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2023.10.01 22:45 Zharken What would you like for a hypothetical new F-Zero game? + Bonus nostalgia trip story.
I know that everyone's favourite is GX, with some people prefering X, and that nostalgia plays a big role on people deciding their favourite.
GX is also my personal favourite game, but GP Legend was my first, I got it as a random birthday gift.
[[Story Time, if you want to skip]]
I had a friend with a chronic disease (never knew what exactly) and couldn't move much, so his parents spoiled him big time, he always had all the consoles and videogames he wanted. They moved, don't know where, and all ties were cut. I haven't known anything about him in more than 15 years and never knew how he ended up. But while we here happy kids and oblivious of the world arround us, we used to hang out at his place playing games and having.
So my birthday comes up, don't even remember how old I was turning, but the GBA SP (the one that opens like a flip phone) was already a thing, and I had it. It was in what we call (or used to call) in spain, a chiquipark, one of these, i'm sure everyone knows what I'm talking about. Kid party place with inflatable castles, slides, trampolines and ball pits. After a while of having a blast jumping, landing on our heads and getting up like nothing happen because that's what kids do, came lunch, and then the present section, in which the birthday boy sits on a throne, This one specifically, and the staff opens a big chest, full of the presents that everyone brought, and the kid in the throne opens them one by one while everyone screams in excitement and claps.
All the presents except one. That friend's present. And here comes the weird part.
After the ceremony, when the party was over and people started leaving, his mom approached me:
"I brought you two things, you can choose one, and my kid will keep the other" -> Weird as fuck, isn't it? As a kid I thought Great! I get to choose! but the whole situation is a bit fucked up if you think about it. And that's why I think she did it after the party so that no body would know.
Anyway, the presents were not wrapped, as I needed to see them to choose. The first was a brand new cool toy cement mixing truck, the other was a GBA game, one that I've never heard about, F-Zero GP Legend, a futuristic racing game, I didn't care all that much about racing games, but holy shit a GBA game? my parents only got me videogames after crying and begging for months, and outside of birthdays and xmas, it was a very rare ocasion. So I grabbed F-Zero inmediately.
And alongside Megaman Zero, it became one of my all time favourite franchises, and to this day, I still don't understand why F-Zero games sales consistently declined on each installment, specially on GX.
[[End of Story]]
I love how GX plays, and I want more of it, with online play, but even if it has lore, and you can read the pilot profiles and all that stuff. I prefeer GP Legend's reboot of the story.
I never watched the anime (I'm doing it now lel) So the short story chapters on the game was all that I had. But It still make me like the characters a lot, and it feels more close and make you more invested into the story than just reading plain text on a menu screen like in GX.
I get that many people saw Rick Wheeler and thought, Who is this random fuck that took the protagonist role away from Captain Falcon? But to me, and I imagine, any kid that also started with GP Legend, I really liked Rick, a police detective that dies in a chase and is revived 150 years into the future and keeps pursuing the same guy while racing in the most dangerous competition ever? That sounds cool as fuck man. I also unknowingly picked the new characters as my favourites, I didn't even knew were new, yes, even the ones that didn't even have story chapters like Lucy Liberty, and Haruka Misaki, only to later discover the other games and be extremely sad because they weren't on GX :c
So Yeah, I might be incredibly biased, but a new 3D Game with the GP Legend Canon would be my wish. And I think It wold help attract a younger audicence with all that police in the future stuff.
Oh and make Samus a playable character, nintendo please, she's a bounty hunter, just like Captain Falcon, her games are already set in a futuristic space setting, and wouldn't be the first character from other games (James McCloud) perfect fit for F-Zero.
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GX is also my personal favourite game, but GP Legend was my first, I got it as a random birthday gift.
[[Story Time, if you want to skip]]
I had a friend with a chronic disease (never knew what exactly) and couldn't move much, so his parents spoiled him big time, he always had all the consoles and videogames he wanted. They moved, don't know where, and all ties were cut. I haven't known anything about him in more than 15 years and never knew how he ended up. But while we here happy kids and oblivious of the world arround us, we used to hang out at his place playing games and having.
So my birthday comes up, don't even remember how old I was turning, but the GBA SP (the one that opens like a flip phone) was already a thing, and I had it. It was in what we call (or used to call) in spain, a chiquipark, one of these, i'm sure everyone knows what I'm talking about. Kid party place with inflatable castles, slides, trampolines and ball pits. After a while of having a blast jumping, landing on our heads and getting up like nothing happen because that's what kids do, came lunch, and then the present section, in which the birthday boy sits on a throne, This one specifically, and the staff opens a big chest, full of the presents that everyone brought, and the kid in the throne opens them one by one while everyone screams in excitement and claps.
All the presents except one. That friend's present. And here comes the weird part.
After the ceremony, when the party was over and people started leaving, his mom approached me:
"I brought you two things, you can choose one, and my kid will keep the other" -> Weird as fuck, isn't it? As a kid I thought Great! I get to choose! but the whole situation is a bit fucked up if you think about it. And that's why I think she did it after the party so that no body would know.
Anyway, the presents were not wrapped, as I needed to see them to choose. The first was a brand new cool toy cement mixing truck, the other was a GBA game, one that I've never heard about, F-Zero GP Legend, a futuristic racing game, I didn't care all that much about racing games, but holy shit a GBA game? my parents only got me videogames after crying and begging for months, and outside of birthdays and xmas, it was a very rare ocasion. So I grabbed F-Zero inmediately.
And alongside Megaman Zero, it became one of my all time favourite franchises, and to this day, I still don't understand why F-Zero games sales consistently declined on each installment, specially on GX.
[[End of Story]]
I love how GX plays, and I want more of it, with online play, but even if it has lore, and you can read the pilot profiles and all that stuff. I prefeer GP Legend's reboot of the story.
I never watched the anime (I'm doing it now lel) So the short story chapters on the game was all that I had. But It still make me like the characters a lot, and it feels more close and make you more invested into the story than just reading plain text on a menu screen like in GX.
I get that many people saw Rick Wheeler and thought, Who is this random fuck that took the protagonist role away from Captain Falcon? But to me, and I imagine, any kid that also started with GP Legend, I really liked Rick, a police detective that dies in a chase and is revived 150 years into the future and keeps pursuing the same guy while racing in the most dangerous competition ever? That sounds cool as fuck man. I also unknowingly picked the new characters as my favourites, I didn't even knew were new, yes, even the ones that didn't even have story chapters like Lucy Liberty, and Haruka Misaki, only to later discover the other games and be extremely sad because they weren't on GX :c
So Yeah, I might be incredibly biased, but a new 3D Game with the GP Legend Canon would be my wish. And I think It wold help attract a younger audicence with all that police in the future stuff.
Oh and make Samus a playable character, nintendo please, she's a bounty hunter, just like Captain Falcon, her games are already set in a futuristic space setting, and wouldn't be the first character from other games (James McCloud) perfect fit for F-Zero.
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2023.09.06 04:36 zafiroxGG General information about ME/CFS
Hi, I've been with EM/CFS since 2016 and I've been investigating a lot about this illness.
I'm going to update regularly this post. Since I'm Spaniard I'm also gonna translate it at the end. Excuse me if I write something wrong since I'm not a native English speaker.
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First of all, how do you know you have EM/CFS? Well, the doctors have to try to figure out that you have it by discard, so prepare to a lot of tests. In my case, I had to see an internal medicine doctor until he figured out that I had it. This illness is so badly investigated and known. Talk to an internal medicine doctor, but this illness has to be investigated in 3 areas. We'll talk about it later.
Common syntoms are:
· Extreme exhaustion after physical or mental exercise (this is the most important)
· Unrefreshing sleeps
· Difficulties with memory, focus and concentration
· Headaches or "brain fog"
Less common syntoms are:
· Dizziness that worsens when going from lying or sitting to standing
· Sore throat
· Unexplained muscle/joint pain or tingling sensation
· Enlarged lymph nodes in the neck or armpits
· Dizziness that worsens when going from lying or sitting to standing
unrefreshing sleep.
This illness affects more females than males. The causes of this are still unknown.
There is any treatment? Currently there is not treatment to cure your illness. But there are things you can do:
The best thing you can do and that it worked for me is to consume vitamines with Q10, try to eat healthy, consume more often aliments with luteolin, take antioxidants and lower your gluten intake as much as you can (Bread with gluten has to be removed from the diet at least. Why not consuming bread with gluten? Because it lowers inflammation, which helps). Just by this you can notice around a 20-30% in your rating of discapacity (at least for me it was for long-term. I couldn't move from bed in the first years), I tend to use the rating from the Dr. David Bell so also doctors can understand how bad you are.
For exercise, keep in mind stress is the factor that makes this illness hard to confront. Just making a little exercise will stress your cells and cause a lot of issues. Try to just maintain your most important muscles: back and lower back, arms and legs. Focus only on one of those if you do it. Do soft exercise with your own body, stretching is good for maintaining your shape even it is not for your body because it causes you discomfort (PEM). Even so, you need to still do it at least 1 time a week minimum, but don't do it if you are very disabled. If you are so weak in arms (like I was once) you can try dumbells with little weight. I tend to do sometimes some soft stretches/exercises to maintain my body once or two times a week. TRY to go outside sometimes or move close to a window at noon to get some vitamin D (by Sun rays), it really helps to maintain your cycle day-night. I know this is just impossible if you can't get out of bed but with some vitamins you may feel good enought to do it; or you can also just sunbathe from a window. Try to know your limits, remember you'll get PEM but you can get worse in your shape. If you are a lot of the time in the bed, try to improve before doing exercise. Do some exercise just before you go to sleep, if it's not good for you, avoid it.
Where is the root of the issue with this illness? Well, looking at recent studies (2020-2022) as well as some older ones, theories from doctors and so on... I can say the main issue has to be in the hypothalamus-adrenal axis, as well as a multi-system disease that comprehends a desregulation of the Central Nervous System, immunitary system and cellular energy metabolism. It can also cause, which is my case, problems in the small intestine by dysregulating good and bad bacteria. Probiotics are good for this. I could add a lot of studies that lead me to this conclusion but I'd had to search again for each one.
Therefore, this is a multi-factor disease that has to be studied in 3 areas: Neurologic, immunitary and cellular. You need to talk to doctors speciallized in those areas. Maybe even intestinal if you have issues there.
THIS IS NOT a psychologic or psychiatric illness. If you have ansiety or depression, sure... you must treat it... But that is caused due to social asoliation, not due this illness! If you have a lot of pain you can go to the rheumatologist but you shouldn't go there otherwise.
Normally the cause of this disease is post-viral after an infection. It can be caused by the EBV virus. (that causes mononucleosis, also my cause) but it can be another type of herpes virus (mostly human herpes 6) and some retroviruses.
If EBV or a viral infection is the cause... Why most people don't have this illness? (I have a brother and a sister that had EBV and they didn't get this illness) Well, the most logic answer is that it has genetic factors. And it has been studied, here is a good study about it: https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/3/2698
What you should do to get investigated? Well... there is not a lot of investigation and you probably won't be investigated (it will depend on your country). We as a community need to get more visibility and let the public know about it so we get more funding for this illness. This is very important to get more investigation and studies. You or your family need to talk about this issue in TV or wherever it is needed.
Based on scientific stuff, there are some adaptogenic chinese herbs that you can use if your doctor detect low cortisol levels. This is not necessary but it may help, as it helped a little to me. You can ask me the link in my PMs.
There are recent studies about the reduction of syntesis of ATP and issues with the Complex V. This is all related to mitochondrial failure.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32041178/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.1532-2149.2013.00284.x
Take Q10 in vitamins (or alone) as it was also studied and it helps.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/CoQ-10-levels-lipid-peroxidation-and-ATP-content-in-PBMC-from-CFS-and-FM-patients-and_fig3_236249638
(I'm gonna in the next months information about some biomarkers if I found some from the tests that doctors are doing to me since new studies may have discovered some, but this is for the future)
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Now here is where I will put the less scientific and more personal stuff:
After mono, I had a very bad hepatitis B illness, I couldn't move from bed. I had blood circulation issues, a lot of pain in muscles back pain, brain fog... I was basically dead in life. When I took vitamines with Gingseng I got like a 10% better. Then I started to look for herbal complex for circulation, but it didn't help much. I looked to look for the best herbal complex possible, and I got one from a chinese shop. I looked for Ashwanda and Astragalus since I saw those herbs helped with the liver & the stress. I got better, like a 10% better. So I could start to go to more doctors and I also went to psychiatrist. She didn't recommended me a but that was her first idea. She instead recommended me norepinephrine/noradrenaline. The side effect was that heart beat was increased and it was so good for me. I also had not that much brain fog (I felt like I was very alert and focused all the time). I took it for 2 months but I had to stop, because my mind wanted to keep making things but my body couldn't follow it, I still had no energy. Mentally it was a little better but I had crash after crash. Now I have no longer circulation issues. I even stopped consuming the herbs and I'm stable now, I can't do many things but it is not as bad. Now is when I started taking vitamines with Q10 instead of vitamines with Gingseng. It works so much better, since Gingseng is like caffeine and Q10 basically transports energy to the mitochondria.
Also, it seems that the ME/CFS improve with warmer weather and it is worse with cold (because fungi are more common and produce mycotoxins) but I can't say for sure. Outside the big cities you will feel better because there may be more oxygen and less pollution, that can help too. Source: Various and this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mssp0DQef_Q
Oh, and recently, I discovered that it exist a chinese plant that helps with EM/CFS. The name of the plant is Sophora flavescens, and the important compound is extracted from the root: Oxymatrine. It has a lot of benefits and many people (like 50%) that doesn't have immunological diseases improved up to 90% (some of them much less), but you need to take it for a very long time (6 months minimum). I'll let you know if I test it if but it seems hard to get in Europe. It looks good because it has some chinese studies about it but it is not that studied in the west. Sources:
Dr Chia: https://www.biologischmedischcentrumbmc.nl/oxymatrine-treatment.htm // https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2010011975A1/en
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5974617/ <- Be careful because this herb produces hepatotoxicity, start with less doses.
Oxymatrine worked A LOT for me and it has been approved by chinese studies. Research about it.
http://www.itmonline.org/arts/oxymatrine.htm
Keep in mind everything that worked for me doesn't have to work for you.
Hope this can help you.
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Hola, tengo EM/CFS desde 2016 y he estado investigando mucho sobre esta enfermedad.
Voy a actualizarlo regularmente este artículo. Todo lo que escribo aquí será lo más riguroso posible que pueda.
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En primer lugar, ¿cómo sé que tengo EM/SFC? Bueno, los médicos tienen que tratar de averiguar si lo tienes por descarte, así que prepárate para muchas pruebas. En mi caso, tuve que ver a un médico interno hasta que se dio cuenta de que lo tenía. Esta enfermedad es tan mal investigada y conocida. Hable con un médico de medicina interna, pero esta enfermedad tiene que investigarse en 3 áreas. Hablaremos de esto más tarde.
Los síntomas comunes son:
· Agotamiento extremo después del ejercicio físico o mental (este es el más importante)
· Sueño no reparador
· Dificultades con la memoria, el enfoque y la concentración
· Dolores de cabeza o "niebla en la mente"
· Dolor musculaarticular inexplicable o sensación de hormigueo
Los síntomas menos comunes son:
· Mareos que empeoran al pasar de estar acostado o sentado a ponerse de pie
· Dolor de garganta
· Nódulos linfáticos agrandados en el cuello o las axilas
· Mareos que empeoran al pasar de estar acostado o sentado a ponerse de pie
sueño no reparador.
Esta enfermedad afecta más a mujeres que a hombres. Las causas de esto aún se desconocen.
¿Hay algún tratamiento? Actualmente no existe un tratamiento para curar su enfermedad. Pero hay cosas que puedes hacer:
Lo mejor que puedes hacer y que me ha funcionado es consumir vitaminas con Q10, intentar comer sano, consumir más seguido alimentos con luteolina, tomar antioxidantes y reducir al máximo tu consumo de gluten (El pan con gluten tiene que ser retirado de la dieta. Por qué no consumir pan con gluten? Porque baja la inflamación, y eso es algo que ayuda). Solo con esto puedes notar alrededor de un 20-30% en tu calificación de discapacidad, tiendo a usar la del Dr. David Bell para que los médicos también puedan entender lo mal que estás.
Para el ejercicio, tenga en cuenta que el estrés es el factor que hace que esta enfermedad sea difícil de confrontar. Solo hacer un poco de ejercicio estresará tus células y causará muchos problemas. Trate de mantener solo sus músculos más importantes: espalda y espalda baja, brazos y piernas. Haz ejercicio suave con tu propio cuerpo, los estiramientos son buenos para mantener tu forma aunque no para tu cuerpo porque te produce malestar (PEM). Aun así, debe seguir haciéndolo al menos 1 vez a la semana como mínimo, pero no lo hagas si estás muy discapacitado/a. Si tienes los brazos débiles (como yo tuve alguna vez) puedes probar con mancuernas con poco peso. Yo tiendo a hacer a veces algunos estiramientos/ejercicios suaves para mantener mi cuerpo una o dos veces por semana. TRATE de salir de casa de vez en cuando y tome un poco de vitamina D, realmente ayuda a mantener su ciclo día-noche. Sé que esto es simplemente imposible si no puedes levantarte de la cama, pero con algunas vitaminas puedes sentirte lo suficientemente bien como para hacerlo; o también puedes simplemente tomar el sol desde la ventana. Intenta conocer tus límites, recuerda que obtendrás malestar post-esfuerzo (PEM) pero puedes empeorar en tu forma. Si se pasa mucho tiempo en la cama, trate de mejorar antes de hacer ejercicio. Haga algo de ejercicio justo antes de irte a dormir, si no te viene bien evítalo.
¿Dónde está la raíz del problema con esta enfermedad? Bueno, mirando estudios recientes (2020-2022), así como algunos más antiguos, teorías de médicos, etc. Puedo decir que el problema principal tiene que estar en el eje hipotálamo-suprarrenal, así como una enfermedad multisistémica que comprende una desregulación del Sistema Nervioso Central, sistema inmunológico y metabolismo energético celular. También puede causar, que es mi caso, problemas en el intestino delgado desrregulando las bacterias buenas y malas. Los probióticos son buenos para esto.
Por lo tanto, esta es una enfermedad multifactorial que debe ser estudiada en 3 áreas: neurológica, inmunológica y celular. Necesita hablar con médicos especializados en esas áreas. Tal vez incluso intestinal si tiene problemas allí.
ESTO NO ES una enfermedad psicológica o psiquiátrica. Si tienes ansiedad o depresión, claro... debes tratarla... ¡Pero eso es causado por el aislamiento social, no debido a esta enfermedad! Si tienes mucho dolor puedes ir al reumatólogo pero de lo contrario no deberías ir.
Normalmente la causa de esta enfermedad es post-viral tras una infección. Puede ser producido por el virus EBV (que causa la mononucleosis) pero también puede ser otro tipo de virus del herpes (principalmente herpes humano 6) y algunos retrovirus.
Si el EBV o una infección viral es la causa... ¿Por qué la mayoría de las personas no tienen esta enfermedad? (Tengo un hermano y una hermana que tuvieron EBV y no contrajeron esta enfermedad) Bueno, la respuesta más lógica es que tiene factores genéticos. Y se ha estudiado, aquí hay un buen estudio al respecto: https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/3/2698
¿Qué debes hacer para que te investiguen? Bueno... no hay mucha investigación y probablemente no serás investigado. Nosotros, como comunidad, necesitamos obtener más visibilidad e informar al público sobre esto para obtener más fondos para esta enfermedad. Esto es muy importante para conseguir más investigación y estudios. Usted o su familia necesitan hablar de este tema en la televisión o donde sea necesario para que así sea.
Con base en material científico, aquí hay algunas hierbas chinas adaptogénicas que puede usar si su médico detecta niveles bajos de cortisol. Aquí está el enlace a la tienda: https://siyunsen.es.aliexpress.com/store/911812245
Fuente: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3991026/
Hay estudios recientes sobre la reducción de la síntesis de ATP y problemas con el Complejo V. Todo esto está relacionado con la falla mitocondrial.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32041178/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.1532-2149.2013.00284.x
Tomar Q10 en vitaminas (o sola) ya que también fue estudiado y ayuda.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/CoQ-10-levels-lipid-peroxidation-and-ATP-content-in-PBMC-from-CFS-and-FM-patients-and_fig3_236249638
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Ahora aquí es donde pondré las cosas menos científicas y más personales:
Después de la mono, tuve una enfermedad muy grave de hepatitis B, no podía moverme de la cama. Tenía problemas de circulación sanguínea, mucho dolor en los músculos, dolor de espalda, niebla mental... Básicamente estaba muerto en vida. Cuando tomé vitaminas con Gingseng mejoré como un 10%. Entonces comencé a buscar complejo de hierbas para la circulación, pero no ayudó mucho. Busqué el mejor complejo de hierbas posible y obtuve uno en una tienda china. Busqué Ashwanda y Astragalus ya que vi que esas hierbas ayudaban con el hígado y el estrés. Mejoré, como un 10% mejor. Entonces pude empezar a ir a más médicos y también fui al psiquiatra. Ella no me recomendó pero esa fue su primera idea. En cambio, me recomendó noradrenalina. El efecto secundario fue que los latidos del corazón aumentaron y fue muy bueno para mí. Tampoco tenía tanta niebla mental (sentía que estaba muy alerta y concentrado todo el tiempo). Lo tomé durante 2 meses pero tuve que parar, porque mi mente quería seguir haciendo cosas pero mi cuerpo no podía seguirlo, aún no tenía energía. Mentalmente estaba un poco mejor, pero me fatigaba de forma extrema. Ahora ya no tengo problemas de circulación. Incluso dejé de consumir las hierbas y ahora estoy estable, no puedo hacer muchas cosas pero no es tan malo. Ahora es cuando comencé a tomar vitaminas con Q10 en lugar de vitaminas con Gingseng. Funciona mucho mejor, ya que el Gingseng es como la cafeína y la Q10 básicamente transporta energía a las mitocondrias.
Además, parece que el ME/SFC mejora con el clima más cálido y empeora con el frío (porque los hongos son más comunes y producen micotoxinas), pero no puedo decirlo con seguridad. Fuera de las grandes ciudades te sentirás mejor porque puede haber más oxígeno y menos contaminación, eso también puede ayudar. Fuente: Varias y este vídeo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mssp0DQef_Q
Ah, y recientemente, descubrí que existe una planta china que ayuda con EM/SFC. El nombre de la planta es Sophora flavescens, y el compuesto importante se extrae de la raíz: Oxymatrine. Tiene muchos beneficios y muchas personas (como el 50%) que no tienen enfermedades inmunológicas mejoraron hasta un 90% (algunas de ellas mucho menos), pero hay que tomarlo por mucho tiempo (mínimo 6 meses). Les avisaré si lo pruebo pero parece difícil de conseguir en Europa. Tiene buena pinta porque tiene algunos estudios chinos al respecto pero no es tan estudiado en occidente. Fuentes:
Dr Chia: https://www.biologischmedischcentrumbmc.nl/oxymatrine-treatment.htm // https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2010011975A1/en
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5974617/ <- Tenga cuidado porque esta hierba produce hepatotoxicidad, comience con dosis menores.
La oximatrina funcionó MUCHO para mí y ha sido aprobada por estudios chinos. Investigue sobre ello.
http://www.itmonline.org/arts/oxymatrine.htm
Tenga en cuenta que todo lo que funcionó para mí no tiene que funcionar para usted.
Espero que todo esto le ayude.
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I'm going to update regularly this post. Since I'm Spaniard I'm also gonna translate it at the end. Excuse me if I write something wrong since I'm not a native English speaker.
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First of all, how do you know you have EM/CFS? Well, the doctors have to try to figure out that you have it by discard, so prepare to a lot of tests. In my case, I had to see an internal medicine doctor until he figured out that I had it. This illness is so badly investigated and known. Talk to an internal medicine doctor, but this illness has to be investigated in 3 areas. We'll talk about it later.
Common syntoms are:
· Extreme exhaustion after physical or mental exercise (this is the most important)
· Unrefreshing sleeps
· Difficulties with memory, focus and concentration
· Headaches or "brain fog"
Less common syntoms are:
· Dizziness that worsens when going from lying or sitting to standing
· Sore throat
· Unexplained muscle/joint pain or tingling sensation
· Enlarged lymph nodes in the neck or armpits
· Dizziness that worsens when going from lying or sitting to standing
unrefreshing sleep.
This illness affects more females than males. The causes of this are still unknown.
There is any treatment? Currently there is not treatment to cure your illness. But there are things you can do:
The best thing you can do and that it worked for me is to consume vitamines with Q10, try to eat healthy, consume more often aliments with luteolin, take antioxidants and lower your gluten intake as much as you can (Bread with gluten has to be removed from the diet at least. Why not consuming bread with gluten? Because it lowers inflammation, which helps). Just by this you can notice around a 20-30% in your rating of discapacity (at least for me it was for long-term. I couldn't move from bed in the first years), I tend to use the rating from the Dr. David Bell so also doctors can understand how bad you are.
For exercise, keep in mind stress is the factor that makes this illness hard to confront. Just making a little exercise will stress your cells and cause a lot of issues. Try to just maintain your most important muscles: back and lower back, arms and legs. Focus only on one of those if you do it. Do soft exercise with your own body, stretching is good for maintaining your shape even it is not for your body because it causes you discomfort (PEM). Even so, you need to still do it at least 1 time a week minimum, but don't do it if you are very disabled. If you are so weak in arms (like I was once) you can try dumbells with little weight. I tend to do sometimes some soft stretches/exercises to maintain my body once or two times a week. TRY to go outside sometimes or move close to a window at noon to get some vitamin D (by Sun rays), it really helps to maintain your cycle day-night. I know this is just impossible if you can't get out of bed but with some vitamins you may feel good enought to do it; or you can also just sunbathe from a window. Try to know your limits, remember you'll get PEM but you can get worse in your shape. If you are a lot of the time in the bed, try to improve before doing exercise. Do some exercise just before you go to sleep, if it's not good for you, avoid it.
Where is the root of the issue with this illness? Well, looking at recent studies (2020-2022) as well as some older ones, theories from doctors and so on... I can say the main issue has to be in the hypothalamus-adrenal axis, as well as a multi-system disease that comprehends a desregulation of the Central Nervous System, immunitary system and cellular energy metabolism. It can also cause, which is my case, problems in the small intestine by dysregulating good and bad bacteria. Probiotics are good for this. I could add a lot of studies that lead me to this conclusion but I'd had to search again for each one.
Therefore, this is a multi-factor disease that has to be studied in 3 areas: Neurologic, immunitary and cellular. You need to talk to doctors speciallized in those areas. Maybe even intestinal if you have issues there.
THIS IS NOT a psychologic or psychiatric illness. If you have ansiety or depression, sure... you must treat it... But that is caused due to social asoliation, not due this illness! If you have a lot of pain you can go to the rheumatologist but you shouldn't go there otherwise.
Normally the cause of this disease is post-viral after an infection. It can be caused by the EBV virus. (that causes mononucleosis, also my cause) but it can be another type of herpes virus (mostly human herpes 6) and some retroviruses.
If EBV or a viral infection is the cause... Why most people don't have this illness? (I have a brother and a sister that had EBV and they didn't get this illness) Well, the most logic answer is that it has genetic factors. And it has been studied, here is a good study about it: https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/3/2698
What you should do to get investigated? Well... there is not a lot of investigation and you probably won't be investigated (it will depend on your country). We as a community need to get more visibility and let the public know about it so we get more funding for this illness. This is very important to get more investigation and studies. You or your family need to talk about this issue in TV or wherever it is needed.
Based on scientific stuff, there are some adaptogenic chinese herbs that you can use if your doctor detect low cortisol levels. This is not necessary but it may help, as it helped a little to me. You can ask me the link in my PMs.
There are recent studies about the reduction of syntesis of ATP and issues with the Complex V. This is all related to mitochondrial failure.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32041178/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.1532-2149.2013.00284.x
Take Q10 in vitamins (or alone) as it was also studied and it helps.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/CoQ-10-levels-lipid-peroxidation-and-ATP-content-in-PBMC-from-CFS-and-FM-patients-and_fig3_236249638
(I'm gonna in the next months information about some biomarkers if I found some from the tests that doctors are doing to me since new studies may have discovered some, but this is for the future)
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Now here is where I will put the less scientific and more personal stuff:
After mono, I had a very bad hepatitis B illness, I couldn't move from bed. I had blood circulation issues, a lot of pain in muscles back pain, brain fog... I was basically dead in life. When I took vitamines with Gingseng I got like a 10% better. Then I started to look for herbal complex for circulation, but it didn't help much. I looked to look for the best herbal complex possible, and I got one from a chinese shop. I looked for Ashwanda and Astragalus since I saw those herbs helped with the liver & the stress. I got better, like a 10% better. So I could start to go to more doctors and I also went to psychiatrist. She didn't recommended me a but that was her first idea. She instead recommended me norepinephrine/noradrenaline. The side effect was that heart beat was increased and it was so good for me. I also had not that much brain fog (I felt like I was very alert and focused all the time). I took it for 2 months but I had to stop, because my mind wanted to keep making things but my body couldn't follow it, I still had no energy. Mentally it was a little better but I had crash after crash. Now I have no longer circulation issues. I even stopped consuming the herbs and I'm stable now, I can't do many things but it is not as bad. Now is when I started taking vitamines with Q10 instead of vitamines with Gingseng. It works so much better, since Gingseng is like caffeine and Q10 basically transports energy to the mitochondria.
Also, it seems that the ME/CFS improve with warmer weather and it is worse with cold (because fungi are more common and produce mycotoxins) but I can't say for sure. Outside the big cities you will feel better because there may be more oxygen and less pollution, that can help too. Source: Various and this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mssp0DQef_Q
Oh, and recently, I discovered that it exist a chinese plant that helps with EM/CFS. The name of the plant is Sophora flavescens, and the important compound is extracted from the root: Oxymatrine. It has a lot of benefits and many people (like 50%) that doesn't have immunological diseases improved up to 90% (some of them much less), but you need to take it for a very long time (6 months minimum). I'll let you know if I test it if but it seems hard to get in Europe. It looks good because it has some chinese studies about it but it is not that studied in the west. Sources:
Dr Chia: https://www.biologischmedischcentrumbmc.nl/oxymatrine-treatment.htm // https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2010011975A1/en
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5974617/ <- Be careful because this herb produces hepatotoxicity, start with less doses.
Oxymatrine worked A LOT for me and it has been approved by chinese studies. Research about it.
http://www.itmonline.org/arts/oxymatrine.htm
Keep in mind everything that worked for me doesn't have to work for you.
Hope this can help you.
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Hola, tengo EM/CFS desde 2016 y he estado investigando mucho sobre esta enfermedad.
Voy a actualizarlo regularmente este artículo. Todo lo que escribo aquí será lo más riguroso posible que pueda.
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En primer lugar, ¿cómo sé que tengo EM/SFC? Bueno, los médicos tienen que tratar de averiguar si lo tienes por descarte, así que prepárate para muchas pruebas. En mi caso, tuve que ver a un médico interno hasta que se dio cuenta de que lo tenía. Esta enfermedad es tan mal investigada y conocida. Hable con un médico de medicina interna, pero esta enfermedad tiene que investigarse en 3 áreas. Hablaremos de esto más tarde.
Los síntomas comunes son:
· Agotamiento extremo después del ejercicio físico o mental (este es el más importante)
· Sueño no reparador
· Dificultades con la memoria, el enfoque y la concentración
· Dolores de cabeza o "niebla en la mente"
· Dolor musculaarticular inexplicable o sensación de hormigueo
Los síntomas menos comunes son:
· Mareos que empeoran al pasar de estar acostado o sentado a ponerse de pie
· Dolor de garganta
· Nódulos linfáticos agrandados en el cuello o las axilas
· Mareos que empeoran al pasar de estar acostado o sentado a ponerse de pie
sueño no reparador.
Esta enfermedad afecta más a mujeres que a hombres. Las causas de esto aún se desconocen.
¿Hay algún tratamiento? Actualmente no existe un tratamiento para curar su enfermedad. Pero hay cosas que puedes hacer:
Lo mejor que puedes hacer y que me ha funcionado es consumir vitaminas con Q10, intentar comer sano, consumir más seguido alimentos con luteolina, tomar antioxidantes y reducir al máximo tu consumo de gluten (El pan con gluten tiene que ser retirado de la dieta. Por qué no consumir pan con gluten? Porque baja la inflamación, y eso es algo que ayuda). Solo con esto puedes notar alrededor de un 20-30% en tu calificación de discapacidad, tiendo a usar la del Dr. David Bell para que los médicos también puedan entender lo mal que estás.
Para el ejercicio, tenga en cuenta que el estrés es el factor que hace que esta enfermedad sea difícil de confrontar. Solo hacer un poco de ejercicio estresará tus células y causará muchos problemas. Trate de mantener solo sus músculos más importantes: espalda y espalda baja, brazos y piernas. Haz ejercicio suave con tu propio cuerpo, los estiramientos son buenos para mantener tu forma aunque no para tu cuerpo porque te produce malestar (PEM). Aun así, debe seguir haciéndolo al menos 1 vez a la semana como mínimo, pero no lo hagas si estás muy discapacitado/a. Si tienes los brazos débiles (como yo tuve alguna vez) puedes probar con mancuernas con poco peso. Yo tiendo a hacer a veces algunos estiramientos/ejercicios suaves para mantener mi cuerpo una o dos veces por semana. TRATE de salir de casa de vez en cuando y tome un poco de vitamina D, realmente ayuda a mantener su ciclo día-noche. Sé que esto es simplemente imposible si no puedes levantarte de la cama, pero con algunas vitaminas puedes sentirte lo suficientemente bien como para hacerlo; o también puedes simplemente tomar el sol desde la ventana. Intenta conocer tus límites, recuerda que obtendrás malestar post-esfuerzo (PEM) pero puedes empeorar en tu forma. Si se pasa mucho tiempo en la cama, trate de mejorar antes de hacer ejercicio. Haga algo de ejercicio justo antes de irte a dormir, si no te viene bien evítalo.
¿Dónde está la raíz del problema con esta enfermedad? Bueno, mirando estudios recientes (2020-2022), así como algunos más antiguos, teorías de médicos, etc. Puedo decir que el problema principal tiene que estar en el eje hipotálamo-suprarrenal, así como una enfermedad multisistémica que comprende una desregulación del Sistema Nervioso Central, sistema inmunológico y metabolismo energético celular. También puede causar, que es mi caso, problemas en el intestino delgado desrregulando las bacterias buenas y malas. Los probióticos son buenos para esto.
Por lo tanto, esta es una enfermedad multifactorial que debe ser estudiada en 3 áreas: neurológica, inmunológica y celular. Necesita hablar con médicos especializados en esas áreas. Tal vez incluso intestinal si tiene problemas allí.
ESTO NO ES una enfermedad psicológica o psiquiátrica. Si tienes ansiedad o depresión, claro... debes tratarla... ¡Pero eso es causado por el aislamiento social, no debido a esta enfermedad! Si tienes mucho dolor puedes ir al reumatólogo pero de lo contrario no deberías ir.
Normalmente la causa de esta enfermedad es post-viral tras una infección. Puede ser producido por el virus EBV (que causa la mononucleosis) pero también puede ser otro tipo de virus del herpes (principalmente herpes humano 6) y algunos retrovirus.
Si el EBV o una infección viral es la causa... ¿Por qué la mayoría de las personas no tienen esta enfermedad? (Tengo un hermano y una hermana que tuvieron EBV y no contrajeron esta enfermedad) Bueno, la respuesta más lógica es que tiene factores genéticos. Y se ha estudiado, aquí hay un buen estudio al respecto: https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/3/2698
¿Qué debes hacer para que te investiguen? Bueno... no hay mucha investigación y probablemente no serás investigado. Nosotros, como comunidad, necesitamos obtener más visibilidad e informar al público sobre esto para obtener más fondos para esta enfermedad. Esto es muy importante para conseguir más investigación y estudios. Usted o su familia necesitan hablar de este tema en la televisión o donde sea necesario para que así sea.
Con base en material científico, aquí hay algunas hierbas chinas adaptogénicas que puede usar si su médico detecta niveles bajos de cortisol. Aquí está el enlace a la tienda: https://siyunsen.es.aliexpress.com/store/911812245
Fuente: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3991026/
Hay estudios recientes sobre la reducción de la síntesis de ATP y problemas con el Complejo V. Todo esto está relacionado con la falla mitocondrial.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32041178/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.1532-2149.2013.00284.x
Tomar Q10 en vitaminas (o sola) ya que también fue estudiado y ayuda.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/CoQ-10-levels-lipid-peroxidation-and-ATP-content-in-PBMC-from-CFS-and-FM-patients-and_fig3_236249638
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Ahora aquí es donde pondré las cosas menos científicas y más personales:
Después de la mono, tuve una enfermedad muy grave de hepatitis B, no podía moverme de la cama. Tenía problemas de circulación sanguínea, mucho dolor en los músculos, dolor de espalda, niebla mental... Básicamente estaba muerto en vida. Cuando tomé vitaminas con Gingseng mejoré como un 10%. Entonces comencé a buscar complejo de hierbas para la circulación, pero no ayudó mucho. Busqué el mejor complejo de hierbas posible y obtuve uno en una tienda china. Busqué Ashwanda y Astragalus ya que vi que esas hierbas ayudaban con el hígado y el estrés. Mejoré, como un 10% mejor. Entonces pude empezar a ir a más médicos y también fui al psiquiatra. Ella no me recomendó pero esa fue su primera idea. En cambio, me recomendó noradrenalina. El efecto secundario fue que los latidos del corazón aumentaron y fue muy bueno para mí. Tampoco tenía tanta niebla mental (sentía que estaba muy alerta y concentrado todo el tiempo). Lo tomé durante 2 meses pero tuve que parar, porque mi mente quería seguir haciendo cosas pero mi cuerpo no podía seguirlo, aún no tenía energía. Mentalmente estaba un poco mejor, pero me fatigaba de forma extrema. Ahora ya no tengo problemas de circulación. Incluso dejé de consumir las hierbas y ahora estoy estable, no puedo hacer muchas cosas pero no es tan malo. Ahora es cuando comencé a tomar vitaminas con Q10 en lugar de vitaminas con Gingseng. Funciona mucho mejor, ya que el Gingseng es como la cafeína y la Q10 básicamente transporta energía a las mitocondrias.
Además, parece que el ME/SFC mejora con el clima más cálido y empeora con el frío (porque los hongos son más comunes y producen micotoxinas), pero no puedo decirlo con seguridad. Fuera de las grandes ciudades te sentirás mejor porque puede haber más oxígeno y menos contaminación, eso también puede ayudar. Fuente: Varias y este vídeo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mssp0DQef_Q
Ah, y recientemente, descubrí que existe una planta china que ayuda con EM/SFC. El nombre de la planta es Sophora flavescens, y el compuesto importante se extrae de la raíz: Oxymatrine. Tiene muchos beneficios y muchas personas (como el 50%) que no tienen enfermedades inmunológicas mejoraron hasta un 90% (algunas de ellas mucho menos), pero hay que tomarlo por mucho tiempo (mínimo 6 meses). Les avisaré si lo pruebo pero parece difícil de conseguir en Europa. Tiene buena pinta porque tiene algunos estudios chinos al respecto pero no es tan estudiado en occidente. Fuentes:
Dr Chia: https://www.biologischmedischcentrumbmc.nl/oxymatrine-treatment.htm // https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2010011975A1/en
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5974617/ <- Tenga cuidado porque esta hierba produce hepatotoxicidad, comience con dosis menores.
La oximatrina funcionó MUCHO para mí y ha sido aprobada por estudios chinos. Investigue sobre ello.
http://www.itmonline.org/arts/oxymatrine.htm
Tenga en cuenta que todo lo que funcionó para mí no tiene que funcionar para usted.
Espero que todo esto le ayude.
2023.09.02 20:35 Heartrock70 ¿Es aconsejable visitar ahora si tiene un problema de salud?
Estoy pensando en cancelar un viaje a Cuba, debido a mis problemas de salud. Agradezco sus comentarios para ayudarme a decidir. Tengo una enfermedad pulmonar, EPOC. Por lo general, está bien manejado, pero cuando tengo un brote, a veces termino hospitalizado. En ese caso, necesito oxígeno inmediato para mantenerme con vida, antibióticos y esteroides. Puedo enfermarme así si estoy expuesto a la contaminación del aire. Entiendo que el aire de Havanna puede estar contaminado. Pasaré la mayor parte de mi tiempo en La Habana con una gira de grupos de música. Pero mis amigos y yo estamos pensando en extender nuestra estadía en Cuba y viajar a lugares adicionales por nuestra cuenta, como Trinidad. Como visitante mayor con este tipo de problema de salud, ¿tendré fácil acceso a una sala de emergencias bien provista en Havanna? ¿Qué pasa con otras partes de Cuba?
I am thinking about cancelling a trip to Cuba, due to my health issues. I welcome your input to help me decide. I have a lung disease, COPD. It is usually well managed, but when I have a flare-up, I sometimes end up hospitalized. In that case, I need immediate oxygen to stay alive, antibiotics, and steroids. I can become sick like this if I am exposed to air pollution. I understand Havanna's air can be polluted. I will be spending most of my time in Havanna with a music group tour. But my friends and I are thinking of extending our stay in Cuba and traveling to additional places on our own, such as Trinidad. As an older visitor with this kind of health issue, will I have easy access to a well-supplied emergency room in Havanna? What about other parts of Cuba?
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I am thinking about cancelling a trip to Cuba, due to my health issues. I welcome your input to help me decide. I have a lung disease, COPD. It is usually well managed, but when I have a flare-up, I sometimes end up hospitalized. In that case, I need immediate oxygen to stay alive, antibiotics, and steroids. I can become sick like this if I am exposed to air pollution. I understand Havanna's air can be polluted. I will be spending most of my time in Havanna with a music group tour. But my friends and I are thinking of extending our stay in Cuba and traveling to additional places on our own, such as Trinidad. As an older visitor with this kind of health issue, will I have easy access to a well-supplied emergency room in Havanna? What about other parts of Cuba?
2023.08.03 12:54 Ellibretista 8 Storing objects and using them
 | ENINTRODUCTIONOne of the main reasons for Kat-Patum to be a board game came from the need to create a very visual environment that is easy to use and understand. And that is why the character sheet is used with tokens and not pen and paper. THE CHARACTER SHEET At the beginning of the game, when playing using the commands, each person had to write down which objects they had obtained during their journey. It was also necessary for each person to eliminate the objects he or she used. There were two problems here. The first problem was that a player was lying to you. When playing via Twitch chat it was very difficult to check if someone was lying. As there was a certain amount of trust with those playing, it usually didn't happen. The second problem was that someone could forget to write something down, that you couldn't check the inventories through the bot and that it wasn't possible for the people watching the game to know the real status of each character. It is true that everyone was warned so that everyone knew, but the visual aspect was very limited. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE VISUAL ENVIROMENT Still on Twitch, it occurred to me that I could manually add life and armour indicators to each player's character photos. This way we could all see how they were doing, adding more tension and excitement to the roleplaying game. This is where the idea was born: why not break away from the classic pen and paper, why not create a character sheet with cardboard tokens on it? And so the Kat-Patum character sheet was born. Here is a picture below to show you how the initial model was designed. Kat-Patum's old character sheet Thanks to this character sheet, it was also possible to know what content each character had in his or her inventory and made it easier to control its use. In addition, it allowed the initial visual environment for life and armour control to be created. THE STORAGE One of the resources that characters can obtain, as well as upgrade as the story progresses, is the container in which they store the items they obtain. Yes, as a game director you can decide to start an adventure without a storage container. This creates a harsher, more hostile environment where tracking is more important than anything else. Since the beginning of the game and without changing one iota, the storage containers have always been the same, although they have varied slightly in their capacity.
The best part is that these same containers can be found everywhere you go, filled with indispensable items for your characters. As a game director you can place them well hidden to give a good reward to those players who know how to track down any unknown area well. THE OBJECTS In the beginning, Kat-Patum had very few items. Among the first ones were:
Over time I implemented a few more. Because it was necessary. It's a survival game and certain situations were going to happen that required other types of aids for the game. Some of the new items that are in the current rulebook are:
CONCLUSION Packed with items to use throughout the adventure, Kat-Patum has evolved a lot, and while the rules have been simplified a bit more to allow the game to be much more accessible still, in certain issues it has seen an increase in the number of features. Continuing on this theme, next week I'll tell you about the game's currency and how it evolved. Besides the emotional rhombus, this is one of the most innovative aspects of Kat-Patum. ESINTRODUCCIÓNUna de las principales razones para que Kat-Patum fuese un juego de mesa surgió de la necesidad de crear un entorno muy visual y fácil de utilizar y entender. Y por eso la hoja de personaje se utiliza con fichas y no con lápiz y papel. LA HOJA DE PERSONAJE Al comienzo de todo, cuando se jugaba utilizando los comandos, cada persona debía anotar qué objetos había obtenido durante su viaje. También era necesario que cada uno eliminase aquellos objetos que iba utilizando. Aquí surgían dos problemas. El primer problema era que un jugador te estuviese mintiendo. Al jugar a través del chat de Twitch era muy difícil controlar si alguien mentía. Como había cierta confianza con aquellos que jugaban, normalmente no pasaba nada. El segundo problema era que alguien podía olvidarse de anotar algo, que no se podían consultar los inventarios a través del bot y que tampoco era posible que las personas que disfrutaban viendo la partida supiesen el estado real de cada personaje. Es cierto que se iba avisando parar que todo el mundo se enterase, pero el apartado visual estaba muy mermado. LOS COMIENZOS DEL ENTORNO VISUAL Aún en Twitch, se me ocurrió que podía añadir manualmente los indicadores de vida y armadura a las fotos de los personajes de cada jugador. De esta manera todos veíamos cómo se encontraban, añadiendo mayor tensión y emoción a la partida de rol. Aquí fue donde nació la idea. ¿Por qué no romper con el clásico boli y papel? ¿Por qué no crear una hoja de personaje con fichas de cartón sobre ella? Y así nació la hoja de personaje de Kat-Patum. Aquí debajo te dejo una fotografía para que se aprecies cómo era el modelo inicial que se diseñó. Antigua hoja de personaje de Kat-Patum Gracias a esta hoja de personaje también podía saberse qué contenido tenía cada personaje en su inventario y facilitaba el control de uso. Además, permitió plasmar el inicial entorno visual para el control de vida y armadura. EL ALMACENAMIENTO Uno de los recursos que pueden obtener los personajes, además de mejorarlo según avanza la historia, es el recipiente en el que almacenan los objetos que van obteniendo. Sí, como director de juego puedes decidir que comiencen una aventura sin recipiente de almacenamiento. Así creas un entorno más duro y hostil en el que prima por encima de todo el rastreo. Desde el inicio del juego y sin cambiar un ápice, los recipientes de almacenamiento siempre han sido los mismos, aunque han variado ligeramente en su capacidad.
La mejor parte es que estos mismos recipientes pueden encontrarse en cualquier lugar que se visite, repletos de objetos indispensables para los personajes. Como director de juego puedes colocarlos bien escondidos para dar una buena recompensa a aquellos jugadores que sepan rastrear bien cualquier zona desconocida. LOS OBJETOS Al comienzo, Kat-Patum tenía muy pocos objetos. De entre los primeros estaban:
Con el paso del tiempo fui implementando unos cuantos más. Porque era necesario. Es un juego de supervivencia e iban a suceder ciertas situaciones que requerían de otro tipo de ayudas para la partida. Algunos de los nuevos objetos que están en el actual reglamento son:
DESENLACE Repleto de objetos para utilizar a lo largo de la aventura, Kat-Patum ha evolucionado mucho, y aunque las reglas se han simplificado un poco más para permitir que el juego sea mucho más accesible todavía, en ciertas cuestiones ha visto aumentado el número de características. Y continuando con este tema, la semana que viene te hablaré de la moneda del juego y de cómo evolucionó. Además del rombo emocional, este es uno de los aspectos más innovadores de Kat-Patum. |
2023.07.24 18:26 keyspanish Spanish - English cognate list 100's of words you already know
¡Hola!
For those starting out with Spanish, cognates (words that share the same origin in two languages), can provide a good insight into how many words you already know if you speak English.
I just posted a lesson on my YouTube channel about them, and wanted to share here a list of the most useful ones.
If you would like a 78-page PDF with the complete list of cognates, I share it in the YouTube video mentioned above.
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For those starting out with Spanish, cognates (words that share the same origin in two languages), can provide a good insight into how many words you already know if you speak English.
I just posted a lesson on my YouTube channel about them, and wanted to share here a list of the most useful ones.
Perfect cognates
Words that are practically identical in both languages.1. -or = -or
English color (colour in the UK) = Spanish color, English director = Spanish director.
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| color | Cambié el color de las paredes. | I changed the color of the walls. |
| profesor | Alejandro es mi profesor favorito. | Alejandro is my favorite professor / teacher. |
| autor | Stephen King es un autor muy famoso. | Stephen King is a very famous author. |
| favor | Quiero pedirte un favor. | I want to ask you a favor. |
| director | El director de la empresa se va de vacaciones. | The director of the company is going on vacation. |
| doctor | Necesito un doctor, es urgente. | I need a doctor, it's urgent. |
| superior | Nuestra carne es superior a las demás. | Our meat is superior to the rest. |
| interior | Las paredes interiores están decoradas con mosaicos. | The interior walls are decorated with mosaics. |
| error | Creo que has cometido un error. | I think you made an error. |
| exterior | No hay que cortar la capa exterior de la tela. | The exterior / outer layer of the fabric must not be cut. |
2. -al = -al
English social = Spanish social, English national = Spanish nacional.
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| Other spelling changes: tional → cional, and ‘ff‘ → ‘f‘ as in official → oficial. Also, when a word in English begins with ‘s’ + a consonant, Spanish places an ‘e’ before the ‘s’: special → especial, Spain → España. |
| Spanish | In context | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| social | El desempleo es un problema social. | Unemployment is a social issue. |
| nacional | Todos cantamos el himno nacional. | We all sing the national anthem. |
| animal | En el zoológico local hay más de 250 animales. | The local zoo has more than 250 animals. |
| final | La construcción del edificio está en su fase final. | The construction of the building is in its final phase. |
| personal | Cada uno tiene el derecho a su opinión personal. | Everyone has the right to their personal opinion. |
| especial | El día de tu boda es el más especial de tu vida. | Your wedding day is the most special day of your life. |
| internacional | Hay una coalición internacional para combatir el terrorismo. | There is an international coalition to combat terrorism. |
| natural | Todo el mundo piensa que me tiño, pero mi rubio es natural. | Everybody thinks that I dye my hair, but I'm a natural blonde. |
| capital | Viajamos a Berlín, la capital de Alemania. | We traveled to Berlin, the capital of Germany. |
| oficial | El pasaporte es un tipo de identificación oficial. | Passports are one form of official ID. |
| central | Encontrarás el lago en la parte central del parque. | You'll find the lake in the central part of the park. |
3. -ble = -ble
English possible = Spanish posible, English terrible = Spanish terrible.
| Spanish | In context | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| posible | Es posible retrasar el vuelo. | It's possible to delay the flight. |
| responsable | Claudia es responsable del presupuesto de la empresa. | Claudia is responsible for the company's budget. |
| terrible | Tuve una pesadilla terrible anoche. | I had a horrible nightmare last night. |
| doble | Tomaré un whisky doble. | I'll have a double whisky. |
| imposible | Parece imposible, pero puedes hacerlo. | It seems impossible, but you can do it. |
| increíble | Es increíble ver los acróbatas volar por el aire. | It is incredible to watch the acrobats fly through the air. |
| probable | Es probable que haya vida en otros planetas. | It is probable that there is life on other planets. |
| horrible | La guerra es una experiencia horrible. | War is a horrible experience. |
| visible | Venus es visible a simple vista en el cielo nocturno. | Venus is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. |
| noble | Sergio viene de una familia noble. | Sergio is from a noble family. |
| ⚠️ Important |
|---|
| Sometimes the English cognate might be an infrequent word, as probable (instead of likely) or interminable (instead of endless). However, the Spanish words probable and interminable are the most natural choice. |
4. -sion = -sión
| Spanish | In context | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| decisión | María tomó la decisión de dejar su trabajo e irse de la ciudad. | Maria made the decision to quit her job and move away from the city. |
| ocasión | El viaje a París es una ocasión ideal para pedirle matrimonio a Ana. | The trip to Paris is the perfect occasion to ask Ana to marry me. |
| expresión | Martina me envió un regalo como expresión de agradecimiento. | Martina sent me a present as an expression of gratitude. |
| televisión | Apaga la televisión si no la vas a estar viendo. | Turn off the television if you're not going to be watching it. |
| visión | Carolina tiene una visión clara sobre lo que quiere para su futuro. | Carolina has a clear vision of what she wants for her future. |
| versión | Esta es la última versión de mi trabajo de grado. | This is the latest version of my degree work |
| comisión | Tienen que pagar una comisión especial para poder traer el producto de Japón. | They have to pay a special commission to be able to bring the product from Japan. |
| impresión | Me arreglé para la entrevista de trabajo porque quería causar una buena impresión. | I dressed up for the job interview because I wanted to make a good impression. |
| misión | Los soldados tenían encomendada la misión de defender la ciudad de posibles ataques enemigos. | The soldiers had been entrusted with the mission of defending the city from potential enemy attacks. |
| pasión | Se apagó la pasión en su relación y decidieron separarse. | The passion in their relationship had faded so they decided to separate. |
5. -ar = -ar
| Spanish | In context | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| popular | Jessica es la niña más popular de su escuela. | Jessica is the most popular girl in her school |
| particular | Es un problema muy particular que requiere una solución muy concreta. | It's a very particular problem that requires a very specific solution. |
| similar | Ese vestido es muy similar a uno que teng | That dress is very similar to one I have. |
| familiar | Tu cara me es familiar. ¿Te conozco de otro lugar? | Your face is familiar to me. Do I know you from another place? |
| bar | Vamos al bar a tomar unas cervezas. ¿Te vienes? | We're going to the bar for a couple of beers. Are you coming with us? |
| solar | Las tormentas solares pueden alterar el campo magnético de la Tierra. | Solar storms can disturb Earth's magnetic field. |
| altar | El sacerdote estaba parado en el altar mientras llevaba a cabo la ceremonia. | The priest stood at the altar as he performed the ceremony |
| regular | Necesitamos colocar la máquina sobre una superficie regular | We need to put the machine on a regular surface. |
| singular | La segunda persona singular en español es «tú». | The second person singular in Spanish is «tú». |
| irregular | En esta zona no se puede construir porque el terreno es irregular. | You can't build in this area because the land is irregular. |
6. other
| Spanish | In context | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| idea | Necesito una idea para decorar mi casa. | I need an idea to decorate my house. |
| base | La base de la pared fue dañada por las termitas. | The base of the wall was damaged by termites. |
| control | Este área está bajo el control del ejército. | This area is under the control of the army. |
| crisis | Nuestro matrimonio está en crisis; necesitamos ir a terapia. | Our marriage is in crisis; we need to go to therapy. |
| civil | Estas acciones pueden desencadenar una guerra civil. | These actions can trigger a civil war. |
| simple | La solución es simple: renuncia a tu trabajo. | The solution is simple: quit your job. |
| radio | Prende el radio que quiero escuchar mi emisora favorita. | Turn on the radio, I want to listen to my favorite station. |
| unión | España forma parte de la Unión Europea. | Spain is part of the European Union. |
| hotel | Nos quedamos en un hotel estupendo durante Semana Santa. | We stayed at a wonderful hotel during Easter break. |
| club | Él es miembro del club de ajedrez en su escuela. | He is a member of the chess club at his school. |
Near-perfect cognates
Words we can infer by applying certain formulas.1. -tion → -ción
English situation = Spanish situación, English information = Spanish información.
| Spanish | In context | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| relación | Esto es particularmente importante en relación con nuestro negocio. | This is particularly important in relation to our business. |
| situación | Ojalá que la situación mejore pronto. | I hope the situation improves soon. |
| información | ¿Puedes darme más información sobre ese trabajo? | Can you give me more information about that job? |
| acción | Lo echaron al calabozo por sus malas acciones. | They threw him into the dungeon for his bad actions. |
| condición | La condición para ir a la fiesta es regresar temprano a casa. | The condition to go to the party is to come home early. |
| atención | Necesito toda tu atención. | I need your full attention. |
| educación | Considero que la educación es fundamental para nuestra sociedad. | I believe that education is fundamental to our society. |
| investigación | La investigación del accidente es difícil. | The investigation of the accident is difficult. |
| función | La principal función de un teléfono móvil es realizar llamadas. | The main function of a mobile phone is to make calls. |
| organización | La organización en el trabajo es esencial. | Organization at work is essential. |
| ✅ Extra tip |
|---|
| These words often follow another rule: if you take the -ción ending in Spanish, you can form the verb (in its root form) by adding -r. For example: información → informar (to inform) ; educación → educate (to educate). Other times, you need to add -ar to the word: relación → relacionar (to relate) ; función → funcionar. |
2. drop -e → -a-ir
English use = Spanish usar, English serve = Spanish servir.
| Spanish | In context | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| recibir | Este verano vamos a recibir menos visitantes que antes. | This summer we will receive fewer visitors than before. |
| producir | Alemania produce coches de muy buena calidad. | Germany produces very good quality cars. |
| utilizar | El usuario puede utilizar cualquier teléfono para acceder a la aplicación. | The user can utilize any telephone to access the application. |
| servir | Van a servir bistec en la boda. | They're going to serve steak at the wedding. |
| usar | Puedes usar mi teléfono viejo si quieres. | You can use my old phone if you want. |
| decidir | Es difícil decidir dónde vivir. | It's difficult to decide where to live. |
| continuar | Debe continuar la tarea a pesar de estar muy cansada. | She must continue the task even though she's very tired. |
| incluir | Recuerda incluir los gastos de la reparación en el presupuesto. | Remember to include the costs of the repair in the budget. |
| imaginar | Me gusta imaginar que estoy en otro país. | I like to imagine I'm in another country. |
| observar | Observar un eclipse es una gran experiencia. | Observing (to observe) an eclipse is a great experience. |
3. -ate → -ar
English create = Spanish crear, English dedicate = Spanish dedicar.
| Spanish | In context | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| crear | Necesitamos crear otra vía de acceso a nuestra casa. | We need to create another access road to our house. |
| dedicar | Quiero dedicar esta canción a la mujer más bella del mundo. | I want to dedicate this song to the most beautiful woman in the world. |
| indicar | La maestra había indicado que la fecha límite era el viernes. | The teacher had indicated that the deadline was Friday. |
| iniciar | El juez no puede iniciar un proceso penal contra algún detenido. | The judge cannot initiate criminal proceedings against a detainee. |
| demostrar | El Sr. Bloom ahora demostrará cómo se usa el carro eléctrico. | Mr. Bloom will now demonstrate how to use the electric car. |
| participar | Mi hermano decidió participar en un triatlón. | My brother decided to participate in a triathlon. |
| generar | Se puede generar electricidad a partir de la luz solar. | Electricity can be generated from sunlight. |
| separar | Necesito separar mi trabajo de mi vida personal. | I need to separate my work from my personal life. |
| celebrar | Siempre celebro Año Nuevo con la familia de mi esposo. | I always celebrate New Year's with my husband's family. |
| dominar | Su ambición era dominar el mundo. | Her ambition was to dominate the world. |
| ⚠️ Important |
|---|
| The stress in Spanish changes to the last syllable: in-di-CAR, de-mos-TRAR. |
4. -nt → -nte
English important = Spanish importante, English different = Spanish diferente.
| Spanish | In context | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| presidente | El presidente del gobierno anunció una subida de impuestos. | The president of the government announced an increase in taxes. |
| importante | Olvidé un documento importante en casa. | I forgot an important document at home. |
| diferente | Me gustan las patatas, pero quería algo diferente. | I like potatoes, but I wanted something different. |
| suficiente | Esta casa es suficiente para mi familia. | This house is sufficient for my family. |
| estudiante | Mi hermana es estudiante en la Universidad de Granada. | My sister is a student at Granada University. |
| instante | En el instante que supe que estaba embarazada, lloré de alegría. | The instant I knew I was pregnant, I cried tears of joy. |
| cliente | El cliente se enfadó porque no teníamos su talla en la tienda. | The client became angry because we didn't carry his size in the store. |
| paciente | Para ser maestro, hay que ser muy paciente. | To be a teacher, one must be very patient. |
| habitante | Tokio es la ciudad con más habitantes del mundo. | Tokyo is the city with the most inhabitants in the world. |
| independiente | María es una mujer independiente. | Maria is an independent woman. |
5. -ce/-cy → -cia
English experience = Spanish experiencia, English tendency = Spanish tendencia.
| Spanish | In context | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| experiencia | Vivimos experiencias inolvidables durante la universidad. | We lived through unforgettable experiences during university. |
| diferencia | La diferencia entre estos dos tonos de gris es mínima. | The difference between these two shades of gray is minimal. |
| presencia | La presencia de mi madre me relaja. | My mother's presence relaxes me. |
| importancia | La seguridad es un asunto de gran importancia. | Security is a matter of great importance. |
| ciencia | La única esperanza en estos momentos está en la ciencia. | The only hope right now is in science. |
| consecuencia | Murió como consecuencia de las heridas. | He died as a consequence of his injuries. |
| distancia | La distancia es de 50 kilómetros. | The distance is 50 kilometers. |
| justicia | Debemos tratar a las personas con justicia. | We must treat people with justice. |
| existencia | El científico no niega la existencia de extraterrestres. | The scientist doesn't deny the existence of aliens. |
| influencia | La influencia de los padres es significativa. | Parental influence is significant. |
6. -y → -ia/-ía
English history = Spanish historia, English energy = Spanish energía.
| Spanish | In context | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| historia | Es una de las mentes más brillantes de la historia. | Is one of the greatest minds in history. |
| familia | Me voy de vacaciones con mi familia. | I'm going on vacation with my family. |
| mayoría | La opinión de la mayoría no es siempre la correcta. | The opinion of the majority is not always right. |
| compañía | Nuestra compañía tiene oficinas en cuatro ciudades diferentes. | Our company has offices in four different cities. |
| energía | Es importante invertir en energía limpia. | It's important to invest in clean energy. |
| economía | Mi país tiene una economía débil. | My country has a weak economy. |
| memoria | Tengo muy buena memoria para las caras. | I have a very good memory for faces. |
| teoría | Existen varias teorías que explican el inicio de la humanidad. | There are several theories which explain the birth of mankind. |
| tecnología | La tecnología nos permite acceder a la información en tiempo real. | Technology allows us to access information in real time. |
| victoria | El partido consiguió la victoria en las elecciones. | The party achieved the victory in the election. |
| ⚠️ Important |
|---|
| Nouns ending in -ia/-ía are feminine: la historia, la tecnología. |
7. -ic → -ico
English basic = Spanish básico, English classic = Spanish clásico.
| Spanish | In context | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| público | Esta playa es un sitio público. | This beach is a public place. |
| básico | Tengo conocimientos básicos de programación. | I have basic knowledge of programming. |
| específico | No existe un medicamento específico para la enfermedad. | There is no specific drug for the disease. |
| artístico | Esta iglesia tiene un gran valor artístico. | This church has great artistic value. |
| eléctrico | Tony me recomendó este cepillo de dientes eléctrico. | Tony recommended me this electric toothbrush. |
| democrático | España es un país democrático. | Spain is a democratic country. |
| científico | Las vacunas son un gran avance científico. | Vaccines are a scientific breakthrough. |
| auténtico | El sentimiento que tiene Matthew por ti es auténtico. | Matthew's feeling for you is authentic. |
| académico | Ser académico es prestigioso. | Being an academic is prestigious. |
| tráfico | Quiero evitar el tráfico del centro. | I want to avoid downtown traffic. |
| ⚠️ Important |
|---|
| The stress in Spanish is placed on the third-from-last syllable: fan-TÁS-ti-co, ro-MÁN-ti-co. These words always have an accent mark (´). |
8. -ive → -ivo
| Spanish | In context | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| objetivo | El objetivo de la asociación es rescatar a los animales desamparados. | The association's objective is to rescue homeless animals. |
| motivo | Ella no tiene motivo para molestarse contigo. | She don't have any motive to to bother with you. |
| positivo | Me encanta que seas tan positivo cuando vienen momentos difíciles. | I love that you are so positive when times get hard. |
| activo | Cuando era joven, era un chico activo. | When I was younger, I used to be an active kid. |
| definitivo | Al fin encontraron el tratamiento definitivo para su enfermedad. | They finally found the definitive treatment for his illness. |
| efectivo | El proceso se hará efectivo en el próximo día hábil. | The process will be effective on the next business day. |
| negativo | La prueba de embarazo dio negativo. | The pregnancy test was negative. |
| archivo | Hace tiempo, nuestro archivo ocupaba una habitación entera. | Long ago, our archive took up a whole room. |
| relativo | El significado de la vida es relativo, cada persona le da un concepto distinto. | The meaning of life is relative, each person gives it a different concept. |
| administrativo | Recuerda ir al departamento administrativo para tu incorporación. | Remember to go to the administrative department for your incorporation. |
False friends
| Spanish | English | Confused with | Which is… |
|---|---|---|---|
| sobre | on top of, over, about | sober | sobrio |
| mayor | larger, older, main | mayor | el alcalde |
| último | last, final | ultimate | final or máximo |
| realizar | to fulfill, carry out | to realize | darse cuenta de |
| recordar | to remember, remind | to record | grabar |
| nombre | name, noun | number | el número |
| terminar | to finish, end | to terminate | poner fin a |
| necesitar | to need | to necessitate | requerir |
| largo | long | large | grande |
| campo | field, country | camp | el campamento |
If you would like a 78-page PDF with the complete list of cognates, I share it in the YouTube video mentioned above.
2023.04.19 14:06 keyspanish Spanish - English cognate list 100's of words you already know
 | ¡Hola! submitted by keyspanish to Spanish [link] [comments] For those starting out with Spanish, cognates (words that share the same origin in two languages), can provide a good insight into how many words you already know if you speak English. I just posted a lesson on my YouTube channel about them, and wanted to share here a list of the most useful ones. Perfect cognatesWords that are practically identical in both languages.1. -or = -orEnglish color (colour in the UK) = Spanish color, English director = Spanish director.
2. -al = -alEnglish social = Spanish social, English national = Spanish nacional.
3. -ble = -bleEnglish possible = Spanish posible, English terrible = Spanish terrible.
4. -sion = -sión
5. -ar = -ar
6. other
Near-perfect cognatesWords we can infer by applying certain formulas.1. -tion → -ciónEnglish situation = Spanish situación, English information = Spanish información.
2. drop -e → -a-irEnglish use = Spanish usar, English serve = Spanish servir.
3. -ate → -arEnglish create = Spanish crear, English dedicate = Spanish dedicar.
4. -nt → -nteEnglish important = Spanish importante, English different = Spanish diferente.
5. -ce/-cy → -ciaEnglish experience = Spanish experiencia, English tendency = Spanish tendencia.
6. -y → -ia/-íaEnglish history = Spanish historia, English energy = Spanish energía.
7. -ic → -icoEnglish basic = Spanish básico, English classic = Spanish clásico.
8. -ive → -ivo
9. -ty → -idad
10. -vowel+consonant+t → -ta-tir
False cognates
Again, there are more rules and cognates, but for this post I wanted to focus on the most relevant ones. If you would like a 78-page PDF with the complete list of cognates, I share it in the YouTube video mentioned above. https://preview.redd.it/0emil3gsztua1.png?width=349&format=png&auto=webp&s=96049a2d10634562adfee65db5bdac315356f10f I hope it helps. ¡Nos vemos en clase! |
2023.03.10 16:32 Karlos_BR_ Brazil Fan Rework Project PR #3.2: Revisiting the Lore Part 3
It seems that I jinxed myself in the last PR when I said I would "try to post a PR every two weeks" and got hit with a truckload of writer's block. But I'm finally back with another installment, this time going into a very deep dive about the history of the Brazilian Syndicalist Party and Brazilian syndicalism in general. If you haven't already, I strongly suggest reading the previous PR before reading this one to make things clearer. With no further delays, let's go!
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The Anthropophages
Up to the 1920s, the Brazilian art world was strictly conservative. Artists were taught to replicate styles that came from Europe decades earlier without much consideration for the realities of Brazilian society. Desperate to break from the mould, a group of artists organised a week-long exposition in the São Paulo Municipal Theatre in February of 1922. The exposition gathered many great talents such as brothers Mario and Oswald de Andrade, Tarsila do Amaral, Anita Malfatti, Menotti del Picchia and many others to discuss and showcase the future of Brazilian art.
Despite being heavily criticised by the press at the time, the Semana de Arte Moderna was a true watershed moment in the Arts and consolidated a movement known as Modernismo in Brazilian art circles. Modernistas sought to break with european traditions and develop a genuine brazilian art, looking for inspiration from folk, rural, native american and african cultures as opposed to classical european “High Arts”.
In his 1924 book Manifesto da Poesia Pau Brasil, Oswald de Andrade express the movement’s desires to turn Brazil into an “Exporting Culture”, one that creates raw, untamed and innovative art that can be exported to the whole world as opposed to more conservative art that merely imported european traditions.
“Contra o gabinetismo, a prática culta da vida.
Engenheiros em vez de jurisconsultos, perdidos como chineses na genealogia das idéias.
A língua sem arcaísmos, sem erudição.
Natural e neológica.
A contribuição milionária de todos os erros.
Como falamos.
Como somos.
Não há luta na terra de vocações acadêmicas.
Há só fardas.
Os futuristas e os outros.
Uma única luta - a luta pelo caminho.
Dividamos: poesia de importação.
E a Poesia Pau-Brasil, de exportação.”
Oswald would later write a second manifesto in 1928, the Manifesto Antropofago. This second manifesto delved deeper into modernist ideas, introducing the concept of “anthropophagy” to the arts. In his own words, Brazilian artists shouldn’t just reject European and North American concepts, but instead “swallow and digest” them into something new.
“Só a ANTROPOFAGIA nos une.
Socialmente.
Economicamente.
Filosoficamente.
Única lei do mundo.
Expressão mascarada de todos os individualismos, de todos os coletivismos.
De todas as religiões.
De todos os tratados de paz.
Tupi, or not tupi that is the question.”
The text wasn’t just a continuation of his previous manifesto about the arts, but also a harsh critique of the ongoing Civil War, which Oswald compared to a massive man-eating monster aimlessly mimicking the bloodshed of The Weltkrieg.
“Contra todos os importadores de consciência enlatada.
De monstros de aço com dentes farpados.
Que devoram nossas carnes.
Em Caconde como o fizeram em Verdun.”
Oswald’s anthropophagic ideas spread beyond the arts world, they also triggered a movement of self-reflection in Brazilian leftist intellectual circles who began to ponder how they could create a Syndicalism with brazilian characteristics, distinct from the french and british models.
“Contra as elites vegetais.
Em comunicação com o solo.
Nunca fomos catequizados.
Fizemos foi o Carnaval.
O índio vestido de senador do Império.
Fingindo de Pitt.
Ou figurando nas óperas de Alencar cheio de bons sentimentos portugueses.
Já tínhamos o sindicalismo.
Já tínhamos a língua surrealista.
A idade de ouro.”
The Modernist movement became inseparable from the syndicalist one in Brazil. Several of the famous modernist artists that took part in the Semana de Arte Moderna de 1922 were proud syndicalists and frequently visited Europe, specially France, to meet with other notorious syndicalists. Many of them would become founding members of the PSB, including, of course, Oswald de Andrade, Mário de Andrade, Raul Bopp and Tarsila do Amaral.
The Eugênia Campaign
The newly founded PSB faced their first elections in 1932. Going into it, they knew very well that it would be an uphill battle against the already established political machine of the PRN. At this time, the syndicalists were more preoccupied with expanding their presence within working class communities and organising trade unions and labour movements. They expected to be able to, with some luck, elect a couple of representatives for the national congress and maybe a senator or two, but had no further serious political ambitions for that election season.
As for their presidential candidate, the party didn’t have any strong names. Their first choice was Minervino de Oliveira, a former textile factory worker and union leader in Rio de Janeiro since the 1910s. Thinking they had nothing to lose, modernists Oswald de Andrade and Álvaro Moreyra proposed a bold idea to the Party: They wanted Álvaro’s wife, notorious journalist, actress and fellow syndicalist Eugênia Álvaro Moreyra to be PSB’s presidential candidate that year.
The modernists wanted to make a statement with their presidential candidate, they wanted someone that was the complete opposite of the usual politicians from the political establishment. They chose a 34 year old woman from a bankrupt family, famous for behaving and dressing in an “immodest” manner in Rio's most bohemian neighbourhoods. Eugênia was one of the first female journalists in Brazil, a feminist leader and a key figure in the national actors union.
Álvaro and Oswald got their way. The wealthy and famous modernist artists and intellectuals held a disproportionately large amount of power inside the Party during its first years and could often dictate the Party’s policies and strategies without properly consulting the other members.
Eugênia went on a campaign tour with her theatre group “performing” her speeches in over 40 cities and towns in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Rio Grande do Sul and Pará between march and september of 1932. Despite being deliberately boycotted and ridiculed by most traditional newspapers, the syndicalist candidate managed to draw decent crowds everywhere she went. From the grand stages of the São Paulo Municipal Theatre and the Theatro da Paz in Belém to makeshift stages in rural Minas Gerais, Eugênia’s mystique intrigued both fellow syndicalists as well as curious bystanders who didn’t quite understood what was going on.
The election day came and went and Eugênia ended up in third place with 9.887 votes. She was beaten by Plínio Salgado, AIB’s candidate, with 37.654 votes and Otávio Mangabeira, PRN’s candidate, with 2.387.103 votes. In the legislative, the Party only elected two congressmen, one of them being Minervino de Oliveira who preferred to run for congress rather than being Eugênia’s vice.
Those results were considered to be a major fiasco by most PSB members. Eugênia’s campaign was seen as ineffective at best and a shot in the foot at worst. Her antics alienated the mostly catholic and conservative voters that compose the vast majority of the Brazilian electorate and completely failed to inspire potential working class voters, the PSB’s main target demographic. Many syndicalist candidates that failed to win a seat in the congress or senate blamed Eugênia’s campaign for their poor performance claiming that her extravagant personality hurt their image by association. In truth, these failures exposed the PSB’s lack of expertise in traditional politics; most of its members had previously been either trade union leaders or intellectuals and had little to no experience as politicians.
The blame felt almost entirely upon the shoulders of Oswald de Andrade and Álvaro Moreyra, who came up with the idea in the first place. Their strategy of style over substance backfired on them and led to the modernista faction of the Syndicalist Party losing a lot of their influence and credibility. From the start of 1933 onwards, a Obreirista faction rose to prominence in the PSB, leading an anti-intellectualism movement that preached that the Party could only be properly led by the workers themselves, not artists and philosophers who often didn’t really understand the plight of the proletariat.
The modernists were not expelled from the Party, but were quietly withdrawn from any decision making roles for a while. In their 1934 Congress, the Party voted for João da Costa Pimenta to be their chairman for the next 4 years. João is a former anarchist and a veteran syndicalist leader, taking part in basically every major strike and worker uprisings in the previous 20 years. His plan for the coming years is to greatly expand the PSB’s presence in trade unions all over the country and absorb remaining anarchists into it. How he plans to lead the Syndicalists in the 1936 elections remains to be seen.
CBT: Confederação Brasileira dos Trabalhadores
The CBT(Brazilian Confederation of Workers) was created by the PSB’s obreirista faction in march of 1933 as their new national trade union centre. Following the disaster of the 1932 election, the obreiristas became convinced that they needed to redouble their efforts with earning the trust of the Brazilian workers and building a much stronger presence within the many trade unions around the country.
Costa Pimenta himself presided over the CBT’s first congress before handing the reins of the organisation to Duvitiliano Ramos, a fellow veteran syndicalist leader from Rio de Janeiro. The CBT was built to be a successor of the COB(Brazilian Labourers Confederation) of the 1910s, but with a few key differences to ensure its success.
The CBT would be more centralised than its anarchist predecessor with an elected general-secretary presiding over its congresses. Trade Unions of all types and sizes would be welcomed to participate even if they weren’t strictly syndicalist, but it would be expected of them to act accordingly to the decisions made in each congress. Finally, the CBT would always act in unison with the PSB. The two organisations weren’t officially linked, but it was obvious that their leaders were working together.
From 1933 to late 1935, the CBT aggregated over 200 delegates representing about 500 trade unions from all over Brazil, ranging between 15 and 10.000 members each. During this period they were heavily invested in reaching as many workers as possible, helping to create new trade unions in sectors where they weren’t yet present and beginning to work with rural workers as well. The CBT’s official newspaper A Voz Operária grew to become Rio’s third most popular newspaper and São Paulo’s tenth most popular periodical, at its peak it circulated over 30.000 copies monthly in ten different cities.
The next CBT’s congress is scheduled for March of 1936 and their plans for the upcoming elections in October will undoubtedly be its main topic, unless something unexpected happens in the first months of 1936…
The Hope Knight Rises
It’s impossible to talk about the Brazilian left in the 1920s & 30s without bringing up the name of Luis Carlos Prestes. Prestes was born in a middle-class family of Porto Alegre in 1898. He joined the Brazilian Army as a military engineer and rose to the rank of Captain in early 1922. Luis Carlos Prestes was, like many of his colleagues, a young tenentista officer and an avid opposer of President Arthur Bernardes.
Captain Prestes was one of the hundreds of tenentistas arrested during the dreaded Christmas Purge of 1922, due to his alleged involvement in the plot to take over the Copacabana Fort. Without a proper trial and with his habeas corpus denied, he was shipped off to the recently opened Clevelândia do Norte Prison Camp, better known by the nickname given by its inmates: Inferno Verde, the Green Hell.
Clevelândia do Norte was a failed agricultural settlement in the eastern bank of the Oiapoque river. Almost at the northernmost point of the Brazilian territory, near the border with French Guiana, Clevelândia do Norte was a tiny colony in the middle of the Amazon Jungle, hundreds of kilometres away from the nearest human settlement. It became a military outpost in 1919 and then a prison camp in 1922.
Brought by literal boatloads, over a thousand men were kept in the camp at any given time. Ranging from common street criminals to anarchist and syndicalist militants to tenentista officers, these men lived in improvised shacks, often sleeping in the mud and completely exposed to the elements. They had to endure brutal hours of forced labour and cruel punishments by the guards as well as the lack of food, sanitation and medical supplies. Dozens died everyday due to exhaustion and diseases, but the continuous influx of new inmates kept the prison always crowded.
On this hell on Earth, Captain Prestes met and befriended many anarchists and syndicalists and began to align himself with socialist ideologies. He got particularly close to syndicalists Domingos Brás and Domingos Passos. Passos was a carpenter and the first secretary of the UOCC(Union of Workers in Civil Construction) from Rio de Janeiro and Brás was a militant weaver from Petropólis.
The three men spent over a year plotting their escape, but never had a good opportunity to do it. Only in January of 1925, when the first news of the Paulista Revolt arrived in Clevelândia do Norte, they decided it was time to put their plan in motion. They waited until the next shipment of supplies arrived in the camp by boat. By nightfall, Prestes and about a dozen of other tenentes would raid the administration building in the middle of the camp under the cover of darkness, steal as many weapons as possible and light the building on fire as a signal to the rest of the prisoners that it was their time to escape. The prisoners would overwhelm the guards and capture the boats docked by the river, then escape towards the sea, or die trying.
What exactly happened on the night of the riot is unclear, eye-witness accounts are confusing and often contradictory, the following was Domingos Passos’s recounting of the events given in an interview to the A Plebe newspaper:
"Estávamos eu e o Brás esperando o sinal do Prestes, nossa barraca ficava no final do Igarapé, bem no final da Colônia, não dava pra ver nada dos prédios dos milicos. Tava tudo muito quieto, até esquesito, daí a gente começou a ouvir uns barulhos de tiros vindo da vila e logo depois veio aquele clarão de fogo no horizonte. O Brás só berrou “Agora!” e saímos correndo em disparada com pedaços de pau em direção ao Trapiche.
Eu devo ter corrido uns dez minutos, não dava pra ver quase nada, era só gritaria e barulho de tiro, mas eu segui a margem do Igarapé até chegar na vilinha. Tava tudo pegando fogo, eu não sabia pra onde ir, daí o Prestes apareceu do nada, me deu um revólver, e disse que os barcos estavam prontos e que era pra gente ir indo na frente para dar lugar pros outros. Essa foi a última vez que vi ele.”
Passos, Brás and about 20 other men got hold of a small motorboat and fled downstream towards Oiapoque Bay. At daybreak they took a break and stopped on a beach, it was at this point that Passos realised that Domingos Brás and one other man had died overnight from gunshot wounds acquired during the escape. Three men separated from the group and decided to try their luck trekking across the jungle; their fates are unknown.
The remaining men continued following the coast eastwards for a week until they reached the town of Macapá. They ditched the stolen boat and from there they each went their separate ways. Domingos Passos went on a two month Odyssey, hitchhiking from town to town before managing to find his way home back to Rio de Janeiro. In Rio, he lived in clandestiny until 1929 when all the charges against him were formally dropped with the general amnesty.
It’s unknown how many people died in Clevelândia do Norte. The Brazilian government and the army didn’t keep many records about it or its inmates. The camp itself was burned to the ground, by the time the army was able to send a rescue team, they only found half a dozen fishermen and two surviving soldiers. Rough estimates state that somewhere between 170 and 300 inmates escaped successfully, the others were either gunned down during the escape or got lost in the jungle.
Luis Carlos Prestes’s body was never found, he was simply presumed dead like most other prisoners. He was posthumously acquitted of all charges during the amnesty as the government had to admit that they didn’t have any real evidence that he ever plotted to attack the Copacabana Fort.
Prestes’s bravery during his final moments in Clevelândia do Norte made him a martyr figure for both tenentistas and socialist militants in Brazil. Domingos Passos’s account of the time he spent alongside Prestes and their spectacular escape was retold countless times in newspapers and radio dramas, building up the legend of this brave young captain who got arrested unjustly by a corrupt government and sent to a hellish prison, but never gave up and fought for his people’s freedom til the very end.
“Prestes Vive!”(Prestes Lives!) became a common rallying cry for all those who opposed the government, used both metaphorically and literally by those that believe that Prestes didn’t die, but has instead gone into hiding. Those who still wait for Prestes’s return feed their hopes of seeing their hero again on conspiracy theories and rumours that Prestes is hiding in Patagonia or in the Commune of France, building a syndicalist army with the Third Internationale’s help. He then would return to Brazil and free the Brazilian workers from the capitalistic oppression of the elites.
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That's it for today. Researching for this part of the Lore took me to some very interesting and unexpected places, I really hope you like the new characters and plot lines I'm trying to bring in with this text. Next chapter should be about the remaining leftist factions, SocDems and Totalists, hopefully. In the meantime, check out my PRs for this project and, as always, feel free to make any questions/suggestions/complaints. Thanks for your patience.
Brazil Fan Rework Project PR 1: The 1938 World Cup
Brazil Fan Rework Project PR #2: Revisiting the Lore
Brazil Fan Rework Project PR #3.1: Revisiting the Lore Part 2
Brazilian History Timeline in OTL and KRTL
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PSB: Partido Sindicalista Brasileiro
The PSB(Brazilian Syndicalist Party) was officially created on May 1st of 1930, but its history begins a decade earlier. Up to the 1920s, anarchism was the predominant ideology in the Brazilian left, but the events of that tumultuous decade led to a gradual transition towards syndicalism as its predominant ideology. The Brazilian syndicalist movement was formed by the convergence of many different groups with different interpretations of what a Brazilian syndicalism should look like.The Anthropophages
Up to the 1920s, the Brazilian art world was strictly conservative. Artists were taught to replicate styles that came from Europe decades earlier without much consideration for the realities of Brazilian society. Desperate to break from the mould, a group of artists organised a week-long exposition in the São Paulo Municipal Theatre in February of 1922. The exposition gathered many great talents such as brothers Mario and Oswald de Andrade, Tarsila do Amaral, Anita Malfatti, Menotti del Picchia and many others to discuss and showcase the future of Brazilian art.
Despite being heavily criticised by the press at the time, the Semana de Arte Moderna was a true watershed moment in the Arts and consolidated a movement known as Modernismo in Brazilian art circles. Modernistas sought to break with european traditions and develop a genuine brazilian art, looking for inspiration from folk, rural, native american and african cultures as opposed to classical european “High Arts”.
In his 1924 book Manifesto da Poesia Pau Brasil, Oswald de Andrade express the movement’s desires to turn Brazil into an “Exporting Culture”, one that creates raw, untamed and innovative art that can be exported to the whole world as opposed to more conservative art that merely imported european traditions.
“Contra o gabinetismo, a prática culta da vida.
Engenheiros em vez de jurisconsultos, perdidos como chineses na genealogia das idéias.
A língua sem arcaísmos, sem erudição.
Natural e neológica.
A contribuição milionária de todos os erros.
Como falamos.
Como somos.
Não há luta na terra de vocações acadêmicas.
Há só fardas.
Os futuristas e os outros.
Uma única luta - a luta pelo caminho.
Dividamos: poesia de importação.
E a Poesia Pau-Brasil, de exportação.”
Oswald would later write a second manifesto in 1928, the Manifesto Antropofago. This second manifesto delved deeper into modernist ideas, introducing the concept of “anthropophagy” to the arts. In his own words, Brazilian artists shouldn’t just reject European and North American concepts, but instead “swallow and digest” them into something new.
“Só a ANTROPOFAGIA nos une.
Socialmente.
Economicamente.
Filosoficamente.
Única lei do mundo.
Expressão mascarada de todos os individualismos, de todos os coletivismos.
De todas as religiões.
De todos os tratados de paz.
Tupi, or not tupi that is the question.”
The text wasn’t just a continuation of his previous manifesto about the arts, but also a harsh critique of the ongoing Civil War, which Oswald compared to a massive man-eating monster aimlessly mimicking the bloodshed of The Weltkrieg.
“Contra todos os importadores de consciência enlatada.
De monstros de aço com dentes farpados.
Que devoram nossas carnes.
Em Caconde como o fizeram em Verdun.”
Oswald’s anthropophagic ideas spread beyond the arts world, they also triggered a movement of self-reflection in Brazilian leftist intellectual circles who began to ponder how they could create a Syndicalism with brazilian characteristics, distinct from the french and british models.
“Contra as elites vegetais.
Em comunicação com o solo.
Nunca fomos catequizados.
Fizemos foi o Carnaval.
O índio vestido de senador do Império.
Fingindo de Pitt.
Ou figurando nas óperas de Alencar cheio de bons sentimentos portugueses.
Já tínhamos o sindicalismo.
Já tínhamos a língua surrealista.
A idade de ouro.”
The Modernist movement became inseparable from the syndicalist one in Brazil. Several of the famous modernist artists that took part in the Semana de Arte Moderna de 1922 were proud syndicalists and frequently visited Europe, specially France, to meet with other notorious syndicalists. Many of them would become founding members of the PSB, including, of course, Oswald de Andrade, Mário de Andrade, Raul Bopp and Tarsila do Amaral.
The Eugênia Campaign
The newly founded PSB faced their first elections in 1932. Going into it, they knew very well that it would be an uphill battle against the already established political machine of the PRN. At this time, the syndicalists were more preoccupied with expanding their presence within working class communities and organising trade unions and labour movements. They expected to be able to, with some luck, elect a couple of representatives for the national congress and maybe a senator or two, but had no further serious political ambitions for that election season.
As for their presidential candidate, the party didn’t have any strong names. Their first choice was Minervino de Oliveira, a former textile factory worker and union leader in Rio de Janeiro since the 1910s. Thinking they had nothing to lose, modernists Oswald de Andrade and Álvaro Moreyra proposed a bold idea to the Party: They wanted Álvaro’s wife, notorious journalist, actress and fellow syndicalist Eugênia Álvaro Moreyra to be PSB’s presidential candidate that year.
The modernists wanted to make a statement with their presidential candidate, they wanted someone that was the complete opposite of the usual politicians from the political establishment. They chose a 34 year old woman from a bankrupt family, famous for behaving and dressing in an “immodest” manner in Rio's most bohemian neighbourhoods. Eugênia was one of the first female journalists in Brazil, a feminist leader and a key figure in the national actors union.
Álvaro and Oswald got their way. The wealthy and famous modernist artists and intellectuals held a disproportionately large amount of power inside the Party during its first years and could often dictate the Party’s policies and strategies without properly consulting the other members.
Eugênia went on a campaign tour with her theatre group “performing” her speeches in over 40 cities and towns in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Rio Grande do Sul and Pará between march and september of 1932. Despite being deliberately boycotted and ridiculed by most traditional newspapers, the syndicalist candidate managed to draw decent crowds everywhere she went. From the grand stages of the São Paulo Municipal Theatre and the Theatro da Paz in Belém to makeshift stages in rural Minas Gerais, Eugênia’s mystique intrigued both fellow syndicalists as well as curious bystanders who didn’t quite understood what was going on.
The election day came and went and Eugênia ended up in third place with 9.887 votes. She was beaten by Plínio Salgado, AIB’s candidate, with 37.654 votes and Otávio Mangabeira, PRN’s candidate, with 2.387.103 votes. In the legislative, the Party only elected two congressmen, one of them being Minervino de Oliveira who preferred to run for congress rather than being Eugênia’s vice.
Those results were considered to be a major fiasco by most PSB members. Eugênia’s campaign was seen as ineffective at best and a shot in the foot at worst. Her antics alienated the mostly catholic and conservative voters that compose the vast majority of the Brazilian electorate and completely failed to inspire potential working class voters, the PSB’s main target demographic. Many syndicalist candidates that failed to win a seat in the congress or senate blamed Eugênia’s campaign for their poor performance claiming that her extravagant personality hurt their image by association. In truth, these failures exposed the PSB’s lack of expertise in traditional politics; most of its members had previously been either trade union leaders or intellectuals and had little to no experience as politicians.
The blame felt almost entirely upon the shoulders of Oswald de Andrade and Álvaro Moreyra, who came up with the idea in the first place. Their strategy of style over substance backfired on them and led to the modernista faction of the Syndicalist Party losing a lot of their influence and credibility. From the start of 1933 onwards, a Obreirista faction rose to prominence in the PSB, leading an anti-intellectualism movement that preached that the Party could only be properly led by the workers themselves, not artists and philosophers who often didn’t really understand the plight of the proletariat.
The modernists were not expelled from the Party, but were quietly withdrawn from any decision making roles for a while. In their 1934 Congress, the Party voted for João da Costa Pimenta to be their chairman for the next 4 years. João is a former anarchist and a veteran syndicalist leader, taking part in basically every major strike and worker uprisings in the previous 20 years. His plan for the coming years is to greatly expand the PSB’s presence in trade unions all over the country and absorb remaining anarchists into it. How he plans to lead the Syndicalists in the 1936 elections remains to be seen.
CBT: Confederação Brasileira dos Trabalhadores
The CBT(Brazilian Confederation of Workers) was created by the PSB’s obreirista faction in march of 1933 as their new national trade union centre. Following the disaster of the 1932 election, the obreiristas became convinced that they needed to redouble their efforts with earning the trust of the Brazilian workers and building a much stronger presence within the many trade unions around the country.
Costa Pimenta himself presided over the CBT’s first congress before handing the reins of the organisation to Duvitiliano Ramos, a fellow veteran syndicalist leader from Rio de Janeiro. The CBT was built to be a successor of the COB(Brazilian Labourers Confederation) of the 1910s, but with a few key differences to ensure its success.
The CBT would be more centralised than its anarchist predecessor with an elected general-secretary presiding over its congresses. Trade Unions of all types and sizes would be welcomed to participate even if they weren’t strictly syndicalist, but it would be expected of them to act accordingly to the decisions made in each congress. Finally, the CBT would always act in unison with the PSB. The two organisations weren’t officially linked, but it was obvious that their leaders were working together.
From 1933 to late 1935, the CBT aggregated over 200 delegates representing about 500 trade unions from all over Brazil, ranging between 15 and 10.000 members each. During this period they were heavily invested in reaching as many workers as possible, helping to create new trade unions in sectors where they weren’t yet present and beginning to work with rural workers as well. The CBT’s official newspaper A Voz Operária grew to become Rio’s third most popular newspaper and São Paulo’s tenth most popular periodical, at its peak it circulated over 30.000 copies monthly in ten different cities.
The next CBT’s congress is scheduled for March of 1936 and their plans for the upcoming elections in October will undoubtedly be its main topic, unless something unexpected happens in the first months of 1936…
The Hope Knight Rises
It’s impossible to talk about the Brazilian left in the 1920s & 30s without bringing up the name of Luis Carlos Prestes. Prestes was born in a middle-class family of Porto Alegre in 1898. He joined the Brazilian Army as a military engineer and rose to the rank of Captain in early 1922. Luis Carlos Prestes was, like many of his colleagues, a young tenentista officer and an avid opposer of President Arthur Bernardes.
Captain Prestes was one of the hundreds of tenentistas arrested during the dreaded Christmas Purge of 1922, due to his alleged involvement in the plot to take over the Copacabana Fort. Without a proper trial and with his habeas corpus denied, he was shipped off to the recently opened Clevelândia do Norte Prison Camp, better known by the nickname given by its inmates: Inferno Verde, the Green Hell.
Clevelândia do Norte was a failed agricultural settlement in the eastern bank of the Oiapoque river. Almost at the northernmost point of the Brazilian territory, near the border with French Guiana, Clevelândia do Norte was a tiny colony in the middle of the Amazon Jungle, hundreds of kilometres away from the nearest human settlement. It became a military outpost in 1919 and then a prison camp in 1922.
Brought by literal boatloads, over a thousand men were kept in the camp at any given time. Ranging from common street criminals to anarchist and syndicalist militants to tenentista officers, these men lived in improvised shacks, often sleeping in the mud and completely exposed to the elements. They had to endure brutal hours of forced labour and cruel punishments by the guards as well as the lack of food, sanitation and medical supplies. Dozens died everyday due to exhaustion and diseases, but the continuous influx of new inmates kept the prison always crowded.
On this hell on Earth, Captain Prestes met and befriended many anarchists and syndicalists and began to align himself with socialist ideologies. He got particularly close to syndicalists Domingos Brás and Domingos Passos. Passos was a carpenter and the first secretary of the UOCC(Union of Workers in Civil Construction) from Rio de Janeiro and Brás was a militant weaver from Petropólis.
The three men spent over a year plotting their escape, but never had a good opportunity to do it. Only in January of 1925, when the first news of the Paulista Revolt arrived in Clevelândia do Norte, they decided it was time to put their plan in motion. They waited until the next shipment of supplies arrived in the camp by boat. By nightfall, Prestes and about a dozen of other tenentes would raid the administration building in the middle of the camp under the cover of darkness, steal as many weapons as possible and light the building on fire as a signal to the rest of the prisoners that it was their time to escape. The prisoners would overwhelm the guards and capture the boats docked by the river, then escape towards the sea, or die trying.
What exactly happened on the night of the riot is unclear, eye-witness accounts are confusing and often contradictory, the following was Domingos Passos’s recounting of the events given in an interview to the A Plebe newspaper:
"Estávamos eu e o Brás esperando o sinal do Prestes, nossa barraca ficava no final do Igarapé, bem no final da Colônia, não dava pra ver nada dos prédios dos milicos. Tava tudo muito quieto, até esquesito, daí a gente começou a ouvir uns barulhos de tiros vindo da vila e logo depois veio aquele clarão de fogo no horizonte. O Brás só berrou “Agora!” e saímos correndo em disparada com pedaços de pau em direção ao Trapiche.
Eu devo ter corrido uns dez minutos, não dava pra ver quase nada, era só gritaria e barulho de tiro, mas eu segui a margem do Igarapé até chegar na vilinha. Tava tudo pegando fogo, eu não sabia pra onde ir, daí o Prestes apareceu do nada, me deu um revólver, e disse que os barcos estavam prontos e que era pra gente ir indo na frente para dar lugar pros outros. Essa foi a última vez que vi ele.”
Passos, Brás and about 20 other men got hold of a small motorboat and fled downstream towards Oiapoque Bay. At daybreak they took a break and stopped on a beach, it was at this point that Passos realised that Domingos Brás and one other man had died overnight from gunshot wounds acquired during the escape. Three men separated from the group and decided to try their luck trekking across the jungle; their fates are unknown.
The remaining men continued following the coast eastwards for a week until they reached the town of Macapá. They ditched the stolen boat and from there they each went their separate ways. Domingos Passos went on a two month Odyssey, hitchhiking from town to town before managing to find his way home back to Rio de Janeiro. In Rio, he lived in clandestiny until 1929 when all the charges against him were formally dropped with the general amnesty.
It’s unknown how many people died in Clevelândia do Norte. The Brazilian government and the army didn’t keep many records about it or its inmates. The camp itself was burned to the ground, by the time the army was able to send a rescue team, they only found half a dozen fishermen and two surviving soldiers. Rough estimates state that somewhere between 170 and 300 inmates escaped successfully, the others were either gunned down during the escape or got lost in the jungle.
Luis Carlos Prestes’s body was never found, he was simply presumed dead like most other prisoners. He was posthumously acquitted of all charges during the amnesty as the government had to admit that they didn’t have any real evidence that he ever plotted to attack the Copacabana Fort.
Prestes’s bravery during his final moments in Clevelândia do Norte made him a martyr figure for both tenentistas and socialist militants in Brazil. Domingos Passos’s account of the time he spent alongside Prestes and their spectacular escape was retold countless times in newspapers and radio dramas, building up the legend of this brave young captain who got arrested unjustly by a corrupt government and sent to a hellish prison, but never gave up and fought for his people’s freedom til the very end.
“Prestes Vive!”(Prestes Lives!) became a common rallying cry for all those who opposed the government, used both metaphorically and literally by those that believe that Prestes didn’t die, but has instead gone into hiding. Those who still wait for Prestes’s return feed their hopes of seeing their hero again on conspiracy theories and rumours that Prestes is hiding in Patagonia or in the Commune of France, building a syndicalist army with the Third Internationale’s help. He then would return to Brazil and free the Brazilian workers from the capitalistic oppression of the elites.
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That's it for today. Researching for this part of the Lore took me to some very interesting and unexpected places, I really hope you like the new characters and plot lines I'm trying to bring in with this text. Next chapter should be about the remaining leftist factions, SocDems and Totalists, hopefully. In the meantime, check out my PRs for this project and, as always, feel free to make any questions/suggestions/complaints. Thanks for your patience.
Brazil Fan Rework Project PR 1: The 1938 World Cup
Brazil Fan Rework Project PR #2: Revisiting the Lore
Brazil Fan Rework Project PR #3.1: Revisiting the Lore Part 2
Brazilian History Timeline in OTL and KRTL
2023.02.27 12:44 zafiroxGG General information about EM/CFS
Hi, I've been with EM/CFS since 2016 and I've been investigating a lot about this illness.
I'm going to update regularly this post. Since I'm Spaniard I'm also gonna translate it at the end. Excuse me if I write something wrong since I'm not a native English speaker.
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First of all, how do you know you have EM/CFS? Well, the doctors have to try to figure out that you have it by discard, so prepare to a lot of tests. In my case, I had to see an internal medicine doctor until he figured out that I had it. This illness is so badly investigated and known. Talk to an internal medicine doctor, but this illness has to be investigated in 3 areas. We'll talk about it later.
Common syntoms are:
· Extreme exhaustion after physical or mental exercise (this is the most important)
· Unrefreshing sleeps
· Difficulties with memory, focus and concentration
· Headaches or "brain fog"
Less common syntoms are:
· Dizziness that worsens when going from lying or sitting to standing
· Sore throat
· Unexplained muscle/joint pain or tingling sensation
· Enlarged lymph nodes in the neck or armpits
· Dizziness that worsens when going from lying or sitting to standing
unrefreshing sleep.
This illness affects more females than males. The causes of this are still unknown.
There is any treatment? Currently there is not treatment to cure your illness. But there are things you can do:
The best thing you can do and that it worked for me is to consume vitamines with Q10, try to eat healthy, consume more often aliments with luteolin, take antioxidants and lower your gluten intake as much as you can (Bread with gluten has to be removed from the diet at least. Why not consuming bread with gluten? Because it lowers inflammation, which helps). Just by this you can notice around a 20-30% in your rating of discapacity (at least for me it was for long-term. I couldn't move from bed in the first years), I tend to use the rating from the Dr. David Bell so also doctors can understand how bad you are.
For exercise, keep in mind stress is the factor that makes this illness hard to confront. Just making a little exercise will stress your cells and cause a lot of issues. Try to just maintain your most important muscles: back and lower back, arms and legs. Focus only on one of those if you do it. Do soft exercise with your own body, stretching is good for maintaining your shape even it is not for your body because it causes you discomfort (PEM). Even so, you need to still do it at least 1 time a week minimum, but don't do it if you are very disabled. If you are so weak in arms (like I was once) you can try dumbells with little weight. I tend to do sometimes some soft stretches/exercises to maintain my body once or two times a week. TRY to go outside sometimes or move close to a window at noon to get some vitamin D (by Sun rays), it really helps to maintain your cycle day-night. I know this is just impossible if you can't get out of bed but with some vitamins you may feel good enought to do it; or you can also just sunbathe from a window. Try to know your limits, remember you'll get PEM but you can get worse in your shape. If you are a lot of the time in the bed, try to improve before doing exercise. Do some exercise just before you go to sleep, if it's not good for you, avoid it.
Where is the root of the issue with this illness? Well, looking at recent studies (2020-2022) as well as some older ones, theories from doctors and so on... I can say the main issue has to be in the hypothalamus-adrenal axis, as well as a multi-system disease that comprehends a desregulation of the Central Nervous System, immunitary system and cellular energy metabolism. It can also cause, which is my case, problems in the small intestine by dysregulating good and bad bacteria. Probiotics are good for this. I could add a lot of studies that lead me to this conclusion but I'd had to search again for each one.
Therefore, this is a multi-factor disease that has to be studied in 3 areas: Neurologic, immunitary and cellular. You need to talk to doctors speciallized in those areas. Maybe even intestinal if you have issues there.
THIS IS NOT a psychologic or psychiatric illness. If you have ansiety or depression, sure... you must treat it... But that is caused due to social asoliation, not due this illness! If you have a lot of pain you can go to the rheumatologist but you shouldn't go there otherwise.
Normally the cause of this disease is post-viral after an infection. It can be caused by the EBV virus. (that causes mononucleosis, also my cause) but it can be another type of herpes virus (mostly human herpes 6) and some retroviruses.
If EBV or a viral infection is the cause... Why most people don't have this illness? (I have a brother and a sister that had EBV and they didn't get this illness) Well, the most logic answer is that it has genetic factors. And it has been studied, here is a good study about it: https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/3/2698
What you should do to get investigated? Well... there is not a lot of investigation and you probably won't be investigated (it will depend on your country). We as a community need to get more visibility and let the public know about it so we get more funding for this illness. This is very important to get more investigation and studies. You or your family need to talk about this issue in TV or wherever it is needed.
Based on scientific stuff, there are some adaptogenic chinese herbs that you can use if your doctor detect low cortisol levels. This is not necessary but it may help, as it helped a little to me. You can ask me the link in my PMs.
There are recent studies about the reduction of syntesis of ATP and issues with the Complex V. This is all related to mitochondrial failure.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32041178/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.1532-2149.2013.00284.x
Take Q10 in vitamins (or alone) as it was also studied and it helps.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/CoQ-10-levels-lipid-peroxidation-and-ATP-content-in-PBMC-from-CFS-and-FM-patients-and_fig3_236249638
(I'm gonna in the next months information about some biomarkers if I found some from the tests that doctors are doing to me since new studies may have discovered some, but this is for the future)
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Now here is where I will put the less scientific and more personal stuff:
After mono, I had a very bad hepatitis B illness, I couldn't move from bed. I had blood circulation issues, a lot of pain in muscles back pain, brain fog... I was basically dead in life. When I took vitamines with Gingseng I got like a 10% better. Then I started to look for herbal complex for circulation, but it didn't help much. I looked to look for the best herbal complex possible, and I got one from a chinese shop. I looked for Ashwanda and Astragalus since I saw those herbs helped with the liver & the stress. I got better, like a 10% better. So I could start to go to more doctors and I also went to psychiatrist. She treated me with antidepressants as it was her first idea, it didn't work. Then, she instead recommended me norepinephrine/noradrenaline. The side effect was that heart beat was increased and it was so good for me. I also had not that much brain fog (I felt like I was very alert and focused all the time). I took it for 2 months but I had to stop, because my mind wanted to keep making things but my body couldn't follow it, I still had no energy. Mentally it was a little better but I had crash after crash. Now I have no longer circulation issues. I even stopped consuming the herbs and I'm stable now, I can't do many things but it is not as bad. Now is when I started taking vitamines with Q10 instead of vitamines with Gingseng. It works so much better, since Gingseng is like caffeine and Q10 basically transports energy to the mitochondria.
Also, it seems that the ME/CFS improve with warmer weather and it is worse with cold (because fungi are more common and produce mycotoxins) but I can't say for sure. Outside the big cities you will feel better because there may be more oxygen and less pollution, that can help too. Source: Various and this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mssp0DQef_Q
Oh, and recently, I discovered that it exist a chinese plant that helps with EM/CFS. The name of the plant is Sophora flavescens, and the important compound is extracted from the root: Oxymatrine. It has a lot of benefits and many people (like 50%) that doesn't have immunological diseases improved up to 90% (some of them much less), but you need to take it for a very long time (6 months minimum). I'll let you know if I test it if but it seems hard to get in Europe. It looks good because it has some chinese studies about it but it is not that studied in the west. Sources:
Dr Chia: https://www.biologischmedischcentrumbmc.nl/oxymatrine-treatment.htm // https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2010011975A1/en
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5974617/ <- Be careful because this herb produces hepatotoxicity, start with less doses.
Oxymatrine worked A LOT for me and it has been approved by chinese studies. Research about it.
http://www.itmonline.org/arts/oxymatrine.htm
Keep in mind everything that worked for me doesn't have to work for you.
Hope this can help you.
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- Spanish - (Voy a usar traductor para no gastar tanto tiempo)
Hola, tengo EM/CFS desde 2016 y he estado investigando mucho sobre esta enfermedad.
Voy a actualizarlo regularmente este artículo. Todo lo que escribo aquí será lo más riguroso posible que pueda.
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En primer lugar, ¿cómo sé que tengo EM/SFC? Bueno, los médicos tienen que tratar de averiguar si lo tienes por descarte, así que prepárate para muchas pruebas. En mi caso, tuve que ver a un médico interno hasta que se dio cuenta de que lo tenía. Esta enfermedad es tan mal investigada y conocida. Hable con un médico de medicina interna, pero esta enfermedad tiene que investigarse en 3 áreas. Hablaremos de esto más tarde.
Los síntomas comunes son:
· Agotamiento extremo después del ejercicio físico o mental (este es el más importante)
· Sueño no reparador
· Dificultades con la memoria, el enfoque y la concentración
· Dolores de cabeza o "niebla en la mente"
· Dolor musculaarticular inexplicable o sensación de hormigueo
Los síntomas menos comunes son:
· Mareos que empeoran al pasar de estar acostado o sentado a ponerse de pie
· Dolor de garganta
· Nódulos linfáticos agrandados en el cuello o las axilas
· Mareos que empeoran al pasar de estar acostado o sentado a ponerse de pie
sueño no reparador.
Esta enfermedad afecta más a mujeres que a hombres. Las causas de esto aún se desconocen.
¿Hay algún tratamiento? Actualmente no existe un tratamiento para curar su enfermedad. Pero hay cosas que puedes hacer:
Lo mejor que puedes hacer y que me ha funcionado es consumir vitaminas con Q10, intentar comer sano, consumir más seguido alimentos con luteolina, tomar antioxidantes y reducir al máximo tu consumo de gluten (El pan con gluten tiene que ser retirado de la dieta. Por qué no consumir pan con gluten? Porque baja la inflamación, y eso es algo que ayuda). Solo con esto puedes notar alrededor de un 20-30% en tu calificación de discapacidad, tiendo a usar la del Dr. David Bell para que los médicos también puedan entender lo mal que estás.
Para el ejercicio, tenga en cuenta que el estrés es el factor que hace que esta enfermedad sea difícil de confrontar. Solo hacer un poco de ejercicio estresará tus células y causará muchos problemas. Trate de mantener solo sus músculos más importantes: espalda y espalda baja, brazos y piernas. Haz ejercicio suave con tu propio cuerpo, los estiramientos son buenos para mantener tu forma aunque no para tu cuerpo porque te produce malestar (PEM). Aun así, debe seguir haciéndolo al menos 1 vez a la semana como mínimo, pero no lo hagas si estás muy discapacitado/a. Si tienes los brazos débiles (como yo tuve alguna vez) puedes probar con mancuernas con poco peso. Yo tiendo a hacer a veces algunos estiramientos/ejercicios suaves para mantener mi cuerpo una o dos veces por semana. TRATE de salir de casa de vez en cuando y tome un poco de vitamina D, realmente ayuda a mantener su ciclo día-noche. Sé que esto es simplemente imposible si no puedes levantarte de la cama, pero con algunas vitaminas puedes sentirte lo suficientemente bien como para hacerlo; o también puedes simplemente tomar el sol desde la ventana. Intenta conocer tus límites, recuerda que obtendrás malestar post-esfuerzo (PEM) pero puedes empeorar en tu forma. Si se pasa mucho tiempo en la cama, trate de mejorar antes de hacer ejercicio. Haga algo de ejercicio justo antes de irte a dormir, si no te viene bien evítalo.
¿Dónde está la raíz del problema con esta enfermedad? Bueno, mirando estudios recientes (2020-2022), así como algunos más antiguos, teorías de médicos, etc. Puedo decir que el problema principal tiene que estar en el eje hipotálamo-suprarrenal, así como una enfermedad multisistémica que comprende una desregulación del Sistema Nervioso Central, sistema inmunológico y metabolismo energético celular. También puede causar, que es mi caso, problemas en el intestino delgado desrregulando las bacterias buenas y malas. Los probióticos son buenos para esto.
Por lo tanto, esta es una enfermedad multifactorial que debe ser estudiada en 3 áreas: neurológica, inmunológica y celular. Necesita hablar con médicos especializados en esas áreas. Tal vez incluso intestinal si tiene problemas allí.
ESTO NO ES una enfermedad psicológica o psiquiátrica. Si tienes ansiedad o depresión, claro... debes tratarla... ¡Pero eso es causado por el aislamiento social, no debido a esta enfermedad! Si tienes mucho dolor puedes ir al reumatólogo pero de lo contrario no deberías ir.
Normalmente la causa de esta enfermedad es post-viral tras una infección. Puede ser producido por el virus EBV (que causa la mononucleosis) pero también puede ser otro tipo de virus del herpes (principalmente herpes humano 6) y algunos retrovirus.
Si el EBV o una infección viral es la causa... ¿Por qué la mayoría de las personas no tienen esta enfermedad? (Tengo un hermano y una hermana que tuvieron EBV y no contrajeron esta enfermedad) Bueno, la respuesta más lógica es que tiene factores genéticos. Y se ha estudiado, aquí hay un buen estudio al respecto: https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/3/2698
¿Qué debes hacer para que te investiguen? Bueno... no hay mucha investigación y probablemente no serás investigado. Nosotros, como comunidad, necesitamos obtener más visibilidad e informar al público sobre esto para obtener más fondos para esta enfermedad. Esto es muy importante para conseguir más investigación y estudios. Usted o su familia necesitan hablar de este tema en la televisión o donde sea necesario para que así sea.
Con base en material científico, aquí hay algunas hierbas chinas adaptogénicas que puede usar si su médico detecta niveles bajos de cortisol. Aquí está el enlace a la tienda: https://siyunsen.es.aliexpress.com/store/911812245
Fuente: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3991026/
Hay estudios recientes sobre la reducción de la síntesis de ATP y problemas con el Complejo V. Todo esto está relacionado con la falla mitocondrial.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32041178/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.1532-2149.2013.00284.x
Tomar Q10 en vitaminas (o sola) ya que también fue estudiado y ayuda.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/CoQ-10-levels-lipid-peroxidation-and-ATP-content-in-PBMC-from-CFS-and-FM-patients-and_fig3_236249638
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Ahora aquí es donde pondré las cosas menos científicas y más personales:
Después de la mono, tuve una enfermedad muy grave de hepatitis B, no podía moverme de la cama. Tenía problemas de circulación sanguínea, mucho dolor en los músculos, dolor de espalda, niebla mental... Básicamente estaba muerto en vida. Cuando tomé vitaminas con Gingseng mejoré como un 10%. Entonces comencé a buscar complejo de hierbas para la circulación, pero no ayudó mucho. Busqué el mejor complejo de hierbas posible y obtuve uno en una tienda china. Busqué Ashwanda y Astragalus ya que vi que esas hierbas ayudaban con el hígado y el estrés. Mejoré, como un 10% mejor. Entonces pude empezar a ir a más médicos y también fui al psiquiatra.Me trató con antidepresivos como su primera idea, pero no funcionó. Entonces ella me recomendó noradrenalina. El efecto secundario fue que los latidos del corazón aumentaron y fue muy bueno para mí. Tampoco tenía tanta niebla mental (sentía que estaba muy alerta y concentrado todo el tiempo). Lo tomé durante 2 meses pero tuve que parar, porque mi mente quería seguir haciendo cosas pero mi cuerpo no podía seguirlo, aún no tenía energía. Mentalmente estaba un poco mejor, pero me fatigaba de forma extrema. Ahora ya no tengo problemas de circulación. Incluso dejé de consumir las hierbas y ahora estoy estable, no puedo hacer muchas cosas pero no es tan malo. Ahora es cuando comencé a tomar vitaminas con Q10 en lugar de vitaminas con Gingseng. Funciona mucho mejor, ya que el Gingseng es como la cafeína y la Q10 básicamente transporta energía a las mitocondrias.
Además, parece que el ME/SFC mejora con el clima más cálido y empeora con el frío (porque los hongos son más comunes y producen micotoxinas), pero no puedo decirlo con seguridad. Fuera de las grandes ciudades te sentirás mejor porque puede haber más oxígeno y menos contaminación, eso también puede ayudar. Fuente: Varias y este vídeo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mssp0DQef_Q
Ah, y recientemente, descubrí que existe una planta china que ayuda con EM/SFC. El nombre de la planta es Sophora flavescens, y el compuesto importante se extrae de la raíz: Oxymatrine. Tiene muchos beneficios y muchas personas (como el 50%) que no tienen enfermedades inmunológicas mejoraron hasta un 90% (algunas de ellas mucho menos), pero hay que tomarlo por mucho tiempo (mínimo 6 meses). Les avisaré si lo pruebo pero parece difícil de conseguir en Europa. Tiene buena pinta porque tiene algunos estudios chinos al respecto pero no es tan estudiado en occidente. Fuentes:
Dr Chia: https://www.biologischmedischcentrumbmc.nl/oxymatrine-treatment.htm // https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2010011975A1/en
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5974617/ <- Tenga cuidado porque esta hierba produce hepatotoxicidad, comience con dosis menores.
La oximatrina funcionó MUCHO para mí y ha sido aprobada por estudios chinos. Investigue sobre ello.
http://www.itmonline.org/arts/oxymatrine.htm
Tenga en cuenta que todo lo que funcionó para mí no tiene que funcionar para usted.
Espero que todo esto le ayude.
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I'm going to update regularly this post. Since I'm Spaniard I'm also gonna translate it at the end. Excuse me if I write something wrong since I'm not a native English speaker.
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First of all, how do you know you have EM/CFS? Well, the doctors have to try to figure out that you have it by discard, so prepare to a lot of tests. In my case, I had to see an internal medicine doctor until he figured out that I had it. This illness is so badly investigated and known. Talk to an internal medicine doctor, but this illness has to be investigated in 3 areas. We'll talk about it later.
Common syntoms are:
· Extreme exhaustion after physical or mental exercise (this is the most important)
· Unrefreshing sleeps
· Difficulties with memory, focus and concentration
· Headaches or "brain fog"
Less common syntoms are:
· Dizziness that worsens when going from lying or sitting to standing
· Sore throat
· Unexplained muscle/joint pain or tingling sensation
· Enlarged lymph nodes in the neck or armpits
· Dizziness that worsens when going from lying or sitting to standing
unrefreshing sleep.
This illness affects more females than males. The causes of this are still unknown.
There is any treatment? Currently there is not treatment to cure your illness. But there are things you can do:
The best thing you can do and that it worked for me is to consume vitamines with Q10, try to eat healthy, consume more often aliments with luteolin, take antioxidants and lower your gluten intake as much as you can (Bread with gluten has to be removed from the diet at least. Why not consuming bread with gluten? Because it lowers inflammation, which helps). Just by this you can notice around a 20-30% in your rating of discapacity (at least for me it was for long-term. I couldn't move from bed in the first years), I tend to use the rating from the Dr. David Bell so also doctors can understand how bad you are.
For exercise, keep in mind stress is the factor that makes this illness hard to confront. Just making a little exercise will stress your cells and cause a lot of issues. Try to just maintain your most important muscles: back and lower back, arms and legs. Focus only on one of those if you do it. Do soft exercise with your own body, stretching is good for maintaining your shape even it is not for your body because it causes you discomfort (PEM). Even so, you need to still do it at least 1 time a week minimum, but don't do it if you are very disabled. If you are so weak in arms (like I was once) you can try dumbells with little weight. I tend to do sometimes some soft stretches/exercises to maintain my body once or two times a week. TRY to go outside sometimes or move close to a window at noon to get some vitamin D (by Sun rays), it really helps to maintain your cycle day-night. I know this is just impossible if you can't get out of bed but with some vitamins you may feel good enought to do it; or you can also just sunbathe from a window. Try to know your limits, remember you'll get PEM but you can get worse in your shape. If you are a lot of the time in the bed, try to improve before doing exercise. Do some exercise just before you go to sleep, if it's not good for you, avoid it.
Where is the root of the issue with this illness? Well, looking at recent studies (2020-2022) as well as some older ones, theories from doctors and so on... I can say the main issue has to be in the hypothalamus-adrenal axis, as well as a multi-system disease that comprehends a desregulation of the Central Nervous System, immunitary system and cellular energy metabolism. It can also cause, which is my case, problems in the small intestine by dysregulating good and bad bacteria. Probiotics are good for this. I could add a lot of studies that lead me to this conclusion but I'd had to search again for each one.
Therefore, this is a multi-factor disease that has to be studied in 3 areas: Neurologic, immunitary and cellular. You need to talk to doctors speciallized in those areas. Maybe even intestinal if you have issues there.
THIS IS NOT a psychologic or psychiatric illness. If you have ansiety or depression, sure... you must treat it... But that is caused due to social asoliation, not due this illness! If you have a lot of pain you can go to the rheumatologist but you shouldn't go there otherwise.
Normally the cause of this disease is post-viral after an infection. It can be caused by the EBV virus. (that causes mononucleosis, also my cause) but it can be another type of herpes virus (mostly human herpes 6) and some retroviruses.
If EBV or a viral infection is the cause... Why most people don't have this illness? (I have a brother and a sister that had EBV and they didn't get this illness) Well, the most logic answer is that it has genetic factors. And it has been studied, here is a good study about it: https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/3/2698
What you should do to get investigated? Well... there is not a lot of investigation and you probably won't be investigated (it will depend on your country). We as a community need to get more visibility and let the public know about it so we get more funding for this illness. This is very important to get more investigation and studies. You or your family need to talk about this issue in TV or wherever it is needed.
Based on scientific stuff, there are some adaptogenic chinese herbs that you can use if your doctor detect low cortisol levels. This is not necessary but it may help, as it helped a little to me. You can ask me the link in my PMs.
There are recent studies about the reduction of syntesis of ATP and issues with the Complex V. This is all related to mitochondrial failure.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32041178/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.1532-2149.2013.00284.x
Take Q10 in vitamins (or alone) as it was also studied and it helps.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/CoQ-10-levels-lipid-peroxidation-and-ATP-content-in-PBMC-from-CFS-and-FM-patients-and_fig3_236249638
(I'm gonna in the next months information about some biomarkers if I found some from the tests that doctors are doing to me since new studies may have discovered some, but this is for the future)
-
Now here is where I will put the less scientific and more personal stuff:
After mono, I had a very bad hepatitis B illness, I couldn't move from bed. I had blood circulation issues, a lot of pain in muscles back pain, brain fog... I was basically dead in life. When I took vitamines with Gingseng I got like a 10% better. Then I started to look for herbal complex for circulation, but it didn't help much. I looked to look for the best herbal complex possible, and I got one from a chinese shop. I looked for Ashwanda and Astragalus since I saw those herbs helped with the liver & the stress. I got better, like a 10% better. So I could start to go to more doctors and I also went to psychiatrist. She treated me with antidepressants as it was her first idea, it didn't work. Then, she instead recommended me norepinephrine/noradrenaline. The side effect was that heart beat was increased and it was so good for me. I also had not that much brain fog (I felt like I was very alert and focused all the time). I took it for 2 months but I had to stop, because my mind wanted to keep making things but my body couldn't follow it, I still had no energy. Mentally it was a little better but I had crash after crash. Now I have no longer circulation issues. I even stopped consuming the herbs and I'm stable now, I can't do many things but it is not as bad. Now is when I started taking vitamines with Q10 instead of vitamines with Gingseng. It works so much better, since Gingseng is like caffeine and Q10 basically transports energy to the mitochondria.
Also, it seems that the ME/CFS improve with warmer weather and it is worse with cold (because fungi are more common and produce mycotoxins) but I can't say for sure. Outside the big cities you will feel better because there may be more oxygen and less pollution, that can help too. Source: Various and this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mssp0DQef_Q
Oh, and recently, I discovered that it exist a chinese plant that helps with EM/CFS. The name of the plant is Sophora flavescens, and the important compound is extracted from the root: Oxymatrine. It has a lot of benefits and many people (like 50%) that doesn't have immunological diseases improved up to 90% (some of them much less), but you need to take it for a very long time (6 months minimum). I'll let you know if I test it if but it seems hard to get in Europe. It looks good because it has some chinese studies about it but it is not that studied in the west. Sources:
Dr Chia: https://www.biologischmedischcentrumbmc.nl/oxymatrine-treatment.htm // https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2010011975A1/en
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5974617/ <- Be careful because this herb produces hepatotoxicity, start with less doses.
Oxymatrine worked A LOT for me and it has been approved by chinese studies. Research about it.
http://www.itmonline.org/arts/oxymatrine.htm
Keep in mind everything that worked for me doesn't have to work for you.
Hope this can help you.
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- Spanish - (Voy a usar traductor para no gastar tanto tiempo)
Hola, tengo EM/CFS desde 2016 y he estado investigando mucho sobre esta enfermedad.
Voy a actualizarlo regularmente este artículo. Todo lo que escribo aquí será lo más riguroso posible que pueda.
-
En primer lugar, ¿cómo sé que tengo EM/SFC? Bueno, los médicos tienen que tratar de averiguar si lo tienes por descarte, así que prepárate para muchas pruebas. En mi caso, tuve que ver a un médico interno hasta que se dio cuenta de que lo tenía. Esta enfermedad es tan mal investigada y conocida. Hable con un médico de medicina interna, pero esta enfermedad tiene que investigarse en 3 áreas. Hablaremos de esto más tarde.
Los síntomas comunes son:
· Agotamiento extremo después del ejercicio físico o mental (este es el más importante)
· Sueño no reparador
· Dificultades con la memoria, el enfoque y la concentración
· Dolores de cabeza o "niebla en la mente"
· Dolor musculaarticular inexplicable o sensación de hormigueo
Los síntomas menos comunes son:
· Mareos que empeoran al pasar de estar acostado o sentado a ponerse de pie
· Dolor de garganta
· Nódulos linfáticos agrandados en el cuello o las axilas
· Mareos que empeoran al pasar de estar acostado o sentado a ponerse de pie
sueño no reparador.
Esta enfermedad afecta más a mujeres que a hombres. Las causas de esto aún se desconocen.
¿Hay algún tratamiento? Actualmente no existe un tratamiento para curar su enfermedad. Pero hay cosas que puedes hacer:
Lo mejor que puedes hacer y que me ha funcionado es consumir vitaminas con Q10, intentar comer sano, consumir más seguido alimentos con luteolina, tomar antioxidantes y reducir al máximo tu consumo de gluten (El pan con gluten tiene que ser retirado de la dieta. Por qué no consumir pan con gluten? Porque baja la inflamación, y eso es algo que ayuda). Solo con esto puedes notar alrededor de un 20-30% en tu calificación de discapacidad, tiendo a usar la del Dr. David Bell para que los médicos también puedan entender lo mal que estás.
Para el ejercicio, tenga en cuenta que el estrés es el factor que hace que esta enfermedad sea difícil de confrontar. Solo hacer un poco de ejercicio estresará tus células y causará muchos problemas. Trate de mantener solo sus músculos más importantes: espalda y espalda baja, brazos y piernas. Haz ejercicio suave con tu propio cuerpo, los estiramientos son buenos para mantener tu forma aunque no para tu cuerpo porque te produce malestar (PEM). Aun así, debe seguir haciéndolo al menos 1 vez a la semana como mínimo, pero no lo hagas si estás muy discapacitado/a. Si tienes los brazos débiles (como yo tuve alguna vez) puedes probar con mancuernas con poco peso. Yo tiendo a hacer a veces algunos estiramientos/ejercicios suaves para mantener mi cuerpo una o dos veces por semana. TRATE de salir de casa de vez en cuando y tome un poco de vitamina D, realmente ayuda a mantener su ciclo día-noche. Sé que esto es simplemente imposible si no puedes levantarte de la cama, pero con algunas vitaminas puedes sentirte lo suficientemente bien como para hacerlo; o también puedes simplemente tomar el sol desde la ventana. Intenta conocer tus límites, recuerda que obtendrás malestar post-esfuerzo (PEM) pero puedes empeorar en tu forma. Si se pasa mucho tiempo en la cama, trate de mejorar antes de hacer ejercicio. Haga algo de ejercicio justo antes de irte a dormir, si no te viene bien evítalo.
¿Dónde está la raíz del problema con esta enfermedad? Bueno, mirando estudios recientes (2020-2022), así como algunos más antiguos, teorías de médicos, etc. Puedo decir que el problema principal tiene que estar en el eje hipotálamo-suprarrenal, así como una enfermedad multisistémica que comprende una desregulación del Sistema Nervioso Central, sistema inmunológico y metabolismo energético celular. También puede causar, que es mi caso, problemas en el intestino delgado desrregulando las bacterias buenas y malas. Los probióticos son buenos para esto.
Por lo tanto, esta es una enfermedad multifactorial que debe ser estudiada en 3 áreas: neurológica, inmunológica y celular. Necesita hablar con médicos especializados en esas áreas. Tal vez incluso intestinal si tiene problemas allí.
ESTO NO ES una enfermedad psicológica o psiquiátrica. Si tienes ansiedad o depresión, claro... debes tratarla... ¡Pero eso es causado por el aislamiento social, no debido a esta enfermedad! Si tienes mucho dolor puedes ir al reumatólogo pero de lo contrario no deberías ir.
Normalmente la causa de esta enfermedad es post-viral tras una infección. Puede ser producido por el virus EBV (que causa la mononucleosis) pero también puede ser otro tipo de virus del herpes (principalmente herpes humano 6) y algunos retrovirus.
Si el EBV o una infección viral es la causa... ¿Por qué la mayoría de las personas no tienen esta enfermedad? (Tengo un hermano y una hermana que tuvieron EBV y no contrajeron esta enfermedad) Bueno, la respuesta más lógica es que tiene factores genéticos. Y se ha estudiado, aquí hay un buen estudio al respecto: https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/3/2698
¿Qué debes hacer para que te investiguen? Bueno... no hay mucha investigación y probablemente no serás investigado. Nosotros, como comunidad, necesitamos obtener más visibilidad e informar al público sobre esto para obtener más fondos para esta enfermedad. Esto es muy importante para conseguir más investigación y estudios. Usted o su familia necesitan hablar de este tema en la televisión o donde sea necesario para que así sea.
Con base en material científico, aquí hay algunas hierbas chinas adaptogénicas que puede usar si su médico detecta niveles bajos de cortisol. Aquí está el enlace a la tienda: https://siyunsen.es.aliexpress.com/store/911812245
Fuente: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3991026/
Hay estudios recientes sobre la reducción de la síntesis de ATP y problemas con el Complejo V. Todo esto está relacionado con la falla mitocondrial.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32041178/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.1532-2149.2013.00284.x
Tomar Q10 en vitaminas (o sola) ya que también fue estudiado y ayuda.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/CoQ-10-levels-lipid-peroxidation-and-ATP-content-in-PBMC-from-CFS-and-FM-patients-and_fig3_236249638
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Ahora aquí es donde pondré las cosas menos científicas y más personales:
Después de la mono, tuve una enfermedad muy grave de hepatitis B, no podía moverme de la cama. Tenía problemas de circulación sanguínea, mucho dolor en los músculos, dolor de espalda, niebla mental... Básicamente estaba muerto en vida. Cuando tomé vitaminas con Gingseng mejoré como un 10%. Entonces comencé a buscar complejo de hierbas para la circulación, pero no ayudó mucho. Busqué el mejor complejo de hierbas posible y obtuve uno en una tienda china. Busqué Ashwanda y Astragalus ya que vi que esas hierbas ayudaban con el hígado y el estrés. Mejoré, como un 10% mejor. Entonces pude empezar a ir a más médicos y también fui al psiquiatra.Me trató con antidepresivos como su primera idea, pero no funcionó. Entonces ella me recomendó noradrenalina. El efecto secundario fue que los latidos del corazón aumentaron y fue muy bueno para mí. Tampoco tenía tanta niebla mental (sentía que estaba muy alerta y concentrado todo el tiempo). Lo tomé durante 2 meses pero tuve que parar, porque mi mente quería seguir haciendo cosas pero mi cuerpo no podía seguirlo, aún no tenía energía. Mentalmente estaba un poco mejor, pero me fatigaba de forma extrema. Ahora ya no tengo problemas de circulación. Incluso dejé de consumir las hierbas y ahora estoy estable, no puedo hacer muchas cosas pero no es tan malo. Ahora es cuando comencé a tomar vitaminas con Q10 en lugar de vitaminas con Gingseng. Funciona mucho mejor, ya que el Gingseng es como la cafeína y la Q10 básicamente transporta energía a las mitocondrias.
Además, parece que el ME/SFC mejora con el clima más cálido y empeora con el frío (porque los hongos son más comunes y producen micotoxinas), pero no puedo decirlo con seguridad. Fuera de las grandes ciudades te sentirás mejor porque puede haber más oxígeno y menos contaminación, eso también puede ayudar. Fuente: Varias y este vídeo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mssp0DQef_Q
Ah, y recientemente, descubrí que existe una planta china que ayuda con EM/SFC. El nombre de la planta es Sophora flavescens, y el compuesto importante se extrae de la raíz: Oxymatrine. Tiene muchos beneficios y muchas personas (como el 50%) que no tienen enfermedades inmunológicas mejoraron hasta un 90% (algunas de ellas mucho menos), pero hay que tomarlo por mucho tiempo (mínimo 6 meses). Les avisaré si lo pruebo pero parece difícil de conseguir en Europa. Tiene buena pinta porque tiene algunos estudios chinos al respecto pero no es tan estudiado en occidente. Fuentes:
Dr Chia: https://www.biologischmedischcentrumbmc.nl/oxymatrine-treatment.htm // https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2010011975A1/en
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5974617/ <- Tenga cuidado porque esta hierba produce hepatotoxicidad, comience con dosis menores.
La oximatrina funcionó MUCHO para mí y ha sido aprobada por estudios chinos. Investigue sobre ello.
http://www.itmonline.org/arts/oxymatrine.htm
Tenga en cuenta que todo lo que funcionó para mí no tiene que funcionar para usted.
Espero que todo esto le ayude.
2022.08.05 20:13 EdMarCarSe ¿Fechas para el fin, o nuevos comienzos para la Revolución? / Dates for the end, or new beginnings for the Revolution? by Leidys María Labrador Herrera for Granma [August 5, 2022]
![¿Fechas para el fin, o nuevos comienzos para la Revolución? / Dates for the end, or new beginnings for the Revolution? by Leidys María Labrador Herrera for Granma [August 5, 2022]](https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/9ulsVcjRhV24IQdONPZoDiLsuMWaBd7Ah_MmJfE8hSU.jpg "¿Fechas para el fin, o nuevos comienzos para la Revolución? / Dates for the end, or new beginnings for the Revolution? by Leidys María Labrador Herrera for Granma [August 5, 2022]") | https://www.granma.cu/cuba/2022-08-04/fechas-para-el-fin-o-nuevos-comienzos-para-la-revolucion-04-08-2022-22-08-29 submitted by EdMarCarSe to MarxistCulture [link] [comments] ¿Fechas para el fin, o nuevos comienzos para la Revolución? El 5 de agosto de 1994 Fidel no lo dudó y salió a la calle con el único chaleco antibalas que siempre usó: su vergüenza, su moral, y la confianza en que el mismo pueblo que hizo con sus manos la Revolución no sería capaz de destruirla La fuerza moral de Fidel se impuso en los disturbios del 5 de agosto de 1994. Foto: Archivo de Granma Esas coincidencias son, para algunos, dignas de recordar; pero, para otros, constituyen sinónimo de la vergüenza que arrastran quienes, erróneamente, piensan que los muros de mentiras pueden protegerlos del descalabro. En la prolífica historia de Cuba existen no pocos de esos instantes que, vale decirlo, tienen sobre todas las cosas algo en común, la fuerza de este pueblo y de aquellos que elige como sus líderes, y la disposición siempre latente de defender a la Patria y de cerrar el paso a la injerencia y el intervencionismo. Son esas las razones por las que, de manera casi espontánea, cuando el 11 de julio de 2021 la violencia, azuzada por una cruenta campaña mediática e ideológica, pretendió robarnos la tranquilidad y desestabilizar al país, cuando los revolucionarios se dispusieron a hacerle frente a la turba, y cuando el Presidente salió a caminar entre su pueblo y apeló a la conciencia de este para defender el país, muchos no dudaron en afirmar: tal parece que vivimos otro 5 de agosto. Porque aquel día de 1994, que quedó para siempre en la memoria popular, se conjugaron los mismos factores: incitación al desorden, a atacar las instituciones del Estado, a cometer actos vandálicos, y financiamiento a elementos contrarrevolucionarios para que se colocaran al centro de los disturbios cuyo fin, lógicamente, era echar por tierra la Revolución. La situación del país resultaba crítica. El derrumbe del campo socialista fue un duro golpe para la economía cubana, y la sociedad en su conjunto afrontaba desde la falta de transporte público hasta la dificultad para llevar alimentos a la mesa. Todo ello, que de forma innegable generaba estrés, descontento, preocupación, creó lo que nuestros enemigos identificaron como un clima propicio para ejercer presión ideológica contra el pueblo, y así lo hicieron. Esa actitud oportunista, sinceramente, no sorprendió a nadie, y mucho menos a ese brillante ideólogo, inigualable político e irrepetible líder llamado Fidel Castro Ruz. Por eso, cuando la situación se complejizó aquel quinto día de agosto, no lo dudó y salió a la calle con el único chaleco antibalas que siempre usó: su vergüenza, su moral, y la confianza en que el mismo pueblo que hizo con sus manos la Revolución no sería capaz de destruirla. La madurez de ese pueblo, su respeto por el hombre que hizo realidad los sueños de Martí, y la seguridad de que quienes se presentaban como tabla de salvación eran, por el contrario, la ola furiosa dispuesta a ahogarnos, una vez más le dieron la razón. Aquel día, mientras el pueblo coreaba «¡Fidel! ¡Fidel!», se apagaban las esperanzas de aquellos que, con ingenua seguridad, anunciaron «el fin». Díaz-Canel estuvo el 11 de julio en las calles cubanas, como parte de la ciudadanía que se movilizó para preservar la paz y la tranquilidad. Foto: Estudios Revolución VEINTISIETE AÑOS DESPUÉS, LA MISMA SÓRDIDA ESTRATEGIA El mundo, sin exagerar, se debatía para hacer la diferencia entre la vida y la muerte, y este país no fue la excepción. Todos los recursos disponibles, todos, fueron puestos a disposición de ese empeño. La propia pandemia generó, como era de esperarse, mucha tensión en la economía y, por si fuera poco, más de 200 medidas pensadas con toda intención para asfixiarnos, y otra vuelta de tuerca al bloqueo, hicieron el panorama mucho más complejo de lo que debería haber sido. Nuestros enemigos, con su «profundo sentido humanista», rápidamente entraron en escena, y «preocupados» por el pueblo cubano (al que negaron oxígeno medicinal para hacer frente a la enfermedad), se dieron a la tarea de abrir los ojos de los cubanos, demostrando que la «cruel dictadura» no era capaz de responder a las necesidades del pueblo. Otra vez aprovecharon, de la manera más ruin, la dureza de un momento histórico. Se parapetaron tras su muy bien pagada maquinaria mediática, movieron a sus títeres asalariados dentro del país, acrecentaron el llamado a la violencia y utilizaron a su favor, otra vez, las carencias materiales y necesidades, en función de crear un clima de desconfianza y pesimismo. El resultado fue un 11 de julio, al que, con el descaro que los caracteriza, pusieron el nombre de «estallido social espontáneo en contra del régimen», a sabiendas de que se trataba de un fruto más de su estrategia de golpe suave. Otra vez marcaron el final, lo habían orquestado todo de forma tan minuciosa, habían invertido tanto que no podía ser de otra manera; tal vez hasta pensaron que sin la presencia física de Fidel, no habría quien revirtiera la situación, y se sentaron a esperar. Pero para los cubanos existen dos verdades contundentes: la primera es que hace mucho que Fidel es todo un pueblo, y la segunda tiene un nombre: continuidad. Ese día otro líder, hijo de otro momento histórico, pero con mucha fuerza moral también, llamó a los revolucionarios a defender la Patria, y los patriotas respondieron al llamado. Y también él salió a la calle, y lo hizo a pecho descubierto, y se rodeó de pueblo, y llamó a la paz. Rápidamente, como aquel 5 de agosto, la nobleza y valentía popular hablaron más alto, y la violencia no tuvo más remedio que replegarse ante la firme decisión de proteger la tranquilidad del país. LAS VERDADES QUE NO PUEDEN OCULTARSE Si en este país no se pusiera primero al ser humano, sería mucho más sencillo «impulsar» la economía. Se harían inmensos recortes de presupuesto a programas sociales, habría despidos masivos, se eliminarían prestaciones de la seguridad social y, probablemente, la recuperación económica, desde la frialdad de indicadores y números, se vería en un corto plazo. Así funciona el capitalismo, así ha sobrevivido por siglos el sistema que nos quieren imponer. Dentro de él, las personas no son más que fichas que, como en el ajedrez, se utilizan dependiendo del momento y, de ser necesario, se sacrifican sin miramientos. Bajo ese, su principio básico, se resisten a creer que aun con su brutal y enfermizo cerco económico de por medio, nuestro Estado siga eligiendo siempre al ser humano por encima de todo, siga sosteniendo la máxima de llegar a cada persona que lo necesite; lo cual, es cierto, no resulta fácil, pero es decisión irrenunciable. Si nos dejaran hacer, si tuvieran el valor de levantar el bloqueo, la historia sería otra. Más allá de que se difundan matrices de opinión contrarias y falsas, la mayoría de los cubanos ama a su país, aun si vive fuera de él. Económicos, en mucha mayor medida que políticos, han sido los motivos de muchos hijos de esta Isla para emigrar, aunque se manipule tal verdad. Ha sido este, sin lugar a duda, uno de los aspectos que forma parte de la agenda de medios y voceros anticubanos, que presentan el tema como «el caos que vive el pueblo cubano para escapar de un sangriento régimen». Sin embargo, no hablan de sus engendros de leyes para incitar la migración ilegal, de su negativa a respetar y hacer cumplir los acuerdos migratorios rubricados entre ambas naciones, de otorgar cada año las visas que corresponden, ni de cómo entorpecen el derecho de las personas a emigrar de forma segura y ordenada. Esa es otra realidad que se sostiene en el tiempo, que se manifestaba en aquel agosto de 1994, que se manifiesta hoy y que, al parecer, no dejará de existir, porque les implicaría quedarse sin uno de sus argumentos favoritos para sostener el ataque perenne contra nuestro país. CUBA SIGUE AQUÍ Si algo han hecho cientos de veces los enemigos de la Revolución es ponerle fechas para el fin. Cada vez que orquestan una nueva maniobra, dan por hecho el «ahora sí», y a veces parece que en verdad se lo creen. Lo que no comprenden es que este pueblo no negocia principios, no renuncia, no se cansa, no cede si siente su soberanía amenazada. Por eso, cada vez que intenta repetir sus estrategias de golpe, reviven el fracaso, se les recuerda la estirpe cubana, se les hace saber que los principios y la moral no se negocian, porque son un baluarte fundamental de esta nación. Ni 5 de agosto, ni 11 de julio, a la Revolución le queda toda la vida que sus hijos sean capaces de darle. Lo que para ellos es un posible fin, para las cubanas y los cubanos incansables, necios y patriotas hasta los tuétanos, será siempre un nuevo comienzo. *** [Un-official translation] Dates for the end, or new beginnings for the Revolution? On August 5, 1994, Fidel did not hesitate and went out into the street with the only bulletproof vest he always wore: his shame, his morale, and the confidence that the same people who made the Revolution with their hands would not be capable of destroying it. Fidel's moral strength prevailed in the disturbances of August 5, 1994. Photo: Granma's Archive Those coincidences are, for some, worth remembering; but, for others, they are synonymous with the shame carried by those who mistakenly think that the walls of lies can protect them from disaster. In the prolific history of Cuba there are not a few of those moments that, it is worth saying, have above all things something in common, the strength of this people and of those it chooses as its leaders, and the always latent willingness to defend the Homeland and to block the way to interference and interventionism. These are the reasons why, almost spontaneously, when on July 11 of 2021 the violence, fueled by a bloody media and ideological campaign, tried to rob us of peace and destabilize the country, when the revolutionaries prepared to confront the mob, and when the President went out for a walk among his people and appealed to their conscience to defend the country, many did not hesitate to affirm: it seems that we are living another August 5th. Because that day in 1994, which will remain forever in popular memory, the same factors came together: inciting disorder, attacking state institutions, committing acts of vandalism, and financing counterrevolutionary elements so that they placed themselves at the center of the disturbances whose purpose, logically, was to destroy the Revolution. The situation in the country was critical. The collapse of the socialist camp was a severe blow to the Cuban economy, and society as a whole faced everything from the lack of public transportation to the difficulty of putting food on the table. All of this, which undeniably generated stress, discontent, and concern, created what our enemies identified as a climate conducive to exerting ideological pressure against the people, and they did so. That opportunistic attitude, honestly, did not surprise anyone, much less that brilliant ideologue, incomparable politician and unrepeatable leader named Fidel Castro Ruz. For this reason, when the situation became more complex that fifth day of August, he did not hesitate and went out into the street with the only bulletproof vest he always wore: his shame, his morale, and the confidence that the same people who made with their hands the Revolution would not be able to destroy it. The maturity of that people, their respect for the man who made Martí's dreams come true, and the certainty that those who presented themselves as a lifeline were, on the contrary, the furious wave ready to drown us, once again gave him the reason. That day, while the people chanted «Fidel! Fidel!”, the hopes of those who, with naive security, announced “the end” were extinguished. Díaz-Canel was on the streets of Cuba on July 11, as part of the citizenry that mobilized to preserve peace and tranquility. Photo: Estudios Revolución TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS LATER, THE SAME SORDY STRATEGY The world, without exaggeration, was struggling to make the difference between life and death, and this country was no exception. All available resources, all of them, were placed at the disposal of this effort. The pandemic itself generated, as expected, a lot of tension in the economy and, as if that were not enough, more than 200 measures designed with every intention to suffocate us, and another twist to the blockade, made the panorama much more complex than expected. it should have been. Our enemies, with their "deep humanist sense", quickly entered the scene, and "concerned" for the Cuban people (who were denied medical oxygen to deal with the disease), took on the task of opening the eyes of Cubans , showing that the "cruel dictatorship" was not capable of responding to the needs of the people. Once again they took advantage, in the most vile way, of the harshness of a historical moment. They took cover behind their well-paid media machinery, moved their salaried puppets within the country, increased the call for violence and used material shortages and needs to their advantage, again, in order to create a climate of mistrust and pessimism. . The result was a July 11, which, with the audacity that characterizes them, they put the name of "spontaneous social outbreak against the regime", knowing that it was one more result of their soft coup strategy. Once again they marked the end, they had orchestrated everything in such a meticulous way, they had invested so much that it could not be otherwise; perhaps they even thought that without Fidel's physical presence, there would be no one to reverse the situation, and they sat down to wait. But for Cubans there are two overwhelming truths: the first is that Fidel has been a whole people for a long time, and the second has a name: continuity. That day another leader, son of another historical moment, but also with great moral strength, called on the revolutionaries to defend the Homeland, and the patriots responded to the call. And he also went out into the street, and he did it bare-chested, and surrounded himself with the people, and called for peace. Quickly, like that August 5, the nobility and popular courage spoke louder, and the violence had no choice but to retreat in the face of the firm decision to protect the tranquility of the country. THE TRUTHS THAT CANNOT BE HIDDEN If in this country people were not put first, it would be much easier to “boost” the economy. Huge budget cuts would be made to social programs, there would be massive layoffs, social security benefits would be eliminated and, probably, the economic recovery, from the coldness of indicators and numbers, would be seen in the short term. This is how capitalism works, this is how the system they want to impose on us has survived for centuries. Inside it, people are nothing more than tokens that, like in chess, are used depending on the moment and, if necessary, are sacrificed unceremoniously. Under that, their basic principle, they refuse to believe that even with its brutal and sickening economic siege in between, our State will always continue to choose the human being above all else, continue to uphold the maxim of reaching each person who needs it; which, it is true, is not easy, but it is an inalienable decision. If they let us do it, if they had the courage to lift the blockade, the story would be different. Beyond the spread of false and contrary opinions, the majority of Cubans love their country, even if they live outside of it. Economic, to a much greater extent than political, have been the reasons for many children of this Island to emigrate, although such truth is manipulated. This has been, without a doubt, one of the aspects that is part of the agenda of anti-Cuban media and spokesmen, who present the issue as "the chaos that the Cuban people live to escape from a bloody regime." However, they do not talk about their creation of laws to encourage illegal migration, their refusal to respect and enforce the migratory agreements signed between the two nations, to grant the corresponding visas each year, or how they hinder the right of people to emigrate in a safe and orderly manner. That is another reality that is sustained over time, that manifested itself in that August of 1994, that manifests itself today and that, apparently, will not cease to exist, because it would mean that they would be left without one of their favorite arguments to sustain the perennial attack against our country. CUBA IS STILL HERE If the enemies of the Revolution have done something hundreds of times, it is to set dates for the end. Every time they orchestrate a new maneuver, they take the "now is the time" for granted, and sometimes it seems that they really believe it. What they do not understand is that this people does not negotiate principles, does not renounce, does not get tired, does not give in if it feels its sovereignty is threatened. That is why, every time they try to repeat their coup strategies, they relive the failure, they are reminded of the Cuban lineage, they are made to know that principles and morals are not negotiable, because they are a fundamental bastion of this nation. Neither August 5 nor July 11, the Revolution has as long as its children are capable of giving it. What for them is a possible end, for Cubans who are tireless, foolish and patriotic to the core, will always be a new beginning. |
2022.06.26 12:01 rojodeso Go donkey, go!
 | Go! Donkey go! Id: 147 Category: Nature and anti-projection Date: 2010-09-05 10:45:00 submitted by rojodeso to Sacred_Anthropology [link] [comments] On the moral-nature antinomy: PER SE: Moral-nature harmony, if it exists, is harmony between worlds at 90º (harmony "in itself"). In Se. Nature ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ → → → → → → → → In Se. Moral IN SE: Indefinite progress of moral conscience towards holiness. This movement, if existing, is casual (given-constructed). In being, all figures remain. Death does not kill figures. You can't do anything with the figures. We should not "figure" the disease. You can die, but not figure death. That is the freedom and agony of man, of God in man. This fable of death is one of the foundations of the predatory terror of the conservatives (Weltanschauung). The sanctity emitted as such on the plane of the visible is down the form of a "by-product" of the Actus of God and/and the "figurative mode" of man. In any case, this type of "evidence" was taken as a debt by the Nazarene (what you had to do, that's what you did) and not as love (union of God with God in man) (we remember the drawing of the walk by Bartolo): https://i.redd.it/xwxmelbpux791.gif Concerning the third postulate of the moral-nature synthesis, that says: "The Holy Legislator sanctions the moral-happiness union". This sanction pertains to self-awareness. When people pretend to pray, they are talking to themselves, to their self-awareness (where God dwells). If self-awareness is dead, they are talking to a deceased (not everyone who says Lord-Lord will enter the Kingdom of Heaven... A dead God does not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. It has been -cornily- called " alienation" of God...). If self-awareness is alive, it does not need happiness... It is self-sufficient (unless envious, the righteous son lives well with the Father). The bad thing is that this sanction can be devinient or anti-projected. In any case, there is no such sanction in the movement of the given-constructed. Natural motion is not moral. The fall of a stone is not "moral", nor the results of the Actus and the figuration. The facts are always the by-product of the process of figuration of self-awareness (a good tree cannot bear bad fruit). It is not the fact that is important, but the self-awareness that manages those facts in a field of vision ordered by a will towards goodness or evil second but toward true or false prophecy first. The harmony between morality and happiness is cosmological... It is not a process but a datum for the prophecy. We remember that morality in act enters at 90º of the plane of being (sometimes it is visualized in rare-strange manifestations of the moral fact, but this is only a confused vision of this matter). As Wittgenstein says: «The meaning of life is outside life, so looking for it is foolish» (the myth of the Ark of the Covenant). Donkeys look for better ways than directions. They thus served to define the streets of the city. Is this why God said, "Help your enemy's donkey to carry the load"? It's a joke! But this is how we should picture the New Town. (I put the new town lowercase, just as I say God The Nazarene). ************************************************* Arre borrico Id: 147 Categoría: Naturaleza y antiproyección Date: 2010-09-05 10:45:00 Sobre la antinomia moral-naturaleza: EN SÍ: La armonía moral-naturaleza, si es que existe, es una armonía entre mundos a 90º (armonía "en sí") En Sí. Naturaleza ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ → → → → → → → → En Sí. Moral PARA SÍ: Progreso indefinido de la conciencia moral hacia la santidad. Este movimiento, de existir, es totalmente casual (dado-construido). En el ser permanecen todas las figuras. La muerte no mata las figuras. No puede hacer nada con las figuras. No se debe figurar la muerte. Se puede morir, pero no figurar la muerte. Esa es la libertad y la agonía del hombre, de Dios en el hombre. Esta figuración de la muerte es uno de los fundamentos del terror depredador de los conservadores (weltanschauung). La santidad que se puede proposicionar como tal en el plano de lo visible lo es en forma de “resto” del Acto de Dios y/y de la Figuración del hombre. En todo caso, este tipo de “evidencias” el Nazareno las trataba como deuda (lo que teníais que hacer, eso hicisteis), y no como amor (unión de Dios con Dios en el hombre) (nos acordamos del dibujo del paseo de Bartolo): https://preview.redd.it/sm2o0uczux791.png?width=892&format=png&auto=webp&s=08a0dac13229addc74957cc678267cd8455a24db Sobre el tercer postulado de la síntesis moral-naturaleza que dice: "El Santo Legislador sanciona la unión moral-felicidad". Esta sanción la hace la autoconciencia del hombre. Cuando la gente hace que reza, en realidad habla consigo mismo, con sus autoconciencias (donde mora Dios). Si están muertas, hablan con un muerto (no todo el que dice Señor-Señor entrará en el Reino de los Cielos... Un Dios muerto no entra en el Reino de los Cielos. Esta es la que de forma cursi se ha llamado "enajenación" de Dios... ). Si la autoconciencia está viva, no necesita la felicidad... Se basta a sí sola (salvo que le dé la envidia, el hijo justo vive bien con el Padre). Lo malo es que esta sanción puede ser deviniente o antiproyectada. En todo caso no existe esa sanción en el movimiento de lo dado-construido. El movimiento natural no es moral. La caída de una piedra no es moral, ni tampoco el hecho resultante del Acto y la figuración es moral. Los hechos siempre son el resto o resultado del proceso de figuración de la autoconciencia (no puede el árbol bueno dar frutos malos...). No es el hecho lo importante, sino la autoconciencia que gestiona esos hechos en un campo de visión que está ordenado por una voluntad hacia el bien o el mal en segundo lugar, pero hacia la verdadera o falsa profecía en primer lugar. La armonía entre moral y felicidad es una armonía cosmológica... No es un proceso, sino un dato para el proceso de profecía. Recordamos que la moral en acto entra a 90º del plano del ser (a veces se visualiza en manifestaciones raras-extrañas del hecho moral; pero esto es solo una visión confusa de este asunto). Como dice Wittgenstein: el sentido de la vida está fuera de la vida; así que buscarlo es de necios (el mito del Arca de la Alianza). Un burro busca más un camino que un sentido (por eso los usaban para trazar las calles de los pueblos). ¿Será por esto que Dios decía: al burro de tu enemigo, ayúdale a llevar la carga?... ¡Es un chiste! Pero es así como hay que figurar la ciudad nueva. (pongo ciudad nueva en minúscula, igual que pongo Dios de Nazaret). |
2022.05.21 11:07 WeAreIceni Monkeypox is Another Manufactured Crisis
Isn’t it rather convenient that just after everything started winding down and it looked like COVID-19 was due to become just another endemic flu, a few people out of billions potentially immunocompromised by vaccines just happen to start contracting and sustaining human-to-human transmission of zoonotic illnesses like Monkeypox and Hemorrhagic fever hantavirus that ordinarily have poor transmissibility?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-monkeypox-the-virus-infecting-people-in-the-u-s-and-europe/
https://www.fiercepharma.com/vaccines/bavarian-nordic-scores-fda-nod-for-smallpox-and-monkeypox-vaccine-jynneos
https://www.fiercepharma.com/vaccines/emergent-biosolutions-buys-sanofi-s-smallpox-vaccine-for-125m
https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/dr-robert-kadlec-how-czar-biowarfare-funnels-billions-friends-vaccine-industry
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/before-the-pandemic-top-contractor-received-billions-from-government-to-help-prepare-the-nation-for-biowarfare/2020/06/17/38d9ad3a-a41b-11ea-8681-7d471bf20207_story.html
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/04/investigative-series/a-killer-enterprise-how-one-of-big-pharmas-most-corrupt-companies-plans-to-corner-the-covid-19-cure-market/
https://youtu.be/DQMDjLt_bH8
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-dj-vu-for-dyncorp-all_b_792394
https://threadsirish.substack.com/p/did-you-know-that-a-2021-report-predicted
The NTI was founded by Sam Nunn and Ted Turner:
https://www.nti.org/about/people/sam-nunn/
https://www.cato.org/foreign-policy-briefing/nunn-lugar-act-wasteful-dangerous-illusion
https://media.defense.gov/2022/Ma11/2002954612/-1/-1/0/FACT-SHEET-THE-DEPARTMENT-OF-DEFENSE%E2%80%99S-COOPERATIVE-THREAT-REDUCTION-PROGRAM-BIOLOGICAL-THREAT-REDUCTION-PROGRAM-ACTIVITIES-IN-UKRAINE.PDF
No wonder they’re desperate for algorithmic censorship of search results.
-Spartacus
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-monkeypox-the-virus-infecting-people-in-the-u-s-and-europe/
Monkeypox isn’t a new disease. The first confirmed human case was in 1970, when the virus was isolated from a child suspected of having smallpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Monkeypox is unlikely to cause another pandemic, but with COVID-19 top of mind, fear of another major outbreak is understandable. Though rare and usually mild, monkeypox can still potentially cause severe illness. Health officials are concerned that more cases will arise with increased travel.If it does turn into another pandemic, they'll probably start having people take Jynneos or ACAM2000:
https://www.fiercepharma.com/vaccines/bavarian-nordic-scores-fda-nod-for-smallpox-and-monkeypox-vaccine-jynneos
Sep 25, 2019 07:35amThe ACAM2000 made by Emergent BioSolutions:
Bavarian Nordic and the U.S. government have been working for years to advance a next-gen smallpox vaccine, and now the company has scored its much-anticipated approval. The vaccine, Jynneos, represents the first non-replicating smallpox vaccine in the U.S. and the first monkeypox vaccine worldwide.
Importantly, Jynneos is also the first smallpox vaccine for people with compromised immune systems, such as people with eczema, and addresses a long-running U.S. goal to be able to provide the full population with protection. Bavarian Nordic CEO Paul Chaplin said on a Wednesday conference call the vaccine is the “result of a fifteen-year partnership” between the U.S. government and the company.
https://www.fiercepharma.com/vaccines/emergent-biosolutions-buys-sanofi-s-smallpox-vaccine-for-125m
While Sanofi is currently transferring the upstream portion of the vaccine’s manufacturing process from Austria to the U.S. site, an FDA license is expected to arrive in about six months, Abdun-Nabi said during a conference call on July 14. Once approved, the new site will represent another production milestone for Emergent since last August, when the FDA approved the company’s large-scale facility based in Lansing, Michigan, for the manufacture of its anthrax vaccine BioThrax.The same Emergent BioSolutions that received preferential contracts for COVID-19 vaccines from Robert Kadlec because of the enduring partnership between Robert Kadlec and the late Fuad El-Hibri, in spite of Emergent BioSolutions' poor quality control:
Under a 10-year agreement, the Gaithersburg, Maryland-based biotech will also use the Canton facility to manufacture Sanofi’s Japanese encephalitis virus vaccine, according to an SEC filing.
The addition of ACAM2000 will expand Emergent’s class-exclusive portfolio of products to five, and the purchase complements the company’s offerings as it already has VIGIV, the only FDA-licensed med for certain complications from smallpox vaccination.
https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/dr-robert-kadlec-how-czar-biowarfare-funnels-billions-friends-vaccine-industry
How was Emergent able to command such high prices from the government?The same Emergent BioSolutions that renamed themselves from BioPort, after the Anthrax vaccine fiasco that occurred right after Amerithrax. There is some evidence that Gulf War Syndrome is linked to anthrax vaccines:
Monopoly power. No-bid contracts, facilitated by friends in government. Buyouts of competitors. Unparalleled spending on armies of former-military-turned-lobbyists like the admiral who helped El-Hibri corner the market on the anthrax vaccine back in the 1990s.
It didn't hurt that Kadlec was a former Emergent consultant and founding partner with El-Hibri of the biodefense company East West Protection.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/before-the-pandemic-top-contractor-received-billions-from-government-to-help-prepare-the-nation-for-biowarfare/2020/06/17/38d9ad3a-a41b-11ea-8681-7d471bf20207_story.html
As it races to create a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, the Trump administration this month announced that one of its largest pandemic-related contracts would go to a little-known biodefense company named Emergent BioSolutions. “Emergent’s manufacturing capabilities will pave the way,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in a statement.https://www.jneurology.com/articles/anthrax-and-gulf-war-illness-gwi-evidence-for-the-presence-of-harmful-anthrax-antigen-pa63-in-the-serum-of-veterans-with-gwi.html
The $628 million deal to help manufacture an eventual vaccine cemented Emergent’s status as the highest-paid and most important contractor to the HHS office responsible for preparing for public health threats and maintaining the government’s stockpile of emergency medical supplies.
Emergent has long been the government’s sole provider of BioThrax, a vaccine for anthrax poisoning. But over the past decade, the company has acquired biodefense competitors and treatments for smallpox, botulism and other threats for which there is no market outside of government.
Gulf War Illness (GWI) is a multisystem disorder of unknown etiology that has afflicted many veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War who have sustained progressively worsening health since the war1. Recent studies have demonstrated the presence of active inflammation in GWI2,3 and, in addition, a positive association of the levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), an inflammatory marker, with GWI symptom severity3. Moreover, we have shown that GWI serum contains substances that are harmful to neural cultures4`, a detrimental effect that can be prevented by serum of healthy GW veterans4 and partially so by pooled human immunoglobulin G (IgG)5. Although possible exposure to environmental toxins in war theater has been traditionally blamed for GWI6, the evidence above3-5 and the fact that the disease also afflicted nondeployed veterans7, point to other causes, including the vaccines administered to GW veterans4,5,7, such as the vaccine against anthrax. Here we present, for the first time, evidence indicating the presence of the harmful anthrax protective antigen PA63 in the serum of 15 veterans suffering from GWI, as follows. First, we confirmed that the addition of GWI serum to the culture had a detrimental effect, including decreased cell spreading and increased cell apoptosis, as reported previously4. And second, we found that the concomitant addition of specific polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies against PA63 had a remarkable protective effect on N2A cultures, significantly ameliorating cell spreading and reducing cell apoptosis. These results document that the adverse effects of GWI serum on neural cultures are due, in part, to persistent pathogens derived from the anthrax vaccine. We hypothesize that these anthrax pathogens persisted in the blood of the GWI veterans tested because of inability of those veterans to make antibodies against them, probably due to lack of Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) protection8. Finally, our findings point to a possible successful intervention in GWI consisting in neutralizing (by administering specific antibodies) and/or removing (by plasmapheresis) those harmful anthrax antigens.The same BioPort that was spun off from DynPort, which was a joint venture of DynCorp, the US mercenary company, and Porton in the UK:
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/04/investigative-series/a-killer-enterprise-how-one-of-big-pharmas-most-corrupt-companies-plans-to-corner-the-covid-19-cure-market/
That same year, perennial US defense contractor, Dyncorp, went into business with a shadowy group of biotech entrepreneurs from across the pond, forming the DynPort Vaccine Company, LLC., a combination of DynCorp’s name with that of its UK-based partner, Porton International, Inc. The latter company’s president, Zsolt Harsanyi, would also lead DynPort as the British firm began to lay the groundwork for its second attempt at securing a crucial monopoly within the American biotech space.The same DynCorp who have a long history of engaging in human trafficking while carrying out contracts for the US State Department:
https://youtu.be/DQMDjLt_bH8
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-dj-vu-for-dyncorp-all_b_792394
Put bluntly, DynCorp was involved in a sex slavery scandal in Bosnia in 1999, with its employees accused of rape and the buying and selling of girls as young as 12. Dyncorp, hired to perform police duties for the UN and aircraft maintenance for the US Army, were implicated in prostituting the children, whereas the company's Bosnia site supervisor filmed himself raping two women. A number of employees were transferred out of the country, but with no legal consequences for them.Just like with Event 201, nonprofit foundations connected to the US biodefense network have conducted drills that presaged all of this.
https://threadsirish.substack.com/p/did-you-know-that-a-2021-report-predicted
The NTI was founded by Sam Nunn and Ted Turner:
https://www.nti.org/about/people/sam-nunn/
During his tenure in the U.S. Senate, Nunn served as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He also served on the Intelligence and Small Business Committees. His legislative achievements include the landmark Department of Defense Reorganization Act, drafted with the late Senator Barry Goldwater, and the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, which provided assistance for more than 20 years to Russia and the former Soviet republics for securing and destroying their excess nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.Yes, the same Sam Nunn that the Nunn-Lugar Act is named after:
https://www.cato.org/foreign-policy-briefing/nunn-lugar-act-wasteful-dangerous-illusion
After the breakup of the Soviet Union in late 1991, four suddenly independent republics (Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus) inherited thousands of Soviet nuclear weapons. The abrupt decentralization of control over the Soviet nuclear arsenal, together with well‐founded concerns about the leadership and stability of the newly independent states, greatly alarmed Washington. Sen. Sam Nunn (D‑Ga.) said of the situation, “I know of no more urgent national security challenge confronting our nation, nor do I know of any greater opportunity … to reduce the dangers confronting us.”[1] Led by Nunn and Sen. Richard Lugar (R‑Ind.), Congress passed the Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991.[2] The Senate voted 86 to 8 in favor of the legislation‐which came to be known as the Nunn‐Lugar Act‐because even the most stalwart opponents of U.S. foreign aid saw the value of the emergency effort to help the former Soviet republics secure and destroy their excess weapons of mass destruction.The same Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program that put DTRA in control of a bunch of foreign biolabs where shady research could be conducted with minimal oversight with the money laundered by groups like EcoHealth Alliance, Metabiota, and Labyrinth Global Health:
https://media.defense.gov/2022/Ma11/2002954612/-1/-1/0/FACT-SHEET-THE-DEPARTMENT-OF-DEFENSE%E2%80%99S-COOPERATIVE-THREAT-REDUCTION-PROGRAM-BIOLOGICAL-THREAT-REDUCTION-PROGRAM-ACTIVITIES-IN-UKRAINE.PDF
The United States, through BTRP, has invested approximately $200 million in Ukraine since 2005, supporting 46 Ukrainian laboratories, health facilities, and diagnostic sites. BTRP has improved Ukraine’s biological safety, security and surveillance for both human and animal health. By supporting safer and more effective disease detection, this assistance directly improved Ukraine’s COVID-19 response. BTRP partners with the World Health Organization, the World Organization for Animal Health, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health institutions in providing this assistance.Isn’t it amazing how easy it is to utterly dismantle these people with a few casual Google, DuckDuckGo, and Yandex searches?
DoD’s CTR Program began its biological work with Ukraine to reduce the risk posed by the former Soviet Union’s illegal biological weapons program, which left Soviet successor states with unsecured biological materials after the fall of the USSR. DoD’s CTR program works with many partner countries to reduce the threat that pathogens could be misused, stolen or accidentally released. DoD even worked closely with Russia and within Russia in laboratories owned by Russia until 2014.
DoD CTR has worked cooperatively and peacefully with the government of Ukraine to increase biosecurity and biosafety at these sites to ensure pathogens do not pose a risk to the people of Ukraine or the region. The biosafety and biosecurity capacities that DoD has provided are in keeping with those required by the WHO IHR.
No wonder they’re desperate for algorithmic censorship of search results.
-Spartacus
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2022.01.28 01:33 jcravens42 Reddit4Good: subreddits focused on some aspect of volunteerism, community service or philanthropy (& also subreddits where you may post to if your post here gets deleted)
The subreddit you are reading now, volunteer, is moderated and ald has strict standards for posting. volunteer is a moderated subreddit for
Don't like the rules here on this subreddit? Or did your post get deleted for a rule violation? GOOD NEWS: you don't have to send ugly messages to the moderators or try to troll post here like a whiney little boy - there are many other subreddits – online discussion groups on Reddit – where you might be able to post what got rejected here, and many are listed below.
This list of other subreddits is updated at least every three months.
Please do NOT post the same message to all of these other subreddits! There is NO post that would be on-topic for every community below. Be respectful and post only on a subreddit if your post is on topic.
I've marked the subreddits that are the best to repost volunteering messages that get rejected from this volunteer subreddit (because they are DIY efforts or self help groups &/or without details on safety, ownership, because they are voluntourism, because they aren't transparent about who is behind them, because they involve working with children but don't have any meaningful risk management/safeguarding measures, etc.) with an asterisk \* - many of the subreddits marked with such don't have much, or any, moderation, and often have no rules - anyone and everyone can post just about anything they want.
Reddit4Good:
Where to ask fobeg for money:
If you want to get ideas for voluntourism – where you pay to “volunteer” abroad, where you get to have a "feel good" experience for just a few weeks or months (as opposed to having to have an area of expertise and local people designing the volunteer role, not a company that brings in foreign volunteers), try:
If you want to work outdoors in a seasonal, year-long or short-term job and be paid for it, outdoorjobs/ and trailwork and ParkRangers.
There are also numerous groups for people to help each other regarding an emotional or mental crisis, like depression_help, helpmecope, helpme, etc.
If you want to start learning skills locally to help internationally, join a subreddit that's focused on the area you want to build your skills in, like:
biology: for discussions and resources regarding Conservation Biology
conservation: The scientific study of the nature and status of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from extinction.
marinebiology
FreshwaterEcology
farmingr
urbanfarming
HabitatRestoration
publichealth
globalhealth
obgyn
nonprofittech
Refugees
SURVEYS
If you want people to participate in a survey or test group for a product or research study that doesn't have to do with volunteerism or community service, or you LOVE beta testing stuff or filling out surveys, try:
takemysurvey
focusgroup
Samplesize
betatest
And if you have combat training and want to go to Ukraine to fight: volunteersForUkraine/
If you want to read about or participate in discussions about nonprofits beyond volunteering or other philanthropy:
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- questions and discussions regarding helping a community or a cause as a volunteer,
- sharing volunteering experiences,
- questions and discussions regarding how best to recruit, engage & support volunteers,
- questions and discussions ethics around volunteerism,
- news, events or announcements regarding volunteerism,
- requests for volunteers from official nonprofits, charities, schools, government programs, etc.
- ideas about how to volunteer
Don't like the rules here on this subreddit? Or did your post get deleted for a rule violation? GOOD NEWS: you don't have to send ugly messages to the moderators or try to troll post here like a whiney little boy - there are many other subreddits – online discussion groups on Reddit – where you might be able to post what got rejected here, and many are listed below.
This list of other subreddits is updated at least every three months.
Please do NOT post the same message to all of these other subreddits! There is NO post that would be on-topic for every community below. Be respectful and post only on a subreddit if your post is on topic.
I've marked the subreddits that are the best to repost volunteering messages that get rejected from this volunteer subreddit (because they are DIY efforts or self help groups &/or without details on safety, ownership, because they are voluntourism, because they aren't transparent about who is behind them, because they involve working with children but don't have any meaningful risk management/safeguarding measures, etc.) with an asterisk \* - many of the subreddits marked with such don't have much, or any, moderation, and often have no rules - anyone and everyone can post just about anything they want.
Reddit4Good:
Where to ask fobeg for money:
- Assistance/ Redditors helping redditors ranging from financial assistance and wishlist fulfillment to advice, support, contest votes, and surveys.
- Charity Requires you have at least 250 comment karma points to post or comment.
- fundraiser
- Fundraisers
- gofundme
- GoFundMeHelp
- MutualAid
- Philanthropygiving
- Assistance/ Redditors helping redditors ranging from financial assistance and wishlist fulfillment to advice, support, contest votes, and surveys.
- BeTheChange: "Every month the community takes one action which is decided by upvotes."
- CrowdsourcedActivism - Crowdsourced Activism
- doasmallgood - encourages philanthropy, including volunteering
- helpit\*, "For volunteering, helping others, and generally being a good human being." Great place to post your calls for volunteers when your post gets deleted here on the volunteer subreddit.
- helpothers* "Mutual aid/volunteering/needing to find resources, anything is welcome! The world needs more helpers!" Great place to post your calls for volunteers when your post gets deleted here on the volunteer subreddit.
- HumansBeingBros - the perfect place for your humble brag post about what a good person you are.
- LetsMakeaDifference: "Bring your difference making ideas or share with us what you are doing to make a difference and show us how we can help! Or maybe you would just like to tell us about a project that is running somewhere that might need a little help."
- RedditAssemble\*: "A community of people ready to help you bring awareness and change wherever we can."
- Redditors Without Borders*. Great place to post your calls for volunteers when your post gets deleted here on the volunteer subreddit.
- United We Stand – “To engage in discussions about how to improve our current society through non-violent means of caring, sharing, loving, accepting, and helping one another.”
- volunteer2* "without stupid mods." A place to post your calls for volunteers when your post gets deleted here on the Volunteer subreddit.
- VolunteerFreely A place to post your calls for volunteers when your post gets deleted here on the Volunteer subreddit.
- AmeriCorps
- Animal_Sanctuary
- AnimalShelterStories
- BeTheMatch "You have the power to save a life. You could be the match for one of thousands of people diagnosed with a blood disease every year."
- Blood donors
- BoneMarrow
- CASA – Court Appointed Special Advocates. Please post to this ONLY regarding CASA-related work.
- ChurchofRogers, a place for Neighbors to share, learn, and love in the way Mr. Rogers taught us.
- community service
- CommunityTheatre
- Doctors Without Borders
- ECAdvice: Extracurricular Advice
- EffectiveAltruism- aims to find the best ways to help others, and put those ways into practice. What supposedly makes effective altruism different from regular charity is its embrace of statistical reasoning and metrics of efficiency to judge charity’s effectiveness. Effective altruism is supposed to discourage wasteful, suboptimal spending.
- LgbtqHumanitarianism
- FundandDev – to discuss fundraising (also sometimes known as development in the USA)
- Global Development – development in the sense of help humans and protecting the environment
- Habitat for Humanity
- Human Rights
- humanitarian
- International Development – development in the sense of help humans and protecting the environment
- Kidney Match
- Kiva. For discussions of this microlending site.
- Mentors. For people to ask for mentors, of any kind, and for people to offer themselves as mentors. No rules.
- Museums.
- Nonprofit Projects*: "A place to get free work for your next non-profit web development project." If your nonprofit, NGO or other community group needs an entire web site, or just a web page, or something related to your web site, you can post your request for help on this subreddit.
- Nonprofittech
- OregonVolunteers: For nonprofits, schools, government programs & community groups recruiting volunteers for unpaid roles & tasks in support of a non-violent mission to help the environment and communities, including promoting the arts, helping the homeless, promoting water conservation, etc. in Oregon, specifically. Recruitment for voter registration in Oregon by political groups also welcomed.
- OrganDonation
- Peace Corps
- Philanthropy: It's supposed to be discussions & articles about philanthropy, non-profit development, smart giving, fundraising, and all related topics. But a lot of money begging requests are there, despite there being a rule against such.
- Red Cross
- seizethegood – in association with a podcast
- Social Impact Leaders. "Whether you're an entrepreneur trying to make a social impact - while you're generating revenue; or a nonprofit exploring different revenue sources while engaging your community and helping others, this community is for you. You could also be working in a tech company, and applying your tech to make a positive difference in the world... Share your knowledge and stories, and help each other!"
- SupportForUkraine "A community built around showing both symbolic and material support for Ukraine."vIf you go to the group and do a search for the word volunteer, you can find what people are posting about volunteering to help Ukraine.
- SupportingSupporters/ Support For Those Supporting Loved Ones With Mental Illness.
- Tech4Causes: Discuss examples resources & ideas for applying apps & online tools to activities supporting causes that help humans & the environment. Discuss hackathons / hacks4good, apps4good, community tech centers, ICT4D, ethics regarding such, etc. Discuss how nonprofits, NGOs or community programs you work or volunteer are leveraging ICT to do work.
- TechSoup: For staff from the nonprofit organization TechSoup to post about their events and activities on their online community focused on helping all nonprofits, NGOs and libraries to more effectively use technology. Volunteers are welcomed to click on any link to an online community discussion on TechSoup and help try to answer the question or offer advice.
- Thinktank – proposing solutions to problems big and small.
- transplant
- Voluntários no Brasil - Esta comunidade foi feita para achar lugares onde podemos nos voluntariar ou doar dinheiro, e discutir o voluntariado no Brasil.
- Volunteer – This is the reddit you are reading now. Want to help a community or a cause? Want to share your volunteering service experiences or to share opportunities for others? Have questions on how best to recruit, engage & support volunteers? Want to discuss ethics around volunteerism? Come share, question and discuss.
- volunteersforrefugees\ For those wanting to volunteer or support Ukrainian refugees at border crossings, reception centers, train stations and more, or who are already providing such volunteering who want to share their stories. #Ukraine
- VolunteerSuccess - for posts from Volunteer Success, a volunteer matching site for Canada / Canadians
- VolunteerTasks*: to post "one off tasks without a big volunteer commitment. Volunteers are also free to post things they can offer on a one off basis." Microtasks. Does have some rules for posting.
- VolunteerUK: A subreddit that provides a place for UK residents to; ask questions/ seek advice about volunteering, find volunteers and seek volunteering opportunities in the UK :)
- Volunteer Denver
- Volunteer Firefighters
- Volunteer Toronto
- Volunteer Vancouver
- Volunteerism* LOTS of voluntourism posts (pay to volunteer and go have a "feel good" experience in another country). Also a place to post your calls for volunteers when your post gets deleted here on the Volunteer subreddit.
If you want to get ideas for voluntourism – where you pay to “volunteer” abroad, where you get to have a "feel good" experience for just a few weeks or months (as opposed to having to have an area of expertise and local people designing the volunteer role, not a company that brings in foreign volunteers), try:
- volunteerabroad
- voluntouring
- WWOOF
- Voluntourists
- Workaway
- GoAbroad
- ESLTeachersAbroad
- teachinginvietnam
- HelpStay
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I have a presentation tomorrow and I’m worried I didn’t translate it right. If someone would be willing to read over it for me I’d be beyond grateful!!!
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- “• Venereal Diseases are a group of contagious diseases that are typically acquired in sexual intercourse. • They can be transmitted through blood during transfusions and contact with bloody wounds. • They can also be transmitted through bodily fluids, such as perinatal transmission when a mother transmits a disease to her baby during labor.”
- “ARE VENEREAL DISEASES CURABLE?”
- “The eight types of Venereal Diseases are Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Trichomoniasis, Hepatitis B, Human Papillomavirus Infection (HPV), Herpes Simplex Virus, and HIVIAIDS. • There is currently a cure for Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, and Trichomoniasis but there is not a cure for Hepatitis B, Herpes Simplex Virus, HIVIAIDS, and Human Papillomavirus Infection (HPV). • There are treatments for some of the incurable diseases, but not cures.”
- “HIV DIAGNOSES IN 2018 BY ETHNICITY”
- “• Although African Americans had the most diagnoses in 2018, Hispanics/Latinos were a close second. • We also see that male to male sexual contact seems to be a large contributing factor to new diagnoses for all ethnic groups.”
- “VENEREAL DISEASES IN HISPANICS”
- “A majority of new HIV diagnoses in 2018 were from male to male sexual contact and heterosexual contact in females. • We can also see that injection drug use plays a small but noticeable role in unknowingly spreading venereal diseases.”
- “WHAT AGE GROUP IS MOST AFFECTED?”
- “• In 2019, the CDC reported that the age group 20-24 had the highest amount of reported Gonorrhea cases for Hispanics and Whites. • This chart shows that 267.1 total Whites were diagnosed, while 378.4 Hispanics were diagnosed. • 111.3 more Hispanics were diagnosed than Whites.”
- “UNPROTECTED SEX”
- “We see a higher percentage of Hispanics with various venereal diseases compared to other ethnicities, which may be due to a higher rate of unprotected sex. • The use of condoms seems to be a lot lower in Hispanic communities which may be due to cultural ideas such as machismo and marianismo. • Machismo is beliefs and ideas regarding masculinity, and marianismo is beliefs and ideas regarding female roles.”
- “CONDOM USAGE”
- “It seems that male Hispanics generally base their decision to use a condom on the reputation of the other individual. • If the other individual has a reputation for being with multiple partners, they are more inclined to use protection, and vice versa. • For women, the use of a condom was based more on their ability to be assertive in their decision. • Some women preferred using condoms but sometimes would refrain from doing so because they were not assertive enough in their decision if their partner disagreed.”
- “ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE”
- “Another reason for such high rates in Hispanics could be the lack of medical care. • Members of the Hispanic community may not receive medical care due to finances, language barriers, or fear of racial oppression. • Without the ability to receive proper medical care, they may never even be diagnosed. • Without a diagnoses, individuals may never know they have a venereal disease, which can cause that disease to be spread unknowingly.”
- “THEVENEREAL DISEASE DISASTER”
- “This is obviously a large issue that is affecting so many people every 10 daY • A step towards helping fight the spreading of venereal diseases can be by making proper health care more readily available to Hispanic communities. • Also, providing free sexual education demonstrations and testing to Hispanic communities could be beneficial.”
2021.07.08 21:46 rojodeso Propositional map
Propositional map
Id: 172 Cat: The Nature of Man Date: 2003-01-06 04:49:00
Against the human nature of prophecy, the Divine nature presents itself. It -clearly- means that God has his -own mode of figuration, with an object or substance support and a differentiated propositional form. Faced with this assumption, the speaking God presents himself to a man, deaf, blind, and mute: An existential nothing, since he could not participate -in any way in this figuration. God would love a worm as a man loves a cat.
Such a God is a ghost; no matter how hard he appears in our sight, God gives everything to Man. If this reality fights with contingency, perhaps it is because we assume a figure of God projected by our loneliness and fear. It is faith: the tall conversion from madness and anti-projection (https://www.reddit.com/Sacred_Anthropology/comments/ro5d8a/antiprojection/):
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It is probable that in its projective relation to the world, thought refers to reproducing a "figure" of the convolutional form of the brain (it would not depend on types but on ways of projecting types. These forms would be the already known, devinient and antiprojecting forms).
If one of the two forms of figuration fits the process by which God discloses to man through prophecy, the other is a metaphysical illness, also known as a "mental disease", since it can only heal by "conversion" or changes in the mode of figuration. We remember that figuration sets the facts.
The problem of Truth does not end: You have to decide on one, and only one, as the Way of Life. It seems clear a degree to which the political agreement restores health to nature. The environmental impact below that line (45º of occurrence) is very high (that of "in the beasts, I will calm my anger ..."). It is not very difficult to conclude a path towards redeemed scarcity (efficient poverty) analogous to the Path of Life (where we come from and where we are going).
Political agreements are about the ways of putting the facts. That is binding in heaven and on earth. The opposite is tying the world with the rope from heaven, and it is the thief tying his bundle. When the Popes say "...without Christ, reason is not enough," they are saying: "...What I have stolen from you is mine" (including prayer).
The Actus second (2º) received is the one that claims a cosmology.
"... man, abandoned to the pact, will sink into a black chasm called community ... "
This proposition is synonymous with the condemnation of free thought. It is God's abortion proposition:
You heard these things from religious Eleatas from all over the world. They who defend a God for multiplicity deny a God who appears in it.
The function of philosophy is to move the mystical limits: the propositional map. In that manner, nature becomes soothed because its movement harmonizes with the demands of the prophecy of individual self-consciousness. The conservatives' reluctance to this process is illuminating. They need to figure out a magical world so this does not settle in their self-awareness.
Only outside the proposition can the propositional map be changed.
That there is hidden matter is proof that man can modify the mystical limits through thought. Additionally, it demonstrates how figuration determines the facts.
Wittgenstein's objects appear to be matter (2026). There are metalogical objects (the stuff of the other world) in the matter-spirit identity. It is only possible for there to be a fixed form of the Otherness if there are meta-physical things (hidden matter).
The objects support the 2º Aristotelian actus.
The metaphysical objects support the Actus.
The configuration of metalogical objects forms the metalogical state of affairs (eternity).
To be a living being, the mode of figuration must be congruent with the metalogical state of affairs (you have to think with the thought of God). The logical figuration must correspond to the reality of God; this is the necessary mem for thinking and judgment. It is a mem for self-awareness; it does not intervene in multiplicity. It is the projection process. The Nazarene used parables.
What difference does it make if God is the same or different?
God is God, and prophecy, the best of:
We remove God because he does not intervene:
Prophecy is a function of reason (R), Truth (V), and Faith (F):
f(RVF) = f(F)
f(RVF) = f(R)
f(RVF) = f(T)
In turn, f(V) = f(F).f(R), and it remains that God is a function of reason and faith. Sure, God dwells in self-consciousness, where love is the faith of reason and the cause of it. It is so for both good and evil. This way, God is f (R, F) with a given curve:
f(R, F) = R or F (must be seen in a vacuum)
f(R, F) = F (the world - my world provides the evidence) → This is the antiprojection.
So that faith is not anti-projecting (murderous), man must believe in man as the way and form of God, above cosmology (without acceptance).
In the individual, the thing reduces to see or not the world correctly, and, collectively, the issue is to agree on the mystical limits.
Nothing is known regarding what is (given) or not. That is the mystical limit. Once this, the explosion of the object = matter in states of affairs appears in Wittgenstein 2.05 → This is precisely the Prandtl Glauert effect (https://www.reddit.com/Sacred_Anthropology/comments/qouumo/prandtlglauert_singularity/).
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Mapa proposicional
Id: 172 Categoría: La naturaleza del hombre Date: 2003-01-06 04:49:00
Contra la naturaleza humana de la profecía, se presenta la naturaleza Divina. Esto significa claramente que Dios posee un modo propio de figuración, con un soporte de objeto o sustancia y de forma proposicional diferenciada. Frente a este supuesto, Dios hablante se presenta a un Hombre sordo, ciego y mudo; realmente una nada existencial, ya que no podría participar en ningún modo de esta figuración. Dios amaría a un gusano, como el hombre ama a un gato.
Un Dios así es un fantasma. Por duro que aparezca ante nuestros ojos, Dios lo entrega todo al hombre. Si esta realidad se lleva mal con la contingencia, quizás es porque suponemos una figura de Dios proyectada por nuestra soledad y nuestro miedo. Esta es la fe: la gran conversión desde la locura y la antiproyección ( (https://www.reddit.com/Sacred_Anthropology/comments/ro5d8a/antiprojection/)):
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Es probable que en su relación proyectiva al mundo, el pensamiento se remita a reproducir una «figura» de la forma circunvolucional del cerebro (no dependería de tipos, sino de formas de proyectar los tipos. Estas formas serían las ya sabidas, devinientes y antiproyectantes).
Si uno de los dos tipos de figuración es el adecuado al devenimiento de Dios en la autoconciencia del hombre, a través del proceso de profecía, el otro es una enfermedad metafísica, que también puede llamarse mental, porque solo se curaría por *conversión* o cambio del modo de figuración (recordamos que es la figuración la que pone los hechos). No se acaba con el problema de la Verdad: Hay que decidir uno y solo uno como Camino de la Vida. Parece claro un grado a partir del cual el acuerdo político restituye la salud a la naturaleza. El impacto ambiental debajo de esa línea (45º de devenimiento) es muy grande (aquello de «en las bestias calmaré mi ira...»). No es muy difícil concluir un camino hacia la pobreza redimida (pobreza eficiente) como análogo a la Senda de la Vida (de dónde venimos y a dónde vamos).
Los acuerdos políticos lo son sobre los modos de poner los hechos… Eso es atar en el cielo y en la tierra. Lo contrario es atar el mundo con la cuerda del cielo, y ese es el ladrón atando su hatillo. Cuando los Papas dicen «... sin Cristo, la razón no es suficiente», están diciendo: «...lo que te he robado, es mío» (incluyendo la oración).
El acto segundo recibido es el que reivindica una cosmología.
*… el hombre, abandonado al pacto, se hundirá en una sima negra llamada comunidad…*
Esta proposición es sinónima de la condenación al librepensamiento. Es la proposición del aborto de Dios:
Estas cosas se les escuchan a los religiosos eleatas de todas partes del mundo. Ellos, que defienden un Dios para la multiplicidad, niegan a un Dios que aparece en la multiplicidad.
La función de la filosofía es mover los límites místicos: el mapa proposicional. De esta manera se calma a la naturaleza porque se armoniza su movimiento al de las demandas de la profecía de la autoconciencia individual. Es esclarecedora la reticencia de los conservadores a este proceso. Necesitan figurar un mundo mágico para que esto no tenga lugar en sus autoconciencias. El mapa proposicional solo se puede cambiar desde fuera de la proposición.
De que hay materia oculta es una prueba el que el hombre puede modificar los límites místicos a través del pensamiento. También es una prueba el que los hechos vienen determinados por el proceso de figuración.
Los objetos de Wittgenstein parecen ser la materia (2026). En la identidad materia=espíritu hay objetos metalógicos (la sustancia del otro mundo: solo si hay objetos metalógicos (materia oculta) puede haber una forma fija de la Otredad). Los objetos soportan el acto 2º aristotélico. El Acto lo soportan los objetos metalógicos. La configuración de objetos metalógicos forma el estado de cosas metalógicos (la eternidad). Para ser un viviente la figuración debe ser congruente con el estado de cosas metalógico (hay que pensar con el pensamiento de Dios). La figuración lógica debe corresponderse con la realidad de Dios. Este es el mem necesario para el pensamiento y el juicio. Es un mem para la autoconciencia. No interviene en la multiplicidad. Este es el proceso de proyección… Jesús de Nazaret usaba la parábola.
¡Qué más da que Dios sea el mismo o distinto!
Dios es Dios y la profecía lo que más vale de:
f(VRF)=f(F)
f(VRF)=f(R)
f(VRF)=f(V)
A su vez: f(V)=f(F).f(R)
Y queda que Dios es una función de la razón y la fe: es claro que Dios mora en la autoconciencia, donde el amor es la fe de la razón y la razón de la fe. Esto se cumple tanto para el bien como para el mal. Así que Dios es f(R,F) con una curva determinada.:
f(R, F)=R ó F (hay que ver en el vacío)
f(R, F)=F (el mundo - mi mundo proporciona la evidencia)- Esta es la antiproyección.
Para que la fe no sea antiproyectante (asesina) el hombre debe creer en el hombre como camino y forma de Dios, por encima de la cosmología (sin acepción).
En lo individual, la cosa se resume en ver o no ver correctamente el mundo. Y en lo colectivo, la cosa estriba en pactar los límites místicos.
De lo que se da o no se da, no se sabe nada. Ese es el límite místico. Una vez esto la explosión del objeto=materia en estados de cosas aparece en Wittgenstein 2.05- Este es precisamente el efecto de Prandtl Glauert.
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Id: 172 Cat: The Nature of Man Date: 2003-01-06 04:49:00
Against the human nature of prophecy, the Divine nature presents itself. It -clearly- means that God has his -own mode of figuration, with an object or substance support and a differentiated propositional form. Faced with this assumption, the speaking God presents himself to a man, deaf, blind, and mute: An existential nothing, since he could not participate -in any way in this figuration. God would love a worm as a man loves a cat.
Such a God is a ghost; no matter how hard he appears in our sight, God gives everything to Man. If this reality fights with contingency, perhaps it is because we assume a figure of God projected by our loneliness and fear. It is faith: the tall conversion from madness and anti-projection (https://www.reddit.com/Sacred_Anthropology/comments/ro5d8a/antiprojection/):
----------------------------------------
It is probable that in its projective relation to the world, thought refers to reproducing a "figure" of the convolutional form of the brain (it would not depend on types but on ways of projecting types. These forms would be the already known, devinient and antiprojecting forms).
If one of the two forms of figuration fits the process by which God discloses to man through prophecy, the other is a metaphysical illness, also known as a "mental disease", since it can only heal by "conversion" or changes in the mode of figuration. We remember that figuration sets the facts.
The problem of Truth does not end: You have to decide on one, and only one, as the Way of Life. It seems clear a degree to which the political agreement restores health to nature. The environmental impact below that line (45º of occurrence) is very high (that of "in the beasts, I will calm my anger ..."). It is not very difficult to conclude a path towards redeemed scarcity (efficient poverty) analogous to the Path of Life (where we come from and where we are going).
Political agreements are about the ways of putting the facts. That is binding in heaven and on earth. The opposite is tying the world with the rope from heaven, and it is the thief tying his bundle. When the Popes say "...without Christ, reason is not enough," they are saying: "...What I have stolen from you is mine" (including prayer).
The Actus second (2º) received is the one that claims a cosmology.
"... man, abandoned to the pact, will sink into a black chasm called community ... "
This proposition is synonymous with the condemnation of free thought. It is God's abortion proposition:
You heard these things from religious Eleatas from all over the world. They who defend a God for multiplicity deny a God who appears in it.
The function of philosophy is to move the mystical limits: the propositional map. In that manner, nature becomes soothed because its movement harmonizes with the demands of the prophecy of individual self-consciousness. The conservatives' reluctance to this process is illuminating. They need to figure out a magical world so this does not settle in their self-awareness.
Only outside the proposition can the propositional map be changed.
That there is hidden matter is proof that man can modify the mystical limits through thought. Additionally, it demonstrates how figuration determines the facts.
Wittgenstein's objects appear to be matter (2026). There are metalogical objects (the stuff of the other world) in the matter-spirit identity. It is only possible for there to be a fixed form of the Otherness if there are meta-physical things (hidden matter).
The objects support the 2º Aristotelian actus.
The metaphysical objects support the Actus.
The configuration of metalogical objects forms the metalogical state of affairs (eternity).
To be a living being, the mode of figuration must be congruent with the metalogical state of affairs (you have to think with the thought of God). The logical figuration must correspond to the reality of God; this is the necessary mem for thinking and judgment. It is a mem for self-awareness; it does not intervene in multiplicity. It is the projection process. The Nazarene used parables.
What difference does it make if God is the same or different?
God is God, and prophecy, the best of:
- God
- Prophecy
- Faith - Reason - Truth
- Prophecy
- God
We remove God because he does not intervene:
- Prophecy
- { Faith (F) - Reason (R) - Truth (V) }
- Prophecy
Prophecy is a function of reason (R), Truth (V), and Faith (F):
f(RVF) = f(F)
f(RVF) = f(R)
f(RVF) = f(T)
In turn, f(V) = f(F).f(R), and it remains that God is a function of reason and faith. Sure, God dwells in self-consciousness, where love is the faith of reason and the cause of it. It is so for both good and evil. This way, God is f (R, F) with a given curve:
f(R, F) = R or F (must be seen in a vacuum)
f(R, F) = F (the world - my world provides the evidence) → This is the antiprojection.
So that faith is not anti-projecting (murderous), man must believe in man as the way and form of God, above cosmology (without acceptance).
In the individual, the thing reduces to see or not the world correctly, and, collectively, the issue is to agree on the mystical limits.
Nothing is known regarding what is (given) or not. That is the mystical limit. Once this, the explosion of the object = matter in states of affairs appears in Wittgenstein 2.05 → This is precisely the Prandtl Glauert effect (https://www.reddit.com/Sacred_Anthropology/comments/qouumo/prandtlglauert_singularity/).
************************************************
Mapa proposicional
Id: 172 Categoría: La naturaleza del hombre Date: 2003-01-06 04:49:00
Contra la naturaleza humana de la profecía, se presenta la naturaleza Divina. Esto significa claramente que Dios posee un modo propio de figuración, con un soporte de objeto o sustancia y de forma proposicional diferenciada. Frente a este supuesto, Dios hablante se presenta a un Hombre sordo, ciego y mudo; realmente una nada existencial, ya que no podría participar en ningún modo de esta figuración. Dios amaría a un gusano, como el hombre ama a un gato.
Un Dios así es un fantasma. Por duro que aparezca ante nuestros ojos, Dios lo entrega todo al hombre. Si esta realidad se lleva mal con la contingencia, quizás es porque suponemos una figura de Dios proyectada por nuestra soledad y nuestro miedo. Esta es la fe: la gran conversión desde la locura y la antiproyección ( (https://www.reddit.com/Sacred_Anthropology/comments/ro5d8a/antiprojection/)):
----------------------------------------------
Es probable que en su relación proyectiva al mundo, el pensamiento se remita a reproducir una «figura» de la forma circunvolucional del cerebro (no dependería de tipos, sino de formas de proyectar los tipos. Estas formas serían las ya sabidas, devinientes y antiproyectantes).
Si uno de los dos tipos de figuración es el adecuado al devenimiento de Dios en la autoconciencia del hombre, a través del proceso de profecía, el otro es una enfermedad metafísica, que también puede llamarse mental, porque solo se curaría por *conversión* o cambio del modo de figuración (recordamos que es la figuración la que pone los hechos). No se acaba con el problema de la Verdad: Hay que decidir uno y solo uno como Camino de la Vida. Parece claro un grado a partir del cual el acuerdo político restituye la salud a la naturaleza. El impacto ambiental debajo de esa línea (45º de devenimiento) es muy grande (aquello de «en las bestias calmaré mi ira...»). No es muy difícil concluir un camino hacia la pobreza redimida (pobreza eficiente) como análogo a la Senda de la Vida (de dónde venimos y a dónde vamos).
Los acuerdos políticos lo son sobre los modos de poner los hechos… Eso es atar en el cielo y en la tierra. Lo contrario es atar el mundo con la cuerda del cielo, y ese es el ladrón atando su hatillo. Cuando los Papas dicen «... sin Cristo, la razón no es suficiente», están diciendo: «...lo que te he robado, es mío» (incluyendo la oración).
El acto segundo recibido es el que reivindica una cosmología.
*… el hombre, abandonado al pacto, se hundirá en una sima negra llamada comunidad…*
Esta proposición es sinónima de la condenación al librepensamiento. Es la proposición del aborto de Dios:
Estas cosas se les escuchan a los religiosos eleatas de todas partes del mundo. Ellos, que defienden un Dios para la multiplicidad, niegan a un Dios que aparece en la multiplicidad.
La función de la filosofía es mover los límites místicos: el mapa proposicional. De esta manera se calma a la naturaleza porque se armoniza su movimiento al de las demandas de la profecía de la autoconciencia individual. Es esclarecedora la reticencia de los conservadores a este proceso. Necesitan figurar un mundo mágico para que esto no tenga lugar en sus autoconciencias. El mapa proposicional solo se puede cambiar desde fuera de la proposición.
De que hay materia oculta es una prueba el que el hombre puede modificar los límites místicos a través del pensamiento. También es una prueba el que los hechos vienen determinados por el proceso de figuración.
Los objetos de Wittgenstein parecen ser la materia (2026). En la identidad materia=espíritu hay objetos metalógicos (la sustancia del otro mundo: solo si hay objetos metalógicos (materia oculta) puede haber una forma fija de la Otredad). Los objetos soportan el acto 2º aristotélico. El Acto lo soportan los objetos metalógicos. La configuración de objetos metalógicos forma el estado de cosas metalógicos (la eternidad). Para ser un viviente la figuración debe ser congruente con el estado de cosas metalógico (hay que pensar con el pensamiento de Dios). La figuración lógica debe corresponderse con la realidad de Dios. Este es el mem necesario para el pensamiento y el juicio. Es un mem para la autoconciencia. No interviene en la multiplicidad. Este es el proceso de proyección… Jesús de Nazaret usaba la parábola.
¡Qué más da que Dios sea el mismo o distinto!
Dios es Dios y la profecía lo que más vale de:
- Dios
- Profecía
- Fe - Razón - Verdad
- Profecía
- Dios
- Profecía
- Fe - Razón - Verdad
- Profecía
f(VRF)=f(F)
f(VRF)=f(R)
f(VRF)=f(V)
A su vez: f(V)=f(F).f(R)
Y queda que Dios es una función de la razón y la fe: es claro que Dios mora en la autoconciencia, donde el amor es la fe de la razón y la razón de la fe. Esto se cumple tanto para el bien como para el mal. Así que Dios es f(R,F) con una curva determinada.:
f(R, F)=R ó F (hay que ver en el vacío)
f(R, F)=F (el mundo - mi mundo proporciona la evidencia)- Esta es la antiproyección.
Para que la fe no sea antiproyectante (asesina) el hombre debe creer en el hombre como camino y forma de Dios, por encima de la cosmología (sin acepción).
En lo individual, la cosa se resume en ver o no ver correctamente el mundo. Y en lo colectivo, la cosa estriba en pactar los límites místicos.
De lo que se da o no se da, no se sabe nada. Ese es el límite místico. Una vez esto la explosión del objeto=materia en estados de cosas aparece en Wittgenstein 2.05- Este es precisamente el efecto de Prandtl Glauert.
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Update from Superintendent Mendivil
November 20, 2020Dear TUHSD Parents and Families,
As I previously shared with you, our District has been carefully monitoring the public health metrics made available by both Maricopa County and the Arizona Department of Health Services. These metrics have guided our decision making from the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Beginning Monday, November 30, TUHSD will return to virtual learning. We remain mindful of our responsibility to keep our entire community safe - from students to teachers to staff and their respective families. Please know that we do not take this decision lightly and that we are continuing to focus on delivering quality instruction in the virtual environment. Additionally, Tempe Elementary and Kyrene have made decisions to return to virtual instruction as a result of their metrics, which we share. The level of collaboration with our sister districts has always been a priority, especially in situations like this one.
Report courtesy of Maricopa County Department of Public Health. Dashboard available here. Additional factors we have taken into consideration include:
- TUHSD students in quarantine While our positive case count has remained low, we have seen an increase in reports in the last two weeks and, as of today, approximately 915 students and staff have been isolated or quarantined due to possible exposure on campus.
- Substitute shortage A growing number of staff are experiencing COVID-like symptoms due to flu, colds or other viruses. Staff are required to remain home with ANY symptoms, and we are having extreme difficulty securing substitute teachers for those classrooms. Soon, we will not have enough personnel to cover classes. Moving to contingency reduces the risk of teachers being out sick.
- Off-campus behaviors So many of our families have been diligent about practicing good safety habits both on and off campus. However, we have seen multiple cases of students sent to school with symptoms or while awaiting COVID test results. These incidents put staff and other students at risk in addition to causing preventable school quarantines.
- Projection models Current models predict exponential growth of COVID-19 cases over the next several weeks, projecting as many as 250,000 positive daily U.S. cases with 3,000-5,000 deaths per day. Higher community spread translates into higher positive COVID cases on campuses, higher counts of quarantine, and greater risk for everyone.
- How long will we stay in virtual mode? Our decisions are always guided by the public health metrics. We will continue to monitor the metrics, no matter what instruction mode we are offering, and bring students back to campus when the metrics indicate it is safe to do so again.
- What does this mean for my student who is currently in hybrid mode? Your student will shift to virtual instruction. Additional information on bell schedules and other specifics will be circulated next week.
- What does this mean for my student who is already in virtual mode? There will not be a substantial change for students who are already in virtual mode. They will see all of their classmates joining class from home. Additional information on bell schedules and other specifics will be circulated next week.
- What does this mean for my special needs or high-risk student? On-site support services will be made available for students who fall into priority categories, in compliance with the original Executive Order from Governor Doug Ducey. Please see here for more information about on-site support services and the students that qualify.
Thank you for your continued support,
Dr. Kevin J. Mendivil Superintendent
Estimados padres y familias de TUHSD:
Como dije anteriormente, nuestro Distrito ha estado monitoreando cuidadosamente las métricas de salud pública disponibles tanto por el Condado de Maricopa como por el Departamento de Servicios de Salud de Arizona. Estas métricas han guiado nuestra toma de decisiones desde el comienzo de la pandemia de COVID-19.
A partir del lunes 30 de noviembre, TUHSD volverá al aprendizaje virtual. Seguimos conscientes de nuestra responsabilidad de mantener segura a toda nuestra comunidad, desde los estudiantes hasta los maestros, el personal y sus respectivas familias. Tenga en cuenta que no tomamos esta decisión a la ligera y que continuamos enfocándonos en brindar instrucción de calidad en el entorno virtual. Además, la Primaria Tempe y Kyrene han tomado decisiones para regresar a la instrucción virtual como resultado de sus métricas, que compartimos. El nivel de colaboración con nuestros distritos hermanos siempre ha sido una prioridad, especialmente en situaciones como esta.
Informe cortesía del Departamento de Salud Pública del Condado de Maricopa.
Los factores adicionales que hemos tenido en cuenta incluyen: Estudiantes de TUHSD en cuarentena Si bien nuestro recuento de casos positivos se ha mantenido bajo, hemos visto un aumento en los informes en las últimas dos semanas y, a la fecha, casi 915 estudiantes y personal han sido aislados o puestos en cuarentena debido a una posible exposición en el campus.
Escasez de sustitutos Un número creciente de empleados experimenta síntomas similares a los de COVID debido a la gripe, resfriados u otros virus. Se requiere que el personal permanezca en casa con CUALQUIER síntoma, y estamos teniendo dificultades extremas para conseguir maestros sustitutos para esas aulas. Pronto, no tendremos suficiente personal para cubrir las clases. Pasar a la contingencia reduce el riesgo de que los profesores se enfermen.
Comportamientos fuera del campus Muchas de nuestras familias han sido diligentes en la práctica de buenos hábitos de seguridad tanto dentro como fuera del campus. Sin embargo, hemos visto varios casos de estudiantes enviados a la escuela con síntomas o mientras esperaban los resultados de la prueba COVID. Estos incidentes ponen en riesgo al personal y a otros estudiantes, además de causar cuarentenas escolares prevenibles.
Modelos de proyección Los modelos actuales predicen un crecimiento exponencial de los casos de COVID-19 durante las próximas semanas, proyectando hasta 250,000 casos positivos diarios en los EE. UU. Con 3,000-5,000 muertes por día. Una mayor propagación en la comunidad se traduce en casos de COVID positivos más altos en los campus, recuentos más altos de cuarentena y mayor riesgo para todos.
Sabemos que tendrá preguntas y, a medida que los planes se desarrollen y se compartan, haremos todo lo posible para responderlas. Esto incluye la planificación de actividades deportivas y extracurriculares. Aquí hay algunos que podemos abordar actualmente:
¿Cuánto tiempo permaneceremos en modo virtual? Nuestras decisiones siempre se guían por las métricas de salud pública. Continuaremos monitoreando las métricas, sin importar el modo de instrucción que estemos ofreciendo, y llevaremos a los estudiantes de regreso al campus cuando las métricas indiquen que es seguro hacerlo nuevamente.
¿Qué significa esto para mi estudiante que se encuentra actualmente en modo híbrido? Su estudiante cambiará a la instrucción virtual. La próxima semana se distribuirá información adicional sobre los horarios de las campanas y otros detalles.
¿Qué significa esto para mi alumno que ya está en modo virtual? No habrá un cambio sustancial para los estudiantes que ya están en modo virtual. Verán a todos sus compañeros unirse a clase desde casa. La próxima semana se distribuirá información adicional sobre los horarios de las campanas y otros detalles.
¿Qué significa esto para mi estudiante con necesidades especiales o de alto riesgo? Los servicios de apoyo en el lugar estarán disponibles para los estudiantes que caen en categorías prioritarias, de conformidad con la Orden Ejecutiva original del Gobernador Doug Ducey. Consulte aquí para obtener más información sobre los servicios de apoyo en el lugar y los estudiantes que califican.
Entendemos que este es un momento difícil para muchas de nuestras familias. Como recordatorio, hay recursos en línea para ayudarlo a usted y a sus familias, incluida una lista de recursos de bienestar social y emocional (disponible aquí). Asegúrese de utilizarlos y comuníquese con los equipos de apoyo de su escuela para obtener información y recursos adicionales.
Gracias por su continuo apoyo,
Dr. Kevin J. Mendivil Superintendente
2020.10.28 13:44 Insider_JA Nikita Mendkovich The U.S. Army tested bioweapons in CIS countries: investigation.
This text is the result of the study of the role of U.S. military and biological projects in Kazakhstan in a number of cases of mass contamination with diseases dangerous to humans. We provide concrete evidence of the involvement of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the U.S. Department of Defense and a group of U.S. officers working in the country.
We also found evidence of violations of the 1972 Biological Weapons Development and Biomaterial Smuggling Ban Treaty in their work.
The investigation is based on public sources, research published in the scientific press, official statements by U.S. military and Kazakh officials, and a number of internal documents from U.S. bio projects published by journalists between 2018 and 2020.
Please consider this article an appeal to the Kazakh authorities and the competent authorities of Georgia and Russia to verify our assumptions.
Laboratories or military biology bases?
Many in the scientific community believe that the research activities of DTRA are related to the development of biological weapons.
In 2018, a group of European biologists published an analysis of American developments based on open data in the authoritative journal Science. The work proves that a number of pentagon subsidised research activities can be focused exclusively on the development of new biological weapons.
The Federation of American Scientists also believes that a number of U.S. military biotechnologies are in violation of the 1972 agreement, which the U.S. side interpreted too broadly.
In Kazakhstan, DTRA has been conducting research for over 15 years, using the capacity of 6 local research institutes. At least 28 projects of American military biologists are known from open sources in the Republic. More than 30 foreign specialists, mostly officers and contractors of the armies of the U.S., UK and Germany, took part in them. The total cost of the programs is hundreds of millions of dollars.
The main facilities in use include the Center for Highly Dangerous Infections in Almaty (CHDI) and the Biosecurity Research Institute (BSRI) in Zhambyl Oblast.
According to former Kazakhstani Deputy Defense Minister Amirbek Togusov, agreements with the U.S. make it possible to remove these facilities from national control and conduct secret and fully independent operations there. A study of the real practice of the IDF shows that it is largely run not by the official directorate, but by the "Office of the CDC at the U.S. Embassy," the U.S. military structure, and even when working within the framework of the Kazakh authorities' assignments.
When Kazakh President Kasym-Jomart Tokayev made the decision in June 2020 to withdraw foreigners from the CHDI, it was ignored by the United States. The head of the "Office of the CDC" Air Force Commander Daniel Singer publicly stated that the U.S. side will continue to work indefinitely, and in the DTRA budget planned projects in the reference laboratory of CHDI are scheduled for 2020 and even 2021.
Brucellosis (2009)
Specialists note that research in U.S. laboratories in the CIS coincides with abnormal disease outbreaks.
In his recent report, former expert of the European Commission biologist Grigor Grigoryan draws attention to outbreaks of tularaemia, anthrax and African swine fever in Armenia and Georgia. According to his data, they could not have been caused naturally and coincided with the work on these diseases in local American laboratories. Among specific examples, he cited an outbreak of swine fever in 2007 and anthrax in 2012.
A study of U.S. biomedical laboratories in Kazakhstan suggests that similar incidents have occurred. Let us take a case study: an outbreak of brucellosis in South Kazakhstan in 2009 occurred during the DTRA brucellosis research projects in Kazakhstan (KZ-2) and Uzbekistan (UZ-4).
These events were preceded by a long decline in brucellosis morbidity in Kazakhstan (2004-2007), and after that there was a sharp increase in the number of brucellosis foci among pets (2009-2013) recorded by local veterinary services.
Later genetic studies of brucellosis strains in the Republic have recorded significant differences in brucellosis samples from Zhambyl region, where it is located (US DTRA contractor) from samples from other regions of Kazakhstan. Strains related to the USA and Western European countries were identified among the studied Kazakhstani materials.
DTRA specialists do not give any explanation of these discoveries.
The KZ-2 research team included: Mikeljon Nikolic, a researcher at the Walter Reed Institute of the U.S. Army, Jason Blackburn, head of the DTRA-funded Laboratory of Spatial Epidemiology (University of Florida), and Philip Elser, a biologist and long-time participant in NATO programs.
That is, a group of U.S. military biological warfare specialists was linked to a brucellosis outbreak in Kazakhstan.
Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever (2014)
In 2014, the outbreak of Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever (KKGL) covered three countries at once: Kazakhstan, Georgia and Russia. In Georgia, the infection rate was much higher than in previous years. According to the sanitary authorities, ticks were the vector of the disease.
A year earlier, in 2013, DTRA launched the KZ-29 project in Kazakhstan, aimed at studying the spread of KKGL, and it is precisely ticks. The research was led by Allan Richards, now Lieutenant Commander of the Navy, and Lieutenant Christian Farris of the U.S. Navy Medical Center (Maryland).
Other members of the team included Kenneth E of MRIGlobal, a contractor with the U.S. Department of Defense, and Roger Hewson, who leads research for the British Army and is based in Salisbury, where the Army Microbiology Center is located. Once again, a familiar picture. In other words, it is again about the developments of military biologists.
The geography of the disease allows one to ask: were KKGL strains transmitted between U.S. laboratories?
We know for sure that they have. This is what Richards and E. write about 5 years later in their article: "Example KZ-29 (...) noted the importance and difficulty of increasing scientific transparency through the exchange of samples of materials".
So, the program was, and it was associated with some problems.
What kind of problems? Only a year after these events, the U.S. Army established a procedure to transport strains and other bio-samples bypassing national laws. Since 2015, the U.S. military has been issuing diplomatic passports, and the cargoes have been transported like diplomatic pouch, which is not subject to inspection and arrest.
In particular, that practice was documented in the published materials for 2015 by the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, which was carrying out the traffic of biological samples between the United States and Georgia.
However, in 2014 the KZ-29 project received support from the State Department, for which the authors expressed their gratitude in a published article. Given that the State Department usually does not finance military development, it is probably a diplomatic cover for the actual smuggling of bio-materials.
Who was transporting them? In the near future such transactions, including bio samples collected in Russia, were handled by the above mentioned Mikeljon Nikolic from the Reed Institute.
Did he travel between Kazakhstan and Georgia in 2014? Yes, we know this from the correspondence on his blog. It shows that Nikolic visited both countries during the first half of 2014, and visited Kazakhstan in the area of Otar (Zhambyl Oblast) - near the Institute for Biological Safety Problems, where Pentagon research projects were then underway.
Alpha-Coronavirus (2017)
DTRA is studying the spread of dangerous diseases among the fauna of the region in order to assess the possibility of using these creatures and diseases for biological warfare in the region. The conditions of the task require an assessment of how externally introduced disease will spread on the spot due to climatic and zoological differences. This requires the infestation of reservoir creatures, and there is an automatic risk of disease transmission to humans.
The scandalous story of the KZ-33 project related to the study of bats coronavirus can serve as proof of this practice. Professor Gavin Smith and Dr. Ian Mendenhall studied coronavirus in bats of Kazakhstan at two sites of Tulkubas district in spring 2017 on DTRA assignment.
However, according to CHDI, coronavirus has never been registered in Kazakhstan before. However, this did not prevent the research team from finding not only infected mice, but also a new strain of coronavirus, and strains related to Spain and South Africa.
Once again, these interesting observations have not been analysed by the authors.
This information is in line with the fact that in the U.S. for 2015 there were developments on artificial modification of coronavirus to increase its danger to humans, as reported, in particular, in the publications of the journal "Nature". The work was conducted at Chapel Hill University (North Carolina), which is also funded by DTRA. Due to the U.S. government moratorium of October 2014, it is not possible to experiment with the virus on U.S. territory, but there is no ban on its conduct in Kazakhstan.
Published documents about the work of the so-called "Lugar Center" (Georgia), controlled by DTRA, show that the work of Smith and Mendenhall is part of a large Pentagon program to study the possibility of using coronavirus as a biological weapon against China and Russia. We will not, however, duplicate the content of sources already published here.
We do not have accurate data on whether U.S. Army experiments are related to a different form of coronavirus pandemic in 2019-2020. A number of reputable experts believe that it has signs of artificial formation. This idea is expressed, in particular, by Nobel laureate in biology Luc Montagnier (France), Professors Birger Sørnssen (Norway) and Agnes Dalgisch (Great Britain), as well as the above quoted former expert of the European Commission, G. Dalgisch. Grigoryan (Armenia).
The materials we have collected only show that United States military biologists have experimented on genetically modified strains of the said virus.
Conclusions
The data we have collected allows us to believe that on the instructions of the U.S. Military Command, a criminal group of U.S. servicemen and contractors of the U.S. Department of Defense was established to conduct biological research violating the 1972 agreement in Kazakhstan.
The experiments involved artificially infecting local fauna with diseases dangerous to humans, leading to outbreaks of brucellosis in 2009 and KKGL in 2014, the latter affecting Georgia and Russia.
These experiments, which were conducted with disregard for the safety of citizens of the host countries, resulted in a number of deaths and significant health damage, as well as damage to the economies of the host countries.
We hold U.S. citizens Allan Richards, Christina Farris, Micheljon Nikolic, Jason Blackburn, Philip Elser, Ian Mendenhall, Kenneth E. and Gavin Smith, as well as British citizen Roger Hewson, responsible for these criminal experiments. We believe these individuals acted on behalf of DTRA, the U.S. Naval Medical Center and the U.S. Army Reed Institute.
We ask the competent authorities in Kazakhstan, Georgia and Russia to verify our assumptions.
We also ask that the leadership of the Center for Highly Dangerous Infections in Almaty and the Research Institute for Biological Security Problems in Gvardiyskoye, which were supposed to monitor the U.S. military in the republic for signs of corruption.
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We also found evidence of violations of the 1972 Biological Weapons Development and Biomaterial Smuggling Ban Treaty in their work.
The investigation is based on public sources, research published in the scientific press, official statements by U.S. military and Kazakh officials, and a number of internal documents from U.S. bio projects published by journalists between 2018 and 2020.
Please consider this article an appeal to the Kazakh authorities and the competent authorities of Georgia and Russia to verify our assumptions.
Laboratories or military biology bases?
Many in the scientific community believe that the research activities of DTRA are related to the development of biological weapons.
In 2018, a group of European biologists published an analysis of American developments based on open data in the authoritative journal Science. The work proves that a number of pentagon subsidised research activities can be focused exclusively on the development of new biological weapons.
The Federation of American Scientists also believes that a number of U.S. military biotechnologies are in violation of the 1972 agreement, which the U.S. side interpreted too broadly.
In Kazakhstan, DTRA has been conducting research for over 15 years, using the capacity of 6 local research institutes. At least 28 projects of American military biologists are known from open sources in the Republic. More than 30 foreign specialists, mostly officers and contractors of the armies of the U.S., UK and Germany, took part in them. The total cost of the programs is hundreds of millions of dollars.
The main facilities in use include the Center for Highly Dangerous Infections in Almaty (CHDI) and the Biosecurity Research Institute (BSRI) in Zhambyl Oblast.
According to former Kazakhstani Deputy Defense Minister Amirbek Togusov, agreements with the U.S. make it possible to remove these facilities from national control and conduct secret and fully independent operations there. A study of the real practice of the IDF shows that it is largely run not by the official directorate, but by the "Office of the CDC at the U.S. Embassy," the U.S. military structure, and even when working within the framework of the Kazakh authorities' assignments.
When Kazakh President Kasym-Jomart Tokayev made the decision in June 2020 to withdraw foreigners from the CHDI, it was ignored by the United States. The head of the "Office of the CDC" Air Force Commander Daniel Singer publicly stated that the U.S. side will continue to work indefinitely, and in the DTRA budget planned projects in the reference laboratory of CHDI are scheduled for 2020 and even 2021.
Brucellosis (2009)
Specialists note that research in U.S. laboratories in the CIS coincides with abnormal disease outbreaks.
In his recent report, former expert of the European Commission biologist Grigor Grigoryan draws attention to outbreaks of tularaemia, anthrax and African swine fever in Armenia and Georgia. According to his data, they could not have been caused naturally and coincided with the work on these diseases in local American laboratories. Among specific examples, he cited an outbreak of swine fever in 2007 and anthrax in 2012.
A study of U.S. biomedical laboratories in Kazakhstan suggests that similar incidents have occurred. Let us take a case study: an outbreak of brucellosis in South Kazakhstan in 2009 occurred during the DTRA brucellosis research projects in Kazakhstan (KZ-2) and Uzbekistan (UZ-4).
These events were preceded by a long decline in brucellosis morbidity in Kazakhstan (2004-2007), and after that there was a sharp increase in the number of brucellosis foci among pets (2009-2013) recorded by local veterinary services.
Later genetic studies of brucellosis strains in the Republic have recorded significant differences in brucellosis samples from Zhambyl region, where it is located (US DTRA contractor) from samples from other regions of Kazakhstan. Strains related to the USA and Western European countries were identified among the studied Kazakhstani materials.
DTRA specialists do not give any explanation of these discoveries.
The KZ-2 research team included: Mikeljon Nikolic, a researcher at the Walter Reed Institute of the U.S. Army, Jason Blackburn, head of the DTRA-funded Laboratory of Spatial Epidemiology (University of Florida), and Philip Elser, a biologist and long-time participant in NATO programs.
That is, a group of U.S. military biological warfare specialists was linked to a brucellosis outbreak in Kazakhstan.
Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever (2014)
In 2014, the outbreak of Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever (KKGL) covered three countries at once: Kazakhstan, Georgia and Russia. In Georgia, the infection rate was much higher than in previous years. According to the sanitary authorities, ticks were the vector of the disease.
A year earlier, in 2013, DTRA launched the KZ-29 project in Kazakhstan, aimed at studying the spread of KKGL, and it is precisely ticks. The research was led by Allan Richards, now Lieutenant Commander of the Navy, and Lieutenant Christian Farris of the U.S. Navy Medical Center (Maryland).
Other members of the team included Kenneth E of MRIGlobal, a contractor with the U.S. Department of Defense, and Roger Hewson, who leads research for the British Army and is based in Salisbury, where the Army Microbiology Center is located. Once again, a familiar picture. In other words, it is again about the developments of military biologists.
The geography of the disease allows one to ask: were KKGL strains transmitted between U.S. laboratories?
We know for sure that they have. This is what Richards and E. write about 5 years later in their article: "Example KZ-29 (...) noted the importance and difficulty of increasing scientific transparency through the exchange of samples of materials".
So, the program was, and it was associated with some problems.
What kind of problems? Only a year after these events, the U.S. Army established a procedure to transport strains and other bio-samples bypassing national laws. Since 2015, the U.S. military has been issuing diplomatic passports, and the cargoes have been transported like diplomatic pouch, which is not subject to inspection and arrest.
In particular, that practice was documented in the published materials for 2015 by the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, which was carrying out the traffic of biological samples between the United States and Georgia.
However, in 2014 the KZ-29 project received support from the State Department, for which the authors expressed their gratitude in a published article. Given that the State Department usually does not finance military development, it is probably a diplomatic cover for the actual smuggling of bio-materials.
Who was transporting them? In the near future such transactions, including bio samples collected in Russia, were handled by the above mentioned Mikeljon Nikolic from the Reed Institute.
Did he travel between Kazakhstan and Georgia in 2014? Yes, we know this from the correspondence on his blog. It shows that Nikolic visited both countries during the first half of 2014, and visited Kazakhstan in the area of Otar (Zhambyl Oblast) - near the Institute for Biological Safety Problems, where Pentagon research projects were then underway.
Alpha-Coronavirus (2017)
DTRA is studying the spread of dangerous diseases among the fauna of the region in order to assess the possibility of using these creatures and diseases for biological warfare in the region. The conditions of the task require an assessment of how externally introduced disease will spread on the spot due to climatic and zoological differences. This requires the infestation of reservoir creatures, and there is an automatic risk of disease transmission to humans.
The scandalous story of the KZ-33 project related to the study of bats coronavirus can serve as proof of this practice. Professor Gavin Smith and Dr. Ian Mendenhall studied coronavirus in bats of Kazakhstan at two sites of Tulkubas district in spring 2017 on DTRA assignment.
However, according to CHDI, coronavirus has never been registered in Kazakhstan before. However, this did not prevent the research team from finding not only infected mice, but also a new strain of coronavirus, and strains related to Spain and South Africa.
Once again, these interesting observations have not been analysed by the authors.
This information is in line with the fact that in the U.S. for 2015 there were developments on artificial modification of coronavirus to increase its danger to humans, as reported, in particular, in the publications of the journal "Nature". The work was conducted at Chapel Hill University (North Carolina), which is also funded by DTRA. Due to the U.S. government moratorium of October 2014, it is not possible to experiment with the virus on U.S. territory, but there is no ban on its conduct in Kazakhstan.
Published documents about the work of the so-called "Lugar Center" (Georgia), controlled by DTRA, show that the work of Smith and Mendenhall is part of a large Pentagon program to study the possibility of using coronavirus as a biological weapon against China and Russia. We will not, however, duplicate the content of sources already published here.
We do not have accurate data on whether U.S. Army experiments are related to a different form of coronavirus pandemic in 2019-2020. A number of reputable experts believe that it has signs of artificial formation. This idea is expressed, in particular, by Nobel laureate in biology Luc Montagnier (France), Professors Birger Sørnssen (Norway) and Agnes Dalgisch (Great Britain), as well as the above quoted former expert of the European Commission, G. Dalgisch. Grigoryan (Armenia).
The materials we have collected only show that United States military biologists have experimented on genetically modified strains of the said virus.
Conclusions
The data we have collected allows us to believe that on the instructions of the U.S. Military Command, a criminal group of U.S. servicemen and contractors of the U.S. Department of Defense was established to conduct biological research violating the 1972 agreement in Kazakhstan.
The experiments involved artificially infecting local fauna with diseases dangerous to humans, leading to outbreaks of brucellosis in 2009 and KKGL in 2014, the latter affecting Georgia and Russia.
These experiments, which were conducted with disregard for the safety of citizens of the host countries, resulted in a number of deaths and significant health damage, as well as damage to the economies of the host countries.
We hold U.S. citizens Allan Richards, Christina Farris, Micheljon Nikolic, Jason Blackburn, Philip Elser, Ian Mendenhall, Kenneth E. and Gavin Smith, as well as British citizen Roger Hewson, responsible for these criminal experiments. We believe these individuals acted on behalf of DTRA, the U.S. Naval Medical Center and the U.S. Army Reed Institute.
We ask the competent authorities in Kazakhstan, Georgia and Russia to verify our assumptions.
We also ask that the leadership of the Center for Highly Dangerous Infections in Almaty and the Research Institute for Biological Security Problems in Gvardiyskoye, which were supposed to monitor the U.S. military in the republic for signs of corruption.
2020.07.22 14:47 Insider_JA Experts Used Numbers to Prove the Degree of Danger of US Biolaboratories
American biological laboratories, located in different countries around the world, are a very real threat on a planetary scale. During the international conference dedicated to the work of American biolabs in the eastern European space, held on the site of the “Public News Service” with the support of “Ridus”, experts shared information about the activities of US biolabs.
United States biolabs located in Central Asia pose a threat to the entire region. Nikita Mendkovich, the head of the Eurasian Analytical Club, spoke about this in detail during the conference.
The expert presented the data of his own investigation into the activities of biolabs established by the US armed forces in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, which officially operate there to this day.
This is an open source study, Mendkovich emphasises. “I am studying the published budget reports of the US, specifically the US Department of Defence and the Threat Reduction Agency, which deals with weapons of mass destruction. And was engaged in monitoring publications in the field of biology in various western publications.
The graph above shows the statistics of scientific publications in 2019. “Here is a graph of how they ‘didn’t help with management’ and ‘didn’t fund the research’ of this lab. These are research projects on the territory of Kazakhstan for all this time,” notes the expert.
A similar situation is developing in Uzbekistan:
What threats do these biolabs pose to Central Asian countries?
Here is what the process of “importation” and development of the coronavirus looked like:
Information published in 2020 by “zonakz.net” shows that the National Centre for Particularly Dangerous Infections (Kazakhstan) on average receives more funds from the US budget than from the home state. Toktasyn Erubayev, the Director of this Centre, admitted in an interview with “Kazpravda” (April 15th 2020) that Commander Singer’s people, together with his employees, inspect medical institutions in the Republic and even write an analytics for the Ministry of Health. It is known that a large number of employees of this Centre, the Biosafety Research Institute, and other biological centres in Kazakhstan who worked for US Department of Defence contractors were trained at US Navy bases. They maintain contact with US military personnel.
“Even if the US military is evacuated from the laboratory in Almaty, the channels for unofficial work with the US will still remain,” the expert said. As proof of this thesis, Mendkovich cites a photo showing a group of biologists from Almaty in practice at the US Navy base at Silver Spring – together with the US military. Some members of this group currently hold senior positions in various biological institutions in Kazakhstan.
“Kazakhstan, according to the WHO, is one of the countries with the fastest increase in the number of patients with coronavirus. On Sunday, the number of cases in the Republic exceeded 47,000 people. The main reason is the hasty cancellation of quarantine measures in May and the explosive growth of infected people in June. This is in line with the US anti-infection strategy, which is also weak in applying restrictive and isolating measures. In addition, curbing restrictions in Kazakhstan served the interests of US companies’ extractive projects, including the development of the Tengiz oil field. It has become one of the largest centres of the coronavirus: on 20.05.2020 cases of infection were recorded in 22 of the company’s 93 shift settlements,” said Mendkovich.
The conference was attended by eminent microbiologist, author of studies on the history of plague epidemics, and other especially dangerous infections, development history, and use of chemical and biological weapons, deputy editor of the journal “Bulletin of Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defence Forces” Mikhail Supotnitsky.
“The work of the American biological laboratories is no longer a secret,” said Sapotnitsky. “Starting from the noughties, these laboratories are located in different regions around Russia. In order to conduct such tests with dangerous materials, very expensive special safety procedures must be followed. Therefore, it is easiest to conduct such research in the colonial countries that the former Soviet Union actually turned into. And all former republics they willingly opted in for it – except Belarus – they allow hostile activities related to the development of weapons of mass destruction to be conducting directly at the Russian borders.
In recent years, before the coronavirus epidemic, we saw how mercilessly our medicine, which was inherited from the USSR, was dealt with as part of all sorts of reforms. Infectious diseases hospitals and courses of infectious diseases in universities were reduced. I hope that the situation will change now: we need to take a resolute approach to changing the curriculum. They should be focused not only on the study of infectious diseases in general, but also on identifying those diseases that can spread artificially.
Unfortunately, the CIS countries that have hosted American biolabs have given them strains that are adapted in those areas of Russia where we may encounter these epidemics,” continued the microbiologist. “Without knowing the origin of this strain, say, a strain of anthrax that mows down cattle in Belarus or southern Russia, we will not be able to distinguish it from the strain that could be brought from South Africa or California. It will look like a purely natural epidemic.”
Biological threats are very high, but at the state level, the response to these threats is not sufficient, said the expert.
According to Supotnitsky, tough measures are needed in order to respond to the actions of countries that operate American biolabs, from political and economic to military.
“Detachment 731 (a special unit of the Japanese armed forces, whose members were engaged in research in the field of biological weapons, and experiments were performed on living people) was created not in Japan, but in Manchuria, near the border with the Soviet Union. And now we have exactly the same picture. If earlier the laboratories of the Japanese army surrounded the south and far east of the USSR, now Russia is surrounded by American laboratories,” concluded the expert.
As was noted at the end of the meeting, the moderator of the discussion, political scientist Aleksandr Aleksandrovsky, and its co-organiser, editor-in-chief of “Ridus” Andrey Gulyutin, all expert reports made during the conference will serve as the basis for inquiries with the Russian Foreign Ministry and the OSCE.
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United States biolabs located in Central Asia pose a threat to the entire region. Nikita Mendkovich, the head of the Eurasian Analytical Club, spoke about this in detail during the conference.
The expert presented the data of his own investigation into the activities of biolabs established by the US armed forces in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, which officially operate there to this day.
This is an open source study, Mendkovich emphasises. “I am studying the published budget reports of the US, specifically the US Department of Defence and the Threat Reduction Agency, which deals with weapons of mass destruction. And was engaged in monitoring publications in the field of biology in various western publications.
- US Biolabs in Kazakhstan Budget over $ 400 million, including the establishment of a BSL-3 laboratory in Almaty (2017);
- At least 5 biolaboratories at scientific centers of the republic (Almaty, Gvardeisky, etc.);
- At least 28 US Department of Defense research projects over 10 years with the participation of 31 foreign specialists;
- Among them are active servicemen from the US Navy Medical Center (Maryland), the Special Laboratory of the British Ministry of Defense (Porton Down), the German Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology (Munich).
The graph above shows the statistics of scientific publications in 2019. “Here is a graph of how they ‘didn’t help with management’ and ‘didn’t fund the research’ of this lab. These are research projects on the territory of Kazakhstan for all this time,” notes the expert.
A similar situation is developing in Uzbekistan:
- Budget $165 million over 20 years;
- Three node laboratories at the Institute of Virology (Tashkent), the Republican Veterinary Laboratory, the Center for the Prevention of Plague, as well as at least 7 peripheral regional laboratories;
- The ongoing work has been strictly classified since 2007;
- All three named laboratories are among the structures that ensure the work of the Central Command of the US armed forces (Florida).
What threats do these biolabs pose to Central Asian countries?
- Controlled outbreaks of infectious diseases in the region;
- “Delivery” of diseases that are not typical for the region;
- Production of bioweapons in the interests of NATO;
- Seizing control of host countries’ research institutes and using them to influence their policies.
- 2007: US Department of Defence projects UZ-4 and KZ-2 were opened at the Institute of Virology (Tashkent) and the Institute of Biosafety (Gvardeysky village) to study the spread of brucellosis;
- 2008/2009: brucellosis outbreak in southern Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan;
- 2013: KZ-29 project to study distribution of ticks with the Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever in Kazakhstan;
- 2014: an outbreak of tick-borne Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Kazakhstan, as well as in Georgia, in the area of the Lugar Center biolab (Tbilisi);
- 2019: an article written by Lieutenant Captain Allen Richards from the US Navy Richards mentions: “On the example of KZ-29 … the importance and complexity of increasing scientific transparency through the exchange of samples of materials was noted”.
Here is what the process of “importation” and development of the coronavirus looked like:
- In 2017, a previously unknown form of bat-borne coronavirus was found in southern Kazakhstan as part of the KZ-33 project. According to the Kazakhstan Scientific Center for Particularly Dangerous Infections (Almaty), this disease was not previously recorded in Kazakhstan.
- Professor Gavin Smith’s group, which conducted KZ-33, previously studied bat coronaviruses in Singapore near a US Navy base.
- Since 2015, in the United States (University of Chapel Hill, California), work has been underway to create a modified coronavirus that is more dangerous to humans than a natural one.
- Since 2001, the United States blocked the adoption of the UN Protocol to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons, which provides for the control of military biological objects;
- In 2018, the “Science” journal published a study by a group of European biologists, proving on the basis of open materials that the US Department of Defence funds developments aimed at creating biological weapons.
- At the same time, Jeffrey Silverman and Igor Giorgadze, who were part of the Georgian political elite, publicly stated that the “Lugar Center” in Tbilisi was being used by the US military to develop bioweapons.
Information published in 2020 by “zonakz.net” shows that the National Centre for Particularly Dangerous Infections (Kazakhstan) on average receives more funds from the US budget than from the home state. Toktasyn Erubayev, the Director of this Centre, admitted in an interview with “Kazpravda” (April 15th 2020) that Commander Singer’s people, together with his employees, inspect medical institutions in the Republic and even write an analytics for the Ministry of Health. It is known that a large number of employees of this Centre, the Biosafety Research Institute, and other biological centres in Kazakhstan who worked for US Department of Defence contractors were trained at US Navy bases. They maintain contact with US military personnel.
“Even if the US military is evacuated from the laboratory in Almaty, the channels for unofficial work with the US will still remain,” the expert said. As proof of this thesis, Mendkovich cites a photo showing a group of biologists from Almaty in practice at the US Navy base at Silver Spring – together with the US military. Some members of this group currently hold senior positions in various biological institutions in Kazakhstan.
“Kazakhstan, according to the WHO, is one of the countries with the fastest increase in the number of patients with coronavirus. On Sunday, the number of cases in the Republic exceeded 47,000 people. The main reason is the hasty cancellation of quarantine measures in May and the explosive growth of infected people in June. This is in line with the US anti-infection strategy, which is also weak in applying restrictive and isolating measures. In addition, curbing restrictions in Kazakhstan served the interests of US companies’ extractive projects, including the development of the Tengiz oil field. It has become one of the largest centres of the coronavirus: on 20.05.2020 cases of infection were recorded in 22 of the company’s 93 shift settlements,” said Mendkovich.
The conference was attended by eminent microbiologist, author of studies on the history of plague epidemics, and other especially dangerous infections, development history, and use of chemical and biological weapons, deputy editor of the journal “Bulletin of Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defence Forces” Mikhail Supotnitsky.
“The work of the American biological laboratories is no longer a secret,” said Sapotnitsky. “Starting from the noughties, these laboratories are located in different regions around Russia. In order to conduct such tests with dangerous materials, very expensive special safety procedures must be followed. Therefore, it is easiest to conduct such research in the colonial countries that the former Soviet Union actually turned into. And all former republics they willingly opted in for it – except Belarus – they allow hostile activities related to the development of weapons of mass destruction to be conducting directly at the Russian borders.
In recent years, before the coronavirus epidemic, we saw how mercilessly our medicine, which was inherited from the USSR, was dealt with as part of all sorts of reforms. Infectious diseases hospitals and courses of infectious diseases in universities were reduced. I hope that the situation will change now: we need to take a resolute approach to changing the curriculum. They should be focused not only on the study of infectious diseases in general, but also on identifying those diseases that can spread artificially.
Unfortunately, the CIS countries that have hosted American biolabs have given them strains that are adapted in those areas of Russia where we may encounter these epidemics,” continued the microbiologist. “Without knowing the origin of this strain, say, a strain of anthrax that mows down cattle in Belarus or southern Russia, we will not be able to distinguish it from the strain that could be brought from South Africa or California. It will look like a purely natural epidemic.”
Biological threats are very high, but at the state level, the response to these threats is not sufficient, said the expert.
According to Supotnitsky, tough measures are needed in order to respond to the actions of countries that operate American biolabs, from political and economic to military.
“Detachment 731 (a special unit of the Japanese armed forces, whose members were engaged in research in the field of biological weapons, and experiments were performed on living people) was created not in Japan, but in Manchuria, near the border with the Soviet Union. And now we have exactly the same picture. If earlier the laboratories of the Japanese army surrounded the south and far east of the USSR, now Russia is surrounded by American laboratories,” concluded the expert.
As was noted at the end of the meeting, the moderator of the discussion, political scientist Aleksandr Aleksandrovsky, and its co-organiser, editor-in-chief of “Ridus” Andrey Gulyutin, all expert reports made during the conference will serve as the basis for inquiries with the Russian Foreign Ministry and the OSCE.
2020.06.05 12:39 Insider_JA What comes out of America's secret bio-laboratories in Ukraine
For the second month now, the topic of American labs in Ukraine is being widely discussed. MPs of Ukraine Viktor Medvedchuk and Renat Kuzmin submitted requests to President Zelenskyy and the US embassy responded.
"Ridus” was trying to understand the situation.
Confusion in explanation
Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Dzhangirov drew attention to the ridiculous situation. In particular, he notes the contradictory reaction of the U.S. Embassy ("there are bio-laboratories, but they work legally, however, information about two of them - the third level of biosecurity - was removed from the site") and the curator of the Ukrainian direction from the State Department, who said that the U.S. bio-laboratories are "Russian fake".
Dzhangirov explains the inconsistencies in the words of the United States representatives:
“The fact is that not only the U.S. Embassy, but de facto all Ukrainian direction "decapitated" in the long wait for a new ambassador to Kiev and curator in the State Department. And, most likely, on the issue of bio-laboratories, the Americans simply do not have a diplomat in Kyiv today who would know which documents, despite the formal absence of secrecy vultures, can be made public and which can not. So, a list of 12 biological laboratories, 2 research institutes, as well as the Dnipropetrovsk State Laboratory of Veterinary Medicine, which participate in the Pentagon program, was posted on the Embassy's website”.
The fact that information about two biolaboratories of the 3rd (penultimate) level of biosecurity was evaporated from the U.S. Embassy website was not left unnoticed. Victor Medvedchuk immediately pointed it out.
When the screenshots were presented, Assistant Deputy Secretary of State George Kent started saving the situation, followed by the SSU. Dmitry Dzhangirov: "Once again, in both cases, the information posted on the website of the U.S. Embassy is discredited rather than refuted," said the journalist. - The mobilization of such serious forces in response to Medvedchuk's parliamentary inquiry and his quite natural remark about the "erasure" of information on the embassy's website speaks about finding a certain American "callousal disease" in Ukraine. Especially when the inquiry was made by Medvedchuk "in the right place at the right time" - in the absence of the American ambassador and curator of the Ukrainian direction.
Controversial subjectivity
The SSU said that there were no American laboratories in Ukraine. "No one denies that the bio-laboratories are Ukrainian," Dzhangirov responded. - De jure is true, but the question is about de facto control of these laboratories by various programs of the Pentagon and the degree of control of Ukrainian officials over "the most dangerous infectious diseases in the world", as described the content of laboratories by the U.S. Embassy.
Here the question really rests on the degree of subjectivity of both these "Ukrainian laboratories" and the Ukrainian authorities. How much the authorities are allowed to the information about the real essence of these programs at all, let alone control the activity of the laboratories.
A former member of the Ukrainian parliament, Oleksiy Zhuravko, commented on some aspects of the scandal.
The employees of these laboratories have diplomatic immunity. They have the same status as diplomatic workers. And they are not subject to criminal responsibility or prosecution. They are fully protected from public control by the agreement concluded between the U.S., the Ukrainian Defense Ministry and the Cabinet of Ministers. Three years ago I wrote about American bio-laboratories. But at that time, it was almost irrelevant. Therefore, I would have no illusions about the work of the deputies of the "Opposition platform - For life". Was there any noticeable opposition activity in this direction? Simply nothing. They should work more clearly and raise people against bio-laboratories”.
The former deputy says: back in 2013, the website of the Kherson Regional State Administration posted information that the U.S. Department of Defense has invested in a bio-laboratory in Kherson. In other words, the relevant activities of the Pentagon in Ukraine have long been a secret of Polishinel. It is not clear why the Ukrainian opposition refers to the Serbian and Bulgarian mass media in their appeal, rather than to their own monitoring of this problem. Perhaps, it is because there was no systematic opposition work to study the danger that the "green corridor" was purposefully given.
The death of sanitary epidemiological stations and the birth of bacteriological laboratories.
" I would like to note that one of the candidates for mayor of Kherson on the air of the regional TV channel said that the U.S. Department of Defense's laboratory of extremely dangerous infections, located in the center of the city, secretly operates on the territory of the regional sanitary-epidemiological station," emphasizes Alexei Zhuravko. - There were signs saying: "Biological danger. No entry is allowed". From my sources, I know of cases in 2014-2016, when representatives of these laboratories contacted nursing homes, lonely elderly people, offered them to participate in taking various drugs for a fee. The further fate of these people is unknown. Everything is classified, because this is a direct contact between the US Department of Defense and the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. But the source claims that there were cases when the old people were injected with something and paid for it.
It is worth noting that a bio-laboratory was created in Kherson on the territory of the regional sanitary epidemiological station. And now let's remind, with what persistence Minister of Health Ulyana Suprun (nicknamed Doctor Death, given by users of the Network), a citizen of the USA, destroyed epidemiological service in Ukraine. The Sanitary and Epidemiological Service was abolished, and on the basis of some of them conducted their mysterious activities bio-laboratories.
Let us add here the fact that thanks to Ulyana Suprun's activity to destroy the epidemiological service, Ukraine created its own future problems, especially those that became known during the fight against coronavirus.
Political scientist Aleksandr Aleksandrovskyi in his comment to "Ridus" noted a special role, which during the implementation of the Pentagon program in Ukraine was given to bribery of local political elites:
“The Agreement on Cooperation to Prevent the Spread of Technologies, Pathogens and Knowledge that can be used in the development of biological weapons was concluded by the Ukrainian Ministry of Health and the United States Department of Defense back in 2005. It was actively pushed forward by American Senator Richard Lugar. The President of Ukraine was then the obedient husband of the American citizen Cathryn Chumachenko. As part of this agreement, the American company Black & Witch Special Projects Corp. was implementing the Pentagon project "Reducing the Biological Threat in Ukraine". Already at that time, the Americans were interested in sanitary epidemiological stations, which could be "reformatted" as laboratories. But if it is easy to explain Yushchenko's readiness to fulfill US wishes and recommendations, then some movements of Ukrainian regional elites, which for some reason were considered pro-Russian, deserve a separate conversation.”
A Ukrainian expert stressed that in the past decade Lugar had been inclined by the Ukrainian government to create biological laboratories for studying dangerous pathogens. In 2010, such a laboratory began working in Odessa, the Ukrainian Research Institute for Plague Control named after Mechnikov.
It is also worth remembering the history of protests in 2013 against the construction of a bio-laboratory at the Silk Station near Merefa, 30 km from Kharkiv. The residents of Merefa strongly disagreed with the project of creation of a Central Reference Laboratory on the territory of the former Silkworms Institute.
It was planned to build the reference laboratory within the framework of the project "Biological Threat Reduction in Ukraine" carried out by the American company Black & Witch Special Projects Corporation. But the terms of this project were completed on 31 May 2013.
"Azarov's government after a request from a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, a communist Oleg Buhovts, in October 2013 considered the problem, which caused concern to residents of Merefa, - says Aleksandr Aleksandrovskyy. - It was decided "on the inexpediency of further prolongation of the project" "Reducing the biological threat in Ukraine". Accordingly, the work on the preparation of the construction of the biological laboratory was curtailed. The governor of Kharkiv region Mykhaylo Dobkin made such an interesting statement only in late November: "...The protest mood of local residents prompted us to understand the issue in detail. I wanted to understand: this situation is twisted by marginal politicians or something is not being told to me. Having analyzed in detail the letters of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, having studied the position of sanitary doctors, I will say this: we will not build a bacteriological laboratory in Merefa". Two things are striking in this statement: first, how easily the governor enlisted everyone who was not a member of the Party of Regions into the marginal politicians; second, he did not have complete information about what was really going on in the region, in particular, what project the Americans were pushing for Merefa...".
According to a Ridus interlocutor, Governor Dobkin would agree with the construction of a bacteria laboratory if the Party of Regions ordered it: "It is known how almost all MPs from the Party of Regions and its appointed officials torn their shirts on their chest for the Association with the EU until November 2013".
"The land plot of the sericulture department where the construction of a reference laboratory was planned for 2013 belonged to the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine," Oleksandrvskyy continued. - Officials from veterinary medicine have already rubbed their hands, anticipating the development of 20 million dollars, allocated by the Americans to create the laboratory. The USA skillfully created "soft power" in this scientific environment as well. Long before the protests in Merefa against the creation of a reference laboratory, but after the signing of the agreement, lobbied by Lugar, the Research Institute of Silk Cultivation was transferred to the NSC "Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine", based in Kharkov. There is evidence that its director Boris Stegniy said back in those years that it was impossible to work with some topics in Kharkov, but on the territory of the Institute of sericulture it will be possible to turn around. We would like to draw your attention to a photo where director Stegny was photographed together with Jeffrey Pyette, the US ambassador to Ukraine in 2013-2016. "Not only Nuland gave cookies to the right Ukrainians".
The political scientist tells how after Maidan's victory the project on creation of a bacteria laboratory near Merefa was realized. By the second half of 2014, the eggplant laboratory became a specially protected facility. Locals saw trucks with European plates approaching it. The unloading of suspicious containers was noticed.
"Now let's combine these naked facts from the history of the creation of the bacteria laboratory near Merefa with other naked facts," sums up Aleksandrovsky. - As soon as this carefully guarded facility near Merefa appeared, outbreaks of atypical flu among children were recorded in this place. And also recall the outbreaks of swine fever in 2013. And then specialists, such as Gennady Onishchenko, linked this outbreak in southern Russia with the activities of bacteriological laboratories in the neighboring states. Let me remind you that the Belgorod region, which is neighboring Kharkov, is a major producer in animal husbandry. And here at the side of the Belgorod region there is such a mysterious, carefully guarded object ... The danger of American bacteria have recently been talked about everywhere. The coronavirus, of course, has contributed to the interest in the subject. We see it hitting the economies of different countries. And we see how the virus can create tension and discontent in society on a level playing field, prerequisites for the Maidans, even where they have never been.
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For the second month now, the topic of American labs in Ukraine is being widely discussed. MPs of Ukraine Viktor Medvedchuk and Renat Kuzmin submitted requests to President Zelenskyy and the US embassy responded.
"Ridus” was trying to understand the situation.
Confusion in explanation
Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Dzhangirov drew attention to the ridiculous situation. In particular, he notes the contradictory reaction of the U.S. Embassy ("there are bio-laboratories, but they work legally, however, information about two of them - the third level of biosecurity - was removed from the site") and the curator of the Ukrainian direction from the State Department, who said that the U.S. bio-laboratories are "Russian fake".
Dzhangirov explains the inconsistencies in the words of the United States representatives:
“The fact is that not only the U.S. Embassy, but de facto all Ukrainian direction "decapitated" in the long wait for a new ambassador to Kiev and curator in the State Department. And, most likely, on the issue of bio-laboratories, the Americans simply do not have a diplomat in Kyiv today who would know which documents, despite the formal absence of secrecy vultures, can be made public and which can not. So, a list of 12 biological laboratories, 2 research institutes, as well as the Dnipropetrovsk State Laboratory of Veterinary Medicine, which participate in the Pentagon program, was posted on the Embassy's website”.
The fact that information about two biolaboratories of the 3rd (penultimate) level of biosecurity was evaporated from the U.S. Embassy website was not left unnoticed. Victor Medvedchuk immediately pointed it out.
When the screenshots were presented, Assistant Deputy Secretary of State George Kent started saving the situation, followed by the SSU. Dmitry Dzhangirov: "Once again, in both cases, the information posted on the website of the U.S. Embassy is discredited rather than refuted," said the journalist. - The mobilization of such serious forces in response to Medvedchuk's parliamentary inquiry and his quite natural remark about the "erasure" of information on the embassy's website speaks about finding a certain American "callousal disease" in Ukraine. Especially when the inquiry was made by Medvedchuk "in the right place at the right time" - in the absence of the American ambassador and curator of the Ukrainian direction.
Controversial subjectivity
The SSU said that there were no American laboratories in Ukraine. "No one denies that the bio-laboratories are Ukrainian," Dzhangirov responded. - De jure is true, but the question is about de facto control of these laboratories by various programs of the Pentagon and the degree of control of Ukrainian officials over "the most dangerous infectious diseases in the world", as described the content of laboratories by the U.S. Embassy.
Here the question really rests on the degree of subjectivity of both these "Ukrainian laboratories" and the Ukrainian authorities. How much the authorities are allowed to the information about the real essence of these programs at all, let alone control the activity of the laboratories.
A former member of the Ukrainian parliament, Oleksiy Zhuravko, commented on some aspects of the scandal.
The employees of these laboratories have diplomatic immunity. They have the same status as diplomatic workers. And they are not subject to criminal responsibility or prosecution. They are fully protected from public control by the agreement concluded between the U.S., the Ukrainian Defense Ministry and the Cabinet of Ministers. Three years ago I wrote about American bio-laboratories. But at that time, it was almost irrelevant. Therefore, I would have no illusions about the work of the deputies of the "Opposition platform - For life". Was there any noticeable opposition activity in this direction? Simply nothing. They should work more clearly and raise people against bio-laboratories”.
The former deputy says: back in 2013, the website of the Kherson Regional State Administration posted information that the U.S. Department of Defense has invested in a bio-laboratory in Kherson. In other words, the relevant activities of the Pentagon in Ukraine have long been a secret of Polishinel. It is not clear why the Ukrainian opposition refers to the Serbian and Bulgarian mass media in their appeal, rather than to their own monitoring of this problem. Perhaps, it is because there was no systematic opposition work to study the danger that the "green corridor" was purposefully given.
The death of sanitary epidemiological stations and the birth of bacteriological laboratories.
" I would like to note that one of the candidates for mayor of Kherson on the air of the regional TV channel said that the U.S. Department of Defense's laboratory of extremely dangerous infections, located in the center of the city, secretly operates on the territory of the regional sanitary-epidemiological station," emphasizes Alexei Zhuravko. - There were signs saying: "Biological danger. No entry is allowed". From my sources, I know of cases in 2014-2016, when representatives of these laboratories contacted nursing homes, lonely elderly people, offered them to participate in taking various drugs for a fee. The further fate of these people is unknown. Everything is classified, because this is a direct contact between the US Department of Defense and the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. But the source claims that there were cases when the old people were injected with something and paid for it.
It is worth noting that a bio-laboratory was created in Kherson on the territory of the regional sanitary epidemiological station. And now let's remind, with what persistence Minister of Health Ulyana Suprun (nicknamed Doctor Death, given by users of the Network), a citizen of the USA, destroyed epidemiological service in Ukraine. The Sanitary and Epidemiological Service was abolished, and on the basis of some of them conducted their mysterious activities bio-laboratories.
Let us add here the fact that thanks to Ulyana Suprun's activity to destroy the epidemiological service, Ukraine created its own future problems, especially those that became known during the fight against coronavirus.
Political scientist Aleksandr Aleksandrovskyi in his comment to "Ridus" noted a special role, which during the implementation of the Pentagon program in Ukraine was given to bribery of local political elites:
“The Agreement on Cooperation to Prevent the Spread of Technologies, Pathogens and Knowledge that can be used in the development of biological weapons was concluded by the Ukrainian Ministry of Health and the United States Department of Defense back in 2005. It was actively pushed forward by American Senator Richard Lugar. The President of Ukraine was then the obedient husband of the American citizen Cathryn Chumachenko. As part of this agreement, the American company Black & Witch Special Projects Corp. was implementing the Pentagon project "Reducing the Biological Threat in Ukraine". Already at that time, the Americans were interested in sanitary epidemiological stations, which could be "reformatted" as laboratories. But if it is easy to explain Yushchenko's readiness to fulfill US wishes and recommendations, then some movements of Ukrainian regional elites, which for some reason were considered pro-Russian, deserve a separate conversation.”
A Ukrainian expert stressed that in the past decade Lugar had been inclined by the Ukrainian government to create biological laboratories for studying dangerous pathogens. In 2010, such a laboratory began working in Odessa, the Ukrainian Research Institute for Plague Control named after Mechnikov.
It is also worth remembering the history of protests in 2013 against the construction of a bio-laboratory at the Silk Station near Merefa, 30 km from Kharkiv. The residents of Merefa strongly disagreed with the project of creation of a Central Reference Laboratory on the territory of the former Silkworms Institute.
It was planned to build the reference laboratory within the framework of the project "Biological Threat Reduction in Ukraine" carried out by the American company Black & Witch Special Projects Corporation. But the terms of this project were completed on 31 May 2013.
"Azarov's government after a request from a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, a communist Oleg Buhovts, in October 2013 considered the problem, which caused concern to residents of Merefa, - says Aleksandr Aleksandrovskyy. - It was decided "on the inexpediency of further prolongation of the project" "Reducing the biological threat in Ukraine". Accordingly, the work on the preparation of the construction of the biological laboratory was curtailed. The governor of Kharkiv region Mykhaylo Dobkin made such an interesting statement only in late November: "...The protest mood of local residents prompted us to understand the issue in detail. I wanted to understand: this situation is twisted by marginal politicians or something is not being told to me. Having analyzed in detail the letters of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, having studied the position of sanitary doctors, I will say this: we will not build a bacteriological laboratory in Merefa". Two things are striking in this statement: first, how easily the governor enlisted everyone who was not a member of the Party of Regions into the marginal politicians; second, he did not have complete information about what was really going on in the region, in particular, what project the Americans were pushing for Merefa...".
According to a Ridus interlocutor, Governor Dobkin would agree with the construction of a bacteria laboratory if the Party of Regions ordered it: "It is known how almost all MPs from the Party of Regions and its appointed officials torn their shirts on their chest for the Association with the EU until November 2013".
"The land plot of the sericulture department where the construction of a reference laboratory was planned for 2013 belonged to the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine," Oleksandrvskyy continued. - Officials from veterinary medicine have already rubbed their hands, anticipating the development of 20 million dollars, allocated by the Americans to create the laboratory. The USA skillfully created "soft power" in this scientific environment as well. Long before the protests in Merefa against the creation of a reference laboratory, but after the signing of the agreement, lobbied by Lugar, the Research Institute of Silk Cultivation was transferred to the NSC "Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine", based in Kharkov. There is evidence that its director Boris Stegniy said back in those years that it was impossible to work with some topics in Kharkov, but on the territory of the Institute of sericulture it will be possible to turn around. We would like to draw your attention to a photo where director Stegny was photographed together with Jeffrey Pyette, the US ambassador to Ukraine in 2013-2016. "Not only Nuland gave cookies to the right Ukrainians".
The political scientist tells how after Maidan's victory the project on creation of a bacteria laboratory near Merefa was realized. By the second half of 2014, the eggplant laboratory became a specially protected facility. Locals saw trucks with European plates approaching it. The unloading of suspicious containers was noticed.
"Now let's combine these naked facts from the history of the creation of the bacteria laboratory near Merefa with other naked facts," sums up Aleksandrovsky. - As soon as this carefully guarded facility near Merefa appeared, outbreaks of atypical flu among children were recorded in this place. And also recall the outbreaks of swine fever in 2013. And then specialists, such as Gennady Onishchenko, linked this outbreak in southern Russia with the activities of bacteriological laboratories in the neighboring states. Let me remind you that the Belgorod region, which is neighboring Kharkov, is a major producer in animal husbandry. And here at the side of the Belgorod region there is such a mysterious, carefully guarded object ... The danger of American bacteria have recently been talked about everywhere. The coronavirus, of course, has contributed to the interest in the subject. We see it hitting the economies of different countries. And we see how the virus can create tension and discontent in society on a level playing field, prerequisites for the Maidans, even where they have never been.
2020.04.13 12:02 Insider_JA Deadly Viruses of Ukrainian Laboratories
Much has been said about the bacteriological laboratories created and controlled by the United States in the post-Soviet countries, especially about the Ukrainian and Georgian experience. This topic does not lose its relevance, given the current epidemiological situation.
The former chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko several years ago said that the outbreak of swine fever in the south of the country in 2013 was associated with the activities of bacteriological laboratories, with which the United States tried to encircle Russia from the territory of neighbouring states. In 2016, the channel “Rossiya 24” released a film made by Aleksandr Rogatkin “Murder test tube”, which spoke about American bacteriological laboratories in Ukraine and Georgia. Gennady Onishchenko in this film directly said: a belt of military laboratories is being created around Russia, where military epidemiologists work.
By 2016, a central reference laboratory was built and started working in the southeast of Kazakhstan, using US money.
The hostile information environment usually ignores such warnings, even if they are about obvious and proven things. But in 2018, former Georgian state security Minister Igor Giorgadze also exposed the secret experiments of the Lugar laboratory in Tbilisi. Finally, separate voices of the Ukrainian politicians sounded on this topic too. Immediately after the revelations of Igor Giorgadze, former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Renat Kuzmin drew attention to this problem, stating in a Facebook post about 15 Ukrainian laboratories “where the US military produce deadly viruses”. He suggested that the spread of strange epidemics in Ukraine (avian flu, measles, SARS, African swine fever) may be associated with the work of these bacteriological laboratories in Odessa, Kharkov, Kiev, Vinnytsia, Uzhgorod, Lvov, Kherson, and Ternopol.
“It is known that the Geneva Convention of 1972 prohibits the production of bacteriological weapons and for this reason, the US military does not produce them on US territory. And why? Because after all, there are so many beautiful test sites in the world like Ukraine or Georgia, where you can produce and test any deadly viruses on the local population?
There’s just need to create a military laboratory, to give it a harmless name, such as ‘sanitary-epidemiological laboratory’, and assign to it your supervisor… So, maybe it is this that explains the appointment to the post of Minister of Health of Ukraine, concurrently curator of the American military bacteriological project, the US citizen Suprun, who is as far from medicine as Prosecutor-General Lutsenko is from law, and foreign Minister Klimkin from diplomacy?” wrote Kuzmin.
The situation with the spread of coronavirus forces us to understand the unprecedented “generosity” with which the United States invested in bacteriological laboratories on the territory of the post-Soviet space.
Let’s start with the opposition – “you’re all lying”. Suppose that both Gennady Onishchenko and former ministers Igor Giorgadze and Renat Kuzmin thickened the paint and exaggerated the danger posed by the good American guys… Let’s say that no experiments have been carried out on the people who inhabit these territories, and all the activities of the bacteriological laboratories are aimed exclusively at the benefit of the local residents. But COVID-19 came to these territories. And what does the population have?
What is the benefit of all these Pentagon “biological threat reduction” projects? What have these American investments given to the “study of the most dangerous pathogenic microorganisms” on the territory of Ukraine? The very epidemics of avian influenza, measles, SARS, and African swine fever that Renat Kuzmin mentioned back in 2018? And how is it useful? Ah, yes, the United States did install in Ukraine “wunderwaffe” and panacea – baba Ulyana [Suprun – ed] who goes by the nickname “Doctor Death”.
At the end of 2013, residents of Merefa near Kharkov actively protested against the creation of an American reference laboratory in the nearby village of Shelkostantsiya, on the territory of the former Institute of Silk Management. This story is old, but revealing. The people back then defended the security of their small motherland. There were deputy requests from Communists to Prime Minister Azarov… As a result, the “bandit government” not only cancelled the construction of the bacteriological laboratory, but also suspended the collaborationist program that President Yushchenko indulged in with US Senator Lugar.
The story of Yushchenko’s kneeling in front of the Pentagon was as simple as pie. In 2005, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the US Department of Defence concluded an “Agreement on Cooperation in Preventing the Spread of Technologies, Pathogens, and Knowledge That Can Be Used in the Development of Biological Weapons”. Within the framework of this Agreement, the American company “Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp.” started to implement the Pentagon project “Reduction of biological threat in Ukraine”. That’s when Americanisation started – “reconstruction” of laboratories at sanitary-epidemic stations. It was back then that the white master had an unhealthy interest in Ukrainian veterinary medicine…
The timeframe of the project “Reduction of biological threat in Ukraine” ended by the summer of 2013. Azarov’s government refused to prolong it.
But after the Maidan coup, the intention to make the inhabitants of Merefa happy was with a bacteriological laboratory was brought to its logical conclusion… And in those conditions, there was no one to protest.
Political scientist Aleksandr Danilevsky commented on this problem:
“Now there are a dozen and a half of such laboratories across Ukraine. Initially, the Americans placed a stake on Odessa and Kharkov on the basis that the Kharkov region borders Russia, and the Odessa region borders Transnistria. And Odessa is a port city. In large cities it is easier to work with logistics, with administration. All Ukrainian authorities were tied to the Americans and the EU. These bacteriological laboratories were not created in an empty place, but on the basis of certain scientific centers. There’s was something to work with initially.
By mid-2014, information had been received about a bacteriological laboratory near Merefa: it was guarded by armed men in unidentified uniforms. And they banned local residents grazing near the water basin. In addition to enhanced security, the introduction of a regime of a specially protected facility, this fact also attracts attention… On several occasions, trucks with specific trailers with European Union number-plates, particularly Polish ones, were seen there. What was loaded in and out of them – some containers, some specific structures – also caused local residents to be concerned.
The fact that there were outbreaks of atypical influenza among children in Merefa and the surrounding area in 2014-2015 remained completely unaddressed. Doctors recorded it. But there was no spread beyond the nearby territories.”
The political scientist also recalled the well-known Kharkov statement of Zbigniew Brzezinski that he will be satisfied only when NATO tanks stand on the border of the Belgorod region. If we do not understand the statement of the furious Zbigniew literally, it can be considered that the dream of the ideologist has come true: near the Belgorod region there really are those weapons that pose a threat to it.
Recall that in 2013 there were outbreaks of swine fever, and all crossings between Ukraine and the Russian Federation were equipped with special disinfectants,” continued A. Danilevsky. “All cars that passed the border crossing were treated with a special solution. Here it is still necessary to bear in mind that the Belgorod region, bordering Kharkov, is a large livestock producer, a supplier for all Russia. About 20% of the chicken that is sold in the Russian Federation is produced in the Belgorod region. And the Belgorod region very reacted painfully to outbreaks of all kinds of diseases in the territory of the Kharkov region. Even until 2014, Ukrainian politicians tried not to raise the issue of threats posed by American bacteriological laboratories. And after the coup – especially: all those who were then in power acted within the framework of US foreign policy. They just ignored this topic.”
The political scientist adds that today there is every reason to talk about the “man-made” origin of coronavirus, which constitutes a form of delivery, bringing disease to the body. Thus, the recommendations of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, issued about a month ago, state that coronavirus is already the next level of development of avian influenza, a new mutated version.
“In addition to the medical consequences, the virus has huge economic consequences,” concludes Danilevsky. “It affects not only the health of people, but also the health of the state. We see this both in the decline in China’s production and in the reduction in prices for the world s leading energy carriers. Logistics have been stopped, international agreements have been terminated.
A number of countries have faced serious challenges. The Americans, starting their virus program, did not really think about how to secure a particular territory and its inhabitants, but aimed to develop a fundamentally new type of bacteriological weapon, which, in addition to threatening the health of ordinary people, has serious economic and financial consequences for states. If in the 20th century weapons were limited to the destruction of human resources, now viruses are aimed primarily at destabilising the economic and political condition of individual states, at paralysing their subjectivity.”
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The former chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko several years ago said that the outbreak of swine fever in the south of the country in 2013 was associated with the activities of bacteriological laboratories, with which the United States tried to encircle Russia from the territory of neighbouring states. In 2016, the channel “Rossiya 24” released a film made by Aleksandr Rogatkin “Murder test tube”, which spoke about American bacteriological laboratories in Ukraine and Georgia. Gennady Onishchenko in this film directly said: a belt of military laboratories is being created around Russia, where military epidemiologists work.
By 2016, a central reference laboratory was built and started working in the southeast of Kazakhstan, using US money.
The hostile information environment usually ignores such warnings, even if they are about obvious and proven things. But in 2018, former Georgian state security Minister Igor Giorgadze also exposed the secret experiments of the Lugar laboratory in Tbilisi. Finally, separate voices of the Ukrainian politicians sounded on this topic too. Immediately after the revelations of Igor Giorgadze, former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Renat Kuzmin drew attention to this problem, stating in a Facebook post about 15 Ukrainian laboratories “where the US military produce deadly viruses”. He suggested that the spread of strange epidemics in Ukraine (avian flu, measles, SARS, African swine fever) may be associated with the work of these bacteriological laboratories in Odessa, Kharkov, Kiev, Vinnytsia, Uzhgorod, Lvov, Kherson, and Ternopol.
“It is known that the Geneva Convention of 1972 prohibits the production of bacteriological weapons and for this reason, the US military does not produce them on US territory. And why? Because after all, there are so many beautiful test sites in the world like Ukraine or Georgia, where you can produce and test any deadly viruses on the local population?
There’s just need to create a military laboratory, to give it a harmless name, such as ‘sanitary-epidemiological laboratory’, and assign to it your supervisor… So, maybe it is this that explains the appointment to the post of Minister of Health of Ukraine, concurrently curator of the American military bacteriological project, the US citizen Suprun, who is as far from medicine as Prosecutor-General Lutsenko is from law, and foreign Minister Klimkin from diplomacy?” wrote Kuzmin.
The situation with the spread of coronavirus forces us to understand the unprecedented “generosity” with which the United States invested in bacteriological laboratories on the territory of the post-Soviet space.
Let’s start with the opposition – “you’re all lying”. Suppose that both Gennady Onishchenko and former ministers Igor Giorgadze and Renat Kuzmin thickened the paint and exaggerated the danger posed by the good American guys… Let’s say that no experiments have been carried out on the people who inhabit these territories, and all the activities of the bacteriological laboratories are aimed exclusively at the benefit of the local residents. But COVID-19 came to these territories. And what does the population have?
What is the benefit of all these Pentagon “biological threat reduction” projects? What have these American investments given to the “study of the most dangerous pathogenic microorganisms” on the territory of Ukraine? The very epidemics of avian influenza, measles, SARS, and African swine fever that Renat Kuzmin mentioned back in 2018? And how is it useful? Ah, yes, the United States did install in Ukraine “wunderwaffe” and panacea – baba Ulyana [Suprun – ed] who goes by the nickname “Doctor Death”.
At the end of 2013, residents of Merefa near Kharkov actively protested against the creation of an American reference laboratory in the nearby village of Shelkostantsiya, on the territory of the former Institute of Silk Management. This story is old, but revealing. The people back then defended the security of their small motherland. There were deputy requests from Communists to Prime Minister Azarov… As a result, the “bandit government” not only cancelled the construction of the bacteriological laboratory, but also suspended the collaborationist program that President Yushchenko indulged in with US Senator Lugar.
The story of Yushchenko’s kneeling in front of the Pentagon was as simple as pie. In 2005, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the US Department of Defence concluded an “Agreement on Cooperation in Preventing the Spread of Technologies, Pathogens, and Knowledge That Can Be Used in the Development of Biological Weapons”. Within the framework of this Agreement, the American company “Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp.” started to implement the Pentagon project “Reduction of biological threat in Ukraine”. That’s when Americanisation started – “reconstruction” of laboratories at sanitary-epidemic stations. It was back then that the white master had an unhealthy interest in Ukrainian veterinary medicine…
The timeframe of the project “Reduction of biological threat in Ukraine” ended by the summer of 2013. Azarov’s government refused to prolong it.
But after the Maidan coup, the intention to make the inhabitants of Merefa happy was with a bacteriological laboratory was brought to its logical conclusion… And in those conditions, there was no one to protest.
Political scientist Aleksandr Danilevsky commented on this problem:
“Now there are a dozen and a half of such laboratories across Ukraine. Initially, the Americans placed a stake on Odessa and Kharkov on the basis that the Kharkov region borders Russia, and the Odessa region borders Transnistria. And Odessa is a port city. In large cities it is easier to work with logistics, with administration. All Ukrainian authorities were tied to the Americans and the EU. These bacteriological laboratories were not created in an empty place, but on the basis of certain scientific centers. There’s was something to work with initially.
By mid-2014, information had been received about a bacteriological laboratory near Merefa: it was guarded by armed men in unidentified uniforms. And they banned local residents grazing near the water basin. In addition to enhanced security, the introduction of a regime of a specially protected facility, this fact also attracts attention… On several occasions, trucks with specific trailers with European Union number-plates, particularly Polish ones, were seen there. What was loaded in and out of them – some containers, some specific structures – also caused local residents to be concerned.
The fact that there were outbreaks of atypical influenza among children in Merefa and the surrounding area in 2014-2015 remained completely unaddressed. Doctors recorded it. But there was no spread beyond the nearby territories.”
The political scientist also recalled the well-known Kharkov statement of Zbigniew Brzezinski that he will be satisfied only when NATO tanks stand on the border of the Belgorod region. If we do not understand the statement of the furious Zbigniew literally, it can be considered that the dream of the ideologist has come true: near the Belgorod region there really are those weapons that pose a threat to it.
Recall that in 2013 there were outbreaks of swine fever, and all crossings between Ukraine and the Russian Federation were equipped with special disinfectants,” continued A. Danilevsky. “All cars that passed the border crossing were treated with a special solution. Here it is still necessary to bear in mind that the Belgorod region, bordering Kharkov, is a large livestock producer, a supplier for all Russia. About 20% of the chicken that is sold in the Russian Federation is produced in the Belgorod region. And the Belgorod region very reacted painfully to outbreaks of all kinds of diseases in the territory of the Kharkov region. Even until 2014, Ukrainian politicians tried not to raise the issue of threats posed by American bacteriological laboratories. And after the coup – especially: all those who were then in power acted within the framework of US foreign policy. They just ignored this topic.”
The political scientist adds that today there is every reason to talk about the “man-made” origin of coronavirus, which constitutes a form of delivery, bringing disease to the body. Thus, the recommendations of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, issued about a month ago, state that coronavirus is already the next level of development of avian influenza, a new mutated version.
“In addition to the medical consequences, the virus has huge economic consequences,” concludes Danilevsky. “It affects not only the health of people, but also the health of the state. We see this both in the decline in China’s production and in the reduction in prices for the world s leading energy carriers. Logistics have been stopped, international agreements have been terminated.
A number of countries have faced serious challenges. The Americans, starting their virus program, did not really think about how to secure a particular territory and its inhabitants, but aimed to develop a fundamentally new type of bacteriological weapon, which, in addition to threatening the health of ordinary people, has serious economic and financial consequences for states. If in the 20th century weapons were limited to the destruction of human resources, now viruses are aimed primarily at destabilising the economic and political condition of individual states, at paralysing their subjectivity.”
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