller by journalist Ted Gup.
Sitting alone with a pet pooch, she was surprised to be found and told an onlooker, “Well, I guess this is the last time I’ll be eating here!”
GE Shares Fall On Report That Its Finances Are Worse Than Disclosed
August 15th, 2019Bigger fraud than Enron or WorldCom.
Via: Reuters:
General Electric (GE.N) shares fell as much as 15% on Thursday after fraud investigator Harry Markopolos, who blew the whistle on Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, said GE was concealing deep financial problems.
In a 175-page report, Markopolos accused GE of hiding $38.1 billion in potential losses and asserted that the company’s cash situation was far worse than it had disclosed.
“GE’s true debt to equity ratio is 17:1, not 3:1, which will undermine its credit status,” Markopolos said.
The report says GE is insolvent and asserts that its industrial businesses have a working capital deficit of $20 billion.
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The report alleges that GE faces $38 billion in future expenses that it has not disclosed. “GE’s $38 billion in accounting fraud amounts to over 40% of GE’s market capitalization, making it far more serious than either the Enron or WorldCom accounting frauds,” the report says.
Epstein’s Broken Neck, “More Common in Victims of Homicide by Strangulation” Than Suicide
August 15th, 2019Via: news.com.au:
An autopsy that has just been carried out on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s body has only deepened the mystery surrounding his death.
The billionaire financier was facing up to 45 years in prison over federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges when his body was found in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan last Saturday morning.
Now, two sources “familiar with the findings” have told the Washington Post the autopsy found Epstein suffered multiple breaks in his neck bones.
One of the broken bones was the hyoid bone, located near the Adam’s apple in males.
And while that break could occur when a person — especially an older man — hangs themself, they are “more common in victims of homicide by strangulation”, forensics experts said.
Jonathan L Arden, president of the National Association of Medical Examiners, was not involved in Epsten’s autopsy — but he told the Post a broken hyoid bone would “raise questions” and that pathologist would need to investigate more extensively.
“If, hypothetically, the hyoid bone is broken, that would generally raise questions about strangulation, but it is not definitive and does not exclude suicidal hanging,” he said.
Interesting Speculation on How Epstein Might Have Been Murdered
August 14th, 2019Via: Reddit:
The NYPD Commissioner has always been a tool of the elite. The old tool basically elects the new one to make sure he will serve the elite also. The Commissioner is paid through various deals and through black money for his services. The Commissioner has a circle of generals. They are in charge of major departments and institutions, such as holding facilities. The generals have dirty cops and criminals in their crews.
So what he says probably happened was that The Commish or one of the generals got the order to kill Epstein. The order was passed on to a general in charge of the holding facility. This general had at least two guards inside the place who were apart of his crew.
Guard 1 is in charge of cutting the cameras. He cuts the cameras at a certain time.
Guard 2 goes to Epstein’s cell and places an untraceable sedative into Epstein via water, food, or force.
Guard 2 then strangles him to death and hangs his body from his bunk. Then he leaves.
No sign of foul play.
Ghislaine Maxwell Is Living in Massachusetts
August 14th, 2019Via: Daily Mail:
Ghislaine Maxwell, long-time consort of Jeffrey Epstein and the alleged procurer of victims in his underage sex trafficking ring, has been laying low in a New England beach town, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.
Maxwell, 57, is in a relationship with Scott Borgerson, 43, and has been living with him at his secluded oceanfront property at the end of a long private road in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts.
The British socialite has been loath to leave the $3 million mansion, a source told DailyMail.com amid heightened focus on Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators following the convicted pedophile’s apparent suicide on Saturday.
