Which plants? The ones that make aspirin from their bark? The yew plant that gives a chemotherapy drug? The nightshade that gives us digoxin? The poppy that gives us our opioids?
Plants are the source for a very high percentage of the drugs we have on the market today. "Plant medicines" have already saved humanity - and they've poisoned quite a few of us to death too. This idea that "chemicals" is bad and "plants" and "natural" are good is toddler-grade nonsense and we have got to stop falling for such irritatingly simple narratives. The world is much more complex than that.
Violation of the Espionage Act. This material is classified, highly. Breaking that classification by publishing it online for our enemies to see, in this case, Iran, is a question of loyalty. Anyone who has been trained to have access to classified information knows this. It's why Bradley Manning got court martialed and tossed in jail for leaking classified info to WikiLeaks, for example. It's also why they pushed that narrative so hard with Trump, hoping to disqualify him from running if they could get a conviction to stick.
Edit: As with any claim though, if it's coming from a member of this maladministration or it's being "reported" by some Twitter sensationalist Paytriot who's making money off of engagement, maintain skepticism. Even if the report is genuine, the official is innocent until proven guilty, and has yet to even be charged, let alone indicted by a grand jury, tried, or convicted. This is quite literally weapons-grade rumormongering at this point. And it's being done because Israel is big mad that their nukes were officially confirmed and that their plans to bomb Iran and start WW3, dragging us into a 1400-year-old Middle East blood feud now have to be redrawn and rethought.
I have to say this as respectfully as possible, but this is the kind of post that is exactly why I wish people wouldn't do their own research. So much of what we learn requires context to understand. Requisite information is critical. This is why a lot of the secret societies have initiation as well as various levels of involvement through which you are taught a little more each step as you go. You can't hope to understand differential equations without high school-level introductory algebra, right? In this case, a background in organic chemistry is necessary to understand pharmacology.
Here (Wikiwand link) is a good explainer.
Piperazine isn't just one molecule. It's a class of molecules. It's a 6 membered ring with 2 nitrogens integrated at opposite ends of the ring. There are many molecules with various added atoms (called moieties) that are members of the same class because they possess this ring. They have some common properties, but vary based on the extra parts attached to the molecule.
In this case, I think you're looking for a specific on that Bayer used to market as an antiparasitic, specifically an anti-helmenthic agent. Look up helminths if you want to learn more about the specific worms called helminths that this drug is intended to treat. Again, there are lots of different piperazines and that link I left has a list of dozens of piperazine compounds, most with absolutely no anti-parasitic activity at all.
As for cancer, I'm cynical. Cancer is an extraordinarily complex topic and we read sensationalist headlines all the time claiming this thing or that thing causes cancer or treats it. Most of it is bull, and it's hard to sort that out without having some high quality randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials with a good sample size of patients. I know on this website, people are claiming ivermectin is the next miracle drug. It may be in very specific cases. I've read case reports like that, but I've also read larger studies that failed. The higher quality evidence points to it not working. So, it's important to be careful about such claims. I wouldn't chase down piperazine in Japan hoping against hope that it'll cure some newly diagnosed tumor.
As for finding it in Japan, you'll want to find the Japanese name for it. It was invented in Japan from a Japanese soil bacterium, so without a doubt if you search for the history of it in Japanese, it should have that name in Japanese characters. Then you can ask your local pharmacy. It became a political football in Japan over COVID just like it did here, and there are reports that doctors were compounding their own during COVID, which makes me think there were restrictions put in place on its sale, but trying to search on US search engines is absolute cancer for this kind of thing. Everything's scrubbed and curated.
This is the same "rare exception justifies the rule" argument as the left uses. Just because one baby has survived at 21 weeks doesn't make it the norm. At 23 weeks, there's less than 5% chance, increasing by week. In order for such premies to survive, you're talking high 5 figures, even 6 figures of care, weeks to months in the NICU, and often the child's quality of life is poor owing to insufficient time to normally develop the brain, lungs, or other internal organs in utero. No one ever assesses these risks or costs when making the conservative argument, let alone suggests a plan to pay for such things. It's one thing to take the moral stance. It's another thing entirely to be the person who has to come up with the cash to pay the bill and these women getting abortions often do it because they don't have resources to raise the kid adequately in the first place.
Charlie Kirk is a bright guy, but he's not particularly wise on this topic. He doesn't listen to women's reasons, because he takes a moral absolutist's approach. As a result, he's supporting policies that would bankrupt whatever poor soul ends up getting stuck with the bill for his charitable position. It's a major fault in the conservative position on this issue. We say we support life and then when it comes to pay for the diapers and the daycare, our interest dissipates.
It's 99%. The common exceptions: 1) rape/incest and 2) ethical preservation of the mother's life account for a combined less than 1% of the total figure. That's true whether it's the CDC's 62 million since 1972 or Guttmacher's 90 million figure.
These are ultra-rare exceptions. Rape isn't terribly common. It's even less common to result in a pregnancy, and the situations in which a young, pregnant mother has her life imperiled are even rarer.
As you said, the Democrats here are trying to argue the rare exception justifies the rule.
Who is the crackpot and what actual evidence does he have to support this claim? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. What he's alleging is that the US gov't is actively ordering weather created specifically to destroy our own country and our allies. It'd be treason to give such an order or to follow it.
These are the same people who believe in the "climate change" narrative that hurricane frequency and intensity are increasing. If such technology existed, why not use it to actually create an increase in the data. There is no such increase over the past 20 years. In fact, the Atlantic has been uncharacteristically less active.
We have no credentials for this man. He presents no viable explanation for how this is done other than to repeat internet claims about HAARP. He alleges treason, but doesn't provide either means or motive, and his allegation flies in the face of objectively verifiable public data.
So who is this crackpot and why are we listening to this guy's wild speculation?
For those of you who want an appreciation of the difference between settlers and the economic parasites calling themselves immigrants today, this is it. The settlers came to the backwoods of Appalachia and literally chopped their homes and lives out of these woods 300 years ago. They built it up from nothing. No free bus rides. No free food. No free health care. And they had the natives there who weren't at all happy about them traipsing all over native land.
When liberals say "we've always been a nation of immigrants," no, we haven't. These two peoples are totally opposite. And it's the ancestors of those settlers who are out there today with the chainsaws and the shallow bottomed boats rescuing people, doing the same work to survive that was done 300 years ago. Meanwhile the "immigrants" are looting.
This is brainless stupidity.
When you figure out how to control the path of a hurricane, you let me know. If you know how to make it make landfall and carry 11 inches of water 1,000 miles inland and reliably drop it on the poorest parts of the country, you're up for a Nobel Prize.
No one targeted North Carolina with a hurricane. The largest lithium deposits are out West and are being developed right now as we speak. And even though the news talks about this industry as if it is substantial in the US, it is not. If you wanted to make a real attack against the burgeoning semiconductor industry in the US, you'd target California and Texas, not bufu East Tennessee and West NC rednecks living in the sticks.
It's not a "lunatic" thing. It's an acknowledgement of trade-offs in medicine. Everything you do in medicine is a balance of benefits and risks. She's just applying the same logic to this.
In her medical opinion, preventing cavities and thus allowing people to keep their teeth longer, so they can chew and eat normally without requiring thousands of dollars' worth of oral appliance is worth the risk. Further, cavities also carry a risk that oral bacteria can get into the blood and heart causing some of the most deadly infections we know of. She wants to reduce that risk as well. For her, she thinks of the worst case scenario and makes the trade. That's what she recommends. Dentists do the same, which is why you've heard your entire life about the benefits of fluoride to fight cavities.
Why people on this site feel compelled to act like the whole world is trying to screw them and that there's some massive conspiracy that they teach in medical schools is beyond me. It's total horse crap, and it's a total misunderstanding of what the whole Q thing is about.
Out of how many total? The reason Nick Sortor's being called out as a lying POS is because he's a lying POS. The majority of the guard is here and will be used by the state to help people in need. He put out a tweet that said the TN NG is all overseas because Kamala and Joey Bribes cruelly deployed them in their moment of need. It's a lie and this lying sack of garbage needs to be called out for it.
We don't need Republicans getting spun up by fake news and reciting fake talking points that make us look like vindictive liars because we were stupid enough not to fact check grifters and asshats like this clickbait-farming hack. He's making money off of creating a fake controversy. He's getting rich off of the views and the social media engagement. We combat this by calling out his lies making his reputation reflect his actions.
Read the label. It says it kills some high percentage, but not 100%. Test it if you want. Use the mouthwash, then test your mouth a few hours later. You will find bacteria, plenty of them.
The issue isn't mouthwash per se. It's an issue of which mouthwash and which bacteria end up proliferating after you take out the majority of ones already there. This is a major problem. If you've got cavities, gingivitis, receding gums, or a bunch of other potential issues, a lot of that is caused by letting the wrong (fast-growing) bacteria take over and become prominent and then feeding them too well with ultra-processed foods and refined sugars which also supercharge their growth. The microbiome adapts to the pressures you put on it. Wipe out "good" bacteria in favor of the aggressive, fast-growing, sugar-eating, acid-spewing ones that wreck your teeth, and you'll get that.
Now, this guy mentions nitric oxide, which is not a theory I've ever heard, and I've certainly never read any paper that substantiates the claim he's making, but we know how this concept works in the gut, on the skin, in the vagina (this is where yeast infections and UTIs come from), and in the mouth. We need a healthy microbiome of bacteria. We're symbiotic creatures. But I will say this. I use mouthwash daily. I do not have hypertension. I'd like to see his study.
For a second there I thought they were describing Bill Nye the anti-science guy
Nope. This is just Bragg saying he's not going to try and appeal the request because he knows he'll be accused of election interference. By appealing and demanding sentencing now, it'll appear that he's trying to force the Republican nominee into jail at the height of a campaign. It'd absolutely sink his career. SCOTUS would overturn it in a heartbeat (because it is election interference), and it'd rally independents against the Dems. It'd almost certainly guarantee Kameltoe loses.
Bragg isn't going to make that error, so he pretends like he gives a shit about law and order, and says Merchan can make the call. He also knows that if Trump wins, then he can immediately call for sentencing and lock Trump up during the transition and gum up the works that way. He's not done yet.
It's an interesting thought. It totally rewrites the economies of nations that are net energy exporters, and we're one of those. It also rewrites Africa's history which has been deliberately denied energy for so long and still lives in the damn stone age as a result.
The rapid transport concept is interesting but spoken without any sort of context to cost and infrastructure. It may be centuries out if the infrastructure costs are big enough and the energy cost to operate it make it impractical for anything other than the highest value things.
I'm skeptical because we can't deliver a missile at such speeds, officially anyway, not even the ballistic ones. If we haven't attached that tech to nukes to threaten people with, the gov't isn't serious about it. And if some entrepreneur hasn't built it out to transport ultra-high value product, there's another strike against it. There's immense value to be had and yet no one's trying to corner the market yet. Imagine shipping ultra-time-sensitive things like radioisotope based medicines at that speed. It would revolutionize cancer treatment. Just one example.
If such a thing exists, few know about it, and no one's talking. Something like that requires immense personal character on the part of every person who does know and a consensus opinion that there's a damn good reason not to talk about it. We haven't heard the counterargument yet, why it's kept secret.
It's standard Leftist ideology. They view themselves as perfect as they are. They're victims, which makes them morally superior. If you disagree with them, then you are either ignorant and must be "educated" or you're morally inferior. You're a bad person. Thus, when they get power, they feel that they got it because they deserve it (because of their moral superiority and victim status). If you try and take power from them, you're the bad person. You're the enemy who's oppressing them and now, morally you deserve whatever they do to you.
Yes, it's a toddler's mentality, but Marx was an adult child, and so are the people who follow his ideas. The Left will NEVER give up power willingly.
Another way of describing this is that Vance is a man who can sense which way the political winds are blowing and who aligns his rhetoric and political positions with those which seem to be ascendant to power. In 2016, he aligns with Queen Hillary. In 2024, he aligns with Trump. What happens when the political winds shift again? Will he?
Vivek Ramaswampy is just as bad. No spine. No moral foundation. No principles.
NAC isn't much better than vitamin C for basic use as an antioxidant. People make a big deal out of it when a simple glass of fruit juice or a daily multivitamin will provide you with the same benefit for day-to-day health and wellness, things like cancer prevention, immune health, and that sort of thing. You may see glutathione sold for this purpose too. Same deal. Don't spend money on things that you're basically going to piss out into the toilet for minimal to no real health benefit.
I'm not saying NAC isn't safe to take every day. It's fine, but just understand that the function it does is also done by other things in the body. And if you're just wanting an antioxidant for general health, eat some fresh fruit, and save yourself the cost of the pills.
Lots of BS in these answers. Pharmacist anon here.
Sudafed used to contain pseudoephedrine (PS). It's a good nasal decongestant that shrinks the blood vessels in your nasal passages. It works well and comes with a few side effects you should talk to your personal pharmacist or doctor about when you buy it that can affect your heart. The downside to it is that it's pretty easy to convert to methamphetamine with household products, so the DEA decided to crack down on it many years ago in an effort to protect middle America from a raging drug epidemic.
The market shifted in response and Sudafed was made with a similar drug called phenylephrine (PE). This is where that PE comes from in the name Sudafed PE. PE is pretty awful as a nasal decongestant. Data are pretty clear that it does little to nothing, but it was legal and safe and couldn't be made into meth, so it was used. Nearly every cold medicine that had pseudoephedrine in it was remade and remarketed with PE instead.
The FDA sat on their hands with this for years, knowing that the PE was pretty terrible. Finally, they came clean and made the statement officially under pressure from pharmacists pissed off about what amounted to legal snake oil sales. When that happened, the manufacturers stopped making it because they knew people wouldn't buy something that didn't work, and drug stores stopped stocking it for the same reason. This is a good thing. You're not paying for something that doesn't work.
If you still need a nasal decongestant for 2-3 days, ask your pharmacist for Sudafed or pseudoephedrine. They'll have it behind the counter and be happy to sell it after a few questions to make sure you don't have certain conditions that would be unsafe to take it.
However, it sounds like you're dealing with headaches. Neither pseudoephedrine or PE are good at treating headaches. Again, chat with your pharmacist or your doctor and they'll refer you to something that will help for the symptoms you're having. It may be something simple like Aleve (naproxen) or Excedrine (acetaminophen, aspirin, caffeine), or you may need something prescription strength depending on the type of headaches you're having. Regardless, PS and PE do squat for headaches, so let's get you something that will help.
Disclaimer: this is a random poster on the internet claiming to have medical information. Talk to an actual licensed professional who can assess you personally, ask about your condition and medical history, and properly diagnose and treat you. Even if I am who I say I am, I can't work you up over the internet. Get real information from a real healthcare provider. Pharmacist consults are free, even if the doc's not.
And the fact that Laura Loomer is involved as the messenger. How tf would that lady have any insight whatsoever into the Democrat's inner circle? Further, how many times has she screamed stupidity into the ether for likes and clicks only to later be proven wrong?
If there's something legit, we'll hear about it from the MSM too. They want him gone more than we do. We at least want him around so he can keep embarrassing the Democrat party, driving votes to Trump. They'd much rather have him be able to bow out with sympathy, citing his health. It'll shield him from further prosecution, allow the MSM to paint him as a patriot, and then transition to the next figurehead. This is a very big issue right now. If there's something legit about Creepy Joe's health, MSDNC will be breathlessly reporting it.
This guy drinks way too much coffee... either that, or he's taking whatever they're giving Joe to keep him lucid during public appearances.
There's no such thing as "must read" that comes from the Cancer Pundit.
He's a QAnon paytriot who gets the occasional thing right amidst his non-stop stream of clickbait and sensationalist garbage. He's basically a digital Alex Jones.
The DoD currently has over 300 biological labs operating all over Africa. Look up the DTRA Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
There's nothing "new" in this "update" other than the fact that this time, it's Kirilov saying it. This is 2.5+ year old news.
It's a child-like mentality. Rights without responsibility. Reward without effort to earn it. It's a mentality that if one wants a thing, one need only cry loudly enough and someone will give it to you. There's no awareness or processing of the cost of those things or the need to trade something of value. The value of those things is the value of a toddler's toy. It's interesting until it's not, and then, if someone else has it, suddenly I want it.
The issue here is that we've got leaders and teachers who were so blessed by prosperity following WW2 that they never emerged from that child-like mentality into an adult view of the world. As a result, they just keep looking for new "parents" to provide, and thus, find the government, which seems to have unlimited resources and thus can and should provide them on demand.
If you've ever read the personal life and history of Karl Marx, it's really eye opening. The entire ideology is a study in the behavior and attitudes of a spoiled rich kid surrounded by other even richer kids and feels that social status symbols are what defines a person and their value in society. It's a toddler's world view and he was placated his entire life with people who would pay for his every whim. He thinks the entire world should work that way.
So do his followers.