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https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigat ... ve-attacks
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He was a senior CIA official tasked with getting tough on Russia. Then, one night in Moscow, Marc Polymeropoulos's life changed forever. He says he was hit with a mysterious weapon, joining dozens of American diplomats and spies who believe they’ve been targeted with this secret device all over the world—and even at home, on U.S. soil. Now, as a CIA investigation points the blame at Russia, the victims are left wondering why so little is being done by the Trump administration.
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He’s not alone. Smith, of the University of Pennsylvania, told me that “the good news is that everyone improved and many people’s symptoms resolved.” Yet many of the State Department staffers affected in Cuba and China are still disabled. Some are wheelchair-bound; others have to wear weighted vests for the rest of their lives to correct their balance. Many have had to retire prematurely.
Smith’s ongoing research has offered new insights into the Havana Syndrome—if little encouraging news for those suffering from it. In 2019, Smith and his team published a follow-up study that used advanced neuroimaging and brain-connectivity studies to look at the brains of diplomats hit in Havana. This technique showed what less sophisticated imaging had missed. The patients’ brain connectivity was severely affected, especially in the cerebellum and brain networks that control auditory and visuospatial functions. Their volumes of white matter—the inner, deeper part of the brain—were significantly reduced. White matter is made up of axons, the delicate wiring of the central nervous system. According to Smith, it was the axons and their carefully arranged structure that were damaged in people suffering from the syndrome. “If the axons break, that’s it,” he told me. “They won’t reconnect. And you’re not going to grow new axons. You only have the ones you’re born with.” The brain can learn to make up for and work around some of the damage, Smith says, but that takes time and the compensatory mechanisms are often far from perfect.
American foreign policy specialists who want to reinvent the U.S.-Russia relationship can’t quite understand why the Russian security services are still doing this—other than because they can, and because, with Trump in office, they will most certainly get away with it. “They create the reason to keep fighting with them,” says the former national security official about the Russian government. “We don’t even know why they’re doing this. We don’t even want anything from each other anymore, other than an arms-control agreement. We have to kind of push back, we have to do that, but we also have to find a way of living together too.” Yet the Russians, the former official explains, “can’t get used to the fact that we’ve moved on. They want to pull us back into the fight again—the question is for what? This is what we kept telling [Russian officials], that if you want to have a relationship of equals and get stuff done, knock this other crap off.”
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02986-y
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duh, you'd ASK em
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Fact #7
From an empirical viewpoint, the problem with Free Will (and causality) is reconciling determinism and freedom to make sense of morality.
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Christmas should be 'postponed' to avoid record number of Americans dying (newsweek.com)
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Necrometer wrote: Thu Dec 03, 2020 10:41 pm Christmas should be 'postponed' to avoid record number of Americans dying (newsweek.com)
Why would it matter if “record” number of Americans were dying? What record? WWII? Civil War? There’s no way per capita this is the largest percentage of Americans to ever die, that’s blatantly untrue. I assume by record they mean a totally arbitrary measurement that is created to induce mass panic and hysteria, like 9/11 and it’s concomitant loss of human rights globally. These “world emergencies” are so obviously a ploy to radically expand the interference of the state into what little remained of privacy and property rights.

It’s fundamentally insane to believe covid is a bigger problem than the solution being proposed by governments around the world
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I'm posting the tweet that led me here instead of the video on youtube to avoid the spoiler youtube title.

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Hunter wrote: Wed Dec 09, 2020 2:59 pm I'm posting the tweet that led me here instead of the video on youtube to avoid the spoiler youtube title.

Hahahhahaha

I saw this cat food commercial the other day and thought I was hearing things with dialogue

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Totally heard bennies.

Also this....
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this is not what the thumbnail suggests

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medica ... r-BB1bYJTS

First instance ever of a coroner listing “air pollution” as a contributing factor in a persons death.
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So, more covid vaccine side effects like ache, fever among younger folks (great reactogenicity). Since it wasn't that bad for me does that another sign I'm getting old?
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How's your hearing? That's the only metric that matters for me.
I've had an old man back since I was 21, but I can still hear stuff near 20 kHz and that's a good trade imo.
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the high-energy music as this billionaire blob nonchalantly talks about giving people cyber tentacles that can receive the feeling of pain
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https://blogs.imf.org/2020/12/17/what-i ... n-fintech/

You have to kind of read between the lines slightly but what’s being proposed here is banks tying your credit score to your internet search history.
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I had included this as a URL in my previous post

then tried to edit to embed

but hit quote instead

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how are you guys sleeping lately
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