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  Blood clots and how to clear your body of the spike protien
Posted by: C_T_Russell - 23-02-2024, 12:54 PM - Forum: Covid-19 - Replies (40)

This is a real eye opener on what the spike proteins are doing to your body, it appears that these blood clots were appearing even before any of the vaccines were available, but the numbers surged during the rollout of them.
Really makes me wonder what this spike protein does to your body.
Its not actually a "blood" clot at all, but more of a cellular mass made up of misfolded proteins, it appears that in a small percentage of people, the body produces them in the cardiovascular system.
These types of clots have never been reported before in humans.


Also some good advice thats emerged on how to rid them out of your body.
Could be useful for anyone suffering from long covid.


https://youtu.be/CuaMPNGG7Nk

and an updated video to follow

https://youtu.be/djqn4HJWEBs

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  Is Alabama the stupidest state in America?
Posted by: Lilith7 - 23-02-2024, 10:14 AM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (5)

Unbelievable. Dodgy

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...ryo-ruling

"Alabama Fertility halts new procedures ‘due to the legal risk’ after state supreme court says embryos are ‘extrauterine children’
A second Alabama provider announced that it will pause its in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments on Thursday, just days after the state supreme court ruled in a first-of-its-kind decision that embryos are “extrauterine children”.

We have made the impossibly difficult decision to hold new IVF treatments due to the legal risk to our clinic and our embryologists,” Alabama Fertility said in a post to its Instagram account. “We are contacting patients that will be affected today to find solutions for them and we are working as hard as we can to alert our legislators as to the far-reaching negative impact of this ruling on the women of Alabama.”

The Alabama supreme court ruling stemmed from two wrongful death lawsuits brought against an IVF clinic after several people’s frozen embryos were accidentally destroyed. The clinic pushed back against the lawsuits, arguing that Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act did not apply to frozen embryos, but the state supreme court ruled that the act does indeed apply.

The central question presented in these consolidated appeals, which involve the death of embryos kept in a cryogenic nursery, is whether the act contains an unwritten exception to that rule for extrauterine children – that is, unborn children who are located outside of a biological uterus at the time they are killed,” the Alabama supreme court justice Jay Mitchell wrote. “Under existing black-letter law, the answer to that question is no: the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act applies to all unborn children, regardless of their location.”
A concurring opinion, written by the Alabama state supreme court chief justice, Tom Parker, repeatedly invoked the Bible. “The principle itself – that human life is fundamentally distinct from other forms of life and cannot be taken intentionally without justification – has deep roots that reach back to the creation of man ‘in the image of God’,” Parker wrote, before citing Genesis 1:27 of the King James edition.

The Alabama ruling has rocked the country. IVF patients and advocates have vigorously opposed the ruling, which they say did not deal with the vast practical implications of legally recognizing frozen embryos as people. Doctors at Alabama Fertility said earlier this week that the ruling threatened to upend several steps of the IVF process.
The decision also cements tenets of so-called “fetal personhood” into Alabama law. Establishing that embryos and fetuses are people, complete with full legal rights and protections, is a long-term goal of many within the anti-abortion movement. Abortion foes are also often opposed to IVF."

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  Does CCleaner delete stored Solitaire score?
Posted by: Still PeterEsp - 22-02-2024, 03:20 PM - Forum: PressF1 - Replies (3)

A friend thinks when he runs CCleaner it deletes his Solitaire result history.
Is this so?
How can he keep his result history intact, but continue to run CCleaner to clear Cookies etc?
He is on Win-11.
TIA, Peter.

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  Could water be privatised here?
Posted by: Lilith7 - 22-02-2024, 03:05 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics - Replies (14)

According to this, its a possibility. And a very concerning one,at that. If this lot could find a way to make us all pay to breathe, they would.


https://thestandard.org.nz/get-ready-for...rivatised/

"This week National has passed legislation through Parliament dismantling Three Waters.
I have always struggled to understand its opposition. The country’s water systems are in very poor shape. Far too many people have been poisoned. The infrastructure is crumbling before our eyes. In our major cities water and sewerage pipes that should have been replaced years ago have succumbed to old age and are collapsing at a remarkable rate. And there is currently not the faintest hope that the various water systems will be improved to make them resilient to climate change.

But somehow National and its partners persuaded many Kiwis that dealing with these existential threats was a bad thing.
The biggest source of angst and the driver of the anti 3 waters campaign was the possibility that Māori  would be given too many rights over water.
Which ignores the fact that Māori has a significant interest in water.


Even National acknowledges Iwi rights to and interests in water.
But the dogwhistle possibly Atlas funded campaigns against Three Waters worked. It was assisted by some rather expensive litigation by the Water Users Group which was fronted by Stephen Franks and Brigitte Moreton.
I still cannot understand why she was permitted as the lawyer involved to comment repeatedly on the issue on state owned Radio New Zealand. Ultimately the litigation failed but politically the damage was done.


The Government’s reversal of three waters is the latest example of its activity in cancelling something but having nothing to replace it with.
Simeon Brown’s and National’s alternative proposal is to let Councils sort it out themselves. Essentially sink or swim and some of the smaller local authorities may be doing more sinking than swimming".

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  13 years sinec the quakes
Posted by: Lilith7 - 22-02-2024, 02:57 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (5)

Where the hell that time went I've no clue. No mention of the ugliness of some of the buildings, or the tumbleweeds blowing through the almost deserted square... Rolleyes


https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/35018...led-claims


'It’s been 12 years since lawyer Grant Shand first took action against the Toka Tū Ake Earthquake Commission (EQC) on behalf of Christchurch residents with quake-damaged homes, but he’s still frustrated by the process in 2024.

Shand - who is currently working on two class action cases against the EQC - believes the organisation is “back to being very difficult to deal with settled claims.”
He has described a delay in processing all cases 13 years after the quakes as “terrible”.
The EQC has refuted that description, pointing out that no homeowners have been waiting 13 years to resolve claims from its scheme and that when old claims are re-opened, the organisation makes it a priority to resolve them “quickly and efficiently.”
There are still original earthquake claims from 2010/2011 against EQC and insurers. EQC continues to reopen claims,” said Shand.
“EQC is dragging out the claims. There are hundreds of people in the EQC on-sold programme that are not yet settled.”


https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/35018...e#cxrecs_s

"Central Christchurch is like a beloved pet recovering from severe fur loss - it’s grown back new and glossy, but stubborn bald patches remain.

On the 13th earthquake anniversary, the city’s recovery has delivered fancy new precincts and buildings, walking and cycling paths and play areas, redesigned streets, and a parade of new apartments and townhouses.

Alongside sit vacant sections with weeds, damaged buildings awaiting rescue, and construction projects that seem to drag on."

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  Efeso Collins
Posted by: Lilith7 - 22-02-2024, 02:25 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (12)

Just when social justice is sorely needed a man who had helped many died, while the likes of Trump & Putin who have done very much the opposite continue to live.
This was someone who wasn't afraid to change his mind on things when he learned more about  them.


https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/3501880...al-justice

"Fa‘anānā Efeso Collins was a quiet, softly spoken and thoughtful man, whose own journey and education had made him keenly aware of the prejudices he could face as a tall, powerful Samoan man from Ōtara.
Collins, who died suddenly on Wednesday at the age of 49, became a public figure as an Auckland mayoral candidate and latterly, a Green Party MP. But earlier, while a relatively-obscure local councillor he wrote blogs about the micro-aggressions he faced: on one occasion, it was being quizzed in an Auckland Town Hall lift as to why he was ascending to the councillors’ floor.
His solution was to moderate the way he presented himself to the world: while in private he preferred basketball singlets, league gear and hoodies, in public he was careful to be suited and clean-shaven. “I am a big guy, and I know that. I am very aware of it. You’ve got to get in the door and if that means you’ve got to dress a certain way for people to feel okay, and have a conversation, that’s the reality of it,” he told Stuff in a 2022 interview.



That was part of Collins’ personal approach; as an advocate for the communities he represented, first on his local board, then on council, then in Parliament, he knew he had to find a way to get the ear of people who didn’t look like him
He chaired the student union, making his first media appearance in 1999 when he questioned why the university was sponsoring television programmes when the student union was forced to run a foodbank."

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  Seven Sharp last night (Wed 21 Feb)
Posted by: Olive - 22-02-2024, 07:36 AM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (5)

I usually record Seven Sharp but for some reason last night's episode wasn't recorded.   Did anyone watch it?   I was wondering if they would acknowledge the death of Efeso Collins given that on Tuesday they ran a long and flippant piece about the fundraiser that he died participating in.

Or did they maybe cancel the whole episode out of respect?

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  National's policies, in a nutshell...
Posted by: Praktica - 20-02-2024, 12:16 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics - Replies (2)

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  Proper way to show the world how WE feel about Russia and Putin, irregardless of Trum
Posted by: zqwerty - 20-02-2024, 08:35 AM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (8)

From Reddit:

Proper way to show the world how WE feel about Russia and Putin, irregardless of Trump's views.

https://i.redd.it/syuca8lsmkjc1.jpeg

Full link for comments as well:

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1...eel_about/

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  Intel Core i7 being phased out
Posted by: nzoomed - 19-02-2024, 12:45 PM - Forum: PC World Chat - Replies (3)

Looks like it will now be called "Core ultra"

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