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2024-04-12 07:00 by Karl Denninger
in Corruption , 413 references
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.... isn't that cancer rates are rising in young people.  That's expected given what else we know is going on.

Accelerated aging — when someone’s biological age is greater than their chronological age — could increase the risk of cancer tumors.

That’s according to new research presented this week at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in San Diego, California.

"Historically, both cancer and aging have been viewed primarily as concerns for older populations," Ruiyi Tian, MPH, a graduate student at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and one of the study researchers, told Fox News Digital.

No, what is infuriating is that nobody has done a damn thing about the obvious correlating factors that have been known for the last two decades and yet both are continually not only dismissed but in many cases "celebrated."

I am speaking particularly of obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes and the combination of seed oils and fast carbohydrates, the latter two of which are known to promote both obesity and systemic inflammation.

The hope is that these findings will lead to interventions to slow biological aging as a "new avenue for cancer prevention," the researchers noted, combined with screening efforts tailored to younger individuals.

Interventions is a fancy word for "more drugs" and "more affirmations" rather than what is actually needed, which is subtraction.

Specifically, subtracting out the bullshit that one is "healthy at any size" (you are not -- you are disgustingly fat and quite likely to become seriously diseased if you keep it up), that fast carbs and seed oils are "ok" to eat in any quantity and in fact can be peddled almost-universally anywhere you eat away from home, that so-called "heart healthy" and other "health" foods can be sold with one or both of these things in them (go pick up a box of granola bars and you will find seed oils in them) and more.

Diabetes Mellitus is otherwise known as the mother of all diseases -- and it is.  Insulin resistance is detectable for a long time before your glucose or A1c goes out of range yet fasting insulin is never tested for on a routine basis.  Cholesterol is a necessary thing and part of the body's repair mechanism -- it is not the cause of disease it is the result of systemic inflammation which frequently traces to insulin resistance and it is made in the liver by the body.  And what's worse is that statins, which are often given to reduce cholesterol levels, has as a documented "side effect" causing Type II diabetes -- that is, extreme insulin resistance that manifests as actual, current and mortally-dangerous disease.

Of course nobody will go to prison for poisoning millions of Americans -- say much less anywhere else in the world -- all because its ten cents cheaper to use a seed oil than something else in your product and it is also ten cents cheaper in the restaurant yet none of those places even disclose said content in their food nor will one single medical group or physician be thrown in prison for causing -- literally -- "the mother of all diseases" in millions of Americans.

Think not?  How about a bagel?  Yeah, I know, it has gluten in it, but many people have no problem with that.  Everyone, however, has a problem with this:

 

There it is: Soy oil.  Why is it used?  Its a bit cheaper but the safe amount of it to consume is in fact zero.

Ok, so bagels aren't good for you (that's got 45g of carbs in one, by the way, so there's your entire 50g low-carb daily budget blown with one bagel!) so we'll reach for the granola bars instead:

 

Oh, that's just lovely.  "Just" 30g of carbs and that's better than 45, but note the Canola and Sunflower oil so we're back to that problem.  Oh, and "contains soy" it says, despite not being listed in the ingredients so is the oil declared actually the oil present or did they stick a "surprise" in there for you -- or is it simply the Soy Lecithin?  Finally, note the bottom: Contains Bioengineered food ingredients -- what's that?  Good question but do note that these are claimed to be a "health food" and "good for you" unlike the bagels.

Leave the carb debate out of it: The seed oil garbage and their derivatives are highly inflammatory and IMHO should not be consumed at all, but essentially every package product food maker uses it because the FDA "blessed" it by considering it "generally recognized as safe" (that's a lie), its cheaper and products made with them are shelf-stable -- that is they can be boxed without refrigeration -- and this is far more important than whether it kills you over the course of 30 or so years since nobody is ever held accountable for all the disease, disorder and death that comes from it nor do they have to truthfully label said packages that they are all extremely inflammatory and systemic inflammation is directly harmful to your health.

Another example you're going to run into in virtually any restaurant, with no disclosure?  Right here -- note the claims:

Whirl is 65% lower in saturates than butter. It also contains 5 times more polyunsaturated fat and 2 times the amount of monounsaturated fat than butter which equates to being a lot better for you. Not only is it better for your health, it is also much easier to handle and cook with. It does not spit or scorch and is easily stored, as it doesn’t need to be refrigerated.

Oh really?  What's in it?

Soybean oil, Hydrogenated soybean oil. Contains 2% or less of Salt, Sunflower lecithin, Artificial butter flavor, Beta carotene (color), Yeast extract.

That's a trans-fat and the safe amount of consumption of trans-fats is zero.  Vegetable oils are hydrogenated to prevent them from spoiling -- which also inhibits digestion and causes both inflammation and other maladies.  They're a literal heart attack in a bottle and ought to be banned -- but if you did that half the "foods" in the center aisles of your grocery store would become illegal.  Saturated fat, by the way, is not the cause of heart disease, is not inflammatory and also greatly contributes to satiation -- that is, not being hungry.  We can't have that, can we, or you won't come back for lunch!

Never mind the same sort of burying the evidence in the pharma business, which I've got an article coming out on soon with regard to one specific example which I warned against some two years ago.

And yes, I do believe, based on the data, that the so-called "magic jabs" are responsible for part of this increase as well.  But not all of it for the simple reason that while cancer rates in older people had been declining for a couple of decades but have now reversed and are trending higher, and that inflection occurred starting in 2021 which happens to be exactly when the magic jabs rolled out the rate increase in younger people pre-dates that -- and no matter what sort of magical thinking you may be infested with something can't cause an outcome when the something hasn't happened yet.

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2024-04-11 17:17 by Karl Denninger
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Not "might be", ARE PERMANENT.

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From the Mayo Clinic:

Remarkably, 100 % of GD patients were under PB treatment including 9 patients (56 %) at the time of FP surgery, highlighting the widespread nature of PB intervention in this demographic (Table 1). Although sperm collection was suggested, all GD patients opted for FP surgery due to reluctance or inability to ejaculate. Two out of 9 PB-treated patients exhibited abnormalities: one had bilateral abnormal testicles with a lack of complete tunica albuginea, while another had a right testis that was not easily palpable. The remaining patients displayed scrotum symmetry with bilaterally palpable testes.

They could not provide a sample the old-fashioned "squirt it" way and two out of the nine had abnormal testicles on simple manual examinationnot requiring any sort of investigation.

For the sex gland study, we digitally scanned 400+ Hematoxylin & Eosin-stained donor testicular biopsy sections available in Mayo Clinic tissue registry. We analyzed testicular specimen with and without PB exposure. The histology results showed abnormal testicular development in PB treated compared to non-treated patients (Figure 2A-B).

The evidence is that these puberty blocks result in abnormal testicular development -- in other words they screw you to some degree on a permanent basis in terms of what would otherwise take place.

 For example, sex glands of a 12-year- old patient treated with leuprolide and estradiol (E2) for a period of 14 months had 59 % of sex glands fully atrophied with appearance of microlithiasis (Figure 2C-D).

Fully atrophied: Non-functional, presumably permanently.

Meiotogenesis is generally assumed to be absent in normal pre-pubertal children due to lack of sperm development. Remarkably, we observed spermatid-like cells across all juvenile stages, including newborns. The proportions of pre-meiotic (SPG 1/2/3, L/Z-SPC) versus post-meiotic (P/D/M-SPC, Spermatid 1/2/3) spermatogenic epithelial lineage reached up to 12 % of the total spermatogenic epithelium in prepubertal stages. In fact, PB-treated juvenile patient exhibited 7 % spermatids within spermatogenic epithelial lineage (Figure 3C; Figure 4A and Supplementary Figure S3).

We revealed a striking molecular clustering of pre-pubertal spermatid-like cells, challenging conventional assumptions about their developmental trajectory post-pubertal onset (Figure 3C). Furthermore, our analysis of significantly differentially expressed genes in pre-pubertal spermatid 2 and 3 compared to their adult counterparts suggests a potentially novel induction pathway independent of puberty (Supplementary Table S1 and Supplementary Table S2). This pathway leads to likely incomplete differentiation, resulting in the development of spermatid-like cells without subsequent sperm maturation and warrants investigation.

The presumption has been that prior to puberty there is no development of said sperm-generating cells in the testes.  This apparently has never been actually studied, as these researchers found that in fact these cells are found in normal pre-pubertal boys which of course means that the entire premise -- that you can't damage what isn't there -- is now known false AND WAS ORIGINALLY PUT FORWARD WITHOUT STUDY AND THUS WITHOUT EVIDENCE.

Note that this study has not yet been peer-reviewed but it points out what I have maintained since all this started: We do not understand on any sort of comprehensive basis the natural progression and interplay of all the elements in puberty nor do we have sufficient knowledge to know what happens if you tamper with it, even temporarily.

This study shows that said tampering is very likely to lead to permanent dysfunction if it occurs at the time when normal puberty would otherwise take place.  The promotion of these drugs as "safe" based on their use in precocial puberty was maliciously false in that it was promoted without a single shred of scientific evidence and now, based on actual study, we know it was false and the boys given these drugs were maimed.

I will point out that we know even less about the impact on girls given drugs for similar purpose because obtaining scientific evidence from samples is ridiculously more-complex and dangerous than it is in boys, since to do so requires significant surgery and attendant risks of permanent infertility or worse.  As a result it would be virtually impossible to obtain review clearance for such a study, particularly on the control side, except perhaps from those young girls unfortunate enough to die of non-disease related causes (such as a car accident.)  Again, there is no evidence that giving drugs to a pre-pubescent girl is benign in this regard nor is there any evidence that doing so does not carry a high risk or even certainty of permanent reproductive impairment.

This very closely mirrors my argument and, as time has gone on, facts have proved me right in multiple other areas of alleged "medical science."  But in this case we are talking about children who simply cannot give informed consent and thus a lack of certainty is simply not acceptable when the condition in question has no physiologic basis nor can the alleged "remedy" be successful as it is not possible for a boy to ever be a functional adult female in a sexual (say much less reproductive) context, and vice-versa.

What these kids are seeking, whether they legitimately feel this way on their own or have it stuffed in their head by their caregivers and peer pressure -- to be the other sex, to experience it, to feel it -- is physically impossible.  Telling them that it can be done is a deliberate and malicious maiming of said child's normal sexual life which they would otherwise experience when they reach puberty and adulthood.  This is as clear an example of fraud as one can find as that deception in fact creates a lifetime dependence on and flow of payments into the medical system.

This practice must be immediately halted and everyone involved in or advocating for it must go to prison for said permanent maiming and what is clearly sexual abuse of children for profit as the acts in question are aimed at diddling the genitals with no possible medical outcome that matches what is being either offered to or expected by the recipient.

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2024-04-11 07:00 by Karl Denninger
in Corruption , 394 references
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Who was talking about this nearly four years ago?

How vast was the Great COVID Cover-up? Well, my investigation has recently discovered government officials from 15 federal agencies knew in 2018 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was trying to create a coronavirus like COVID-19.   

These officials knew that the Chinese lab was proposing to create a COVID 19-like virus and not one of these officials revealed this scheme to the public. In fact, 15 agencies with knowledge of this project have continuously refused to release any information concerning this alarming and dangerous research.

"At least 15 federal agencies" -- and a crap-ton of private parties too right here in the United States, including at least one major university.

DEFUSE was not private.  Nor was the project proffered to DARPA (the same folks at Defense that invented the Internet's core protocols, by the way, so they could try to nuke the Russians back if they nuked us first) and which DARPA turned down as it was, in their view not only dangerous but violated the rights of others, including people in other nations, to know that their land and things on it were being experimented on and give consent to same.

May I note that it was not classified either, which is why I was able to find it on a public-facing server, grab the proposal along with the rejection letter, and read both.

Who went to prison when they did it anyway?  Nobody.

Nobody was arrested.  Not then and not when it was known they in fact did it because, a few months before Covid actually "showed up" in public discussion a technology transfer took place back into the United States, again, all public information, that contained the unique genomic sequence that Covid contains and yet the virus allegedly did not yet exist.

I wrote on all this shortly after the pandemic began as all of it was out where you could see it -- if you cared to.

Who exploited this?  Two firms, Pfizer and Moderna, both of whom used that knowledge in the formulation of their alleged magic shots.  Again, exactly zero people were arrested even though at this point, once Covid showed up, culpability for what was to become a million dead bodies in the United States and ten million or so worldwide was clearly in evidence and, as it would develop, was to become more than sufficient to sustain convictions up to and including the death penalty for literal hundreds or thousands of individuals who in some way profited from it and/or concealed it despite having a duty to the public.

NOW Rand Paul wants to bring this all up?

Again, where are the indictments and arrests?

Oh, does not Congress in fact fund all the agencies that are supposed to issue said indictments and prosecute said cases?  Why yes they do, exactly as they do for the entire medical industry that violates 15 USC Chapter 1 with impunity (that's 10 years in the slammer for each  person involved in same, which is basically every medical institution in the United States) and all those who violate 8 USC 1324 with regard to illegal immigration which also carries a 10 year prison sentence for each person involved in harboring, transporting or aiding any illegal immigrant and which, just as with the medical industry, has resulted in zero indictments over the last three or so decades or more.  15 USC Chapter 1 has stood for more than one hundred years and 8 USC 1324 has stood since the 1950s.  Both mandate ten years or more in federal prison (not "fines") for each violation and neither has been enforced against anyone.

There is zero fear in any of these people of being held to account.  Zero, which is why Covid happened and why the illegal immigration flood occurred as well.  It is the reason there are piles of dead Americans and the inflation that has occurred over the last few years is one hundred percent traceable to each and every one of these people personally and irrefutably., including every single member of Congress.

Accountability?

You won't find it at the ballot box, will you?  Both sides of the aisle are not only equally complicit they're both personally profiting from it and continue to deliberately and maliciously fund these acts.

Soap box?  Sorry, that's gotten no response either.

Jury box?  That would be nice, except you can't vote on a jury that is never convened, can you?

Again, as I've repeatedly noted -- this will not stop until there is a reason for those who do it to fear being held to account.  Not scorned or talked about, imprisoned or even, after being tried, executed because no matter how wealthy you are being imprisoned still sucks and being executed is still final -- therefore the fear of either of those actually happening is real and is a deterrent if -- and only if -- the risk is non-zero.

Today the risk is zero and until that changes nothing else will.

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2024-04-09 07:15 by Karl Denninger
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All major religions preach some version of it; even those who believe in reincarnation do, in that "eternal damnation" may not be quite-eternal, but it could involve coming back to live as a cockroach and being stepped on an interminable number of times.

Why?

Nobody has ever proved that to be true, you know.

My hypothesis is different than most: Those in power realize that, for every single person, there comes a time when its all you have left as a threat.

You see, "life in prison" is a pretty-good threat for someone who's 20.  That's a long time, isn't it?  All your hopes and dreams become that of living in a cage.  Or for that matter the threat of execution -- obviously, if you're 20, death right now is a pretty-serious threat.

But how about the man who is 80 and knows he has liver cancer?  He's dead, for sure, and there's nothing he can do about it.  "Life in prison" is a meaningless sentence for such a person, is it not, and even the death penalty means little to someone who knows they're effectively already dead and since we are all mortal this time arrives, at some point, for all.

Hmmmmm....  and while some people simply drop dread with no warning, most get some warning while they still have some effectiveness left.  Its the age-old "hourglass full of sand" problem; for nearly all of us we do not know how much is in there as the top of it is covered with paint; it is only when the sand is almost-exhausted that we know it is about to occur.  Some of us get seconds (or less) of warning but many get a couple of years or months -- and during some of it we're still more-or-less functional.

So what if you were an evil bastard and were concerned someone might kill you for what you've done but you also can compel them to "pay" for doing it criminally?  You've got trouble, because the man walking around with known liver cancer no longer can be criminally sanctioned if he whacks you and you know, in your own mind, that you deserve it.

What do you do?

You invent a means of punishing him beyond his death, of course, and since fear is irrational in a huge number of cases (witness all the Covid fear porn) you push it hard -- that he will pay in eternal Hellfire if he makes YOU pay in the here and now.

Now here's the punchline: He doesn't believe it himself, which is why it doesn't inhibit his assholery in the first place -- so if you wish to inhibit his assholery you must instill fear in him of the bad occurring for his deeds in this life.

Nothing else will deter him.

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2024-04-08 08:40 by Karl Denninger
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... dawns bright with blue skies.

Who knows what we'll have in a few hours, but right now, well.... it would be utterly ideal.

Bring on the doom porn; it'll be good for all of us if New Madrid, San Andreas and all the others rupture.  Oh, and rumor has it that the Yellowstone Caldera is bulging too, which could join in and seriously upgrade the party.

It is also rumored that throwing a virgin into a volcano will make sure the sun does not disappear forever.  During the time that was common we didn't have many politicians -- now we have a surplus and darn few virgins, so we should definitely try a few hundred of the politicians first, just to see if they work.

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