Senator Ron Johnson: Federal Public Health Officials Hid the Dangers of the COVID Shot

"Senator Ron Johnson has now stated—on record—that federal health officials knowingly concealed vaccine risk signals instead of warning the public. His words were unambiguous: “They admitted there was a signal on myocarditis, and they hid it. They didn’t warn the public, they didn’t warn doctors.” Then he laid out the data straight from VAERS: “The VAERS system shows 38,742 deaths reported… and 9,252 of those deaths occurred on the day of vaccination, or within one or two days.” He added that federal agencies initially promoted VAERS as a trusted safety surveillance system, until the results showed what they “didn’t like.”

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The Continuing and Spreading Corruption of Wikipedia

John Stossel offers disheartening observations on the fall of once-promising Wikipedia. The site is permeated with censorship. On any controversial topic, you can depend on Wikipedia to present you with a false consensus.

Stossel: "I once reported how great Wikipedia is. But now, it’s manipulated by leftists. That’s a big problem because its bad information corrupts AI and search results."  Click on the graphic below for Stossel's video report:

Prior DI article mentioning Glenn Greenwald's commentary on Wikipedia.

Neutral Point of View, by Ashley Rindsberg:

Readers of NPOV know that I’ve previously described Wikipedia as a “methane fire” — a flame that burns invisibly. WMF, in deploying its “most trusted source of information online” message, has blinded itself to reality: people are losing trust, and generally for good reason.

A recent article by Rindsberg reports: "WMF recently discovered that Wikipedia has seen an 8% decrease in traffic. Despite its 400-strong workforce of engineers and product specialists, WMF had no idea this was going on until it stumbled on the data during a bot purge."

New alternative to Wikipedia: https://grokipedia.com/

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EU Directly Attacks the First Amendment

The EU is trying to destroy the First Amendment. It is an attack on the United States. Greg Lukianoff of FIRE quotes this article by the Editors of The Free Press:

“The stated reasons for the fine are a lack of transparency, a violation of advertising rules, and misleading users with “deceptive” design. The real reasons have little to do with those allegations, and everything to do with the kind of speech the EU wants to suppress: perspectives that have not been filtered through bureaucrats, academics, or media professionals; views that go against the received wisdom of policymakers; and views that have not been vetted and found to be acceptable by governments. Any company that utters the wrong kind of speech should now know that the meter is running.”

Mike Benz has been explaining that the actions of the EU must be considered a direct assault on the lives of all Americans:

This is the day I’ve warned the Trump Admin every day for 7 years would come, since 2018’s EU Disinfo Code, to 2019 when the DSA was floated in concept, to 2020 when it became a formal draft EU law while I was at State, to its 2022 adoption, to its 2025 mandatory Disinfo Code.

I keep telling you exactly what to do and exactly what bad things will happen next if you think you can ignore this and not do anything, and each thing I keep saying will happen next literally keeps happening next and happening exactly as I told you it would if you didn’t act.

How could anyone in the admin be surprised the EU censorship law would fine/extort X ??? That’s WHY they made the law, whose enforcement teeth JUST kicked in this summer! This is like letting a flesh-eating cannibal sleep on your chest then being surprised it bit your heart

My lovely DC policymakers who are doing so much good, this €120M fine is N-O-T-H-I-N-G compared to what happens in 2026, 2027, 2028 if this — the first fine — isn’t smacked the fuck out of the air hard, mercilessly and with a message. Is @USAmbEU briefed enough to be armed?

BTW, what has Hillary Clinton been up to? Jonathan Turley explains:

Heritage Foundation exposes Hillary Clinton was directly behind getting the European Union to use their Digital Services Act to pressure Elon Musk and America back into censorship ‌

Hillary Clinton flew overseas for a meeting to facilitate this against America ‌

“They (The European Union) gathered in Berlin, and it was the most anti-free speech gathering I've ever been part of — Hillary Clinton was there, and she really fueled the anger. ‌

When Twitter was purchased by Elon Musk, she called on the EU to use the infamous Digital Services Act, which is one of the most anti-free speech pieces of legislation in decades. And she called upon the EU to use the DSA (Digital Services Act) to force the censorship of American citizens, force people like Musk to censor.

It's an extraordinary act by someone who was once a presidential candidate” ‌

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How Much ATP Does a Human Body Produce Every Day?

Today I learned that the human body makes its weight in ATP (a key component of the Krebs cycle") every day. When I read this I wondered if it could possibly be true. Here's what Grok had to say:

My Query to Grok: Is it true that we make our body weight worth of ATP every day?

Yes, it's true. The human body turns over (produces and consumes) an amount of ATP roughly equivalent to its own body weight each day, though the exact figure varies by activity level and individual.

At any given moment, the body contains only about 250 grams of ATP (plus some ADP). However, ATP is rapidly recycled: it's hydrolyzed to ADP + phosphate to release energy, then resynthesized using energy from food. This cycle happens thousands of times per day per molecule.

Reliable sources estimate daily ATP turnover as:

    • 50–75 kg for an average adult (often cited as ~100–150 moles of ATP hydrolyzed and regenerated daily).

    • Around 50 kg in sources like Wikipedia.

    • ~60 kg in BioNumbers database.

    • Up to 100 kg or more during high activity in some physiology texts.

For a typical 70 kg person, this is approximately one body weight's worth per day at rest or moderate activity. During intense exercise, the rate can increase dramatically (e.g., up to 0.5–1 kg per minute). The key point is the enormous flux: even though net ATP storage is tiny—your cells are constantly churning through it to power everything from muscle contraction to brain function.

This fact is widely accepted in biochemistry and physiology textbooks and is often used to illustrate how dynamic cellular energy metabolism is.

Tutorial on the Krebs Cycle (Also from Grok):

The Krebs cycle, also known as the citric acid cycle or tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, is a central metabolic pathway in cellular respiration that occurs within the mitochondria of eukaryotic cells, efficiently converting nutrients from carbohydrates, fats, and proteins into usable energy. It begins when acetyl-CoA—derived primarily from the breakdown of glucose via glycolysis—combines with oxaloacetate to form citrate, initiating a series of eight enzymatic reactions that systematically oxidize the molecule, releasing carbon dioxide as a byproduct (which we exhale) and generating high-energy electron carriers like NADH and FADH2, along with a small amount of ATP directly through substrate-level phosphorylation. These electron carriers then feed into the electron transport chain to produce the bulk of the cell's ATP via oxidative phosphorylation, yielding up to 38 ATP molecules per glucose molecule overall. The cycle is highly efficient, regenerating oxaloacetate to allow continuous operation, and it's tightly regulated by factors like ATP levels and enzyme inhibitors to match the cell's energy demands, playing a crucial role not only in energy production but also in providing intermediates for biosynthesis of amino acids, nucleotides, and other essential compounds.
 

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