Hey, who wants a gain of function bat research biolab in their back yard? Looks like NIH wants to fund 10's of millions into a Colorado bio lab with a "not to decent" history of leaks.

First I heard of it.


Plan to Build NIH-Funded Bat Research Lab in Colorado Sparks Fears of Lab Leak

https://www.technocracy.news/plan-to-bui...-lab-leak/

Quote:Colorado State University in Fort Collins is totally stonewalling public protest over its new NIH-funded biolab and bat research facility to be completed by the end of summer 2023. CSU’s horrible track record of lab leaks in the past should be sufficient to ban it from ever conducting or being involved with gain-of-function research.  ⁃ TN Editor

Colorado State University officials deny the controversial bat disease research lab will conduct gain-of-function experiments, but locals opposed to the facility cite evidence the university is already conducting risky research on deadly pathogens.


Colorado State University (CSU) is proceeding with controversial plans to construct a new research facility to study bat diseases with funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Construction is slated to be completed sometime in 2024 or 2025.

University officials and proponents of the new facility argue the laboratory is necessary to enhance research capabilities looking into emerging diseases and viruses resulting from zoonotic — animal-to-human — transfer.

While CSU denies that gain-of-function research will occur at the laboratory, some researchers connected with the new facility previously were associated with actors involved with such research, including experiments conducted in Wuhan, China.

Francis Boyle, J.D., Ph.D., a bioweapons expert and professor of international law at the University of Illinois, is concerned about the facility.
Boyle told The Defender:

“It is well known that Colorado State University has a long and ongoing history of specialization in weaponizing insects with biowarfare agents for delivery to human beings.
“This new lab will magnitudinally increase CSU’s offensive biowarfare capabilities, in gross violation of the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972 and my Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 that provides for life in prison.”

Area residents, including a local grassroots group, and bioweapons experts, also have raised concerns over the potentially risky research, involving deadly viruses, that will be conducted at the facility and the risk of a lab leak akin to that which may have occurred at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, and may have led to escape of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Water, the liquid that we cannot live without, is colorless and tasteless. It has no flavor, but comes with its own special way of providing pure delicious, satisfying, refreshment.

Yet it is interesting that most people prefer to forego the taste of water for drinks with a bit of flavor.

I thought this just a human thing, but I was wrong. When I looked up why dogs prefer rain water over tap water, it says dogs prefer rain water because it is free of fluoride an chlorine, and has an interesting taste and smell.  I have well water and and a whole house filtration system, my water does not have fluoride or chlorine.
 
I collect rain water for watering my plants and for washing my hair, but I have to beat my dogs to the buckets because they will completely ignore the filtrated water and knock me down to get the rain water.

So maybe they are trying to tell us something.

Great, now they are going to hit us with the ticks with a hemorrhagic fever which has up to a 40% fatality rate. If you thought Lyme Disease (named for Lyme Connecticut next to Plum Island, a former insect bourn vector biological warfare facility) was bad, now we are going to get some bleed out of your eyes tick infection crap.


Deadly Hemorrhagic Virus Spreading to New Countries, Scientists Warn

https://www.newsweek.com/disease-crimean...ng-1807693

Quote:A life-threatening viral disease has been slowly spreading to new countries, with locations across Europe, Africa and the Middle East recording new cases of the infection.


The disease, named Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), has seen recent outbreaks in Iraq and Namibia, and Pakistani health officials have reported two deaths.

The disease is also "highly likely" to reach the U.K., scientists warned the U.K. parliament's Science, Innovation and Technology Committee last Wednesday.

CCHF is a viral disease caused by Nairovirus, spread via ticks, that has a fatality rate of between 10 and 40 percent, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). It is usually found in low levels across Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and in Asia.

There have been no outbreaks in the U.S., according to a 2021 article on WebMD, a health information site.

Now, however, this disease may be expanding its usual territory and moving northwest towards countries like the U.K. and France, due to the effects of climate change. The U.K. has recorded three cases of CCHF since 2012, most recently last year, but they were all people who contracted the disease overseas.

A small victory against the Globalist but a short one as they will "rebrand" ESG and call it something like "conscious capitalism"


ESG rebranding (to "conscientious capitalism") underway. Pat yourselves on the back for making some progress.

PS: Larry Fink hates this attention, so keep it on him.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says that he's dropping the term "ESG" because leaders like Ron DeSantis have killed the brand

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/26/larry-f...d-desantis

https://notthebee.com/article/black-rock...-the-brand-

Quote:Larry Fink (yes, his real name is Fink) is the CEO of BlackRock investing and he has even recently admitted that his ESG plot is designed to force corporations to adopt woke leftist policies against their will.


He's changing the ESG branding because, according to him, it's been made political:


BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said he's no longer using the term "ESG" (environment, social and governance) because it is being politically "weaponized" and he's "ashamed" to be part of the debate on the issue.

Yes, the dude who wants to force companies to follow the woke cult or suffer thinks that the opposition to ESG has been weaponized.


Showing that turnabout is fair play, Florida under Ron DeSantis has led the pushback against ESG on a political level, explicitly making it law in Florida that state investments would NOT invest in companies like BlackRock and VanGuard that use ESG.

DeSantis also pulled $2 billion out of BlackRock investments in the state of Florida. His political actions have spearheaded the movement that is killing the ESG brand.

No matter which side of the fence you sit on, I think it was worth watching.

I think the one thing that stands out for me, is that we do not lack knowledge. We have more knowledge than we know what to do with. What stands out is that there is no power in awakening, if you do nothing with the knowledge you have obtained.

Quote:In this groundbreaking documentary, The Great Awakening, by award-winning director Mikki Willis, we delve into the profound truths and revelations that are reshaping our world. Discover the power of awakening and join the movement for truth, freedom, and empowerment.

Disclaimer: I can't hide myself and I don't expect you to understand, but I am a Man!



Explanation: This thread is about masculine mental health and well being.



Everyone is welcome to post, but please realize its meant to be a positive thread about men and male issues.



With that said ... here is the song that inspired this thread ...









And here is a longer version ...







To Be A Man (MEGA REMIX) Lyrics



What The Hell Are We Going To Do Without MEN? Jordan Peterson

Quote:"It's okay to be a man".

It's not okay; It's necessary.

You look around cities and see all these buildings go up. These men, they're doing impossible things. They're working on the sewers; they're up on the power lines in the storms and the rain.

They work themselves to death (often literally).

The gratitude for that is sorely lacking, especially among the people who should be most grateful: the social justice bent who are among the most protected and privileged people the world has ever produced.

They take everything they have for granted, failing to understand that there's a massive infrastructure of unbelievably hard-working, solidly labouring working-class men breaking themselves in half regularly, making sure that everything that always breaks works.

A little gratitude for that is in order.

A well thought out and well articulated article. The statistics are telling, an estimated one in 20 households currently possess the irrationally feared AR-15 currently.


https://www.thegazette.com/staff-columni...next-door/

Quote:I don't want to alarm you, but I want you to know that I am your neighbor and I own an AR-15. Of course, I probably don't actually live next door to you, but the chances are good that at least one of your neighbors, up the block or across the street or maybe the one who shares your back fence owns an AR-15.

Most experts estimate there are over 24 million privately owned AR-15s in the United States, indicating that roughly one in every twenty households possesses an AR-15. When excluding states with stricter gun laws, such as California, New York, and Illinois, where owning an AR-15 is more challenging, states with less restrictive gun legislation, such as Iowa, are likely to have a higher concentration of these firearms.

As your neighbor, I would like to challenge some stereotypes about AR-15 owners in particular and gun owners in general.

First, I am not a white supremacist! I do not have a swastika armband in my closet. I am not a KKK member. I have been to Charlottesville, Virginia but I was just passing through. I did not attend the Unite the Right Rally and I do not own a tiki torch. In fact, I am not even white!

Second, I am not 'tacticool'! You know what I am talking about, guys (it's mostly guys) who never served in the military but dress up as if they were Navy SEALs. They have long beards and tattoos. They wear their ball caps backward with dark wraparound sunglasses and their T-shirts either have a subdued American flag or some patriotic, militaristic slogan. They want to be both 'tactical' and 'cool'! I don't even wear T-shirts and my sunglasses are gold mirrored Oakleys because I am a bicyclist.

Third, I am not a red neck or a good ol' boy! I don't have a confederate flag bumper sticker on my pickup truck, I don't even have a pickup truck. I don't own a single piece of camouflage clothing and I don't own a dawg.

Finally, I am not a computer gamer who lives in his parents' basement. I am not trying to replicate the weapons my character uses in Call of Duty. The last computer game I played regularly was Doom in the 1990s.

So, who am I? I am a pretty ordinary guy, the kind of guy who lives next door. My wife and I just celebrated our 40th anniversary. We have eight adult children (OK, maybe that part is not ordinary) and were Jefferson High School show choir parents for 21 consecutive years! I was born in Iowa and graduated from UNI. For the last 33 years, I have worked as a computer programmer or software engineer.

I did not grow up around guns. I had toy guns as a kid, but I don't recall even owning a BB gun. Even though I had never owned a gun, I have always been a big proponent of the Second Amendment. When states (like California) and municipalities (like Deerfield, Illinois) started limiting gun magazine capacity or banning certain types of guns altogether, I decided it was time to make my support for the Second Amendment beyond theory. I became a gun owner, sort of!

I say sort of because I only bought part of a gun. I went to a gun store, completed a federal background check and bought some 30-round (normal capacity) magazines and an AR-15 stripped lower. A stripped lower is a solid piece of aluminum used in the construction of an AR-15. To turn a stripped lower into a functioning rifle, you must attach a barrel, add sights, fit a buttstock and grip, insert a trigger and install several internal parts. The lower is the part of the AR-15 that contains the serial number and therefore requires a federal background check.

In the eyes of the government, I was a gun owner, but I didn't really own a gun. A couple of years ago, I decided it was time to build my AR-15. I ordered the necessary parts, and a friend helped me assemble my rifle.

So why did I choose an AR-15? At first it was a form of protest against proposed (and actual) bans. I was not even a fan of AR-15s, I always thought that my first rifle would be a variant of the M1 like Springfield Armory's M1A SOCOM. As an AR-15 'sort of' owner I started researching the AR-15.

The AR-15 is the most popular rifle in the United States and there are several reasons. One reason is that the AR-15 is the semi-automatic version of the M16. The M16 was adopted as the standard rifle by the U.S. military in 1967. So, for anyone who served in the last 50 years, the AR-15 is familiar and works much the same way as the rifles they used on duty.

The AR-15 is flexible, AR-15 owners like to talk about the 'AR platform'. The standard AR-15 is chambered in .223/5.56mm. Many Iowans build AR platform rifles for the .350 Legend or .450 Bushmaster cartridges to use for deer hunting. Other states allow hunting with AR platform rifles chambered for more powerful cartridges, like the .308.
It is easy to build a purpose-driven AR platform rifle. There are many different calibers available for deer hunting, coyote hunting, long distance target shooting and self-defense. There are several popular forms of shooting competition that use AR platform rifles. The AR platform can even be used to build pistols!

In my case, I liked the fact that I could build an AR-15 instead of buying it off the shelf. I am definitely not a gunsmith, but building it helped me to better understand how the rifle works. I got to choose the features that I wanted, and I know I that I can make changes or upgrade my AR-15 myself.

I enjoy spending time at the shooting range with my AR-15. But, as Uncle Ben told Peter Parker in Spiderman, "with great power comes great responsibility." As a responsible AR-15 owner, I keep my rifle locked up in a safe. We have had a recent wave of car break-ins in my neighborhood, and I may install a doorbell camera. But, if I see someone breaking into my car, I am not going to grab my rifle and try to stop them, I am going to call 911. I am not going to shoot someone for making a wrong turn into my driveway or letting their basketball roll into my yard. I am not Kyle Rittenhouse, I will do everything I can to avoid a putting myself in a situation where I might be forced to use my AR-15 to shoot someone. But, if you break into my house in the middle of the night …


I am your neighbor and I own an AR-15.

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Winning hearts and minds and all that good stuff. Chant has a nice little rhythm to it but seems to be "touching a nerve" with the words and all.


Video of Drag Marchers Chanting 'We're Coming For Your Children' Goes Viral

https://www.newsweek.com/video-drag-marc...al-1808870


https://twitter.com/scarlett4kids/status...0189025282

https://www.newsweek.com/video-drag-marc...al-1808870

For a year now everyone has been talking about this "Patriot Front" group as probably being Feds. They go around the country, masked, and seem to always be escorted by the cops. Either way, if they are Feds or Racists Goofs, exposure and sunlight are the best disinfectant. 

So, they show up at a rally and get the "Antifa" treatment. A couple unmasked as well. Good video.

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/...4902185986

This is the BEST video on the internet right now.

- Pro-America Patriot rally ongoing
- Feds show up dressed as “Nazis”
- Patriots force Feds out of rally
- Unmask the Feds, who PANIC
- The “Nazis” cry, tremble in fear
- Cops rush to save Feds

Let’s say these really ARE just dumb racist punks. Not welcome. They have no place in our movement. Now they’re exposed. Good.

If they ARE Feds, this is a taxpayer funded psy-op meant to defame and entrap innocent Americans. Now they’re exposed. Good.

I read the book "Killers Of The Flower Moon" by accident. It was not the book I thought I was downloading. I did not realize my mistake until I started reading it, but since I had already downloaded it, I figured I would give it a try. I am so glad I did. I really enjoyed this book.

It was made into a movie and supposed to be in the theaters in October. I can't vouch for the film, because I have not seen it, but it looks pretty interesting. If anyone reads the book or sees the movie, let me know what you think.