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Lyme disease a bioweapon gone awry? Rep. Chris Smith pushes Trump to investigate

Now Lyme advocates have a new weapon — an explosive book that alleges the epidemic spawned from an American biological warfare experiment gone awry — and Smith, a Republican whose districts stretches across parts of Monmouth, Ocean and Mercer counties, is appealing to President Donald Trump for action.

The book is “Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons” by Stanford University-based science writer Kris Newby. A chronic Lyme sufferer herself, Newby documents how the U.S. military infected ticks with complex, hard-to-detect pathogens in the 1960s. The book’s linchpin is an interview with late scientist Willy Burgdorfer, who did the infecting and references an accidental release of weaponized ticks that might have ignited all of this.

The relationship between the experiments and the continued denial of chronic Lyme is something Smith would like to see explored further.

“If this (book) this is true — and the documentation is very persuasive — we were doing bio-weapons work that was grossly immoral,” Smith said in an interview with the Asbury Park Press prior to Wednesday’s town meeting. “It’s a shocking read, and I hope it adds to our push. Looking at what happened might help us come up with how we deal with it now.”

He wrote a letter to that extent to President Trump and three inspectors general — of the departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Agriculture — requesting a “serious and comprehensive investigation” into the book’s assertions.

“We owe it to the overwhelming number of patients currently suffering from Lyme disease,” Smith wrote in the letter, dated May 14. “These individuals — and the American public — deserve to know the truth.”

Although he has not received a formal response, Smith said his appeal got the attention of members of Trump’s inner circle. If Congress won’t act on his bipartisan bill (H.R. 220) to bump up funding for research — currently a measly $11 million for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and $28 million for the National Institutes of Health — he’d like to nudge Trump to enact changes via executive order.

Sorry, I got curious...

But damn! The guy lays it on pretty thick, doesn't he? I mean, that picture!

Nutritionist says pizza is better for breakfast than most cereals

Sage nutritional advice.

Beer Archaeologists Are Reviving Ancient Ales — With Some Strange Results

Boston Dogfish Beer Head Company should patent all the ancient ales.

Electricity is too complex. And besides, the generators aren't powered by batteries.

They're also ripping out the reactors and going back to coal and kerosene lamps. Much simpler system. Do away with electricity altogether. Your EMP weapons are useless here.

I called the nursing home where I and my father had visited my aunt a year ago, to ask if she was still there and how she was doing. They would tell me nothing. Claimed that HIPAA forbade that. But HIPAA says no such thing. They are wrong. I called back and tried to inform them that by HIPAA rules, it was okay to answer. They were rude. Tried to hog the floor, and when I would not go along with that, talked over me, then hung up. I called again.

They changed their story, said the privacy requirement was actually in the contract with their residents. Proudly claimed that they take their privacy seriously. I began to wonder if they were covering up something. I called the police and asked them to do a welfare check. The police did so, and told me my aunt was still there and seemed to be okay.

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あなたが理解していないという理由だけで、これはそれが重要ではないという意味ではありません。

And to repeat:
Ακριβώς επειδή δεν καταλαβαίνετε, αυτό δεν σημαίνει ότι δεν είναι σημαντικό.

SN eds are monolingual morons, except for mrpg, who groks the espanol, and pico français.

And the expat speaks!

We're sorry, your submission "Anti-Semitism doesn’t happen in a vacuum | (Revised, for your consideration)" was declined for the following reason:
You say that we are destroying this site - it is YOU and the drivel that you write that is achieving that. Advocating violence - even when you claim that you are not doing so - has no place on this site.--JR

The editors felt it inappropriate for them to correct the issue themselves. Please feel free to correct the issue yourself and resubmit.

So now resubmission is violence? Good to know. Venez voir la violence inhérente au système! Je suis en train d'être réprimé! C'est ce dont je parle!

So sad, Brits having to retire in France just to get health insurance, and they don't even bother to speak the langue! Mon dieu!

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Cheers to Eds! Five submissions in less than an hour, and all rejected within the same hour, lest any Soylents might chance to see them in the queue. I guess I should post all of them here, but I let stand the exquisite censorship of the Editors of SoylentNews, who will have to live with the reputation that follows them accross the infinite expanse of internet time, which, mind you, is only just beginning.
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And now, at the end, you realize the true power of the dark side, the side of truth, the side of philosophers, the side of actual people and not confabulated "rational maximizers" of something they know not what.
I submitted, per request, a Russian sub, as mrpg asked for, and it was rejected as well. Bad enough that subs in French, German, Norsk, Greek, Hollandaise, and Romanian get rejected. Could not one American have enough education to read a sub in Spanish? Or Canadian? Oh, the illiteral horror!
Original Ruski Sub here.
This will come back to stick Americans up their backsides.
Already nationals of any nation can make fun of US Americans without their having any idea they are talking about locos americanos or Américains fous, or сумасшедшие американцы.

Are Men Ready To Start Wearing Leggings?

You ain't ready yet.

Like Clint Eastwood, they spent their time talking to an empty chair before calling a day... so they can make a statement on twitter. You know these people are getting paid, right? How come we give 'em so much time off?

If we could impeach for conduct unbecoming, D.C. would be a ghost town.

This dance they perform is most delicate. They tread ever so lightly. WWE meets the Ballet Association. Mutual Assured Destruction is a real threat. But, soybeans are up, the show must go on...

Trump administration prepares to release Central American migrants 'across the entire nation'

The Trump administration is preparing to send Central American migrants caught along the southern border to Border Patrol stations "across the entire nation," according to a senior Border Patrol official who confirmed the plans Friday.

With more than 4,500 people being caught each day crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, the agency has run out of room at its Border Patrol facilities in the four border states. The agency has started looking at its facilities around the country, which are mostly along the northern border with Canada and coastal states.

That means states from Oregon to North Dakota to Maine may begin receiving planeloads of migrant families in the weeks to come. On Tuesday, Customs and Border Protection sent its first plane full of migrants from Texas to San Diego.

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