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“Everything that we’re throwing is spaghetti at a wall, and none of it is sticking,” laments top Democrat strategist.

Top Democrat strategist James Carville expressed his frustration over former President Donald Trump’s poll numbers rising despite the numerous criminal and civil cases brought against him.

“Trump’s more ahead than he’s ever been, more — fewer people think January 6 was any kind of what it was, an assault on the temple of democracy, our Constitution, whatever you want to say,” Carville said Thursday on X.

James Carville is frustrated that Trump is ‘more ahead than he’s ever been’, and that Democrat tactics are ‘not working’:
“It’s going the wrong way. It’s not working.Everything we’re that throwing is spaghetti at a wall, and none of it is sticking, me included.
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— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) May 10, 2024

“It’s going the wrong way. It’s not working. Everything that we’re throwing is spaghetti at a wall, and none of it is sticking, me included,” he continued. “It’s hard starting your 80th year, and like everyone else I have an opinion of myself. And the opinion I’ve come to is I don’t matter.”

“It doesn’t matter. You can prepare and you can be on TV, you can write pieces, you can have a YouTube channel, you can have a podcast and nothing, nothing!”

“We’ve got to try to think of something different because what we’re doing in really really not working,” he added.

This comes as Florida Judge Aileen Cannon indefinitely delayed the classified documents trial citing significant issues around classified evidence that would need to be worked out before the federal criminal case goes to a jury.

 And a Georgia appeals court on Wednesday agreed to review a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the “election interference case” she brought against former President Donald Trump, which will also likely delay the case.

Meanwhile, a recent CNN poll shows Trump leading Biden 49% to 43%.

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Microplastics have been implicated in virtually every single disease you can think of, from autism to Alzheimer’s

In recent decades, rates of skin diseases, from cancer to allergic diseases like eczema, have skyrocketed across the world.

Skin cancer is already one of the most common forms of cancer. In Germany, for example, it’s predicted that cases will double every ten years if cases continue to increase at their current rate of 10% a year.

We’re used to being told, in the case of skin cancer, that sun exposure is one of the main causes, and so those of us with lighter skin tones especially must do as much as we can to protect our skin, including oiling ourselves, like a Thanksgiving turkey, every time the sun pokes its head out from behind the clouds.

But what if our rising exposure to plastics, especially through synthetic clothing, could be a significant part of the problem? That’s what a new study in the journal Environmental Pollution suggests, and I think we have good reason to pay attention.

As the researchers behind the study note, this is the first study to look at the effects of microplastics on skin cells in particular. We’ve had studies of microplastics entering the body through the gut and the lungs, and their effects on these tissues, but not the skin.

Although this study wasn’t carried out on living creatures (humans or rodents), we can assume that the findings will hold for us and for other animals. In the near future, it’s likely that we’ll have studies of direct microplastic exposure to the skin of animals, whether under experimental conditions in the lab or in the wild, among creatures that are habitually exposed to microplastics in significant quantities on the surface of their bodies—fish and sea creatures, for example.

It’s worth noting that microplastics can probably and do migrate into the skin cells via an internal route too. By that I mean, microplastics enter the body through the gut or lungs, pass into the blood and from the blood end up in skin tissue. Studies have already shown the extent to which microplastics penetrate our tissues once they are inhaled or swallowed. There appears to be no part of our body they can’t reach.

This will make it more complicated, at least in the wild, to determine the extent to which microplastics enter the body via the skin, as opposed to through the mouth or nose. In order to do that, experiments will have to be devised to quantify the exact proportion of microplastic particles that make it through the skin.

Let’s talk about the study.

Skin cells in vitro (in cell culture) were exposed to microplastics and it was shown:

1) that microplastics are absorbed into skin cells in a time- and dose-dependent manner (i.e. more get into skin cells the longer the time of exposure and the larger the amount of exposure);

2) that exposure increases levels of inflammation within the skin cells and damages the mitochondria (the cell machinery responsible for energy production); and

3) that exposure causes an increase in cell senescence, a process which is linked to aging of skin cells and also cancer.

An in vivo model was then used to investigate the effects of microplastics on skin-cell function. It was shown that microplastics inhibit skin-cell regeneration and aggravate inflammatory reactions in the skin.

So what does this mean?

One thing it might mean is that the explosion of skin cancer in recent decades is a result of increased exposure to plastic particles. I’m thinking synthetic clothing, in particular, which is in direct contact with the skin. The more you wear synthetic fibers, the more gets into your skin, the higher the risk of cancer.

The risk might be further aggravated if you have a diet rich in seed and vegetable oils, which are one of the principal components of modern processed foods of every kind. A 1984 study showed that chickens fed corn oil containing high quantities of polyunsaturated fats developed skin tumours at a much higher rate than chickens fed hydrogenated corn oil, which has a fat profile more similar to butter or animal fats.

There’s no need to go into the science in too much detail here, except to say that the composition of the fats in your diet affects the composition of the fats in your body, and the polyunsaturated fats in vegetable oils are unstable and readily suffer damage (oxidation) by UV light. This is why bottled oils quickly go rancid if exposed to sunlight.

But it’s not just skin cancer. Microplastic exposure could also be driving the massive rise in allergic skin conditions.

If microplastics are interfering with the skin’s normal immune mechanisms, as the new study suggest, then that might explain why more and more people have extremely sensitive skin. Again, I don’t think plastic would be the only explanation in this case. Diet and the use of copious amounts of personal-care products are two other obvious factors I can think of.

Personal-care products like deodorants, fragrances, moisturisers and toners contain enormous quantities of harmful chemicals, many of which are proven to have endocrine-disrupting effects. This means that these chemicals alter the body’s natural hormone balance, with effects ranging from reduced fertility and libido to obesity, diabetes, cancer and even neurological conditions like Alzheimer’s.

The health of the skin microbiome, which is compromised especially by the use of chemical-laced personal-care products, is another factor to consider. As with your gut, if the bacteria aren’t healthy, you aren’t healthy. Skin bacteria are part of the body’s first line of defence: they prevent the invasion of harmful pathogens and help regulate the skin cells.

There are already lots of studies of the interactions between microplastics and bacteria, many of which show that microplastics can encourage the growth of pathogenic bacteria and the spread of antibiotic-resistance genes between species, so it would be interesting to see what effect plastics have on the kinds of bacteria that live on our skin. I would be very surprised if microplastic fragments on the skin didn’t have similar effects.

The new study raises as many questions as it answers, if not more, but that’s no bad thing. In the near future, I hope we’ll have further studies that reveal exactly what these tiny pieces of plastic are doing to our skin and why. In the meantime, my advice would be simple: reduce your reliance on plastics as much as you can. Ditch synthetic fabrics, and not just in your clothing but also in your bedding. Eight hours is a long time every day to spend sweating and rubbing against plastic fibers. Instead, return to the natural fabrics our ancestors wore for the longest stretch of time—cotton, wool, maybe even silk or fur if you’ve got cash to splash.

Whatever you choose, if you don’t reach for the convenience of plastic, your health can only benefit.

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BOOM! Covid Shot Causes Highest Kill Rate In History – Warns Top Doctor

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Cuomo recently claimed that none of his pandemic policies were mandatory

Former Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark had choice words for Andrew Cuomo in an interview with Breanna Morello.

“This guy is bad news,” Clark said as he slammed Cuomo’s policy of sending infected COVID patients into nursing homes during the pandemic. He also detailed what he believes were potentially criminal attempts to mislead the government about the true human cost of the policy.

Clark and Morello were discussing the former New York State Governor in response to recent claims he made in an interview that none of his pandemic policies were mandatory, and that people were free simply to choose whether or not to obey.

“Government had no capacity to enforce any of this [mandates],” Cuomo said recently.

“You must wear a mask. People wore masks in New York. If they said ‘I’m not wearing a mask’ there was nothing I could do about it. You must close your private business. ‘I won’t’. There was nothing I could really do about it.”

“Everyone knows that Cuomo was one of the lockdown-mandaters-in-chief,” Clark said in the interview with Morello.

He told Morello how, during the pandemic, he sent a letter to the New York State Governor’s office, demanding answers about its policy of sending infected COVID patients into nursing homes, but received no response.

Clark believes the true intentions behind the policy and its effects were covered up at the time, and that this may have been illegal.

It was the “stupidest policy in the universe”, Clark said, and an obvious “death sentence” for the elderly, who were most vulnerable to the novel virus.

“We’ve got Cuomo lying in multiple dimensions. Lying that he never imposed a mandate, and then lying about the numbers of people who were sent to the nursing homes and what was the outcome of that, all because at some point they must have realised this was a public-health disaster.”

“The fact that he hasn’t been criminally charged is a disgrace to our justice system,” Morello responded.

In 2021, The Associated Press reported that more than 9,000 recovering COVID patients were sent into New York State’s nursing homes. The figure was more than 40% higher than a figure given by the state health department.

It’s still unclear how many elderly residents caught the virus or died as a result of this policy.

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BOOM! Covid Shot Causes Highest Kill Rate In History – Warns Top Doctor

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Republicans are using the Democrats’ own words from the 2019 Trump trial

A Republican congressman has filed articles of impeachment against US President Joe Biden for withholding deliveries of weapons to Israel, making a point of using the exact same phrasing the Democrats had used to impeach President Donald Trump.

Earlier this week, Biden told CNN that “we’re not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells” to Israel if it proceeded with plans to attack Rafah City in south Gaza. Republicans quickly pointed out that Democrats had accused Trump of “abuse of power” for allegedly withholding congressionally approved military aid in 2019.

“Joe Biden is pressuring Israel, our biggest ally in the Middle East, by pausing their funding that has already been approved in the House, if they don’t stop all operations with Hamas,” Representative Cory Mills of Florida told Fox News on Thursday, adding that it was a pretty clear case of “quid pro quo” and that he intended to impeach Biden for it.

On Friday, Mills made good on his threat, formally initiating the procedure in the US House of Representatives.

“In violation of his oath to faithfully execute the office of the president and to uphold the Constitution, President Biden abused the powers of his office by soliciting a ‘quid pro quo’ with Israel while leveraging vital military aid for policy changes,” according to Mills. 

He also posted a photo on X (formerly Twitter), showing the exact same language used by Rep. Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat, to go after Trump five years ago.

Democrats, who controlled the House of Representatives at the time, impeached Trump in a party-line vote after accusing him of abuse of power. They claimed Trump had threatened to delay a shipment of weapons to Ukraine unless Kiev investigated the firing of a prosecutor who was looking into a company that had hired Biden’s son Hunter. Biden had publicly boasted about getting the prosecutor fired, but as he was in the race for the Democrats’ 2020 presidential nomination, the party claimed this amounted to soliciting “election interference.”

The impeachment went nowhere because the Republican-majority Senate refused to convict Trump in February 2020. 

Republicans currently hold a slim majority in the House of Representatives, which has been largely ineffective at opposing the Democrats’ priorities. Even if Mills manages to get the House to impeach Biden, it is highly likely that he will be acquitted in the Democrat-controlled Senate.

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Breaking: NOAA Warning of Giant Solar Flares Comes True

An emergency in Japan follows two landing incidents in Türkiye and a crash in Senegal

One Boeing-made plane has crashed and three more have suffered technical problems this week, bringing renewed focus on the US aerospace giant’s production woes.

A United Airlines 737-800 series passenger jet had to make an emergency landing about 40 minutes after takeoff on Friday. Flight UA166 from Fukuoka, Japan to Guam had reported a “problem with flaps.”

In the early hours of Thursday, an Air Senegal 737-38J skidded off the runway during takeoff from the Blaise Diagne International Airport (AIBD) in Dakar, Senegal. There were 73 passengers and six crew on board the flight to Bamako, Mali. Eleven were injured in the incident, four of them seriously.

On Wednesday afternoon, a Corendon Airlines Boeing 737-800 blew out a tire on its front landing gear upon arriving at the Gazipasa-Alanya Airport (GZP) in southern Türkiye. All 190 people on board were safely evacuated but the wheel hubs were heavily damaged, according to the airport authority.

Earlier that same day, a Boeing 767 had to make an emergency landing at Istanbul Airport (IST). Flight FX6238, operated by FedEx, arrived from Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) but had to land “without opening the front landing gear due to a technical issue,” the Istanbul airport operator said in a statement.

It took the airport a day to safely move the plane from Runway 16R, according to Istanbul Airport CEO Selahattin Bilgen.

The series of problems came after the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it had opened an investigation into one of Boeing’s factories. Employees at a South Carolina facility making the Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet may have skipped mandatory inspections and falsified records, the agency said.

The aerospace company has previously reported issues with the wide-body 787, blaming them on US sanctions against Russia that disrupted the production of a key component.

Boeing took substantial losses in 2019-2020, after the FAA grounded all 737-MAX planes due to a string of fatal crashes. The agency eventually blamed the crashes on a combination of bad sensors and software problems and Boeing has insisted the planes were perfectly safe ever since. Leaked internal memos suggested otherwise, however.

Two Boeing whistleblowers have turned up dead in the past three months. Joshua Dean, 45, died suddenly of antibiotic-resistant pneumonia on May 2. The former Spirit AeroSystems employee had raised the alarm over lax standards in the production of the 737-MAX.

John Barnett, a former Boeing quality control manager, was found dead in March, just before he was due to testify in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company. The authorities ruled the incident a suicide.

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Breaking: NOAA Warning of Giant Solar Flares Comes True

Pentagon continues program to decommission weapons and ammunition from Army stockpiles and then purchase new weapons from defense contractors

The United States has signed a $332 million contract with Lockheed Martin for the production of high-precision GMLRS missile systems to be delivered to Ukraine.

“Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Grand Prairie, Texas, was awarded a $332,126,764 modification (P00006) to contract W31P4Q-23-D-0003 for the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System,” the statement read.

The estimated completion date is October 20, 2027, the Pentagon added, noting that GMLRS rockets are used in HIMARS missile systems.On Friday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken approved the emergency sale of three HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems to Ukraine.

Russian officials have repeatedly warned against military supplies to the Kiev regime, stressing that they only fuel the conflict and have no chance of influencing the final course of the special military operation.

They added that Western military equipment will eventually be decimated as a legitimate target for the Russian Armed Forces.

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Breaking: NOAA Warning of Giant Solar Flares Comes True