Amphetamine recipy
New(ish) to the sub, but want to clear up a couple of frequently heard misconceptions regarding Vyvanse.
2024.02.23 20:42 NaturalCornFillers New(ish) to the sub, but want to clear up a couple of frequently heard misconceptions regarding Vyvanse.
Two things I frequently see in this subreddit regarding Vyvanse are that vitamin C or acidity in general will reduce the effectiveness of the drug, and that despite Vyvanse being highly water soluble the resulting solution should be used in 2-3 days (or even quicker).
According to Dr. William Dodson both of these claims are false. William Dodson is a board certified adult psychiatrist who was one of the first practitioners to specialize in adults with ADHD 25 years ago. He is the recipient of the national Maxwell J. Schleifer Award for Distinguished Service to Persons with Disabilities in 2006. He was named a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association in 2012 in recognition of his contributions to the field of adult ADHD.
I recently listened to a podcast featuring Dr. Dodson where he talked briefly about the connection between amphetamines and overly acidic G.I. environment. The amphetamine molecule itself does have its efficacy reduced in said environments, HOWEVER Vyvanse is literally the only exception due to its prodrug formulation. The amphetamine molecule only appears once lisdexamfetamine enters the blood stream. Vitamin C / acidity does not reduce its efficacy.
I imagine the info surrounding this connection between acidity and amphetamine has simply been picked up by this subreddit at large and has been applied to all the amphetamine based ADHD meds including Vyvanse, but due to Vyvanse's unique delivery method it is the one medication where this norm does not apply.
The other misconception he spoke about is longevity of Vyvanse in water. According to him lisdexamfetamine is stable in water INDEFINITELY.
This is the episode if you would like to listen to it.
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According to Dr. William Dodson both of these claims are false. William Dodson is a board certified adult psychiatrist who was one of the first practitioners to specialize in adults with ADHD 25 years ago. He is the recipient of the national Maxwell J. Schleifer Award for Distinguished Service to Persons with Disabilities in 2006. He was named a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association in 2012 in recognition of his contributions to the field of adult ADHD.
I recently listened to a podcast featuring Dr. Dodson where he talked briefly about the connection between amphetamines and overly acidic G.I. environment. The amphetamine molecule itself does have its efficacy reduced in said environments, HOWEVER Vyvanse is literally the only exception due to its prodrug formulation. The amphetamine molecule only appears once lisdexamfetamine enters the blood stream. Vitamin C / acidity does not reduce its efficacy.
I imagine the info surrounding this connection between acidity and amphetamine has simply been picked up by this subreddit at large and has been applied to all the amphetamine based ADHD meds including Vyvanse, but due to Vyvanse's unique delivery method it is the one medication where this norm does not apply.
The other misconception he spoke about is longevity of Vyvanse in water. According to him lisdexamfetamine is stable in water INDEFINITELY.
This is the episode if you would like to listen to it.
2024.02.13 05:25 yaoiue The woman who inspired Coney Island Baby may have influenced Lou Reed's career more than is realized
This is an inherently controversial, speculative, utterly useless and faulty endeavor from the get-go. I understand that it almost certainly doesn't make anyone anywhere any different. But I don't have any other place to talk about it, so I appreciate anyone who might humor me
The woman is Rachel Humphreys. They were together from 1973-1978. The last time they saw each other was in 1979. For additional context, Lou married Sylvia Morales in 1980
Rachel was Lou's muse for some time. Many of the songs on the album Coney Island Baby were dedicated to her. Artwork of her was on the back of the album Sally Can't Dance. The compilation album Walk on the Wild Side had photos of them together on the cover of it
Lou and Rachel's relationship was rough, and their breakup was rough. But it marked a pivotal moment in Lou's life and career. Some time after it he said "All the albums I put out after this are gonna be things I want to put out. No more bullshit, no more dyed-hair faggot junkie trip"
I can't help but interpret it as him trying to distance himself from his ex and his previous work, including Transformer, and as an attempt to cultivate a new image and reject any notions of bi or homosexuality. I also can't help but surmise that the radical change was primarily defensive in nature and a product of his own insecurities
The emphasis on "getting straight" in The Last Shot seems like it could almost pertain to more than just substance abuse. Though, like most of this pointless post, I might just be gratuitously grasping at straws. Anyways
Example 1 (1982, and understood to be more or less true)
Lou acknowledged his relationship with Rachel during his falling out with Robert Quine. The death of a critic in 1982 evoked a visceral reaction from Lou that destroyed his friendship with Quine. The critic, a close friend of Quine's, had previously and publicly written poorly of Rachel
"Do you understand, Quine - this is a person I was close to. And he is calling her a creature and 'thing"
Lou had some kind of dormant wrath, seemingly awoken by the realization that the intended recipient of it had escaped by way of death. It just doesn't seem like the kind of response you'd see from someone, with the context of an estranged relationship from years prior, if they had completely moved on
Example 22 (1984, New Sensations)
Turn to Me
Endlessly Jealous
Example 3 (1989, Halloween Parade)
The Village Halloween Parade is an annual parade in New York City since 1974, and its roots lie in New York's queer community. Most of the song is about the parade and the people lost in the epidemic, but there's a continuous emphasis of someone else who Lou always refers to as "You"
And ends with
Rachel passed away on the 30th of January, 1990
TL;DR: I suspect that Lou Reed's relationship with Rachel Humphreys had a more substantial impact on him and his career than is generally understood, and that she might have occupied his mind even long after they had parted ways
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The woman is Rachel Humphreys. They were together from 1973-1978. The last time they saw each other was in 1979. For additional context, Lou married Sylvia Morales in 1980
Rachel was Lou's muse for some time. Many of the songs on the album Coney Island Baby were dedicated to her. Artwork of her was on the back of the album Sally Can't Dance. The compilation album Walk on the Wild Side had photos of them together on the cover of it
Lou and Rachel's relationship was rough, and their breakup was rough. But it marked a pivotal moment in Lou's life and career. Some time after it he said "All the albums I put out after this are gonna be things I want to put out. No more bullshit, no more dyed-hair faggot junkie trip"
I can't help but interpret it as him trying to distance himself from his ex and his previous work, including Transformer, and as an attempt to cultivate a new image and reject any notions of bi or homosexuality. I also can't help but surmise that the radical change was primarily defensive in nature and a product of his own insecurities
The emphasis on "getting straight" in The Last Shot seems like it could almost pertain to more than just substance abuse. Though, like most of this pointless post, I might just be gratuitously grasping at straws. Anyways
Example 1 (1982, and understood to be more or less true)
Lou acknowledged his relationship with Rachel during his falling out with Robert Quine. The death of a critic in 1982 evoked a visceral reaction from Lou that destroyed his friendship with Quine. The critic, a close friend of Quine's, had previously and publicly written poorly of Rachel
"Do you understand, Quine - this is a person I was close to. And he is calling her a creature and 'thing"
Lou had some kind of dormant wrath, seemingly awoken by the realization that the intended recipient of it had escaped by way of death. It just doesn't seem like the kind of response you'd see from someone, with the context of an estranged relationship from years prior, if they had completely moved on
Example 22 (1984, New Sensations)
Turn to Me
When your teeth are ground down to the bone
- Amphetamine use between Lou and Rachel was rampant throughout their relationship. Stimulant abuse can cause extensive bruxism (i.e. teeth grinding, jaw clenching)
And there's nothing between your legs
- The catalyst of their breakup was Lou's opposition to Rachel's desire to undergo gender reassignment surgery
And some friend died of something that you can't pronounce
- The AIDS / HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) epidemic was underway and would be claiming the lives of tens of thousands over the next decade, primarily impacting people from the gay community
Remember, I'm the one who loves you
You can always give me a call
Turn to me, turn to me, turn to me
Endlessly Jealous
Jealousy endlessly sweeps through my mind
Jealousy often causes me to be unkind
I'm sorry I said that, I'm sorry I did that
I'm sorry I hit you, I'm sorry, I'm sorry
- It is not a secret that Lou had a history of physical abuse. Namely, with his first wife Bettye Kronstad, and later his girlfriend Rachel Humphreys. Referring to accounts from biographies about Lou, his ex-wife Sylvia said "That’s not a person I recognize". This suggests that the physical abuse exhibited in his previous relationships did not carry over into his new one. This change in character might happen to coincide with a decision Reed made in 1979 to begin trying to overcome his drug addiction
Example 3 (1989, Halloween Parade)
The Village Halloween Parade is an annual parade in New York City since 1974, and its roots lie in New York's queer community. Most of the song is about the parade and the people lost in the epidemic, but there's a continuous emphasis of someone else who Lou always refers to as "You"
This Halloween is something to be sure
Especially to be here without you
This celebration somehow gets me down
Especially when I see you're not around
It's a different feeling that I have today
Especially when I know you've gone away
The past keeps knock, knock, knocking on my door
And I don't want to hear it anymore
In the back of my mind I was afraid it might be true
In the back of my mind I was afraid that they meant you
And ends with
See you next year, at the Halloween parade
Rachel passed away on the 30th of January, 1990
TL;DR: I suspect that Lou Reed's relationship with Rachel Humphreys had a more substantial impact on him and his career than is generally understood, and that she might have occupied his mind even long after they had parted ways
2023.10.07 10:26 OkRevolution4965 Calamity Serum
Calamity Formula
We weren’t a research department; not by any chance. Most of us would prefer the name “CGD Corp”. But when the AGENCY came to us with a request for a combat stimulant, we decided to take a shot.
We based the Calamity Formula on an old, existing version used in a New Earth named “Survival of the Fittest”. A combat stimulant nicknamed “Berserk Injector”. Once injected into the bloodstream, it would nearly double the recipient’s reaction time and push physical capabilities to what seemed impossible.
Once we altered the formula to improve physical endurance, we gave the tweaked formula to a willing participant. The results came out great, although the sheer amount of adrenaline in the serum forced users to abandon conventional CQC tactics such as blocking or calculating the opponent’s next move. So we had to tweak the formula again.
After many failed attempts, we settled on a version that would give lesser combat capabilities but allow the user to solely concentrate on combat, and nothing else. We had to file a contract with a Mexican drug cartel, and once the deed was done, we put a trace amount of various amphetamines (most of them illegal, mind you) inside the formula.
Unfortunately, a problem persisted: the drug, containing both adrenaline and amphetamines, was easy to get addicted to. Even after altering the ratio of combat enhancers and drugs, addiction persisted.
After many lawsuits and millions of Odens down the drain, we had to resort to warning users about the addiction effect. No further money was left to research ways to counteract the addiction, and the funding from the AGENCY got cut due to recent complications on Eden-227. All in all, we named the serum “Calamity Formula” for its effects on a trained human being.
Although users would have to undergo training to resist side effects such as muscle fatigue and possible addiction, the results were better than expected.
-Otto Greyson, Director of Technology, Combat Gear Development Corp. (CGD Corp.)
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We weren’t a research department; not by any chance. Most of us would prefer the name “CGD Corp”. But when the AGENCY came to us with a request for a combat stimulant, we decided to take a shot.
We based the Calamity Formula on an old, existing version used in a New Earth named “Survival of the Fittest”. A combat stimulant nicknamed “Berserk Injector”. Once injected into the bloodstream, it would nearly double the recipient’s reaction time and push physical capabilities to what seemed impossible.
Once we altered the formula to improve physical endurance, we gave the tweaked formula to a willing participant. The results came out great, although the sheer amount of adrenaline in the serum forced users to abandon conventional CQC tactics such as blocking or calculating the opponent’s next move. So we had to tweak the formula again.
After many failed attempts, we settled on a version that would give lesser combat capabilities but allow the user to solely concentrate on combat, and nothing else. We had to file a contract with a Mexican drug cartel, and once the deed was done, we put a trace amount of various amphetamines (most of them illegal, mind you) inside the formula.
Unfortunately, a problem persisted: the drug, containing both adrenaline and amphetamines, was easy to get addicted to. Even after altering the ratio of combat enhancers and drugs, addiction persisted.
After many lawsuits and millions of Odens down the drain, we had to resort to warning users about the addiction effect. No further money was left to research ways to counteract the addiction, and the funding from the AGENCY got cut due to recent complications on Eden-227. All in all, we named the serum “Calamity Formula” for its effects on a trained human being.
Although users would have to undergo training to resist side effects such as muscle fatigue and possible addiction, the results were better than expected.
-Otto Greyson, Director of Technology, Combat Gear Development Corp. (CGD Corp.)
2023.07.05 20:59 Signal_Environment10 Need advice on how to handle a few issues within my worksite.
So, for context. I work for Allied Universal, been working security for I think about a year now at my site, since the time I started at the site I have: brought up many security risks pertaining to a few highly damaged entry points, but nothing ever gets done.
Our newest guard for the site has ungodly body Oder and smells like mold, all the other guards don’t want him around and have reported to the site supervisor about his uncleanliness issues that make working with him torture due to his unnatural smell. Since he was assigned to the post, we have had to sign multitudes of papers due to his frequent mess making, random complaints, and him frequently messing up at the site. The man pops ibuprofen and Tylenol like it’s candy, frequently putting handfuls in his pocket before heading out on patrol, only to drop them all over the client’s property which includes his personal ADHD medications which is basically a amphetamine like meth but legal. Many of our guards fear he will drop dead on the worksite due to his ibuprofen and Tylenol abuse which is a liability our site supervision refuses to bring to upper management. All issues with this problem guard have been brought to the site supervisor but he refuses to remove him from site despite the fact that we keep having to sign paperwork when he fucks up or keep finding pills all over the worksite.
We are also having a problem with our food being stollen by the sites employees that work there, it has been brought up to the site supervisor on multiple occasions yet nothing ever gets fixed, the client probably doesn’t even know about the theft but regardless, me and the other guards get paid far too little to be feeding the clients employees out of our own pockets when we get paid so little, I feel it should be brought to both the home offices attention and the client’s attention since theft is still theft. Especially when someone writes their name on their food and drink yet it still gets stolen.
And lastly, one of our older guards at the site who had been working there for the past 8-9 years has been being harrassed by some guy he unknowingly let know what worksite he works at and for the past 6 years has been being harrassed by said guy, he says he’s friends with the guy but I have heard their conversations and the guy calls the worksite constantly to harass him and the other guards daily even when the older guard is not on site. This random guy/kid refuses to stop calling the businesses phone line when our older guard refuses to talk with him, often blackmailing him into answering his personal phone otherwise he will call the business phone of our worksite and leave insulting messages on the voicemail system. Whenever I have to work with this older guard I am constantly stuck listening to him beg and plead for this kid to just call him when he’s not at work yet he refuses to listen, even going as far as harassing the other guards on the sites business phone.
Iv given advice on how to handle the situation but the guard refuses to press charges or report him for harassment. He knows the names of a few guards on the worksite and I personally have been harassed by this kid over the phone when trying to do my job and transfer people who have ties to the business to their proper recipient, however it gets irritating having to deal with this kid whenever having to work. Again, this is known by the site supervisor and he has let this go on for 6years.
My site also only pays $13.50 an hour which I feel is far too little and should be raised significantly for the type of work we do, and according to some of the older guards at the site, when G4S had the site, the guards there was supposed to get a annual pay increase to account for inflation, however since AUS bought out G4S and took over the contract, nobody at the site makes what they should be by now. Our site supervisor makes like $20 an hour so he’s content where he’s at wile the other guards (including myself)get what feels like scraps as far as pay. Even the cleaning company staff make more than us guards.
With all that said, I used to like my site. But I have slowly gotten more angry and frustrated at the fact that nothing ever gets taken care of. Our supervisor ignores consistent and direct complaints about the stinking guard that everyone else wants removed, any problems pertaining to theft ignored or shutdown, constant harassment that’s never dealt with properly, pay is overdue for an increase, and security risks either ignored when brought up or dismissed by the site supervisor.
If I’m being at all honest, I need advice on how to get these issues resolved properly without putting my own position at the site at risk of removal. I don’t particularly want to transfer to a different site as this one is fairly nice aside from its massive flaws just stated.
What would be the best way to go about fixing these issues safely without jeopardizing my position?
Like seriously though, cus if nothing changes I don’t think I’m going to keep letting myself be walked all over and ignored when i do my job vary well, I won’t put up with it if I can’t change it. So please help me find solutions to fix my problem site before I have to completely give up on it and find a different one.
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Our newest guard for the site has ungodly body Oder and smells like mold, all the other guards don’t want him around and have reported to the site supervisor about his uncleanliness issues that make working with him torture due to his unnatural smell. Since he was assigned to the post, we have had to sign multitudes of papers due to his frequent mess making, random complaints, and him frequently messing up at the site. The man pops ibuprofen and Tylenol like it’s candy, frequently putting handfuls in his pocket before heading out on patrol, only to drop them all over the client’s property which includes his personal ADHD medications which is basically a amphetamine like meth but legal. Many of our guards fear he will drop dead on the worksite due to his ibuprofen and Tylenol abuse which is a liability our site supervision refuses to bring to upper management. All issues with this problem guard have been brought to the site supervisor but he refuses to remove him from site despite the fact that we keep having to sign paperwork when he fucks up or keep finding pills all over the worksite.
We are also having a problem with our food being stollen by the sites employees that work there, it has been brought up to the site supervisor on multiple occasions yet nothing ever gets fixed, the client probably doesn’t even know about the theft but regardless, me and the other guards get paid far too little to be feeding the clients employees out of our own pockets when we get paid so little, I feel it should be brought to both the home offices attention and the client’s attention since theft is still theft. Especially when someone writes their name on their food and drink yet it still gets stolen.
And lastly, one of our older guards at the site who had been working there for the past 8-9 years has been being harrassed by some guy he unknowingly let know what worksite he works at and for the past 6 years has been being harrassed by said guy, he says he’s friends with the guy but I have heard their conversations and the guy calls the worksite constantly to harass him and the other guards daily even when the older guard is not on site. This random guy/kid refuses to stop calling the businesses phone line when our older guard refuses to talk with him, often blackmailing him into answering his personal phone otherwise he will call the business phone of our worksite and leave insulting messages on the voicemail system. Whenever I have to work with this older guard I am constantly stuck listening to him beg and plead for this kid to just call him when he’s not at work yet he refuses to listen, even going as far as harassing the other guards on the sites business phone.
Iv given advice on how to handle the situation but the guard refuses to press charges or report him for harassment. He knows the names of a few guards on the worksite and I personally have been harassed by this kid over the phone when trying to do my job and transfer people who have ties to the business to their proper recipient, however it gets irritating having to deal with this kid whenever having to work. Again, this is known by the site supervisor and he has let this go on for 6years.
My site also only pays $13.50 an hour which I feel is far too little and should be raised significantly for the type of work we do, and according to some of the older guards at the site, when G4S had the site, the guards there was supposed to get a annual pay increase to account for inflation, however since AUS bought out G4S and took over the contract, nobody at the site makes what they should be by now. Our site supervisor makes like $20 an hour so he’s content where he’s at wile the other guards (including myself)get what feels like scraps as far as pay. Even the cleaning company staff make more than us guards.
With all that said, I used to like my site. But I have slowly gotten more angry and frustrated at the fact that nothing ever gets taken care of. Our supervisor ignores consistent and direct complaints about the stinking guard that everyone else wants removed, any problems pertaining to theft ignored or shutdown, constant harassment that’s never dealt with properly, pay is overdue for an increase, and security risks either ignored when brought up or dismissed by the site supervisor.
If I’m being at all honest, I need advice on how to get these issues resolved properly without putting my own position at the site at risk of removal. I don’t particularly want to transfer to a different site as this one is fairly nice aside from its massive flaws just stated.
What would be the best way to go about fixing these issues safely without jeopardizing my position?
Like seriously though, cus if nothing changes I don’t think I’m going to keep letting myself be walked all over and ignored when i do my job vary well, I won’t put up with it if I can’t change it. So please help me find solutions to fix my problem site before I have to completely give up on it and find a different one.
2022.10.28 06:46 Gallionella ALLS5B
Anti-cancer compounds in rocket salad leaves have been found to increase during postharvest shelf life, Changes in rocket salad phytochemicals within the commercial supply chain: Glucosinolates, isothiocyanates, amino acids and bacterial load increase significantly after processing http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814616320039?via%3Dihub
Spermidine—a compound found in foods like aged cheese, mushrooms, soy products, legumes, corn and whole grains—seems to prevent (at least in animal models) liver fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, which is the most common type of liver cancer. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170421091816.htm
Toxic fumes more deadly inside a car than on the pavement, researchers sayBeing inside a car can expose you to 10 times the amount of fumes you would experience outside. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/toxic-fumes-more-deadly-inside-car-pavement-researchers-say-1618240
The Best Way to Follow Your Dreams Is by Keeping Your Day Job http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/04/the-best-way-to-follow-your-dreams-is-keeping-your-day-job.html
Hungry stomach hormone promotes growth of new brain cells https://www.newscientist.com/article/2128695-hungry-stomach-hormone-promotes-growth-of-new-brain-cells/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=news&campaign_id=RSS%7CNSNS-news
New research suggests bacteria in the gut has a strong influence on an animal's dietary decisions. http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/04/26/Gut-bacteria-dictates-diet-appetite/8851493209463/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=1
Italian-style coffee reduces the risk of prostate cancer https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/inmn-icr042517.php
Major health benefits linked to indoor temperature variation, study findsExposure to environments outside a comfortable temperature could help tackle major metabolic diseases, such as diabetes and obesity https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170426092347.htm
Now a University of Colorado Boulder study finds that the placebo effect can reduce the intensity of social pain from a romantic breakup. It turns out that just believing you’re doing something to help yourself get over your ex can influence brain regions associated with emotional regulation and lessen the perception of pain. https://psychcentral.com/news/2017/04/25/placebo-effect-can-help-fix-a-broken-heart/119621.html
A study in rats, published in Experimental Physiology, showed that resistance exercise recovers memory and motor impairment caused by the flavour enhancer monosodium glutamate. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/tps-rer042417.php
How healthy is going barefoot? http://www.dw.com/en/how-healthy-is-going-barefoot/a-18656555
said: "Our previous study demonstrated the aroma of rosemary essential oil could enhance cognition in healthy adults. Knowing how important working memory is in academic achievement we wanted to see if similar effects could be found in school age children in classroom settings." https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170502204545.htm
Researchers hope their findings will discourage parents from letting their child use any type of screen media before 18 months http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4473280/Handheld-devices-30-MINUTES-day-stunts-speech.html
The United States of America is a highly medicated country: almost seven in 10 Americans take prescription drugs. That translates to 4.4 billion prescriptions and nearly $310 billion spent on medication in 2015. Painkillers, cholesterol-lowering medications, and antidepressants top the list ofdrugs most commonly prescribed by doctors.
Needless to say, the work of biologists like Lee may prove to be crucial.
Where drugs go after we’re done with them
Americans aren’t just putting these drugs into their bodies; they’re also putting more drugs into the environment.https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/amphetamines-in-the-water-the-research-bathtubs-saving-our-ecosystems/
One in four Americans drink water that fails safety standards http://www.popsci.com/drinking-water-standards?dom=rss-default&src=syn
Do You Know What’s In Your Water? http://www.science20.com/steve_hentges/do_you_know_whats_in_your_water-225060
Hard to grasp, but true: Google and other large firms are donating large sums of money to the climate skeptic scene. How does that square with an otherwise meticulously managed image as an ecological innovator? http://www.dw.com/en/why-are-google-and-facebook-financing-climate-skeptics/a-38631389
How Consumer Pressure On The Soy Industry Stopped Killing The Amazon http://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-consumer-pressure-on-the-soy-industry-stopped-killing-the-amazon/
New research shows illegal levels of arsenic found in baby foods https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170504161538.htm
Announcing the DiRT Award, a new “doing the right thing” prize — and its first recipient http://retractionwatch.com/2017/05/05/announcing-new-right-thing-award-first-recipient/
Worrying about the risk of future regret is a rubbish way to spend your time, and therefore something you’re likely to regret https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/05/stop-worrying-about-future-regrets-change-your-life-oliver-burkeman
have joined forces to come up with the first ever “risk index” based on natural hazards for more than 7000 wine-producing regions worldwide. The team assembled maps of climate- and non-climate-related hazards and combined the data to calculate an overall risk index, http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/these-winemaking-regions-are-most-risk-natural-hazards
So until we’ve got some more solid, evidence-based, and long-term studies on what effect flossing and brushing have on our teeth, it’s best to keep your oral hygiene routine as delicate as possible. http://www.popsci.com/scientifically-brush-and-floss-teeth?dom=rss-default&src=syn
This finding not only enhances our understanding of the development of blood cells, it also sheds new light on prior studies that demonstrate that vitamin A deficiency impairs the immune system. "This shows how vitally important it is to have a sufficient intake of vitamin A from a balanced diet," Cabezas-Wallscheid emphasized. The body cannot produce its own vitamin A.
The scientists also have hopes for new prospects in cancer treatment. There is evidence that cancer cells, like healthy stem cells, also rest in a state of dormancy. When dormant, their metabolism is almost completely shut down -- and this makes them resistant to chemotherapy. "Once we understand in detail how vitamin A or retinoic acid, respectively, sends normal and malignant stem cells into dormancy, we can try to turn the tables," explained Trumpp. "If we could make cancer cells temporarily enter an active state, we could thus make them vulnerable to modern therapies." https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170505112612.htm
Tricking Your Mind Into Falling Asleep: Placebo Eases Insomnia Symptoms, Review Says http://www.medicaldaily.com/tricking-your-mind-falling-asleep-placebo-eases-insomnia-symptoms-review-says-416934
The orange essential plant oil showed a significant effect on the behavioral response in our study mice.
This is promising, because it shows that passively inhaling this essential oil could potentially assuage PTSD symptoms in humans.”
People already use many different essential oils for therapeutic purposes.
Sometime they are diffused in to the air, sometimes applied to the skin and they can also be consumed in foods. http://www.spring.org.uk/2017/05/the-essential-oilfruit-that-may-help-fight-ptsd.php
Lasers print ultra high-res images narrower than a human hair https://www.newscientist.com/article/2130151-lasers-print-ultra-high-res-images-narrower-than-a-human-hai?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=technology&campaign_id=RSS%7CNSNS-technology
To get more gut-boosting bacteria, consider incorporating these three probiotic foods into your day... ... Prebiotics have benefits, too
What do asparagus, garlic, Jerusalem artichokes, leeks, onions and whole wheat have in common? In addition to being the makings of a tasty dish, they contain specific types of fiber that act as what are called prebiotics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-fermented-foods--sauerkraut-kimchi-and-yogurt--are-good-for-your-gut/2017/05/05/dd0c9a62-0e4a-11e7-9b0d-d27c98455440_story.html
So think twice the next time you consider buying a case of bottled water. To double check that your local tap water is clean, look up your region's Consumer Confidence Report with the link below. If you can't find it, contact your local representative. http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/16-facts-that-show-why-bottled-water-is-one-of-the-biggest-scams-of-the-century/all/
5 Vitamin Deficiency Symptoms On Your Face And How To Fix Them With Healing Foods http://www.medicaldaily.com/5-vitamin-deficiency-symptoms-your-face-and-how-fix-them-healing-foods-417009
“Physically-active video games have, according to our research, greater impact on brain functioning than regular physical activity alone – suggesting that their benefits are more than just moving around,” he said.
Further research needs to be done, but exergames, as they’re known, may have a significant impact on helping those with neurological problems. ... "In most cases you'll find it's better than watching television, or as a replacement for other sedentary behaviors, but most (studies) agree it should not replace play and sport activities," http://www.medicaldaily.com/fitness-video-games-may-be-good-cognitive-performance-enhanced-memory-416963
Lycopene and tomato powder supplementation similarly inhibit high-fat diet induced obesity, inflammatory response, and associated metabolic disorders. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28267248
Poor overall environmental quality linked to elevated cancer rates ... Previous research has shown that genetics can be blamed for only about half of all cancers, suggesting that exposure to environmental toxins or socioeconomic factors may also play a role. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/uoia-poe050817.php
Farming practices that involve no-tillage, Conservation Agriculture and shallow non-inversion tillage were shown to significantly increase earthworm populations. The scientists note that these reduced tillage practices are increasingly being adopted world-wide due to their environmental benefits in terms of erosion control and soil protection. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/ucd-tfd050817.php
The Words You Use in a Loan Application Are More Revealing Than You Think How to Predict If a Borrower Will Pay You Back http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/05/what-the-words-you-use-in-a-loan-application-reveal.html
Sun Awareness Week: 10 new sun safety myths debunked http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2017/05/08/sun-awareness-week-10-new-sun-safety-myths-debunked/
The power of positive messages
This question is not new. Professionals in many fields have to consider how to frame their messages to maximize their impact. For example, public health agencies can make positive recommendations that emphasize benefits of being disease-free, or use negative messages that focus on the consequences of disease. A 2008 meta-analysis of 60 health communication studies concluded that messages focused on loss were less likely to be effective than positive messages. https://m.phys.org/news/2017-05-optimistic-stories-people-nature.html
None of the herbal supplements were really as claimed
May 9, 2017 - 06:20
When scientist conducted DNA analyses of some dietary supplements allegedly containing St. John’s wort they found that none contained what their list of ingredients claimed. http://sciencenordic.com/none-herbal-supplements-were-really-claimed
Goodale said the aging effect of a smile stems from people's inability to ignore the wrinkles that form around the eyes during smiling. A look of surprise, on the other hand, smooths any wrinkles.
"It may seem counter-intuitive, but the study shows that people can sincerely believe one thing and then behave in a completely different way," Goodale said. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170509132835.htm
Dr. Mari-Beffa sees speaking out loud as an extension of our inner silent talk, which has been shown to help us organize thoughts, emotions and memories, as well as plan actions.
She cites athletes, especially tennis players, who talk to themselves in stressful moments. They use spoken self-instructions to help focus their minds and motivate themselves to achieve specific goals. http://bigthink.com/paul-ratnewhy-talking-to-yourself-out-loud-might-be-just-what-your-brain-needs
the DASH diet was originally designed to treat and prevent high blood pressure, but now it’s health benefits have been noted to reach much further, such as weight loss and now gout In addition, http://www.medicaldaily.com/dash-diet-rich-fruit-and-veggies-may-prevent-and-even-control-gout-417167
Almost one-third of new drugs approved by U.S. regulators over a decade ended up years later with warnings about unexpected — sometimes life-threatening — side effects or complications, according to a new analysis in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-fda-drugs-safety-20170509-story.html
The Best Strategy for Choosing Friends Is to Aim for ‘Good Enough’ http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/05/the-best-strategy-for-picking-friends-aim-for-good-enough.html
More Intense Exercise May Slow Cellular Aging https://psychcentral.com/news/2017/05/11/more-intense-exercise-may-slow-cellular-aging/120385.html
Using C-LEARN, people who have no experience with computer programming can teach a robot how to perform a task—like dropping a flask into a bucket, or pulling a rod from a container—by providing it with some basic rules about the task, and allowing the robot to view a single demonstration of the task being completed.
Incredibly, a robot can then transfer this newly-acquired knowledge to another robot, even if the robot learning is physically different than the robot teaching. Eventually, the C-LEARN system could allow factories to utilise a host of different robot types, and not have to worry about programming each and every one of them individually. http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/05/robots-have-started-teaching-other-robots-new-skills/
2013 Prior research has already shown that plants use circadian rhythms to help them judge when to turn on their chemical defenses. Some plants release these beneficial chemicals to fend off bugs in the field or cope with the stresses of heat or drought.
"And sure enough we found that when we put the plants under light-dark cycles, we found periods of accumulation of those [beneficial] chemicals," explains Braam.
The peak of the compounds came in the afternoon, in the hours before dusk.
They were "significantly higher in the day," Braam says — about twice as high. It was as if the plants were still alive, even though they're no longer attached to their roots or the earth. http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/06/20/193829029/how-circadian-rhythms-give-vegetables-a-healthy-boost
“If wild fish are to be eaten raw or lightly cooked, ensure that all parts, especially the thickest part, have been frozen for at least four days in a domestic freezer at -15C or colder. This will ensure that any undetected Anisakis larvae are killed.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/12/popularity-of-sushi-has-brought-rise-in-parasitic-infections-warn-doctors-anisakiasis
"Photographs were shown to be more credible, but cartoons were more likely to change behavior," says U of I agricultural communications professor Lulu Rodriguez who led the study. "A cartoon grabs people's attention long enough to deliver the message. That's what you need in today's message-heavy atmosphere. https://phys.org/news/2017-05-photos-credible-cartoons-persuasive.html
Tired and low on energy? Here are some nondrug remedies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/tired-and-low-on-energy-here-are-some-nondrug-remedies/2017/05/12/9aecada0-0e5b-11e7-9b0d-d27c98455440_story.html
Efficacy and Safety of Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal) Root Extract in Improving Memory and Cognitive Functions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28471731
Research suggests link between imbalanced gut microbiome and systemic sclerosis https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/uoc--rsl051117.php
Researchers Find Gut Bacteria Can Trigger Brain Lesions That Lead to Strokes
Another connection between the gut and the brain. http://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-find-gut-bacteria-can-trigger-brain-lesions-that-lead-to-strokes
Almost 2,000 new species of plant have been discovered in the past year, according to a report by The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.
Many have potential as food crops, medicines or sources of timber.
However, scientists say some of the newly-discovered plants are already at risk of extinction. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39897119
What do the black bars look like on TVs with different aspect ratios? http://ca.rtings.com/tv/learn/what-is-the-aspect-ratio-4-3-16-9-21-9
TV Size to Distance Calculator and Science http://ca.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship
For The First Time, Physicists Have Observed a Giant Magnetic 'Bridge' Between Galaxies http://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-physicists-have-observed-the-giant-magnetic-bridget-that-connects-the-milky-way-to-other-galaxies
“Our studies suggest that sleep loss favours weight gain in humans. It is therefore fair to say that improving sleep could be a promising lifestyle intervention to reduce the risk of future weight gain,” https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/20/sleep-deprivation-link-obesity-research
Neuroimaging shows increased blood flow in regions of the brain associated with memory and learning for people with higher omega-3 levels https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170519124034.htm
Eat more seafood for your health, right? Actually, it’s not that simple. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/eat-more-seafood-for-your-health-right-actually-its-not-that-simple/2017/05/19/4e0e8564-26cd-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html
The importance of play for children is well documented. Now researchers are turning their attention to its possible benefits for adults. What they’re finding is that play isn’t just about goofing off; it can also be an important means of reducing stress andcontributing to overall well-being. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-its-good-for-grown-ups-to-go-play/2017/05/19/99810292-fd1f-11e6-8ebe-6e0dbe4f2bca_story.html
fact, exposure to high amounts of light throughout the day day, to about 5 p.m., was associated with better sleep and less depression overall. http://www.medicaldaily.com/more-light-throughout-day-and-less-during-evening-improves-sleep-quality-cuts-417668
Mushrooms are healthier when grilled or microwaved http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/05/19/Mushrooms-are-healthier-when-grilled-or-microwaved/8381495221179/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=1
Mushrooms, especially enoki, maitake and oyster, may have anti-cancer and immune-boosting benefits. A 2016 study in the Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention found that the lectins in oyster mushrooms may help reduce the toxic impact of arsenic on the liver and kidneys. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/to-improve-your-diet-know-these-four-food-myths/2017/05/19/d0781d00-2522-11e7-bb9d-8cd6118e1409_story.html
One takeaway is to start asking ourselves “what” questions instead of “why” questions. Instead of “why am I like this, why am I sabotaging my relationships?” I can say, “ What am I going to do about it? What do I want out of this relationship?” When we do that it starts to focus on what we can control. It focuses on the future. It focuses us on action, that’s where there really has been a lot of evidence that we can get a lot of insight. https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/21/15660894/insight-self-awareness-psychology-tasha-eurich-interview
Watch out in a world of connected objects, cyber specialists warn https://m.phys.org/news/2017-05-world-cyber-specialists.html
Researchers still aren't sure why this type of exercise appears to provide a boost to the brain, but studies suggest it has to do with increased blood flow, which provides our minds with fresh energy and oxygen. And one recent study in older women who displayed potential symptoms of dementia found that aerobic exercise was linked with an increase in the size of the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory. http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-single-best-type-of-exercise-for-your-brain-according-to-scientists/
A new study shows that so-called "light" cigarettes have no health benefits to smokers and have likely contributed to the rise of a certain form of lung cancer that occurs deep in the lungs.
Researchers hypothesized that the higher incidence rates of lung adenocarcinoma were attributable to the filter ventilation holes, which allow smokers to inhale more smoke that also has higher levels of carcinogens, mutagens and other toxins. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/osuw-ril051717.php
Pediatricians Advise No Fruit Juice Until Kids Are 1 For children over 1 year old, pediatricians strongly recommend whole fruit instead of juice, because it contains fiber, which slows the absorption of sugar and fills you up the way juice doesn't. http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/05/22/528970924/pediatricians-advise-no-fruit-juice-until-kids-are-1
Is your garden being taken over by franken flowers? If you’ve got orange petunias, it almost certainly is - and it’s proof of a disturbing GM invasion by stealth http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4528436/Advice-gardenders-facing-GM-invasion.html
Food is not just the sum of its nutrients https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/fos--fin052217.php
Learning to read rewires the brain in just six months http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4538816/Learning-read-adulthoood-transforms-brain-study.html
Google has banned an army of Android apps that use ultrasonic sounds to spy on users without their knowledge http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4540752/Google-BANS-Android-apps-use-ultrasonic-sounds-spy.html
New research takes a closer look at how music influences the mood in people suffering from depression, and examines what factors might affect whether listening to sad music in group settings provides social benefits for listeners, or if it rather reinforces depressive tendencies. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170524101507.htm
3 Key Lifestyle Factors Can Lower Breast Cancer Odds
Stay trim, exercise and cut back on drinking, review findings suggest https://consumer.healthday.com/cancer-information-5/breast-cancer-news-94/3-key-lifestyle-factors-can-lower-breast-cancer-odds-722934.html
Cashing in on emotions: How pharma profits from medicalizing the normal spectrum of feelings https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2017/05/pba/
2of2 A 2016 study found that cooking vegetables in olive oilmight increase their phenolic compounds (also found in green tea), which are associated with a decreased risk of certain cancers. At the same time, however, otherstudies have shown that boiling vegetables degrades Vitamins B and C and other water-soluble compounds. http://www.popsci.com/healthiest-mushroom?dom=rss-default&src=syn
The US Library of Congress Just Put 25 Million Records Online, Free of Charge http://www.sciencealert.com/the-us-library-of-congress-just-put-25-million-records-online-free-of-charge
To Make the Weekend Last Longer, Try Something New http://nymag.com/scienceofus/article/how-to-make-the-weekend-last-longer.html
Tai Chi Relieves Depression in Chinese Americans https://psychcentral.com/news/2017/05/26/tai-chi-relieves-depression-in-chinese-americans/121103.html
The Brain Literally Starts Eating Itself When It Doesn't Get Enough Sleep http://www.sciencealert.com/the-brain-literally-starts-eating-itself-when-it-doesn-t-get-enough-sleep
House centipedes (Scutigera coleoptrata) tend to lurk in the humid areas of homes looking for prey, including cockroaches, termites, spiders, and silverfish. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a26658/never-kill-a-house-centipede/
Common artificial sweetener likely a safe, effective birth control and pesticide https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170523104337.htm
say there's no single type of exercise that's considered "the best." The most important thing is that you like the activity you choose to do.
Here on this page, we've pulled together important information on some of the most common outdoor activities, as well as tips on how to stay motivated and avoid health risks while you exercise outdoors this summer. http://www.livescience.com/59288-best-outdoor-activities-exercise.html
Memorial Day 2017 Cookout Ideas: The Healthiest Ways To Cook These 6 Foods, Based On Science http://www.medicaldaily.com/memorial-day-2017-cookout-ideas-healthiest-ways-cook-these-6-foods-based-418058
2of2 different way to cook rice that cuts the calories by half.
Here's what you need to do
Add a teaspoon of coconut oil to boiling waterAdd half a cup of rice.Boil it till cookedYou can then heat the rice as and when required
Yes, it is really that simple. The oil enters the starch granules while the rice is being cooked and changes the structure making it resistant to digestive enzymes due to which fewer calories are absorbed in the body. http://www.ibtimes.co.in/love-rice-worried-about-calories-this-ingredient-may-just-be-what-you-need-728321
Shopping Hungry? Psychology Trick Could Stifle Bad Food Choices http://www.livescience.com/59285-shopping-hungry-mental-tricks.html
Rub on pain products – what you need to know http://theconversation.com/rub-on-pain-products-what-you-need-to-know-78057
Human vision keeps developing until mid-life: study Though the research is isolated to the visual cortex, it suggests that other areas of the brain may also be much more plastic for much longer than previously thought, http://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/science/human-vision-keeps-developing-until-mid-life-study/692552/
Second Thoughts on Whether Self-Knowledge Is Overrated https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/second-thoughts-on-whether-self-knowledge-is-overrated/
The results show that there are epigenetic changes in women consuming tea, but not in men. Interestingly, many of these epigenetic changes were found in genes involved in cancer and estrogen metabolism. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/uu-tcl053117.php
Infographic: A Body Without Food
Mounting evidence suggests that intermittent fasting causes significant changes to various organs and tissue types. http://mobile.the-scientist.com/article/49505/infographic-a-body-without-food
Chemicals In Nail Polish, Shampoo, And Other Products May Lead To Thyroid Issues In Girls http://www.medicaldaily.com/chemicals-nail-polish-shampoo-and-other-products-may-lead-thyroid-issues-girls-418275
On such impressions elections might turn. https://aeon.co/essays/judgment-of-political-competence-takes-a-10th-of-a-second
Research shows if you improve the air quality at work, you improve productivity https://m.phys.org/news/2017-05-air-quality-productivity.html
Pretending You’re Someone Else Can Make You More Creative http://nymag.com/scienceofus/article/pretending-youre-someone-else-can-make-you-more-creative.html
Uncovering why playing a musical instrument can protect brain health https://scienceblog.com/494300/uncovering-playing-musical-instrument-can-protect-brain-health/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+%28ScienceBlog.com%29
How chemicals in shampoo, booze and car fumes cause cancer by damaging our ability to repair faults in our genes Aldehydes http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4564636/Car-fumes-trendy-wood-burners-causes-cancer.html
You don't need to scald your hands to get rid of germs. For effective hand hygiene, water temperature matters less than time, new research states https://consumer.healthday.com/general-health-information-16/hygiene-health-news-396/hand-washing-works-whether-the-water-s-hot-or-cold-723185.html
When men postpone meal times, it delays one of the body's clocks, British researchers say, a finding that sheds light on a potential way to overcome jet lag and health harms for shift workers. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/health/body-clock-meal-timing-1.4141892
The Omentum: A Curtain of Tissue That Keeps Our Guts Working http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/06/01/the-omentum-tissue/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20DiscoverHealthMedicine%20%28Discover%20Health%20%26%20Medicine%29
Evidence grows linking grilled meat and cancer, but you can lower the riskhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/evidence-grows-linking-grilled-meat-and-cancer-but-you-can-lower-the-risk/2017/06/02/f946078c-4549-11e7-a196-a1bb629f64cb_story.html
A compound found in olive oil may help to prevent cancer developing in the brain, a study shows https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170602112837.htm
"An unhealthy-looking face, whether due to sleep deprivation or otherwise, might activate disease-avoiding mechanisms in others." http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/science/scientists-suggests-beauty-sleep-actually-works/article/494197
In humans, the master clock is thought to be located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus - part of the brain's hypothalamus region, made up of around 20,000 neurons.
This region uses cues such as daylight to figure out when we should be sleepy and when we should be wakeful. http://www.sciencealert.com/study-points-to-the-master-clock-that-could-control-our-circadian-rhythms
"These results support the idea that each memory is encoded by a unique firing pattern of individual neurons in the brain," https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170602112806.htm
“Specifically, the siblings with ASD ( autism ) had higher uptake of the neurotoxin lead, and reduced uptake of the essential elements manganese and zinc, during late pregnancy and the first few months after birth, as evidenced through analysis of their baby teeth. Furthermore, metal levels at three months after birth were shown to be predictive of the severity of ASD eight to ten years later in life.” http://waxra.com/exposure-specific-toxins-nutrients-late-pregnancy-early-life-correlate-autism-risk
Mystery of why Cook pine trees can't grow straight is finally solved: The plants ALWAYS lean towards the equator because they get more sun http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4572940/Scientists-solve-reason-Pine-trees-point-equator.html
Lactobacillus from yogurt inhibits multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/asfm-lfy060317.php
Consumer products maker SC Johnson and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), an advocacy group, have separately undertaken initiatives seeking to limit consumer exposure to potentially harmful additives in consumer products. http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i23/Consumer-product-additives-examined.html
Aspirin does little or nothing for hard arteries, University of Florida researchers find https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/uof-adl060517.php
Why we can't trust academic journals to tell the scientific truth https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2017/jun/06/why-we-cant-trust-academic-journals-to-tell-the-scientific-truth
Plants have cells that function as a 'brain' and are able to PREDICT the weather in order to decide the best time to sprout http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4576348/Scientists-discover-plant-brain-controls-germination.html
Plants release chemicals into the soil, called exudates, that tell microbes to turn on or turn off certain chemical processes https://m.phys.org/news/2017-06-conversation-soil.html
Memory loss and other cognitive decline linked to blood vessel disease in the brain https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/luhs-mla060517.php
Bread and health: A personal matter https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/wios-bah060717.php
Children with overweight or obesity who were recruited for the study were given a prebiotic fibre, oligofructose-enriched inulin, for 16 weeks https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/uoc-nso060717.php
Prebiotics reduce body fat in overweight children https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/aga-prb060717.php
Red onions pack a cancer-fighting punch, study reveals
University of Guelph researchers are the first to discover Ontario-grown red onions have the strongest cancer-fighting power
and discovered the Ruby Ring onion variety came out on top. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/uog-rop060717.php
Blustery Winds Push European Energy Prices…Negative http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/06/08/winds-european-energy-prices/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20DiscoverEnvironment%20%28Discover%20Environment%29
The results provide evidence of a modest increased risk of Parkinson's with greater consumption of low-fat dairy products. Such dairy products, which are widely consumed, could potentially be a modifiable risk factor for the disease."
As pat of the study full-fat dairy, as whole milk, was examined to see if there was an associated with a risk of Parkinson's disease. The study concluded there was no association.
It is important to point out that the findings do not show that dairy products cause Parkinson's disease. What the study results indelicate is an association, http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/science/consuming-low-fat-dairy-possibly-linked-with-parkinson-s-disease/article/494613
shows that timing of meals does in deed matter.
The study is the first of its kind to look at meal timing while controlling for sleep-wake cycles, exercise, and macronutrient intake (the ratio of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats). http://bigthink.com/design-for-good/new-findings-suggest-eating-late-at-night-could-be-more-dangerous-than-you-think
Delaying the introduction of potentially allergenic foods until after a baby's first year may increase the likelihood of a food allergy later on, according to new findings from the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170608123531.htm
Bread and health: A personal matter part 2 ? White bread “healthier” than whole grain? Why readers should avoid these half-baked stories https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2017/06/white-bread-healthier-than-whole-grain-why-readers-should-avoid-these-half-baked-stories/
Culprit hidden in plain sight in Alzheimer disease development Combustion-derived nanoparticles https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170608123521.htm
Smiling during victory could hurt your future chances of cooperation, USC researchers find http://news.usc.edu/122782/smiling-during-victory-could-hurt-your-future-chances-of-cooperation-usc-researchers-find/
shows the sense is equally strong in dogs and wolves, suggesting a sense of fairness is wired in the genes of canines. http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/06/08/Dogs-and-wolves-have-an-innate-sense-of-inequity/9881496953694/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=1
Don’t try to wrong a raven, not even once. It’s not going to forget and it’s probably going to shun you for a long time. https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/9/15768336/raven-grudge-fairness-social-hierarchy-animal-behavior
Evaporative cooling techniques have been around for centuries. Stone frescoes from Egypt that date to 2500 B.C.E. depict slaves fanning a stoneware jar to cool its contents. Leonardo da Vinci also experimented with evaporative techniques, and so did Benjamin Franklin. But then electricity came along, as did the refrigerator and evaporative cooling seemed to fade into history.
Then, in the late 1990s, a Nigerian man named Mohammed Bah Abba revived the ancient technology of the clay pot-in-pot system. Still in use today http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/edible-innovations/electricity-free-fridge-could-change-millions-lives.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1
The “social” facilitation of eating without the presence of others: Self-reflection on eating makes food taste better and people eat more http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031938417301506
Experts say older people who lose things do not pay enough attention when putting objects downThey added the best way to remember is to make up a poem about the locationThe alternative is to concentrate without any distractions on where you put them http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4589624/Create-poem-stop-forgetfulness.html
and identified the exact point in the exercise where gut damage started to take effect.
"Exercise stress of 2 or more hours at 60 percent VO2 max [the level of oxygen consumption] appeared to be the threshold whereby significant gut disturbances arise, irrespective of an individual's fitness status," http://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-another-reason-too-much-exercise-could-be-bad-for-you
The Biggest Reason You Gain Weight as You Age Has Nothing to Do With Your Metabolism http://www.sciencealert.com/the-biggest-reason-you-gain-weight-as-you-age-has-nothing-to-do-with-your-metabolism
Though the ties to industry and the study limitations are of concern, Maguire did offer this helpful tip: when making nutrition decisions, make sure to read the fine print on food labels. The same can be said of nutrition research. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/milk-alternatives-stunt-kids-height-says-doctor-with-dairy-industry-ties/
The big business of disinformation And Sepúlveda isn't alone. A global industry has emerged selling over-the-counter digital propaganda. On the dark net, you'll find the 'HUGE MEGA BOT PACK'. It's got YouTube liker bots, SoundCloud auto-likers, Amazon account creators and more. Tweet-AttacksPro, meanwhile, sells software to run thousands of Twitter followers at once. There are services for creating content, making it more visible and more popular, and they range from cheap and cheerful to expensive and bespoke. http://www.wired.co.uk/article/carl-miller-disinformation-gets-commercialised
Leaders Who Take Moral Stance, Then Change Their Minds are Judged Harshly https://psychcentral.com/news/2017/06/11/leaders-who-take-a-moral-stance-then-change-their-minds-are-judged-harshly/121761.html
“Our study suggests that political belief polarization may emerge because of peoples’ conflicting desires, not their conflicting beliefs per se,” he and his co-authors added in a story published last month by theNew York Times. “This is rather troubling, as it implies that even if we were to escape from our political echo chambers, it wouldn’t help much. Short of changing what people want to believe, we must find other ways to unify our perceptions of reality.” http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1113418252/politics-polarization-science-policy/
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Spermidine—a compound found in foods like aged cheese, mushrooms, soy products, legumes, corn and whole grains—seems to prevent (at least in animal models) liver fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, which is the most common type of liver cancer. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170421091816.htm
Toxic fumes more deadly inside a car than on the pavement, researchers sayBeing inside a car can expose you to 10 times the amount of fumes you would experience outside. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/toxic-fumes-more-deadly-inside-car-pavement-researchers-say-1618240
The Best Way to Follow Your Dreams Is by Keeping Your Day Job http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/04/the-best-way-to-follow-your-dreams-is-keeping-your-day-job.html
Hungry stomach hormone promotes growth of new brain cells https://www.newscientist.com/article/2128695-hungry-stomach-hormone-promotes-growth-of-new-brain-cells/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=news&campaign_id=RSS%7CNSNS-news
New research suggests bacteria in the gut has a strong influence on an animal's dietary decisions. http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/04/26/Gut-bacteria-dictates-diet-appetite/8851493209463/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=1
Italian-style coffee reduces the risk of prostate cancer https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/inmn-icr042517.php
Major health benefits linked to indoor temperature variation, study findsExposure to environments outside a comfortable temperature could help tackle major metabolic diseases, such as diabetes and obesity https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170426092347.htm
Now a University of Colorado Boulder study finds that the placebo effect can reduce the intensity of social pain from a romantic breakup. It turns out that just believing you’re doing something to help yourself get over your ex can influence brain regions associated with emotional regulation and lessen the perception of pain. https://psychcentral.com/news/2017/04/25/placebo-effect-can-help-fix-a-broken-heart/119621.html
A study in rats, published in Experimental Physiology, showed that resistance exercise recovers memory and motor impairment caused by the flavour enhancer monosodium glutamate. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/tps-rer042417.php
How healthy is going barefoot? http://www.dw.com/en/how-healthy-is-going-barefoot/a-18656555
said: "Our previous study demonstrated the aroma of rosemary essential oil could enhance cognition in healthy adults. Knowing how important working memory is in academic achievement we wanted to see if similar effects could be found in school age children in classroom settings." https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170502204545.htm
Researchers hope their findings will discourage parents from letting their child use any type of screen media before 18 months http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4473280/Handheld-devices-30-MINUTES-day-stunts-speech.html
The United States of America is a highly medicated country: almost seven in 10 Americans take prescription drugs. That translates to 4.4 billion prescriptions and nearly $310 billion spent on medication in 2015. Painkillers, cholesterol-lowering medications, and antidepressants top the list ofdrugs most commonly prescribed by doctors.
Needless to say, the work of biologists like Lee may prove to be crucial.
Where drugs go after we’re done with them
Americans aren’t just putting these drugs into their bodies; they’re also putting more drugs into the environment.https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/amphetamines-in-the-water-the-research-bathtubs-saving-our-ecosystems/
One in four Americans drink water that fails safety standards http://www.popsci.com/drinking-water-standards?dom=rss-default&src=syn
Do You Know What’s In Your Water? http://www.science20.com/steve_hentges/do_you_know_whats_in_your_water-225060
Hard to grasp, but true: Google and other large firms are donating large sums of money to the climate skeptic scene. How does that square with an otherwise meticulously managed image as an ecological innovator? http://www.dw.com/en/why-are-google-and-facebook-financing-climate-skeptics/a-38631389
How Consumer Pressure On The Soy Industry Stopped Killing The Amazon http://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-consumer-pressure-on-the-soy-industry-stopped-killing-the-amazon/
New research shows illegal levels of arsenic found in baby foods https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170504161538.htm
Announcing the DiRT Award, a new “doing the right thing” prize — and its first recipient http://retractionwatch.com/2017/05/05/announcing-new-right-thing-award-first-recipient/
Worrying about the risk of future regret is a rubbish way to spend your time, and therefore something you’re likely to regret https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/05/stop-worrying-about-future-regrets-change-your-life-oliver-burkeman
have joined forces to come up with the first ever “risk index” based on natural hazards for more than 7000 wine-producing regions worldwide. The team assembled maps of climate- and non-climate-related hazards and combined the data to calculate an overall risk index, http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/these-winemaking-regions-are-most-risk-natural-hazards
So until we’ve got some more solid, evidence-based, and long-term studies on what effect flossing and brushing have on our teeth, it’s best to keep your oral hygiene routine as delicate as possible. http://www.popsci.com/scientifically-brush-and-floss-teeth?dom=rss-default&src=syn
This finding not only enhances our understanding of the development of blood cells, it also sheds new light on prior studies that demonstrate that vitamin A deficiency impairs the immune system. "This shows how vitally important it is to have a sufficient intake of vitamin A from a balanced diet," Cabezas-Wallscheid emphasized. The body cannot produce its own vitamin A.
The scientists also have hopes for new prospects in cancer treatment. There is evidence that cancer cells, like healthy stem cells, also rest in a state of dormancy. When dormant, their metabolism is almost completely shut down -- and this makes them resistant to chemotherapy. "Once we understand in detail how vitamin A or retinoic acid, respectively, sends normal and malignant stem cells into dormancy, we can try to turn the tables," explained Trumpp. "If we could make cancer cells temporarily enter an active state, we could thus make them vulnerable to modern therapies." https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170505112612.htm
Tricking Your Mind Into Falling Asleep: Placebo Eases Insomnia Symptoms, Review Says http://www.medicaldaily.com/tricking-your-mind-falling-asleep-placebo-eases-insomnia-symptoms-review-says-416934
The orange essential plant oil showed a significant effect on the behavioral response in our study mice.
This is promising, because it shows that passively inhaling this essential oil could potentially assuage PTSD symptoms in humans.”
People already use many different essential oils for therapeutic purposes.
Sometime they are diffused in to the air, sometimes applied to the skin and they can also be consumed in foods. http://www.spring.org.uk/2017/05/the-essential-oilfruit-that-may-help-fight-ptsd.php
Lasers print ultra high-res images narrower than a human hair https://www.newscientist.com/article/2130151-lasers-print-ultra-high-res-images-narrower-than-a-human-hai?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=technology&campaign_id=RSS%7CNSNS-technology
To get more gut-boosting bacteria, consider incorporating these three probiotic foods into your day... ... Prebiotics have benefits, too
What do asparagus, garlic, Jerusalem artichokes, leeks, onions and whole wheat have in common? In addition to being the makings of a tasty dish, they contain specific types of fiber that act as what are called prebiotics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-fermented-foods--sauerkraut-kimchi-and-yogurt--are-good-for-your-gut/2017/05/05/dd0c9a62-0e4a-11e7-9b0d-d27c98455440_story.html
So think twice the next time you consider buying a case of bottled water. To double check that your local tap water is clean, look up your region's Consumer Confidence Report with the link below. If you can't find it, contact your local representative. http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/16-facts-that-show-why-bottled-water-is-one-of-the-biggest-scams-of-the-century/all/
5 Vitamin Deficiency Symptoms On Your Face And How To Fix Them With Healing Foods http://www.medicaldaily.com/5-vitamin-deficiency-symptoms-your-face-and-how-fix-them-healing-foods-417009
“Physically-active video games have, according to our research, greater impact on brain functioning than regular physical activity alone – suggesting that their benefits are more than just moving around,” he said.
Further research needs to be done, but exergames, as they’re known, may have a significant impact on helping those with neurological problems. ... "In most cases you'll find it's better than watching television, or as a replacement for other sedentary behaviors, but most (studies) agree it should not replace play and sport activities," http://www.medicaldaily.com/fitness-video-games-may-be-good-cognitive-performance-enhanced-memory-416963
Lycopene and tomato powder supplementation similarly inhibit high-fat diet induced obesity, inflammatory response, and associated metabolic disorders. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28267248
Poor overall environmental quality linked to elevated cancer rates ... Previous research has shown that genetics can be blamed for only about half of all cancers, suggesting that exposure to environmental toxins or socioeconomic factors may also play a role. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/uoia-poe050817.php
Farming practices that involve no-tillage, Conservation Agriculture and shallow non-inversion tillage were shown to significantly increase earthworm populations. The scientists note that these reduced tillage practices are increasingly being adopted world-wide due to their environmental benefits in terms of erosion control and soil protection. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/ucd-tfd050817.php
The Words You Use in a Loan Application Are More Revealing Than You Think How to Predict If a Borrower Will Pay You Back http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/05/what-the-words-you-use-in-a-loan-application-reveal.html
Sun Awareness Week: 10 new sun safety myths debunked http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2017/05/08/sun-awareness-week-10-new-sun-safety-myths-debunked/
The power of positive messages
This question is not new. Professionals in many fields have to consider how to frame their messages to maximize their impact. For example, public health agencies can make positive recommendations that emphasize benefits of being disease-free, or use negative messages that focus on the consequences of disease. A 2008 meta-analysis of 60 health communication studies concluded that messages focused on loss were less likely to be effective than positive messages. https://m.phys.org/news/2017-05-optimistic-stories-people-nature.html
None of the herbal supplements were really as claimed
May 9, 2017 - 06:20
When scientist conducted DNA analyses of some dietary supplements allegedly containing St. John’s wort they found that none contained what their list of ingredients claimed. http://sciencenordic.com/none-herbal-supplements-were-really-claimed
Goodale said the aging effect of a smile stems from people's inability to ignore the wrinkles that form around the eyes during smiling. A look of surprise, on the other hand, smooths any wrinkles.
"It may seem counter-intuitive, but the study shows that people can sincerely believe one thing and then behave in a completely different way," Goodale said. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170509132835.htm
Dr. Mari-Beffa sees speaking out loud as an extension of our inner silent talk, which has been shown to help us organize thoughts, emotions and memories, as well as plan actions.
She cites athletes, especially tennis players, who talk to themselves in stressful moments. They use spoken self-instructions to help focus their minds and motivate themselves to achieve specific goals. http://bigthink.com/paul-ratnewhy-talking-to-yourself-out-loud-might-be-just-what-your-brain-needs
the DASH diet was originally designed to treat and prevent high blood pressure, but now it’s health benefits have been noted to reach much further, such as weight loss and now gout In addition, http://www.medicaldaily.com/dash-diet-rich-fruit-and-veggies-may-prevent-and-even-control-gout-417167
Almost one-third of new drugs approved by U.S. regulators over a decade ended up years later with warnings about unexpected — sometimes life-threatening — side effects or complications, according to a new analysis in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-fda-drugs-safety-20170509-story.html
The Best Strategy for Choosing Friends Is to Aim for ‘Good Enough’ http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/05/the-best-strategy-for-picking-friends-aim-for-good-enough.html
More Intense Exercise May Slow Cellular Aging https://psychcentral.com/news/2017/05/11/more-intense-exercise-may-slow-cellular-aging/120385.html
Using C-LEARN, people who have no experience with computer programming can teach a robot how to perform a task—like dropping a flask into a bucket, or pulling a rod from a container—by providing it with some basic rules about the task, and allowing the robot to view a single demonstration of the task being completed.
Incredibly, a robot can then transfer this newly-acquired knowledge to another robot, even if the robot learning is physically different than the robot teaching. Eventually, the C-LEARN system could allow factories to utilise a host of different robot types, and not have to worry about programming each and every one of them individually. http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/05/robots-have-started-teaching-other-robots-new-skills/
2013 Prior research has already shown that plants use circadian rhythms to help them judge when to turn on their chemical defenses. Some plants release these beneficial chemicals to fend off bugs in the field or cope with the stresses of heat or drought.
"And sure enough we found that when we put the plants under light-dark cycles, we found periods of accumulation of those [beneficial] chemicals," explains Braam.
The peak of the compounds came in the afternoon, in the hours before dusk.
They were "significantly higher in the day," Braam says — about twice as high. It was as if the plants were still alive, even though they're no longer attached to their roots or the earth. http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/06/20/193829029/how-circadian-rhythms-give-vegetables-a-healthy-boost
“If wild fish are to be eaten raw or lightly cooked, ensure that all parts, especially the thickest part, have been frozen for at least four days in a domestic freezer at -15C or colder. This will ensure that any undetected Anisakis larvae are killed.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/12/popularity-of-sushi-has-brought-rise-in-parasitic-infections-warn-doctors-anisakiasis
"Photographs were shown to be more credible, but cartoons were more likely to change behavior," says U of I agricultural communications professor Lulu Rodriguez who led the study. "A cartoon grabs people's attention long enough to deliver the message. That's what you need in today's message-heavy atmosphere. https://phys.org/news/2017-05-photos-credible-cartoons-persuasive.html
Tired and low on energy? Here are some nondrug remedies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/tired-and-low-on-energy-here-are-some-nondrug-remedies/2017/05/12/9aecada0-0e5b-11e7-9b0d-d27c98455440_story.html
Efficacy and Safety of Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal) Root Extract in Improving Memory and Cognitive Functions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28471731
Research suggests link between imbalanced gut microbiome and systemic sclerosis https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/uoc--rsl051117.php
Researchers Find Gut Bacteria Can Trigger Brain Lesions That Lead to Strokes
Another connection between the gut and the brain. http://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-find-gut-bacteria-can-trigger-brain-lesions-that-lead-to-strokes
Almost 2,000 new species of plant have been discovered in the past year, according to a report by The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.
Many have potential as food crops, medicines or sources of timber.
However, scientists say some of the newly-discovered plants are already at risk of extinction. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39897119
What do the black bars look like on TVs with different aspect ratios? http://ca.rtings.com/tv/learn/what-is-the-aspect-ratio-4-3-16-9-21-9
TV Size to Distance Calculator and Science http://ca.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship
For The First Time, Physicists Have Observed a Giant Magnetic 'Bridge' Between Galaxies http://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-physicists-have-observed-the-giant-magnetic-bridget-that-connects-the-milky-way-to-other-galaxies
“Our studies suggest that sleep loss favours weight gain in humans. It is therefore fair to say that improving sleep could be a promising lifestyle intervention to reduce the risk of future weight gain,” https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/20/sleep-deprivation-link-obesity-research
Neuroimaging shows increased blood flow in regions of the brain associated with memory and learning for people with higher omega-3 levels https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170519124034.htm
Eat more seafood for your health, right? Actually, it’s not that simple. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/eat-more-seafood-for-your-health-right-actually-its-not-that-simple/2017/05/19/4e0e8564-26cd-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html
The importance of play for children is well documented. Now researchers are turning their attention to its possible benefits for adults. What they’re finding is that play isn’t just about goofing off; it can also be an important means of reducing stress andcontributing to overall well-being. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-its-good-for-grown-ups-to-go-play/2017/05/19/99810292-fd1f-11e6-8ebe-6e0dbe4f2bca_story.html
fact, exposure to high amounts of light throughout the day day, to about 5 p.m., was associated with better sleep and less depression overall. http://www.medicaldaily.com/more-light-throughout-day-and-less-during-evening-improves-sleep-quality-cuts-417668
Mushrooms are healthier when grilled or microwaved http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/05/19/Mushrooms-are-healthier-when-grilled-or-microwaved/8381495221179/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=1
Mushrooms, especially enoki, maitake and oyster, may have anti-cancer and immune-boosting benefits. A 2016 study in the Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention found that the lectins in oyster mushrooms may help reduce the toxic impact of arsenic on the liver and kidneys. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/to-improve-your-diet-know-these-four-food-myths/2017/05/19/d0781d00-2522-11e7-bb9d-8cd6118e1409_story.html
One takeaway is to start asking ourselves “what” questions instead of “why” questions. Instead of “why am I like this, why am I sabotaging my relationships?” I can say, “ What am I going to do about it? What do I want out of this relationship?” When we do that it starts to focus on what we can control. It focuses on the future. It focuses us on action, that’s where there really has been a lot of evidence that we can get a lot of insight. https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/21/15660894/insight-self-awareness-psychology-tasha-eurich-interview
Watch out in a world of connected objects, cyber specialists warn https://m.phys.org/news/2017-05-world-cyber-specialists.html
Researchers still aren't sure why this type of exercise appears to provide a boost to the brain, but studies suggest it has to do with increased blood flow, which provides our minds with fresh energy and oxygen. And one recent study in older women who displayed potential symptoms of dementia found that aerobic exercise was linked with an increase in the size of the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory. http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-single-best-type-of-exercise-for-your-brain-according-to-scientists/
A new study shows that so-called "light" cigarettes have no health benefits to smokers and have likely contributed to the rise of a certain form of lung cancer that occurs deep in the lungs.
Researchers hypothesized that the higher incidence rates of lung adenocarcinoma were attributable to the filter ventilation holes, which allow smokers to inhale more smoke that also has higher levels of carcinogens, mutagens and other toxins. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/osuw-ril051717.php
Pediatricians Advise No Fruit Juice Until Kids Are 1 For children over 1 year old, pediatricians strongly recommend whole fruit instead of juice, because it contains fiber, which slows the absorption of sugar and fills you up the way juice doesn't. http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/05/22/528970924/pediatricians-advise-no-fruit-juice-until-kids-are-1
Is your garden being taken over by franken flowers? If you’ve got orange petunias, it almost certainly is - and it’s proof of a disturbing GM invasion by stealth http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4528436/Advice-gardenders-facing-GM-invasion.html
Food is not just the sum of its nutrients https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/fos--fin052217.php
Learning to read rewires the brain in just six months http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4538816/Learning-read-adulthoood-transforms-brain-study.html
Google has banned an army of Android apps that use ultrasonic sounds to spy on users without their knowledge http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4540752/Google-BANS-Android-apps-use-ultrasonic-sounds-spy.html
New research takes a closer look at how music influences the mood in people suffering from depression, and examines what factors might affect whether listening to sad music in group settings provides social benefits for listeners, or if it rather reinforces depressive tendencies. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170524101507.htm
3 Key Lifestyle Factors Can Lower Breast Cancer Odds
Stay trim, exercise and cut back on drinking, review findings suggest https://consumer.healthday.com/cancer-information-5/breast-cancer-news-94/3-key-lifestyle-factors-can-lower-breast-cancer-odds-722934.html
Cashing in on emotions: How pharma profits from medicalizing the normal spectrum of feelings https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2017/05/pba/
2of2 A 2016 study found that cooking vegetables in olive oilmight increase their phenolic compounds (also found in green tea), which are associated with a decreased risk of certain cancers. At the same time, however, otherstudies have shown that boiling vegetables degrades Vitamins B and C and other water-soluble compounds. http://www.popsci.com/healthiest-mushroom?dom=rss-default&src=syn
The US Library of Congress Just Put 25 Million Records Online, Free of Charge http://www.sciencealert.com/the-us-library-of-congress-just-put-25-million-records-online-free-of-charge
To Make the Weekend Last Longer, Try Something New http://nymag.com/scienceofus/article/how-to-make-the-weekend-last-longer.html
Tai Chi Relieves Depression in Chinese Americans https://psychcentral.com/news/2017/05/26/tai-chi-relieves-depression-in-chinese-americans/121103.html
The Brain Literally Starts Eating Itself When It Doesn't Get Enough Sleep http://www.sciencealert.com/the-brain-literally-starts-eating-itself-when-it-doesn-t-get-enough-sleep
House centipedes (Scutigera coleoptrata) tend to lurk in the humid areas of homes looking for prey, including cockroaches, termites, spiders, and silverfish. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a26658/never-kill-a-house-centipede/
Common artificial sweetener likely a safe, effective birth control and pesticide https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170523104337.htm
say there's no single type of exercise that's considered "the best." The most important thing is that you like the activity you choose to do.
Here on this page, we've pulled together important information on some of the most common outdoor activities, as well as tips on how to stay motivated and avoid health risks while you exercise outdoors this summer. http://www.livescience.com/59288-best-outdoor-activities-exercise.html
Memorial Day 2017 Cookout Ideas: The Healthiest Ways To Cook These 6 Foods, Based On Science http://www.medicaldaily.com/memorial-day-2017-cookout-ideas-healthiest-ways-cook-these-6-foods-based-418058
2of2 different way to cook rice that cuts the calories by half.
Here's what you need to do
Add a teaspoon of coconut oil to boiling waterAdd half a cup of rice.Boil it till cookedYou can then heat the rice as and when required
Yes, it is really that simple. The oil enters the starch granules while the rice is being cooked and changes the structure making it resistant to digestive enzymes due to which fewer calories are absorbed in the body. http://www.ibtimes.co.in/love-rice-worried-about-calories-this-ingredient-may-just-be-what-you-need-728321
Shopping Hungry? Psychology Trick Could Stifle Bad Food Choices http://www.livescience.com/59285-shopping-hungry-mental-tricks.html
Rub on pain products – what you need to know http://theconversation.com/rub-on-pain-products-what-you-need-to-know-78057
Human vision keeps developing until mid-life: study Though the research is isolated to the visual cortex, it suggests that other areas of the brain may also be much more plastic for much longer than previously thought, http://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/science/human-vision-keeps-developing-until-mid-life-study/692552/
Second Thoughts on Whether Self-Knowledge Is Overrated https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/second-thoughts-on-whether-self-knowledge-is-overrated/
The results show that there are epigenetic changes in women consuming tea, but not in men. Interestingly, many of these epigenetic changes were found in genes involved in cancer and estrogen metabolism. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/uu-tcl053117.php
Infographic: A Body Without Food
Mounting evidence suggests that intermittent fasting causes significant changes to various organs and tissue types. http://mobile.the-scientist.com/article/49505/infographic-a-body-without-food
Chemicals In Nail Polish, Shampoo, And Other Products May Lead To Thyroid Issues In Girls http://www.medicaldaily.com/chemicals-nail-polish-shampoo-and-other-products-may-lead-thyroid-issues-girls-418275
On such impressions elections might turn. https://aeon.co/essays/judgment-of-political-competence-takes-a-10th-of-a-second
Research shows if you improve the air quality at work, you improve productivity https://m.phys.org/news/2017-05-air-quality-productivity.html
Pretending You’re Someone Else Can Make You More Creative http://nymag.com/scienceofus/article/pretending-youre-someone-else-can-make-you-more-creative.html
Uncovering why playing a musical instrument can protect brain health https://scienceblog.com/494300/uncovering-playing-musical-instrument-can-protect-brain-health/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+%28ScienceBlog.com%29
How chemicals in shampoo, booze and car fumes cause cancer by damaging our ability to repair faults in our genes Aldehydes http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4564636/Car-fumes-trendy-wood-burners-causes-cancer.html
You don't need to scald your hands to get rid of germs. For effective hand hygiene, water temperature matters less than time, new research states https://consumer.healthday.com/general-health-information-16/hygiene-health-news-396/hand-washing-works-whether-the-water-s-hot-or-cold-723185.html
When men postpone meal times, it delays one of the body's clocks, British researchers say, a finding that sheds light on a potential way to overcome jet lag and health harms for shift workers. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/health/body-clock-meal-timing-1.4141892
The Omentum: A Curtain of Tissue That Keeps Our Guts Working http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/06/01/the-omentum-tissue/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20DiscoverHealthMedicine%20%28Discover%20Health%20%26%20Medicine%29
Evidence grows linking grilled meat and cancer, but you can lower the riskhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/evidence-grows-linking-grilled-meat-and-cancer-but-you-can-lower-the-risk/2017/06/02/f946078c-4549-11e7-a196-a1bb629f64cb_story.html
A compound found in olive oil may help to prevent cancer developing in the brain, a study shows https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170602112837.htm
"An unhealthy-looking face, whether due to sleep deprivation or otherwise, might activate disease-avoiding mechanisms in others." http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/science/scientists-suggests-beauty-sleep-actually-works/article/494197
In humans, the master clock is thought to be located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus - part of the brain's hypothalamus region, made up of around 20,000 neurons.
This region uses cues such as daylight to figure out when we should be sleepy and when we should be wakeful. http://www.sciencealert.com/study-points-to-the-master-clock-that-could-control-our-circadian-rhythms
"These results support the idea that each memory is encoded by a unique firing pattern of individual neurons in the brain," https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170602112806.htm
“Specifically, the siblings with ASD ( autism ) had higher uptake of the neurotoxin lead, and reduced uptake of the essential elements manganese and zinc, during late pregnancy and the first few months after birth, as evidenced through analysis of their baby teeth. Furthermore, metal levels at three months after birth were shown to be predictive of the severity of ASD eight to ten years later in life.” http://waxra.com/exposure-specific-toxins-nutrients-late-pregnancy-early-life-correlate-autism-risk
Mystery of why Cook pine trees can't grow straight is finally solved: The plants ALWAYS lean towards the equator because they get more sun http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4572940/Scientists-solve-reason-Pine-trees-point-equator.html
Lactobacillus from yogurt inhibits multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/asfm-lfy060317.php
Consumer products maker SC Johnson and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), an advocacy group, have separately undertaken initiatives seeking to limit consumer exposure to potentially harmful additives in consumer products. http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i23/Consumer-product-additives-examined.html
Aspirin does little or nothing for hard arteries, University of Florida researchers find https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/uof-adl060517.php
Why we can't trust academic journals to tell the scientific truth https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2017/jun/06/why-we-cant-trust-academic-journals-to-tell-the-scientific-truth
Plants have cells that function as a 'brain' and are able to PREDICT the weather in order to decide the best time to sprout http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4576348/Scientists-discover-plant-brain-controls-germination.html
Plants release chemicals into the soil, called exudates, that tell microbes to turn on or turn off certain chemical processes https://m.phys.org/news/2017-06-conversation-soil.html
Memory loss and other cognitive decline linked to blood vessel disease in the brain https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/luhs-mla060517.php
Bread and health: A personal matter https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/wios-bah060717.php
Children with overweight or obesity who were recruited for the study were given a prebiotic fibre, oligofructose-enriched inulin, for 16 weeks https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/uoc-nso060717.php
Prebiotics reduce body fat in overweight children https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/aga-prb060717.php
Red onions pack a cancer-fighting punch, study reveals
University of Guelph researchers are the first to discover Ontario-grown red onions have the strongest cancer-fighting power
and discovered the Ruby Ring onion variety came out on top. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/uog-rop060717.php
Blustery Winds Push European Energy Prices…Negative http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/06/08/winds-european-energy-prices/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20DiscoverEnvironment%20%28Discover%20Environment%29
The results provide evidence of a modest increased risk of Parkinson's with greater consumption of low-fat dairy products. Such dairy products, which are widely consumed, could potentially be a modifiable risk factor for the disease."
As pat of the study full-fat dairy, as whole milk, was examined to see if there was an associated with a risk of Parkinson's disease. The study concluded there was no association.
It is important to point out that the findings do not show that dairy products cause Parkinson's disease. What the study results indelicate is an association, http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/science/consuming-low-fat-dairy-possibly-linked-with-parkinson-s-disease/article/494613
shows that timing of meals does in deed matter.
The study is the first of its kind to look at meal timing while controlling for sleep-wake cycles, exercise, and macronutrient intake (the ratio of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats). http://bigthink.com/design-for-good/new-findings-suggest-eating-late-at-night-could-be-more-dangerous-than-you-think
Delaying the introduction of potentially allergenic foods until after a baby's first year may increase the likelihood of a food allergy later on, according to new findings from the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170608123531.htm
Bread and health: A personal matter part 2 ? White bread “healthier” than whole grain? Why readers should avoid these half-baked stories https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2017/06/white-bread-healthier-than-whole-grain-why-readers-should-avoid-these-half-baked-stories/
Culprit hidden in plain sight in Alzheimer disease development Combustion-derived nanoparticles https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170608123521.htm
Smiling during victory could hurt your future chances of cooperation, USC researchers find http://news.usc.edu/122782/smiling-during-victory-could-hurt-your-future-chances-of-cooperation-usc-researchers-find/
shows the sense is equally strong in dogs and wolves, suggesting a sense of fairness is wired in the genes of canines. http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/06/08/Dogs-and-wolves-have-an-innate-sense-of-inequity/9881496953694/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=1
Don’t try to wrong a raven, not even once. It’s not going to forget and it’s probably going to shun you for a long time. https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/9/15768336/raven-grudge-fairness-social-hierarchy-animal-behavior
Evaporative cooling techniques have been around for centuries. Stone frescoes from Egypt that date to 2500 B.C.E. depict slaves fanning a stoneware jar to cool its contents. Leonardo da Vinci also experimented with evaporative techniques, and so did Benjamin Franklin. But then electricity came along, as did the refrigerator and evaporative cooling seemed to fade into history.
Then, in the late 1990s, a Nigerian man named Mohammed Bah Abba revived the ancient technology of the clay pot-in-pot system. Still in use today http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/edible-innovations/electricity-free-fridge-could-change-millions-lives.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1
The “social” facilitation of eating without the presence of others: Self-reflection on eating makes food taste better and people eat more http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031938417301506
Experts say older people who lose things do not pay enough attention when putting objects downThey added the best way to remember is to make up a poem about the locationThe alternative is to concentrate without any distractions on where you put them http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4589624/Create-poem-stop-forgetfulness.html
and identified the exact point in the exercise where gut damage started to take effect.
"Exercise stress of 2 or more hours at 60 percent VO2 max [the level of oxygen consumption] appeared to be the threshold whereby significant gut disturbances arise, irrespective of an individual's fitness status," http://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-another-reason-too-much-exercise-could-be-bad-for-you
The Biggest Reason You Gain Weight as You Age Has Nothing to Do With Your Metabolism http://www.sciencealert.com/the-biggest-reason-you-gain-weight-as-you-age-has-nothing-to-do-with-your-metabolism
Though the ties to industry and the study limitations are of concern, Maguire did offer this helpful tip: when making nutrition decisions, make sure to read the fine print on food labels. The same can be said of nutrition research. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/milk-alternatives-stunt-kids-height-says-doctor-with-dairy-industry-ties/
The big business of disinformation And Sepúlveda isn't alone. A global industry has emerged selling over-the-counter digital propaganda. On the dark net, you'll find the 'HUGE MEGA BOT PACK'. It's got YouTube liker bots, SoundCloud auto-likers, Amazon account creators and more. Tweet-AttacksPro, meanwhile, sells software to run thousands of Twitter followers at once. There are services for creating content, making it more visible and more popular, and they range from cheap and cheerful to expensive and bespoke. http://www.wired.co.uk/article/carl-miller-disinformation-gets-commercialised
Leaders Who Take Moral Stance, Then Change Their Minds are Judged Harshly https://psychcentral.com/news/2017/06/11/leaders-who-take-a-moral-stance-then-change-their-minds-are-judged-harshly/121761.html
“Our study suggests that political belief polarization may emerge because of peoples’ conflicting desires, not their conflicting beliefs per se,” he and his co-authors added in a story published last month by theNew York Times. “This is rather troubling, as it implies that even if we were to escape from our political echo chambers, it wouldn’t help much. Short of changing what people want to believe, we must find other ways to unify our perceptions of reality.” http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1113418252/politics-polarization-science-policy/
2022.01.07 02:33 dummmumm Can I forgo my soon-to-be ex partner and get child support directly from his trust fund?
I (32f) and my son (11m) live in San Diego. My sons father, Beck (33m), and I have known and dated each other for 20 years on and off and are unmarried. Beck lives in a very small town up north and has insisted for years that his trust fund (TF) will take care of my son and I for life when it comes to basic needs and housing and that my only focus should be raising our son.
TF promised to purchase us a home with only a single stipulation. Because we were looking for a home in my city, SD, Beck must find a job in San Diego. It doesn't need to be any particular type of job, nor was there a requirement for it to be full time or in the field he had studied for straight out of high school (which TF paid for entirely).
Beck and his mother are the sole recipients of TF. This does not and will not extend to children or spouses. They are granted a weekly stipend for bills and personal use, and things like rent and mortgage are usually dealt with directly through TF.
My car broke down a month ago and I begged Beck to ask TF to help me get it fixed help me with modest used car, because I was at risk for losing my first decent job ever, as well as my first job during the pandemic. I asked Beck to ask TF for a maximum of $3000.
I felt like this was a lot of money to ask, but was counting on TF maybe cutting the amount in half, which would have been perfectly fine as my broken car cost me only $1500 a couple years prior. TF flat out refused, stating that they had bought him a used car only a couple years prior (right before we had gotten back together this last time, and right before the pandemic), and that we would have to figure it out. This shocked me, as the vehicle is in a state of complete disrepair. Apparently, Beck was permitted by TF to purchase a non-luxury used car and was given a 20k limit.
Then I lost my job. and I begged Beck to ask TF to help me pay rent for two months ($1500/m), three max. It was no surprise TF refused, stating that my son and I are not listed as beneficiary's on the account.
Now I'm getting evicted. Beck usually gives me about 1/3 of his weekly stipend, but it isn't enough to cover. I have disabilities that prevent me from picking up things that are more than a few pounds, and Beck has a bad back. Lastly, I begged Beck to ask TF to help me hire a moving company and put mine and my sons belongings in a storage unit. TF finally (and in my opinion, graciously) relented, granting us $800 for the move.
Beck has been an entirely absent partner and parent for years. I honestly let it slide because I had already spent years trying to help him, and now wanted to focus 100% of my time and energy on our child and myself. I've also noticed that his mental health has shot straight out of the window and through some deductive reasoning, discovered he had been most likely drugs. A few years ago, it was amphetamines, and now seems to be exclusively abusing prescription medications. When confronted, he did not deny it. I am done with this relationship.
I have reason to believe that TF hasn't been open to helping my son and I because Beck has not been honest about our needs. I had to request copies of emails from him. When asking TF for help with the car, Beck asked for a 'second car for the family'. For the move, he requested what seems to be a random number instead of letting me get quotes from local companies first. I'm not surprised he's not making sense, as with the recent drug usage revelations.
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TF promised to purchase us a home with only a single stipulation. Because we were looking for a home in my city, SD, Beck must find a job in San Diego. It doesn't need to be any particular type of job, nor was there a requirement for it to be full time or in the field he had studied for straight out of high school (which TF paid for entirely).
Beck and his mother are the sole recipients of TF. This does not and will not extend to children or spouses. They are granted a weekly stipend for bills and personal use, and things like rent and mortgage are usually dealt with directly through TF.
My car broke down a month ago and I begged Beck to ask TF to help me get it fixed help me with modest used car, because I was at risk for losing my first decent job ever, as well as my first job during the pandemic. I asked Beck to ask TF for a maximum of $3000.
I felt like this was a lot of money to ask, but was counting on TF maybe cutting the amount in half, which would have been perfectly fine as my broken car cost me only $1500 a couple years prior. TF flat out refused, stating that they had bought him a used car only a couple years prior (right before we had gotten back together this last time, and right before the pandemic), and that we would have to figure it out. This shocked me, as the vehicle is in a state of complete disrepair. Apparently, Beck was permitted by TF to purchase a non-luxury used car and was given a 20k limit.
Then I lost my job. and I begged Beck to ask TF to help me pay rent for two months ($1500/m), three max. It was no surprise TF refused, stating that my son and I are not listed as beneficiary's on the account.
Now I'm getting evicted. Beck usually gives me about 1/3 of his weekly stipend, but it isn't enough to cover. I have disabilities that prevent me from picking up things that are more than a few pounds, and Beck has a bad back. Lastly, I begged Beck to ask TF to help me hire a moving company and put mine and my sons belongings in a storage unit. TF finally (and in my opinion, graciously) relented, granting us $800 for the move.
Beck has been an entirely absent partner and parent for years. I honestly let it slide because I had already spent years trying to help him, and now wanted to focus 100% of my time and energy on our child and myself. I've also noticed that his mental health has shot straight out of the window and through some deductive reasoning, discovered he had been most likely drugs. A few years ago, it was amphetamines, and now seems to be exclusively abusing prescription medications. When confronted, he did not deny it. I am done with this relationship.
I have reason to believe that TF hasn't been open to helping my son and I because Beck has not been honest about our needs. I had to request copies of emails from him. When asking TF for help with the car, Beck asked for a 'second car for the family'. For the move, he requested what seems to be a random number instead of letting me get quotes from local companies first. I'm not surprised he's not making sense, as with the recent drug usage revelations.
2021.10.14 15:04 moondog151 Iceland's longest prison sentence ever handed out.
In Iceland on average most murderers are given a sentence of 16 years the maximum sentence that can be handed down for a single offence. However if there are special circumstances such as weather the victim is a child or pregnant (nothing like this has happened in Iceland's modern history), if any other crimes were carried out in the process of the murder or if mutable victims were killed at once, In cases with special circumstances Icelandic courts may hand out a sentence higher then 16 years such as the longest sentence any one in Iceland has ever gotten and was something that has only happened twice. This is the story of one of them.
Little is known about Þórður Jóhann Eyþórsson's past other then the fact that he was born in 1957 and was arrested at 12 years old for a minor crime and put into compulsory education he ended up working as a laborer, then jobs out at sea as a fisherman and even worked for The Icelandic State Electricity Authority.
On January 1, 1983 Þórður was at a new years party held at an apartment with several other people present one such person being Óskar Árni Blomsterberg, Þórður and Óskar had had arguments and disputes ever since Þórður was 16 and Óskar 19 when they had an argument over a girl and during this Þórður ended up getting Óskar under him which prompted three of his friends to arrive and they along with Óskar ended up beating up Þórður although my sources don't state how severe the beating was or why they were arguing about a girl who's name I can't find.
When Þórður now in his mid 20s arrived at the party he was heavily intoxicated and seemed to recognize Óskar which resulted in an argument between the two and during this Þórður went to the apartment's kitchen and grabbed a knife where he suddenly stabbed Óskar 4 times in the back with the fatal wound being a stab to his lung. By the time police and paramedics arrived at the apartment.
All the guest were detained for questioning but all were released except for Þórður who confessed but stated he remembered next to nothing due to his intoxication. He was held in custody so a mental evaluation could be conducted. On June 30, 1983 taking these circumstances into mind I.E his confession and impaired state he was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
While in prison Þórður studied to be a mechanic and also studied construction and was granted early release/parole in November, 1989 after serving 7 years of his sentence.
After his release Þórður remarried is former partner however after his wife had tried to find him at a nightclub in Reykjavík before she went home with her former roommate (This is just what google translate says) Þórður became a heavy drinker and became addicted to amphetamines which got him in trouble as he was twice detained for driving under the influence. They split up on December 1, 1992 and Þórður started dating another girl.
On August 22, 1993 Þórður had been drinking heavily and had also taken amphetamines. He was at the Keisaran restaurant when he heard that his second wife who divorced him a week ago had gone to an apartment where a man named Ragnar Ólafsson lived. What happened to lead up to the attack doesn't seem exactly known but Þórður while intoxicated and high made his way to the apartment where his former wife was and another women as well.
What is known is that an argument broke out and during this Þórður kicked down the door and stabbed Ragnar in the chest once before fleeing. Police and paramedics were called and Ragnar was brought to a hospital where he sadly passed away on arrival.
An manhunt was launched for Þórður however he himself turned himself in upon learning that Ragnar had died of his wound however the police didn't question him until the next day when he was sober. After searching his apartment the police found a bloodied knife believed to be the murder weapon and several amphetamines. Þórður confessed to the murder stating that he didn't mean to kill Ragnar and that he didn't remember much due to his impaired state. 10 years after his first murder and Þórður was now facing a second charge.
His parole was revoked and he was returned to prison to await trial. On October 23, 1993 was sentenced to life imprisonment. The court rejected Þórður's claim that he didn't intend to kill Ragnar as it appeared that he was stabbed more then once but the defense countered that it would be impossible to tell how many times he was truly stabbed due to life saving operations conducted on him and then an autopsy.
Þórður was the second person to be sentenced to life in Iceland with the first instance of such a punishment being handed down to the defendants in Iceland's infamous Guðmundur and Geirfinnur case however the supreme court reduced this sentence to 17 years and then on September 27, 2018 the suspects were acquitted and exonerated with this case being described as a major miscarriage of justice.
Þórður appealed this sentence and on March 11, 1994 The Supreme Court of Iceland reviewed the case and reduced the sentence from life to 20 years in prison. The court stated that it could not be proven that Þórður had intended to kill Ragnar but still agreed that this was a case of homicide with their statement behind the reduction being Þórður's impaired state and emotional state of mind at the time with their opinion reading as follows. "Although these feelings do not excuse the actions of the accused, they do shed light on his state of mind and it must be assumed that he did the job emotionally and recklessly,"
Even with his reduced sentenced Þórður is still the recipient of Iceland's longest prison sentence ever handed out with only one other person in Iceland being sentenced to 20 years that that was Guðmundur Helgi Svavarsson who on April 25, 1990 beat and stabbed a gas station clerk to death with the help of an accomplished before robbing the store.
Þórður is also only the second murderer in Icelandic history to kill again after release with the first one being Munda Pálín Enoksdóttir who on October 25, 1974 stabbed an acquaintance of her's to death several times in her home before locking herself inside a bedroom of her home and even attacked her son who tried disarming her. She was found to be insane and sent to a mental institution. She was released from the institution in 1985 and on February 17, 1991 she stabbed her husband to death and their home where she was sentenced to an indefinite stay at a mental institution before passing away in 2005.
Þórður made an attempt to clean up his act and get his life together in 2006 while still in prison and after serving his 20 year sentence he got a job and managed to keep it.
A childhood friend of Þórður named Bubbi Morthens was interviewed in 1994 where he said this "Right from the start, he went carbon less with wine. However, he is so sober that it is a search for others like him. The majority of those in prison have ended up there because they are addicted to drugs. What they have done they would not have done sober. What he has now experienced is a direct result of him being addicted to drugs," (I used google translate for this quote)
Þórður has also spoke up after release stating that although he's guilty the prosecutor misrepresented him saying "The prosecutor branded me a drug addict and an addict only because I had taken amphetamines this one weekend. The investigation was launched. Preliminary crimes are usually investigated. As a result, of course, I should have talked to the people I was having fun with this weekend, It is not a theoretical possibility; I would have committed these crimes soberly. I have never blamed anyone else for my fate. However, I'm happier to have been sentenced to 20 years in prison than to life. The feeling of having killed two people is, of course, indescribable. There is nothing that can make up for it, neither detention nor anything else."
He also stated in an interview "I have a devilishly ugly stamp on me. RLR says, for example, that I am an addict and a drug addict. But most of what has been said about me is fabrication. I have not done anything to anyone except what I have been convicted of," (I don't know what RLR is any native Icelanders feel free to explain it to me)
Þórður would enter the Icelandic press yet again when he was arrested in 2016 as a suspect in the infamous Guðmundur and Geirfinnur case mentioned earlier however Þórður was later released and dismissed as a suspect as he was only 16 at the time and had a reliable alibi with his arrest being chalked up as a case of mistaken identity.
Þórður Jóhann Eyþórsson is still alive today at either 63 or 64 years of age. He had a steady job and has stayed out of trouble since his release.
Sources
https://www.mannlif.is/frettithordur-myrti-tvivegis-a-10-arum-eg-er-kominn-med-djofulli-ljotan-stimpil-a-mig/
https://timarit.is/files/17036024
https://timarit.is/files/19749743
https://timarit.is/files/17999769
https://www.mbl.is/greinasafn/grein/114275/
https://www.mbl.is/greinasafn/grein/128896/
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Little is known about Þórður Jóhann Eyþórsson's past other then the fact that he was born in 1957 and was arrested at 12 years old for a minor crime and put into compulsory education he ended up working as a laborer, then jobs out at sea as a fisherman and even worked for The Icelandic State Electricity Authority.
On January 1, 1983 Þórður was at a new years party held at an apartment with several other people present one such person being Óskar Árni Blomsterberg, Þórður and Óskar had had arguments and disputes ever since Þórður was 16 and Óskar 19 when they had an argument over a girl and during this Þórður ended up getting Óskar under him which prompted three of his friends to arrive and they along with Óskar ended up beating up Þórður although my sources don't state how severe the beating was or why they were arguing about a girl who's name I can't find.
When Þórður now in his mid 20s arrived at the party he was heavily intoxicated and seemed to recognize Óskar which resulted in an argument between the two and during this Þórður went to the apartment's kitchen and grabbed a knife where he suddenly stabbed Óskar 4 times in the back with the fatal wound being a stab to his lung. By the time police and paramedics arrived at the apartment.
All the guest were detained for questioning but all were released except for Þórður who confessed but stated he remembered next to nothing due to his intoxication. He was held in custody so a mental evaluation could be conducted. On June 30, 1983 taking these circumstances into mind I.E his confession and impaired state he was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
While in prison Þórður studied to be a mechanic and also studied construction and was granted early release/parole in November, 1989 after serving 7 years of his sentence.
After his release Þórður remarried is former partner however after his wife had tried to find him at a nightclub in Reykjavík before she went home with her former roommate (This is just what google translate says) Þórður became a heavy drinker and became addicted to amphetamines which got him in trouble as he was twice detained for driving under the influence. They split up on December 1, 1992 and Þórður started dating another girl.
On August 22, 1993 Þórður had been drinking heavily and had also taken amphetamines. He was at the Keisaran restaurant when he heard that his second wife who divorced him a week ago had gone to an apartment where a man named Ragnar Ólafsson lived. What happened to lead up to the attack doesn't seem exactly known but Þórður while intoxicated and high made his way to the apartment where his former wife was and another women as well.
What is known is that an argument broke out and during this Þórður kicked down the door and stabbed Ragnar in the chest once before fleeing. Police and paramedics were called and Ragnar was brought to a hospital where he sadly passed away on arrival.
An manhunt was launched for Þórður however he himself turned himself in upon learning that Ragnar had died of his wound however the police didn't question him until the next day when he was sober. After searching his apartment the police found a bloodied knife believed to be the murder weapon and several amphetamines. Þórður confessed to the murder stating that he didn't mean to kill Ragnar and that he didn't remember much due to his impaired state. 10 years after his first murder and Þórður was now facing a second charge.
His parole was revoked and he was returned to prison to await trial. On October 23, 1993 was sentenced to life imprisonment. The court rejected Þórður's claim that he didn't intend to kill Ragnar as it appeared that he was stabbed more then once but the defense countered that it would be impossible to tell how many times he was truly stabbed due to life saving operations conducted on him and then an autopsy.
Þórður was the second person to be sentenced to life in Iceland with the first instance of such a punishment being handed down to the defendants in Iceland's infamous Guðmundur and Geirfinnur case however the supreme court reduced this sentence to 17 years and then on September 27, 2018 the suspects were acquitted and exonerated with this case being described as a major miscarriage of justice.
Þórður appealed this sentence and on March 11, 1994 The Supreme Court of Iceland reviewed the case and reduced the sentence from life to 20 years in prison. The court stated that it could not be proven that Þórður had intended to kill Ragnar but still agreed that this was a case of homicide with their statement behind the reduction being Þórður's impaired state and emotional state of mind at the time with their opinion reading as follows. "Although these feelings do not excuse the actions of the accused, they do shed light on his state of mind and it must be assumed that he did the job emotionally and recklessly,"
Even with his reduced sentenced Þórður is still the recipient of Iceland's longest prison sentence ever handed out with only one other person in Iceland being sentenced to 20 years that that was Guðmundur Helgi Svavarsson who on April 25, 1990 beat and stabbed a gas station clerk to death with the help of an accomplished before robbing the store.
Þórður is also only the second murderer in Icelandic history to kill again after release with the first one being Munda Pálín Enoksdóttir who on October 25, 1974 stabbed an acquaintance of her's to death several times in her home before locking herself inside a bedroom of her home and even attacked her son who tried disarming her. She was found to be insane and sent to a mental institution. She was released from the institution in 1985 and on February 17, 1991 she stabbed her husband to death and their home where she was sentenced to an indefinite stay at a mental institution before passing away in 2005.
Þórður made an attempt to clean up his act and get his life together in 2006 while still in prison and after serving his 20 year sentence he got a job and managed to keep it.
A childhood friend of Þórður named Bubbi Morthens was interviewed in 1994 where he said this "Right from the start, he went carbon less with wine. However, he is so sober that it is a search for others like him. The majority of those in prison have ended up there because they are addicted to drugs. What they have done they would not have done sober. What he has now experienced is a direct result of him being addicted to drugs," (I used google translate for this quote)
Þórður has also spoke up after release stating that although he's guilty the prosecutor misrepresented him saying "The prosecutor branded me a drug addict and an addict only because I had taken amphetamines this one weekend. The investigation was launched. Preliminary crimes are usually investigated. As a result, of course, I should have talked to the people I was having fun with this weekend, It is not a theoretical possibility; I would have committed these crimes soberly. I have never blamed anyone else for my fate. However, I'm happier to have been sentenced to 20 years in prison than to life. The feeling of having killed two people is, of course, indescribable. There is nothing that can make up for it, neither detention nor anything else."
He also stated in an interview "I have a devilishly ugly stamp on me. RLR says, for example, that I am an addict and a drug addict. But most of what has been said about me is fabrication. I have not done anything to anyone except what I have been convicted of," (I don't know what RLR is any native Icelanders feel free to explain it to me)
Þórður would enter the Icelandic press yet again when he was arrested in 2016 as a suspect in the infamous Guðmundur and Geirfinnur case mentioned earlier however Þórður was later released and dismissed as a suspect as he was only 16 at the time and had a reliable alibi with his arrest being chalked up as a case of mistaken identity.
Þórður Jóhann Eyþórsson is still alive today at either 63 or 64 years of age. He had a steady job and has stayed out of trouble since his release.
Sources
https://www.mannlif.is/frettithordur-myrti-tvivegis-a-10-arum-eg-er-kominn-med-djofulli-ljotan-stimpil-a-mig/
https://timarit.is/files/17036024
https://timarit.is/files/19749743
https://timarit.is/files/17999769
https://www.mbl.is/greinasafn/grein/114275/
https://www.mbl.is/greinasafn/grein/128896/
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Jim pulled the tray of cookies out of the oven, each golden oval topped with a perfect, peeled almond, and inhaled deeply. The delicate aroma of almond flour and orange zest filled the large kitchen. Deftly sliding the cookies onto a rack to cool, he turned his attention to the rest of the meal. A heavy tomato soup, nearly half cream cheese, with a stack of cheddar sandwiches ready to be grilled. Chickens, spatchcocked and roasted under the salamander, with a rub of salt, pepper, garlic, and a few herbs. Haricot vert sauteed in olive oil with pine nuts and garlic. Jim smirked. The French name made it sound so much fancier than “green beans”. He put the sandwiches on the griddle, and began arranging the dishes on the serving cart.
It had been a week since Chalya came to his apartment for ‘lemon squares’, and he had snagged a position as her personal chef. At least on paper. As far as she was concerned, they were a happy couple. He did what he needed to do. Thank god for MDMA, he thought, arranging lemon wedges on the plates, and flipping each sandwich to reveal a perfect honey-brown, buttery grilled crust. Without drugs, he wouldn’t be able to do it. Chalya was inexperienced, and unpleasantly enthusiastic. She was also ugly as a shaved grizzly bear with a temperament to match.
She, at least, seemed to enjoy his company. Never more than when she could use him as eye-candy and a status symbol around other orcs. At least that didn’t entail more than being ogled and pretending not to understand the denigrating remarks she made about him in Shil. Alone, she liked to pin him to whatever surface was convenient and assault him with that ungodly long tongue in ways that reminded him unpleasantly of hentai. He did have to admit she never hurt him intentionally, and if he pushed her away or told her “no”, she left him alone. That made her better than most Shil, in his book.
Tonight, though, he had a problem completely separate from his mark’s libido and enthusiastic tongue. The large conference room that took up most of the first floor outside of the kitchen was filled with Chalya’s top analysts. From what he’d been able to gather surreptitiously over the past few days, this was a preparatory meeting before Chalya reported to the governesses of the regions under her purview. He had to get in that room, and stay.
Jim arranged the last sandwich on its plate, cut in triangles, one half perfectly leaned against the other so the cheese was just barely oozing out. The soup was already in a massive ceramic tureen, a stack of bowls beside it. The beans were in one covered serving dish, and the carved chickens were arranged on another. Serving the soup, vegetables, and fowl to the analysts at the table would give him an excuse to linger, though trying that with the sandwiches would make them soggy. He checked everything was safely arranged on the cart, and rolled through the doors.
Chalya was starting to get irritated. She had been cloistered with her top people since before the sun went down, and all she had heard were vague predictions and unconvincing assessments. They had arrested a number of promising suspects after the riots, but before any interrogations could be carried out they had been released by Tanchla’s blanket amnesty. The most interesting Humans, the ones apparently organizing and directing the mobs, had disappeared immediately on being released.
There were reports of increased motorcycle traffic on back roads. Mostly traveling north, no groups larger than four or five individuals on two or three vehicles. Random searches had found nothing more interesting than a handful of contraband small-arms, amphetamines, and opioids. None of the travelers had anything enlightening to say, and most were too stupid to put together a coherent sentence in any case.
Zishneh had sent back several lengthy reports, none of which shed any light on the reasoning behind Tanchla’s behavior. Her other informants in the provincial capital had little to say on the matter, and what they did say was largely contradictory. So far, she knew for certain there was a period of about 16 hours between the explosion at the Governess’s compound and the release of the bizarre video, during which the whereabouts of the Governess were unknown. The video had gone out over the official Shil’vati channel for Human broadcast systems. The authorization code matched Tanchla’s personal signature. There was nothing, technically, to suggest the broadcast had been anything but Tanchla’s own.
Chalya’s hands started to flex the datapad before her, nearly to the point of snapping in two, and it took a supreme effort of will to keep her temper in check. It helped immensely when Jimmy came through the doors from the kitchen, pushing a cart laden with fragrant foods. Nothing made being surrounded by failure more unbearable than hunger. Her senior analysts looked at the array of plates and the covered dishes with hopeful expressions, but her man steered the cart around the large table and directly to her place at the head, opposite the double doors to the kitchen.
”Ru’dritte, I did not ask you to stop your report.” Chalya fixed the signals and encryption specialist with a withering look. Jimmy had placed a bowl of a thick red soup before her. Sweet and tangy aromas wafted up to her nose. Beside it, thick slices of fluffy, cloud-white bread, grilled to a shimmering, buttery golden brown, sandwiched a half-melted slab of cheese. Jimmy brushed her hand with his bare wrist as he served her, and gave her a sidelong glance and a small smile. She kept her composure, though her heart was racing, and her steely glare held her subordinate in thrall.
”Ehh… Ma’am, would it be appropriate… This is highly sensitive intelligence, should we not wait for the Human to depart?” The woman stammered. Chalya knew she was married, so the sight of a man, even one in a form-fitting outfit that left his arms below the bicep and legs below the knee bare, should not cause this much nervousness. She supposed she might have frightened this one a little too much. Perhaps it was time for more tact.
”Do not worry about the Human, Agent Ru’dritte. His knowledge of Shil extends to a few vulgar words and nothing else. Keep your tongue clean, and you may continue. He’s not likely to be packing any equipment beyond what the Goddess gave him in that outfit, is he?” She looked him up and down as he bent over the cart, and switched to Human English. ”Is that right, Jimmy?”
Jimmy straightened, and turned from the cart to face her, eye-level though she was seated. “I am sorry, ma’am. I did not hear your question.” Jimmy, as always, kept his words slow and clear for her benefit, though her grasp of his language had increased tremendously since he started spending his days (and some nights) in her household.
She smiled indulgently, mostly for the benefit of her subordinates. Let them see what she had. “I was just complimenting your cooking, Jimmy. You make all of the food here from… the scratch, as you say?”
Jimmy’s eyes lit up, and he smiled broadly. “Oh, well as much as I can, ma’am. I’m afraid this time of year I used canned tomatoes for the soup, but the bread is my own, and I use local ingredients whenever possible. May I serve the others?”
Chalya nodded graciously, and the rest of the table looked relieved, whether at finally getting something to eat, or at her temper being mollified by the Human, she neither knew nor cared. It was enough that the briefing went on.
”Ehm, well, we still have only unlocked some eighty percent of Human encryptions, but between the solved algorithms and the private keys we have obtained, that is about ninety-seven percent of all Human communications. There are a handful of algorithms that, given our current limited equipment, we cannot reliably unlock within a useful timeframe. The most advanced would take around six hundred Imperial years.” Ru’dritte was looking comfortable now that she was in her element, even excited. ”In some ways, the Humans are beyond even what the Imperium has in terms of their encryption. It is like they expect every enemy to have full access to their raw data all the time, and access to a planet-sized supercomputer to crack it! Some of these algorithms would take the entire combined computing power of pre-arrival Humanity more time than the age of the universe to solve!”
Ru’dritte now noticed Chalya’s glare, and cleared her throat. ”What I mean to say, ma’am, is that very little data flowing through the Human’s networks is inaccessible. With regards to the aftermath of the… rebel’s video, we saw predictable anti-Imperial chatter, including specific threats that resulted in insurgent activity. The density of threats around the Governess’s compound, and the city Boston in general, was much higher, but not outside of what would be predicted by the proximate causes and population density differences. We saw nothing specific that correlated with the projectile attacks on the gunships, nor with the attack on the compound.”
Chalya swallowed a bite of sandwich soaked in the rich, creamy soup before responding. ”So, either the terrorists are in that three percent of data beyond our reach, or they are not using their datanet for communication. What does the metadata say?”
The signals tech’s eyes followed the Human’s progress around the table. ”Very little, ma’am. Their datanet still is primarily composed of pre-Imperial hardware, and their data transit protocols are primitive and opaque. There are large parts of the system designed to conceal the sender and recipient of any particular piece of data. Some of it is intentional, other pieces were built to work around the limitations of their own system. It’s an Empress-damned mess.”
Chalya turned to another of her analysts. ”Hrust, you received encryption keys used by several rebel cells from your informant. Are they using this impossible encryption, or not? Surely we are still getting some useful intelligence from them.”
The Agent flicked at the datapad before her, searching for the requested information. ”No… it looks like none of the keys we acquired from that asset use the unbroken algorithms.” She looked up and saw the eyes of her superior glaring at her. ”Th-though, it does save us significant time decrypting messages! Without it we might spend a few hours or even days brute forcing the keys. This allows us to read their messages in real time!”
Chalya scowled. ”And what, exactly, have those messages been?”
Hrust averted her eyes, squirming under the larger woman’s glare. ”They have been helping people displaced by the rewilding programs, and the insurgencies in the red regions south and west of us. They are doing some small-scale smuggling, and have arranged safe houses and transit for fugitives. We picked up a couple who were considered worth the risk, but they have not provided us any useful intelligence on the local situation. There has been no specific mention of upcoming attacks, and nothing specific enough on the past raids to warrant further action. This shift to helping other Humans rather than attacking Shil’vati seems to be a trend. I believe their casualties from the raids were more substantial than initially reported, and they don’t have the capacity for further attacks.”
Another analyst snorted. ”That’s what you said after we crushed the group that bombed the space port. Was it even a local month later we had the whorehouse attack? Then you said that was an anomaly and we didn’t have to worry about further violence, because your little Human spy said so, and your precious rebel communications didn’t indicate anything. Remind me, how did that play out?”
Hrust was about to respond, when Chalya brought her fist down on the table hard enough to rattle the plates and bowls of those who had been served. All eyes returned to her. ”Nilv, since you seem to have such strong opinions on the region’s trajectory, perhaps you could enlighten us on what you have learned this month.”
Nilv looked coolly over at her superior. Her house was the most powerful represented at the table, and she still chafed at being under someone from a family as insignificant as Olnandar. ”Attacks are holding steady across the entire theater, with two or three per day in the rural areas north to the old national border, and one or two per week in the more densely populated regions on the coast and to the south. We are still experiencing a handful of casualties per week, though deaths are down since the Governesses banned sororitization with the locals outside of secure areas.” She paused for a moment as Jimmy placed a bowl of soup and a sandwich down in front of her. She was the last to be served, but had this not been an official meeting, she should have been first. ”Tanchla’s new patrol scheme has paid some dividends, though. Not a single death in her region since that bizarre speech.”
Chalya’s eyes narrowed as she allowed Jimmy to clear her first course and set a plate of meat and long, thin vegetables in front of her. ”What was that?”
Nilv’s irritated look bordered on insubordination. ”Tanchla’s office has apparently been personally reviewing the patrol routes and schedules for the Marines. My contacts report that they haven’t interfered or altered any of the routes, but this increased oversight is a change. Since this started, not a single patrol has been attacked. The Humans aren’t exactly welcoming them into their towns with flowers and dancing, but they’re not planting bombs or pinging them with those rock-throwers either. That said, the borders are porous, despite our best efforts, and I expect this is only a temporary reprieve before more rebels come south from the less pacified regions.”
Chalya nibbled on one of the vegetables as she digested that new piece of information. The raid on the Governess’s compound, like the one on the slaver’s warehouse, was professionally done and spoke of long, careful planning by competent leaders. Organizations that could arrange something like that didn’t just evaporate. Perhaps it crossed the border, though she would expect that to correspond with an increase of rebel activity in their new area of operation. ”What about disappearances, Shil’vati or Human. Any change there?”
An Agent at the far end of the table answered. ”They mostly stopped after the raid on the slaver’s building. Reports of missing Humans have returned to pre-arrival levels, as best as we can tell from the Human records. Apart from Marines going AWOL for short periods, probably to violate the ban on sororitizing, no Shil’vati has gone missing since after the riots.”
Chalya thought for a moment. ”Hrust, I need you to get something useful out of that little spy of yours. I want to know what these Humans are up to. Ru’dritte, put a tap on the Governess’s compound. Tanchla is up to something, and that idiot Zishneh is as useful as a turox with a datapad. Ladies, I do not want to be surprised again. Is that understood?”
The dismissal was sudden and complete. The women stood, saluted, and began filing out of the room, some looking longingly at the unfinished food on their plates. Nilv had barely taken a bite of her meat. Chalya kept her face stern, hiding her satisfaction. It was petty, but she was tired of Nilv’s bad attitude and lackluster work. It was unfortunate the spoiled brat had important connections, and a sharp mind when she bothered to use it. She needed every tool she could get, so it was worth keeping her around.
“Wait! Take a cookie before you go!” Jimmy picked the platter of cookies up and carried it to the line of women, who looked first to Chalya. She nodded, so they each picked a cookie and nibbled it as they walked out into the chilly evening.
Jim surveyed the half-full plates around the table. “That was mean. You could at least have let them finish their dinner. I worked most of the day on that meal.”
“They do not deserve your food, Jimmy.” She had moved up behind him as he was replacing the tray of cookies on the cart, and draped her arms over his front, pulling him against her. He stumbled back, his head forced down by her breasts until his chin was pressed against his sternum. Her hands were already moving towards his belt.
“Ouch!” Jim pulled away and rubbed at his neck when Chalya released him suddenly, eyes wide with fright.
“Oh Jimmy! I did not mean to hurt you! I am sorry!” She brought her hands to her mouth in a very human look of horror. He gave her a slightly pained smile as he turned around.
“It’s alright, I was mostly surprised. You’re much bigger than me and your boobs are. . . well. . . I’m the wrong height for you to hold me like that. We’re going to need to work on our technique.” Jim reached up and took one of her hands in both of his, pulling it down to his lips. “It’s okay. We’re new to this.”
Chalya looked meaningfully towards the stairs that led to the bedchamber. “Do you want to…” She let her words fade, blushing fiercely. Jim followed her gaze and smiled.
“Why don’t you have a few cookies and a glass of wine to relax while I clean up. The kitchen is a disaster, and if your tone of voice was any indication of how that meeting went, I think you need some time to unwind.” He was still holding her hand, rubbing the palm gently with his thumbs as she gave him a disappointed look.
“The stewards can do that. I want to… spend the time relaxing with you.” She reached around him and cupped his butt with her free hand, thrilled at the idea that she finally had someone she could do that with.
Jim gave her a mock scandalized look, and dropped her hand. “I want to save some of these leftovers, I’d hate to see all those chickens die just to get thrown in the compost. But okay, I’ll let them clean the kitchen. Now go and enjoy a few minutes of quiet, alright?” He reached behind his back and snagged a cookie, slipping it between her lips when she opened her mouth to protest. She gave a little surprised squeak, and he took that opportunity to slide out of her grasp and begin separating the untouched food from the rest.
Chalya, seeing she would get no further for the moment at least, picked up a handful of cookies and retreated to the parlor. Jim had set out a bottle of wine in an ice bucket, along with a pair of glasses. She settled into the plush upholstered couch, taking up more than half of it, and poured herself a glass.
Jim reviewed what he had learned over the all-too-brief meal as he worked. At Alice’s rather firm suggestion, he had spent a fair amount of time practicing memorization techniques. Now he hooked each piece of information onto an item in his memory palace, mentally walking through the old rambling farmhouse he’d grown up in. By the time he had the chicken stored away in a plastic tub in the refrigerator (with a note for the human cleaning staff to eat it), he had toured his childhood home three times, reviewing each detail carefully and re-running the meeting in his mind to be sure he had it all.
Now he just needed to get home and prepare his report. He didn’t want to risk taking any drugs tonight. While he trusted the technique he’d learned, he hadn’t put it to a real test before now. He walked into the parlor and dropped down on the couch beside his mark. She was enjoying the cookies, eating them slowly, one at a time, savoring them. Though he noticed there were only two left. He picked one up and took a small bite. Chalya’s hand drifted over to his lap, and he intercepted it with his free hand, firmly holding it against his thigh before it could go any further. Orcs do love to win a coy man, he reflected, finishing off the cookie.
He yawned deliberately, and scooted closer to the giant, snuggling against her side and pulling her arm over his shoulder. Chalya kept the house much cooler than most Shil’vati dwellings he’d found himself in, and it felt merely warm instead of stifling. She had told him she grew up on a peripheral world stationed at the edge of its star’s habitable zone, and even in the warmer climes it often snowed half the year. She preferred cooler weather, which was why she’d selected this site for her intelligence center. For Jim, it meant this was a slightly more bearable mission, given how much time he had to spend right up against her. He could hear her heart pounding next to his ear.
“Sweetie, I’m tired, but I know you must be worked up after that meeting. Why don’t you let me take care of you tonight?” He slid a hand down between her heavily muscled thighs.
The Shil’vati sighed. “You are right. That was… not the favorite thing to do for me. But… what do you mean, to take care of me?” She looked down at him, hunger and curiosity competing in her eyes.
“Shhh… just lie back, honey. Don’t you worry about a thing.” He guided her until she was prone on the oversized couch, her head propped on a pillow, one foot up on the far armrest, and the other resting on the floor. He crawled over her body, planting a gentle kiss on her lips, pulling back before her tongue could slip out. He placed an index finger on her lips, and gave her a mischievous smirk.
Under his mask of seduction, he went about his task mechanically. He didn’t really want to deal with undressing her, but fortunately, she seemed to get a kick out of wearing her uniform during their encounters. He slid down her massive chest, kneading her breasts through the skin-tight fabric, playing his thumbs over the well-concealed nipples. He had to get this over with as soon as possible, both for his own sanity, and to file his report. If she fell asleep quickly enough, he might even try cracking into the building’s security. He had identified a few blind spots with hardlink network access.
He continued his caresses, moving down to her stomach. One of her hands snaked out and tried to grab his, but he slapped it firmly. “Oh no, you leave this up to me tonight, big girl.” Her hands retreated, gripping at the frame of the couch as he worked his way down. He found the seam in her uniform between her torso and crotch, and spread it out, planting a wet kiss on her bare stomach. Then, sliding one hand down and under her clothing, and the other back up towards her breasts, he did what he had to do.
For all he was officially Chalya’s pet, the Marines stationed at the gates to the University complex didn’t pass up a rare chance to interact with a man up close and personal. He expected to be searched coming and going, though he could do without the groping. He didn’t want to draw attention to himself, however, so he smiled at the blank faceplate of the woman currently spending more time than strictly was necessary feeling up his thigh. “I’m Jim. I can’t tell if we’ve met before. What’s your name?”
The Marine paused, then quickly finished patting him down in a much more professional manner. Her translated voice came out of the helmet’s speakers a moment later. “Military personnel are not to exchange personal information with Earth civilians per Governess Tanchla’s decree.”
The Marine’s partner checking the car slammed the trunk shut. Jim had heard the exact same response from every Marine stationed at the guard post. Apparently, it was a recording played in case the Marine tried to do something other than ask for identification or give basic directions. He put on his disappointed face. “Oh, right. I’m sorry about that. But maybe soon that won’t be the case. You know, usually I make a girl buy me dinner before I let her give me a massage.”
Back before the helmet mandate, that line would be enough to make most orcs blush, and many to start flirting, on duty or not. If nothing else, it might make the Marine remember him positively, and he might need to ask a favor sooner or later. There was no hiding the fact that he’d thrown his lot in with the occupiers now, and since he was sure to already be a minor celebrity among the Shil’vati garrison, he might as well garner as much goodwill as he could.
The Marine waved him back to his car, and he gave her a wink as he climbed back into the driver’s seat. “Maybe I’ll see you around the base sometime.” He got in and started the engine. It took a moment to turn over and flare into life.
The drive back to the bakery and his apartment was uneventful. He pulled into the alley behind the building, checked that he had his keys and phone, and climbed out. He wanted to take a quick shower, then head to see Theresa and Riva. He hadn’t seen them outside of the bakery since Alice made her unannounced visit, and he needed to talk to them. For as conflicted as he felt before leaving Boston, it had only gotten more confusing. He was going over the meeting one more time in his head, thinking of what he would tell them, when he heard footsteps coming up behind him.
Jim didn’t have time to turn before he was shoved, face first, into the brick wall of the alley. His assailant was bigger than him, but the smell of gingivitis and body odor meant it could only be a fellow human. “Purp-fucker,” a voice growled close by his ear.
Jim had long ago decided he wasn’t a fighter. Hence why, in normal circumstances walking through a dark alley, he would have been carrying a compact 9mm pistol in an appendix holster. Traveling to and from the secure zone, though, that was not an option. The impact hadn’t done much except surprise him, as close as he was to the wall already. He looked down. His assailant was wearing cheap basketball shoes. Jim was wearing his heavy hiking boots. He brought his foot up, and slammed the heel down hard on the bridge of the other man’s foot.
Long ago, in high school, he’d taken a few years of martial arts. He’d stopped in senior year, when alcohol, drugs, and sex seemed like much better uses of his time, but he remembered a few of the lessons he’d been taught. One, there were an awful lot of nerves that ran over the bridge of the foot. His attacker grunted and stumbled back, swearing profusely and giving Jim a chance to turn around. Two, there was a large nerve cluster where the jaw met the neck. Jim jabbed his thumb as hard as he could into the side of the man’s neck. The man’s head went back. Jim’s knee came up and into his groin.
It was over in a few seconds, and Jim couldn’t believe he’d just done what he did. The man lay on the ground, groaning and holding his crotch. Jim pulled out his phone and turned on the flashlight. He was fairly certain he’d never seen him before. It was a long few seconds before he noticed the man wasn’t alone. Another four or five figures stood between him and the street.
“Listen, I don’t want more trouble. I’m just doing what I have to do.” Jim wondered if they were actually resistance, or if they were just a local gang bored after a few rounds at the bar. On a Monday night. He tried to remember the code word for Mondays in October. “I know I don’t have a sterling reputation around here.”
The figures started walking towards him. He backed towards his car, trying to dial emergency services as he did so.
“We’re not coppers.” A woman’s voice called out from the mouth of the alley. The advancing figures stopped. It took Jim a moment to recognize the countersign. Shit, what now? He knew it was a president. The third sign in October was always a president. Monday’s theme was money. Shit. Who’s on the 2-dollar bill?
“I, uhh… Jefferson?”
“Good enough.” At the woman’s reply, the figures backed off. A few went to help the groaning man on the ground. The woman entered the alley, a shadow detaching from a shadow. She was short, but spoke with authority. “We should talk. You fucked up poor Gomez pretty good.”
Jim put his phone back in his pocket. “Gomez shouldn’t’ve slammed me into a brick wall, then. And maybe he should wear real fucking shoes. And no, we should most definitely not talk. Leave me alone, and leave everyone in my bakery alone.”
A few of the figures started towards him again, but at a sharp word from the woman, they stopped. Jim pushed past them and out into the alley, then started walking fast. He walked past the door that led up to his apartment, past the café’s storefront, and down to the corner. It wasn’t until he was halfway down the next block that he turned around to see if anyone was following him.
“Fuck me. I can’t fucking do this anymore.” The windows in the small Cape were dark, but he went in anyways.
Theresa paced the length of the large common area that dominated the first floor of the dwelling. She had exhausted her usual coping mechanisms. There was no more room for dough in the apartment’s refrigerator, and two loaves were already cooling on racks, with another in the oven. She couldn’t drink, on the offhand chance that she would need to drive and pick Jim up. Riva was no help at all, sitting in an oversized (for a human) armchair and calmly knitting.
“He will be alright, you know. He’s really good at fucking this.” Riva didn’t look up from her needles, but the sudden noise of her voice made Theresa jump. Riva’s English was almost as good as Theresa’s now, but she had some work to do around the language’s most versatile word.
“I know. But, that woman… The way he described her…” Theresa glanced at the clock again. “He should have sent a message by now. Argh! I hate this waiting and not knowing! We’re supposed to be in this together, and all we get to do is bake cookies for ungrateful fucking orcs!”
Riva put down her needles, frowning. “You’re right. This is not why I agreed to come out here. I wanted to fight the Empire.” She paused. “Though, if things were different, I would not mind staying here, and working in the bakery. I do like it here.”
Theresa grunted. “You haven’t had a winter here yet.”
Riva scoffed, offended. “I’ve been here two winters.”
“You’ve spent two winters in Boston, my friend. With a warm room to retreat to, and all the might of the Shil’vati Empire keeping the streets clear, and the power on, and everything nice.” Theresa pulled back the blinds on the window, glancing out at the street beyond. “I do not think it will be as civilized here, with the Empire’s reach overstretched. But we will see. There is a saying I learned when I came here. ‘There is no bad weather, only inadequate clothing.’ Maybe we can find you adequate clothing.” Riva answered by picking up her needles once more, the click-click-click sounding out a cadence for Theresa’s continued pacing.
Both women were asleep, Riva still holding her needles, Theresa curled up on the couch, when Jim finally walked through the door. As quiet as he tried to be, they both awoke immediately. “Hey,” he said, sheepishly.
Theresa jumped up and embraced him, then pushed back. “You’re bleeding! What did that bitch do to you?” She reached up and touched a scrape on his forehead still oozing blood.
“What? Oh, that was some resistance fuckups who thought I was a quisling. I think I set them straight. They shouldn’t bother us anymore, I hope.” He held a hand up to his forehead, feeling a swollen lump and wincing. “I need to take a shower, but then, we need to talk. Is that alright?”
Theresa hugged him again, relief outweighing the anger at him for being late and not calling, and the horror at his being attacked. “That’s alright. I’ll be here.”
Half an hour later, Theresa had brewed a pot of coffee, Riva set out a fresh loaf of bread with hard cheese, butter, and pickled vegetables, and the three sat around the coffee table. Jim related the events of the meeting, along with his own conclusions. When he finished describing the fight in the alley, he sighed. “I can’t do this anymore.”
Neither Riva nor Theresa had said a word while he spoke. Theresa rubbed the back of his neck with one hand. “What do you want to do?”
Jim shrugged. “I don’t know. It was all so clear at first. Not easy, but straightforward. Do you know where they recruited me? I was on the Tobin Bridge, with an eight-foot stepladder. It was maybe a week after the invasion. I had pulled it down from the roof rack, and was setting it up, when this guy appeared in an immaculate fucking three-piece suit, and the next thing I knew, I was working for them. It all seemed so simple. I’d do this job for them, then I could go back to the bridge with my ladder. But it just kept going. This isn’t what I signed up for.”
Theresa clasped her hands in her lap, fingers intertwined. When she spoke, her voice was quiet. “My brother died on Nahant. He was the only family I had. He brought me over the border when we were both still children. He took us from the desert in Texas all the way to Boston to our father’s brother. When our uncle couldn’t afford to take care of us, he found a way to make it work. I only got to go to school because he worked every hour he could find, earned every dollar he could squeeze out of this country. He worked so I could be a chef, instead of a cook. I got what I wanted, but he never did. He wanted to be a teacher. Instead, he died hanging drywall in rich people’s houses.”
The room was silent for a long moment after Theresa finished. Riva rubbed her eyes, trying not to show her tears. Jim looked distraught. “I’m so sorry.”
Theresa’s eyes flashed. “Don’t be. You are doing something about it, Jim. You are doing something neither Riva nor I can do.”
“Am I? I have to tell Alice there’s a spy in the organization. She’s going to kill them when she finds them. Or make Pete do it, I guess. What if she gets it wrong? What if I misunderstood? Fuck, what if there is a spy and they’re only doing it because the Shil have their family? Or Chalya knows I’m a spy and is feeding me bad information?” He rubbed his temples with his free hand. “I’ve killed my fair share of orcs. They chose to come here. They were soldiers, or rapists, or both, and I’ve made my peace with that. But I’ve never killed another human and I don’t want to, directly or otherwise.”
Rivatsyl put her mug down with a sharp clack. Her voice cracked as she began speaking. “Jim, you said it yourself. Alice has no problem with killing. You can tell her what you learned, and leave it to her to hunt down this spy, or you can lie about it, and hope she doesn’t do anything. If you aren’t giving her anything, will she keep you around? Will she just let you go? What about us? What about your wife’s family?”
Jim tried to muster a response, some reason not to do what he had to do, but couldn’t. His head throbbed, and while the coffee was helping, the post-adrenaline weariness was hitting him hard. “You’re right. I’ll write up my report and send it in the morning. I need to get back to campus early tomorrow. I promised the bitch pancakes.”
Grag’cho, Zufgar, and Krata stood at attention in their CO’s office. Lieutenant Bin’thri was on a tear, and there was no sign that she would let up anytime soon. The Marine enlisted stood stock still, eyes fixed on a point just over the Lieutenant’s left shoulder.
”By the Goddess I should have known it would be this pod. You brotherfucking insolent shit-stains are a disgrace to your uniforms, the Marines, and the entire fucking Imperium! I’ve seen turox with more sense, and pirates with more honor! Now you three are going to give me a complete account of where you were yesterday, who you met, who helped you, and the names and descriptions of any Earth civilians you interacted with, so I can personally unfuck this!”
None of the Marines moved a muscle. The Lieutenant’s eye twitched.
“You will be confined to the brig for three days on half rations. Then, you will be on triple duty for as long as you are under my command. Your pay will be docked retroactively to your arrival at this base. I will be sending details of your actions to the Governess for additional punishments. Turn in your sidearms to the Quartermaster, and report to the brig immediately.” Bin’thri glared, breathing heavily. “One more toe out of line, and I’ll break up your pod. I’d do it now if I had the time or the spare Marines. Turox shit, one more slip up, the smallest thing, and I’ll have you bitches digging holes to the core of this backwater planet until a spot opens up on a fucking garbage transport leaving the system. Now, do I need to call a REAL FUCKING MARINE to escort you idiots, or can you find your way on your own? If you’re not at the brig in the next 20 minutes, I’ll skip the fucking garbage transport and have you shot!”
The three Marines saluted sharply, and sounded off ”Ma’am, No, Ma’am!” in unison, then quick-stepped for the door when the Lieutenant dismissed them.
”I fucking told you it was a bad idea, Grag’cho.” Krata was the last to get with the boy, and by then he was crying so hard she didn’t have the heart to go through with it. Zufgar grunted in agreement.
”You both went along with it. We’re in this together. The way I see it, this is no big deal. Three days of rest, plan our next move, and get out of this dump. “ Grag’cho sounded confident, excited even.
”That is dangerous talk,” Zufgar stated. ”I did not come to this planet to desert.”
Of the three of them, Grag’cho knew, Zufgar would be the most difficult to convince. Nearly every woman in her family was in the Marines, or retired from duty. She had no sisters stationed on Earth, but several were hunting pirates in systems not too far distant, and she corresponded with them regularly, getting a new message on nearly every courier ship that came through.
”It’d be foolish to try and plan it now, but think about it. That Human with the tattoos, he must know what happened in Boston. There are almost no stiffs in the whole region, maybe the neighboring regions too. If he can provide boys, we can provide customers, and we can all get very rich.”
They had arrived at the Quartermaster, with only a few minutes before they had to report to the brig. Stripping off their belts and holsters, they handed them over as the bored looking Steward noted their identities and the contents on his pad.
Lieutenant Bin’thri was waiting at the brig, two fully kitted-out Marines flanking her on either side, when the disgraced pod arrived seconds before the deadline. Krata’s eyes went wide. She hadn’t believed the Lieutenant would actually execute them if they were late, but the laser rifles the Marines held were set to kill.
Their cells were cramped by Shil’vati standards, but well-lit and with windows that looked out on a parking lot and a wooded area beyond. As the door slid shut, Grag’cho smiled. She was tired of taking orders.
The Commander watched her Lieutenant retreat down the hall from the brig. ”Highly unusual, letting prisoners walk themselves to their cells.”
The man beside her, tall for a Shil’vati male but still dwarfed by the massive Marine, chuckled dryly. ”Indeed it is. But necessary, of course, given how shorthanded your detachment is. A shame it gave those three some private time to talk… I’m afraid it may lead to some mischief.”
”You think they will go down that path?” The Commander didn’t like these clandestine, roundabout operations. It was bad enough that the Marines on her base were outnumbered by the Interior, bossing everyone around and ignoring the Governess’s instructions, making her life harder at every turn. She didn’t need I-TAD rummaging about as well.
”I won’t give them a choice. They’re the loose threads, and I will pull on them until this whole rotten tapestry unravels.”
The Commander, who rose through the ranks on her skill and courage, and faced down Roaches, pirates, and rebels alike, shuddered. Whatever crimes the three Marines committed, whatever horrors lay behind the tapestry, she pitied anyone under the microscope of the Imperial Tithe Assessment Department.
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It had been a week since Chalya came to his apartment for ‘lemon squares’, and he had snagged a position as her personal chef. At least on paper. As far as she was concerned, they were a happy couple. He did what he needed to do. Thank god for MDMA, he thought, arranging lemon wedges on the plates, and flipping each sandwich to reveal a perfect honey-brown, buttery grilled crust. Without drugs, he wouldn’t be able to do it. Chalya was inexperienced, and unpleasantly enthusiastic. She was also ugly as a shaved grizzly bear with a temperament to match.
She, at least, seemed to enjoy his company. Never more than when she could use him as eye-candy and a status symbol around other orcs. At least that didn’t entail more than being ogled and pretending not to understand the denigrating remarks she made about him in Shil. Alone, she liked to pin him to whatever surface was convenient and assault him with that ungodly long tongue in ways that reminded him unpleasantly of hentai. He did have to admit she never hurt him intentionally, and if he pushed her away or told her “no”, she left him alone. That made her better than most Shil, in his book.
Tonight, though, he had a problem completely separate from his mark’s libido and enthusiastic tongue. The large conference room that took up most of the first floor outside of the kitchen was filled with Chalya’s top analysts. From what he’d been able to gather surreptitiously over the past few days, this was a preparatory meeting before Chalya reported to the governesses of the regions under her purview. He had to get in that room, and stay.
Jim arranged the last sandwich on its plate, cut in triangles, one half perfectly leaned against the other so the cheese was just barely oozing out. The soup was already in a massive ceramic tureen, a stack of bowls beside it. The beans were in one covered serving dish, and the carved chickens were arranged on another. Serving the soup, vegetables, and fowl to the analysts at the table would give him an excuse to linger, though trying that with the sandwiches would make them soggy. He checked everything was safely arranged on the cart, and rolled through the doors.
There were reports of increased motorcycle traffic on back roads. Mostly traveling north, no groups larger than four or five individuals on two or three vehicles. Random searches had found nothing more interesting than a handful of contraband small-arms, amphetamines, and opioids. None of the travelers had anything enlightening to say, and most were too stupid to put together a coherent sentence in any case.
Zishneh had sent back several lengthy reports, none of which shed any light on the reasoning behind Tanchla’s behavior. Her other informants in the provincial capital had little to say on the matter, and what they did say was largely contradictory. So far, she knew for certain there was a period of about 16 hours between the explosion at the Governess’s compound and the release of the bizarre video, during which the whereabouts of the Governess were unknown. The video had gone out over the official Shil’vati channel for Human broadcast systems. The authorization code matched Tanchla’s personal signature. There was nothing, technically, to suggest the broadcast had been anything but Tanchla’s own.
Chalya’s hands started to flex the datapad before her, nearly to the point of snapping in two, and it took a supreme effort of will to keep her temper in check. It helped immensely when Jimmy came through the doors from the kitchen, pushing a cart laden with fragrant foods. Nothing made being surrounded by failure more unbearable than hunger. Her senior analysts looked at the array of plates and the covered dishes with hopeful expressions, but her man steered the cart around the large table and directly to her place at the head, opposite the double doors to the kitchen.
”Ru’dritte, I did not ask you to stop your report.” Chalya fixed the signals and encryption specialist with a withering look. Jimmy had placed a bowl of a thick red soup before her. Sweet and tangy aromas wafted up to her nose. Beside it, thick slices of fluffy, cloud-white bread, grilled to a shimmering, buttery golden brown, sandwiched a half-melted slab of cheese. Jimmy brushed her hand with his bare wrist as he served her, and gave her a sidelong glance and a small smile. She kept her composure, though her heart was racing, and her steely glare held her subordinate in thrall.
”Ehh… Ma’am, would it be appropriate… This is highly sensitive intelligence, should we not wait for the Human to depart?” The woman stammered. Chalya knew she was married, so the sight of a man, even one in a form-fitting outfit that left his arms below the bicep and legs below the knee bare, should not cause this much nervousness. She supposed she might have frightened this one a little too much. Perhaps it was time for more tact.
”Do not worry about the Human, Agent Ru’dritte. His knowledge of Shil extends to a few vulgar words and nothing else. Keep your tongue clean, and you may continue. He’s not likely to be packing any equipment beyond what the Goddess gave him in that outfit, is he?” She looked him up and down as he bent over the cart, and switched to Human English. ”Is that right, Jimmy?”
Jimmy straightened, and turned from the cart to face her, eye-level though she was seated. “I am sorry, ma’am. I did not hear your question.” Jimmy, as always, kept his words slow and clear for her benefit, though her grasp of his language had increased tremendously since he started spending his days (and some nights) in her household.
She smiled indulgently, mostly for the benefit of her subordinates. Let them see what she had. “I was just complimenting your cooking, Jimmy. You make all of the food here from… the scratch, as you say?”
Jimmy’s eyes lit up, and he smiled broadly. “Oh, well as much as I can, ma’am. I’m afraid this time of year I used canned tomatoes for the soup, but the bread is my own, and I use local ingredients whenever possible. May I serve the others?”
Chalya nodded graciously, and the rest of the table looked relieved, whether at finally getting something to eat, or at her temper being mollified by the Human, she neither knew nor cared. It was enough that the briefing went on.
”Ehm, well, we still have only unlocked some eighty percent of Human encryptions, but between the solved algorithms and the private keys we have obtained, that is about ninety-seven percent of all Human communications. There are a handful of algorithms that, given our current limited equipment, we cannot reliably unlock within a useful timeframe. The most advanced would take around six hundred Imperial years.” Ru’dritte was looking comfortable now that she was in her element, even excited. ”In some ways, the Humans are beyond even what the Imperium has in terms of their encryption. It is like they expect every enemy to have full access to their raw data all the time, and access to a planet-sized supercomputer to crack it! Some of these algorithms would take the entire combined computing power of pre-arrival Humanity more time than the age of the universe to solve!”
Ru’dritte now noticed Chalya’s glare, and cleared her throat. ”What I mean to say, ma’am, is that very little data flowing through the Human’s networks is inaccessible. With regards to the aftermath of the… rebel’s video, we saw predictable anti-Imperial chatter, including specific threats that resulted in insurgent activity. The density of threats around the Governess’s compound, and the city Boston in general, was much higher, but not outside of what would be predicted by the proximate causes and population density differences. We saw nothing specific that correlated with the projectile attacks on the gunships, nor with the attack on the compound.”
Chalya swallowed a bite of sandwich soaked in the rich, creamy soup before responding. ”So, either the terrorists are in that three percent of data beyond our reach, or they are not using their datanet for communication. What does the metadata say?”
The signals tech’s eyes followed the Human’s progress around the table. ”Very little, ma’am. Their datanet still is primarily composed of pre-Imperial hardware, and their data transit protocols are primitive and opaque. There are large parts of the system designed to conceal the sender and recipient of any particular piece of data. Some of it is intentional, other pieces were built to work around the limitations of their own system. It’s an Empress-damned mess.”
Chalya turned to another of her analysts. ”Hrust, you received encryption keys used by several rebel cells from your informant. Are they using this impossible encryption, or not? Surely we are still getting some useful intelligence from them.”
The Agent flicked at the datapad before her, searching for the requested information. ”No… it looks like none of the keys we acquired from that asset use the unbroken algorithms.” She looked up and saw the eyes of her superior glaring at her. ”Th-though, it does save us significant time decrypting messages! Without it we might spend a few hours or even days brute forcing the keys. This allows us to read their messages in real time!”
Chalya scowled. ”And what, exactly, have those messages been?”
Hrust averted her eyes, squirming under the larger woman’s glare. ”They have been helping people displaced by the rewilding programs, and the insurgencies in the red regions south and west of us. They are doing some small-scale smuggling, and have arranged safe houses and transit for fugitives. We picked up a couple who were considered worth the risk, but they have not provided us any useful intelligence on the local situation. There has been no specific mention of upcoming attacks, and nothing specific enough on the past raids to warrant further action. This shift to helping other Humans rather than attacking Shil’vati seems to be a trend. I believe their casualties from the raids were more substantial than initially reported, and they don’t have the capacity for further attacks.”
Another analyst snorted. ”That’s what you said after we crushed the group that bombed the space port. Was it even a local month later we had the whorehouse attack? Then you said that was an anomaly and we didn’t have to worry about further violence, because your little Human spy said so, and your precious rebel communications didn’t indicate anything. Remind me, how did that play out?”
Hrust was about to respond, when Chalya brought her fist down on the table hard enough to rattle the plates and bowls of those who had been served. All eyes returned to her. ”Nilv, since you seem to have such strong opinions on the region’s trajectory, perhaps you could enlighten us on what you have learned this month.”
Nilv looked coolly over at her superior. Her house was the most powerful represented at the table, and she still chafed at being under someone from a family as insignificant as Olnandar. ”Attacks are holding steady across the entire theater, with two or three per day in the rural areas north to the old national border, and one or two per week in the more densely populated regions on the coast and to the south. We are still experiencing a handful of casualties per week, though deaths are down since the Governesses banned sororitization with the locals outside of secure areas.” She paused for a moment as Jimmy placed a bowl of soup and a sandwich down in front of her. She was the last to be served, but had this not been an official meeting, she should have been first. ”Tanchla’s new patrol scheme has paid some dividends, though. Not a single death in her region since that bizarre speech.”
Chalya’s eyes narrowed as she allowed Jimmy to clear her first course and set a plate of meat and long, thin vegetables in front of her. ”What was that?”
Nilv’s irritated look bordered on insubordination. ”Tanchla’s office has apparently been personally reviewing the patrol routes and schedules for the Marines. My contacts report that they haven’t interfered or altered any of the routes, but this increased oversight is a change. Since this started, not a single patrol has been attacked. The Humans aren’t exactly welcoming them into their towns with flowers and dancing, but they’re not planting bombs or pinging them with those rock-throwers either. That said, the borders are porous, despite our best efforts, and I expect this is only a temporary reprieve before more rebels come south from the less pacified regions.”
Chalya nibbled on one of the vegetables as she digested that new piece of information. The raid on the Governess’s compound, like the one on the slaver’s warehouse, was professionally done and spoke of long, careful planning by competent leaders. Organizations that could arrange something like that didn’t just evaporate. Perhaps it crossed the border, though she would expect that to correspond with an increase of rebel activity in their new area of operation. ”What about disappearances, Shil’vati or Human. Any change there?”
An Agent at the far end of the table answered. ”They mostly stopped after the raid on the slaver’s building. Reports of missing Humans have returned to pre-arrival levels, as best as we can tell from the Human records. Apart from Marines going AWOL for short periods, probably to violate the ban on sororitizing, no Shil’vati has gone missing since after the riots.”
Chalya thought for a moment. ”Hrust, I need you to get something useful out of that little spy of yours. I want to know what these Humans are up to. Ru’dritte, put a tap on the Governess’s compound. Tanchla is up to something, and that idiot Zishneh is as useful as a turox with a datapad. Ladies, I do not want to be surprised again. Is that understood?”
The dismissal was sudden and complete. The women stood, saluted, and began filing out of the room, some looking longingly at the unfinished food on their plates. Nilv had barely taken a bite of her meat. Chalya kept her face stern, hiding her satisfaction. It was petty, but she was tired of Nilv’s bad attitude and lackluster work. It was unfortunate the spoiled brat had important connections, and a sharp mind when she bothered to use it. She needed every tool she could get, so it was worth keeping her around.
“Wait! Take a cookie before you go!” Jimmy picked the platter of cookies up and carried it to the line of women, who looked first to Chalya. She nodded, so they each picked a cookie and nibbled it as they walked out into the chilly evening.
“They do not deserve your food, Jimmy.” She had moved up behind him as he was replacing the tray of cookies on the cart, and draped her arms over his front, pulling him against her. He stumbled back, his head forced down by her breasts until his chin was pressed against his sternum. Her hands were already moving towards his belt.
“Ouch!” Jim pulled away and rubbed at his neck when Chalya released him suddenly, eyes wide with fright.
“Oh Jimmy! I did not mean to hurt you! I am sorry!” She brought her hands to her mouth in a very human look of horror. He gave her a slightly pained smile as he turned around.
“It’s alright, I was mostly surprised. You’re much bigger than me and your boobs are. . . well. . . I’m the wrong height for you to hold me like that. We’re going to need to work on our technique.” Jim reached up and took one of her hands in both of his, pulling it down to his lips. “It’s okay. We’re new to this.”
Chalya looked meaningfully towards the stairs that led to the bedchamber. “Do you want to…” She let her words fade, blushing fiercely. Jim followed her gaze and smiled.
“Why don’t you have a few cookies and a glass of wine to relax while I clean up. The kitchen is a disaster, and if your tone of voice was any indication of how that meeting went, I think you need some time to unwind.” He was still holding her hand, rubbing the palm gently with his thumbs as she gave him a disappointed look.
“The stewards can do that. I want to… spend the time relaxing with you.” She reached around him and cupped his butt with her free hand, thrilled at the idea that she finally had someone she could do that with.
Jim gave her a mock scandalized look, and dropped her hand. “I want to save some of these leftovers, I’d hate to see all those chickens die just to get thrown in the compost. But okay, I’ll let them clean the kitchen. Now go and enjoy a few minutes of quiet, alright?” He reached behind his back and snagged a cookie, slipping it between her lips when she opened her mouth to protest. She gave a little surprised squeak, and he took that opportunity to slide out of her grasp and begin separating the untouched food from the rest.
Chalya, seeing she would get no further for the moment at least, picked up a handful of cookies and retreated to the parlor. Jim had set out a bottle of wine in an ice bucket, along with a pair of glasses. She settled into the plush upholstered couch, taking up more than half of it, and poured herself a glass.
Jim reviewed what he had learned over the all-too-brief meal as he worked. At Alice’s rather firm suggestion, he had spent a fair amount of time practicing memorization techniques. Now he hooked each piece of information onto an item in his memory palace, mentally walking through the old rambling farmhouse he’d grown up in. By the time he had the chicken stored away in a plastic tub in the refrigerator (with a note for the human cleaning staff to eat it), he had toured his childhood home three times, reviewing each detail carefully and re-running the meeting in his mind to be sure he had it all.
Now he just needed to get home and prepare his report. He didn’t want to risk taking any drugs tonight. While he trusted the technique he’d learned, he hadn’t put it to a real test before now. He walked into the parlor and dropped down on the couch beside his mark. She was enjoying the cookies, eating them slowly, one at a time, savoring them. Though he noticed there were only two left. He picked one up and took a small bite. Chalya’s hand drifted over to his lap, and he intercepted it with his free hand, firmly holding it against his thigh before it could go any further. Orcs do love to win a coy man, he reflected, finishing off the cookie.
He yawned deliberately, and scooted closer to the giant, snuggling against her side and pulling her arm over his shoulder. Chalya kept the house much cooler than most Shil’vati dwellings he’d found himself in, and it felt merely warm instead of stifling. She had told him she grew up on a peripheral world stationed at the edge of its star’s habitable zone, and even in the warmer climes it often snowed half the year. She preferred cooler weather, which was why she’d selected this site for her intelligence center. For Jim, it meant this was a slightly more bearable mission, given how much time he had to spend right up against her. He could hear her heart pounding next to his ear.
“Sweetie, I’m tired, but I know you must be worked up after that meeting. Why don’t you let me take care of you tonight?” He slid a hand down between her heavily muscled thighs.
The Shil’vati sighed. “You are right. That was… not the favorite thing to do for me. But… what do you mean, to take care of me?” She looked down at him, hunger and curiosity competing in her eyes.
“Shhh… just lie back, honey. Don’t you worry about a thing.” He guided her until she was prone on the oversized couch, her head propped on a pillow, one foot up on the far armrest, and the other resting on the floor. He crawled over her body, planting a gentle kiss on her lips, pulling back before her tongue could slip out. He placed an index finger on her lips, and gave her a mischievous smirk.
Under his mask of seduction, he went about his task mechanically. He didn’t really want to deal with undressing her, but fortunately, she seemed to get a kick out of wearing her uniform during their encounters. He slid down her massive chest, kneading her breasts through the skin-tight fabric, playing his thumbs over the well-concealed nipples. He had to get this over with as soon as possible, both for his own sanity, and to file his report. If she fell asleep quickly enough, he might even try cracking into the building’s security. He had identified a few blind spots with hardlink network access.
He continued his caresses, moving down to her stomach. One of her hands snaked out and tried to grab his, but he slapped it firmly. “Oh no, you leave this up to me tonight, big girl.” Her hands retreated, gripping at the frame of the couch as he worked his way down. He found the seam in her uniform between her torso and crotch, and spread it out, planting a wet kiss on her bare stomach. Then, sliding one hand down and under her clothing, and the other back up towards her breasts, he did what he had to do.
The Marine paused, then quickly finished patting him down in a much more professional manner. Her translated voice came out of the helmet’s speakers a moment later. “Military personnel are not to exchange personal information with Earth civilians per Governess Tanchla’s decree.”
The Marine’s partner checking the car slammed the trunk shut. Jim had heard the exact same response from every Marine stationed at the guard post. Apparently, it was a recording played in case the Marine tried to do something other than ask for identification or give basic directions. He put on his disappointed face. “Oh, right. I’m sorry about that. But maybe soon that won’t be the case. You know, usually I make a girl buy me dinner before I let her give me a massage.”
Back before the helmet mandate, that line would be enough to make most orcs blush, and many to start flirting, on duty or not. If nothing else, it might make the Marine remember him positively, and he might need to ask a favor sooner or later. There was no hiding the fact that he’d thrown his lot in with the occupiers now, and since he was sure to already be a minor celebrity among the Shil’vati garrison, he might as well garner as much goodwill as he could.
The Marine waved him back to his car, and he gave her a wink as he climbed back into the driver’s seat. “Maybe I’ll see you around the base sometime.” He got in and started the engine. It took a moment to turn over and flare into life.
The drive back to the bakery and his apartment was uneventful. He pulled into the alley behind the building, checked that he had his keys and phone, and climbed out. He wanted to take a quick shower, then head to see Theresa and Riva. He hadn’t seen them outside of the bakery since Alice made her unannounced visit, and he needed to talk to them. For as conflicted as he felt before leaving Boston, it had only gotten more confusing. He was going over the meeting one more time in his head, thinking of what he would tell them, when he heard footsteps coming up behind him.
Jim didn’t have time to turn before he was shoved, face first, into the brick wall of the alley. His assailant was bigger than him, but the smell of gingivitis and body odor meant it could only be a fellow human. “Purp-fucker,” a voice growled close by his ear.
Jim had long ago decided he wasn’t a fighter. Hence why, in normal circumstances walking through a dark alley, he would have been carrying a compact 9mm pistol in an appendix holster. Traveling to and from the secure zone, though, that was not an option. The impact hadn’t done much except surprise him, as close as he was to the wall already. He looked down. His assailant was wearing cheap basketball shoes. Jim was wearing his heavy hiking boots. He brought his foot up, and slammed the heel down hard on the bridge of the other man’s foot.
Long ago, in high school, he’d taken a few years of martial arts. He’d stopped in senior year, when alcohol, drugs, and sex seemed like much better uses of his time, but he remembered a few of the lessons he’d been taught. One, there were an awful lot of nerves that ran over the bridge of the foot. His attacker grunted and stumbled back, swearing profusely and giving Jim a chance to turn around. Two, there was a large nerve cluster where the jaw met the neck. Jim jabbed his thumb as hard as he could into the side of the man’s neck. The man’s head went back. Jim’s knee came up and into his groin.
It was over in a few seconds, and Jim couldn’t believe he’d just done what he did. The man lay on the ground, groaning and holding his crotch. Jim pulled out his phone and turned on the flashlight. He was fairly certain he’d never seen him before. It was a long few seconds before he noticed the man wasn’t alone. Another four or five figures stood between him and the street.
“Listen, I don’t want more trouble. I’m just doing what I have to do.” Jim wondered if they were actually resistance, or if they were just a local gang bored after a few rounds at the bar. On a Monday night. He tried to remember the code word for Mondays in October. “I know I don’t have a sterling reputation around here.”
The figures started walking towards him. He backed towards his car, trying to dial emergency services as he did so.
“We’re not coppers.” A woman’s voice called out from the mouth of the alley. The advancing figures stopped. It took Jim a moment to recognize the countersign. Shit, what now? He knew it was a president. The third sign in October was always a president. Monday’s theme was money. Shit. Who’s on the 2-dollar bill?
“I, uhh… Jefferson?”
“Good enough.” At the woman’s reply, the figures backed off. A few went to help the groaning man on the ground. The woman entered the alley, a shadow detaching from a shadow. She was short, but spoke with authority. “We should talk. You fucked up poor Gomez pretty good.”
Jim put his phone back in his pocket. “Gomez shouldn’t’ve slammed me into a brick wall, then. And maybe he should wear real fucking shoes. And no, we should most definitely not talk. Leave me alone, and leave everyone in my bakery alone.”
A few of the figures started towards him again, but at a sharp word from the woman, they stopped. Jim pushed past them and out into the alley, then started walking fast. He walked past the door that led up to his apartment, past the café’s storefront, and down to the corner. It wasn’t until he was halfway down the next block that he turned around to see if anyone was following him.
“Fuck me. I can’t fucking do this anymore.” The windows in the small Cape were dark, but he went in anyways.
“He will be alright, you know. He’s really good at fucking this.” Riva didn’t look up from her needles, but the sudden noise of her voice made Theresa jump. Riva’s English was almost as good as Theresa’s now, but she had some work to do around the language’s most versatile word.
“I know. But, that woman… The way he described her…” Theresa glanced at the clock again. “He should have sent a message by now. Argh! I hate this waiting and not knowing! We’re supposed to be in this together, and all we get to do is bake cookies for ungrateful fucking orcs!”
Riva put down her needles, frowning. “You’re right. This is not why I agreed to come out here. I wanted to fight the Empire.” She paused. “Though, if things were different, I would not mind staying here, and working in the bakery. I do like it here.”
Theresa grunted. “You haven’t had a winter here yet.”
Riva scoffed, offended. “I’ve been here two winters.”
“You’ve spent two winters in Boston, my friend. With a warm room to retreat to, and all the might of the Shil’vati Empire keeping the streets clear, and the power on, and everything nice.” Theresa pulled back the blinds on the window, glancing out at the street beyond. “I do not think it will be as civilized here, with the Empire’s reach overstretched. But we will see. There is a saying I learned when I came here. ‘There is no bad weather, only inadequate clothing.’ Maybe we can find you adequate clothing.” Riva answered by picking up her needles once more, the click-click-click sounding out a cadence for Theresa’s continued pacing.
Both women were asleep, Riva still holding her needles, Theresa curled up on the couch, when Jim finally walked through the door. As quiet as he tried to be, they both awoke immediately. “Hey,” he said, sheepishly.
Theresa jumped up and embraced him, then pushed back. “You’re bleeding! What did that bitch do to you?” She reached up and touched a scrape on his forehead still oozing blood.
“What? Oh, that was some resistance fuckups who thought I was a quisling. I think I set them straight. They shouldn’t bother us anymore, I hope.” He held a hand up to his forehead, feeling a swollen lump and wincing. “I need to take a shower, but then, we need to talk. Is that alright?”
Theresa hugged him again, relief outweighing the anger at him for being late and not calling, and the horror at his being attacked. “That’s alright. I’ll be here.”
Neither Riva nor Theresa had said a word while he spoke. Theresa rubbed the back of his neck with one hand. “What do you want to do?”
Jim shrugged. “I don’t know. It was all so clear at first. Not easy, but straightforward. Do you know where they recruited me? I was on the Tobin Bridge, with an eight-foot stepladder. It was maybe a week after the invasion. I had pulled it down from the roof rack, and was setting it up, when this guy appeared in an immaculate fucking three-piece suit, and the next thing I knew, I was working for them. It all seemed so simple. I’d do this job for them, then I could go back to the bridge with my ladder. But it just kept going. This isn’t what I signed up for.”
Theresa clasped her hands in her lap, fingers intertwined. When she spoke, her voice was quiet. “My brother died on Nahant. He was the only family I had. He brought me over the border when we were both still children. He took us from the desert in Texas all the way to Boston to our father’s brother. When our uncle couldn’t afford to take care of us, he found a way to make it work. I only got to go to school because he worked every hour he could find, earned every dollar he could squeeze out of this country. He worked so I could be a chef, instead of a cook. I got what I wanted, but he never did. He wanted to be a teacher. Instead, he died hanging drywall in rich people’s houses.”
The room was silent for a long moment after Theresa finished. Riva rubbed her eyes, trying not to show her tears. Jim looked distraught. “I’m so sorry.”
Theresa’s eyes flashed. “Don’t be. You are doing something about it, Jim. You are doing something neither Riva nor I can do.”
“Am I? I have to tell Alice there’s a spy in the organization. She’s going to kill them when she finds them. Or make Pete do it, I guess. What if she gets it wrong? What if I misunderstood? Fuck, what if there is a spy and they’re only doing it because the Shil have their family? Or Chalya knows I’m a spy and is feeding me bad information?” He rubbed his temples with his free hand. “I’ve killed my fair share of orcs. They chose to come here. They were soldiers, or rapists, or both, and I’ve made my peace with that. But I’ve never killed another human and I don’t want to, directly or otherwise.”
Rivatsyl put her mug down with a sharp clack. Her voice cracked as she began speaking. “Jim, you said it yourself. Alice has no problem with killing. You can tell her what you learned, and leave it to her to hunt down this spy, or you can lie about it, and hope she doesn’t do anything. If you aren’t giving her anything, will she keep you around? Will she just let you go? What about us? What about your wife’s family?”
Jim tried to muster a response, some reason not to do what he had to do, but couldn’t. His head throbbed, and while the coffee was helping, the post-adrenaline weariness was hitting him hard. “You’re right. I’ll write up my report and send it in the morning. I need to get back to campus early tomorrow. I promised the bitch pancakes.”
”By the Goddess I should have known it would be this pod. You brotherfucking insolent shit-stains are a disgrace to your uniforms, the Marines, and the entire fucking Imperium! I’ve seen turox with more sense, and pirates with more honor! Now you three are going to give me a complete account of where you were yesterday, who you met, who helped you, and the names and descriptions of any Earth civilians you interacted with, so I can personally unfuck this!”
None of the Marines moved a muscle. The Lieutenant’s eye twitched.
“You will be confined to the brig for three days on half rations. Then, you will be on triple duty for as long as you are under my command. Your pay will be docked retroactively to your arrival at this base. I will be sending details of your actions to the Governess for additional punishments. Turn in your sidearms to the Quartermaster, and report to the brig immediately.” Bin’thri glared, breathing heavily. “One more toe out of line, and I’ll break up your pod. I’d do it now if I had the time or the spare Marines. Turox shit, one more slip up, the smallest thing, and I’ll have you bitches digging holes to the core of this backwater planet until a spot opens up on a fucking garbage transport leaving the system. Now, do I need to call a REAL FUCKING MARINE to escort you idiots, or can you find your way on your own? If you’re not at the brig in the next 20 minutes, I’ll skip the fucking garbage transport and have you shot!”
The three Marines saluted sharply, and sounded off ”Ma’am, No, Ma’am!” in unison, then quick-stepped for the door when the Lieutenant dismissed them.
”I fucking told you it was a bad idea, Grag’cho.” Krata was the last to get with the boy, and by then he was crying so hard she didn’t have the heart to go through with it. Zufgar grunted in agreement.
”You both went along with it. We’re in this together. The way I see it, this is no big deal. Three days of rest, plan our next move, and get out of this dump. “ Grag’cho sounded confident, excited even.
”That is dangerous talk,” Zufgar stated. ”I did not come to this planet to desert.”
Of the three of them, Grag’cho knew, Zufgar would be the most difficult to convince. Nearly every woman in her family was in the Marines, or retired from duty. She had no sisters stationed on Earth, but several were hunting pirates in systems not too far distant, and she corresponded with them regularly, getting a new message on nearly every courier ship that came through.
”It’d be foolish to try and plan it now, but think about it. That Human with the tattoos, he must know what happened in Boston. There are almost no stiffs in the whole region, maybe the neighboring regions too. If he can provide boys, we can provide customers, and we can all get very rich.”
They had arrived at the Quartermaster, with only a few minutes before they had to report to the brig. Stripping off their belts and holsters, they handed them over as the bored looking Steward noted their identities and the contents on his pad.
Lieutenant Bin’thri was waiting at the brig, two fully kitted-out Marines flanking her on either side, when the disgraced pod arrived seconds before the deadline. Krata’s eyes went wide. She hadn’t believed the Lieutenant would actually execute them if they were late, but the laser rifles the Marines held were set to kill.
Their cells were cramped by Shil’vati standards, but well-lit and with windows that looked out on a parking lot and a wooded area beyond. As the door slid shut, Grag’cho smiled. She was tired of taking orders.
The man beside her, tall for a Shil’vati male but still dwarfed by the massive Marine, chuckled dryly. ”Indeed it is. But necessary, of course, given how shorthanded your detachment is. A shame it gave those three some private time to talk… I’m afraid it may lead to some mischief.”
”You think they will go down that path?” The Commander didn’t like these clandestine, roundabout operations. It was bad enough that the Marines on her base were outnumbered by the Interior, bossing everyone around and ignoring the Governess’s instructions, making her life harder at every turn. She didn’t need I-TAD rummaging about as well.
”I won’t give them a choice. They’re the loose threads, and I will pull on them until this whole rotten tapestry unravels.”
The Commander, who rose through the ranks on her skill and courage, and faced down Roaches, pirates, and rebels alike, shuddered. Whatever crimes the three Marines committed, whatever horrors lay behind the tapestry, she pitied anyone under the microscope of the Imperial Tithe Assessment Department.
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2021.03.15 20:15 DONT_READ_THIS_OKAY THE VINDICTIVE VAMPIRES OF THE WESTERN WORLD
 | Today the British government announced new sanctions on Syria while their counterparts in the USA admitted it has persuaded Brazil, the second most afflicted nation with Covid-19, to reject the authorization of Russian vaccine Sputnik V. submitted by DONT_READ_THIS_OKAY to u/DONT_READ_THIS_OKAY [link] [comments] The Syrian people have suffered through a decade of war which, until the Russian intervention was being continually fueled by Britain, the USA, France and many of their local allies through funneling money and weapons to their proxy forces. In December of last year Donald Trump signed the Caesar Act into law which effectively stops Syria from rebuilding after a ten-year period which saw indescribable suffering across the country. This is an act of callous inhumanity which rarely garners even a whisper of criticism across western mainstream media. “For nearly a decade all calls to protect women, men, boys and girls have been ignored”, said Commission of Inquiry Chair Paulo Pinheiro. “There are no clean hands in this conflict but the status quo cannot endure”. (UN News) Brazil sorely needs all the help it can get. However, despite receiving a glowing report from the oldest and most respected medical journal worldwide, ‘The Lancet’, U.S. authorities saw fit to callously let Brazilians suffer on when help was at hand. ‘Denis Logunov and colleagues report their interim results from a phase 3 trial of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine ... The trial results show a consistent strong protective effect across all participant age groups.’ ‘The earlier phase 1/2 data published in September, 2020, showed promising safety results and gave an indication that the immune response was at a level consistent with protection.10 Recipients generated robust antibody responses to the spike protein, which included neutralizing antibodies, the proportion of the total immunoglobulin that inhibits the virus binding to its receptor. They also showed evidence of T-cell responses, consistent with an immune response that should not quickly wane.’ (The Lancet) What kind of demonic minds would ensure continued suffering in Syria and do their utmost to prevent approved health care treatment to the people of Brazil? The same kind of minds that placed draconian sanctions on Iraq that denied the country access to essential medical supplies leading to the death of an estimated half a million Iraqi children The same kind of minds that used lies and propaganda to gain consent for an attack upon and invasion of Iraq which caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands. The weapons used there included depleted uranium, cluster bombs and white phosphorous. Children are still dying from their effects and presence in the ground. The same kind of minds that imposed financial sanctions on Venezuela and extreme limitations on its ability to trade due to which over 40,000 civilians at least are estimated to have perished. They saw a way to effect their long sought undermining of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya after using duplicity to relieve the country of any method to defend itself. They cooked up a false narrative that was effective in duping western populations into cheering them on as they decimated a once stable nation turning it into a snake pit of warring forces and generating the condition of a return of the slave trade. These are without doubt the same kind of minds that perpetuated a nine year U.S. war in Vietnam after similar minds in France had wreaked havoc in the country for eight years not long before. The USA of course brought new and vicious weapons to bear, Napalm and Agent Orange. The legacy of such attacks is still felt today due to the suffering from birth defects. The same kind of minds believed it was right and proper to use atomic bombs on the civilian targets of Hiroshima and Nagasaki even though the Japanese were desperate to surrender. Similar attitudes put U.S. soldiers and islanders in harms way in the Marshall Islands during nuclear tests. The same kind of minds found it perfectly acceptable for the CIA to take mental patients, prisoners, drug addicts, and sex workers – "people who could not fight back," as one agency officer put it, and experiment on them, seeking methods of mind control, giving them LSD and other substances. ‘Another technique investigated was the intravenous administration of a barbiturate into one arm and an amphetamine into the other.’ (‘MK-Ultra’, Wikipedia) These are the kind of minds who find it perfectly acceptable to train rioters for the Maidan Square in Kiev, watch them burn young policemen, use toxic sprays on them, beat them with every kind of club, heavy chain and attempt to kill them in every way possible then have Barack Obama make a statement saying that they are peaceful “protestors”. These are the kind of minds who watch the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk in Ukraine be surrounded by neo-Nazis and militias bombarding them at random using mortars, killing men, women and children by hitting hospitals, schools, apartment blocks and town squares and not report a word of it in the West. The above are only a very few of the areas of evil activity that you will find suddenly erased from history whenever a representative of one of these nations speaks. The above are only a few of the areas of evil activity that you will find suddenly erased from history whenever a representative of one of these nations speaks. These minds deal continually in deception, subterfuge and any underhanded technique available to them to hide their plots and crimes against humanity and create any false device to manipulate opinion, confuse critics and ensure they are free to perpetrate whatever atrocities they see fit to inflict on the planet. There is no morality involved in their exploits, no ethical compass is used in anything they do. The only goal and standard involved is to get what they want done in whatever manner they find most efficient and to minimize their exposure to view. Past and present projects have included the CIA’s ‘Operation Mockingbird’ to infiltrate and control the narratives of mainstream media in the USA and worldwide. Journalists were groomed to reflect the opinions, narratives and policy of the U.S. government and to avoid any criticism of them. The White Helmets organization was set up by such minds to assist in the overthrow of the Syrian president and government through the button pushing of emotions using children as hapless props. Psychological Operations (PsyOps) teams work producing counterfeit documents, false but believable press releases and articles and arranging “events” which can be used to sway opinion and manufacture consent for a present or future regime change war. This is the “saintly” West we are told wants only to do good for everyone, bringing them freedom and democracy, sweetness and light, rainbows and unicorns. This is the West that points fingers at others for being evil doers, human rights abusers and the most unscrupulous of “bad actors”. The Nazis knew well that one of the most powerful ways to propagandize people was to accuse others of their very own crimes. This is exactly how western elites behave every day that dawns. They are the most bloodthirsty of vampires posing as vestal virgins. These are the vindictive vampires of the western world. https://preview.redd.it/ppobbg4nr8n61.jpg?width=620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84cbbc8afeeb5a888551829c5ef4cb73135b8a17 |
2021.01.30 00:23 Brilliant_Hope1342 !! MKUltra !!
This may be an older theory but I think this may be to your concern. In an earlier upload to the Key Series, you went through the car and found some documents regarding Project MKUltra (refresher: possible "mind-control").
I believe the liquid that "Syphus" used to inject himself was some kind of Amphetamine. Specifically methylenedioxyamphetamine. Amphetamines are highly corrosive and flammable, possibly answering the question of why it burnt a hole through the floor and started a fire when Woods tried to wipe it up.
"Mind-Altering Effects":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
Let me know what you think!!
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I believe the liquid that "Syphus" used to inject himself was some kind of Amphetamine. Specifically methylenedioxyamphetamine. Amphetamines are highly corrosive and flammable, possibly answering the question of why it burnt a hole through the floor and started a fire when Woods tried to wipe it up.
"Mind-Altering Effects":
- Substances which will promote illogical thinking and impulsiveness to the point where the recipient would be discredited in public.
- Substances which increase the efficiency of mentation and perception.
- Materials which will prevent or counteract the intoxicating effect of alcohol.
- Materials which will promote the intoxicating effect of alcohol.
- Materials which will produce the signs and symptoms of recognized diseases in a reversible way so they may be used for malingering, etc.
- Materials which will render the induction of hypnosis easier or otherwise enhance its usefulness.
- Substances which will enhance the ability of individuals to withstand privation, torture, and coercion during interrogation and so-called "brain-washing".
- Materials and physical methods which will produce amnesia for events preceding and during their use.
- Physical methods of producing shock and confusion over extended periods of time and capable of surreptitious use.
- Substances which produce physical disablement such as paralysis of the legs, acute anemia, etc.
- Substances which will produce "pure" euphoria with no subsequent let-down.
- Substances which alter personality structure in such a way the tendency of the recipient to become dependent upon another person is enhanced.
- A material which will cause mental confusion of such a type the individual under its influence will find it difficult to maintain a fabrication under questioning.
- Substances which will lower the ambition and general working efficiency of men when administered in undetectable amounts.
- Substances which promote weakness or distortion of the eyesight or hearing faculties, preferably without permanent effects.
- A knockout pill which can be surreptitiously administered in drinks, food, cigarettes, as an aerosol, etc., which will be safe to use, provide a maximum of amnesia, and be suitable for use by agent types on an ad hoc basis.
- A material which can be surreptitiously administered by the above routes and which in very small amounts will make it impossible for a person to perform physical activity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
Let me know what you think!!
2020.09.15 13:10 CuteBananaMuffin Mind Control - The Science of Drugs
SUMMARY
As the reader can see, the use of drugs in the Monarch Trauma-based Mind Control is extensive and requires skilled technicians, nurses, and doctors.
Because of the long-held control by the Illuminati families over narcotics and drug manufacture/sales, there is no difficulty for the programmers to get large quantities of secret designer drugs. The minor occult cults have to get by with a more limited supply of mind altering drugs, unless they directly connect in with the bigger picture.
The power of drugs to control a person’s life is not absolute - although someone who lives with a cocaine addict or alcoholic might disagree - but when coupled with all the other methods in a sophisticated system of mind-control, drugs just further reinforce the absolute power of the Illuminati over an individual.
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The science of Pharmacology (drugs) has given the Programmers a vast array of mind-altering and body-altering drugs. Some of the drugs are not used to directly alter the mind, but to change the body (makethe skin burn), or make the person vomit, or some other reaction that can be harnessed to further their nefarious programming goals. If they want a little girl to develop breasts they might give her hormones. Neuroscientists are now familiar with chemicals which cause personality traits.
If one wants to create raving paranoia, simply provide the brain with too much dopamine in the emotional centers of the brain and too little dopamine in the seat of reasoning area of the brain. Reduce serotonin in the person and the person will be unable to connect disagreeable consequences with what provoked them. In other words, they can’t protect themselves from danger.
Thorazine was used regularly at the CIA’s Jonestown, Guyana group control experiment. Survivors of Jonestown have testified as to its effectiveness. After this gruesome experiment in mind control came to its end with a massacre, large amounts of drugs were discovered. Just one footlocker at Jonestown alone contained 11,000 doses. The authorities prevented chemical autopsies of the bodies to insure secrecy of this sophisticated concentration camp which was used for medical and psychiatric experimentation by the CIA.
An examination of the drugs that are used in mental hospitals to alter the minds of patients offers a clear indication of what is being used in the Monarch Mind Control programming.
DRUGS USED FOR MIND CONTROL
The CIA/Illuminati programming centers have more than 600-700 different drugs at their disposal.
The following is a partial list of the drugs available for their mind-control (aka MK-Ultra Programming). They can make a person feel like he is in heaven, or burning in hell. The drugs are at times used with elaborate light, sound and motion shows that produce whatever effect the programmer wants to produce.
They can make a person believe he is shrinking, or that he is double (with mirrors), or that he is dying. Before describing how drugs are used for programming & control, let us list a few which we know have been used. This list comes from CIA documents obtained from the Freedom of Information Act and from what Multiples used as Programmers remember.
Many of the new synthetic drugs are known only to the Illuminati/Intelligence community:
When the victim’s body is saturated with all the drugs they can assimilate, they will receive herbs, which often have a drug effect.
Religious groups, shamans, medicine men, witches and cults have been using mind altering drugs throughout history. The medieval witches used potions of hemlock and aconite for their flying ointments. These are herbs (natural drugs) which will create delirium. Contemporary witnesses reported that covens during the medieval ages would apply the potion of hemlock and aconite to cause their new witch to go delirious, and then would transport the person to the Sabbat, where they would be told they flew there.
The Haitian satanic Vodoun cult, which has been manipulated by the CIA/Illuminati, has sorcerers called bokors. The Vodoun cult in Haiti is being used for trauma-based mind control. One of the items of the cult is to take the plant Datura stramonium and add this plant with other things. The plant is the active ingredient of a potent psychoactive drug, the “zombi cucumber” which produces amnesia and a pseudo-death of the victim. The brain doesn’t die, but the mind is shut off.
The victim is brought back to life as a zombie--a slave of the bokor. The powder to create a zombi is called zombificant in French-creole. The ceremonies to kill and resurrect the zombie are full of magic and demonology also.
Magic, drugs and demonology have always gone hand in hand. Drugs remove the part of the will that prevents demonic possession. Drugs are considered powerful demonizing substances by the those skilled in Demonology. If demonic possession is seen as part of mind-control, then cocaine, hashish, crack, and some of the other drugs are part of the effort to enslave people. (The power of magic to kill, just as the power of faith can heal, will be discussed in chapter 10.)
In Basutoland in Drakersbergs, the Zulu witchdoctors use drugs and trauma to create tokoloshes (mind-controlled zombie slaves). It is said that in recent years, they are using less children and more baboons and monkeys to get tokoloshes. The point is that drugs have been and continue to be used by the occult world for controlling people.
The intelligence agencies working through the U.S. government financed drug research. An example is that Dr. Beecher of Harvard University was given via the U.S. Army Surgeon General’s Office $150,000 to investigate “the development and application of drugs which will aid in the establishment of psychological control.”
Research into drugs for mind-control began in 1947 at Bethesada Naval Hospital in Maryland. A CIA report described this research as to “isolate and synthesize pure drugs for use in effecting psychological entry and control of the individual.” At the California Medical Facility at Vacaville, Dr. Arthur Nugent, conducted research into drugs for mind control under the auspices of the CIA. The Bureau of Narcotics worked with the CIA to establish “safe houses” where drugs which were seized were given to victims. Some other hospitals which began working with the intelligence agencies with dispensing drugs for mind control include Mount Sinai Hospital, Boston Psychopathic Hospital, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, Valley Forge General Hospital, Detroit Psychopathic Clinic, Mayo Clinic, the National Institute of Health, and Letterman Hospital in the Presideo, CA.
The military did drug research/programming at the Army Chemical School in Ft. McClellan, AL and at the Edgewood Chemical Center. In 1958, Dr. Louis Gottschalk, working for the CIA suggested that addictive drugs be used to control people. Some GIs who became addicted to pain killing drugs were subsequently blackmailed by withholding the painkillers until they complied with the demands asked of them.
Cocaine has been frequently given to Monarch slaves to get them addicted and give their handlers more control over them. There is spray cocaine, and powdered cocaine, etc. Because the Monarch slaves are used to haul drugs and to launder the drug money, they are right in the middle of large supplies of drugs. If you hear the expression “The snow is falling” it is the Network’s lingo for cocaine.
Cocaine is reported to give people a feeling of power and to act as an aphrodisiac.
APPLICATIONS FOR DRUGS IN PROGRAMMING
Drugs are used during programming. Although drugs used to assist programming mean nothing to the common person, they each have a specific purpose within a certain type of programming.
Some specific uses for drugs during programming include:
A possible reaction would be that some alters will feel no effect, some will be sedated to a drunken stupor, and child alters may be unconscious or hyperactive. Chloral hydrate might put some alters to sleep while others remain wide awake. Sometimes the personality holding the body may fight the influence of a drug to keep the body.
Prochlorperazine is sometimes given by therapists to help alters cope with nausea and vomiting. Most alters will be programmed not to accept drugs except from their master. Lithium suppresses alter switching in some systems. An alter to “protect” the system from the therapist’s helpful medications may develop “allergic” responses. Alcohol is a drug. The reaction of an alter System to it will again be varied. Child alters may become unconscious, while the adult alters don’t even become inebriated by large quantities of hard liquor.
Within males, dangerous violent personalities may take the body. Within the medical world, often an approximate correct dosage will work. However, with the programming the doses must be extremely fine tuned. Some of the best skilled medical doctors and assistants help with the programming. The Illuminati will initially give the small child a small dose of a drug. They will chart its effect, give it a urinalysis to see how long it stays in the body etc. This is just the testing stage, they are not doing any programming. A number of drugs will be tested, but only one at a time. They clear a child’s body of a drug before they give it another one. They prefer not to mix meds. They will start small to insure they don’t overdose and then increase the dosage until they notice the correct behavior pattern. This will be charted in detail on the slave’s chart.
Each child’s body chemistry is different, so the suggested dosages are only ball park figures which are not precise enough. If too much of a drug is given, the programmers can easily turn a child into a psychotic basket case.
One of the secrets of the Illuminati/Intelligence agencies is that they have secret antidotes for most medications, which, if they have to give them to a child, then they will. They will use an antidote, for instance, to keep a child from going into heart failure. The Programmers will have some helpful drugs and herbs on stock too. It is reported that Glutamic Acid (1000 mg. 3 times/day) will take care of the intense headaches that alters get from lots of switching.
Witch hazel leaves and comfrey root will help internal bleeding.
Putting people into trance
About 90% of the population can be placed into the somnambulistic (the deepest) hypnotic trance possible simply by giving them hypnotic drugs. The prior list on pages 47-50 gives over 2 dozen drugs that can be used to assist taking someone in hypnotic trance. Special drugs have been designed which will place someone into a deep trance very quickly.
If an alter is not being cooperative when they are accessed, they can be locked in place mentally and given a quick shot of a fast-acting hypnotic-inducing drug. One drug which was popular for programming was demerol, which would be administered intravenously (an IV). It takes about 5-7 minutes to take full effect after administration via an I.V.
The dosage can be administered so that the effect remains until the programming session is over. It may be administered about every half hour if appropriate. Children will receive 1 to 2.2 mg/kg dose. Another drug, a truth serum, also consistently works on people making them totally compliant to any directive. Under Baradanga people will give their bank account numbers and anything else a person might want.
These type of drugs are almost sufficient in themselves to get compliance out of a person. If one realizes that these drugs are used in conjunction to torture, elaborate systems of lies and deception, trauma-bonds, and all the rest of the sciences of mind-control used in the programming, it is easy to see how they are producing totally compliant human robots.
Teaching alters to go deeper into trance to escape drug effects and pain
Much of the training in this area is based upon the child’s horror and fear toward the all powerful master programmer. When the programmer wants the child’s alters to learn to trance deeper, he will give a drug that the alter doesn’t like. The child’s alter will then be told to go deeper into the mind if they want to escape the effect of the drug.
This enforces the dissociative state being trained for the alter. The suggestion or story line that is given to the alter is frequently the picture of a train. The child is told that the conductor is at the front of the train, but he must move to the back of the train through the train cars. The child is taught to count cars when they go by as if they were steps in the mind.
This is training the child to descend into deeper levels of the subconscious. The train illustration has been used by programmers when they want the child to remember the drug experience. The programmer wants this experience remembered--at least for a while because it helps increase the child’s fear.
If the programmer wants the child to forget the drug experience while learning trance depths, then the imagery of a plane taking off and disappearing in the clouds works.
Enhancing the trauma
Drugs will be used to enhance the spinning effect when the mind is being programmed to have vortexes and to set up traps within the slave’s mind. One particular drug enhances the trauma by 100 times.
Drugs can be useful for instance, to enhance a child’s terror of the experience of this child being placed in a small box in the fetal position for 24 hours. This helps shorten the programming time, and it also makes the programming more intense. The programmers know what antidotes to give to pull the child out of the enhancement. Marijuana enhances perception of color and noise, but it is not used to enhance trauma.
The mind does not program well under marijuana. That is why there has been such a big campaign to keep it illegal, even though many studies show it to be safer than alcohol.
Producing out of body experiences
Various hallucinogenic drugs, LSD included, will produce an out of body experience for the victim, if the drugs are administered correctly. The Programmer will prepare the victim with various information and story lines during the administration of the drug. Monarch slaves are being deprogrammed, they may have a memory where their skin feels inflamed and itchy, like a bad mosquito bite.
The experience may also have the sensation of floating in an unreal world. This may well be an LSD trip given the slave during experimentation and programming. The CIA was using LSD beginning in the very early part of the 1950s. Several victims report that some type of potion causes a person to dream while they are awake.
PCP which is “angel dust” is one way to disconnect the cortex from the limbic system and go into an altered state.
Creating pain
This is done with a long list of drugs. Drops of salt water and pepper water are applied to the eyes of victims to make their eyes sting. Another pain in the eye takes place when lights are flashed signalling, “I love you, I love you not.” The child is pulled two ways by this message.
Dr. Green (Mengele) enjoyed pulling daisy petals while saying these words. If the last petal was “I love you not,” the child would be put to death. Surviving children were left traumatized.
Creating blood vessels that hurt
Blood pressure is raised by drugs and then certain drugs are added which make the veins burn. The alter is taught to cut the burning veins. This is programming which is laid in to control the slave from straying from the script he or she is given.
If they stray, then a cutting program is activated which was laid in via a combination of drugs in the method just stated.
Controlling histamine production
The control of histamine production is an important secret ingredient to the Monarch Mind Control. The breast implants placed into women help stimulate histamine production, which is used in conjunction with drug-assisted programming (See Chapter 8.)
Helping create illusions such as no hands, no feet, no face, no head etc
A programmer working with a hallucinogenic drug can make an alter believe that it has lost a particular body part. Because most of these alters have little memory or no memory and little frame of reference, what they are told while under the influence of drugs seems very real to them.
Teaching alters to stay in position
Some alters don’t like to stay in position. But through the use of drugs, and the side effect of drugs, they soon learn the importance of staying in position. If they are disobedient, the memory of the bad side effects from not staying in position in the mind can be pulled up by a code and the alter can relive the pain from having disobediently moved from position.
This is very effective in teaching alters to stay in their little position that is assigned them in the mind.
To assist other programming modalities, such as high tech harmonic machines, which implant thoughts. (The machines are used in conjunction with designer drugs.) An example of how drugs can be important is as follows. The neurons in the hippocampus which is part of the memory process use acetylcholine.
Drugs that block acetylcholine interfere with memory. The neurons and the chemical neural transmitters are understood much better today. Where and how a thought is created in the brain is understood by the programmers in detail. No one is in a position to physically prevent the Illuminati and others from taking their children and others to labs where chemicals and harmonics can be used in sophisticated computer guided ways to implant thoughts into the children’s minds. As the child’s brain is shaped according to its environment, the level of everyday brain chemicals and the shape of the various areas of the brain can be determined by the programmers.
This is why a recent article on Prozac (Newsweek, Feb. 7, 1994) uses a quote from Alice In Wonderland for its title, “One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small”.
This article (on page 38) quotes brain researcher Restak,
The hallucinations are then used as programming building blocks by using hypnotic techniques. One way to build on a LSD trip is to tell the child if they ever do a particular thing (such as touch programming, remember programming, and integrate parts, etc.) the victim is to go crazy and hallucinate like they are presently doing. This means that they will be locked up in a crazy house for the rest of their life.
Rather than be put in straight-jackets with other crazy people it would be better for the person to commit suicide. By constantly reinforcing this message, some alters will adopt the script “that they are doing the body good to kill it if any alter personality touches the programming,” because otherwise the body will be locked up in a crazy house.
Drugs are used in programming to establish a pattern or a script. There must be a pattern of dissociation. Parts can’t just dissociate into nothing, otherwise there would be nothing to build on. Drugs will play a major role in the structuring of the alter system, which is covered in chapter 7.
The child doesn’t know where the effect of the drug is coming from. The programmer will take credit for the power of the drug. Whoever administers the drug has power in the child’s mind. The mind wants to be safe. I am familiar with a recent example here in Oregon of someone who escaped from being sacrificed at a Satanic Ritual.
The legal system told the woman she was crazy when she reported to the police that she had escaped from a Satanic Ritual where they were going to sacrifice her. To control her, the judge ordered 3 types of antipsychotics, twice the normal dose of two kinds of lithium carbonate to put her into a lethargic stupor, Paxil as an antidepressant, and Benztropine mesylate as an antiparkinsonian agent. The antipsychotics were Thiothixene, Thioridazine hydrochloride, and Perphenazine which are all addictive.
This woman may or may not be a multiple. But this clearly shows the type of mental control via drugs that could be slapped onto someone who dares report Satanic activity to an establishment which has been sadly corrupted from top to bottom. One victim of government mind control tried to get free. The first psychiatrist the person tried to go to was cooperating with U.S. Intelligence and gave her Stelazine, which aggravated the victim’s situation.
When the victim spied a general’s uniform in the closet of this psychiatrist, she got another psychiatrist, who unfortunately turned out to be an ex-DoD employee. He placed her on Haldol Decanoate, Klonopin, and Benzatropine. The combined effect of these drugs is to erase memory, and create a dissociative disorder.
All of the drugs were highly addicted. Another fleeing victim was given Trazodone by a physician who was cooperating with the Intelligence agencies. This almost gave the victim a heart attack because it aggravated her heart condition. And yet another escaping victim apparently also fell prey to dirty CIA doctors who were practicing in public without warning people of their intelligence connections.
This victim was given a combination of Compazine and Xanax, in dosages that the Physicians Desk Reference warns against. The doctor, who prescribed this, worked out of an office named after an MK Ultra programmer. There are other important things to mention about when drugs are used in Monarch programming.
Some of the cautions that the programmers are alert to include:
c. switching to herbs when the body is saturated with drugs. When the child’s body has had all the manufactured drugs it can absorb, the programmers switch to a vast collection of natural herbs.
d. providing the antidote for AIDS. Monarch slaves are routinely given the antidote for AIDS and have been since the 1960s-1970s.
e. knowing how much of a drug each part can take, small young alters can’t take as much. Multiples within a single system have varying levels of tolerance toward drugs. A small child alter may be killed by an adult dosage, even though the age of the body is that of an adult. The programmers are acutely aware of how to deal with multiple personalities.
f. providing salt to balance the electrolytes in the mind of a programmed multiple personality. An electrolyte imbalance can cause a multiple personality’s mind to go wacky and start spinning. The Multiple could possibly go into shock and die. The programmers are very experienced in understanding the unique requirements of a multiple personality.
g. An important plant extract for watching brain wave activity is the large plant enzyme horseradish peroxidase (HRP).
Perhaps it would be worthwhile to briefly mention that all the major chemical and drug companies are run by the Illuminati.
It would take a book to explain who controls what and how they connect in, and this author could write it. Instead, we will try to give a quick over view. Rather than cover 2 dozen large drug companies, three major drug companies have been randomly selected to show a quick view of how all the drug companies are deeply involved with Monarch mind-control programming.
Since the purpose of this book is to show how the mind control is done--this sample of names is given only to convey to the reader that the drugs that the Illuminati/Intelligence agencies need are never in short supply.
And the labs to develop designer drugs for mind-control are not in short supply either.
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As the reader can see, the use of drugs in the Monarch Trauma-based Mind Control is extensive and requires skilled technicians, nurses, and doctors.
Because of the long-held control by the Illuminati families over narcotics and drug manufacture/sales, there is no difficulty for the programmers to get large quantities of secret designer drugs. The minor occult cults have to get by with a more limited supply of mind altering drugs, unless they directly connect in with the bigger picture.
The power of drugs to control a person’s life is not absolute - although someone who lives with a cocaine addict or alcoholic might disagree - but when coupled with all the other methods in a sophisticated system of mind-control, drugs just further reinforce the absolute power of the Illuminati over an individual.
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The science of Pharmacology (drugs) has given the Programmers a vast array of mind-altering and body-altering drugs. Some of the drugs are not used to directly alter the mind, but to change the body (makethe skin burn), or make the person vomit, or some other reaction that can be harnessed to further their nefarious programming goals. If they want a little girl to develop breasts they might give her hormones. Neuroscientists are now familiar with chemicals which cause personality traits.
If one wants to create raving paranoia, simply provide the brain with too much dopamine in the emotional centers of the brain and too little dopamine in the seat of reasoning area of the brain. Reduce serotonin in the person and the person will be unable to connect disagreeable consequences with what provoked them. In other words, they can’t protect themselves from danger.
Thorazine was used regularly at the CIA’s Jonestown, Guyana group control experiment. Survivors of Jonestown have testified as to its effectiveness. After this gruesome experiment in mind control came to its end with a massacre, large amounts of drugs were discovered. Just one footlocker at Jonestown alone contained 11,000 doses. The authorities prevented chemical autopsies of the bodies to insure secrecy of this sophisticated concentration camp which was used for medical and psychiatric experimentation by the CIA.
An examination of the drugs that are used in mental hospitals to alter the minds of patients offers a clear indication of what is being used in the Monarch Mind Control programming.
DRUGS USED FOR MIND CONTROL
The CIA/Illuminati programming centers have more than 600-700 different drugs at their disposal.
The following is a partial list of the drugs available for their mind-control (aka MK-Ultra Programming). They can make a person feel like he is in heaven, or burning in hell. The drugs are at times used with elaborate light, sound and motion shows that produce whatever effect the programmer wants to produce.
They can make a person believe he is shrinking, or that he is double (with mirrors), or that he is dying. Before describing how drugs are used for programming & control, let us list a few which we know have been used. This list comes from CIA documents obtained from the Freedom of Information Act and from what Multiples used as Programmers remember.
Many of the new synthetic drugs are known only to the Illuminati/Intelligence community:
- 2-GB (aka CBR, this is a strong hallucinogenic which also helps telepathic communication)
- 2-CT2 (produces dark, earthy visual patterns)
- Acetylcholine (for EEOM, EDOM, and for blocking memory)
- Adrenalin
- Aktetron
- Alcohol
- Ambien
- Aminazin
- Amobarbital (hypnotic sedative)
- Amobarbital sodium (hypnotic sedative)
- Amphetamine (addictive)
- Amphetamine sulphate
- Analasine
- Anectine (succinylcholine, a strong muscle relaxant that makes one feel suffocated and drowning. The person feels terror at thinking he is dying.)
- Anhalamine
- Anhalidine
- Anhaline
- Anhalonidine
- Anhalonine
- Anhalonium
- Aphrodisiacs (sexual manipulation by programmers)
- Aphyllidine
- Aphyllin
- Aprobarbital (hypnotic sedative)
- Atropine (speeds heart rate given with l.V.) Atrosine
- BZ (designer drug ten times more powerful that LSD, produces amnesia)
- Bambusa
- Banisterine
- Baradanga (truth serum which makes people willing to follow any command)
- Barbiturate
- Belladonna (a traditional drug of witches since the middle ages).
- Benzidrene (Benzedrene, stimulant used w/ other drugs)
- Benzocaine
- Bromoharmine
- Bulbocapnine (causes a catatonia and stupors)
- Butabarbital sodium (hypnotic sedative)
- Butyl-bromallyl-barbituric acid
- Caffeine
- Caffeine sodium
- Calcium Chloride
- Cannabidiol
- Cannabinol
- Cannabis (aka Marijuana, a sedative, change in perception, colors and sounds more distinct, time distorted. This drug is not used much in Monarch Programming because it IMPEDES mind control. It has been experimented with in combination with other drugs as an interrogation tool. The CIA listed it as being used in MK-Ultra, but it served as an experimental drug rather for programming.)
- Cannabol
- Caramine
- Carboline
- Carbrital
- Caroegine
- Chloral hydrate (a hypnotic sedative, the active sedative ingredient is the metabolite trichloroethanol, goes to work in about 30-60 minutes, aka Noctec)
- Cocaine (addictive, blackmail, the availability of cocaine may pull up certain alters who are addicted to it)
- Coffee
- Coramine
- Curare (to paralyze the body)
- Delvinyl sodium
- Demerol (a hypnotic, also given as a reward for good learning after an induced headache, is used in the Scramble programming where the victim must overcome its effect to concentrate on what is being said)
- Desoxyn (used with Sodium Pentothal for hypnotic trance)
- Dexedrine (amphetamine)
- Di benzo pyran derivatives
- Dicain
- Doral
- Dramamine (aka dimenhydrinate, stops motion sickness)
- Drobinal (for quick access)
- Ecstasy (aka XTC, Adam, MDMA, this is an illegal designer drug, but it’s used by the government & cult programmers. Empathogens, like Ecstasy, enhance trust between the recipient & the programmer. It’s effect lasts for several hours.)
- Ephedrine (stops hypotension)
- Ephetamine
- Epinephrine (adrenaline)
- Ergot
- Ergotamine
- Ethanol (to inebriate the victim to induce certain behavior)
- Ethchlorvynol (hypnotic sedative)
- Ethyl harmol
- Epicane
- Escrine
- Estazolam (hypnotic sedative)
- Ethclorvynol (hypnotic sedative, effect begins 30 mm. after digestion, addictive, aka Placidyl)
- Ether
- Ethinamate (hypnotic sedative, aka Valmid)
- Eucaine
- Eucodal
- Eukotal
- Eunacron
- Evipal
- Evipan
- Evipan sodium
- Flurazepam hydrochloride (hypnotic sedative)
- Genoscopolomine
- Glutethimide (hypnotic sedative, has withdrawal symptoms, aka Doriden)
- Halcyn (blocks explicit memory by impairing hippocampal processing)
- Haliopareael (tranquilizer)
- Harmaline
- Harmalol
- Harman
- Harmine
- Harmine methiodide
- Harmol
- Heroin
- Hexacol
- Histadyl
- Histamine (causes changes in the skin)
- Hydractine (or Hydrastine)
- Hypoloid soluble hexabarbitone
- Icoral
- Indole
- Indole methyllarmine
- Insulin (shock for amnesia)
- Ipecac (to induce vomiting for eating disorder programming)
- Largatil (a powerful tranquilizer)
- Lophop-nine
- Lorazepam (sleep induction, may destroy memory of previous day)
- LSD-25 (Used to program alters to cut their veins; they want to end their nightmare by cutting what seem like white rivers w/ black threads or other scary delusions. Can cause psychosis & other effects. It’s used in small amounts for interrogations. Its active ingredient is psilocybin which can create anxiety & a fear of death.)
- Lyscorbic acid
- MDA (this is a cross between mescaline and amphetamine speed)
- MDMA (also known as Adam, this is Ecstasy, see under Ecstasy for more information)
- MDE (aka Eve, puts someone into a strictly intellectual head trip)
- Manganese chloride
- Mellaril (mood changer)
- Methaqualone (hypnotic sedative)
- Methotrimeprazine hydrochloride (hypnotic sedative)
- Methy-cocaine
- Methy-prylon (aka Noludar, helpful for hypnosis, side effects are a hangover & skin rashes.)
- Metra-ol
- Midazolam hydrochloride (hypnovel, versed, hypnotic sedative which can cause amnesia)
- Morphine
- Morphine hydrochloride
- Narco-imal
- Nembutal
- Niacin (helpful to stop an LSD trip)
- Nicotine
- Nicotinic acid (stops LSD drug effect)
- Nikthemine
- Nitrous oxide
- Novacaine
- Nupercaine
- Pantocaine
- Pantopone
- Parahyx
- Paraldehyde (hypnotic sedative, produces sleep in 15 mm., has a strong odor & disagreeable taste)
- Pellotine
- Pentobarbital (hypnotic sedative)
- Pentobarbital sodium (hypnotic sedative, if mixed with dextro amphetamine sulfate it will half the stage 1 dream time when REM sleep ocurs)
- Pentothal acid (helpful for hypnosis)
- Pentothal sodium
- Percaine
- Pernoston
- Peyotl (interrogation, hallucinations)
- Pheactin
- Phenamine
- Phenolic acid (injected into expendable children’s hearts to kill them)
- Pehyl-thio-urethanes
- Picrate
- Picrotoxin
- Procaine
- Propranolol (calms the mind so it can function better)
- Pulegone-orcinol
- Pulegone-olivetol
- Pyrahexyl
- Pyramidon
- Quazepam (hypnotic sedative)
- Quinine
- Reserpine
- Salsoline
- Scapalomine S. (good amnesia drug)
- Scopolomine (truth serum that makes people willing to do whatever they are told)
- Scopolomine aminoxide hydrobromide
- Scopolomine-phetamine-eukotal
- Secobarbital sodium (hypnotic sedative)
- Sodium Amytal (hypnotic sedative that reduces REM sleep time)
- Sodium barbital
- Sodium dielvinal
- Sodium evipal
- Sodium pentobarbital (nembutal)
- Sodium Pentothal (truth serum for interrogation, can be used with hypnosis, can be used with Desoxyn, given in an IV)
- Sodium phenobarbital
- Sodium rhodanate
- Sodium soneryl
- Sodium succinate
- Sodium thioethamyl
- Somnifen
- Stovaine
- Strychnine
- Styphnic acid
- Sulfazin
- Sympatol
- Synhexyl
- Telepathine
- Tetra-hydro-cannabinol acetate
- Tetra-hydro-harman
- Tetra-hydro-harmine
- Tropacocaine
- Tropenone
- Temazepam (hypnotic sedative)
- Thallium (confuses thinking)
- Thorazine (helps bring one out of an LSD trip)
- Tranquility (a designer drug for programming that makes the victim compliant, like Baradanga)
- Triazolam (hypnotic sedative, somewhat rapid)
- Yageine
- Yohimbine sulphate
- Zolpidem tartrate (hypnotic sedative)
When the victim’s body is saturated with all the drugs they can assimilate, they will receive herbs, which often have a drug effect.
- Ayahuasca (a vine of Brazil whose alkaloids such as Telapatin are said to produce a telepathic state where the recipient can see through people like glass and read their minds.)
- Bayberry (hemorrhaging)
- Calamas (part of a cerebral tonic)
- Cayenne Pepper (stimulant)
- Charcoal (absorbent cleanser)
- Caladium sequinum (injected into body parts to cause excruciating pain)
- Clove Oil (placed in nose for relief from the pain of dental tortures)
- Hemlock (a poison, used more to kill than for programming)
- Hops (sleep aid aka Beerflower)
- Lady’s Slipper (relaxant)
- Kava Kava (sedative)
- Mistletoe (for dizziness, and lower blood pressure)
- Narcissus (anaphrodisiac for males)
- Opium (enchanting trip)
- Potions (made from roots, powders, dried blood and animal parts are given.)
- Rosemary (mild heart tonic)
- Saffron (sedative)
- Sage (part of a cerebral tonic)
- Sandlewood & henbane (when burned the fumes cause convulsions & temp. insanity)
- Skullcap (relaxant)
- Sunflower Seed Oil (this may be used to help with brain stem scarring)
- Valarium Root (works just like Valarium, also helps cramps)
- Witch Hazel (hemorrhaging)
- Yerba Mate (part of a cerebral tonic)
Religious groups, shamans, medicine men, witches and cults have been using mind altering drugs throughout history. The medieval witches used potions of hemlock and aconite for their flying ointments. These are herbs (natural drugs) which will create delirium. Contemporary witnesses reported that covens during the medieval ages would apply the potion of hemlock and aconite to cause their new witch to go delirious, and then would transport the person to the Sabbat, where they would be told they flew there.
The Haitian satanic Vodoun cult, which has been manipulated by the CIA/Illuminati, has sorcerers called bokors. The Vodoun cult in Haiti is being used for trauma-based mind control. One of the items of the cult is to take the plant Datura stramonium and add this plant with other things. The plant is the active ingredient of a potent psychoactive drug, the “zombi cucumber” which produces amnesia and a pseudo-death of the victim. The brain doesn’t die, but the mind is shut off.
The victim is brought back to life as a zombie--a slave of the bokor. The powder to create a zombi is called zombificant in French-creole. The ceremonies to kill and resurrect the zombie are full of magic and demonology also.
Magic, drugs and demonology have always gone hand in hand. Drugs remove the part of the will that prevents demonic possession. Drugs are considered powerful demonizing substances by the those skilled in Demonology. If demonic possession is seen as part of mind-control, then cocaine, hashish, crack, and some of the other drugs are part of the effort to enslave people. (The power of magic to kill, just as the power of faith can heal, will be discussed in chapter 10.)
In Basutoland in Drakersbergs, the Zulu witchdoctors use drugs and trauma to create tokoloshes (mind-controlled zombie slaves). It is said that in recent years, they are using less children and more baboons and monkeys to get tokoloshes. The point is that drugs have been and continue to be used by the occult world for controlling people.
The intelligence agencies working through the U.S. government financed drug research. An example is that Dr. Beecher of Harvard University was given via the U.S. Army Surgeon General’s Office $150,000 to investigate “the development and application of drugs which will aid in the establishment of psychological control.”
Research into drugs for mind-control began in 1947 at Bethesada Naval Hospital in Maryland. A CIA report described this research as to “isolate and synthesize pure drugs for use in effecting psychological entry and control of the individual.” At the California Medical Facility at Vacaville, Dr. Arthur Nugent, conducted research into drugs for mind control under the auspices of the CIA. The Bureau of Narcotics worked with the CIA to establish “safe houses” where drugs which were seized were given to victims. Some other hospitals which began working with the intelligence agencies with dispensing drugs for mind control include Mount Sinai Hospital, Boston Psychopathic Hospital, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, Valley Forge General Hospital, Detroit Psychopathic Clinic, Mayo Clinic, the National Institute of Health, and Letterman Hospital in the Presideo, CA.
The military did drug research/programming at the Army Chemical School in Ft. McClellan, AL and at the Edgewood Chemical Center. In 1958, Dr. Louis Gottschalk, working for the CIA suggested that addictive drugs be used to control people. Some GIs who became addicted to pain killing drugs were subsequently blackmailed by withholding the painkillers until they complied with the demands asked of them.
Cocaine has been frequently given to Monarch slaves to get them addicted and give their handlers more control over them. There is spray cocaine, and powdered cocaine, etc. Because the Monarch slaves are used to haul drugs and to launder the drug money, they are right in the middle of large supplies of drugs. If you hear the expression “The snow is falling” it is the Network’s lingo for cocaine.
Cocaine is reported to give people a feeling of power and to act as an aphrodisiac.
APPLICATIONS FOR DRUGS IN PROGRAMMING
Drugs are used during programming. Although drugs used to assist programming mean nothing to the common person, they each have a specific purpose within a certain type of programming.
Some specific uses for drugs during programming include:
- Putting people into trance
- Teaching alters to go deeper into trance to escape drug effects
- Enhancing the trauma
- Eroducing out of body experiences e. creating pain
- Creating blood vessels that hurt, a pulsating pain, that runs through the body
- Controlling histamine production
- Helping create illusions such as no hands, no feet, no face, no head etc.
- Teaching alters to stay in position
- To assist other programming modalities, such as high tech harmonic machines, which implant thoughts. (The machines are used in conjunction with designer drugs.)
- Hormones, for instance GnRH, which regulates the physiology of the sexual growth, and is given to speed up sexual growth. Other body developments may also be manipulated.
- To enhance or reduce memory
- To build the image of the programmer’s power
A possible reaction would be that some alters will feel no effect, some will be sedated to a drunken stupor, and child alters may be unconscious or hyperactive. Chloral hydrate might put some alters to sleep while others remain wide awake. Sometimes the personality holding the body may fight the influence of a drug to keep the body.
Prochlorperazine is sometimes given by therapists to help alters cope with nausea and vomiting. Most alters will be programmed not to accept drugs except from their master. Lithium suppresses alter switching in some systems. An alter to “protect” the system from the therapist’s helpful medications may develop “allergic” responses. Alcohol is a drug. The reaction of an alter System to it will again be varied. Child alters may become unconscious, while the adult alters don’t even become inebriated by large quantities of hard liquor.
Within males, dangerous violent personalities may take the body. Within the medical world, often an approximate correct dosage will work. However, with the programming the doses must be extremely fine tuned. Some of the best skilled medical doctors and assistants help with the programming. The Illuminati will initially give the small child a small dose of a drug. They will chart its effect, give it a urinalysis to see how long it stays in the body etc. This is just the testing stage, they are not doing any programming. A number of drugs will be tested, but only one at a time. They clear a child’s body of a drug before they give it another one. They prefer not to mix meds. They will start small to insure they don’t overdose and then increase the dosage until they notice the correct behavior pattern. This will be charted in detail on the slave’s chart.
Each child’s body chemistry is different, so the suggested dosages are only ball park figures which are not precise enough. If too much of a drug is given, the programmers can easily turn a child into a psychotic basket case.
One of the secrets of the Illuminati/Intelligence agencies is that they have secret antidotes for most medications, which, if they have to give them to a child, then they will. They will use an antidote, for instance, to keep a child from going into heart failure. The Programmers will have some helpful drugs and herbs on stock too. It is reported that Glutamic Acid (1000 mg. 3 times/day) will take care of the intense headaches that alters get from lots of switching.
Witch hazel leaves and comfrey root will help internal bleeding.
Putting people into trance
About 90% of the population can be placed into the somnambulistic (the deepest) hypnotic trance possible simply by giving them hypnotic drugs. The prior list on pages 47-50 gives over 2 dozen drugs that can be used to assist taking someone in hypnotic trance. Special drugs have been designed which will place someone into a deep trance very quickly.
If an alter is not being cooperative when they are accessed, they can be locked in place mentally and given a quick shot of a fast-acting hypnotic-inducing drug. One drug which was popular for programming was demerol, which would be administered intravenously (an IV). It takes about 5-7 minutes to take full effect after administration via an I.V.
The dosage can be administered so that the effect remains until the programming session is over. It may be administered about every half hour if appropriate. Children will receive 1 to 2.2 mg/kg dose. Another drug, a truth serum, also consistently works on people making them totally compliant to any directive. Under Baradanga people will give their bank account numbers and anything else a person might want.
These type of drugs are almost sufficient in themselves to get compliance out of a person. If one realizes that these drugs are used in conjunction to torture, elaborate systems of lies and deception, trauma-bonds, and all the rest of the sciences of mind-control used in the programming, it is easy to see how they are producing totally compliant human robots.
Teaching alters to go deeper into trance to escape drug effects and pain
Much of the training in this area is based upon the child’s horror and fear toward the all powerful master programmer. When the programmer wants the child’s alters to learn to trance deeper, he will give a drug that the alter doesn’t like. The child’s alter will then be told to go deeper into the mind if they want to escape the effect of the drug.
This enforces the dissociative state being trained for the alter. The suggestion or story line that is given to the alter is frequently the picture of a train. The child is told that the conductor is at the front of the train, but he must move to the back of the train through the train cars. The child is taught to count cars when they go by as if they were steps in the mind.
This is training the child to descend into deeper levels of the subconscious. The train illustration has been used by programmers when they want the child to remember the drug experience. The programmer wants this experience remembered--at least for a while because it helps increase the child’s fear.
If the programmer wants the child to forget the drug experience while learning trance depths, then the imagery of a plane taking off and disappearing in the clouds works.
Enhancing the trauma
Drugs will be used to enhance the spinning effect when the mind is being programmed to have vortexes and to set up traps within the slave’s mind. One particular drug enhances the trauma by 100 times.
Drugs can be useful for instance, to enhance a child’s terror of the experience of this child being placed in a small box in the fetal position for 24 hours. This helps shorten the programming time, and it also makes the programming more intense. The programmers know what antidotes to give to pull the child out of the enhancement. Marijuana enhances perception of color and noise, but it is not used to enhance trauma.
The mind does not program well under marijuana. That is why there has been such a big campaign to keep it illegal, even though many studies show it to be safer than alcohol.
Producing out of body experiences
Various hallucinogenic drugs, LSD included, will produce an out of body experience for the victim, if the drugs are administered correctly. The Programmer will prepare the victim with various information and story lines during the administration of the drug. Monarch slaves are being deprogrammed, they may have a memory where their skin feels inflamed and itchy, like a bad mosquito bite.
The experience may also have the sensation of floating in an unreal world. This may well be an LSD trip given the slave during experimentation and programming. The CIA was using LSD beginning in the very early part of the 1950s. Several victims report that some type of potion causes a person to dream while they are awake.
PCP which is “angel dust” is one way to disconnect the cortex from the limbic system and go into an altered state.
Creating pain
This is done with a long list of drugs. Drops of salt water and pepper water are applied to the eyes of victims to make their eyes sting. Another pain in the eye takes place when lights are flashed signalling, “I love you, I love you not.” The child is pulled two ways by this message.
Dr. Green (Mengele) enjoyed pulling daisy petals while saying these words. If the last petal was “I love you not,” the child would be put to death. Surviving children were left traumatized.
Creating blood vessels that hurt
Blood pressure is raised by drugs and then certain drugs are added which make the veins burn. The alter is taught to cut the burning veins. This is programming which is laid in to control the slave from straying from the script he or she is given.
If they stray, then a cutting program is activated which was laid in via a combination of drugs in the method just stated.
Controlling histamine production
The control of histamine production is an important secret ingredient to the Monarch Mind Control. The breast implants placed into women help stimulate histamine production, which is used in conjunction with drug-assisted programming (See Chapter 8.)
Helping create illusions such as no hands, no feet, no face, no head etc
A programmer working with a hallucinogenic drug can make an alter believe that it has lost a particular body part. Because most of these alters have little memory or no memory and little frame of reference, what they are told while under the influence of drugs seems very real to them.
Teaching alters to stay in position
Some alters don’t like to stay in position. But through the use of drugs, and the side effect of drugs, they soon learn the importance of staying in position. If they are disobedient, the memory of the bad side effects from not staying in position in the mind can be pulled up by a code and the alter can relive the pain from having disobediently moved from position.
This is very effective in teaching alters to stay in their little position that is assigned them in the mind.
To assist other programming modalities, such as high tech harmonic machines, which implant thoughts. (The machines are used in conjunction with designer drugs.) An example of how drugs can be important is as follows. The neurons in the hippocampus which is part of the memory process use acetylcholine.
Drugs that block acetylcholine interfere with memory. The neurons and the chemical neural transmitters are understood much better today. Where and how a thought is created in the brain is understood by the programmers in detail. No one is in a position to physically prevent the Illuminati and others from taking their children and others to labs where chemicals and harmonics can be used in sophisticated computer guided ways to implant thoughts into the children’s minds. As the child’s brain is shaped according to its environment, the level of everyday brain chemicals and the shape of the various areas of the brain can be determined by the programmers.
This is why a recent article on Prozac (Newsweek, Feb. 7, 1994) uses a quote from Alice In Wonderland for its title, “One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small”.
This article (on page 38) quotes brain researcher Restak,
“For the first time, we will be in a position to design our own brain.” On the previous page in big letters it reads, “Scientific insights into the brain are raising the prospect of made-to-order, off-the-shelf personalities.”Another programming modality assisted by drugs is behavior modification. Aversion therapy using a vomit-inducing drug is used on children. Another example of drugs helping assist programming is to give someone LSD and then interview the child while it is hallucinating.
The hallucinations are then used as programming building blocks by using hypnotic techniques. One way to build on a LSD trip is to tell the child if they ever do a particular thing (such as touch programming, remember programming, and integrate parts, etc.) the victim is to go crazy and hallucinate like they are presently doing. This means that they will be locked up in a crazy house for the rest of their life.
Rather than be put in straight-jackets with other crazy people it would be better for the person to commit suicide. By constantly reinforcing this message, some alters will adopt the script “that they are doing the body good to kill it if any alter personality touches the programming,” because otherwise the body will be locked up in a crazy house.
Drugs are used in programming to establish a pattern or a script. There must be a pattern of dissociation. Parts can’t just dissociate into nothing, otherwise there would be nothing to build on. Drugs will play a major role in the structuring of the alter system, which is covered in chapter 7.
The child doesn’t know where the effect of the drug is coming from. The programmer will take credit for the power of the drug. Whoever administers the drug has power in the child’s mind. The mind wants to be safe. I am familiar with a recent example here in Oregon of someone who escaped from being sacrificed at a Satanic Ritual.
The legal system told the woman she was crazy when she reported to the police that she had escaped from a Satanic Ritual where they were going to sacrifice her. To control her, the judge ordered 3 types of antipsychotics, twice the normal dose of two kinds of lithium carbonate to put her into a lethargic stupor, Paxil as an antidepressant, and Benztropine mesylate as an antiparkinsonian agent. The antipsychotics were Thiothixene, Thioridazine hydrochloride, and Perphenazine which are all addictive.
This woman may or may not be a multiple. But this clearly shows the type of mental control via drugs that could be slapped onto someone who dares report Satanic activity to an establishment which has been sadly corrupted from top to bottom. One victim of government mind control tried to get free. The first psychiatrist the person tried to go to was cooperating with U.S. Intelligence and gave her Stelazine, which aggravated the victim’s situation.
When the victim spied a general’s uniform in the closet of this psychiatrist, she got another psychiatrist, who unfortunately turned out to be an ex-DoD employee. He placed her on Haldol Decanoate, Klonopin, and Benzatropine. The combined effect of these drugs is to erase memory, and create a dissociative disorder.
All of the drugs were highly addicted. Another fleeing victim was given Trazodone by a physician who was cooperating with the Intelligence agencies. This almost gave the victim a heart attack because it aggravated her heart condition. And yet another escaping victim apparently also fell prey to dirty CIA doctors who were practicing in public without warning people of their intelligence connections.
This victim was given a combination of Compazine and Xanax, in dosages that the Physicians Desk Reference warns against. The doctor, who prescribed this, worked out of an office named after an MK Ultra programmer. There are other important things to mention about when drugs are used in Monarch programming.
Some of the cautions that the programmers are alert to include:
a. watching the heart so that it doesn’t stop. Many of the children who have been programmed have died from heart failure. The programmers are very careful to have heart monitors on the victim, and to have paddles ready to revive the body. Because so much of their drugging affects the heart, they accept that they will lose a few to heart failure.b. making sure that drugs aren’t given to children who are allergic to them. The programmers take the time to insure that they have the family histories of allergies to drugs, and they will test the children too, before proceeding with drugs. They not only learn the family & individual responses to drugs, but they can test during programming to determine a drug’s blood level in a child. For instance, pentobarbital at a blood level of 5 mcg/ml aids hypnosis, at 15 makes the victim comatose with reflexes, and at 30 makes the person comatose w/ extreme difficulty in breathing. In everyday life, 30 mcg/ml would kill the child. Pentobarbital blood levels can be tested by an enzyme multiplied immunoassay technique. For longer-acting Phenobarbital gas chromatography is used. TCA’s are tested by radioimmunoassay, high-perf. liquid chromatography & thin layer chromatography. Some hypnotics are tested by colorimetry, photometry, & spectrophotometry.
c. switching to herbs when the body is saturated with drugs. When the child’s body has had all the manufactured drugs it can absorb, the programmers switch to a vast collection of natural herbs.
d. providing the antidote for AIDS. Monarch slaves are routinely given the antidote for AIDS and have been since the 1960s-1970s.
e. knowing how much of a drug each part can take, small young alters can’t take as much. Multiples within a single system have varying levels of tolerance toward drugs. A small child alter may be killed by an adult dosage, even though the age of the body is that of an adult. The programmers are acutely aware of how to deal with multiple personalities.
f. providing salt to balance the electrolytes in the mind of a programmed multiple personality. An electrolyte imbalance can cause a multiple personality’s mind to go wacky and start spinning. The Multiple could possibly go into shock and die. The programmers are very experienced in understanding the unique requirements of a multiple personality.
g. An important plant extract for watching brain wave activity is the large plant enzyme horseradish peroxidase (HRP).
Perhaps it would be worthwhile to briefly mention that all the major chemical and drug companies are run by the Illuminati.
It would take a book to explain who controls what and how they connect in, and this author could write it. Instead, we will try to give a quick over view. Rather than cover 2 dozen large drug companies, three major drug companies have been randomly selected to show a quick view of how all the drug companies are deeply involved with Monarch mind-control programming.
Since the purpose of this book is to show how the mind control is done--this sample of names is given only to convey to the reader that the drugs that the Illuminati/Intelligence agencies need are never in short supply.
And the labs to develop designer drugs for mind-control are not in short supply either.
- ELI LILLY CO. -- Trustee of Eli Lilly Endowment Walter William Wilson - Illuminati, married to Helen Scudder (of the wealthy powerful Scudder family), prominent partner of Morgan, Stanley & Co. controlled by Henry Morgan also a member of the Illuminati. Executive Vice-pres. of Eli Lilly Landrum Bolling, represented Eli Lilly at the secret annual Dartmouth conferences, overseen by the Illuminati. Chairman of Eli Lilly Richard D. Wood, dir, of the Rockefeller’s Standard Oil, Chemical Bank of NY, and the Amer. Enterprise Inst. for Public Policy Research. Dir. Eli Lilly C. William Verity, Jr., dir. Chase Manhattan Bank and assoc. with U.S. intelligence, and works with Mrs. Rockefeller as a member of USTEC. Dan Quayle and George Bush (CIA director and Monarch handler) have been part of Eli Lilly management too.
- MONSANTO CHEMICAL COMPANY -- President Earle H. Harbison, Jr.-CIA. and director of Bethesada General Hospital where they program Monarch slaves. He is also the president of the Mental Health Association.
- STERLING DRUG CO. (an I.G. Farben spinoff) -- connected to the Krupp Illuminati family. Chairman W. Clark Wescoe, dir of the super secret Tinker Foundation which is a CIA foundation. Dir. Gordon T. Wallis, Illuminati, dir, of the Fed. Reserve Bank of NY, CFR, Director Martha T. Muse, CIA, pres. of the Tinker Foundation, dir. of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta), and dir. of Georgetown Center for Strategic Studies
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Sensei's World
Benjamin Fulford, David Whelan, 09.06.04
Soka Gakkai, a strikingly wealthy Japanese sect, tries again for U.S. glory with a splendid new campus. Daisaku Ikeda's unaccountable empire can thank lax treatment of the nonprofit world.
Walk the hilly campus of Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, Calif. and you enter the fabulous world of the international nonprofit. The three-year-old school has so far put about $300 million into its 103 suburban Orange County acres, and this is still a work in progress. As of this fall, only 400 students will meander among the rich, Romanesque architecture.
The primary benefactor of Soka U is a controversial offshoot of Japanese Buddhism called Soka Gakkai, headed for 44 years by the sometimes messianic and persistently self-aggrandizing Daisaku Ikeda. But significant secondary support comes from favorable tax treatment in Japan, the U.S. and around the globe, just as enjoyed by other philanthropies big and small. In the U.S. the nonprofit sector is spending $875 billion a year and employs 9% of the work force yet has precious little accountability, other than the public financial statements required of most charities. Religious entities don't even have that degree of accountability. They enjoy all the benefits of tax exemption without any requirement that they say what they are up to.
Soka Gakkai is a shadowy case in point. Ikeda, now 76 and president of Soka Gakkai International, the sect's global umbrella, claims 12 million followers and has amassed an empire that was put at $100 billion by a Japanese parliamentarian a decade ago. (The sect says that's wrong but otherwise won't comment on its finances.) A nasty split from Nichiren Buddhists set off a cycle of alleged violence, blackmail and intimidation. Soka Gakkai members in Japan have been charged with illegal wiretapping and breaking into private databases. The sect says it has nothing to do with those activities, noting that its ranks include nearly 10% of all Japanese. But yet-darker allegations have been made (see box, p. 130).
Soka Gakkai (literally, "value-creating society") brings in, conservatively, $1.5 billion a year to the top line, according to our best estimates of its membership, its tithing demands and its commercial activities. Most of that revenue is collected in Japan, where the sect sells its flock funeral plots, assorted religious paraphernalia and a newspaper (5.5 million subscribers). The group's far-flung international assets include estates in France and the U.K. In gilded Santa Monica, Calif. a Soka-owned office high- rise and auditorium sit across Wilshire Boulevard from each other, near the town's beach. In the nearby hills a Soka affiliate holds the King Gillette Ranch-- which was used for footage of "Tara" in the film Gone with the Wind. A thousand spiritual centers worldwide include a site worth $6 million near New York City's Union Square.
In wealth and claimed following, Soka Gakkai exceeds more familiar sects such as Hare Krishna, the church of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon and today's hippest (Madonna, etc.) group, members of the Kabbalah Centre. In the U.S. a church can lose its federal tax exemption for getting into politics. Soka managed to get around a similar restriction in Japan, where Ikeda has built up a political party, New Komeito, that helps the long-governing Liberal Democrats hold power.
Soka University of Japan opened in 1971. Soka University of America, first established in 1987 on what is now a graduate campus in Calabasas, Calif., near Malibu, recently obtained preaccreditation for its undergraduate program from an outfit certified by the U.S. Education Department. A parallel process that will cover graduate students also is moving forward.
The preaccreditation means that for the past year American undergrads at Soka U--which reported to the IRS that its assets exceed $740 million--have been eligible to obtain up to $23,000 in federal Stafford loans over the course of their education. Needy recipients can get up to an additional $4,000 a year in Pell Grants.
What are Ikeda's aims? Five years after gaining command of Soka Gakkai, he told a Japanese writer: "I am the king of Japan; I am its president; I am the master of its spiritual life; I am the supreme power who entirely directs its intellectual culture." In the years since, "world peace" has been the sect's mantra. New Komeito promotes pacifism in Japan. Representatives of the sect have worked the UN and other official venues touting international harmony and goodwill--and usually Ikeda. Followers mount a traveling show equating him with Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.
In the sect's 1,000 meeting halls Soka members exercise the "life-enhancing" power of chanting. Believers are encouraged to be "many in body, one in mind." This means "You have to make sensei's [teacher's] heart your own. You have to fulfill [Ikeda's] dreams instead of your own," maintains Lisa Jones, a former aide and follower who ghostwrote an Ikeda book and now maintains a Soka-doubter Web site. "His dream is kosen-rufu, or what Soka members call ‘world peace,' which will be achieved when one third of the world chants, one third merely celebrates Ikeda, and the other third doesn't care," she says.
A Soka bid for favor in the U.S. a generation ago, drawing on the era's culture clash and some affiliated celebrities, attracted unwelcome press, and the sect receded a bit. But it has never given up efforts to establish legitimacy and further Ikeda's vision. He founded the Boston Research Center for the 21st Century in a 13,000-square-foot Georgian building next to Harvard University. Ikeda has enticed Mikhail Gorbachev and Henry Kissinger into numerous discussions. He also met with historian Arnold Toynbee, double Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling and civil rights figure Rosa Parks (Soka's U.S. arm boasts a sizable black membership). Some of the conversations with luminaries have been published and sold.
More idealistic or benign than sinister and manipulative? The veil that surrounds the nonprofit world, especially religions, ensures that only the outlines are visible. Soka University files an IRS form; the organization behind it doesn't.
Congress is training its sights anew on nonprofits. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, held hearings in June on tax-exempt abuses. "Far too many charities have broken the understood covenant between the taxpayers and nonprofits," he said. He was angered by local news reports about the looting of family foundations. On Aug. 10 the Internal Revenue Service promised to increase from 230 to 300 the agents it assigns to nonprofit entities. This tiny crew is supposed to take on 1.6 million tax-exempt organizations and an estimated 400,000 additional religious groups that do not have to submit annual tax forms to the IRS. Investigations are typically initiated only in response to complaints. Exceptions to this passive role include the IRS' decades-long losing war with the Church of Scientology.
In the post-Sept. 11 era some Muslim groups have come under scrutiny for ties to terrorism. The Department of Justice recently prosecuted the former head of the American Muslim Council and indicted seven leaders of the Dallas-based Holy Land Foundation. But unless you're tied into terror, you can shout from the rooftops and no one is likely to come looking at your books. "Every revenue agent you assign to a corporate tax return will generate millions of dollars. Every [revenue agent] you assign to a tax-exempt one may not pay his own salary," says Marcus Owens, who headed the IRS' Exempt Organizations division from 1990 to 2000 and is now a private Washington attorney.
So the Ikeda-related wealth here is virtually untouchable. In Japan, Soka has not only its 8,000-student university but also its enhanced political power. At least 20% of the Liberal Democrat deputies could have lost without the support of Soka followers last October, enough to give the opposition Democratic Party a plurality in the Diet. "It's like becoming addicted to amphetamines," says Katsuei Hirasawa, an LDP member of parliament, of his party's link with Komeito.
In a July op-ed in the Asahi newspaper, Koji Ishimura, a professor of tax law at Hakuho University, argued that Soka's political activities were an abuse of its status as a religion. "The influence of a ruling party that relies on a specific religion's organization to form its power base is growing stronger," wrote Ishimura, who called for Soka's donations to be taxed.
Ikeda established his fundraising prowess early on. According to University of North Carolina professor James White, who wrote a book about Soka, Ikeda threw a scare into the Japanese insurance industry in the 1960s in a crash four-day drive for a key temple at Mount Fuji. Record sums were raised, with some members cashing in life policies to help.
Soka's initial U.S. academic beachhead in rustic Calabasas met with bustle-wary neighbors. After an extended development fight, the 660 acres today may be home to only half a dozen linguistics students destined for jobs as language instructors for Japanese Soka emissaries.
The action shifted to Aliso Viejo in 2001, with promises of a nonsectarian institution with a first-rate library and renowned secular faculty. The new master-planned community was accommodating. Campus athletic and arts attractions, as well as the library, were open to the public. Popular U.S. author Joe McGinniss was a notable instructor hire.
But reality began to kick in when McGinniss and others complained of interference from on high. Several staff have left--McGinniss' contract wasn't renewed--and one sued. Another filed for arbitration and lost.
Earnest university officials are at pains to showcase an arts-and-letters idyll devoted to the betterment of mankind. Soka U insists it is an independent, nonsectarian school not even as religiously influenced as, say, Brigham Young or Notre Dame universities. But at least a majority of Soka U's trustees have direct Soka Gakkai connections. Today 70% of matriculants are Soka Gakkai members.
Some secular faculty felt squeezed. The university was sued in 2002 by Linda Southwell, a fired fine arts professor. Her complaint disputed a "commitment to rigorous academic endeavor, free and open dialogue, and an appreciation for human diversity" when "in reality the curriculum is intended to reflect cult beliefs and perspectives" and speech and association are limited. She also claimed Soka members were favored faculty.
Soka University settled the discrimination and wrongful termination in a "satisfactory" manner that included a confidentiality clause, Southwell's lawyer Brian Glicker says. Another professor, who quit her "frightening" job, begs off discussing the specifics of her beef.
Glicker maintains he's heard from several other non-Soka Gakkai International staff members. "Many or most non-SGI staff or faculty are at least considering leaving," says one disaffected professor. "The university was only able to hire 7 or 8 of the 21 faculty it tried to hire." University officials say they'd not heard this and attribute departures to the growing pains of a new school. They claim an 81% retention rate.
An initial goal of 1,200 students remains a ways off. Has the academic friction been a roadblock? The university says more hiring and building await full accreditation, which it expects soon. On campus, the image is of serenity and strength. The buildings use the same stone featured in the Colosseum in Rome. Ikeda insisted on using it because he intends his university to last 2,000 years, a Soka U spokesman explains. The campus also sports a security camera network rivaling that of any casino.
The university includes a sizable "guest house" and a larger "athenaeum" overlooking a regional park. The sumptuous residence is set aside for VIPs, such as, in the words of one university official, "the president of Venezuela or Daisaku Ikeda." It has ornate furniture, a portrait of Ikeda and many artworks, all covered in white cloth until the VIPs show.
The undergraduate catalog says that "as leaders and decision makers," Soka's graduates "will be guided by the ideal of a contributive life, a humanistic approach drawn from Buddhist thought." But Soka Gakkai newspapers and other publications, filling a prominent shelf in the Soka University library--named for Ikeda--all feature Ikeda's interpretations of Buddhism: To wit, achieve world peace and democracy by becoming one in Soka and chanting. The university notes it also has other Buddhist texts.
Like other students approached at Aliso Viejo, Fabiana Sanchez, 21, a senior and a Soka Gakkai member, says she wants to do something for society or peace. She plans to return to her native Venezuela upon graduation and get involved in some sort of work "linking education and politics."
Soka U denies a rumor that the aging sensei plans a visit soon to his American academic citadel. Succession at the sect's helm is uncertain: Two sons are vice presidents in Soka but the sect denies a hereditary rule. Meanwhile the tax-favored billions continue to roll in, almost entirely outside the purview of authorities anywhere.
Chant of the Faithful
Prominent believers in Soka Gakkai include Mariane Pearl, the widow of murdered journalists Daniel Pearl, jazz musician Herbie Hancock and Patrick Duffy of Dallas Tv show fame. Singer Tina Turner was identified with Soka Gakkai in years past, but her spokesman would not confirm an association.
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Benjamin Fulford, David Whelan, 09.06.04
Soka Gakkai, a strikingly wealthy Japanese sect, tries again for U.S. glory with a splendid new campus. Daisaku Ikeda's unaccountable empire can thank lax treatment of the nonprofit world.
Walk the hilly campus of Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, Calif. and you enter the fabulous world of the international nonprofit. The three-year-old school has so far put about $300 million into its 103 suburban Orange County acres, and this is still a work in progress. As of this fall, only 400 students will meander among the rich, Romanesque architecture.
The primary benefactor of Soka U is a controversial offshoot of Japanese Buddhism called Soka Gakkai, headed for 44 years by the sometimes messianic and persistently self-aggrandizing Daisaku Ikeda. But significant secondary support comes from favorable tax treatment in Japan, the U.S. and around the globe, just as enjoyed by other philanthropies big and small. In the U.S. the nonprofit sector is spending $875 billion a year and employs 9% of the work force yet has precious little accountability, other than the public financial statements required of most charities. Religious entities don't even have that degree of accountability. They enjoy all the benefits of tax exemption without any requirement that they say what they are up to.
Soka Gakkai is a shadowy case in point. Ikeda, now 76 and president of Soka Gakkai International, the sect's global umbrella, claims 12 million followers and has amassed an empire that was put at $100 billion by a Japanese parliamentarian a decade ago. (The sect says that's wrong but otherwise won't comment on its finances.) A nasty split from Nichiren Buddhists set off a cycle of alleged violence, blackmail and intimidation. Soka Gakkai members in Japan have been charged with illegal wiretapping and breaking into private databases. The sect says it has nothing to do with those activities, noting that its ranks include nearly 10% of all Japanese. But yet-darker allegations have been made (see box, p. 130).
Soka Gakkai (literally, "value-creating society") brings in, conservatively, $1.5 billion a year to the top line, according to our best estimates of its membership, its tithing demands and its commercial activities. Most of that revenue is collected in Japan, where the sect sells its flock funeral plots, assorted religious paraphernalia and a newspaper (5.5 million subscribers). The group's far-flung international assets include estates in France and the U.K. In gilded Santa Monica, Calif. a Soka-owned office high- rise and auditorium sit across Wilshire Boulevard from each other, near the town's beach. In the nearby hills a Soka affiliate holds the King Gillette Ranch-- which was used for footage of "Tara" in the film Gone with the Wind. A thousand spiritual centers worldwide include a site worth $6 million near New York City's Union Square.
In wealth and claimed following, Soka Gakkai exceeds more familiar sects such as Hare Krishna, the church of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon and today's hippest (Madonna, etc.) group, members of the Kabbalah Centre. In the U.S. a church can lose its federal tax exemption for getting into politics. Soka managed to get around a similar restriction in Japan, where Ikeda has built up a political party, New Komeito, that helps the long-governing Liberal Democrats hold power.
Soka University of Japan opened in 1971. Soka University of America, first established in 1987 on what is now a graduate campus in Calabasas, Calif., near Malibu, recently obtained preaccreditation for its undergraduate program from an outfit certified by the U.S. Education Department. A parallel process that will cover graduate students also is moving forward.
The preaccreditation means that for the past year American undergrads at Soka U--which reported to the IRS that its assets exceed $740 million--have been eligible to obtain up to $23,000 in federal Stafford loans over the course of their education. Needy recipients can get up to an additional $4,000 a year in Pell Grants.
What are Ikeda's aims? Five years after gaining command of Soka Gakkai, he told a Japanese writer: "I am the king of Japan; I am its president; I am the master of its spiritual life; I am the supreme power who entirely directs its intellectual culture." In the years since, "world peace" has been the sect's mantra. New Komeito promotes pacifism in Japan. Representatives of the sect have worked the UN and other official venues touting international harmony and goodwill--and usually Ikeda. Followers mount a traveling show equating him with Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.
In the sect's 1,000 meeting halls Soka members exercise the "life-enhancing" power of chanting. Believers are encouraged to be "many in body, one in mind." This means "You have to make sensei's [teacher's] heart your own. You have to fulfill [Ikeda's] dreams instead of your own," maintains Lisa Jones, a former aide and follower who ghostwrote an Ikeda book and now maintains a Soka-doubter Web site. "His dream is kosen-rufu, or what Soka members call ‘world peace,' which will be achieved when one third of the world chants, one third merely celebrates Ikeda, and the other third doesn't care," she says.
A Soka bid for favor in the U.S. a generation ago, drawing on the era's culture clash and some affiliated celebrities, attracted unwelcome press, and the sect receded a bit. But it has never given up efforts to establish legitimacy and further Ikeda's vision. He founded the Boston Research Center for the 21st Century in a 13,000-square-foot Georgian building next to Harvard University. Ikeda has enticed Mikhail Gorbachev and Henry Kissinger into numerous discussions. He also met with historian Arnold Toynbee, double Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling and civil rights figure Rosa Parks (Soka's U.S. arm boasts a sizable black membership). Some of the conversations with luminaries have been published and sold.
More idealistic or benign than sinister and manipulative? The veil that surrounds the nonprofit world, especially religions, ensures that only the outlines are visible. Soka University files an IRS form; the organization behind it doesn't.
Congress is training its sights anew on nonprofits. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, held hearings in June on tax-exempt abuses. "Far too many charities have broken the understood covenant between the taxpayers and nonprofits," he said. He was angered by local news reports about the looting of family foundations. On Aug. 10 the Internal Revenue Service promised to increase from 230 to 300 the agents it assigns to nonprofit entities. This tiny crew is supposed to take on 1.6 million tax-exempt organizations and an estimated 400,000 additional religious groups that do not have to submit annual tax forms to the IRS. Investigations are typically initiated only in response to complaints. Exceptions to this passive role include the IRS' decades-long losing war with the Church of Scientology.
In the post-Sept. 11 era some Muslim groups have come under scrutiny for ties to terrorism. The Department of Justice recently prosecuted the former head of the American Muslim Council and indicted seven leaders of the Dallas-based Holy Land Foundation. But unless you're tied into terror, you can shout from the rooftops and no one is likely to come looking at your books. "Every revenue agent you assign to a corporate tax return will generate millions of dollars. Every [revenue agent] you assign to a tax-exempt one may not pay his own salary," says Marcus Owens, who headed the IRS' Exempt Organizations division from 1990 to 2000 and is now a private Washington attorney.
So the Ikeda-related wealth here is virtually untouchable. In Japan, Soka has not only its 8,000-student university but also its enhanced political power. At least 20% of the Liberal Democrat deputies could have lost without the support of Soka followers last October, enough to give the opposition Democratic Party a plurality in the Diet. "It's like becoming addicted to amphetamines," says Katsuei Hirasawa, an LDP member of parliament, of his party's link with Komeito.
In a July op-ed in the Asahi newspaper, Koji Ishimura, a professor of tax law at Hakuho University, argued that Soka's political activities were an abuse of its status as a religion. "The influence of a ruling party that relies on a specific religion's organization to form its power base is growing stronger," wrote Ishimura, who called for Soka's donations to be taxed.
Ikeda established his fundraising prowess early on. According to University of North Carolina professor James White, who wrote a book about Soka, Ikeda threw a scare into the Japanese insurance industry in the 1960s in a crash four-day drive for a key temple at Mount Fuji. Record sums were raised, with some members cashing in life policies to help.
Soka's initial U.S. academic beachhead in rustic Calabasas met with bustle-wary neighbors. After an extended development fight, the 660 acres today may be home to only half a dozen linguistics students destined for jobs as language instructors for Japanese Soka emissaries.
The action shifted to Aliso Viejo in 2001, with promises of a nonsectarian institution with a first-rate library and renowned secular faculty. The new master-planned community was accommodating. Campus athletic and arts attractions, as well as the library, were open to the public. Popular U.S. author Joe McGinniss was a notable instructor hire.
But reality began to kick in when McGinniss and others complained of interference from on high. Several staff have left--McGinniss' contract wasn't renewed--and one sued. Another filed for arbitration and lost.
Earnest university officials are at pains to showcase an arts-and-letters idyll devoted to the betterment of mankind. Soka U insists it is an independent, nonsectarian school not even as religiously influenced as, say, Brigham Young or Notre Dame universities. But at least a majority of Soka U's trustees have direct Soka Gakkai connections. Today 70% of matriculants are Soka Gakkai members.
Some secular faculty felt squeezed. The university was sued in 2002 by Linda Southwell, a fired fine arts professor. Her complaint disputed a "commitment to rigorous academic endeavor, free and open dialogue, and an appreciation for human diversity" when "in reality the curriculum is intended to reflect cult beliefs and perspectives" and speech and association are limited. She also claimed Soka members were favored faculty.
Soka University settled the discrimination and wrongful termination in a "satisfactory" manner that included a confidentiality clause, Southwell's lawyer Brian Glicker says. Another professor, who quit her "frightening" job, begs off discussing the specifics of her beef.
Glicker maintains he's heard from several other non-Soka Gakkai International staff members. "Many or most non-SGI staff or faculty are at least considering leaving," says one disaffected professor. "The university was only able to hire 7 or 8 of the 21 faculty it tried to hire." University officials say they'd not heard this and attribute departures to the growing pains of a new school. They claim an 81% retention rate.
An initial goal of 1,200 students remains a ways off. Has the academic friction been a roadblock? The university says more hiring and building await full accreditation, which it expects soon. On campus, the image is of serenity and strength. The buildings use the same stone featured in the Colosseum in Rome. Ikeda insisted on using it because he intends his university to last 2,000 years, a Soka U spokesman explains. The campus also sports a security camera network rivaling that of any casino.
The university includes a sizable "guest house" and a larger "athenaeum" overlooking a regional park. The sumptuous residence is set aside for VIPs, such as, in the words of one university official, "the president of Venezuela or Daisaku Ikeda." It has ornate furniture, a portrait of Ikeda and many artworks, all covered in white cloth until the VIPs show.
The undergraduate catalog says that "as leaders and decision makers," Soka's graduates "will be guided by the ideal of a contributive life, a humanistic approach drawn from Buddhist thought." But Soka Gakkai newspapers and other publications, filling a prominent shelf in the Soka University library--named for Ikeda--all feature Ikeda's interpretations of Buddhism: To wit, achieve world peace and democracy by becoming one in Soka and chanting. The university notes it also has other Buddhist texts.
Like other students approached at Aliso Viejo, Fabiana Sanchez, 21, a senior and a Soka Gakkai member, says she wants to do something for society or peace. She plans to return to her native Venezuela upon graduation and get involved in some sort of work "linking education and politics."
Soka U denies a rumor that the aging sensei plans a visit soon to his American academic citadel. Succession at the sect's helm is uncertain: Two sons are vice presidents in Soka but the sect denies a hereditary rule. Meanwhile the tax-favored billions continue to roll in, almost entirely outside the purview of authorities anywhere.
Chant of the Faithful
Prominent believers in Soka Gakkai include Mariane Pearl, the widow of murdered journalists Daniel Pearl, jazz musician Herbie Hancock and Patrick Duffy of Dallas Tv show fame. Singer Tina Turner was identified with Soka Gakkai in years past, but her spokesman would not confirm an association.
As of this fall, only 400 students will meander among the rich, Romanesque architecture.They're still only having around that many students, and here we are, over 15 years after that article was written. Part of it is that Soka U rejects a large number of applicants because doing so creates a metric that is used to indicate "exclusivity" by ranking agencies. Will Soka U ever reach its goal of a 1,200-strong student body? My sources say No.
The sect says that's wrong but otherwise won't comment on its finances.That's exactly the kind of criticism we get here from the SGI crusaders who pop in - they'll say "That's wrong" but never provide any documentation or even explanation as to why. We're expected to change everything on the basis of their "That's wrong". That's more of that "entitlement mentality" we were recently talking about.
the Ikeda-related wealth here is virtually untouchableThere is no financial transparency, no independent audits, no oversight by any outside agency. Remember that any time any SGI promoter talks about having reviewed their financials - never gonna happen.
efforts to establish legitimacy and further Ikeda's vision. He founded the Boston Research Center for the 21st CenturyThat building has since been renamed "The IKEDA Center for something, something, and something else". Who here is surprised?
In the U.S. a church can lose its federal tax exemption for getting into politics.This is why Ikeda forbade the overseas organizations from forming their own "Komeito" political parties back in the 1970s. That ban remains in place.
Ikeda insisted on using it because he intends his university to last 2,000 years, a Soka U spokesman explains.Oh more of this grandiose blather. Ikeda just loves talking in multiple thousands of years. The Sho-Hondo was supposed to last 10,000 years, if anyone remembers. Where's your Sho-Hondo now, Scamsei?? Ikeda apparently thinks talking in large terms will make him larger than life.
The sumptuous residence is set aside for VIPs, such as, in the words of one university official, "the president of Venezuela or Daisaku Ikeda."It's just another "Ikeda House" (so of course it's "sumptuous", since it's for Scamsei) but they have to make it sound like it's more than just a private residence for Ikeda, because that will get them in trouble with nonprofit laws in this country. I'm betting NO ONE has ever stayed in it, since that was after Ikeda stopped traveling.
Singer Tina Turner was identified with Soka Gakkai in years past, but her spokesman would not confirm an association.Ms. Turner isn't about to alienate any category of potential fans.
2020.04.21 12:45 Lothran Recipes
AMP MIXES:
BluAmp (An early-game go-to) 10g Amp + 2g sugar + 1g Ibuprofen. Makes a good early game mix that helps get you your first regular clients and won't cause any issues, while also getting you some extra grams out of your products. I still use this recipe in the game; there are greedier recipes out there but they carry more risk.
SweetAmp (Use when upgrading from BluAmp) 10g Amp + 1.5g Sugar + 1g Viagra A step-up in the game over BluAmp that still uses early game ingredients. Should be migrated to when you can get the Viagra for better addiction over BluAmp. As always, with stronger ingredients comes a greater chance for overdoses, so don't be afraid to use BluAmp for your addicts to keep them alive longer as they don't need the extra addictive properties.
GreenAmp (Use late-game from Blu and/or SweetAmp) 20gAmp + 2g Fentanyl + 2g Viagra + 1g Sugar. A stronger LATE GAME Amp mixture compared to BluAmp and SweetAmp that also uses more end-game ingredients, and so named because the mixture results in an increase from the base addictiveness by 420%. The mix contains Fentanyl and as with all mixes which do, use caution when selling this to addicts as they will have a higher chance to overdose because they use more stuff faster, and thus more dangerously. Compared to other stuff (like Crystal Palace which requires you to KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER BASE) this is a lot safer though.
COCAINE MIXES:
CoCo 22g Cocaine + 2.5g Ibuprofen + 5g sugar. A decent cocaine mix that can probably be bested by something else but uses stuff you can get in the early-game. You'll want to improve to something else when you can -- but you can always fall back to this if you need to make something while low on cash or the later-game ingredients.
Granny's Ashes In a FLASK: 1g Acetone + 100g Cocaine + 10g Crystal Meth + 10g Viagra + 10g Baking Soda Combine the ingredients -> Dry the ingredients -> Grind the ingredients -> Package A strong and very addicting mixture that has a lower toxic level as it does not use Fentanyl. If you are selling to addicts you may want to increase your baking soda to what your equipment allows you to work with. Need to know your customers and remember there are no 100% safe-from-OD mixes and there's an RNG element in play there. As of now Granny's Ashes is the best $/gram profit potential in this guide at a base value of $20.34/g before your custom tweaks to the cost.
The Li'l Blue Coke 20g Cocaine + 1g Fentanyl + 1.5g Baking Soda + 7.5g Viagra. An improved Cocaine mix that offers unexpectedly good addiction rates coupled with low toxic numbers, for a cocaine mix. Because of this Li'l Blue has been pretty-safely used even with addicts with no overwhelming issues. If you were to sell only one cocaine mix and not change throughout the game or based on your clients, this wouldn't be a bad choice at all. GenCo+AddCo below are awesome too if you want a more targeted approach but try this too! Gotta'a catch 'em all!... wait..
Add-Co. (Use before Gen-Co.) 10g Cocaine + 4g Viagra + 1g Fentanyl. A coke mix for helping cause addictions (hence the "Add(iction)"Co.). Use the recipe below this for already addicted persons.
Gen-Co. (Use after Add-Co. does its thing) 10.25g Cocaine + 2.25g Crystal Meth + 1g Sugar + 1.5g Heroin. This is a unique mix that results in a less toxic and less dangerous product than what is listed directly above. Use this on clients which already are addicts so that they are less likely to overdose. (Hence the "Gen(eral)"-Co.)
METH MIXES:
MethBang Note: If you are new to mixing Crystal Meth and liquid mixing and/or you do not adjust your mix-"menu" to meet the needs of your customers often, consider trying Crystal Palace first. MethBang is awesome for what it is made to do, but you need to understand when and why to use it.
16g Meth + 1g Fentanyl + 3g Viagra +1g Acetone for liquid mixing. An improved mid-to-late game meth mix using improved mixing agents. Works wonders for getting addicted clients! Make sure you toss it in the dryer to burn off the acetone before you package it. So go grinder -> liquid mixer -> dryer -> package. While this is very addictive, it is highly recommended you not give this to addicts as currently this is the most toxic recipe in the guide. This is also the second most addicting recipe here behind Superman.
Crystal Palace
Critical note for Crystal Palace: You 'must' make this mix batch TWICE FIRST then add both batches of mix into the dryer at the same time. Your final product will result in 2x the amount listed in the base recipe below. Failure to do this will result in a product that isn't fully mixed down in toxicity and may be more dangerous! It is not recommended you adjust Crystal Palace for different quantities from what is listed. You will need multiple pots, dryers/Crystaliser, flasks, etc.
Use of lossless equipment will greatly make this process easier, see the note at the top of the recipe section. If you use only lossless equipment the "save and testing" steps that follow are not as critical!
THE EXACT STEPS: SAVE YOUR GAME FIRST. Grind all the meth into pots (mortars are lossless), then put 100g of powdered meth into mixers (lab mixers are lossless), then add sugar to each mixer, then fent, etc etc, then mix them all... while that's going, add 1g of Acetone to each flask. When the mixers are done, put 1g of each into a small pot to make sure they all stack correct (you do not need to confirm, just make sure it doesn't give a warning. If you get a warning reload the save you made). Next, SAVE YOUR GAME AGAIN then separate the mix into the two flasks evenly. Then put the flasks into each dryer (crystalisers are lossless) before you run them all. Once this is done, do the 1g test again with the dried mix (reload the last save if it fails) -- then they all go into the same batch pots
100g Meth + 20g Sugar + 9g Fentanyl + 15g Viagra + 5g Salt + 1g Acetone for liquid mixing. This is a GREAT mix that fits inside a 150g flask! This mix is extremely addictive and because of it's unique makeup -- and the fact that you burn off the acetone -- so far hasn't been able to produce a single overdose in testing; and while possible, it will be rare assuming you are selling weaker stuff than this to your addicts... Again since it is a crystal mix you will need to use the liquid mixing tray and the dryer.
HEROIN MIXES:
A quick note for heroin recipes: Heroin in this game the most toxic drug currently available, and also has the highest MixSTR rating. While it may be possible to make a good heroin mix that incorporates Fentanyl, I have yet to test one that didn't cause more deaths than I was OK with putting into this guide. So before everyone comments "oh I have a more addictive heroin mix" keep in mind the mixes here are being tested A LOT to ensure they are not mass-murdering-mixes. Please still submit stuff if you think it's worthy but remember we are dealers, not serial killers.
Superman 10g Heroin + 1g Viagra + 3g Baking Soda Currently the most addictive recipe in this guide. Because of the innate mixSTR stat that comes with Heroin, it is possible to make a really, really-really addictive substance. It can be tempting to use things like Fentanyl for this, however it usually leads to deadly results. This mix instead sticks with the good ol' wood-wizard Viagra. Because of the mixSTR numbers this mix actually increases the addition levels to extremely effective levels. In one of the test save run-throughs I had seven (7) clients become insta-addicts on their first purchases. You may not get this lucky, but this stuff WORKS. Because of the Viagra, the toxic levels here are higher than what you will find in other possible mixes so swap addicts over to something weaker than this one to keep them alive longer. Use caution selling too much of this to addicts.
ECSTASY MIXES:
Concerning Hobbits Ecstasy... ...Ecstasy is in a weird place in DDS right now. You get it early-ish in the game but you need the pill machine to process mixes with it. By the time you get the pill machine, you are likely late enough in the game that other stuff will be much more profitable than Ecstasy mixes. Because it's an early-game sale item, I really wanted to include a recipe that could use Ex in the early game without use of end-game ingredients. We've managed to figure out a couple good ones, just keep in mind Ecstasy doesn't sell for as much as some of the much harder stuff. Remember that ecstasy must be made into pills with the pill machine from the Drug Store!
E-Juice (Early-game Ecstasy) 30g Ecstasy + 1g Ibuprofen + 2g Baking Soda + 5g Sugar + 2g Amp So here we are, the "early game" mix for Ex. It doesn't have any stats that will knock your socks off, but it can be made with starting-game stuff (minus the pill machine you need). The profits aren't crazy but they are stable and reliable, plus this isn't likely to kill anyone -- this is the least toxic mix recipe in this entire guide. Because it isn't too expensive this could be a potential mix to use for giving out free samples, but there's also other options for how to handle that. Also, do not attempt to load E-juice into your vape pen.
HolyWood Party (see what we did there?) 75g Ecstasy + 2g Fentanyl + 10g Viagra + 4g Sugar + 2.5g Amp + 5.5g Baking Soda HolyWood -- compared to other Ecstasy mixes -- is actually pretty profitable. This is of course because it also contains Amp and some later-game ingredients that help it boost it's stats. It's weaker than BluAmp but slightly more addictive, but of course this is Ex not Amp so people expect different stuff in terms of the end strength. This is more of a mid to late-game mix because of the use of Fentany; however even with the Fent it's toxicity is low enough you should not need to worry too much about pulling addicts off of this which are asking for Ecstasy. You probably don't want to take an addict from this though and hand them something like Crystal Meth though cause yea...
BASE RECIPES:
USE A LARGE MIXING BOWL FOR THESE RECIPES
CokeX, HeroinX, MethX(hard drugs safe for cutting ecstacy): very useful for addictive ecstacy. *200 grams pure cocaine(substitute Meth or Heroin) *10 grams viagra *40 grams milled sugar
Safe Fent: safely cut Fentanyl to use in all substances *200 grams pure fentanyl *20 grams milled sugar *20 grams salt
Sweet Tooth: good additive to meth or coke. *200 grams of pure amphetamine *20 grams milled sugar *20 grams salt *10 grams baking powder
DRUG RECIPES:
Ziggy stardust (CRYSTAL METH): great quality 75/25 mix, very addictive and potent good for addicts and first timers. IN A LARGE FLASK YOU ADD: *2 grams acetone *100 grams pure crystal meth *8 grams Safe Fent *2 grams Sweet tooth *38 grams milled sugar APPLY MIX NAME: ZIGGY STARDUST, ADD CONTENTS TO LAB CRYSTALIZER, CRYSTALIZE AND PACKAGE AS NEEDED.
Fentastic (heroin): safe fentanyl mixed with heroin and a low level painkiller good for getting people addicted and staying addicted. IN A LARGE MIXER BOWL ADD: *200 grams of pure heroin *12 grams of Safe Fent *8 grams of paracetemol *15 grams of sugar *15 grams of salt APPLY MIX NAME: Fentastic. PACKAGE AS NEEDED.
MT.Everest (cocaine): delicous safe addictive cocaine mix. IN A LARGE MIXER BOWL ADD: *200 grams of pure cocaine *6 grams of Safe Fent *4 grams of ibuprofen *10 grams of Sweet tooth *15 grams of milled sugar *15 grams of salt
Trainspotting (heroin): just how it was done in the 90's. historic junkie mix. IN A LARGE MIXER BOWL ADD *200 grams pure heroin *5 grams parecetemol *5 grams ibuprofen *30 grams milled sugar *10 grams baking powder APPLY MIX NAME: TRAINSPOTTING. PACKAGE AS NEEDED.
Boba fett (Amp): classic 60's-70's amphetamine party mix IN A LARGE MIXER BOWL: *200 grams pure amphetamine *5 grams paracetamol *10 grams viagra *5 grams baking powder *30 grams milled sugar APPLY MIX NAME: BOBA FETT. PACKAGE AS NEEDED.
Recipies originally found here. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2066249567
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BluAmp (An early-game go-to) 10g Amp + 2g sugar + 1g Ibuprofen. Makes a good early game mix that helps get you your first regular clients and won't cause any issues, while also getting you some extra grams out of your products. I still use this recipe in the game; there are greedier recipes out there but they carry more risk.
SweetAmp (Use when upgrading from BluAmp) 10g Amp + 1.5g Sugar + 1g Viagra A step-up in the game over BluAmp that still uses early game ingredients. Should be migrated to when you can get the Viagra for better addiction over BluAmp. As always, with stronger ingredients comes a greater chance for overdoses, so don't be afraid to use BluAmp for your addicts to keep them alive longer as they don't need the extra addictive properties.
GreenAmp (Use late-game from Blu and/or SweetAmp) 20gAmp + 2g Fentanyl + 2g Viagra + 1g Sugar. A stronger LATE GAME Amp mixture compared to BluAmp and SweetAmp that also uses more end-game ingredients, and so named because the mixture results in an increase from the base addictiveness by 420%. The mix contains Fentanyl and as with all mixes which do, use caution when selling this to addicts as they will have a higher chance to overdose because they use more stuff faster, and thus more dangerously. Compared to other stuff (like Crystal Palace which requires you to KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER BASE) this is a lot safer though.
CoCo 22g Cocaine + 2.5g Ibuprofen + 5g sugar. A decent cocaine mix that can probably be bested by something else but uses stuff you can get in the early-game. You'll want to improve to something else when you can -- but you can always fall back to this if you need to make something while low on cash or the later-game ingredients.
Granny's Ashes In a FLASK: 1g Acetone + 100g Cocaine + 10g Crystal Meth + 10g Viagra + 10g Baking Soda Combine the ingredients -> Dry the ingredients -> Grind the ingredients -> Package A strong and very addicting mixture that has a lower toxic level as it does not use Fentanyl. If you are selling to addicts you may want to increase your baking soda to what your equipment allows you to work with. Need to know your customers and remember there are no 100% safe-from-OD mixes and there's an RNG element in play there. As of now Granny's Ashes is the best $/gram profit potential in this guide at a base value of $20.34/g before your custom tweaks to the cost.
The Li'l Blue Coke 20g Cocaine + 1g Fentanyl + 1.5g Baking Soda + 7.5g Viagra. An improved Cocaine mix that offers unexpectedly good addiction rates coupled with low toxic numbers, for a cocaine mix. Because of this Li'l Blue has been pretty-safely used even with addicts with no overwhelming issues. If you were to sell only one cocaine mix and not change throughout the game or based on your clients, this wouldn't be a bad choice at all. GenCo+AddCo below are awesome too if you want a more targeted approach but try this too! Gotta'a catch 'em all!... wait..
Add-Co. (Use before Gen-Co.) 10g Cocaine + 4g Viagra + 1g Fentanyl. A coke mix for helping cause addictions (hence the "Add(iction)"Co.). Use the recipe below this for already addicted persons.
Gen-Co. (Use after Add-Co. does its thing) 10.25g Cocaine + 2.25g Crystal Meth + 1g Sugar + 1.5g Heroin. This is a unique mix that results in a less toxic and less dangerous product than what is listed directly above. Use this on clients which already are addicts so that they are less likely to overdose. (Hence the "Gen(eral)"-Co.)
MethBang Note: If you are new to mixing Crystal Meth and liquid mixing and/or you do not adjust your mix-"menu" to meet the needs of your customers often, consider trying Crystal Palace first. MethBang is awesome for what it is made to do, but you need to understand when and why to use it.
16g Meth + 1g Fentanyl + 3g Viagra +1g Acetone for liquid mixing. An improved mid-to-late game meth mix using improved mixing agents. Works wonders for getting addicted clients! Make sure you toss it in the dryer to burn off the acetone before you package it. So go grinder -> liquid mixer -> dryer -> package. While this is very addictive, it is highly recommended you not give this to addicts as currently this is the most toxic recipe in the guide. This is also the second most addicting recipe here behind Superman.
Crystal Palace
Critical note for Crystal Palace: You 'must' make this mix batch TWICE FIRST then add both batches of mix into the dryer at the same time. Your final product will result in 2x the amount listed in the base recipe below. Failure to do this will result in a product that isn't fully mixed down in toxicity and may be more dangerous! It is not recommended you adjust Crystal Palace for different quantities from what is listed. You will need multiple pots, dryers/Crystaliser, flasks, etc.
Use of lossless equipment will greatly make this process easier, see the note at the top of the recipe section. If you use only lossless equipment the "save and testing" steps that follow are not as critical!
THE EXACT STEPS: SAVE YOUR GAME FIRST. Grind all the meth into pots (mortars are lossless), then put 100g of powdered meth into mixers (lab mixers are lossless), then add sugar to each mixer, then fent, etc etc, then mix them all... while that's going, add 1g of Acetone to each flask. When the mixers are done, put 1g of each into a small pot to make sure they all stack correct (you do not need to confirm, just make sure it doesn't give a warning. If you get a warning reload the save you made). Next, SAVE YOUR GAME AGAIN then separate the mix into the two flasks evenly. Then put the flasks into each dryer (crystalisers are lossless) before you run them all. Once this is done, do the 1g test again with the dried mix (reload the last save if it fails) -- then they all go into the same batch pots
100g Meth + 20g Sugar + 9g Fentanyl + 15g Viagra + 5g Salt + 1g Acetone for liquid mixing. This is a GREAT mix that fits inside a 150g flask! This mix is extremely addictive and because of it's unique makeup -- and the fact that you burn off the acetone -- so far hasn't been able to produce a single overdose in testing; and while possible, it will be rare assuming you are selling weaker stuff than this to your addicts... Again since it is a crystal mix you will need to use the liquid mixing tray and the dryer.
A quick note for heroin recipes: Heroin in this game the most toxic drug currently available, and also has the highest MixSTR rating. While it may be possible to make a good heroin mix that incorporates Fentanyl, I have yet to test one that didn't cause more deaths than I was OK with putting into this guide. So before everyone comments "oh I have a more addictive heroin mix" keep in mind the mixes here are being tested A LOT to ensure they are not mass-murdering-mixes. Please still submit stuff if you think it's worthy but remember we are dealers, not serial killers.
Superman 10g Heroin + 1g Viagra + 3g Baking Soda Currently the most addictive recipe in this guide. Because of the innate mixSTR stat that comes with Heroin, it is possible to make a really, really-really addictive substance. It can be tempting to use things like Fentanyl for this, however it usually leads to deadly results. This mix instead sticks with the good ol' wood-wizard Viagra. Because of the mixSTR numbers this mix actually increases the addition levels to extremely effective levels. In one of the test save run-throughs I had seven (7) clients become insta-addicts on their first purchases. You may not get this lucky, but this stuff WORKS. Because of the Viagra, the toxic levels here are higher than what you will find in other possible mixes so swap addicts over to something weaker than this one to keep them alive longer. Use caution selling too much of this to addicts.
ECSTASY MIXES:
Concerning Hobbits Ecstasy... ...Ecstasy is in a weird place in DDS right now. You get it early-ish in the game but you need the pill machine to process mixes with it. By the time you get the pill machine, you are likely late enough in the game that other stuff will be much more profitable than Ecstasy mixes. Because it's an early-game sale item, I really wanted to include a recipe that could use Ex in the early game without use of end-game ingredients. We've managed to figure out a couple good ones, just keep in mind Ecstasy doesn't sell for as much as some of the much harder stuff. Remember that ecstasy must be made into pills with the pill machine from the Drug Store!
E-Juice (Early-game Ecstasy) 30g Ecstasy + 1g Ibuprofen + 2g Baking Soda + 5g Sugar + 2g Amp So here we are, the "early game" mix for Ex. It doesn't have any stats that will knock your socks off, but it can be made with starting-game stuff (minus the pill machine you need). The profits aren't crazy but they are stable and reliable, plus this isn't likely to kill anyone -- this is the least toxic mix recipe in this entire guide. Because it isn't too expensive this could be a potential mix to use for giving out free samples, but there's also other options for how to handle that. Also, do not attempt to load E-juice into your vape pen.
HolyWood Party (see what we did there?) 75g Ecstasy + 2g Fentanyl + 10g Viagra + 4g Sugar + 2.5g Amp + 5.5g Baking Soda HolyWood -- compared to other Ecstasy mixes -- is actually pretty profitable. This is of course because it also contains Amp and some later-game ingredients that help it boost it's stats. It's weaker than BluAmp but slightly more addictive, but of course this is Ex not Amp so people expect different stuff in terms of the end strength. This is more of a mid to late-game mix because of the use of Fentany; however even with the Fent it's toxicity is low enough you should not need to worry too much about pulling addicts off of this which are asking for Ecstasy. You probably don't want to take an addict from this though and hand them something like Crystal Meth though cause yea...
USE A LARGE MIXING BOWL FOR THESE RECIPES
CokeX, HeroinX, MethX(hard drugs safe for cutting ecstacy): very useful for addictive ecstacy. *200 grams pure cocaine(substitute Meth or Heroin) *10 grams viagra *40 grams milled sugar
Safe Fent: safely cut Fentanyl to use in all substances *200 grams pure fentanyl *20 grams milled sugar *20 grams salt
Sweet Tooth: good additive to meth or coke. *200 grams of pure amphetamine *20 grams milled sugar *20 grams salt *10 grams baking powder
DRUG RECIPES:
Ziggy stardust (CRYSTAL METH): great quality 75/25 mix, very addictive and potent good for addicts and first timers. IN A LARGE FLASK YOU ADD: *2 grams acetone *100 grams pure crystal meth *8 grams Safe Fent *2 grams Sweet tooth *38 grams milled sugar APPLY MIX NAME: ZIGGY STARDUST, ADD CONTENTS TO LAB CRYSTALIZER, CRYSTALIZE AND PACKAGE AS NEEDED.
Fentastic (heroin): safe fentanyl mixed with heroin and a low level painkiller good for getting people addicted and staying addicted. IN A LARGE MIXER BOWL ADD: *200 grams of pure heroin *12 grams of Safe Fent *8 grams of paracetemol *15 grams of sugar *15 grams of salt APPLY MIX NAME: Fentastic. PACKAGE AS NEEDED.
MT.Everest (cocaine): delicous safe addictive cocaine mix. IN A LARGE MIXER BOWL ADD: *200 grams of pure cocaine *6 grams of Safe Fent *4 grams of ibuprofen *10 grams of Sweet tooth *15 grams of milled sugar *15 grams of salt
Trainspotting (heroin): just how it was done in the 90's. historic junkie mix. IN A LARGE MIXER BOWL ADD *200 grams pure heroin *5 grams parecetemol *5 grams ibuprofen *30 grams milled sugar *10 grams baking powder APPLY MIX NAME: TRAINSPOTTING. PACKAGE AS NEEDED.
Boba fett (Amp): classic 60's-70's amphetamine party mix IN A LARGE MIXER BOWL: *200 grams pure amphetamine *5 grams paracetamol *10 grams viagra *5 grams baking powder *30 grams milled sugar APPLY MIX NAME: BOBA FETT. PACKAGE AS NEEDED.
Recipies originally found here. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2066249567
2019.09.16 22:53 LiquidMedicine [Secret] Borat Chen's Happy Pills
State Ethnic Affairs Commission
In 2022, the pro-Chinese Uighur Borat Chen, who had completed the re-education program and adopted a Han given name, was nominated for the position of Chairman of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, China's leading governing body representing ethnic minorities within the country. Borat has since met extensively with CCP Chairman for the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Chen Quanguo. The two first met in mid-2022 following Borat's appointment at the CCP headquarters in Urumqi.[Following conversation is secret between Chen and Borat, taking place in the aforementioned building]
Borat Chen's first day on the job as State Ethnic Affairs Commission Chairman was uneventful, mostly meeting his new co-workers and bosses. The second day, however, he was scheduled to fly to Urumqi to discuss the Uighur situation with Chen Quanguo and Shohrat Zakir, the Uighur chairman of the Xinjiang Autonomous Province. Borat was nervous. He himself had been placed in a re-education camp back in 2018, back when he was Borat Ismail. He was fairly sure of the ideals he had been indoctrinated with in the camps, and was fully prepared to execute the will of the CCP. He entered the CCP headquarters, a massive, ornate building in central Urumqi. The city itself was unrecognizable from what Borat had seen of the city before entering his camp for two years. Uighurs were the exceptions among the crowd, not the norm. No mosques could be found except for in a few strategic places. New, lavish skyscrapers had popped up on the Urumqi skyline over the past few years. Some parts of town had been converted into massive tourist traps for the incoming waves of Han travelers, as well as new Han residents. Borat stepped out of the backseat of his CCP Escort alongside his security detail, and walked up the CCP building's steps. Upon reaching the front door, a security personnel opened the door to reveal Chen Quanguo.
"Congratulations Mister Borat, you've done well for yourself."Chen extended a hand, which Borat took nervously. Quanguo was a monolithic figure in Uighur politics, and Borat couldn't help but feel a twinge of nervousness speaking to him.
"Thank you, sir. I'm prepared to give this position my all, and hopefully quell the Uighur resistance to our policies."Quanguo chuckled.
"I like your spirit, son. Please, come inside. This CCP building is state-of-the-art, completed in 2017 and upgraded in 2022. It has the finest luxuries available, and given your position..."Quanguo removed a laminated plastic card with Borat's information and official government photo from his coat pocket and handed it to Borat.
"You'll need to show this access card to navigate this building. You'll have access to almost any facility here. Now, before we get down to business, let's introduce you to Chairman Shohrat.Borat Chen and Chen Quanguo took a chic elevator with plush carpets and the Chinese star symbology on the back wall. The lift was unusually quick, and in no time the two were on the top floor of the CCP building. Chen briefly showed Borat his office quarters before moving to a conference hall on the north end of the floor. On one wall were floor-to-ceiling windows, evenly spaced apart and roughly a foot wide each. Beyond the windowpanes was the Urumqi skyline, dotted with modern towers and construction sites. The conference hall itself was as ornate as the rest of the building, with shined wood finishes on the walls, a hearty chestnut table in the center, a number of red-cushioned chairs surrounding it, and once again various CCP commendations, awards, posters, and plaques lined the walls. The wall behind the seat leading the table had large portraits of each of China's leaders, from Mao to Xi. In the conference room was Shohrat Zakir, who was already sitting down and writing notes when Chen and Borat entered.
"Good morning, Chairman Borat."Shohrat greeted, his voice hushed and respectful.
"It is good to see a Uighur in charge of the Ethnic Affairs Commission again. I'll be managing the day-to-day here while Mr. Chen manages the more encompassing projects. If you need anything of me, do not hesitate to ask."Around this time a young woman entered and sat at a desk in the corner, booting a computer to life. She prepared to begin typing the transcript of the meeting.
"Okay, men. Time for business."Chen Quanguo began as he assumed his position at the head of the table. Borat sat between him and Shohrat.
"The current status of the camps is something we need to discuss as soon as possible. To begin, there's been a collective fasting at the Kashgar camp, none of the detainees are eating their meals. They demand something other than pork and beer, it seems. How would you react to this, Mister Borat?"Borat, being put on the spot, hesitated a moment. He thought back to his time in the camps. He had managed to repress a number of more horrific memories, he had to to justify his alignment with the CCP morally, but the conversation brought the taste of pork back into his mouth, and reminded him of the feeling of being drunk, and his worry of what God may think.
"I think that anyone who refuses the meal we so graciously prepare for them should be prepared to go without food. We'll see how long the fast lasts when people become truly hungry."Did he really just say that? Some part of Borat knew what he was doing was wrong, but an even larger part, most worryingly, didn't care.
"If someone refuses their dinner, they obviously do not respect our chefs enough to receive their breakfasts and lunches."Chen smiled devilishly.
"I can already tell you'll do well in this position. That was the exact thoughts of the Xinjiang CCP."Borat shuffled in his seat as Chen produced a new document.
"President Xi wants us to expedite and expand re-education operations now that the international media has largely moved on from Xinjiang. We are preparing a new camp in Yining, and preparing to add a new wing of barracks to the Kashgar facility. President Xi specifically stated that he spoke with Minister Xu Ke of the National Health Commission. They want to vastly expand pharmaceutical testing on male and female subjects, specifically for a number of drugs.... Sheesh, I wonder what Beijing is planning."Quanguo slid a paper to Borat. On the paper was the detail of the pharmaceutical expansion. The medicines to be given to Uighur detainees included:
- Sodium Amytal - a drug which lowers inhibitions and increases the likelihood of an interviewee telling the truth. This drug is to be dispensed to all Uighurs prior to interviews regardless of side effects.
- Pipradrol - Pipradrol is similar to amphetamines but is much easier on the body physically. Pipradrol's main effect is to give users a surge of positive emotions to increase life satisfaction and pacify populations. The generic pipradrol produced for the camps, however, needs refining, as it produces a number of adverse effects which many would consider reminiscent of an amphetamine high, and has a tendency to cause a surge of negative emotions rather than positive ones. Extensive trial testing will be conducted on Uighurs, including rebellious detainees as well as passive ones.
- Ritalin - Ritalin is a well-known and fairly safe and well-regulated drug on the global pharmaceutical market. Ritalin works well as a mood booster and antidepressant. All re-education camps are to begin dosing all meals with 5 mg of Ritalin to pacify detainee populations.
- Versed - Versed is the street name for the drug known as Midazolam, which is used primarily in surgery for sedation purposes. However, the difference between Versed and Midazolam is an important one. Midazolam causes the recipient to become sedated, and nothing is felt whilst the surgeon operates. Versed, meanwhile, has a slightly different compound which instead causes the user to feel all pain as normal, but once the drug has worn off all memory of the pain is forgotten. [M] This is a real fucking thing, what the fuck!? [m] Versed is to be synthesized privately for the re-education camps and utilized in conjunction with non-marking punitive measures. This will allow harsher punishments to be given, which act as a deterrent, without creating the inherent hatred many Uighurs have following punitive measures.
"I know, it's some heavy shit. Look, I know you experienced those camps, but you're the success story. If at any point you feel uncomfortable in this position, given your background, I will be more than happy to report so to Beijing and have you re-assigned somewhere more efficient."Borat shook his head suddenly.
"Oh, no, I'm just... surprised there are drugs that do these things."Shohrat lifted his head from his papers and spoke for the first time since the meeting began.
"I imagine you had already left the camps when pharmaceutical methods were established, then?"Borat smiled sheepishly.
"As far as I know I was never injected with any chemicals. I actually had a fairly uneventful time in the camp, but... that's not what we're here to talk about, is it?"[/s]
For the next two hours, the three men hammered out a course of action to implement Beijing's new plan, which is dubbed the Healthy Xinjiang Plan, and is presented publicly as an overhaul of the autonomous region's health system, providing higher quality healthcare to both the general populace and those in re-education camps.
Over the next couple of months, the Healthy Xinjiang Plan was put into action. It was quickly found that Sodium Amytal and Pripradol served a similar purpose, and to consolidate costs Sodium Amytal was removed from the program. The utilization of Ritalin hidden within food was found to be a great success on test populations, as camps with Ritalin-enhanced food reported lower rates of insubordination, dissatisfaction, and prisoner injury and death, while also sporting higher graduation rates and a generally happier and apathetic populace. Ritalin intake has been upped to 8 mg per meal and expanded to 40 of the nearly 70 re-education camps, with plans to have Ritalin food programs in all re-education centers, and eventually all food in the country [post-2035.]
TLDR
- Borat Chen and Chen Quanguo have implemented a new program in China's Uighur re-education camps in which the central government is testing various barbituates, amphetamines, and SSRIs to increase prisoner apathy and eliminate discontent. Food is drugged with antidepressants, and focus groups are being tested on with a number of new drugs, including Versed which is described above and is super fucked up. I felt like an edgy shitlord writing this post.
2018.07.30 21:23 RafiakaMacakaDirk The Dallas Mavericks 2012-2013 Roster: Where they are today.
As I've mentioned before, here's a quick recap of this fuckfest of a roster that I somehow loved:
RODDY B: oh roddy b :(. we still have a good relationship with him as this was just 2 years ago but sadly roddy did simply not work out for us. since leaving the mavs, he has bounced around Euroleague teams and is currently wreaking havock with Anadolu Efes. be free roddy b and be happy :). DOMINIQUE JONES: also the real name of rapper Lil Baby, dominique jones has gone on to play for hella teams since we waived him, including G-League, CBA and Euroleague teams. he currently plays in the Iranian League for the Petrochimi Bandar Imam. In 2017 he also
CURRENT NBA PLAYERS: 4: Dirk, Collison, Vince, Jae Crowder CURRENT FREE AGENTS: 1: Brandan Wright
how did we win 41 games with this team
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we were average as fuck but straight up thats one of my favorite squads dirk: dirk marion: our ugly-shot 3&d fucker in his last years. also a legend around the streets oj mayo: was the best 3 point shooter in the league for like the first month and we looked like we struck gold. kaman: he sucked but hes funny as shit and a yeeyee collison: he had the face of a 12 year old whos dad (carlisle) yelled at him for every single mistake he ever made and never got to prosper. vince: game 3 elton brand: old man who was on his dying days mike james: this guy might be the worst player ive seen play for us ever, i remember him taking like every GW shot for no fucking reason and cuban looking dumbfounded every time hahahahaha. troy murphy: i scored a full court shot in 2k14 myteam and i have the gif somewhere. brandan wright: alley oop and athletic monster. jae crowder: looked like our best pick in years, probably top 20 draft pick that season. dahntay jones: eh eddy curry: l m a o roddy b: his last year :( dominique jones: he had like 9th man potential i guess chris douglas-roberts: 6 games of the weed goggles man bernard james - top 3 stories of the season and we were badass for giving an AIR FORCE SERGEANT a chance. miss u sarge a-morrow: i thought hed be better but eh he did what he did jared cunningham: looked like he could be good, could dunk. josh akognon: has a good jumpshot for 2kSO WITHOUT further ado, here is what these lovable cunts are up to: DIRK: Again, dirk. SHAWN MARION: After going to the Cavs, our lovable Matrix retired at the end of the 2014-15 season after losing to the Dubs 4-2. This year Shawn teamed up with another former NBA Player Cedric Ceballos to compete in the 30th season of the Amazing Race. homeboy was the third team out and lost to hot dog legend joey chestnut lol. OJ MAYONAISSE: this fuckin guy has seen it all since he left our team pretty much. he played for the Bucks for 2 seasons before getting kicked out the league. i recommend reading this great article from 2017 about what happened to him after he got suspended for 2 years for violating the NBA drug program having popped for "drugs of abuse" aka amphetamines and its analogs, cocaine, LSD, opiates (heroin, codeine and morphine), and PCP. Not even his friends could get ahold of him. anyway, according to wikipedia
On April 4, 2018, Mayo was reported to sign with Atléticos de San Germán of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional. As of June 27, 2018, Mayo was released by Puerto Rican team Atleticos de San German. Mayo started 18 of his 21 appearances with the team, shooting just 39.0 percent from the field and 34.7 percent from beyond the arc. He also averaged 13.4 points, 3.9 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.1 steals.Side note, guess who else plays in the Puerto Rican league as well. that's right, RICKY LEDO baby. CHRIS KAMAN: known for being the recipient of cookie jar grabber andray blatche, kaman would go on to play 2 more seasons, with the Lakers and Portland. He was part of this iconic Lakers picture during his tenure there. During 2018, Kaman listed his Carpinteria beach cottage for $4.4 million and also entered the Central Michigan University basketball Hall of Fame. DARREN COLLISON: one of the only players from this squad still in the league, Collison has actually done really well in his 3 teams since. he played one season for the clippers where he played a key role when CP3 got injured, and also did very good in the playoffs. got himself a 3 year deal with the Kings where he was an above-average starting PG on a shit kings teams, and now he starts at PG for the pacers. good for u darren. VINCE CARTER: the following season he did this against the cunt spurs and i was there at the game and it's one of the best moments of my life. old man vince would go on to play 2 more seasons with us, 3 with memphis, 1 with the Kings and now is gonna play yet again for the Hawks. he was a cool dude when he played for us so good for u too vince. ELTON BRAND: homeboy straight up just wasn't the same after his achilles injury. he went on to play for the hawks before retiring, before playing for the sixers, before retiring yet again. after his 2nd retirement he got a job with the 76ers as a player development consultant, and is now the GM of their G-League team that rocked spongebob uniforms last year. it's looking like he'll have a place in their front office for a while. good for u elton. MIKE JAMES: i couldn't find too much info on what this cunt has been up to because another mike james popped up in the league last season. however, he plays for the killer 3s now in the Big 3 League. fuck off TROY MURPHY: well fuck me this guy is set for life lmao. from his wiki page:
Murphy earned $66,000,000 in his NBA career. He then attended Columbia University School of General Studies, pursuing a degree in sociology. Murphy maintained a 3.8 GPA and made the dean's list, according to The New York Times. He has since graduated.here's an article on that for those interested BRANDAN WRIGHT: oh b wright what couldve been. filled with alley oops and athletic plays, his mavs tenure was something beautiful, but it all ended abruptly when we traded him for this one dude. he's bounced around teams ever since, never making a big impact and always battling injuries. currently a free agent, b-wright's NBA career might be over :(. JAE CROWDER: the manimal was the other player included in the trade with b-wright for that one turtle. he surpassed every expectation while in Boston, even winning the best contract of the year award by the fans. after getting traded to the Cavs and then again to the Jazz, Jae currently looks like he will be a starter for Utah in this upcoming season. DAHNTAY JONES: dahntay jones continued his sneakily dirty plays after getting traded by us upon 3 other teams, including the Cavs, until he finally retired in 2017. He, like fellow former teammate Mike James, plays for the Big 3 team 3's Company, and is making his debut season. EDDY CURRY: the man who once asked his chauffer for sex got waived by us after 4 games for troy murphy. he'd go on to average 23/10 next season in China before retiring. when asked about if he had any regrets in his career, eddy curry responded with
He said his only regret was not attending college and participating in the rites of passage, like living in a dorm, or experiencing the growth and maturity so many NBA players received as college athletes. "It would be super dope to have a college diploma," Curry said.also side note, curry once rejected an annuity of $400,000 per year for 50 years by the Bulls in 2009.
Curry did admit attending college could have given him business skills that would have come in handy reading contracts or his managing money.
RODDY B: oh roddy b :(. we still have a good relationship with him as this was just 2 years ago but sadly roddy did simply not work out for us. since leaving the mavs, he has bounced around Euroleague teams and is currently wreaking havock with Anadolu Efes. be free roddy b and be happy :). DOMINIQUE JONES: also the real name of rapper Lil Baby, dominique jones has gone on to play for hella teams since we waived him, including G-League, CBA and Euroleague teams. he currently plays in the Iranian League for the Petrochimi Bandar Imam. In 2017 he also
Jones competed in The Basketball Tournament with the Tampa Bulls, a team made up of USF alumni. Jones' team made it to the Sweet 16 where they were eliminated by eventual champions Overseas Elite. Jones led the team with 28.3 PPG duing the tournament.CHRIS DOUGLAS-ROBERTS: goggles man would have a good season with Charlotte the next year and then barely play for the Clippers after, before finally playing with our G-League team in his last basketball playing days. He is currently a rapper who got a documentary released about him. He also goes now by $upreme. BERNARD JAMES: sarge was a great story for us like i mentioned before, and went on to play with our G-League team and signing 10 day contracts with us for another season. he'd then go on to play in the Chinese, Euro and French League in the following years. These days he is the Owner of WILD SKY YONDER LLC and The Bernard James Foundation. he's also living his best life in Mexico. good for u sarge. Anthony Morrow: A-Morrow went on to play for 4 other teams before being out of the league. (While unsigned, these are some of the things homeboy's been up to](https://hoopshabit.com/2018/06/28/catching-up-former-new-jersey-nets-favorite-anthony-morrow/)
“I’ve been working out,” he said. “Hopefully, I’ll play somewhere next season, if not in the league, then overseas.”JARED CUNNINGHAM: Jared would go on to play for five teams, along with other several G-League teams, but never stayed with a team for more than 10 games with exception for Cleveland. He currently plays for Bayern Munich. JOSH AKOGNON: like several of the players in this list, akognon went on to fizzle out of the league after a season and bounced around different leagues, now paying in the Spanish League.
The free time has enabled him to focus on doing productive things off the court, like spending time with his four kids, A’Niyah, Kaeden, Amiri and Malachi.
Kids and basketball are the most important things in his life, but they’re not the only things. Morrow is a very busy man. His foundation, The Anthony Morrow Foundation, does a lot of good work within the community.
“I have been doing a lot of stuff with my foundation, my Anthony Morrow foundation, for homeless people and single parents,” he said. “That’s what I hang my hat on.”
This new free time has also allowed him to concentrate on his clothing line, “Sense of Style,” and his podcast, “The Life,” with his co-host Justin Jack, the brother of former Brooklyn Nets guard Jarrett Jack.
CURRENT NBA PLAYERS: 4: Dirk, Collison, Vince, Jae Crowder CURRENT FREE AGENTS: 1: Brandan Wright
how did we win 41 games with this team
2018.02.16 07:04 ThePharmaInitiative Two Darknet Drug Dealers Arrested In Russia
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Two Darknet Drug Dealers Arrested In Russia
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Two Darknet Drug Dealers Arrested In Russia
In Rostov-on-Don, a city in Southern Russia, the Customs Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs captured a drug dealer who “played a key role in an international criminal organization.” Authorities arrested the “key player” drug dealer and one accomplice. The duo, an announcement said, helped supply drugs to customers spread throughout numerous regions in Russia. Along with several unknown operatives, the duo ran an “international trade network” by importing drugs into Russia from sellers on the darknet and redistributing them through local channels.
In January 2018, Russian authorities intercepted five packages from an address in Germany that contained significant quantities of drugs. The sender of the packages had addressed them to the suspects currently in custody. Inside the packages, authorities found 8 kilograms of hashish, 5 kilograms of amphetamine, 2 kilograms of marijuana, and smaller amounts of ephedrine and ecstasy pills. The police said the drugs equalled a little over $500,000. The dealer and his accomplices traded only in bitcoin, as far as authorities know, though.
Russian authorities raided the house after intercepting the package. They arrested the recipient and his accomplice. They also seized 2 kilograms of “pre-packaged” drugs of unknown specifications. “During the interrogation, one of the suspects told us where and how the drugs were sold,” a MIA source said. The customers in Russia found the dealer through darknet sites and then used bitcoin to pay the dealer. “After that, the dealers packed the drugs in bundles and sent them to customers through bookmarks,” he added. “In total, the police found 63 caches in the Rostov region, Krasnodar and Stavropol Krai. The total mass of drugs found in the caches exceeded 10 kg.”
Authorities reportedly discovered that the dealer played a much larger role in drug trafficking after the accomplice revealed information during questioning. Any evidence the investigators had already uncovered may not have pointed towards a role in a larger criminal organization. This is far from Russia’s first darknet drug trafficking case, but many involve dealers farther away from the source. Some of the cases involved entire marketplaces, though.
The drug traffickers currently face three charges for the smuggling of narcotic drugs in large amounts. By the end of the investigation, they could be facing any number of charges.
Investigators are currently working to establish the identities of other conspirators. Russian authorities spoke of closing a drug trafficking channel between Germany and Russia, but Germany’s side of that channel may still be open. Authorities did not reveal details pertaining to the ongoing information but similarly neglected to say anything about involvement with international authorities.
”The contents of mail items are inspected at various stages of shipment, including by using special equipment installed in the places of sorting and processing of parcels and small packages,” a representative of Russian Post told Kommersant.
2017.11.27 06:39 ThePharmaInitiative German Darknet Buyer “Amazed” By Controlled Delivery
Original Link: https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/11/27/german-darknet-buyer-amazed-controlled-delivery/
German Darknet Buyer “Amazed” By Controlled Delivery
Seized Euros: https://imgur.com/8O246D3
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German Darknet Buyer “Amazed” By Controlled Delivery
In collaboration with the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), drug investigators from the Ingolstadt Criminal Police Office used intel from a vendor bust to catch a 19-year-old darknet drug buyer. The BKA had, according to an announcement by Upper Bavarian police, law enforcement in North Rhine-Westphalia had apprehended a number of darknet drug dealers in early November.Seized Drugs: https://imgur.com/5ImAjcI https://imgur.com/lnmbn9G
During the investigation, they found evidence that the dealers had shipped a package to a 19-year-old in Ingolstadt. Investigators in Ingolstadt performed a controlled delivery and caught the suspect at his doorstep.
German police hardly broadcasted any information connected to the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) bust. They avoided releasing even the number of suspects arrested. Based on information released in announcements following several darknet or internet related drug busts in Bavaria, we know some of the drugs sold by the vendor(s) in NRW. They sold, at a minimum, amphetamine, ecstasy, marijuana, and cocaine.
The BKA had allegedly seized computer equipment, electronic storage mediums, and a significant quantity of drugs at both one property. According to one news report, the investigators would use the electronics as the prosecutor saw fit. The Ingolstadt Criminal Police Office received information from the BKA and authorities in Gemünden about a package headed towards a known drug trafficker in Ingolstadt.
On Wednesday, November 8, Ingolstadt Drug Investigators partnered with the parcel delivery service to perform a controlled delivery. The press release revealed that after receiving the package, the 19-year-old recipient “was amazed” to find that after accepting the package, the detectives and the parcel courier were “in his apartment with him.”
The package contained 5 kilograms of marijuana and 100 grams of amphetamine. In other parts of the apartment, detectives found another 1.5 kilograms of marijuana, 70 grams of cocaine, and “numerous” LSD tabs. Authorities also found 13,000 euros in cash and drug trafficking equipment. (Likely scales, bags, and mailing material.)
Seized Euros: https://imgur.com/8O246D3
According to the press release, Ingolstadt police had suspected the 19-year-old suspect of drug trafficking since 2015. The suspect would have been on the police’s radar since age 17.
Several days after the announcement of the 19-year-old’s arrest, the Bayreuth Criminal Police Office released a statement regarding a drug trafficker they had silently kept in custody for an undisclosed period of time. Investigators seized packages headed towards the suspect’s apartment.
The suspect, a 26-year-old, landed on the police’s radar at some point in Summer 2017. After a recent seizure of 200 grams of heroin and cocaine, the police moved in on the suspect. They found 500 grams of marijuana, thousands of euros, and a list of drug buyers. As of November 15, 40 buyers are under investigation.
2017.11.17 16:04 ThePharmaInitiative 19 Year Old Arrested During Controlled Delivery of 5 Kilos of Marijuana & 100 Grams of Amphetamine
Original Link: http://www.polizei.bayern.de/oberpfalz/news/presse/aktuell/index.html/270573
19 Year Old Arrested During Controlled Delivery of 5 Kilos of Marijuana & 100 Grams of Amphetamine
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19 Year Old Arrested During Controlled Delivery of 5 Kilos of Marijuana & 100 Grams of Amphetamine
In co-operation with the Federal Criminal Police Office, drug traffickers of the detention center in Ingolstadt, Germany were able to arrest a 19-year-old last week when he was sent a package containing narcotics.
In connection with drug investigations by the Federal Criminal Police Office, investigators of the Ingolstadt Criminal Police Office were informed that an initially unknown person in Ingolstadt should receive a delivery of narcotics by parcel delivery.
Last Wednesday (08.11.2017), the drug detectors then hit. The 19-year-old recipient of the parcel was amazed when immediately after the parcel courier and the detectives were in his apartment with him.
The package included about 5 kilograms of marijuana and 100 grams of amphetamine. During the subsequent search of the rooms, another 1.5 kg of marijuana, about 70 grams of cocaine, numerous LSD trips as well as various merchandising utensils and around 13,000 euros in cash were secured.
As it turned out, the detainee was no stranger to the Ingolstadt Drug Investigators. He is suspected to trade drugs since mid-2015. The investigation continues.
At the request of the public prosecutor's office in Ingolstadt, the investigating judge ordered on the following day on suspicion of commercial trade in narcotics in no small amount the pre-trial detention against the accused.
2017.03.02 14:57 TheFencingCoach 32 Teams/32 Days, Day 16: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Division: NFC SouthRecord: 9-7 (4-2 Division, Missed Playoffs)
Lead the Falcons Blew in the Super Bowl: 25 points.
Intro
From the outside looking in for just about any other team, it’s hard to look at a 9-7 record and mark that as a monumental accomplishment, but for us, it was exactly that. The 2016 season was a roaring success, and despite narrowly missing playoffs, much of our fanbase is entering the offseason feeling better about this team than we have in close to a decade.Under the first season of Head Coach Dirk Koetter and only two seasons removed from our dismal 2-14 2014 season that landed us the #1 overall pick, the Bucs have since begun a turnaround that includes a budding franchise QB in Jameis Winston, the ascendance of Mike Evans to a top tier offensive weapon, a young defense with a ton of potential, and a roster that took down competitive, playoff teams this year, including the Falcons (who gave up a 25-point lead in the Super Bowl), the Chiefs, and the Seahawks.
This season was about growth and growing pains, learning to work as a team in new schemes, and getting more and more experience for our young guys. The seeds have been planted, and I’m confident the darkest days are behind.
Ok, in depth analysis, here we go.
Statistics
As always, I look at the previous season as a baseline. A few noteworthy things to look at—our power run game diminished from the injuries/suspension of Doug Martin. Passing was mostly the same. Where things got a lot better, was in our first downs allowed, our turnover ratio, and our defensive DVOA ranking. Mike Smith was a huge upgrade over Leslie Frazier, and I’ll talk about him more in our “Season Highs” section. Our defense is beginning to “click.”| Category | 2015 Buccaneers | 2016 Buccaneers | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Offensive First Downs | 336 | 340 | +4 |
| Defensive First Downs Allowed | 351 | 326 | -25 |
| Total Offensive Yards | 6,014 | 5,542 | -472 |
| Total Passing Yards | 4,042 | 4,165 | +123 |
| Total Rushing Yards | 2,162 | 1,616 | -546 |
| Total Touchdowns | 37 | 41 | +4 |
| Sacks | 38 | 38 | 0 |
| Turnover Ratio | -5 | +2 | +7 |
| DVOA Defense Ranking | 18 | 12 | +6 |
| DVOA Offense Ranking | 18 | 18 | 0 |
Draft Picks: a 2016 Retrospective
I never like to be too hasty to judge rookies. Most NFL experts will say that it takes three years to truly understand if a player is a success or a bust, and even then, players can become late bloomers. The way I see it, is the first year is about learning, making mistakes, and assessing a rookie’s potential, progression throughout the season, and adjusting to the speed of the pro game. The second year, you have a much better understanding of what the player’s floor and ceiling are, and by year three, you usually know if that player is going to be an asset, a liability, or an adequate starter. The exception here is my rather harsh assessment of Roberto Aguayo—where the skillset is mostly similar to what’s required in college. There’s a mental component to that too, of course (more on that in a later section).I’ve included my assessment of “how it’s looking so far,” and my comments I made about each player after the 2016 draft.
| Player | Round | Pick | How It’s Looking so Far | What I Said Then |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vernon Hargreaves III (CB, Florida) | 1 | 11 | Hargreaves had exactly the kind of rookie season I expected him too: an adequate one that showed flashes of brilliance while also getting torched on a play or five. That’s going to happen with the caliber of QBs in the NFC South and the difficulty of our 2016 schedule. While complemented by the play of Grimes, unfortunately, Hargreaves got zero help from our abysmal safety play, often leaving him exposed to unfavorable matchups. What I liked about Hargreaves is that the ball skills and broken up passes that he mastered at UF seemed to show signs they could transfer to the NFL. It was an average rookie season, and you know what? Average is just fine for a rookie. I suspect he’ll be a stud in year 2. | ”Hargreaves is going to have a trial by fire from day one. In a division in which he must cover against two of the best QBs in the NFL in Brees and Newton and match up against Julio Jones twice per year, it’s not going to be an easy job for VH3… I’m expecting growing pains as he adjusts to the NFL, but this will be a good pick in the long run.” |
| Noah Spence (DE, Eastern Kentucky) | 2 | 39 | Whatever character concerns I had about Spence didn’t come to fruition at all. He was quiet as a church mouse off the field, and by the end of the season, was as effective as a rabid Saint Bernard jacked up on amphetamines on the field. Though playing with a torn labrum for much of his rookie season, by the end of the year, Spence was looking like the best pickup of our rookie class. The 5.5 sacks aren’t indicative of his production. During our five game winning streak, Spence was ripping through OTs and getting into the backfield with ease. Between McCoy, Spence, Ayers, and Lavonte blitzing off the edge, it looks like the Bucs have finally planted the seeds for a functional, if not disruptive pass rush. | ”Noah Spence’s talent is undeniable, and on tape, he’s got a complete repertoire of pass rush moves, an explosive first step, and the kind of guy who has the potential to wreck a gameplan… Though Spence sent a month’s worth of clean drug tests to all 32 teams, I remain suspicious of his ability to stay clean.” |
| Roberto Aguayo (K, FSU) | 2 | 59 | There’s no sugarcoating this one: Aguayo was garbage as a rookie, and had he not been a 2nd round pick, any other team would have cut him by now. Normally, a rookie is given the benefit of the doubt and allowed room for growing pains. Not so, for a Kicker selected with a premium draft pick. Aguayo finished his rookie season with a 71% Field Goal percentage. Jason Licht has already signaled his intent to bring in competition for training camp this year. In effect, Aguayo has 4 preseason games to prove he deserves a roster spot, or he’s gone. More on him below. | ”What he does bring us though, is almost absolute reliability with extra points, short to medium range field goals... if Aguayo turns out to be Mike Nugent, it will be a disaster.” |
| Ryan Smith (CB/S, North Carolina Central) | 4 | 108 | Not a lot to report on here. Smith saw very limited action on Defense in 14 games, while working as a kick returner (10 returns, 169 yards for a long of 24). Too small a sample size right now to weigh in on his upside | ” He’s a little bit undersized in both height and weight, but judging from combine and pro day numbers his athleticism is solid and he gives us an option as a potential return man as well.” |
| Caleb Benenoch (OT/OG, UCLA) | 5 | 148 | Benenoch made one start this year, looking respectable in his limited time on the field. He finished his rookie season with just 134 snaps, so, again, hard to judge his potential, but it looks like we have a solid reservist, at the very worst. | ”Benenoch has played every position on the offensive line and has a fair amount of starter experience. From what little I watched of him, he looks like he has potential to be a long-term developmental guy. Never hurts to add depth to OL.” |
| Devante Bond (OLB, Okalahoma) | 6 | 183 | Bond went to the IR with a hamstring injury. Not much to say other than that. | ”Though he had limited experience in college, he looks like a thumper in the run game from what I saw. I’m indifferent about this one.” |
| Dan Vitale (FB, Northwestern) | 6 | 197 | For the second year in a row, we drafted a fullback, and I’m not really sure why. | ”For the second year in a row, we drafted a fullback, and I’m not really sure why.” |
Pending Free Agents Analysis (Select Players)
| Player | FA Status | Analysis |
|---|---|---|
| Vincent Jackson (WR) | UFA | As the old saying goes, “Father Time is undefeated,” and this year, it looks like Father Time got the best of V-Jax. A relic of the “Great Dominik Free Agency Binge of 2012,” V-Jax produced at a stellar level and was a fan favorite for us off the field as an all-around good human being. It’s tough to say goodbye to the players you love, but with V-Jax’s age and declining production, his departure is all but imminent. Verdict: It’s time to say goodbye to an old friend. But who knows, maybe he’ll test the market and come back at the veteran minimum. |
| Russell Shepard (WR, Special Teams Captain) | UFA | Re-signing Russell Shepard must be a top priority of Jason Licht. As a gunner, Shepard developed a great rapport with Brian Anger and made a number of clutch Special Teams plays that pinned our opponents close to, or at their own goal lines. When asked to step in as a receiver, Shepard did so and made some great third down catches later on in the season. This is a guy with a great attitude, locker room presence, and a decent reserve WR. Verdict: Re-sign this guy (and Josh Robinson). It will be cheap, and it will be worth every cent paid. |
| Joe Hawley (C) | UFA | You remember the “Dalton Line” people would always joke about, back when Dalton was considered the epitome of average QB? Joe Hawley is kind of who I consider the Dalton line of Centers. What I love about Hawley is his toughness. Though he played hurt for much of the year and seemed to collapse for a few plays almost every game in the latter half of the season, he would be back on a few snaps later as if nothing happened. He’s no Fredbeard, he’s no “Secret World of” Alex Mack, and he’s no Mangold, but Hawley gets the job done. Verdict: The FA market for Centers is thin, and using a draft pick might mean going below the Hawley Line. Why risk going below the Hawley Line when you’re at the Hawley Line? I say re-sign him to a one-year deal. |
| Chris Conte (FS) | UFA | I’m not certain I’ve ever seen a worse game played by Safeties than our week 8 loss to the Raiders where Carr put up 500+ yards and 4 TD’s (I was at that game, which made it all the more painful). It brought back memories of watching Jamarcus Russell shred Sabby Piscitelli with ease. We may arguably have the most unreliable Safety tandem in the NFL between McDougald and Conte. Unfortunately, we really have no Plan B on our roster right now. With our available cap space and a draft upcoming, I think our solutions need to be found via those two avenues instead of re-signing Conte. Verdict: Let him walk. |
| Bradley McDougald (SS) | UFA | This is a tough one. McDougald is one of those guys who looks decent on some days and then a horrible tackler and cover guy on other days. He finished the season strong, but I don’t have much faith in his play recognition or ability to read the better offenses of the NFL. Verdict: Let him test the market, try to re-sign him cheap if he doesn’t get the deal he’s looking for outside of Tampa. |
| Mike Glennon (QB) | UFA | When a Browns fan asked me what kind of Quarterback they would get out of Mike Glennon, I provided a very conservative estimate of what a decade of him under center would look like. The TL;DR of it is, he would probably win rings with the Browns and Naismith trophies with Lebron and become the Vice President after Donald Trump mercilessly murders Mike Pence at the beginning of his second term. Again, conservative estimate, but all things are possible through the Ginger Giraffe. On a less serious note, Glennon never really had a chance to shine in Tampa. Despite leading our team to our first win in 2014, Lovie Smith inexplicably went back to Josh McCown, who was playing quite poorly at the time. Drafting Jameis #1 meant throwing Jameis into the fire immediately while allowing the Ginger Giraffe to age like fine wine. I think Glennon winds up a starter elsewhere, perhaps with the Texans, Jets, Bears, or 49ers. I will write him a letter every day. Verdict: You’re fake news. You’re all fake news. Cut every single player on our team. They’re useless compared to Glennon. Sign him to a deal that averages a billion dollars a year, and trade Jameis away. |
| Willie Gholston (DE) | UFA | Gholston is the kind of player who will come with a frugal price tag that adds exceptional depth and value to our team. Gholston was originally drafted as a 4th round developmental guy in the Dominik era, but has since proved his worth, particularly on obvious run plays. A shining example of a “look at the tape, not the stats” guy, losing him would be pretty big for our D-Line rotation. Verdict: Re-sign this guy. We need him. |
Season High Points
Dirk Koetter Takes Over. Bucs Fans Like It: For those who may not know, Dirk Koetter became the Head Coach this season after being promoted from OC following Lovie Smith’s firing. Lovie was perhaps “too nice,” and attempting to coach with methods that would have worked in 2005, not necessarily 2015. Flags were aplenty in our secondary, and the physical CB play that worked well in Chicago with the pre-2007 DPI rule changes made our team look like an undisciplined mess. At the time, the firing of Lovie Smith was a point of contention among our fanbase. There was a camp that said he was fired prematurely, another group that understood it was necessary to avoid letting Koetter walk for another head coaching vacancy, and a third camp that said it was the right move, regardless of the Koetter factor. After a successful first year, all three of those camps are all aboard the Koetter train.I’d be curious to hear NFL’s thoughts on this, but I think a lot of a fan’s experience and attachment to their teams is further enhanced by a likable and engaging Head Coach. Though the Raheem Morris years were not exactly bright spots in our franchise’s history, watching him interact with the press, his love of football, and history with the Bucs organization made the sub-par coaching and losing a little bit less bad. I’m feeling a lot of that with Koetter. The man is full of energy, funny zingers, and just the right amount of sass with the sports media that his press conferences have become a must-watch. He also looks like a Bizarro Rand Paul. Anyhow, a successful first year for him, a good replacement for Lovie, our first winning season since 2010, and all of a sudden, things are alright in Tampa.
Our Five Game Win Streak and Our Winning Record: The last time the Buccaneers had a winning record was after Week 1 of our 2012 season, where we started 1-0. Between 2012 and 2015, the Buccaneers went 19-45, and poor play became almost expected. When the Buccaneers had a lead going into the 4th quarter, blowing it wasn’t a matter of “if,” it was a matter of “when.” This was a team that just couldn’t finish games, and seemed to descend to apathy when apathy was the last thing needed. Enter year one of Dirk Koetter, Mike Smith, and Todd Monken, and the cultural issues our team had since the end of the Gruden era have started to dissipate: winning feels within reach again. Beginning in Week 10, the Buccaneers took down the Bears, Chiefs (at Arrowhead, snapping a 10 game home winning streak for them), Seahawks, Chargers, and Saints before a narrow loss to the Cowboys ended a five game winning streak. The story ended with us missing playoffs, but to watch us win for more roughly one third of the season consecutively? [Channeling Gruden voice] Man, it was special.
Mike Smith and the Return of a Defense: In the first three weeks alone, Tampa allowed a league-high 101 points and made Case Keenum look like the second coming of Kurt Warner. Between the Oakland loss I mentioned before and the loss to Atlanta in our second matchup alone, our defense allowed 1000+ yards and 9 TD’s in two weeks. Things were bad. Mike Smith approached the team and asked "What can we do better? What can I do better?" The team found a significant gap in verbal communication, and to provide more input into game planning and meetings. Soon after the meeting, the Bucs only allowed 32 combined points in weeks 10-12, an increase in turnover margin, sacks, and a 26% increase in red zone defensive efficiency. I hate how much the term “swarming” is used to describe a defense, but by the end of the season, our defense had noticeably improved speed, penetration on the line, and improved coverage in the secondary—so much so that Mike Smith was sought after as a potential Head Coach. Luckily, Smith opted to stay in Tampa, signing an extension. Fans are hopeful the second half season performance will be replicated this season. We love Smitty, even if it looks like he’s always beet-red in the face like an alcoholic.
Jameis Becomes the First QB to Throw 4,000+ Yards in his First Two Seasons: Just before his 23rd birthday, Jameis made history by becoming the first QB in NFL history to hit the 4,000 yard mark in his first two NFL seasons. What’s more impressive about hitting that mark is that those 8,132 career yards were from passes to 21 different receivers over the course of these last two years. Jameis has a long way to go, but what matters is he has the attitude and passion to get there. While his completion percentage, passing yards, and TD’s went up in year 2, so did his turnovers. In 2016, he had the 2nd highest number of interceptions among active QB’s, with 18 picks (and an additional 6 lost fumbles). Particularly against stalwart defenses like the Cardinals (51.9% passes completed, 243 yards, 1 TD, 4 INTs, 3 sacks) and the Broncos (48.6% passes completed, 179 yards, 0 TDs, 2 INTs, 5 sacks), Jameis showed he is still having sophomore growing pains. There were times when he made some absolutely boneheaded forced throws into double or triple coverage, but as he gets better protection (please protect this man. He is our future) and more continuity with the receivers he’s working with, Jameis has the potential to become one of the best QBs in the NFL. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have never had a QB make it to his second contract in franchise history. Since our Super Bowl win with Brad Johnson, we’ve had 11 different starting QBs and never found the franchise QB we desperately needed. It’s nice to know we finally found one.
The Ascension of Mike Evans: In his rookie and sophomore seasons, Mike Evans was probably one of your favorite players on your fantasy teams. For us, despite his appearance on the stat sheet, Mike Evans was a very frustrating player to watch, but the potential was there. Drops were aplenty, but even worse, Evans would often be more focused on calling for pass interference or illegal contact calls instead of going for the ball itself—in fact, sometimes he would turn to the referee before the whistle blew, stop a route, and throw his hands up in anger, looking for the call. Perhaps the regime change helped foster a change in Evans’ mentality, or perhaps he just drank a good old fashioned maturity cocktail. Evans showed up to training camp 15 pounds lighter, more cut, and with a newfound attitude that focused on the ball rather than the call.
A common knock on Evans in college as he entered the NFL was his lack of mastery of the so-called route tree. That was put to rest this season. Evans’ routes looked crisper, more fluid, and the cuts he made on his breaks were noticeably more explosive. The drops went down, the targets went up, and Evans finished with a career best 96 catches for 1,321 yards and 12 TD’s. It was especially fun to see him torch Richard Sherman. With the regression of our run-first offense and the Dougernaut, Evans became the centerpiece of our offense, and carried the passing game on his own two shoulders—all the way to his first All-Pro selection. The best is yet to come for this whippersnapper.
The Punt Team: Call me crazy, but our best offseason acquisition was none other than Bryan Anger. Anger will always be known as the Punter the Jaguars selected in the 3rd round ahead of Russ Wilson, but for us, he managed to have a spectacular season replacing Jacob Schum. Anger finished with more than half of his 70 punts landing inside the 20-yard line, but his rapport with Russell Shepard and Josh Robinson pinned opponents close to the goal line on a large number of drives. For his efforts, what started as a one-year deal was extended an additional 4. He earned it.
The Assassination of the Atlanta Falcons by the GOAT Tom Brady: scha·den·freu·de -ˈSHädənˌfroidə - noun Pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune.
Low Points
The Final Fall of the Caged Muscular Rodent: Doug Martin has always been a hit or miss guy. There was his 2012 rookie campaign where he produced nearly 2,000 yards from scrimmage. In the two years thereafter, he was plagued with nagging injuries that prevented him from hitting 500 yards rushing from 2013-2014. After finishing the 2015 season as a First-Team All-Pro, Doug Martin was set to become a free agent. Jason Licht managed to sign Martin to a deal that paid a reasonable $7.1M/yr, short of Peterson/McCoy/Marshawn Lynch figures, which dictated the highest echelons of the RB market at the time. This season, it was back to injured Doug again, dealing with a hamstring injury that kept him either sidelined or ineffective when on the field. And then it all came crashing down. In week 16, Martin was suspended four games for violating the NFL’s performance enhancing drug policy, testing positive for Adderall. Martin went into rehab soon after, voiding the guaranteed money in his contract. Within a year, he went from being a centerpiece of our offense to a potential cap casualty who we can now cut without facing the ramifications of dead cap space. While the team has signaled they haven’t given up on him yet, the team may cut him to create more room for a potential free agency binge. There’s plenty of Doug Martin’s tale left to be told. Whether or not the tale continues in Tampa or not remains to be soon.The Lonesome Kicker: Adam Sandler’s song The Lonesome Kicker is a funny, but somewhat truthful look at the stress riding on a kicker. “Me, I’m the lonesome kicker,” Sandler sang. “Extra points, field goals at your service. One might think it comes with glory, you might think different after you listen to my story.”
When the Falcons blew a 25 lead point in the Super Bowl, it was hilarious, but the blame got shared among coaches and players. When guys like Gary Anderson and Billy Cundiff missed their clutch kicks in the 1998 NFC Championship and the 2012 AFC Championship, it wasn’t the Vikings and the Ravens losing those games, it was Gary Anderson and Billy Cundiff losing them. There’s a reason that few GM’s are willing to use draft picks on kickers, let alone premium ones: for every once in a generation kicker like Adam Vinatieri, the dropoff in the kicker talent pool is steep enough that Kickers jump from team to team, or signed “off the streets” as a UDFA. Former Bucs HC John McKay once said: "Kickers are like horse manure. They're all over the place."
Once a kicker enters a mental funk, it can be difficult to get out of. Crippling self-doubt creeps in from a clutch field goal he may have missed a few games ago, and the letdown of a missed kick becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy every time he lines up for a field goal. Four placekickers have been inducted into the Hall of Fame (Anderson, Blanda, Groza, and Stenerud), and that’s because there are few kickers capable of handling the monumental pressure that comes with the territory needed to last an entire career.
One of the most memorable and heartbreaking images from this year was watching the look of dejection come over Blair Walsh’s face as he cost the Vikings a game against the Lions via a missed FG and XP that could have won it. It was a face that acknowledged the shame of knowing he had let his teammates and fans down for the last time, with the writing on the wall in front of him that he would be released soon after. This of course, was just eight games removed from the legendary playoff shanking against Seattle that cost the Vikings a chance to advance to the divisional. Walsh never recovered from it. It took just one playoff game and half a season to go from a Pro Bowl kicker to unemployed. When millions of eyes are on you with no blame to be diluted, it’s near impossible to keep your ego and self-esteem above water.
Draft a kicker in the 2nd round, and the expectations mount ten-fold. You’re under the scrutiny of the sports media and collective fanbases of the NFL before you even set foot on the field. You’re already a punchline. And the moment you miss that first kick or extra point, you’re no longer just a punchline, you’re Pagliacci the Clown. Such is the early quandary of Roberto Aguayo. During his time at FSU, Aguayo never missed a FG under 40 yards, and never missed an XP. It took just two preseason games in the NFL to miss one of each. The jitters transferred to the regular season. Entering November, Aguayo had made just 58% of his field goals, while every other kicker in the league had made at least 70%. While Aguayo finally crept back to above 70% by season’s end, the inconsistency was enough for Licht and Koetter to bring in competition this year. “Our field goal percentage of this year is not good enough,” Koetter said at a season-end press conference. “…it has been proven that we have no problem moving on from a draft choice and playing somebody that wasn’t drafted. We did it this year and we did it a year ago.” Aguayo can still come back from this. Given what we invested, one can only hope he turns around. Even a struggling rookie Vinatieri was able to become the future HOFer he is today. “But that’s the life I live. The Lonesome Kicker.”
A Farewell to V-Jax: We can’t say enough good things about V-Jax. He was the recipient of the league’s Salute to Service Award. He is a huge philanthropist in the Tampa community, and individual fan accounts have said nothing but great things regarding their interactions with him. It’s weird to say, but he was probably our best offensive weapon in the dozen plus years since we won the Super Bowl. V-Jax’s production dropped mightily in 2015 (543 yards), but he remained a fan favorite regardless. Unfortunately, V-Jax suffered a torn ACL that placed him on IR in the final year of his contract—the opposite of the story book ending we’d hoped he’d see with us. The market for a 34-year-old WR coming off an ACL tear may not be a strong one. Should his career continue, it’s likely to be on a string of one year deals at this point. It didn’t matter if it was Josh Freeman, Mike Glennon, Jameis Winston, or Josh McCown throwing to him—V-Jax brought it all every Sunday. As a result of Jackson’s efforts, the cannons of our pirate ship fired a grand total of 60 times for each point he scored. Best of luck, wherever you go, V-Jax. We’ll consider you a Buc for life.
Biggest Off-Season Needs: Offense
| Position Need | Analysis | Potential Solution/s |
|---|---|---|
| WR2 | Early on in Peyton Manning’s (future) Hall of Fame career, Manning was enabled by having Hall of Famer Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne as options. While Jameis has a great target in Mike Evans and Humphries in the slot, and Cameron Brate at TE, the Bucs are lacking a true route running, chain moving WR2. In his final two years in Tampa, V-Jax started a total of 14/32 games, forcing the Bucs to turn to a revolving door of options at the receiver position, including Cecil Shorts III, Dontae Dae, Freddie Martino, Antone Smith, and even pulling Russell Shepard from special teams. WR2 is an urgent need to help with Jameis’ continued development. It’s time to get our Reggie Wayne. | WR2 is a place I’d rather turn to FA for than to use an early draft pick. At a young 27, Alshon Jeffery is an option to consider here, albeit a somewhat risky one given his injury history and PED suspension. Desean Jackson is a potential option here as well and should require less of a behemoth salary than Jeffery. In the last two seasons, Jackson averaged 17.8 YPC. He remains a monstrous deep threat that could open up our offense. Should the Bucs turn to the draft, picking at #19, we are unlikely to be able to land a target like Mike Williams (WR, Clemson) or Corey Davis (Western Michigan). |
| OL | Donovan Smith is a divisive player among the Bucs fanbase. I credit Smith for starting every game and playing every snap in 2016, but the potential I was hoping to see by the end of year 2 just isn’t there. Against middling edge rushers, Smith fares adequately, but he is slow off the ball, has the agility of a three-toed sloth, and seems helpless against stronger pass rushers. I just don’t see him as a long-term solution at LT, and he may be better suited to play on the inside at Guard. On the right side, Demar Dotson has been solid, though his penalty count (11 in 2016) is a residual problem. On the interior, Marpet continues to rapidly improve and has the potential to become a top NFL guard. Buccaneer legend Logan Mankins’ retirement this season, as well as Sweezy’s injury left us with a void on the inside. It’s unclear if/how Sweezy will be a part of the team’s plans this coming season, but he was recently cleared to return to football. At Center, Hawley is fine (see above analysis), but with pending UFA status and Nick Mangold available, there’s a fair chance he could walk. | For OT’s, this is a pretty shallow free agent class, though the ageless Andrew Whitworth is appealing. That’s a group better addressed by the draft, where Ryan Ramczyk (OT, Wisconsin) might be available when we pick. Lots of attractive options available at G in Free Agency, including Kevin Zeitler, T.J. Lang, and Larry Warford. Cutting Sweezy would create only $2.5M in dead money, and if the Bucs decide to cut their losses and upgrade, it wouldn’t be the end of the world for our cap situation. |
Biggest Off-Season Needs: Defense
| Position Need | Analysis | Potential Solution/s |
|---|---|---|
| S | Even after our defense began to gel in the latter half of the season, safety performance was still abysmal, with Conte playing some of the worst backfield ball the Bucs have seen since Sabby Piscitelli. As a whole, our secondary is incomplete, but S is a big enough liability in a division that includes the last two QBs to win MVP that if not addressed, teams will manage to play a simple game of pitch and catch. | The Safety free agent market leaves a lot to be desired. Should the Bucs ditch McDougald, Tony Jefferson is a solid alternative to consider at SS that most of our fans on Buccaneers covet. Micah Hyde might be a better ball-hawking FS option, and at 26, he has a lot of football ahead of him. That would probably be my FA target. At the top of the draft, there are some damn good safety prospects. I’d sell my soul to land either Jamal Adams or Malik Hooker, and if they’re sitting on the board past the 10th pick (I don’t think they will be), I wouldn’t shed many tears if we traded up for either. One thing’s for certain: if we sit with what we have now, we’re doomed. |
| DL | One of the things I’ve always appreciated about the Chiefs and Texans management, is that they abide by the philosophy of “there’s no such thing as too many pass rushers.” Both have invested a lot of early draft picks on edge rushers, and just when it seems like they have enough, they get more. Since entering the league in 2010, Gerald McCoy has been our most disruptive pass rushing force, but the fact remains: we haven’t had a 10+ sack player since Simeon Rice. When on the field for us last season, Robert Ayers was a force off the edge. His 6.5 sacks don’t really attest to the value he brought us when on the field. Noah Spence is poised for a breakout year, and assuming he gets his shoulder intact in the offseason, it’s exciting to think about what he’ll be capable of at 100%. Between those two off the edge, it’s a good start, but it never hurts to have more. On the interior, Clinton McDonald and Akeem Spence have been decent complements to McCoy, but we’re in dire need of more interior depth and run stuffers. | Most of the top free agents on DL have been franchised or re-signed. My hope was to bring Jason Pierre-Paul back to Tampa (he played at USF), but he’s been franchised. Dontari Poe is expected to become a UFA, but he might not be an ideal scheme fit for Tampa, and his play has regressed somewhat. Brandon Williams, I suspect will re-sign with Baltimore by the end of this week. That takes us to the draft. Besides Garrett and Thomas, I absolutely love Tennessee’s Derek Barnett off the edge, and there will be plenty of options available when we pick. I never object to investing in DL, and the more talent we have there, the more we can harass Brees, Newton, and Ryan. |
Free Agency Wishlist: Top Ten
The Bucs are entering the offseason with a very healthy $72.5M in cap space, with an additional $5.8M that would become available in the event we choose to cut Doug Martin. While this room points to a potential big money spending spree in free agency, I’m hopeful we use our cap space to prioritize keeping our best guys in house, especially Mike Evans (who will likely cost $13M/yr).I mentioned a few of my targets above, but here’s my top ten list of who I’d target. I came up with this list based on price versus need. I’ll tell you who I don’t want: Adrian Peterson. The Nintendo Switch comes out tomorrow, and that’s the only kind of switch I want the children of Tampa interacting with. Anyhow, I digress. My top ten:
- Desean Jackson (WR, Redskins): Though he just turned 30, Jackson is still a deep threat and a blazing speedster who can be a threat in the return game as well. Jackson is a more appealing option than Jeffery, as he’ll come at a lower price tag. By this point in his career, he’s learned to not spike the ball before he gets to the endzone.
- Micah Hyde (S, Packers): Hyde is versatile in every sense of the word, able to play multiple roles in the secondary, he would be an immediate upgrade at Safety that wouldn’t come with an exorbitant contract, and he’d rotate nicely with the Tandy Man. Aside from his play in the secondary, he’s got 3 Punt Return touchdowns. It wouldn’t be a flashy signing, but sometimes subtlety is the best route in Free Agency.
- Martellus Bennett (TE, Patriots): Bennett would be a great addition to the Tampa offense. A solid blocker and a big-bodied target, Bennett would be a welcome addition to the surging Cameron Brate. Surrounding Jameis with targets should be a priority.
- Brandon Williams (DT, Ravens): When Mike Smith was Jacksonville’s DC, he created a violent defense that started up front with Marcus Stroud and Jon Henderson. The pieces are coming together nicely on defense for us, but one thing we’re missing is a space eating DT to free up McCoy and our guys on the edge.
- Alshon Jeffery (WR, Bears): The only reason Jeffery isn’t at the top of my list is because of the price he’ll likely command. Evans will be up for a new deal this year, and obviously, we want to re-sign him long-term. Jeffery may require a $13M/yr price tag. The question is, do we want to spend that kind of money on both Jeffery and ultimately Evans? Probably not.
- Kevin Zeitler (G, Bengals): I didn’t love the Sweezy signing to begin with, and in all likelihood, Licht doesn’t prioritize Guard. Zeitler has always been a standout and one of the more underrated linemen in the NFL. I have a feeling he’ll end up among the highest paid guards by the time free agency is over.
- Calais Campbell (DE/DT, Cardinals): Campbell feels like he’s been in the league forever, but surprisingly, he’s only 30. Campbell is an extremely versatile DL who can collapse the run and still has one of the nastiest bull-rushes. I’d love to see a rotation of Campbell, Ayers, and Spence.
- Jay Cutler (QB, Bears): No, I’m not trolling you here. The Ginger Adonai is gone, and our backup QB is Ryan Griffin. I don’t if any teams out there are considering Cutler as a starter at this point, particularly with trades brewing for Garoppolo and Romo. Having Jay Cutler as an insurance policy for Jameis would keep our team somewhat afloat, if God forbid Jameis ever went down. Sure, he’s thrown 146 completions to the defense, but that’s neither here nor there.
- Nick Fairley (DT, Saints): I don’t quite understand why Nick Fairley has been somewhat of a journeyman without having even turned 30. He’s been a monster for much of his career—yet is likely to join his 4th team in as many years. When you’re floating around the league, you don’t have much leverage for a big contract, which means Fairley would be available for a bargain price.
- Malcolm Smith (OLB, Raiders): Smith has regressed mightily since his Super Bowl MVP performance, but with Daryl Smith becoming a free agent, Smith could become a decent 2-down replacement at SAM. Replace one Smith with another Smith. That’s how this should work!
Shoutouts
Buccaneers is a very special community. We’re passionate, we’re weird, we love our team, and we have great mods who just let us roll with our oddities. The night the Patriots came back in Super Bowl LI, you would have thought we’d won the Super Bowl, we were so elated. Even better, the sub is far from your traditional Reddit circle jerk. Disagreement is almost always respectful, it’s acceptable to be critical of players, and users who make unpopular arguments are almost always upvoted if the argument is compelling. Anyhow, I wanted to share some of my favorite posts/quote from that night on Buccaneers, which I’ve consolidated into this wonderful Schadenfreude Gallery.As always, thank you to skepticismissurvival for coordinating all of the off-season posts.
A shoutout to Buccaneers, and wham592, pinheadrecords, steezewell, mike_honcho19, GET2DAACHOPPAAAA, YouMake, I_Dumped_Adele, Wadep00l, the King of the Grape Powerade TheChrisDez, Devils_-_Advocate for your inputs to the post, and of course to the bestie LansdowneStreet.
Final Thoughts
I’ve been doing these write-ups for three years or so now, and this is the best I’ve felt about the team in a long time. Franchise QB and WR tandem? Check. Promising defensive corps led by McCoy, Lavonte David, Kwon Alexander, and Noah Spence? Check. Kicker? …….Anyhow, this offseason is going to be critical to push us to playoff team caliber.Using Free Agency to fill our depth holes (and maybe sign one big ticket name), and continuing to secure our future via the draft, and this is a team that isn’t very far from returning to relevance. Our keys to 2017 success include:
- Giving Jameis 1-2 more long-term targets to pair with Evans
- Protecting Jameis
- Jameis reducing his turnovers
- Continued maturation and more experience on the field of our younger defenders, namely Kwon Alexander, Noah Spence, Vernon Hargreaves III
- Adding more and more pass rush and depth on the defensive line, addressing our abysmal safety situation, and finding one more solid CB as succession planning for Brett Grimes
- Either Aguayo starts playing like he did in college, or we replace Aguayo. Can’t wait for this one if it means costing us games.
- Continue “getting in a rhythm” with our new coaching staff of KoetteSmitty/Monken
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2016.10.05 16:34 CANISchiropteris I'M IN YOUR AREAAAAA
It was a day like any other. Elijah Marshall, Lord Creator Administrator of the mythical Death Grips Trashposting, was hard at work listening to The Money Store in an effort to find samples for his memes. It was hot, sunny afternoon, and the humidity cast a moist, sticky surface onto all exposed features. He was shirtless and in tight jeans, and tiny drops of salty, warm sweat manoeuvred their way down his sculpted abdominals. His girlfriend was dealing with an emergency at work.
But all of a sudden, Elijah heard a knock at his door. His dark muscles rippled as he got up from his desk chair. He slowly walked to the door… He saw a dark silhouette through the window. “I wonder who that could be…?” Elijah wondered.
He slowly opened the door. And, to his great surprise, his biggest idol was standing before him… MC Ride. Or as his friends call him, Stefan. MC Ride peeked in the doorway, and said,
“H-hey… um I don’t know if you know me… b-but I’m in a band and our van broke down about a half mile back… I w-was hoping you had some tools laying around…”
Ride was also shirtless, but unlike Elijah, who had the form of a contemporary Apollo, Ride was lean, sharp, and sported obscure tattoos on his arms and chest, including one of a brooding skull, which was offset by an opaque fly design opposite a five pointed star emblem. Elijah’s pupils started to dilate. After all, he kind of had a crush on Stefan ever since he heard his voice on The Money Store, his favourite DG record. Fortunately, Elijah had an old shed in his back yard full of his dad’s mechanic tools.
Elijah smiled, and replied, “Sure… I recognize you. What band again? Deaf grapes or something?”
“N-no… Death Grips…” answered MC Ride.
Elijah laughed. “ha-ha, that’s right! just come on in! I could definitely give you a tool to use…”
He led MC Ride to his back yard. On the way, He could feel Ride’s piercing gaze on him. He wondered if he liked what he saw. The sight of Elijah’s perky butt cheeks brushing against each other must have prodded at the animal within Stefan. He opened the door to the shed, and Ride quickly shuffled in to grab what he needed.
“He’s even cuter in real life…” Thought Elijah.
On the way back, he hastily offered Ride a beer.
“Hey man, want to have a beer? You seem like a cool dude.”
“Well… Zach and Andy are waiting for me… but I guess a quick beer wouldn’t hurt I guess.” Mumbled Ride.
They sat in Marshall’s living room. It was a light, open plan space, though the Amazonian humidity converted it to a musty den. The walls were plastered with posters of Death Grips, GG Allin, Nick Cave, and some obscure cut-out texts detailing Zizek’s commentaries on Anarcho Communism. The air was abuzz with hot anticipation, and the electricity bounced from wall to wall like an autistic child on amphetamines. Soon, they were discussing Grips and other music. Conversation was riveting and passionate.
After a while, Elijah said; “hey… I haven’t really been honest with you Stefan… Can I call you that? To tell the truth, I know a lot about Death Grips. I’m pretty much your biggest fan.”
“Ha-ha… Yes I know… and I have to confess something too. I’m a clandestine member of DG Trashposting. Y-you could say that I’m your biggest fan.”
With passion in his eyes, Elijah made the leap. He placed his soft, large hand on Stefan’s leg, right above the knee. Their eyes met, and the next thing Elijah knew, their lips were locked, tonguing intensely. Elijah giggled as the supple hairs of Ride’s beard tickled his chin.
“Can Andy and Zach wait?” Elijah purred.
Ride’s response was to continue kissing him. They made out for several minutes, their hands were stroking each other’s dark figures, and squeezing their soft bottoms. Slowly, ride moved down Elijah’s contoured chest, licking and kissing his stiff nipples as he went further down. Ride unzipped Elijah’s fly.
“Please” whispered Elijah.
MC Ride placed his hand into Elijah’s pants, and revealed his limp, 8 inch-long skin flute. It was a roman column, its balls impossibly spherical, its head impossibly enticing. From its tip hung a drop of transparent, viscous goo. Ride stared down its muzzle, and placed the organ inside his mouth, and slowly started to move his lips to and fro, while his hand fondled with Elijah’s Herculean eggs. His girlfriend’s blowjobs paled in comparison to this, this was like an out of body experience.
“Ohhhh Stefan… I think I want you to do the nasty in my taxi!” yelled Elijah.
Ride took Elijah out of his mouth, grinned at him, and whispered in his ear while stroking his fluid hose.
“Do you want to know something, Elijah?”
“Yes daddy, Elijah gasped.”
“Responsibility’s cool, but there’s more things in life; like getting your dick rode all fucking night.”
And with that, Stefan grabbed Elijah’s trunk-like legs, flipped him over, spread his cheeks, and forced his supercharged dispenser into Elijah’s puckered plughole. Elijah screamed in both pain and pleasure, and Ride pistoned into him with the force of an electromagnetic train.
“OWOOAAHOWOOOAHOWOOOAAHHOWOOAAHOWOOOAHOWOOAAHH” Cried Elijah as Ride started to pummel him harder and faster.
But then, something started happening. Stefan started receding into a state of pure animalism, and his jaw began spewing out obscure, strange, and violent imagery. But Elijah was too euphoric to care, he was in a daze, his eyes rolled back into his sockets as he willingly received Stefan’s warm seed. It was happening.
“I….
AM….
THE BEAST….
I….
WORSHIP!!!!!!” Ride shouted into Elijah’s ear as he came, causing a gout of hot, sticky fluid to eject from his body at considerable force, and planting itself deep inside the recipient’s rectum.
After the intensity of the moment wore off, MC Ride dismounted Elijah, and both of them passed out instantaneously.
Three hours later, Zach Hill and Andy Morin, both in desperate search of their lost band mate, broke into a living room of a house. The room was hot and musty, and the walls were plastered with all manner of DG posters and those from other bands. There, lying on the sofa in blissful sleep, they saw Ride with an unknown figure cuddled up to him. Zach looked at Andy and said, matter-of-factly,
“He came in the fuck.”
THE END
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But all of a sudden, Elijah heard a knock at his door. His dark muscles rippled as he got up from his desk chair. He slowly walked to the door… He saw a dark silhouette through the window. “I wonder who that could be…?” Elijah wondered.
He slowly opened the door. And, to his great surprise, his biggest idol was standing before him… MC Ride. Or as his friends call him, Stefan. MC Ride peeked in the doorway, and said,
“H-hey… um I don’t know if you know me… b-but I’m in a band and our van broke down about a half mile back… I w-was hoping you had some tools laying around…”
Ride was also shirtless, but unlike Elijah, who had the form of a contemporary Apollo, Ride was lean, sharp, and sported obscure tattoos on his arms and chest, including one of a brooding skull, which was offset by an opaque fly design opposite a five pointed star emblem. Elijah’s pupils started to dilate. After all, he kind of had a crush on Stefan ever since he heard his voice on The Money Store, his favourite DG record. Fortunately, Elijah had an old shed in his back yard full of his dad’s mechanic tools.
Elijah smiled, and replied, “Sure… I recognize you. What band again? Deaf grapes or something?”
“N-no… Death Grips…” answered MC Ride.
Elijah laughed. “ha-ha, that’s right! just come on in! I could definitely give you a tool to use…”
He led MC Ride to his back yard. On the way, He could feel Ride’s piercing gaze on him. He wondered if he liked what he saw. The sight of Elijah’s perky butt cheeks brushing against each other must have prodded at the animal within Stefan. He opened the door to the shed, and Ride quickly shuffled in to grab what he needed.
“He’s even cuter in real life…” Thought Elijah.
On the way back, he hastily offered Ride a beer.
“Hey man, want to have a beer? You seem like a cool dude.”
“Well… Zach and Andy are waiting for me… but I guess a quick beer wouldn’t hurt I guess.” Mumbled Ride.
They sat in Marshall’s living room. It was a light, open plan space, though the Amazonian humidity converted it to a musty den. The walls were plastered with posters of Death Grips, GG Allin, Nick Cave, and some obscure cut-out texts detailing Zizek’s commentaries on Anarcho Communism. The air was abuzz with hot anticipation, and the electricity bounced from wall to wall like an autistic child on amphetamines. Soon, they were discussing Grips and other music. Conversation was riveting and passionate.
After a while, Elijah said; “hey… I haven’t really been honest with you Stefan… Can I call you that? To tell the truth, I know a lot about Death Grips. I’m pretty much your biggest fan.”
“Ha-ha… Yes I know… and I have to confess something too. I’m a clandestine member of DG Trashposting. Y-you could say that I’m your biggest fan.”
With passion in his eyes, Elijah made the leap. He placed his soft, large hand on Stefan’s leg, right above the knee. Their eyes met, and the next thing Elijah knew, their lips were locked, tonguing intensely. Elijah giggled as the supple hairs of Ride’s beard tickled his chin.
“Can Andy and Zach wait?” Elijah purred.
Ride’s response was to continue kissing him. They made out for several minutes, their hands were stroking each other’s dark figures, and squeezing their soft bottoms. Slowly, ride moved down Elijah’s contoured chest, licking and kissing his stiff nipples as he went further down. Ride unzipped Elijah’s fly.
“Please” whispered Elijah.
MC Ride placed his hand into Elijah’s pants, and revealed his limp, 8 inch-long skin flute. It was a roman column, its balls impossibly spherical, its head impossibly enticing. From its tip hung a drop of transparent, viscous goo. Ride stared down its muzzle, and placed the organ inside his mouth, and slowly started to move his lips to and fro, while his hand fondled with Elijah’s Herculean eggs. His girlfriend’s blowjobs paled in comparison to this, this was like an out of body experience.
“Ohhhh Stefan… I think I want you to do the nasty in my taxi!” yelled Elijah.
Ride took Elijah out of his mouth, grinned at him, and whispered in his ear while stroking his fluid hose.
“Do you want to know something, Elijah?”
“Yes daddy, Elijah gasped.”
“Responsibility’s cool, but there’s more things in life; like getting your dick rode all fucking night.”
And with that, Stefan grabbed Elijah’s trunk-like legs, flipped him over, spread his cheeks, and forced his supercharged dispenser into Elijah’s puckered plughole. Elijah screamed in both pain and pleasure, and Ride pistoned into him with the force of an electromagnetic train.
“OWOOAAHOWOOOAHOWOOOAAHHOWOOAAHOWOOOAHOWOOAAHH” Cried Elijah as Ride started to pummel him harder and faster.
But then, something started happening. Stefan started receding into a state of pure animalism, and his jaw began spewing out obscure, strange, and violent imagery. But Elijah was too euphoric to care, he was in a daze, his eyes rolled back into his sockets as he willingly received Stefan’s warm seed. It was happening.
“I….
AM….
THE BEAST….
I….
WORSHIP!!!!!!” Ride shouted into Elijah’s ear as he came, causing a gout of hot, sticky fluid to eject from his body at considerable force, and planting itself deep inside the recipient’s rectum.
After the intensity of the moment wore off, MC Ride dismounted Elijah, and both of them passed out instantaneously.
Three hours later, Zach Hill and Andy Morin, both in desperate search of their lost band mate, broke into a living room of a house. The room was hot and musty, and the walls were plastered with all manner of DG posters and those from other bands. There, lying on the sofa in blissful sleep, they saw Ride with an unknown figure cuddled up to him. Zach looked at Andy and said, matter-of-factly,
“He came in the fuck.”
THE END
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