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To leap and fall around Soft and protected from this world of stone
When Max Ernst painted St. Cecilia (1923),* did he have Diderot's illustrations for "How to cast your own Equestrian Statue" (1771) in the back of his mind? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
I am further prepared to argue that the "Cast of A-Mount-illado" was also an influence on Doré's 1857 illustrations for the Divine Comedy.**
Assiduous readers will be familiar with the drill, and will have prepared themselves for another manifestation of the non-casual workings of the Morphogenic Field. Every invocation of an artistic trope or motif weakens a seam in the fabric of reality and makes it more likely that similar invocations will occur to future artists (much as every blog that talks about the Morphogenic Field sends out emanations and lowers the threshold for other bloggers to spontaneously mention the Morphogenic Field). When Man Ray came to portray Sade in 1936, due to financial exigencies he couldn't acquire great blocks of stone or plaster to use in the drawing, yet the morphogenic flux was so strong that the portrait of Sade turned into its own masonry.
* Not many people know that the Ernst painting has "Invisible Piano" as alternative title, pre-empting the "Invisible X" style of LOLcat by 80 years or so.
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** 1857 was a good year for titanic chains, unyielding as anything from the anvil of Aforgomon. I cannot exclude the possibility that Victorian photographer Robert Howlett used the same prop links as Doré's etcher, or even shared a studio.
I am further prepared to argue that the "Cast of A-Mount-illado" was also an influence on Doré's 1857 illustrations for the Divine Comedy.**
I can't believe that I forgot the Safeword
Assiduous readers will be familiar with the drill, and will have prepared themselves for another manifestation of the non-casual workings of the Morphogenic Field. Every invocation of an artistic trope or motif weakens a seam in the fabric of reality and makes it more likely that similar invocations will occur to future artists (much as every blog that talks about the Morphogenic Field sends out emanations and lowers the threshold for other bloggers to spontaneously mention the Morphogenic Field). When Man Ray came to portray Sade in 1936, due to financial exigencies he couldn't acquire great blocks of stone or plaster to use in the drawing, yet the morphogenic flux was so strong that the portrait of Sade turned into its own masonry.
* Not many people know that the Ernst painting has "Invisible Piano" as alternative title, pre-empting the "Invisible X" style of LOLcat by 80 years or so.



** 1857 was a good year for titanic chains, unyielding as anything from the anvil of Aforgomon. I cannot exclude the possibility that Victorian photographer Robert Howlett used the same prop links as Doré's etcher, or even shared a studio.
[H/t Rosewind]
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Bis Hip-hop in a Tutu
This year when we decorated the chocolate bunnies IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROPHECY we followed a Ballerina theme (because lazy & uninspired).
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They are ready for a production of Swan Lagomorph.


They are ready for a production of Swan Lagomorph.
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You can't handle the truth
There has not been enough Stupid at Riddled lately, so Another Kiwi and I took ourselves down to the Army-Navy Surplus store to check their shelves for any surplus Milspec Stupid. And behold, they were offering a Three-for-One deal! Part One of the package was "Swissindo", which did not come in khaki nor in the alpine camouflage pattern that I prefer as flattering to my complexion, but I think you will like it anyway.
But first I must apprise you of the news that Jeremy Ayres and Clive de Carle have teamed up tofight crime cure disease, combat the scourge of Wallet Inflation Synrome, and operate the 'NaturallyBetter' broadcasting service (which is to say, a collection of videos on the YouTuba). You should probably have been informed earlier, for they are both old friends of Riddled. Anyway, they comprise Part Two of this parade of poppycock. But we cannot linger on them yet, for there is still the third installment to introduce... though it is hard to sum up neatly, and it deserves a post of its own.
In fact it has attracted an entire website, for I write of the Hoaxtead phenomenon -- a kind of flashmob of New-Age conspiracist-ideation Truthers.
Hoaxtead is a social pearl... accreted in layers around its irritant core, a squalid little episode when some lady co-authored an accusation against her erstwhile partner, that he was a Satanic Ritual Abuser, in order to write him out of their children's lives.
The allegation went quickly tits-up and ended with the key fabulists departing swiftly to be garbage people somewhere else. Yet it also lingers on, with anonymous denunciations, and restraining orders, and loitering near schools to Protect the Children. For just as carrion flies are drawn to the delightful bouquet of cadaverine and putrescine, arriving at the carcass in distinct waves or cohorts [as any fule kno, who has watched CSI TV, or attended "Forensic Entomology Quiz Night" at the Old Entomologist], so sundry hoaxers, griefers, stalkers and scammers converged on Hampstead or emerged from their basements, drawn by the prospect of Drama, and the chance to project their own obsessions onto a situation that was unencumbered with tiresome facts.*
This has all been watched and documented by the Loonspotters at Hoaxtead Research. You should browse the site: it captures the entire Truther Alt-Reality ecosystem, in microcosm. There are some familiar names to encounter (as is inevitable in the subculture no matter which rabbit-hole you start down, on account of "grifter gravitation"). But here we are only concerned with one relatively-central protagonist, Neelu Berry of the clan of Chaudhari.
For Neelu does not believe in the UK financial system, nor in repaying loans, nor in the legitimacy of courts (although they continue to believe in her), because the Swissindo scam is her armour and her sword.
This Swissindo trichobezoar is equally hard to unravel. It is an outgrowth of the old Nigerian Prince scam, hybridised with the "Philippine Gold" Macguffin from Cryptonomicon, (and a few worship words from The Matrix). but vastly upscaled so that the concealed fortune dates back to the God-Kings of the Indonesian Empire of yore, and is large enough to pay the debts of every one of us [11 million tonnes of gold & platinum], transforming us into fully-enfranchised Freeman Sovereign Citizens. Ushering in a radiant future of universal prosperity and freedom where governments and banks fall away like theatrical backdrops and all 128 royal families of the world kneel before M-1, King of Kings, true heir of Soekarno. I am not making this up. The "Swiss" part of the name is not entirely clear. I imagine it was chosen to evoke connotations of some kind... perhaps the Helvetian reputation for rectitude, or the Swiss-banker reputation for secrecy and principled disinterest in the sources of deposits, or just something about fondue.
Until that happy day arrives (in August 2015), you can buy certificates of financial enfranchisement that will confound the bailiffs and bill collectors and drive them weeping from your door. This has Whatted all my Fucks and possibly vice versa, but it goes down like a cup of Free Energy Technology with the New-Age-Libertarian create-yer-own-reality crowd. With the exception of rival burn-it-all-down Chiliasts who have their own New Economic Order systems and are swift to denounce Swissindo as a distracting mercenary scam.
Remember Simon / Sacha Stone, of the New Earth Nation and Humanitad and Bio-arc Housing and the QT-π Free Energy generator? -- his business activities include pimping a new immortality drugfrom Marco Ruggiero, which is why Dora brought him to Riddled attention.
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Sacha is sympathetic to the Swissindo farrago, and willing to learn from it, and he claims to be working with its creator.
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India Irie Sanatana Dharma appears to be the chief exponent of Swissindo at NBtv. She is also cinematographer of Youtubers, and Co-Founder, Network Manager, Human Resources/Public Relations for the broadcasting colossus. She has renounced her original slave-name of India Merkerson, using it only when contributing to the Swissindo website[coincidentally, the old name features on police blotters for fraudulence and felonies... mainly in Florida, because alliteration].
In the context of a webshop catering to Gullible-Americans, the Swissindo belief system has the useful sub-text of reminding customers not to fash themselves about taking on more debt, because all will be repaid come the Jubilee. You may enjoy this PUBLIC NOTICE, larded with Worship Words and reverse etymology [dis-ease, toc-sick] and written in ALL-CAPS to signal the Sovereign-Citizenship-friendliness of the shop, the typographical equivalent of a rainbow.
Of the other NBtv principals, Jeremy Ayres and Clive de Carle were once low-level dealers in the distribution chain for GcMAF and Bravo Magic Yoghurt and Rerum (each one more panaceal than the one before), which is how they came previously to our attention at Riddled Research Laboratory. However, the now-deprecated GcMAF no longer features in their joint artistic practice. In its place, please admire "Rebounders" -- lymph-flow-unblocking weight-loss appliances, easily confused with a trampoline. Nor should we forget the Pocket Orgonite for turning electrosmog EMF into Orgone Energy. Orgonites are like Crystals, but are even more natural, consisting of random sparkly crap set in resin.
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When last encountered, Ayres was boasting of abait-shopbeach-house luxurious clinic in Barbados, while fostering the impression that he was a partner in the Noakes / Ruggiero cash-extraction facility in Switzerland. He affected the title of "Doctor", having acquired a qualification in a discipline of his own invention -- "Neuropractics", a bricolage of fragments from osteopathy, naturopathy, chiroquacktice and bong hits. In contrast, de Carle prefers the title "Health Guru", so put 'Hg' in front of his name when addressing him formally. He traded mainly as The Secret Health Club, where as well as GcMAF he offered Bio Resonance remote-healing-atta-distance through proprietary Scalar Technology, £49 per yearly subscription. He also sold many products through his "Ancient Purity"wigwam webstore (styled in the Tribal Wisdom theme) a.k.a. TheHealthRevolution, including artisanal ashes and dirt, and you could probably acquire a Virtual Spirit Animal there, but I will not swear to that. Then there was RareandBrave[curing autism]. The range of domain names he had registered at the same time speaks of a versatile, ecumenical openness to any arena of potential consumer spending.
"But what", you ask, "of the clinic / healing centre / teaching Multiversity that Ayres offered on the Yucatan, on donated Mayan land, close to sustainable permaculture sources of organic foodstuffs?" All described as actuality but worded as aspirational:
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Returning to Hg de Carle... according to one exercise in rectal sourcing, he
No doubt for reasons of space, those decades are omitted from the biographical details of his career he retconned to mark the promotion to NaturallyBetter... or rather his careers, for he has triumphed and accrued fortunes across the full span of human accomplishment. See below for the full autohagiography, which is too good to be left as just a link.¹ Until he met and conquered the final challenge -- himself -- and taught himself the secrets of spiritual wellness, in a biography reminiscent of Harrison Wintergreen. One can only wonder why, now de Carle has mastered his own body, why he chooses to look like Creepy Uncle Ernie who is no longer in charge of a scout troop.
For a while "The Health Revolution" was a series of YouTubers as well as a webshop; all these Alt-Reality gobshites think of themselves as broadcasters and never tire of the journalist cosplay. This "programme" was a collaboration with Brian Gerrish, a.k.a. "UK Column", a Gollum look-alike Truther whose sincerity and honesty have sometimes been called into question. And to tie it all nicely together, UK Column is up to its thighs in the Hoaxtead farrago. Huzzah!
Originally Ayres and de Carle both hailed from the UK, though they have travelled extensively, citizens of the world, learning modalities of wisdom from every ancient tradition, never staying in one jurisdiction for long.
A physical location for this particular media giant is hard to specify. A disclaimer at the webshop refers us for authentication to a Canadian company, Naturally Better (Canada) Ltd, although that entity was evidently dissolved last year "for non-compliance". Company records offer a Barbados address for Jeremy Ayres. Natalie Kong (the other director, also Mrs Ayres) gave a Canadian address, but if her Faceborg page is to be believed, she resides in Mexico and sells Pocket Orgonites by harnessing the power of Lorem Ipsum.
Anyway, your donations to the ITNJ will help them Help the Children and secure Justice, and hold hearings on child sexual trafficking. With a “Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Human Trafficking and Child Sex Abuse”, I am not making this up.
Whom am I fooling? They're there to hold talkings; hearing is not their area of expertise.
You may also recall HopeGirl, who travels the world bestowing the transformative technology of Self-Empowering Energy Generators on freedom aspirants everywhere. Sadly, the generators never seem to continue working once they are unplugged from the mains, despite hours of not-so-free tutorial advice in on-line HopeGirl consultations. Her contributions to Hoaxtead are late, and peripheral, but inevitable.
But first I must apprise you of the news that Jeremy Ayres and Clive de Carle have teamed up to
In fact it has attracted an entire website, for I write of the Hoaxtead phenomenon -- a kind of flashmob of New-Age conspiracist-ideation Truthers.
Hoaxtead is a social pearl... accreted in layers around its irritant core, a squalid little episode when some lady co-authored an accusation against her erstwhile partner, that he was a Satanic Ritual Abuser, in order to write him out of their children's lives.

This has all been watched and documented by the Loonspotters at Hoaxtead Research. You should browse the site: it captures the entire Truther Alt-Reality ecosystem, in microcosm. There are some familiar names to encounter (as is inevitable in the subculture no matter which rabbit-hole you start down, on account of "grifter gravitation"). But here we are only concerned with one relatively-central protagonist, Neelu Berry of the clan of Chaudhari.
For Neelu does not believe in the UK financial system, nor in repaying loans, nor in the legitimacy of courts (although they continue to believe in her), because the Swissindo scam is her armour and her sword.
Artist's impression of M-1's coronation
Truthers are such easy prey
Remember Simon / Sacha Stone, of the New Earth Nation and Humanitad and Bio-arc Housing and the QT-π Free Energy generator? -- his business activities include pimping a new immortality drugfrom Marco Ruggiero, which is why Dora brought him to Riddled attention.


Sacha is sympathetic to the Swissindo farrago, and willing to learn from it, and he claims to be working with its creator.
I watched a video on the CCN network, a platform created by Mel Ve and her husband Rich, who were delegates of SwissIndo, it was a discussion between Heather and Sacha Stone. In the interview Sacha revealed that Sino had contacted him and asked for him to draft up a ‘law’ system..This does not auger well (as the Bride of Pinocchio complained to Geppetto after the honeymoon, in the lesser-known sequel), for these End-of-Days movements always end badly. When the Millennium fails to arrive it must have been sabotaged by counter-revolutionaries and rootless cosmopolitans, and the people at the top of the Ponzi Pyramid are ordering successive waves of executions before you can say "Eliminationist".
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With the backstories in place and all the ledes exhumed, it makes sense to return at last to the Naturally Better media giant / webshop... its principals have tethered themselves to Swissindo, like a Ship of Fools with a Dinghy of Dipsticks in tow.Click to embiggen

India Irie Sanatana Dharma appears to be the chief exponent of Swissindo at NBtv. She is also cinematographer of Youtubers, and Co-Founder, Network Manager, Human Resources/Public Relations for the broadcasting colossus. She has renounced her original slave-name of India Merkerson, using it only when contributing to the Swissindo website[coincidentally, the old name features on police blotters for fraudulence and felonies... mainly in Florida, because alliteration].
In the context of a webshop catering to Gullible-Americans, the Swissindo belief system has the useful sub-text of reminding customers not to fash themselves about taking on more debt, because all will be repaid come the Jubilee. You may enjoy this PUBLIC NOTICE, larded with Worship Words and reverse etymology [dis-ease, toc-sick] and written in ALL-CAPS to signal the Sovereign-Citizenship-friendliness of the shop, the typographical equivalent of a rainbow.
Of the other NBtv principals, Jeremy Ayres and Clive de Carle were once low-level dealers in the distribution chain for GcMAF and Bravo Magic Yoghurt and Rerum (each one more panaceal than the one before), which is how they came previously to our attention at Riddled Research Laboratory. However, the now-deprecated GcMAF no longer features in their joint artistic practice. In its place, please admire "Rebounders" -- lymph-flow-unblocking weight-loss appliances, easily confused with a trampoline. Nor should we forget the Pocket Orgonite for turning electrosmog EMF into Orgone Energy. Orgonites are like Crystals, but are even more natural, consisting of random sparkly crap set in resin.


When last encountered, Ayres was boasting of a
"But what", you ask, "of the clinic / healing centre / teaching Multiversity that Ayres offered on the Yucatan, on donated Mayan land, close to sustainable permaculture sources of organic foodstuffs?" All described as actuality but worded as aspirational:
"The students will be trained in the philosophies, sciences, arts and practices of Classical Osteopathy, Chiropractics and Naturopathy as well as an ever-evolving course based on the conference input.""The restaurant facilities will offer a premium dining experience, in line with the Naturally Better Healthy Lifestyle™, by creating delicious, nutritionally complete, highly alkaline based, healing food menus, using local and seasonal, local organic ingredients (where possible), for the clients, staff and conference guests."Alas, the website soliciting funds for its construction has folded and vanished in the manner of Bedouin tents, leaving open the question of the final disposal of donations. A page at the current webstore continues to invite moneys, but for full details of the grandiose plan -- born from the unnatural union of one of Bruno Taut's crystal alpine fantasies, and a buzzsaw -- one must turn to the Wayback machine. Rather than stealing a sketch from the Interweave, Ayres should have consulted Sacha Stone's Bio-Arc visionary-architecture sideline.


Returning to Hg de Carle... according to one exercise in rectal sourcing, he
trained in natural healing in his twenties and worked in ophthalmic optics for fifteen years and then for ten years and ran an organic farm

For a while "The Health Revolution" was a series of YouTubers as well as a webshop; all these Alt-Reality gobshites think of themselves as broadcasters and never tire of the journalist cosplay. This "programme" was a collaboration with Brian Gerrish, a.k.a. "UK Column", a Gollum look-alike Truther whose sincerity and honesty have sometimes been called into question. And to tie it all nicely together, UK Column is up to its thighs in the Hoaxtead farrago. Huzzah!
Originally Ayres and de Carle both hailed from the UK, though they have travelled extensively, citizens of the world, learning modalities of wisdom from every ancient tradition, never staying in one jurisdiction for long.
A physical location for this particular media giant is hard to specify. A disclaimer at the webshop refers us for authentication to a Canadian company, Naturally Better (Canada) Ltd, although that entity was evidently dissolved last year "for non-compliance". Company records offer a Barbados address for Jeremy Ayres. Natalie Kong (the other director, also Mrs Ayres) gave a Canadian address, but if her Faceborg page is to be believed, she resides in Mexico and sells Pocket Orgonites by harnessing the power of Lorem Ipsum.
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* The latest wave of parasites to set up a sideshow on the fringes of the Hoaxtead Circus is the International Court of Natural Justice -- another of the sovereign-citizen activities comprising Sacha Stone's portfolio of pelf. It seems that one can set out to explore the New-Age / Truther network through any portal and soon be sure of encountering familiar faces. I do not advise anything like "connect the dots, sheeple!", for if you try that with these people's tangled associations then you will wind up with something like the Parisian Metro map, or like that time the cat shat out a whole gutfull of threadworms at once. It will suffice to admire the dots themselves, such as Chief Justice Sir John Walsh of Brannagh. Or John B. Gilmore, Chairman of the Global Monetary Authority. There is a kind of Platonic perfection to their glorious fabulatory self-regard.Anyway, your donations to the ITNJ will help them Help the Children and secure Justice, and hold hearings on child sexual trafficking. With a “Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Human Trafficking and Child Sex Abuse”, I am not making this up.
Whom am I fooling? They're there to hold talkings; hearing is not their area of expertise.
You may also recall HopeGirl, who travels the world bestowing the transformative technology of Self-Empowering Energy Generators on freedom aspirants everywhere. Sadly, the generators never seem to continue working once they are unplugged from the mains, despite hours of not-so-free tutorial advice in on-line HopeGirl consultations. Her contributions to Hoaxtead are late, and peripheral, but inevitable.
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1. Clive de Carle, Founder of The Health Revolution
Clive de Carle is one of the world’s foremost experts in optimum health and mental performance. For over 20 years he has dedicated himself to the pursuit of mental and physical high performance optimisation, providing cutting edge dietary consultancy and enabling thousands of clients to reverse the signs of illness and regain optimum health.
Clive has travelled the world studying the diets and lifestyles of the world’s longest lived peoples and investigating the very best sources of nutrient rich foods and supplements. Through this Clive has developed a range of high-grade health products during his tenure as co-founder and member of Ancient Purity.
Throughout the 80s and 90s Clive proved himself as a successful business entrepreneur. In 1986 he established England’s largest and most successful manufacturer of contact lenses, which was sold in 1996 to Johnson & Johnson.
In 1991 he also moved into the high-performance car industry, becoming the first najor importer of cutting-edge Japanese technology to the UK motor industry to the UK, that were not normally available outside of Japan, unvailing a series of high performance cars at the Earl’s Court motor show in 1991 and featured on Top Gear revealing technological breakthroughs in the motor industry.
Clive then invested into a 40 acre, fully off grid organic farm in Spain, pioneering sustainable farming methods which enabled him to achieve double the profitability of the land using fully sustainable ancient and modern techniques and technologies while deepening his understanding of the relationship between food production, nutritional content and optimum health.
Following this, Clive discovered new revolutionary voice-activated mindmapping software and set up a buisiness providing cutting-edge lie detection services to the banking and insurance industries. His services were so successful in detecting fraud that he found himself heavily courted by the security services. of several countries.
However, Clive’s passion for achieving peak health through natural means was triggered initially by a major health crisis in 1986. A healthy man of 32,Clive was prescribed a couse of anti-biotics by his doctor for a skin condition, which left him hospitalised with Type 1 diabetes and advanced rhumatoid arthritis with no hope of a cure.
With the doctors unable to help, Clive to seek out the advice of nutritional health guru Patrick Holford, author of over 20 books on health and founder of The institute of optimal nutrition…. who explained to him that he was suffering from a nutritional deficiency, not a shortage of drugs and surgery as the doctors had suggested. By following Holford’s nutritional advice, within one year Clive found he had completely reversed the arthritis.
Clive took a second hit to his health in 2003 when a traumatic divorce left him at an all-time low, suffering from depression, mental exhaustion, emotional trauma, loosing focus, vision and drive. However, once again, Clive decided to take his health into his own hands and with the help of self-hypnosis and intelligent mind management he was able to reestablish his focus and his emotional health.
Since then, Clive decided to focus on health as he realised that without your health you have nothing. Through Clive’s work, thousands of people who conventional medicine were told were incurable have now recovered their health using natural means, including those suffering from advanced terminal diseases.
In Clive’s own words, ‘In essence, I study wellness while doctors study illness, drugs, radiation and surgery. Doctors do not study health and usually only spend half a day on the vital subject of nutrition. The benefits from vibrant good health are well-known to us all but few realize what the basic rules are and just how simple they are to follow’.
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Space Calamari, sign of the time Space Calamari, sort of divine
The attention of science journamalists is fickle and distractable and limited in bandwidth, so one announcement in the research literature went fanfare-free: namely, the news that fruitflies evolved for survival and travel in the harsh conditions of interplanetary vacuum (for nothing else can explain why their eyes are resilient to UV radiation). I am not making this up.
The discovery that comets contain lactobacillis -- fermenting their worty sugary goodness into alcohol -- likewise went by without notice. I had expected the Extreme Brewing industry to pay more attention, and maybe sponsor a probe to bring back a sample from the next cometary close encounter, with novelty beer-brewing in mind.
But both items were overshadowed and last week was dominated instead by the news that squid and octopodes are from outer space.
Cryo-frozen octopus eggs from space? Astronomical argonauts? What fresh variety of crazy-pills is the world taking now?
You and I might think that the paper in question is Flaky McFlakypants, but Graham Lloyd -- "Environment Editor" for the Murdoch Press -- took a break from his demanding schedule of puke-funneling press-releases from climate-change-denial lobbyists into the Australian, topuke-funnel a press-release present Both Sides of the Space-Squid Controversy instead. The fact that the lead author of the Space-Squid paper is a "molecular immunologist and evolutionist" normally-unpublishable Outsider Scientist type, and a climate-change denialist, may have swayed Lloyd's sympathies. See this Twiddle thread for more details...
NO WAIT all three were the SAME PAPER.
One lesson for the learning here is that when the editor of the targeted journal is Denis Noble, it does no harm to inflate the manuscript with fanservice genuflections to the crucial contributions of Denis Noble. Citation-gamed circle-rolling and log-jerks are not unknown in the academic world though typically we try to hide it better.
Noble had previously contributed to the gaiety of nations by publishing Rössler's celebrated paper on curing physiological autism in white elephants.
Anyway... if these embryonic cephalopods originally evolved on Krypton or Daxam, then exposure to the yellow light of our sun would have endowed the adults with super-strength, X-ray vision, nigh-invulnerability and the capacity for flight. This would certainly have added to their reproductive success on Earth.
Just look at the list of authors on the paper!*
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Wainwright has previously featured here, along with his bracingly non-mainstream and out-of-the-box notions on evolutionary biology, in the course of Riddled's week-by-week accrual of a comprehensive encyclopaedia of All World Gnowledge. Of special note is his vision of Earth's rarefied outer atmosphere as a ecosystem or "high cold biosphere"** in which terrestrially-sourced forms of sky-plankton mingle with ones more exotic in origin. It is a vision shared by many people who listened repeatedly to Golden Earring's cover version of 8 Miles High while smoking dried-mushroom rollies, or so I am reliably informed.
But this High Cold Biosphere is part of a broader scholium of thought. Wainwright and his colleagues are not convinced that there really is such a thing as "terrestrial life" in the sense of something indigenous or autochthonic, and in their perspective of Panspermia Plus, new life-forms and microbes and DNA are constantly raining down to Earth on meteorites... having evolved in space (in the rich organic humus of gas- and dust-clouds), or else on the vanished planets of distant stars, but either way, driven on the stellar winds of expanding red giants, and washed on the currents of space until eons later they are ultimately dashed on the Reefs of Earth.
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Sometimes the new arrivals are not screened sufficiently at Border Control and manifest as pathogenic plagues, but others Go Viral and integrate into our genes as a valuable source of genetic variation that mere Earthly mutations could not provide, such as might explain the Cambrian Radiation of metazoal phyla. Alternatively, when hard-shelled fossils from different phyla showed up suddenly at the end of the Precambrian era, perhaps animals evolved them as a protection from that sodding incessant bombardment of whales, squid, combine-harvesters, and many other forms of meteorite.
This acquisition of the DNA for tentacles, radial symmetry and similar enhancements is all very well, but these cosmic viral infections need not have come to Earth through comets and meteorite-strike. We should also consider the possibility of visitors failing to observe proper quarantine protocols. But you try telling that to dead Cthulhu who in his house at R'lyeh waits sneezing.
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Anyway, people, all this retroviral implantation of new genes is considered cheating by serious Mad Scientists and it is not how the Riddled Evolvamat works. Don't be fooled.
The discovery that comets contain lactobacillis -- fermenting their worty sugary goodness into alcohol -- likewise went by without notice. I had expected the Extreme Brewing industry to pay more attention, and maybe sponsor a probe to bring back a sample from the next cometary close encounter, with novelty beer-brewing in mind.
But both items were overshadowed and last week was dominated instead by the news that squid and octopodes are from outer space.
Cryo-frozen octopus eggs from space? Astronomical argonauts? What fresh variety of crazy-pills is the world taking now?
You and I might think that the paper in question is Flaky McFlakypants, but Graham Lloyd -- "Environment Editor" for the Murdoch Press -- took a break from his demanding schedule of puke-funneling press-releases from climate-change-denial lobbyists into the Australian, to
NO WAIT all three were the SAME PAPER.
One lesson for the learning here is that when the editor of the targeted journal is Denis Noble, it does no harm to inflate the manuscript with fanservice genuflections to the crucial contributions of Denis Noble. Citation-gamed circle-rolling and log-jerks are not unknown in the academic world though typically we try to hide it better.
Noble had previously contributed to the gaiety of nations by publishing Rössler's celebrated paper on curing physiological autism in white elephants.

Alien super-octopus
Space Cephalopods

Wainwright has previously featured here, along with his bracingly non-mainstream and out-of-the-box notions on evolutionary biology, in the course of Riddled's week-by-week accrual of a comprehensive encyclopaedia of All World Gnowledge. Of special note is his vision of Earth's rarefied outer atmosphere as a ecosystem or "high cold biosphere"** in which terrestrially-sourced forms of sky-plankton mingle with ones more exotic in origin. It is a vision shared by many people who listened repeatedly to Golden Earring's cover version of 8 Miles High while smoking dried-mushroom rollies, or so I am reliably informed.
Stranger than known
But this High Cold Biosphere is part of a broader scholium of thought. Wainwright and his colleagues are not convinced that there really is such a thing as "terrestrial life" in the sense of something indigenous or autochthonic, and in their perspective of Panspermia Plus, new life-forms and microbes and DNA are constantly raining down to Earth on meteorites... having evolved in space (in the rich organic humus of gas- and dust-clouds), or else on the vanished planets of distant stars, but either way, driven on the stellar winds of expanding red giants, and washed on the currents of space until eons later they are ultimately dashed on the Reefs of Earth.


Sometimes the new arrivals are not screened sufficiently at Border Control and manifest as pathogenic plagues, but others Go Viral and integrate into our genes as a valuable source of genetic variation that mere Earthly mutations could not provide, such as might explain the Cambrian Radiation of metazoal phyla. Alternatively, when hard-shelled fossils from different phyla showed up suddenly at the end of the Precambrian era, perhaps animals evolved them as a protection from that sodding incessant bombardment of whales, squid, combine-harvesters, and many other forms of meteorite.
This acquisition of the DNA for tentacles, radial symmetry and similar enhancements is all very well, but these cosmic viral infections need not have come to Earth through comets and meteorite-strike. We should also consider the possibility of visitors failing to observe proper quarantine protocols. But you try telling that to dead Cthulhu who in his house at R'lyeh waits sneezing.


Anyway, people, all this retroviral implantation of new genes is considered cheating by serious Mad Scientists and it is not how the Riddled Evolvamat works. Don't be fooled.
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* PZ Myers is not unacquainted with them:** The term is a homage to the term "Deep Hot Biosphere", coined by Thomas Gold, role-model for outsider-scientists and climate-change denialists everywhere.Steele I’ve heard of — he was promoting neo-Lamarckism in the 1980s, and thinks the Cambrian explosion was caused by retroviruses squirting new complex genes into the ancestors of all animals. Brig Klyce I’ve bumped into a few times on the internet…he’s a panspermia fanatic. Milton Wainwright is the guy who used an EM to look for odd blobs and declared they are evidence of alien life. The Wallis’s were part of a team that announced that diatoms came from outer space. Oh, and Chandra Wickramasinghe…yes, we have crossed paths multiple times. He published a lot in the Journal of Cosmology, with an editor, Rhawn Joseph, who really, really doesn’t like me.
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Had enough of humans today
According to our local Com-Post, mass murder to inspire terror and advance a cause does not count as "terrorism" if the cause is merely misogyny and male privilege.
James Tiptree Jnr. looks more prescient every day.
James Tiptree Jnr. looks more prescient every day.
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All my Whats are Fucked
The "Logo Transfer Hypothesis" has it that a biohazard warning sign fucked a mandala, and from that unnatural coupling was born the various spirograph logos of Sacha Stone's portfolio of all-lower-case Childhood's-End start-ups like humanitad and immortalis and new earth nation and bio arc.
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It should not be confused with Williamson's "Larval Transfer Hypothesis", in which an earwig fucked a velvet worm (or possibly vice versa), in an implausible cross-phylum forbidden romance that was the origin of caterpillars, i.e. the porno version of a Just-So story. But I digress!
It may be that you have forgotten Simon "Sacha" Stone. He is what happens when Philip Dick's Gnostic Exegesis attains sentience, and decides that its best career path lay in far-right white-separatist politics dressed up in rave-party culture.*
Here the particular Stone start-up of interest is the ITNJ... not a Myers-Briggs personality type (though personality types do come into it), but rather the International Tribunal of Natural Justice. Which is an agency transcending national boundaries and legalistic "law code" pettifoggery in the course of restorative justice, with a naff biohazard-sign-fucked-a-mandala logo... or, depending on your perspective, a cohort of grifters who pass around the crowd-source collection plate to finance their penchant for judicial- and episcopal-gown cosplay.**
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The underlying ITNJ narrative is "Maskedgunman Sovereign-Citizen Lawman rides into town to right wrongs when local sheriffs are in cahoots with the criminals" -- Cahoots being the name of the ridden-into town -- although that storyline is embedded in a sepia cloud of New Age word-wooze. The business model is to solicit donations for the hire of a cheap venue for a 'hearing' or 'inquiry' into some crime against Oh the Humanity; invite various ranters to deliver various testimony-shaped artistic performances that they have previously rehearsed on Youtuber channels; and promise to provide a curated collection of their monologues, Real Soon Now.
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In this case the cheap-venue part is "Westminister Hall"... not part of London's Parliamentary Palace as the name might imply, but instead a room that seats several dozen in the nearby Methodist Central building. The issue inspiring the Hearing is "Human Trafficking and Child Sex Abuse". Which is to say, the International Tribunal has become part of the accretion disk of delusions and donation buttons, swirling around the Hampstead Satanic Abuse hoax, drawn there by the irresistible force of Grifter Gravity.***
A lot has already been written about the Chief Justice of the ITNJ, Sir John Walsh of Branagh... an Australian deadbeat, conman and fabulist, whose knighthood and juristic status are both self-bestowed, just part of a lovingly-curated exhibition of hand-crafted artisanal titles and qualifications. I will accept that immodesty and grandiosity in the composition of one's CV are not prerequisites to work with the ITNJ, but too great a concern for plausibility is certainly a deal-breaker, for here is another of their leading lights, Ambassodor James Gilmore a.k.a. Ponzi the Clown:
But wait, there's more! for Mr Steele is also an expert speaker on The Truth about Pet Cancer, and Special Rapporteur for human-rights abuses on Mars. In particular, the widespread abductions of children to serve as sex-slaves and ultimately as bone-marrow donors to the Mars-colony paedophile vampires. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP. He sounds nice.
In a previous incarnation in the 1400s, Mr Steele was more concerned about the Jews abducting Christian children and draining their blood to bake in the ritual bread.
Now the grifter eco-system is all about the Competition and the Evolution. If an appeal proves to tug on purse-strings and loosen the heart-strings, or even vice versa, then it is adopted as a permanent piece in the repertoire; otherwise it is set aside and not repeated. The process of selection is one of algorithmic refinement, like the evolution of clickbait Youtubra channels for kids,
or akin to the way the constituency of a political demogogue can train him to hoot obsessively if not coherently on their favourite topics, by cheering in response to dog-whistles at the chosen frequency.
So I am going out onna limb here to speculate that the target of ITNJ investigation was not picked capriciously or by throwing darts at the newspapers, but rather has been finely honed to appeal to the suckers (there may even have been focus groups involved!). It follows that what the suckers want to hear about most are the powerful networks of child-trafficking sexploitation vampires who constitute the Deep State.
Over at Hoaxtead Research, El Coyote notes a consistent theme among the images provided by ITNJ for sharing through social networks:
There is the "Storm" fanfic --
So the button chosen by Sacha Stone and the ITNJ is very hot indeed. The inside of many US voters' heads are like Goya witch-sabbath scenes, permanently stuck in 1799. There is clearly a deep-rooted weakness in the human psyche that makes these concerns lucrative to the grifters and appealing to the griftees, and when we look at the historical precedents
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** The dress-up stage-trials are a departure for the Tribunal from its original goal of selling its services as a source of binding Judgments. The closed case of National Child Protection Alliance (‘NCPA’) v Commonwealth of Australia [Case 2015-02-NCPA] involved a genuine but misled Australian child-protection agency. The NCPA belatedly realised that for all its Proclamations and Ratifications and Mandates, and for all the torrent of bafflegab pomposity from Chief Justice Sir Mr Walsh, the Tribunal had no more legal legitimacy than the Society for Creative Anachronism, and that the moneys they had paid to change Australian law was gone beyond all hope of recovery.
The case of Unified Common Law Grand Jury of Southern Africa (‘UZA’) v Constitutional Court of South Africa [Case 2015-01-UZA]is still open. Here the appellants ("Unified Common Law Grand Jury of Southern Africa") were a bunch of Sovereign Citizen bumblefucks who want to say the magic words that will dissolve the nominal government of South Africa, but even they eventually came to terms with their position in the host / parasite relationship.
After that, the Tribunal's Trustees announced that no further cases would be taken on, freeing the Justices to spend their time and deliberations more profitably.
*** One early adopter of the Hampstead Satanic Abuse hoax was Alfred Lautreamont Lambremont Webre, a Cray-cray careerist, and expert on the Tesla technology of travel in time and between planets. Webre interviewed the hoax's instigators about the mechanics of the scam (much as a magpie interviews a collection of shiny and potentially-acquirable objects with an eye to the adornment of its own nest), giving them the run of his Youtuba channel to recount the lurid sexual / cannibalistic fantasies that they had taught to two children. I mention Webre here, singled out from all the other Full Mental Jackets drawn into the Hampstead accretion disk, because he has previously featured at Riddled (though here he is left on the cutting-room floor among the out-takes, no room in the main post!).
Webre used to provide his Seattle audience with insights into the maneuvering of alien factions and power blocs, learned though his high-level security access to all the Double-Secret-Probation details of galactic politics. These dispatches -- published as contributions to the Seattle Examiner -- were unfailingly dramatic and intense, though each seismic shift in the interstellar balance of power left Earth's tenuous neutrality preserved, amid sighs of relief. This media outlet seems to have entered abeyance, but fortunately Webre's bulletins are still available in the Wayback cache.



It should not be confused with Williamson's "Larval Transfer Hypothesis", in which an earwig fucked a velvet worm (or possibly vice versa), in an implausible cross-phylum forbidden romance that was the origin of caterpillars, i.e. the porno version of a Just-So story. But I digress!
It may be that you have forgotten Simon "Sacha" Stone. He is what happens when Philip Dick's Gnostic Exegesis attains sentience, and decides that its best career path lay in far-right white-separatist politics dressed up in rave-party culture.*

Worst Hallowe'en "Sexy Jurist" costume EVAH

The underlying ITNJ narrative is "Masked


In this case the cheap-venue part is "Westminister Hall"... not part of London's Parliamentary Palace as the name might imply, but instead a room that seats several dozen in the nearby Methodist Central building. The issue inspiring the Hearing is "Human Trafficking and Child Sex Abuse". Which is to say, the International Tribunal has become part of the accretion disk of delusions and donation buttons, swirling around the Hampstead Satanic Abuse hoax, drawn there by the irresistible force of Grifter Gravity.***
A lot has already been written about the Chief Justice of the ITNJ, Sir John Walsh of Branagh... an Australian deadbeat, conman and fabulist, whose knighthood and juristic status are both self-bestowed, just part of a lovingly-curated exhibition of hand-crafted artisanal titles and qualifications. I will accept that immodesty and grandiosity in the composition of one's CV are not prerequisites to work with the ITNJ, but too great a concern for plausibility is certainly a deal-breaker, for here is another of their leading lights, Ambassodor James Gilmore a.k.a. Ponzi the Clown:
Gilmore’s profession from the 1990s was based in both finance and economics. He has worked with clients of varying definitions to include Royalty, politicians, MI5, MI6, Mossad, and the CIA. He was granted a Top Secret clearance by the U.S. Army in his position as deputy head of M-3 (intelligence) of the world’s first Atomic Artillery organization.Your Riddled reporters have nothing new to add about Mr Walsh, and Gilmore is an ex-parrot. So instead, meet Robert David Steele, ITNJ "Chief Counsel of Commission on Pedophilia" who models his personal appearance on a Magritte painting... he is also
Chief Enabling Officer (CeO) of Earth Intelligence Network; recommended for the Nobel Peace Prize. Former Operations Officer (C/O) in the Clandestine Service of the Central Intelligence Agency, co-founder of the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, founder of the modern Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) discipline, proponent for election reform, intelligence reform, governance reform and economic reform utilizing Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE).
Not Steele
In a previous incarnation in the 1400s, Mr Steele was more concerned about the Jews abducting Christian children and draining their blood to bake in the ritual bread.
Now the grifter eco-system is all about the Competition and the Evolution. If an appeal proves to tug on purse-strings and loosen the heart-strings, or even vice versa, then it is adopted as a permanent piece in the repertoire; otherwise it is set aside and not repeated. The process of selection is one of algorithmic refinement, like the evolution of clickbait Youtubra channels for kids,

So I am going out onna limb here to speculate that the target of ITNJ investigation was not picked capriciously or by throwing darts at the newspapers, but rather has been finely honed to appeal to the suckers (there may even have been focus groups involved!). It follows that what the suckers want to hear about most are the powerful networks of child-trafficking sexploitation vampires who constitute the Deep State.

Here’s the real meat of the ITNJ web page: a lovely array of children in various states of bondage, guaranteed to appeal to donors who are excited by such thoughtsThere is a lot of this stuff in the fever dream of paranoid-style Truther rightwing politics [but I repeat myself]. If it's not child-sex prostitution running out of the non-existent basement of a pizza parlour, and the abduction of whole generations of children by White Slavers from Mars, it's the claim that the body of a no-longer-on-life-support child was snatched by the hospital for organ harvesting (in a case co-opted as a cause célèbre by theocratic garbage people). OR WORSE!
Not enormously relevant, but vampires!

Those who believe in the theory allege that cabals of high-ranking Democrats run child sex rings attended by celebrities, which Trump is breaking up.One corollary of this narrative seems to be that the attention given to Trump's record of sexual harassment and payments to pr0n stars is misguided, since hey, look at his undeclared war against human trafficking! It is like a remake of 'Night of the Generals', with General Tanz as the hero. Of course the Great Unsealing of Indictments has been promised since late 2017, and still hasn't happened, but that is unlikely to cause doubt within the epistemic bubble, since maybe it did happen but the satanist-run media kept the events out of the news.
QAnon refers to a user of internet messaging board 4Chan, who claims to be a White House official with secret knowledge of the investigation into the sex trafficking ring.
“QAnon believers are convinced that the world is run by a nefarious deep state cabal of Democrats, celebrities, and intelligence community figures (many of whom, they claim, are pedophiles),” writes blogger Will Sommer, who monitors right-wing media, on Mediate.
“Trump is about to take them all down, in their telling, often with sealed indictments that are hidden from the public. Hence Barr’s tweets about massive pedophile networks.”
So the button chosen by Sacha Stone and the ITNJ is very hot indeed. The inside of many US voters' heads are like Goya witch-sabbath scenes, permanently stuck in 1799. There is clearly a deep-rooted weakness in the human psyche that makes these concerns lucrative to the grifters and appealing to the griftees, and when we look at the historical precedents

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* Delusional Sovereign-Citizen fraudster and money-launderer, Heather Tucci-Jarraf, at right.Ratifications!
The case of Unified Common Law Grand Jury of Southern Africa (‘UZA’) v Constitutional Court of South Africa [Case 2015-01-UZA]is still open. Here the appellants ("Unified Common Law Grand Jury of Southern Africa") were a bunch of Sovereign Citizen bumblefucks who want to say the magic words that will dissolve the nominal government of South Africa, but even they eventually came to terms with their position in the host / parasite relationship.
After that, the Tribunal's Trustees announced that no further cases would be taken on, freeing the Justices to spend their time and deliberations more profitably.

Webre used to provide his Seattle audience with insights into the maneuvering of alien factions and power blocs, learned though his high-level security access to all the Double-Secret-Probation details of galactic politics. These dispatches -- published as contributions to the Seattle Examiner -- were unfailingly dramatic and intense, though each seismic shift in the interstellar balance of power left Earth's tenuous neutrality preserved, amid sighs of relief. This media outlet seems to have entered abeyance, but fortunately Webre's bulletins are still available in the Wayback cache.
ET Council: War with grey-Draco reptilian ETs is won, no false flag ET invasionIt goes without saying that Webre's expertise extends to Mars colonies, but he is not on record as contradicting Steele's dystopian account of conditions there. Professional courtesy is still observed among the spiritual heirs of Hélène Smith.
My 1970s meeting with DARPA's Project Pegasus secret time travel program
Andromeda Council: East China Sea 6.9 quake - undersea reptilian base destroyed
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Capybara Facts
Not only are capybaras classified as fish, but the sight of squirrel monkeys riding capybaras were what inspired those classical mosaics and vase-paintings of nereids on dolphin-back.
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Not many people know that.


Not many people know that.
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Come and take this World without end You'll be inventor. Invention, letter, earth, wind
With all our attention at the Riddled Research Laboratory and Museum of Goat Parasites taken up with other shiny objects, we seem to have fallen behind on the evolving medico-philosophical scholium of Marco Ruggiero. Perhaps it is time to go back down the rabbit-hole and catch up on his recent excursions into the arena of predatory publishing.
This is also a convenient excuse to meet a few new lowlife publishing garbage-fires! For Dr Ruggiero is easily bored, and he has exhausted his initial spurt of enthusiasm for theJournal of Ruggiero Studies"American Journal of Immunology"[one of the journal-shaped scams from an academic parasite in Dubai], which is no longer cool now everyone reads it. He has forsaken that pukefunnel and transferred his editorial and auctorial enthusiasms to newer publishing spigots -- madridge, MedCrave, BioAccent, AIMS and Crimson.
We can skip quickly past three of Ruggiero's editorial self-advertisements, which come to us through the tent-themed madridge[Interconnecting Scientific World]. Despite the Dickensian name, this publisher is placed in Hyderabad by company records and details of domainregistration: a city where publishing fraud has grown to be the #1 industry, and so receives municipal welfare. Anyway, one in "Journal of Vaccines":
So look instead at this encrustation of Worship Words, sprayed on thickly like a pebbledash of bafflegab. It comes to us from Crimson Publishers[Wings to the Research], celebrated elsewhere for the Indlish stylings of their rodomontade, who originally planned to name themselves "Microns" for the sake of its technical connotations but they dropped the word into the Anagram Device.*
It is absolutely condamine fishsticks mandible. Do you have your Bullshit Bingo cards ready?
I especially like the suggestion that if you are unwell, the best remedy is to find someone or some animal who is healthy, and become quantum-entangled with them, so they become sick and you get well. For lagniappe there is a lengthy footnote by 'Sacha' Stone (Ruggiero's current sugar-daddy) about his "QT-π" Free Energy fraud.
After that tour-de-farce it is all post-climatic tristesse. But we might as well continue, for the paper builds upon and links back to previous entries in the Ruggiero oeuvre... he is a tirelessly productive writer, conjuring an entire irreal scientific literature out of nowhere as a parallel to or parody of the consensus literature in the manner of a Gnostic demiurge; and as in a real-science paper, it is packed with references to its predecessors.
The link to Mothersill et al. (2018) is especially dispositive: it invokes quantum entanglement as an explanation for the familiar phenomenon of telepathic communication among irradiated trout.**
But here we follow other links to "On the impact of quantum biology and relativistic time dilation in autism" from AIMS Molecular Science and "Alzheimer's DNA Vaccine and Relativistic Time Dilation", from MedCrave Online[Step into the World of Research].*** They consider and repackage two applications of a single claim: Some molecules are so heavy that they curve space through their gravitational pull, thereby slowing time for the DNA to which those molecules have bound. This gives cells the chance to repair damaged DNA and stop / reverse Autism and Alzheimers respectively. Also, you can buy those molecules from Marco Ruggiero.
The advertisements papers are only a few pages but it seems much longer to read them, due to the concentration of Stupid, dense enough to curve space and cause relativistic time dilation.
Finally, two Novel Contributions to the treatment of HIV: "A Novel Approach to Klotho Aimed at Delaying and Reversing Aging", and "A Novel Method to Enhance Immune Responses Induced by HIV DNA Vaccination". The same bafflegab and worship words have been shuffled into a different order:
Drug Supplement --
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The other BOAJ paper takes a fraudulent "DNA Vaccine for HIV" promoted by Russian grifters, and wraps up the scam in a delivery vehicle consisting of wibble and word-wooze about Condroitin Sulphate. It is as if Dr Ruggiero does not expect his collaboration with Sacha Stone to last for long, and he is already casting around for his next host.
BioAccent, you will recall, is a skeevy little operation run out of Ravishankar Kuppala's spare room in Hyderabad and named after a laundry additive. It is noted for the pity-fuck pathos of its spamming, and Marco evidently succumbed to those blandishments. The scammers may even believe that his presence on one of their Editorial Boards adorns their naked avarice with a mantle of gravitas and scholarly rectitude, and I haven't the heart to disillusion them.
** I am not making this up. Published in a SAGE journal that only exists to take money from hormesis cranks. Sounds fishy!
"Well established in biology" here has the special meaning "only first author has ever written about it."
*** Even in the Hyderabad Parasite sector, MedCrave stand out as execrable. They were pioneers in the genre of "Spamming through Fake LinkedIn accounts", with an entire harem of sexy-lady-name bots. As well as accolades from ScholarlyOA and Flaky Journals, they inspired mischievous persons to set up spoofsites in a tone of sustained tongue-in-cheek denial, and Quorathreads, all variations on a theme:
Two delivery-rabbits bringing invisible parcel
This is also a convenient excuse to meet a few new lowlife publishing garbage-fires! For Dr Ruggiero is easily bored, and he has exhausted his initial spurt of enthusiasm for the
We can skip quickly past three of Ruggiero's editorial self-advertisements, which come to us through the tent-themed madridge[Interconnecting Scientific World]. Despite the Dickensian name, this publisher is placed in Hyderabad by company records and details of domainregistration: a city where publishing fraud has grown to be the #1 industry, and so receives municipal welfare. Anyway, one in "Journal of Vaccines":
[the product-placement mixes with above-the-fray tergiversation… “Oh, I’m nothing as vulgar as an antivaxxer, I am merely pointing out weaknesses in the rhetoric of vaccination campaigns!”]
Two in the "Journal of Immunology":
After a year or so, both journals are still on their inaugural issue, and it may be that madridge have focussed their efforts on switching to the more-profitable Mockademic Scamference side of the street.
The last of the papers rehashes Ruggiero's vision of Immortality... although it is the sort of conceptual Immortality that draws comfort from the genetic closeness between your gut microbiota (which will die soon after you do) and the microbes in other people's guts (which will survive you), rather than the kind of personal, actual-continuity Immortality that comes from not dying. But it has already received magisterial treatment from 'Dora' at HIVforum, and the other two also cover familiar ground.
The last of the papers rehashes Ruggiero's vision of Immortality... although it is the sort of conceptual Immortality that draws comfort from the genetic closeness between your gut microbiota (which will die soon after you do) and the microbes in other people's guts (which will survive you), rather than the kind of personal, actual-continuity Immortality that comes from not dying. But it has already received magisterial treatment from 'Dora' at HIVforum, and the other two also cover familiar ground.
So look instead at this encrustation of Worship Words, sprayed on thickly like a pebbledash of bafflegab. It comes to us from Crimson Publishers[Wings to the Research], celebrated elsewhere for the Indlish stylings of their rodomontade, who originally planned to name themselves "Microns" for the sake of its technical connotations but they dropped the word into the Anagram Device.*
It is absolutely condamine fishsticks mandible. Do you have your Bullshit Bingo cards ready?
I especially like the suggestion that if you are unwell, the best remedy is to find someone or some animal who is healthy, and become quantum-entangled with them, so they become sick and you get well. For lagniappe there is a lengthy footnote by 'Sacha' Stone (Ruggiero's current sugar-daddy) about his "QT-π" Free Energy fraud.
After that tour-de-farce it is all post-climatic tristesse. But we might as well continue, for the paper builds upon and links back to previous entries in the Ruggiero oeuvre... he is a tirelessly productive writer, conjuring an entire irreal scientific literature out of nowhere as a parallel to or parody of the consensus literature in the manner of a Gnostic demiurge; and as in a real-science paper, it is packed with references to its predecessors.
The link to Mothersill et al. (2018) is especially dispositive: it invokes quantum entanglement as an explanation for the familiar phenomenon of telepathic communication among irradiated trout.**
But here we follow other links to "On the impact of quantum biology and relativistic time dilation in autism" from AIMS Molecular Science and "Alzheimer's DNA Vaccine and Relativistic Time Dilation", from MedCrave Online[Step into the World of Research].*** They consider and repackage two applications of a single claim: Some molecules are so heavy that they curve space through their gravitational pull, thereby slowing time for the DNA to which those molecules have bound. This gives cells the chance to repair damaged DNA and stop / reverse Autism and Alzheimers respectively. Also, you can buy those molecules from Marco Ruggiero.
However, introduction of an uniform, monotonous, highly charged, macromolecule such as chondroitin sulfate that surrounds basic DNA-binding proteins independently of DNA sequence, introduces a type of gravity-induced time dilation that is not dependent on the individual genetic information. Therefore, time will run slower for the DNA to which the chondroitin sulfate is bound; this will give extra time to the well-known DNA repair mechanism to perform their tasks and will slow down aging at the level of DNA.
Smut reading papers
Finally, two Novel Contributions to the treatment of HIV: "A Novel Approach to Klotho Aimed at Delaying and Reversing Aging", and "A Novel Method to Enhance Immune Responses Induced by HIV DNA Vaccination". The same bafflegab and worship words have been shuffled into a different order:
Implementation of strategies based on principles of relativistic time dilation and quantum signaling to Klotho has the potential to revolutionize the fields of HIV/AIDS research and aging with wide-ranging consequences."Klotho Immortalis" is (as any fule kno) the new Life-Extending
developed with the goal of targeting the anti-aging gene Klotho using a novel revolutionary approach based on a combination of microbiome medicine, genetics, epigenetics, relativistic time dilation and quantum entanglement at the DNA level-- available at last in a limited supply (a maximum of 730 lucky customers!) for only $30000 / year from Sacha Stone and Marco Ruggiero. At that price, you only need to snag one stupid wealthy person to make all the effort worthwhile. Anyway, perhaps someone in the marketing department thought that it would help sell the product if there were a Peer-Reviewed Paper to Explain the Science Behind Klotho.


The other BOAJ paper takes a fraudulent "DNA Vaccine for HIV" promoted by Russian grifters, and wraps up the scam in a delivery vehicle consisting of wibble and word-wooze about Condroitin Sulphate. It is as if Dr Ruggiero does not expect his collaboration with Sacha Stone to last for long, and he is already casting around for his next host.
BioAccent, you will recall, is a skeevy little operation run out of Ravishankar Kuppala's spare room in Hyderabad and named after a laundry additive. It is noted for the pity-fuck pathos of its spamming, and Marco evidently succumbed to those blandishments. The scammers may even believe that his presence on one of their Editorial Boards adorns their naked avarice with a mantle of gravitas and scholarly rectitude, and I haven't the heart to disillusion them.
[H/t Dora]
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* "Crimson" claims to be US-based, with a mail-forwarding-service address in New York and an "Editorial Office" at a residential home in Aurora Colorado. It shares these and its phone numbers with two other buttocks of the same bum -- BioMedical Journal and Lupine Publisher -- because a single grift is never enough. Domains for all three were registered by Sudheer Kaku, a web designer who is listed as residing at that Aurora address. If the "Lupine" name is the first of a series of predator-themed publisher names, I applaud the nascent tradition, and suggest 'Vulpine', "Musteline" and 'Crocutine' as future possibilities.** I am not making this up. Published in a SAGE journal that only exists to take money from hormesis cranks. Sounds fishy!
"Well established in biology" here has the special meaning "only first author has ever written about it."
*** Even in the Hyderabad Parasite sector, MedCrave stand out as execrable. They were pioneers in the genre of "Spamming through Fake LinkedIn accounts", with an entire harem of sexy-lady-name bots. As well as accolades from ScholarlyOA and Flaky Journals, they inspired mischievous persons to set up spoofsites in a tone of sustained tongue-in-cheek denial, and Quorathreads, all variations on a theme:
“We deny and refute the accusations made against us, that we are predatory OMICS clones! We are a totally reputable above-board publisher, interested only in spreading information around, and by the way, those accusations against us, here they are again! Did we mention that accusations have been made against us?”Bravo, unknown spoofers! Regrettably, despite their name, MedCrave do not publish a Journal of Munchausen Syndrome and Factitious Disorders.
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The Dawning of the Age of Libertarius
Tear-streaked epistles continue to appear in our mailbox from distraught Riddled readers, curiosity piqued but not assuaged by previous posts about the "International Tribunal of Natural Justice", desperate to learn what we make of the backstory to that curious self-appointed Unseelie Court of judicial cosplayers. OK, not really.
This fabricated lede aside, the ITNJ is a fascinating window into a kind of intellectual aquarium. Sometimes you want to tap on the glass and get their attention but the sign says not to. It is an aquarium, or subculture, occupied by some delightful personalities who appear to have escaped from an unpublished Thomas Pynchon novel -- personalities such as Supreme Court Judge Anna von Reitz, and 14th-Amendment Constitutional Bounty Hunter, Private Attorney-General Rod Class... those last two words are not another title or qualification, they're his name, though Rod Class also styles himself sometimes as Judge Dale. Just saying, "14th-Amendment Constitutional Bounty Hunter" would be the worst Reality-TV series EVAH.
In this aquarium one encounters questions in the rhetorical mode such as
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For these people have devised their own jurisprudence that puts them outside the reach of mere nation-state laws, so Betteridge's Law holds no fear for them. This is the subculture of Sovereign Citizens and Freemen-on-the-Land, who view themselves as a blend of Ayn Rand and Timothy Leary (in his late exopolitics / Starchildren brain-damage phase), the epitomes of transcendental self-sufficiency... which is why they also devised their own eccentric school of economics in which Corporations / Govt / Banks owe them $10 billion each; and their own physics, entitling them to unlimited free energy from the zero-point of the Quantum Vacuum [they read about it in a John Campbell story so it must be true].
For some reason, "Freeman on the Land" always puts me in mind of Rambling Syd Rumpo, and if that is wrong then I don't want to be right.
I have tried to write this post several times, with different ledes, but each time it turned out that the RationalWiki entry on the One People's Public Trust (OPPT) was funnier and more succinct, so go read that, OK?
From this FotL milieu, first there sprang the Paradigm Project, and then the OPPT -- a Libertarian / Hippie translation of the Prosperity Gospel, adorned with rhetorical tropes filched from Philip K. Dick about 'breaking the Matrix' and 'escaping the Iron Prison'. Attend the deep thoughts of Anna von Reitz (Supreme Court Judge):
an alt-media Faceborg group of bloggers and Youtuber channellers. "5D" being loosely synonymous with 'woke', and denoting a higher level of consciousness than mere 3D and 4D cognition.
The RationalWiki entry describes the ensuing OPAL Tour of 2013. The 5D medianauts took to the road to proclaim the vanishment of the OWO, in a caravan of motorhomes running on water and powered by Free Energy, reincarnations of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Although Kesey's activities were limited to a single FURTHER bus by the absence of the Intertubes and PayPal as a fundraising infrastructure... he could not appeal for donations to pay for non-watery fuel, spare parts for the Tesla Technology generator, and drugs. This is ALL TRUE: RW did not make it up and everything can be documented.
Nor did they invent the "Convergence in Morocco" part of the story, where the 5D crowd relocated to Morocco to embark on an exercise in communal living, transcendental existence and drug consumption. There they were joined by sundry OPPT believers (apart from such believers as had attempted to access their $10 Billion entitlement and were in jail by then). They were also joined by 'HopeGirl' (a.k.a. Hope Moore a.k.a. Naima Dawn Feagin) of the "Fix The World" foundation, bringing a differentFree-Energy Quantum Generator that would power the community and indeed the entire village, and usher in the Millennium of Abundance,
as soon as Wandsworth the skool dog outside supporters donated enough $$ for the spare parts.* In one account, FtW "has always been a service-to-others organization focused on humanitarian projects to help bring about change on our planet that would work to end human suffering" but the judges would also have accepted "Old-fashioned wholesome family of grifters who glimpsed a new scam and wanted in on the ground floor".**
Our interest, though, centres here on Caleb Skinner from that OPPT triumvirate, who is actually more of a character from an abandoned subplot of Cryptonomicon than from Pynchon. Even as the OPAL roadtrip and the Morocco migration was happening, Caleb was reinventing himself as a Software Boy-Genius, and switching his energies to 'Project XIII'... a multifaceted app that would topple Faceborg, luring users with the promise of data anonymity and hard encryption and a gateway to that $10 Billion of credit units to which we are all entitled; all for a nominal monthly fee. Despite sporadic release announcements, five years later 'project xiii' is just a shiny webpage, inspiring doubts that Caleb's forte is more in promises than in software.
But in fairness to Caleb, there were other calls on his time to distract him, e.g. co-opting the ITNJ. For the International Tribunal was meanwhile sprouting from the same rich intellectual loam -- initially as a "People's Grand Jury Initiative", in the recollection of its co-founder -- and Caleb was contracted to write "case-management software".
If we are to believe a series of slightly embittered posts at "Claims of the Living" from co-founder Rebecca Cope, a little band of US SovCits were putting together the underpinnings for a People's Court that would lay bar the machinations of the Matrix, with assistance from like-minded eedjits in South Africa.
These bare-bones-budget volunteers were glad of an offer of collaboration from Simon "Sacha" Stone, impresario of a portfolio of mandala-logoed New Earth websites. For he seemed to be a kindred spirit, interviewing the OPAL road-trippers if not actively supporting them, eager to learn from the Grand Jury initiative, in much the same way that a magpie is eager to learn from a collection of shiny valuables. Caleb came as part of the package:
Cope's trust in the SovCit belief-system is sincere if delusive (often citing Supreme Court Judge Anna von Reitz and Private Attorney-General Rod Class as the ultimate constitutional authorities) so imagine her surprise to find grifting in progress. She had received one bill from Sacha's mate Chief Justice Sir John Walsh of Branaghfor his advice, another for his presence in London along with his entourage for the Tribunal's inauguration, while the vast bulk of the budget of the ITNJ was assigned for paying Mr Walsh's monthly retainer. A priority for the Tribunal would be cases from which Walsh stood most to profit.***
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And there were recriminations and drama, and the ITNJ charter changed unilaterally so as to no longer involve US input. Letters of Resignation were followed by Letters of She-was-never-really-on-the-team. My first draft included lengthy quotes from Claims of the Living, but it's all funnier in context so read the original.
A recurring theme in Rebecca Cope's account is the central role of Caleb Skinner:
* A perspective on this Convergence comes from Melani Vermay -- yet another 'Alt-Media journalist', i.e. a citizen-ranter with a "Freedom Central" Youtuba channel [also "Head of Media within the God Sky Earth Project", don't ask]. Mel was a passenger aboard OPAL and the QEGand the SwissIndo scamwagons -- the latter being another version of the Prosperity-Gospel grift. Mel is covered by the Hoaxtead beat so here she only warrants a footnote.
Bonus Ranting:
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*** Footnotes and Aftermaths will follow later. Time to Do Work now, so this will suffice for the moment.
This fabricated lede aside, the ITNJ is a fascinating window into a kind of intellectual aquarium. Sometimes you want to tap on the glass and get their attention but the sign says not to. It is an aquarium, or subculture, occupied by some delightful personalities who appear to have escaped from an unpublished Thomas Pynchon novel -- personalities such as Supreme Court Judge Anna von Reitz, and 14th-Amendment Constitutional Bounty Hunter, Private Attorney-General Rod Class... those last two words are not another title or qualification, they're his name, though Rod Class also styles himself sometimes as Judge Dale. Just saying, "14th-Amendment Constitutional Bounty Hunter" would be the worst Reality-TV series EVAH.
In this aquarium one encounters questions in the rhetorical mode such as
Did One People's Public Trust legally foreclose the banks and corporate governments worldwide in 2012?
Did Anna von Reitz liquidate us with a bond in January 2017?

For these people have devised their own jurisprudence that puts them outside the reach of mere nation-state laws, so Betteridge's Law holds no fear for them. This is the subculture of Sovereign Citizens and Freemen-on-the-Land, who view themselves as a blend of Ayn Rand and Timothy Leary (in his late exopolitics / Starchildren brain-damage phase), the epitomes of transcendental self-sufficiency... which is why they also devised their own eccentric school of economics in which Corporations / Govt / Banks owe them $10 billion each; and their own physics, entitling them to unlimited free energy from the zero-point of the Quantum Vacuum [they read about it in a John Campbell story so it must be true].

I have tried to write this post several times, with different ledes, but each time it turned out that the RationalWiki entry on the One People's Public Trust (OPPT) was funnier and more succinct, so go read that, OK?
From this FotL milieu, first there sprang the Paradigm Project, and then the OPPT -- a Libertarian / Hippie translation of the Prosperity Gospel, adorned with rhetorical tropes filched from Philip K. Dick about 'breaking the Matrix' and 'escaping the Iron Prison'. Attend the deep thoughts of Anna von Reitz (Supreme Court Judge):
During the 1990s alert financial analysts working for the Department of Defense discovered an odd thing. Numbers weren’t adding up. A vast amount of public money was being embezzled. As the members of what came to be known as “The Paradigm Project” dug deeper, something even more astonishing appeared. Almost all of the governments on Earth were being run as private, for-profit governmental services corporations chartered under the auspices of the UNITED STATES, INC.That "alert financial analysts for the DoD" is all my bum [said Brinsley]; in fact the OPPT was a core troika of Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf, Hollis Randall Hillner and Caleb Skinner, who spake the magic words that LEGALLY FORECLOSED the Old World Order and made it all dissolve in a puff of logic. I cannot be arsed inquiring further into these barmpots for the details of their prior histories in fraud and private-education entitlement. In this LEGAL FORECLOSURE, the troika were encouraged and publicised by the 5D Media Network,[...]Now, stripping the onion another layer, the Paradigm Project discovered that not only had nearly all the traditional governments on earth been reduced to mere governmental services corporations owned and operated by the UNITED STATES, INC., but the states and people being served by these new corporations had been similarly unlawfully converted into corporate franchises. For example, Wisconsin had been reduced to a State of Wisconsin and then to a STATE OF WISCONSIN belonging to the UNITED STATES, INC.
Worst of all, living people had been reduced down to corporate entities. An innocent American man operating under the Trade Name: Joseph Allen Smith, was reduced to a Foreign Situs Trust also named Joseph Allen Smith belonging to the State of Wisconsin: after that, Joseph Allen Smith (the Territorial Foreign Situs Trust) was declared “missing, presumed lost at sea” and a Cestui Que Vie ESTATE trust doing business as “JOSEPH ALLEN SMITH” was created “in his name” as a franchise of the UNITED STATES, INC.

The RationalWiki entry describes the ensuing OPAL Tour of 2013. The 5D medianauts took to the road to proclaim the vanishment of the OWO, in a caravan of motorhomes running on water and powered by Free Energy, reincarnations of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Although Kesey's activities were limited to a single FURTHER bus by the absence of the Intertubes and PayPal as a fundraising infrastructure... he could not appeal for donations to pay for non-watery fuel, spare parts for the Tesla Technology generator, and drugs. This is ALL TRUE: RW did not make it up and everything can be documented.
Bonus Rambling Syd Rumpo, because why not?

Our interest, though, centres here on Caleb Skinner from that OPPT triumvirate, who is actually more of a character from an abandoned subplot of Cryptonomicon than from Pynchon. Even as the OPAL roadtrip and the Morocco migration was happening, Caleb was reinventing himself as a Software Boy-Genius, and switching his energies to 'Project XIII'... a multifaceted app that would topple Faceborg, luring users with the promise of data anonymity and hard encryption and a gateway to that $10 Billion of credit units to which we are all entitled; all for a nominal monthly fee. Despite sporadic release announcements, five years later 'project xiii' is just a shiny webpage, inspiring doubts that Caleb's forte is more in promises than in software.
But in fairness to Caleb, there were other calls on his time to distract him, e.g. co-opting the ITNJ. For the International Tribunal was meanwhile sprouting from the same rich intellectual loam -- initially as a "People's Grand Jury Initiative", in the recollection of its co-founder -- and Caleb was contracted to write "case-management software".
If we are to believe a series of slightly embittered posts at "Claims of the Living" from co-founder Rebecca Cope, a little band of US SovCits were putting together the underpinnings for a People's Court that would lay bar the machinations of the Matrix, with assistance from like-minded eedjits in South Africa.

I next presented the timelines to Sir John and team. Caleb was in on that meeting because he was living with Sacha at the time. It was here I discovered the alteration in the intent of the Tribunal.
Sir John tipped his hand when he said he could call up a Grand Jury from the phone book, should he ever need one. Caleb said we could hold the Tribunal next week, since all we needed was a judge. It was stupid to waste time on Juries, etc, etc.
Calls himself Judge, which by Speech Act
Magic makes him a Judge; also 'ad the Latin
to get through the rigorous judging exams
Magic makes him a Judge; also 'ad the Latin
to get through the rigorous judging exams

...massive fraud that would be perfect for exposure of many corrupt corporations. In the letter, the Law Commissioner stated 1/3 of any financial judgment in her favor would be paid to the Australian team for their efforts and requested a call be had as soon as possible between the parties to discuss.


Sovereign Citizens are such easy prey

A recurring theme in Rebecca Cope's account is the central role of Caleb Skinner:
Those who insist that there is a "middle ground" failed to listen carefully to Sir John's dialogue on the Grand Jury last night. Nor did they follow Caleb's"logic" on Contracts and Ecclesiastical Law. According to Caleb, a person coming before the tribunal gives jurisdiction to the Judge. That's the only "authority" the Judge needs. If a person is stupid enough to allow a Judge to hear their case, (Caleb's explanation) then they should suffer the consequences.Rather than write code and wrangle a database, Caleb reframed the situation so that software was no longer required. Whatever his actual software capabilities, he has mastered the three core virtues of programming: laziness, impatience and hubris.[...]It appears that Caleb's model has been allowed to hijack the Tribunal. We have just reversed direction from what we have worked all year to accomplish. We don't need a Grand Jury. Caleb says so. We no longer have a People's Tribunal. We have a Judge's chamber, and we have our first law commissioner ready to bring a case that is "financially lucrative" that can help pay Sir John and team’s hefty salary.[...]Then an email comes through that Sue and others are "circling back" by not getting with Caleb. Caleb has communicated to Sue that he will not do the software until the first case comes through.
Well, of course. Now I understand. Caleb is telling Sacha and Sir John how easy it is to run the Court. "We don't need to do any of the things that Rebecca's team has been working toward. We don't need Grand Juries. That's so NOT zero-point. Here's how we do things MY way."
[Many tips of hats to the discussion boards at Quatloos!, and Fogbow, as well as RationalWiki and Hoaxtead
Original title was to be "Secret Treaties", so as to use the B.Ö.C. Lyrics tag]
Original title was to be "Secret Treaties", so as to use the B.Ö.C. Lyrics tag]
* A perspective on this Convergence comes from Melani Vermay -- yet another 'Alt-Media journalist', i.e. a citizen-ranter with a "Freedom Central" Youtuba channel [also "Head of Media within the God Sky Earth Project", don't ask]. Mel was a passenger aboard OPAL and the QEGand the SwissIndo scamwagons -- the latter being another version of the Prosperity-Gospel grift. Mel is covered by the Hoaxtead beat so here she only warrants a footnote.
Bonus Ranting:
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*** Footnotes and Aftermaths will follow later. Time to Do Work now, so this will suffice for the moment.
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Well done Australya!
Here is Oz Foreign Minister Julie Bishop taking seriously the ITNJ fabrications of Mr John Walsh, and wishing him every success with his current scam.
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Someone on her staff must have known that the pompous little gobshite isn't even a barrister any more, having been struck off a month or so ago for excessive fraud [also "Unprofessional Misconduct"and"Professional Misconduct"]. It's no secret in the Oz gubblement that he's an inveterate fraudster whose litany of honours, titles and qualifications are self-endowed... it was all entered into Hansard a while back. Did it never occur to her to ask anyone, "who is this dude who wants me to lend him the support and credibility of the Conservative Coalition?"
Please admire the fact that his inflated CV includes his membership of "Rolls-Royce Owners' Club".
"That solicitor should be struck off the Rolls," Keats said.

Someone on her staff must have known that the pompous little gobshite isn't even a barrister any more, having been struck off a month or so ago for excessive fraud [also "Unprofessional Misconduct"and"Professional Misconduct"]. It's no secret in the Oz gubblement that he's an inveterate fraudster whose litany of honours, titles and qualifications are self-endowed... it was all entered into Hansard a while back. Did it never occur to her to ask anyone, "who is this dude who wants me to lend him the support and credibility of the Conservative Coalition?"
Please admire the fact that his inflated CV includes his membership of "Rolls-Royce Owners' Club".
"That solicitor should be struck off the Rolls," Keats said.
[Lynx c/o Hoaxtead Research]
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A Perennial Northern Blot
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the nonfrivolity and Explaining Voice. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and frame-story.
Baldanders: the spirit animal of shapeshifting blots

So in this case, a team of researchers have a bank of 28 "cell smoothies": two sets of eight tissue types, one set of eight cancer-cell lines, and four fetal-tissue samples. In a series of papers published over a decade, the team have characterised numerous proteins from within the self-organising complexity of the human cell -- sequencing the DNA for each protein and specifying its chromosomal location, describing its role within that complexity, and checking which tissues express it (which depends on which genes remained active in each lineage of cells that differentiated and specialised and became a tissue). That is to say, the Northern Blots were just one aspect of the papers, and they are all outside my comfort grade and above my pay zone.
Each study took a few drops from the stored samples, blotted it ("Filters containing about 2 μg of polyadenylated RNAs from the indicated human tissues"), and probed for the mRNA of choice. But there are limits to the precision that a pipette can provide -- even in the hands of a trained gene-modified laboratory monkey -- so the final stage is to wash the probe DNA out of the filter and probe it again for Actin (a background "housekeeping" protein, required by cells to maintain their architecture, unless they are dead) to correct for the actual aliquots that were used. Thus papers in this sequence typically include a phrase along these lines:
Filters were subsequently hybridized with a human actin probe to ascertain differences in RNA loading.It is conceivable, however, that this phrase was repeated from the first paper, along with the loading blot itself. Comparing 23 papers, there appears to be one original blot for each bank: four blots, which are variously compressed and clipped according to the exigencies of publication, and varying also in exposure, rather than a separate measurement after each separate exercise in tissue localisation. The sources are 'Zebedee', commenting on threads at this site; anonymous contributors to Pubpeer threads; Elizabeth Bik; and myself.
This comes to our notice because a 23-fold replication beats the 15-fold record of the Brazilian wanderer. Crucially, though the possible copies are consistently identified as Actin, and the authors have tried to label the sources of the lanes consistently. The reuse of a 'loading library' is deprecated, but this does not begin to approach the problematic level of the Brazilian Western: there was no attempt to mislead (other than the claim that the control in each study was specific to it, made subsequently to the data to be controlled). It is a perennial blot, always in the same place, rather than a wanderer or vagrant.
Regrettably, the labelling of lanes was not as consistent as was intended. In a 2003 appearance of the fetal-tissue blot, it was flipped horizontally relative to the lane labels, as marked with a red box in the Figures. Note that in some publications the lanes are listed in reverse order -- from Leucocytes to Heart rather than vice versa -- and in the Figures I have flipped each band and labels in such cases, to keep a single sequence of tissue types (hence the mirror-image text in places).

Finally, two blue arrows mark the omission of 'Pancreas' and 'Skeletal muscle' from one study each, with the loading band spliced to remove that lane.
I am going to play 'good cop' here, and propose that the corner-cutting absence of study-specific controls probably made little difference to the results. Corrigenda to the paper acknowledging the use of archival controls would be appropriate (along with correction of any flipped and rotated bands). Other issues have been raised about other figures in some of the papers, but I do not address those here.
Details of the 23 publications follow. We are still hopeful of finding a few more examples of the Perennial Northern Blot in order to raise the number to a round two dozen.
1 1994. "Human cathepsin O. Molecular cloning from a breast carcinoma, production of the active enzyme in Escherichia coli, and expression analysis in human tissues", Velasco et al; J Biol Chem., 269(43):27136-42.
2 1995. "Cloning and expression analysis of a novel human serine hydrolase with sequence similarity to prokaryotic enzymes involved in the degradation of aromatic compounds", Puente & López-Otín; Journal of Biological Chemistry 270, 12926-12932. DOI 10.1074/jbc.270.21.12926 Figure 5.
3 1996. "Cloning and Expression Analysis of Human Bleomycin Hydrolase, a Cysteine Proteinase Involved in Chemotherapy Resistance", Ferrando et al.; Cancer Research 56: 1746-1750. PMID: 8620487
4 1996. "Molecular Cloning of a Novel Membrane-type Matrix Metalloproteinase from a Human Breast Carcinoma", Puente et al; Cancer Research 56:944-949.
5 1997. "Identification and characterization of a novel human matrix metalloproteinase with unique structural characteristics, chromosomal location, and tissue distribution", Pendás et al; J Biol Chem. 272(7):4281-6. doi: 10.1074/jbc.272.7.4281 Figure 7.
6 1998. "Cathepsin L2, a Novel Human Cysteine Proteinase Produced by Breast and Colorectal Carcinomas", Santamaría et al; Cancer Res. 58(8):1624-30.
7 1998. "Cathepsin Z, a novel human cysteine proteinase with a short propeptide domain and a unique chromosomal location", Santamaría et al; J Biol Chem. 273(27):16816-23. doi: 10.1074/jbc.273.27.16816 Figure 5.
8 1999. "Cloning and characterization of human MMP-23, a new matrix metalloproteinase predominantly expressed in reproductive tissues and lacking conserved domains in other family members", Velasco et al; J Biol Chem. 274(8):4570-6. doi: 10.1074/jbc.274.8.4570 Figure 6.
9 1999. "Molecular cloning and structural and functional characterization of human cathepsin F, a new cysteine proteinase of the papain family with a long propeptide domain", Santamaría et al; J Biol Chem. 274(20):13800-9. doi: 10.1074/jbc.274.20.13800 Figure 6.
10 1999. "Identification and Chromosomal Location of Two Human Genes Encoding Enzymes Potentially Involved in Proteolytic Maturation of Farnesylated Proteins", Freije et al; Genomics 58, 270–280. DOI: 10.1006/geno.1999.5834
11 2000. "Human MT6-matrix metalloproteinase: identification, progelatinase A activation, and expression in brain tumors", Velasco et al; Cancer Research 60, 877–882. pubmed: 10706098
12 2001. "Identification, Characterization, and Intracellular Processing of ADAM-TS12, a Novel Human Disintegrin with a Complex Structural Organization Involving Multiple Thrombospondin-1 Repeats", Cal et al; Journal of Biological Chemistry 276, 17932-17940. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M100534200 Figure 5.
13 2002. "Matriptase-2, a Membrane-bound Mosaic Serine Proteinase Predominantly Expressed in Human Liver and Showing Degrading Activity against Extracellular Matrix Proteins", Velasco et al; J Biol Chem. 277(40):37637-46. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M203007200 Figure 8.
14 2002"Cloning, expression analysis, and structural characterization of seven novel human ADAMTSs, a family of metalloproteinases with disintegrin and thrombospondin-1 domains", Cal et al; Gene 283 49-62. doi: 10.1016/S0378-1119(01)00861-7
15 2003. "Polyserase-I, a human polyprotease with the ability to generate independent serine protease domains from a single translation product", Cal et al; PNAS 100(16): 9185–9190. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1633392100 Figure 4.
16 2003. "Human Autophagins, a Family of Cysteine Proteinases Potentially Implicated in Cell Degradation by Autophagy", Mariño et al; Journal of Biological Chemistry 278, 3671-3678. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M208247200 Figure 3.
17 2003. "Identification and Characterization of ADAMTS-20 Defines a Novel Subfamily of Metalloproteinases-Disintegrins with Multiple Thrombospondin-1 Repeats and a Unique GON Domain", Llamazares et al; Journal of Biological Chemistry 278(15):13382-13389. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M211900200 Figure 4.
18 2004. "Identification and Characterization of Human and Mouse Ovastacin", Quesada et al; JBC 279 (25) 26627-26634. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M401588200 Figure 3.
19 2004. "Cloning and enzymatic analysis of 22 novel human ubiquitin-specific proteases", Queseda et al; Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 314, 54-62. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2003.12.050
20 2005. "Identification of Human Aminopeptidase O, a Novel Metalloprotease with Structural Similarity to Aminopeptidase B and Leukotriene A4 Hydrolase", Díaz-Perales et al; Journal of Biological Chemistry 280, 14310-14317. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M413222200 Figure 4.
21 2005. "Human Polyserase-2, a Novel Enzyme with Three Tandem Serine Protease Domains in a Single Polypeptide Chain", Cal et al; JBC 280, 1953-1961. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M409139200 Figure 3.
22 2005. "Identification and Characterization of Human Archaemetzincin-1 and -2, Two Novel Members of a Family of Metalloproteases Widely Distributed in Archaea", Diaz-Perales et al; JBC 280(34):30367-30375. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M504533200 Figure 4.
23 2006. "Identification and characterization of human polyserase-3, a novel protein with tandem serine-protease domains in the same polypeptide chain", Cal et al; BMC Biochemistry. doi: 10.1186/1471-2091-7-9 Figure 7.
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What did people sweep things under, before carpets and rugs were invented in the 1950s?
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Today in Right-wing / Truther rhetoric
FreedomQuotes: “If you’re not catching flak you’re not over the target”The history of the self-congratulatory cliche suggests that this origin myth is bollocks.
This apparently originated from WWII bomber pilots.
They could tell when they were over the target
when they could see, hear and feel the flak.
I'm going to be all radical and contrarian and counter-intuitive here, with the suggestions that
(a) if you're catching flak it's because you strayed within range of an anti-aircraft battery; and
(b) if people are laughing at you, it's because you said something stupid.
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Straw-man seeks Brain, and vice versa: A new model of memory in spherical cows falling in vacuum
In the arena of Brain Learning (as opposed to kidney memories), the Paradigms are Shifting again! Fortunately we have fitted them with a tracker beacon so it is easy to find their new location.
It is immediately clear that Sardi et al.'s new Dendritic, non-synaptic paradigm of memory acquisition was inspired by the Codex Seraphinianus:
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The paper is written in first person despite having six authors. The first-person "I" appears to be Prof. Ido Kanter, a reincarnation of Copernicus, who even remembers Copernicus' unrecorded thoughts.
It does not present any data, or any novel hypothesis... the paper is best understood as a paid advertisement for an earlier publication by the same group which did have a hypothesis and a lot of hand-wavy computer simulations, also some results from new types of experiment onvat-grown brains neuron-like cells onna plate, as the old-fashioned methods of neuroscience were not fit for the authors' purpose.
All becomes clear when we examine a press release for that earlier publication and discover that Prof. Kanter is a physicist. Stand back, neuroscientists! Here is a physicist, to explain how you have been neurosciencing wrong all these past seven decades!
The press release is a small masterpiece of dumbing-down, combined with imprecision, hubris, profound ignorance of the "century-old assumption" that the author intends to topple, and a grim determination to be not even wrong.
By the second sentence, it has managed to overestimate the number of neurons by more than a factor of 10, which by the standards of physics is just experimental error:
It is immediately clear that Sardi et al.'s new Dendritic, non-synaptic paradigm of memory acquisition was inspired by the Codex Seraphinianus:


The paper is written in first person despite having six authors. The first-person "I" appears to be Prof. Ido Kanter, a reincarnation of Copernicus, who even remembers Copernicus' unrecorded thoughts.
It does not present any data, or any novel hypothesis... the paper is best understood as a paid advertisement for an earlier publication by the same group which did have a hypothesis and a lot of hand-wavy computer simulations, also some results from new types of experiment on
All becomes clear when we examine a press release for that earlier publication and discover that Prof. Kanter is a physicist. Stand back, neuroscientists! Here is a physicist, to explain how you have been neurosciencing wrong all these past seven decades!
The press release is a small masterpiece of dumbing-down, combined with imprecision, hubris, profound ignorance of the "century-old assumption" that the author intends to topple, and a grim determination to be not even wrong.

Their number is approximately one Tera (trillion), similar to Tera-bits in midsize hard discs.Towards the end it climbs to new heights of bafflegab:
The new results call for a re-examination of neuronal functionalities beyond the traditional framework and, in particular, for an examination into the origin of degenerative diseases. Neurons which are incapable of differentiating between "left" and "right"—similar to distortions in the entire human body—might be a starting point for discovering the origin of these diseases.Neuroskeptic noted"the problem with dendritic learning as an exclusive mechanism of learning" (compared to the old pre-shift paradigm of post-synaptic modification learning)
...is that it leaves each neuron with only two or three ‘degrees’ of information capacity.
A neuron can have thousands of synapses and if they are all independent, that’s a lot of potential information storage. Whereas if plasticity is confined to the primary dendrites, this massively reduces the information capacity of each neuron.
[See also S. Clyde, two months ago]
If Kanter were right, Evolution would have been negligent by missing the opportunity to store information ('memories") in the medium of synaptic changes... clear out your desk, Evolution, you are fired. It would only make sense if Evolution is a physicist.[H/t Leonid Schneider]
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With hardened smiles and evil signs
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This town is so cultured...
Even the tagging is in classical Greek.
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Just steer clear of the Maenad gang on a Friday night after they have been touring the booze-barns, unless you want to be on the blunt end of a thyrsos, is all I'm saying.
Next there will be "Titans rule, Olympians drool" graffiti popping up, and shit will get real.


Just steer clear of the Maenad gang on a Friday night after they have been touring the booze-barns, unless you want to be on the blunt end of a thyrsos, is all I'm saying.
Next there will be "Titans rule, Olympians drool" graffiti popping up, and shit will get real.
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House built on sand
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