No. It means that the company has provided the proof that satisfies the requirements for approving a drug or medical device. Just because the COVID vaccines were approved under extreme panic and corruption does not mean that is is the usual course of business. You might cite adalimumab (a $56,000/yr drug for Alzheimers that didn't work). That's fair. They approved it out of sheer desperation because so many people suffer and there is no treatment. They approved it for hope, but many do NOT get approved. Ever looked at the process? There's a reason it costs over $1 billion to bring a drug to market. There's a reason that 2,000+ page documents are common to submit as part of a NDA (new drug application). There's an enormous amount of information that is required to get FDA approved.
You want safety. This is what it takes to deliver. You want more safety? The price will go up. The barriers to entry will go up. And you'll be seeing the same sort of big corporate dominance. We collectively set the demands that created this.
How would you fix it? Spend even an hour or two thinking about this and you'll find it gets messy quickly.
She's nuts and what she says speaks for itself. She's hardly the first whackjob Marxist professor to go on a public rant like this after getting arrested for trespass, disorderly, or whatever else.
I understand the skepticism. I have no idea who Amy Mek is. I don't care. Like I said, the evidence of this lady's own words speaks for itself. She's talking as if education is an entitlement. It's not. She's talking as if these kids will be homeless if not in college. They won't be. She's talking about gov't money like a typical bureaucrat: use it or lose it, that is, there's no concept of trying to save money or spend it wisely so the taxpayer doesn't have to foot such a large bill in the first place, because in her mind, it's gov't money and since it's in the budget, it must be spent. Her words themselves tell you who she is and how she thinks. She's the kind of whackjob who's teaching kids pure Marxism.
In her defense, she probably hears voices like that in her head regularly.
Of course, these people never link to the actual documents. It's just clickbait. I'm not interested in chasing internet hype, let alone rewarding the jerkoffs who sell that crap with clicks and attention.
I know there's a lot of skepticism, but I happen to have a degree in molecular biology and a real interest in infectious disease. H5N1 doesn't cross over to humans much. When it does, it seems to be a one-off type of scenario and humans don't spread it to other humans. But the catch is that it kills 30%+ (varies from outbreak to outbreak) of the people it infects. That's Black Plague level numbers, and if you don't know the history of how it absolutely decimated Europe but also the Near East and Africa, you should read about it. It's society-crushing. It's totally destabilizing.
If I were one of these scientists, I'd absolutely want some sort of prework done on a vaccine. Anything, just in case the worst did happen. We're really just a mutation or two away from that happening.
Why a vaccine and not a treatment? Because of the way viruses infect. It takes only a few viral particles to trigger an infection, but once it gets into a cell, it'll turn that cell into a virus factor. They make thousands of copies before the cell's defenses kick in and kill the cell. The growth is exponential. By the time you ever start feeling symptoms (that is, by the time you're starting to mount an immune response), you've got thousands to millions of cells infected already. When you give antiviral drugs, it slows that way down, but you're already well into the infectious phase by the time you'd ever think to see a doctor and get a prescription for Tamiflu. The result is that no antiviral really works terribly well for acute infections like this. Even the best of them, which are most effective in the test tube antibody tests, reduce your course of symptoms by a day or two. Your body still has to the lion's share of the work.
The best solution is to prime the immune system because it's your best defensive tool. This is the thing that's going to save your life. Tell people to eat healthy, exercise, get out in the sun, sleep 8hrs/night, and reduce their stress (all proven to improve immunity). But also have scientists trying to anticipate this problem in case the worst happens.
And most importantly, we should have laws that specifically bar panic-driven medical tyranny. We should consider those things and what an appropriate public health response looks like before people's good intentions and general ignorance gets abused again.
Yeah. I was trying to figure that one out too. Nothing obvious came to mind. Perhaps it's meaningful to the person she encoded the message for? She's Venezuelan by ancestry, so I thought about possible Spanish interpretations, but my Spanish is too limited to try and guess without context.
I'm mainly taking it to mean that the tranny who owns the Pageant wants her to wave the rainbow flag and she's not interested - but of course it could be 100 other things too.
This is why I still check in with this site from time to time. Most of what gets posted here is crazy talk, but every so often, you run across a gem of a post like this. Really nice catch, Anon!
This is overblown. The Russian army is responding to a recent drone strike where Ukraine flew a Cessna turned into a bomb 800km into Russia and blew up a refinery. Yes, they're a lot like the 9/11 bombers, those glorious Ukies, aren't they?
Anyway, Russia has ~2,000 soldiers involved in this two-pronged push out from a town called Belgorod in the general direction of Kharkov. Yes, I'm going to use the proper spelling instead of the FotM Ukrainian version. I'm old school. Belgorod is a small city, but an important logistics hub right on the border that's been bombed repeatedly with the same sort of tactics (suicide drones onto predominately civilian infrastructure, crowded markets, buses during morning commutes, etc). Russia has responded harshly to several of these, including most recently an attack that left over 100 civilians dead. Russia sent a cruise missile for every dead body in against Ukraine's biggest city's electrical grids.
So, ~2,000 soldiers, lightly armed, minimal use of armor, are pushing out. Ukraine's ceding the territory, which is basically a bunch of farmhouses, in order to withdraw their troops to more defensible positions. They're still 100 miles from Kharkov, and Russia's not even close to bringing the kind of equipment and men needed for a real push. It appears to be a largely symbolic move, or a move designed to force Ukraine to further spread its forces along the 900km-long front.
Russia will grab whatever it can grab, and if Ukraine pushes back, they'll give the ground back and retreat for now. Right now, they're much more concentrated on clearing Donetsk province, and some of the heaviest fighting is in a town called Chasov Yar, just past the city of Avdeevka. Both were heavily fortified and major logistics hubs, so Ukraine's fighting for that ground hard - one of few places it's not just retreating for now to save lives.
My guess is Putin will secure the entirety of the four breakaway provinces, push up to the Dniepr River and re-evaluate from there. An assault on Kharkov isn't quite yet in the cards.
Niger is one of several West African countries that have recently undergone military coups d'etat. The elected governments were seen as puppets of the French and people there have simply gotten beyond frustrated with what they called neocolonial rule. These are typically former French colonies, French speaking, use currencies called the franc, which are tied to the French banking system, so it's a monetary control apparatus, a bit like how the dollar works post-Bretton-Woods.
Anywho, Niger's military revolts and seizes power, and they want the perceived colonial empires out, including the Americans. We have bases all over Africa as part of what DOD calls AFRICOM which are there primarily for anti-terrorism missions and humanitarian missions. None of these bases are terribly big or imposing, but symbolically, these nations want all aspects of control of their countries to be in the hands of Africans.
So, both the French and Americans have been asked to haul their soldiers tf out of the country, and they weren't polite about asking. Naturally, these are valuable assets that we didn't want to give up, and even if we did, we can't just pull up stakes and be gone tomorrow. Biden did that in Afghanistan. It was a frigging disaster. So, both countries have drug their feet complying.
Russia's in a much more welcome place diplomatically, and Russian army as well as Wagner mercenaries have been invited into a lot of these countries to provide training, securities, to buy weapons, etc. So, in this particular case, the Americans were basically surrounded and locked into their base, and Russian troops ended up stationed in the same base. They were forced together by the Nigerian (is that the right adjective for Niger and not Nigeria? :shrug:) gov't to try and get the Americans to leave.
This was the result. No one really wants to fight but a handful of election-stealing globalist nutjobs at the tippy-top.
We should have learned torture is a bad thing back during the Bush administration. The tactic itself doesn't yield useful information and does carry the risk of making you look like the villain. Honestly, these kids are usually dumb enough to talk quite freely if you just pretend like you're on their side. James O'Keefe proved that by honeypotting dozens of people thinking they're on dates to happily brag about the immoral crap they do for a living.
This is just cosplaying really. If the cops want to break this kind of thing up, they can easily do it. Tear gas that formation and see if they keep linking their arms while trying to wipe their eyes. So much of this garbage is dependent on the belief that the police aren't serious about intervening. These kids don't realize that the cops are usually held back by orders from above to not move in and clear a protest.
On one hand, there's an argument for public safety that gets made, since any time the cops move in, they have to do it with enough manpower to be able to effectively clear the crowd + reserve to make arrests behind the front line. No police chief would order cops to move in to a situation they felt they'd get overwhelmed by the crowd because of the risk of safety to his own men and to the general public if it touched off a broader city-wide riot. On the other hand, they've got woke blue city leadership holding them back as well because of their political sympathies. But the truth is the cops are well-funded and often have large reserves of military-grade tactical gear they can use from bullet-resistant vests to armored personnel carriers, as well as a whole panoply of "less lethal" tech.
These kids think they're being given training of some sort of value. It's a bit like the boy scout who just learned first aid thinking he knows enough to be a doctor or the kid who just made it through the first week of boot camp thinking he's a special forces operator.
It's been going on for a lot longer than that. This is a Jewish writer for a Jewish publication bragging about this. It's not just the current regime, this has been Uniparty standard for as long as DHS has existed.
In this case, just as it was in 1940, this is the smartest move they could make and will save many lives. Make fun of them all you want, but they shouldn't be rushing headlong into this fight any more than they should have openly fought the blitzkrieg in spring 1940. This surrender thing is a really dumb ass meme, frankly, especially if you consider the price they paid in WWI. Fighting a losing battle solely for the sake of belligerence isn't bravery or honor. It's just stupid and wasteful. Glory doesn't mean much for the dead.
Russia's not even close to using it's full military power in Ukraine. Everyone knows it. This is a pretty simple conversation. You put your French soldiers in Ukraine and we're going to kill them. We're very good at that. You know this because your mercenaries have found out how good we are at this. We let that slide because they were mercenaries, but if you put your Foreign Legion into this conflict, we're going to consider you to have committed an act of war against us. We will respond accordingly, and you know we can hit you.
It's a very simple conversation to have with any European country. Not one of those has the capacity to stop Russia if they determine to attack. None of them.
We probably shouldn't be making too many French jokes here. The Foreign Legion is famously well-drilled and is comprised of tough men and good fighters.
This is important because it won't make much difference. The Ukrainians are tough and brave fighters as well. No, the current batch aren't well-trained. They're trained in combat, and that's a brutal teacher, but the previous two armies (the original 2022 one and the one for the 2023 summer counteroffensive) were well trained by NATO. The training and equipment are not the missing elements here that will turn this into a success.
Ultimately, Russia has been very efficiently about utilizing its satellites and drones to give crystal-clear real-time images of the battlefield. They've used that to coordinate artillery, air, and missile assets with ruthless efficiency. They've become extremely adept at killing basically anything that moves within their range that's seen as "worth killing." Anything armored gets blown up instantly. Any type of major troop movement is instantly smashed. This is why the Ukrainians have resorted to small unit tactics, sending in men in batches of 2-4 at a time in a highly dispersed and decentralized way. The targets are seen as too small or not worth wasting costly shells, bombs, and missiles to eradicate. It forces Russia to send in their own infantry, leveling the odds somewhat.
Russia has adapted to this over the past many months with aggressive use of snipers and grenades dropped from drones. Again, they see everything that moves on the battlefield, so it's just a matter of bringing in the right asset to clean up whatever Ukraine advances with.
These French troops aren't going to fare better. NATO has operated with the exact same overhead surveillance capabilities, and with the best equipment money can buy, all the latest toys from the MIC. It hasn't been enough. These Frenchmen are going to walk into a buzzsaw of a combat-hardened, combined arms force that the Russians have assembled.
They're being sent in on a suicide mission. So, I have a tough time with the French surrender jokes. If they were smart, their commanders wouldn't even put them there. They're not prepared to fight this any more than any army in Europe was prepared for blitzkrieg in 1940.
Taxation is not theft. It's part of the bargain we make as citizens. Don't want to pay taxes, renounce that citizenship. Otherwise, I agree with everything you said.
The 20% are likely dual-citizens or people with divided loyalties. They're people who want to fly a Star of David or a Mexican flag instead of an American one. Elon's point still stands. Make your choice. You don't get to pick two.
These people honestly think they're very clever when they post stuff like that. They honestly think that's a 'gotcha.'
Yeah, but if you look at a lot of those self-centered jerks, they join the fraternity because they want to be better people. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. Like a lot of lost kids, they're looking for inspiration, for community, brotherhood, etc. They want a family feeling that they may never have had at home, especially if their parents were married to work or they were only children.
Lots of people join for different reasons. I had good friends in undergrad fraternities. There were the occasional d-bag losers like in any group, but most of it was just a bunch of guys looking to belong and to better themselves. My professional fraternity in grad school certainly had elements of that. All of us just wanted to be better people. We wanted to dedicate ourselves to something. We did a lot of charity work.
Don't crap on the frat boys just because some of them drink and party too much.
Eyes closed and not looking? Ole boys networks are still in play. These just happen to be non-WASPy ones. Congress doesn't look much more diverse.
Mentally ill, career women, want a man, but can't find one that meets their standards, either no kids and no man or too many kids and they're marrying Uncle Sam's welfare checks and screeching about the right to off their own offspring...
They're an expression of too much social expectation and not enough fulfillment. All the anger, jealousy, bitterness, and rage these people have just fuels their love of the Democrat plantation.
Understand that if you use a clickbait title like this, it's the quickest way to ensure that I do not look at your content and actively seek to ban anything further you'd ever produce. People who use tactics like this aren't serious and rarely if ever provide actual useful data. No, I didn't watch your 14 min revenue stream.
I would normally reject this kind of reasoning but he literally just met with Trump. They appeared together at Mar-a-Lago appearing to be in good spirits and friendship. I'm certain they would have discussed this.
Part of me thinks this was Trump saying "just go with it. The American people will be so angry and disgusted with the whole thing, it'll be like aerosolizing the red pill, so you can't help but breathe it in, no matter where you are or how asleep you might be." Trump's clearly playing for the working poor who look at this kind of spending and think "this should be spent here in America. They're taking the money out of my paycheck every two weeks for this sh...."
Cloud seeding isn't new, nor particularly controversial. Being able to encourage evaporation where water is plentiful and rain where it is needed is a helpful thing for farmers. Yes, I'm aware Dubai's flooded right now, but the typical use case of this technology is to promote rain over farmland, and it works.
I'm far more concerned with efforts to "cool" the earth by creating high-albedo environments to block the sun. That's potentially incredibly dangerous, depending on what they're using to do it - and it's predicated on a lie. At least with the cloud seeding, there is no lie. You do it when there isn't enough rain. With this, we do it because the gov't has created fake data by cooling the past and warming the present by abusing the urban heat island effect.
That's false. They were indeed eventually approved for adults. IIRC, they're still under EUA for pediatric populations, but for adults, they're official.