Nothing special, I'm just a bit bored and this is fun 

Yesterday I heard some strange beeps , not from my phone or laptop, never heard before. Wouldn't know what caused it.
I don't know , nothing too crazy .But in the evening the lights flickered , twice, and I heard some loudish sounds behind me. 
Nothing there off course. 

Just for fun, I know it's most likely nothing, but my life is BORING 

This is a 20 million year old flea which was discovered preserved in amber - it was carrying a possible ancestor of plague bacteria.

Quote:Abstract

A flea preserved in Dominican amber is described as Atopopsyllus cionus, n. gen., n. sp. (Atopopsyllini n. tribe, Spilopsyllinae, Pulicidae). The male specimen has two unique characters that have not been noted in previous extant or extinct fleas, thus warranting its tribal status. These characters are five-segmented maxillary palps and cerci-like organs on abdominal tergite X. Additional characters are the absence of ctenidia, very small eyes, a lanceolate terminal segment of the maxillary palps, legs with six notches on the dorsal margin of the tibiae, five pairs of lateral plantar bristles on the distitarsomeres, and nearly straight ungues with a wide space between the basal lobe and tarsal claw. Trypanosomes and coccobacilli in the rectum and coccobacilli on the tip of the epipharynx of the fossil are depicted and briefly characterized.

A New Genus of Fleas with Associated Microorganisms in Dominican Amber

Quote:Paleomicrobiology: a Snapshot of Ancient Microbes and Approaches to Forensic Microbiology

Amber possesses several properties that enable the preservation of ancient microorganisms (Fig. 1A and B), such as its low water activity and the presence of sugars in bacterial cell walls that may prevent cell damage during the dehydration process. The absence of water in amber makes it the ideal environment for enzyme inhibition and, thus, cell component preservation, including DNA (58). Many bacterial isolates from amber belong to the genus Bacillus, which consists of aerobic spore-formers with a genome protected from UV radiation, oxidizing agents, and depurination by several mechanisms. Spores are protected by several different layers within the bacterial cell, are located where water percentages are the lowest, and exhibit the lowest pH values within the cell. Notably, even when these factors are modified, spore DNA remains conserved. This characteristic of spores has been attributed to the action of small, acid-soluble proteins (SASPs), encoded by ssp (59). SASPs are synthesized during the late stages of spore formation and are consequently degraded when spores germinate. SAPSs are known to protect DNA by binding to and saturating the molecule. Five to ten percent of the total core proteins in Bacillus spores are SASPs, and spores lacking over 85% of these proteins are incapable of being protected from DNA-damaging agents, such as UV radiation (60). These compounds protect the DNA for extended periods.

Though it was previously assumed that the survival of ancient microbes was restricted to spore-forming bacteria, Gram-positive staphylococci and Micrococcus spp. have also been isolated from 23- to 35-million-year-old and 120-million-year-old amber, respectively (61–63). Even more unexpected was the isolation of Gram-negative bacteria resembling Brevundimonas in 25- to 40-million-year-old amber (64). The isolation of a Gram-negative, non-spore-forming bacterium suggests that microbes have an array of currently unknown mechanisms that could be involved in their long-term survival.

In the case of amber, the availability of nutrients during the initial stages of amber formation allow entrapped bacteria to utilize compounds such as succinic acid until they later enter a state of dormancy. Thus, such compounds represent potentially invaluable resources to maintain bacterial growth during short periods of adjustment. Currently, the specific molecular mechanisms by which microbes isolated from amber become dormant and are resuscitated after millions of years are being further investigated.

Quote:Culture Methods and Microscopy

Culture methods provide the advantage of isolating ancient microbes and distinguishing their metabolic capabilities. However, culturing microbes from ancient sources is a difficult task, since most microorganisms may not resuscitate in common laboratory media. Furthermore, experimental design should accommodate the growth of both expected and unexpected microorganisms based on sample type (46, 59). However difficult and seemingly unlikely, increasing numbers of attempts have successfully resuscitated microorganisms from prehistoric amber and permafrost samples (50, 64). Similar studies have pinpointed possible key genes in the resuscitation process, including those for various proteins that act as resuscitation-promoting factors (62, 80, 81).

Quote:Isolation and Characterization of Bacteria from Ancient Siberian Permafrost Sediment

In this study, we isolated and characterized bacterial strains from ancient (Neogene) permafrost sediment that was permanently frozen for 3.5 million years. The sampling site was located at Mammoth Mountain in the Aldan river valley in Central Yakutia in Eastern Siberia.

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Damn, Montana and Indiana go hard.



Children of the corn







Not everybody, but accurate:





Looking good, LDS family!






Full listing: BuzzFeed

The new defense bill for NDAA FY2024 which just narrowly passed the House, vote of 219 to 210 with nearly unanimous Republican support, once again ups the budget for "biological threat reduction," the US military's plausibly deniable bio-weapons program. This time, by about $3M. Republicans loaded the measure with a raft of social policy provisions — including limits on abortions, Ending wokeness in the military, gender transition procedures and diversity training — that have little chance of surviving in the Senate.



The bill does contain a prohibition on using defense funds for gain-of-function research, which is good. Although GOF can of course still be funded by other means, and I'm highly skeptical that the military actually informs Congress of all the frankenstein bio-defense research it does here and abroad.



FY24 NDAA Resources

Direct PDF link to H.R. 2670, THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024


Some excerpts on Ending Wokeness in the military wishlist:

Quote:Banning Critical Race Theory (CRT)

• Prohibits funding for the teaching of CRT in the military.
  
• Prohibits funds for any DoD advisory committee dealing with CRT.
  
• Requires DoD to report to Congress on how much time and taxpayer dollars have been wasted on CRT training.
  

Ending DEI Overreach

• Repeals the DoD’s unnecessary Chief Diversity Officer.
  
• Guts the Pentagon’s DEI bureaucracy by prohibiting the DOD from paying anyone whose job it is to carry out DEI programs more than $92,000 (GS-10 level).
  
• Requires the Secretary to assess and validate the need for every position in the DEI bureaucracy.
  
• Eliminates funding for the DoD’s politically biased Countering Extremism Working Group.
  
• Prohibits DoD from contracting with NewsGuard Technologies or similar advertising firms that blacklist conservative news sources.
  
• Prohibits funds for any DoD advisory committee dealing with race, gender identity, sexual orientation, or social justice.
  

Prohibits Drag Shows

• Eliminates funding for drag shows, Drag Queen Story Hours, or similar events.
  
• Halts the Navy’s promotion of a drag queen as a “Digital Ambassador”.
  

Protecting Parents Rights

• Includes a Parents Bill of Rights to ensure parents of children in DoD schools have the right to review curriculum, books, and instructional materials; meet with teachers; and provide consent before any medical exams or screenings by the school.
  

Preventing a Military Green New Deal

• Does NOT authorize climate change programs.
  
• Blocks DoD from requiring defense contractors to document the impact their weapons systems have on
  
• greenhouse gas emissions and submit plans to reduce emissions.
  
• Ensures military ranges in the Gulf of Mexico remain open for critical training.
  
• Cuts funding for questionable combat vehicle electrification research programs.
  
• Prohibits funds for DoD advisory committees dealing with environmental justice.
  

Countering China's Malign Influence

• Increases funding for military information operations assistance to Indo-Pacific allies to counter Chinese influence operations.
  
• Provides a new tool for combatant commanders to rapidly address emergent security needs with foreign partners.
  
• Authorizes additional funds for U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Southern Command to carry out military education and training aimed at countering
  
• Chinese influence.
  
• Requires an assessment of CCP cooperation with Iran on ICBM technology.
  
• Requires an assessment of CCP presence in the Caribbean and South America
  

Covid-19 Vaccine Discharges

• Provides a pathway back to the armed forces for service members who refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine
  
• Includes a 5.2 percent increase in service member pay, the largest pay raise in over two decades
  

Nuclear Deterrence

• Fully funds the modernization of our nuclear triad.
  
• Establishes the nuclear Sea-Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM-N) as an official program of record – rejecting the Biden administration’s request to cancel the program.
  
• Prohibits the DoD from reducing the number of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles below 400 or reducing the responsiveness or alert status of the arsenal.
  
• Limits the ability of the Biden Administration to retire certain nuclear weapons.
  
• Invests additional resources in production facilities for nuclear components necessary to reconstitute the nation’s ability to produce nuclear weapons.
  
• Realigns over $100 million in funding authorized for nonessential activities at the National Nuclear Security Administration to support core nuclear weapons programs.
  
• Requires DoD to notify Congress of any instance of nuclear cooperation between Russia and China – this follows reports of Russia’s delivery of highly enriched uranium to China.
  
• Prohibits the administration from sharing information on our nuclear forces with Russia unless Russia resumes sharing the same information with the United States.
  

Missile Defense

• Removes outdated policy limitations preventing missile defenses from being oriented against threats to the homeland from near-peer adversaries such as China.
  
• Provides an additional $225 million to accelerate the Glide Phase Interceptor program to defend against hypersonic threats and requires an initial capability to be fielded by 2029.
  
• Accelerates development of an East Coast missile defense site.
  
• Provides nearly $200 million in missile defense priorities left unfunded in the Biden budget.
  
• Accelerates the deployment of advanced radars to track missiles, high-altitude balloons, and other CCP threats to our homeland.
  

Hypersonic Capabilities

• Requires DoD to develop new additional aerial testing corridors to address shortfalls in hypersonic testing capacity.
  
• Provides an additional $63 million for hypersonics-related research and development across multiple programs.
  
• Requires DoD to improve the recruitment and retention of its hypersonics workforce.
  

Military & Industrial Base Readiness

• Prohibits the decommissioning of 5 battle force ships with years of service life remaining.
  
• Rejects the Biden Administration’s request to divest certain aircraft including the F-22 and the C-130 to ensure continued air superiority in the near-term.
  
• Prohibits the DoD from reducing the number of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles below 400 or reducing the responsiveness or alert status of the arsenal.
  
• Limits the ability of the Biden Administration to retire certain nuclear weapons.
  
• Prohibits the Navy from reducing the operational status of the Expeditionary Fast Transport vessels.
  
• Increases funding for military exercises.
  
• Requires the Air Force to maintain sufficient capability, capacity, and proficient aircrews to support geographical combatant commanders' requirements.
  
• Permanently increases the minor military construction threshold to give the services greater flexibility to build out necessary infrastructure.
  
• Requires MARAD to establish a working group to assess the size and readiness of the U.S. flag fleet to meet national defense and commercial requirements.
  

Nasty creeper got his licks and sniff in. I am not going to say what it looks like he is doing to her. (Video)

Embarrassing nasty Creep we have as a President.

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/...5874454529

Quote:Joe Biden’s dementia has gotten so bad that he’s now confusing babies with ice cream cones

Quote:The Conspiracy Show investigates the safety and efficacy of putting fluoride in our water supply. Dentists say that putting fluoride in the water supply prevents tooth decay, but some researchers claim it's a toxic substance that causes cancer. Others claim it is being used to pacify and dumb down the general population. Who to believe? Tune in and decide for yourself.

I want to stay he is wrong, but he is right.

The internet is like a magnifying glass. What you see under a magnifying glass may seem unfamiliar, fractured, and imperfections are enlarged and easier to see, but the glass does not change what the viewed object is.

The internet allows us to see ourselves as we truly are.

The full title is; Indrid Cold, the Truth about Planet Lanulos and the Mystery of the Smiling Man ... It is amazing the stories that came from 50s and 60s in UFO Lore IMO.. The hippy experience, God, Christmas and friendly Aliens one heck of a story. I think the story from Woody is one of the reasons most people always want to say, "B.S." on many UFO stories.

Quote:Indrid Cold, the Truth about Planet Lanulos and the Mystery of the Smiling Man On November 2nd, 1966, Woody Derenberger was driving home from a business trip when he encountered an extraterrestrial being named Indrid Cold. Cold communicated with Woody telepathically, and the two went on to be lifelong friends. Other people close to Woody, including family, friends, and even his therapist claimed that they, too, had experiences with Indrid Cold. Woody wrote and published a detailed account of his experiences, and never went back on his story. Since the 1960s, the legend of Indrid Cold has become one of the most famous in all of UFO lore. Taken at face value, this story sounds strange. But the real story … is even stranger.

There is so much propaganda about Netanyahu and Israel on the Net I found this interview enlightening and worth my time..