Cara

For those interested, one needs the flush kind of niacin for the detox effects, not niacinimide or no-flush versions.

Okay, serendipitously, I am reading a new book by Neal Stephenson, extrapolator of social trends (see *Diamond Age* about nanotechnology and *Snow Crash* about corporate statehood and virtual reality) and explorer of deeper stories (see his *Baroque Cycle* about the life and times of Liebniz and other characters of the time and *Cryptonomicon*…[Read more]

In the pursuit of goals, some people pursue military force, others pursue (gold backed) trade – a mutually “trustable” starting point? Are they more certain of their gold’s provenance and authenticity than other players?

There is plastic in most water around the world: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/06/plastic-fibres-found-tap-water-around-world-study-reveals
Surprise, susprise, some plastics are flouropolymers and DuPont is involved:
“In 1938, polytetrafluoroethylene (DuPont brand name Teflon) was discovered by accident by a recently hired D…[Read more]

I used to take long haul flights every six weeks from South Africa (far from many places) to Europe, US, Asia, Australia for work. All were 10+ hours. After 13 years of this my body was kaput and I quit. I think that jet lag is perhaps more about radiation exposure than time zone changes. There is some non mainstream research that shows niacin as…[Read more]

“So, the anti-virus program identified files containing computer security exploits, which is what it’s supposed to do. That people viewing this information happened to be Russian hackers and they used it to identify files that might be NSA tools isn’t Kaspersky’s fault – except insofar as a Kaspersky protected computer still got hacked anyway. A…[Read more]

Thank you @callista and @bazgage, just what I needed for my morning

Thanks @ralphbee, interesting developments.
“To the stars”? Sounds a little too much like “Dancing with the stars” to me. How did they come up with this… my marketer’s opinion is that the name is a poor choice.
I see Peter Levenda is not listed here…. perhaps he has become less enamoured of the Tom De Long collaboration and has moved on to…[Read more]

Tools of destruction: drugs, housing price inflation and collapse, popular uprisings,… check all three for Spain…. next up Islamic jihadists & terror attacks (or perhaps these are continuous to “soften” things up)
Throw in oil / gas pipelines, arms trade, hedge funds and you’ve got a “winning” combination.

And so we “know” this is probably already being done…. I wonder if it makes us more or less like our genetic cousins?

Well, it’s about time something came up to besmirch the I-undercut-one-industry-at-a-time Jeff Bezos… he’s getting / is already very influential.

Thank you @freefall

No idea but it sounds kind of alchemical. More prosaically, perhaps it’s just poor translation from the local language.

Yes of course, we will ignore the inconvenient details of our own perfidity

They dropped the Mother of All Bombs in April – http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/04/13/517920/US-military-Afghanistan-mother-of-all-bombs
Guess where? In the eastern province of Nangarhar…. and Nangahar happens to be very resource rich but difficult to mine… the solution? Bombing
http://www.mines.pajhwok.com/news/mineral-resources-nangarhar-province

There have been one or two interesting articles about the *intelligence* of trees of late… here is another:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3792036/Do-trees-brains.html

No, sadly I don’t think so. I think he’s the sacrificial scapegoat, probably selected by them as most expendable (or he irritated too many of them).