“Yes I did [prefer Trump]. Because he talked about bringing the US-Russia relationship back to normal.”
Jon Swaine and Lois Beckett, - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: I have thought of the NRA as an evil organization for some years, and by evil I mean an organization whose deliberate efforts result in the degradation of social wellbeing. Now I think of them as a treasonous organization, actively working against the best interests of the United States. Here's one example of why I say this. In my view you cannot be an ethical person and a member of the NRA.
Oh, and I think collusion amongst Trump, the Republican Party, and the Russians is now a demonstrated fact.
Maria Butina was charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of Russia within the US without prior notification to the attorney general.
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A Russian woman has been charged with spying for Moscow in the US by infiltrating the National Rifle Association (NRA) in an attempt to influence the Republican party and American politics.
Maria Butina, who purported to be a pro-gun activist, met American politicians and candidates to establish “back channels” and secretly reported back to the Kremlin through a high-level Russian official, according to the US justice department.
Prosecutors said in a statement that Butina, 29, had been “developing relationships with US persons and infiltrating organisations having influence in American politics, for the purpose of advancing the interests of the Russian federation”.
Butina was charged with conspiracy to act as a Russian agent within the US without notifying the attorney general. She was arrested on Sunday and appeared before a magistrate in Washington […]
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Jonathan Larsen, Managing Editor TYT Investigates - DCReport.org
Stephan: Once again Trump and the zombie Trumplicans screw the voters in service to their corporate masters' interests. And almost nobody pays heed.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Trump and Vice President Pence in the White House Jan. 29, 2018.
Credit: White House photo/Joyce Boghosian
America’s federal database of medical treatment guidelines—a resource for doctors, hospitals and patients for more than two decades—will be dead on Tuesday (July 17). The National Guideline Clearinghouse website at Guidelines.gov was shut down by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, it said, because “Federal funding through AHRQ will no longer be available to support the NGC.”
Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), chair of the House Appropriations Committee until the beginning of last year, had targeted the agency for elimination even after doctors warned him not to kill Guidelines.gov. As TYT reported on Sunday, Rogers doubled the number of health-industry companies in which he invested last year.
The White House also pitched killing the research agency. Under new Appropriations Chairman Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.), the agency was spared last year, but the Guidelines.gov budget was slashed from $2.1 million to $1.2 million.
The national guidelines have been a target for Republicans since the 1990s, […]
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Laura Yan, - Popular Mechanics
Stephan: Here is some good news in medical research. A major breakthrough; look at the image.
A human wrist, with it watch. Credit: MARS Bioimaging Ltd.
Think you know what to expect from an X-ray? Think again. MARS Bioimaging just developed the world’s first 3D full-color X-ray — they’re pretty incredible (and a little uncanny). The MARS system is a medical scanner using technology from CERN, and it captures the human body in startling detail. It took over a decade to develop, and it could offer not only more visually stimulating bone-scans, but more accurate results for doctors and patients.
The “Spectral CT” uses a sensor that can measure specific wavelengths of X-rays as they pass through various materials. Next, the system runs the spectroscopic data through algorithms, generating a 3D colored image in previously unimaginable detail. In these scans, you can not only see bone, but blood, tissue, fat, and even the inner workings of a watch. The MARS scanner use Medipix chips, which were first developed to track particles at the Large Hadron Collider. The chip essentially functions like a camera that captures and […]
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The Trump-Putin summit was, by all accounts, a disgrace for the United States. President Trump kowtowed to Vladimir Putin, praising the Russian leader as a potential partner and casting doubt on accusations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
