20231211 Venezuela dictator arresting Gays to court Evangelicals. Gay art as always.Texas lambasted by sci press.
Why do I report so much on vaccines?
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I have really had it with homophobic Christianity. Writing book on how to take them down.
My working title is, “Disable, Defeat and Demolish Homophobic Christianity.” My book is really aggressive. I am concerned that Gay Christians may be alienated, but I am open to dialog with them, and I think it will prove to be advantageous to them. If I am pounding on the front door, perhaps some Christians will start sincerely listening to the Gay Christians.
I don’t want to push anyone out of the movement, but I mean to bring down homophobic Christianity. My university press books had an important role in bringing down the Confederate monuments. I think this book will be the start of a new phase in fighting Christian homophobia.
When I get the book done, I will post a link.
Maybe some of my rhetoric will be too much, but sometimes you need to dynamite the log jam to get the river flowing.
I am not anti-religion. I am helping some Gays in alternative religions to get a temple started. Some people will always be religious and I think it is important to provide choices.
Venezuela going anti-LGBT with arrests to court Evangelicals. Guyana is already anti-Gay but improving.
The news reports that Venezuela is going after a large part, about two-thirds of Guyana and there is likely going to be a military conflict.
Turns out that the socialist government of Venezuela has been in alliance with Evangelicals for some time and is looking for their support in the 2024 elections. This article in Foreign Policy, is titled, “Why Maduro is Courting Evangelicals Ahead of the 2024 Election.”
“Arrests highlight the growing ‘criminalisation” of LGBT+ people in Venezuela.”
“Mass arrest at LGBTQ+ club in Venezuela prompts outcry over discrimination.”
“IACHR Urges Venezuela to Refrain from Criminalizing LGBTI People.”
https://www.oas.org/en/IACHR/jsForm/?File=/en/iachr/media_center/PReleases/2023/176.asp
Guyana
Where are things are getting bad for Gays in Venezuela, things are already bad in Guyana for Gays.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Guyana
Thus, there isn’t a clear pro-Gay and anti-Gay side here in this upcoming conflict. I am sure that there will be some LGBT Marxists making excuses for Venezuela, but that is a general problem with the Gay community where they are this or that and Gay last despite what they might say.
Things are getting a lot worse in Venezuela and better in Guyana.
Though it does appear that things are improving in Guyana with Pride parades starting in 2018. The colonial anti-homosexual sex law isn’t enforced.
In contrast, in Venezuela, the situation is deteriorating quickly and there are arrests, and the government has made homophobia as part of its agenda to get homophobic Christians to support Maduro.
Even the left leaning Guardian is not sympathetic to Maduro’s attempt to seize Guyanan territory. They call it “cynical” to win elections.
Historically it does look like Venezuela’s claim does have some justice. What a British colony is doing in South America needs to be asked. On the other hand, most of the boundaries of the world are historically iffy. People have settled in Guyana and they have their own national destiny since 1899. If every 19th century boundary was up for review, the world would be immersed in war.
President U.S. Grant, when he was an officer in the Mexican American war described it as one of the most unjust wars against a stronger power against a weaker power. Yet, I think that it is best that the border set remain such.
So, it isn’t a day and night thing, but we should want to see Maduro get clobbered.
There are some differences in the impact on the Gay community depending on the outcome.
If Guyana loses, there will be two anti-Gay nations left.
However, if Guyana wins, and Venezuela fails, it might bring down Maduro and that would bring down his empowering of homophobic Evangelicals. Likely the opposition will remember exactly what the Evangelicals did. The outcome would be one very large Latin American state rejecting homophobia, while Guyana will be the anti-LGBT nation it is now.
Though Guyana is a small nation, it has treaty relations with other nations, and Brazil has moved its army into position to make sure Venezuela doesn’t invade Guyana through their territory. Evidently, going directly into Guyan involves some very rough terrain. From the article.
However, any military incursion by Venezuela will be logistically challenging, Venezuelan soldiers would need to pass through Brazilian territory if they enter Essequibo because of challenging terrain elsewhere.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67645018
Most of the boundaries of nations around the world have issues. There is a general attitude of let sleeping dogs lie.
Socialism being homophobic once again.
Though Gay Marxists are quick to point out that not all Marxists are anti-Gay, it does seem to be a reoccurring thing with socialist states that they adopt anti-Gay policies even in the 2nd and 3rd decade of the 21st century such as China.
For a movement that represents themselves as the future and progressive, they don’t have a good historical record on homosexuality.
Socialists don’t feel you are being picked on. I am going to be reporting problems across the political spectrum and with other groups. I am not giving the Evangelicals or others a free pass either.
Why so much reporting on vaccines and medicines?
One reason is that I have a scientific education and so I can read the scientific press and understand what might be useful to the Gay community. In particular HIV and other STDs. The elimination of STDs by vaccination would be a huge material benefit for Gays.
Second, Fat Liberation is in denial of the issues of being overweight. When you reach 71, you know a lot of people for whom being overweight has resulted in one medical complication or another. Mostly diabetes. One of the big advantages of the Gay community is that it is more conscious of eating carefully.
Third, it turns out that homophobic Christians are a demographic which has a high percentage of antivaxxers. This has two issues. If Gays get vaccinated, and they don’t, we live and they die or are sick or long term incapacitated. Supporting vaccination for the Gay community increases our advantage over homophobic Christians.
Fourth, the other issue is that the antivaxxers might block the availability of a vaccine. The Evangelicals in Texas blocked requiring HPV vaccines for teenagers. Right now, the Texas Atty. Gen. has sued Pfizer. It could happen that in the state you reside in, you will have to charter buses so Gays can travel to another state to get an HIV vaccine.
Fifth, the legitimate scientific press has been discussing the science of aging and feels confident of being able to do something about it to the point of discussing policy issues, like will insurance cover it. Generally, the Gay community doesn’t want to biologically age.
Our Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is lambasted by the scientific press.
What happens when homophobic religious lunatics run your state.
This is an article in Ars Technica titled, “Texas sues Pfizer with COVID anti-vax argument that is pure stupid.”
When there is finally an HIV vaccine the place where you live might not get the vaccine right away or not at all. When the production starts, there will be people waiting for the vaccine, and why send it to a state or place where you are going to get harassed by crazed lunatics who happen to control the politics of that state.
New Vaccine technologies are being developed.
The article is titled, “Self-copying RNA vaccine wins first full approval: what’s next.”
This is self-replicating mRNA. A strand of code is attached to the mRNA so it replicates in the body. This means much less is needed to do the vaccination. Given that it is self-amplifying, it could be given in lower doses making them cheaper and lessen the severity of flu-like symptoms.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03859-w
However, it isn’t just about smaller cheaper doses. From the article.
People often think that the saRNA vaccine platform is simply a variation on conventional mRNA shots, “but in practice it’s really not”, says Anna Blakney, a bioengineer who studies the technology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. “saRNA is a totally different beast.”
Because of its virus-like nature, saRNA interacts with the immune system in distinctive ways that could prove beneficial across a range of disease scenarios.
What this means for Gays is that if mRNA technology doesn’t work for an STD, saRNA might be the technology that works.
This also is another differential advantage for Gays over homophobic Christians which are generally opposed to mRNA vaccines. From the article.
More than a dozen saRNA vaccine candidates are currently in clinical trials for a range of applications — from shots for shingles and the flu to therapeutic vaccines for cancer.
It will no longer be that Gays won’t get some viral infection and homophobic antivaxxer Christians will, it will be Gays will be having better survival rates for cancer versus homophobic antivaxxer Christians.
And there is another reason that scientists are happy. Therapeutic proteins which are now made in bioreactors and have to be injected, run risks of immune responses since they are foreign. Made by a person’s own body, that is reduced considerably. From the article.
But researchers are already considering the platform’s broader applications.
For example, the technology might one day be used to produce therapeutic proteins inside the body, says Mark Grinstaff, a biochemist at Boston University in Massachusetts and a co-founder of Keylicon Biosciences in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Manufacturing plants currently use bioreactors to produce such proteins, which are then injected into people who need the treatment. Over the past few months, two independent groups — one involving Smith’s team at VLP Therapeutics2, the other involving Grinstaff and his colleagues at Boston University3 — have posted preprints that describe how altering the chemical backbone of saRNA can diminish the technology’s immune-triggering effects in a positive way. Similar chemical tweaks are commonly used in conventional mRNA vaccines, but not in ARCT-154 or most other saRNA products.
Gays will have another opportunity to have a differential advantage over homophobic antivaxxer Christian.
Of course, there is a risk that you won’t be able to get the advantages of this new vaccine technology because your state has a crazy attorney general elected by religious lunatics and the biotech corporations will decide that initially, the medicine will be released elsewhere.
When there is a new medicine, some people will have to wait until there has been enough medicine manufactured to supply everyone waiting for it. Why bother with a state where you might be targeted by a frivolous lawsuit when you are struggling with ramping up production, dealing with initial distribution and analyzing the data for the larger set of people taking it.
New Crispr technologies
The article is titled, “CRISPR 2.0: a new wave of gene editors heads for clinical trials.”
Though there isn’t a mention of HIV treatments in this specific article, there are scientists testing whether the current CRISPR technology can cut out HIV genetic sequences in humans and get rid of the HIV virus hiding out inhuman cells.
Having more biomolecular technologies means a wider range of possibilities to cure HIV and treat other diseases of interest to Gays.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03797-7
He is producing a piece about every week roughly. You get to see how he does it.
Weight Loss
Weight jumps up in your morning weighing. Don’t dispair.
If your weight inexplicably just up at your morning weighing, think about what you ate the day before. Something likely had more salt than you realized or something else was much more than you realized.
HOWEVER, sometimes with your bodies cycles and something or another, you just go up and the next day you are down. Don’t let it demoralize you. If it lasts a couple days, then look very closely at what you are eating. HOWEVER, it might be you were not eating certain things and emptying yourself out, and then when you resume your normal eating, your weight became normal.
As long as you are watching what you are eating, you will get there.
Sometimes your weight will plateau. Just hang in there.
Check that you aren’t getting additional calories somewhere, but sometimes it just plateaus, and then drops. Sometimes you are eating a new low calorie food and it has more residence time in your digestion.
If you aren’t losing any weight past a week, then I would look closely at what you are eating, but weight loss isn’t going to be a steady linear drop.
Dash spices. They are salt free.
I am not using any blends now that have salt. I didn’t have any blood pressure issue, but for a few months my significant other did. One of the reasons I switch is that a lot of the spice blends you see have salt as the 2nd ingredient and a lot of it. You are paying a lot of money for salt when it is part of those blends.
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This is a little hard to watch give his video technique, but I thought I would share it here.
So much things happening. Thanks for sharing.