Another Texan, Stanford-Trained, Silicon Valley Fraudster Headed to Jail

Mike Rothenberg, an Austin-area native, Stanford grad, will join fellow Texan, Elizabeth Holmes, a Houston-native who attended Stanford, in jail for committing fraud in another Silicon Valley scheme. Raise them in Texas, and then send them to the Hoover Institute at Stanford, an institution that promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, limited government, and …

Netanyahu Brings Back the 1948 Russian Style of Colonial Slaughter of Indigenous People [Semites] in Palestine by Zionists

Israel helped to create Hamas, and now the blowback has occurred. As the Times of Israel has written, ” The premier’s [Netanyahu] policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from.” Continuing the Russian tradition …

Heirloom Carbon Technologies of SF Bay Area Has Working Commercial Carbon Capture System

A first-of-its-kind California startup has found a way to remove carbon dioxide from the air and store it in concrete. Its factory is east of the company’s San Francisco Bay Area HQ, in Tracy, CA.  UC Berkeley grad, and former UC Berkeley professor, Jennifer Granholm, Secretary of the Dept of Energy, visits Heirloom Carbon Technologies’ …

The Texas Doom-Loop Continues

Texas: Crime is soaring, mass shootings are a weekly occurrence, office buildings are empty, people are being laid-off in droves, heat and pollution are stiffling, airlines are cutting flights to Austin, those able to leave the state are moving out, and the weather sucks. Looking at cities as a whole, not just the downtown, Houston, …

The Medicalization of America Continues

A new report from the Lown Institute found over one in five coronary stents surgically inserted by corrupt physicians between 2019 and 2021 were unnecessary, costing Medicare $800 million a year and putting patient-victims at risk of complications such as stroke, heart attack and death. Waste in health care has long been recognized as a cause of …

The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys- How High are Ron DeSantis’ Boots

The percentage you’re paying is too high pricedWhile you’re living beyond all your meansAnd the man in the suit has just bought a new carFrom the profit he’s made on your dreamsBut today you just read that the man was shot deadBy a gun that didn’t make any noiseBut it wasn’t the bullet that laid …

California’s LTA Research, Founded by Dr. Alan Weston, Ph.D., Brings Back the Future – Next Generation Zeplin is Cleared for Air Testing

 The FAA has issued a special airworthiness certificate to allow LTA Research to flight test a 400-foot-long hybrid-electric airship, Pathfinder 1, at Moffett Field near San Francisco. Dr. Weston founded the company, Sergey Brin gave funding. Pathfinder 1 in its hanger The new airship being built at Moffet Field in the SF Bay Area, alongside …

IBM Research in San Jose, California Develops New Neural Computer Architecture – NorthPole

Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha, Ph.D., graduate of UCSD Engineering, and his team, developed a computer chip with a neural inspired architecture, called NorthPole, where memory and computation are integrated, that achieves substantially higher performance, energy efficiency, and area efficiency compared with other architectures. This computer obviates the need to access external memory, thus greatly increasing …

Many People are Eating Too Much Protein

A high intake of protein is common in western societies and is often promoted as part of a healthy lifestyle. Protein is composed of amino acids and when too much protein is consumed, too much amino acid, such as leucine, becomes present in the body. Amino-acid (leucine)-mediated mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling in macrophages …

IgG4 Induced Autoimmune Disease in Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination Recipients

A huge antibody response to prolonged antigen presentation from mRNA-produced spike proteins induces long-term IgG4 autoimmunity in those who were vaccinated with mRNA vaccines and lacked previous exposure to SARS-CoV-2. This problem has not been observed in other types of Covid-19 vaccines. Data from Kiszel et al (2023). I’ve previously discussed the poor design and …