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Set your clocks if you want to catch the longest partial lunar eclipse in 580 years.
Called a Frost Moon, NASA states this eclipse will last 3 hours and 28 minutes, they also state the East coast USA it's expected to be visible this Friday, after 2am to 4am and 11pm to 1am on the West coast.
(So... what happened to the 3 hours?)

Story link here:


Live streaming of the event here:

These Talks Provide Unbiased Info On mRNA So Y'all Can Better Judge For Y'all's SELVES.
A Remarkable amount of info in under a 1/2 hour time - Both Talks!! ...
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Today I read an article that described an anti-vaccination movement that started early in the 19th century where people were skeptical of the smallpox vaccine. They stated the side effects they dreaded were far more terrifying.

For example: blindness, deafness, ulcers, a gruesome skin condition called "cowpox mange" - even sprouting hoofs and horns.

Publications with artist sketches were passed out to (mis) inform the public.



We are into bigger lies such as 'Bill Gates put microchips in the vaccine and when you are near a 5G tower, it will turn you into a zombie.

Pretty amazing if you ask me.
My question is: "How do they get one microchip into a tiny needle from a vile of vaccine?"
I am told 'the microchip is already in the needle'

Al Bielek - The Philadelphia Experiment Detailed… Invisibility, Time Travel and Remote Viewing. A U.S. Navy Ship vanishes during a secret experiment gone awry. When it re-appears, observers are horrified to see crew members embedded in the deck and steel of the ship. During a sea trial, the ship vanishes and travels through time setting off a number of events that continue today.

Al Bielek ( 1927 – 2011) , Duncan Cameron and Preston Nichols are three men with intimate knowledge of the strange and incredible events that took place and may very well be STILL taking place now. Learn how technology they helped develop and test is being used to change the future. The military CAN send ships, planes AND people through hyperspace and make them completely invisible.

Well evolution, of course, let’s not be silly. But what about God?

What did God evolve from?

I have long understood that the maths in calculations were reversible.
When it was implied if not stated out loud that the physics the maths represent was also reversible, my intuition rebelled against this notion but I could never account for a reason it could not be so.
NOW I understand why it cannot be. Entropy, It must increase.
We might reverse Time itself, but Entropy will still have to increase.
Locally entropy may be reversed, but universally entropy will still increase.

90 year old actor William Shatner of STAR TREK fame took a flight yesterday on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin making it to the edge of space. That officially makes him the oldest person to go to space.
Congrats William...

So a video has been posted that infers the CEO of Pfizer did not get vaccinated, as usual, it's a crock of lies

I can accept having a vaccine is a personal choice, but when people lie to try and persuade others NOT to have a medically sound vaccine that can and has saved lives, that is just abhorrent to me, just how low will these people sink?

"The interview in which Bourla says he has not gotten vaccinated took place with CNBC on Dec. 14, three days after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued the first emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

Since the interview, Bourla has been vaccinated, and 28.6% of the U.S. population has received at least one dose and 15.8% have completed vaccination, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"That report is categorically false," Pfizer spokeswoman Sharon Castillo told USA TODAY via email. "Dr. Bourla has been fully vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine."

Known as hypersonic flight, it requires take-off and landing with a traditional engine.
However, it also requires a specially modified engine, that only ignites after it is already in flight.

Prototypes are soon to come from an Atlanta based company, that has financing from the US government and orders from around the globe. It plans to have a running prototype aircraft by 2023,
a cargo carrying model by 2025 and a passenger model by 2029.

It would allow travel from New York to London in an hour.
It might even allow long distance relationships doable...... at least for the rich.
The plane will carry less than 20 passengers. So, you know those tickets won't be cheap.
Still though, like flights to space, it may foretell what may be common day experiences in the future.

SciCheck Digest

A viral video features a doctor making dubious claims about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments at a forum hosted by Idaho’s lieutenant governor. Dr. Ryan Cole claims mRNA vaccines cause cancer and autoimmune diseases, but the lead author of the paper on which Cole based that claim told us there is no evidence mRNA vaccines cause those ailments.
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More than 565,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S., but two effective mRNA vaccines are now available. Some treatments for certain patients, such as those hospitalized or receiving oxygen, have also been approved or authorized by federal agencies, and they continue to be studied.

Since the pandemic began, however, politicized social media posts have featured doctors, some looking authoritative in white coats, spreading dubious claims about both vaccines and treatments for COVID-19. The most recent example in this misinformation niche is Dr. Ryan Cole, who owns a medical lab in Idaho.

Cole is featured in a video that has amassed more than a million views. He makes a variety of claims, some of which we’ve addressed before.

The video was recorded while he spoke at a forum on March 4 hosted by Idaho’s lieutenant governor, Janice McGeachin, a Republican, and it was posted by a Libertarian organization called the Idaho Freedom Foundation.

McGeachin was featured in an October post by that group, posing with a Bible and a gun in a video that advocated against public health measures related to the pandemic and asked viewers to sign a statement saying that “any order issued in the future will be ignored.”

Cole said in an interview with FactCheck.org that he’s “not affiliated with any political party, group or organization.” According to the Idaho Secretary of State’s office, Cole is registered as a Republican.

In the March 4 video, Cole makes claims suggesting that federal agencies have acted nefariously, as well as claims that undermine vaccines and promise miracle treatments.

Two of the COVID-19 vaccines available in the U.S. use messenger RNA, or mRNA, to train recipients’ immune systems to make antibodies that fight the virus that causes COVID-19. (See SciCheck’s articles on those vaccines: “A Guide to Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine“ and “A Guide to Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine.”)

These are the first vaccines using mRNA technology authorized in the U.S., but scientists have been developing and testing mRNA vaccines for years, including in people during clinical trials. Still, misinformation exploiting fears of this new technology has been common online.

To those bogus claims, Cole has now added: “mRNA trials in mammals have led to odd cancers. mRNA trials on mammals have led to autoimmune diseases — not right away, six, nine, 12 months later.”

We asked Cole to provide support for those claims, and he referred us to a 2018 paper published in the journal Nature Reviews Drug Discovery that reviewed trials and studies of various, earlier mRNA vaccines.

But that paper doesn’t support his statement.

Norbert Pardi, a research assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, was the lead author of the paper. He told us in an email, “No publications demonstrate that mRNA vaccines cause cancer or autoimmune diseases.”

Pardi’s 19-page paper does make one passing reference to autoimmune diseases, which is what Cole highlighted to us.

The paper says: “A possible concern could be that some mRNA-based vaccine platforms induce potent type I interferon responses, which have been associated not only with inflammation but also potentially with autoimmunity. Thus, identification of individuals at an increased risk of autoimmune reactions before mRNA vaccination may allow reasonable precautions to be taken.”

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