On 24 June 1812 and the following days, the first wave of
the Grande Arméecrossed
the border into Russia with around 400,000–450,000 soldiers,[18][19][20]
the opposing Russian field forces amounted around 180,000–200,000 at this time.[21][22][20]
Through a series of long forced marches Napoleon pushed his army rapidly
through Western Russia in a futile attempt to destroy the
retreating Russian Army of Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly,
winning just the Battle of Smolensk in August.
---- On 19 October, Napoleon left Moscow and marched
southwest toward Kaluga
trying to use unspoilt roads to retreat to Smolensk.[27]
After the inconclusive Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Napoleon
decided to use the old Smolensk road instead, but this road had already been
devastated by his own army on the march to Moscow.[28]
Lack of food for the men and fodder for the horses, hypothermia from the bitter
cold and guerilla warfare from Russian peasants and Cossacks led to great losses.
Three days after the battle of Berezina only around 10,000 soldiers
of the main army remained.[29]
On 5 December, Napoleon left the army and returned to
Paris.
In answer to a question about yesterday’s LIR, I think
Fed Chairman Powell was dissembling.Chairman Powell is very smart. He didn’t get where he is by being clueless.
Dissembling, perhaps, even probably. It’s often a reliable way to the top of
the greasy pole for those willing to compromise themselves.
Dissembling for the
good of the country, the banksters, politicians and the great unwashed hoi
polloi, of course. After all, who wants to be blamed for telling the truth, we
got it wrong.
“I have
a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not
lie; I can, but I won't.”
Mark
Twain. Why he can never be a central bankster.
In the
stock casinos, confusion. With the US central banksters sending mixed, confused
signals, they have succeeded in confusing the stock market gamblers. Do the
Fedsters want runaway inflation or not?
It
probably doesn’t matter anyway. If the Great US Western Drought doesn’t break
within the next four weeks, if not sooner, a massive wave of food price
inflation will roll out in the last quarter of 2021 and into 2022. And there’s
nothing that any central bankster in the USA can do about it.
Asian shares tread water, markets
eye U.S. inflation signals
June
22, 2021
A CDC safety group said there’s a “likely association”
between a rare heart inflammatory condition in adolescents and young adults
mostly after they’ve received their second Covid-19 vaccine shot, citing the
most recent data available.
There have been more than 1,200 cases of a myocarditis or
pericarditis mostly in people 30 and under who received Pfizer’s or Moderna’s
Covid vaccine, according to a series of slide presentations published Wednesday
for a meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory
Committee on Immunization Practices.
Myocarditis is the inflammation of the heart muscle, while
pericarditis is the inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart.
“Clinical presentation of myocarditis cases following
vaccination has been distinct, occurring most often within one week after dose
two, with chest pain as the most common presentation,” said Dr. Grace Lee, who
chairs the committee’s safety group. CDC officials are gathering more data to
fully understand the potential risks, how to manage it and whether there are
any long-term issues, she said.
New
research led by the Stanford School of Medicine is offering a detailed
investigation into brain tissue from those who died from COVID-19. Although no
trace of the SARS-CoV-2 virus could be detected, “profound molecular markers of
inflammation” were seen, offering clues as to why some patients suffer
expansive neurological symptoms following infection.
Stanford
neuroscientist Tony Wyss-Coray is perhaps best known for his work transferring plasma from young
mice into old mice and discovering it can reverse
age-related cognitive decline. Those infamous studies inspired a variety of
controversial companies promising to reverse aging through
transfusions of young blood.
Wyss-Coray is still investigating
exactly what mechanism can explain the mouse findings, and no evidence has yet
appeared to show young blood confers those same beneficial effects in humans.
One hypothesis is that inflammatory responses in the brain can be triggered by
factors in the blood outside of the brain.
As the COVID-19 pandemic took off
last year, Wyss-Coray noticed patients frequently reporting neurological
symptoms accompanying infections. And many patients still reported neurological
symptoms for months after recovering from any acute disease. So two questions
framed this new research – can SARS-CoV-2 actually cross the blood-brain
barrier to infect a human brain, and what unusual molecular markers can be
detected in the brain of a deceased COVID-19 patient?
The research team systematically
analyzed 30 brain tissue samples from eight COVID-19 patients and 14 healthy
controls. The brain tissue came from the frontal cortex and choroid plexus.
Using single-cell RNA sequencing to
measure the expression levels of genes in over 65,000 individual cells, the
researchers found a large number of genes linked with inflammatory processes
were activated in the brain tissue of COVID-19 patients. Levels of T cells were
also more abundant in the COVID-19 patient brains than healthy controls.
“Viral infection appears to trigger
inflammatory responses throughout the body that may cause inflammatory
signaling across the blood-brain barrier, which in turn could trip off
neuroinflammation in the brain,” explains Wyss-Coray. “It’s likely that many
COVID-19 patients, especially those reporting or exhibiting neurological
problems or those who are hospitalized, have these neuroinflammatory markers we
saw in the people we looked at who had died from the disease.”
Wyss-Coray says the molecular
markers of inflammation detected in the study share distinct features with what
is observed in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
It is important to note none of the
patients displayed any signs of neurological impairment prior to their death.
Further work looking for signs of neuroinflammation in cerebrospinal fluid from
surviving COVID-19 patients will be necessary to better understand the
potential long-term implications.
Google funded research conducted by Peter Daszak’s
EcoHealth Alliance – a controversial group which has openly collaborated with
the Wuhan Institute of Virology on “killer” bat coronavirus research – for over
a decade, The National Pulse can today reveal.
The unearthed financial ties between EcoHealth Alliance and
Google follow months
of big tech censorship of stories and individuals in support of the COVID-19
“lab leak” theory.
The Google-backed EcoHealth Alliance played a critical role
in the cover-up of COVID-19’s origins through its president, Peter Daszak.
Daszak served on the wildly
compromised World Health Organization’s (WHO) COVID-19 investigation team.
He championed
the efforts to “debunk” the lab origin theory of the virus, despite mounting
support for the claim first made by experts on Steve Bannon’s War Room:
Pandemic podcast in early January 2020.
Left-wing websites masquerading as “fact checkers” still
call the lab theory “false,” despite the shift in tone from the Biden
regime, leading world scientists, and intelligence officials.
EcoHealth Alliance also funneled
hundreds of thousands of U.S. taxpayer dollars from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to its research
partner, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, to conduct studies on “killer”
bat coronaviruses.
Next, some vaccine links
kindly sent along from a LIR reader in Canada. The links come from a most
informative update from Stanford Hospital in California.
Summary:
A new 'flash' process can turn carbon black into functionalized nanodiamond and
other materials. The carbon atoms evolved through several phases depending on
the length of the flash.
Diamond may be just a phase carbon
goes through when exposed to a flash of heat, but that makes it far easier to
obtain.
The Rice University lab of chemist
James Tour is now able to "evolve" carbon through phases that include
valuable nanodiamond by tightly controlling the flash Joule heating process
they developed 18 months ago.
Best of all, they can stop the
process at will to get product they want.
In the American Chemical Society
journal ACS Nano, the researchers led by Tour and graduate student and
lead author Weiyin Chen show that adding organic fluorine compounds and
fluoride precursors to elemental carbon black turns it into several hard-to-get
allotropes when flashed, including fluorinated nanodiamonds, fluorinated
turbostratic graphene and fluorinated concentric carbon.
With the flash process introduced in
2020, a strong jolt of electricity can turn carbon from just about any source
into layers of pristine turbostratic graphene in less than a second.
("Turbostratic" means the layers are not strongly bound to each
other, making them easier to separate in a solution.)
The new work shows it's possible to
modify, or functionalize, the products at the same time. The duration of the
flash, between 10 and 500 milliseconds, determines the final carbon allotrope.
The difficulty lies in how to
preserve the fluorine atoms, since the ultrahigh temperature causes the
volatilization of all atoms other than carbon. To overcome the problem, the
team used a Teflon tube sealed with graphite spacers and high-melting-point
tungsten rods, which can hold the reactant inside and avoid the loss of
fluorine atoms under the ultrahigh temperature. The improved sealed tube is
important, Tour said.
"In industry, there has been a
long-standing use for small diamonds in cutting tools and as electrical
insulators," he said. "The fluorinated version here provides a route
to modifications of these structures. And there is a large demand for graphene,
while the fluorinated family is newly produced here in bulk form."
---- Nanodiamonds are highly desirable for electronics
applications, as they can be doped to serve as wide-bandgap semiconductors,
important components in current research by Rice and the Army Research
Laboratory.
The new process simplifies the
doping part, not only for nanodiamonds but also for the other allotropes. Tour
said the Rice lab is exploring the use of boron, phosphorous and nitrogen as
additives as well.
At longer flash times, the
researchers got nanodiamonds embedded in concentric shells of fluorinated
carbon. Even longer exposure converted the diamond entirely into shells, from
the outside in.
"The concentric-shelled
structures have been used as lubricant additives, and this flash method might
provide an inexpensive and fast route to these formations," Tour said.
23-24 June, 1314. The Battle
of Bannockburn, Stirlingshire. What could possibly go wrong?
The
Battle of Bannockburn (Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Allt nam Bànag or Blàr Allt a' Bhonnaich) on 23 and 24 June 1314 was a victory of
the army of King of Scots Robert the Bruce over
the army of King Edward
II of England in the First
War of Scottish Independence. Although it did
not bring an end to the war, as victory would only be secured 14 years later,
Bannockburn is still a major landmark in Scottish history.
----
The precise numerical advantage of the English forces relative to the Scottish
forces is unknown, but modern researchers estimate that the Scottish faced
English forces one-and-a-half to two or three times their size.
----
Most medieval battles were short-lived, lasting only a few hours, so the Battle
of Bannockburn is unusual in that it lasted two days.
----
Edward fled with his personal bodyguard and panic spread among the remaining
troops, turning their defeat into a rout. King
Edward with about 500 men first fled for Stirling Castle where Sir Philip de
Moubray, commander of the castle, turned him away as the castle would shortly
be surrendered to the Scots.[32] Then,
pursued by James Douglas and a small troop of horsemen, Edward fled to Dunbar
Castle, from which he took a ship to Berwick.
----
Weighing the available evidence, Reese concludes that "it seems doubtful
if even a third of the foot soldiers returned to England."[33] If his
estimate is accurate, of 16,000 English infantrymen, about 11,000 were killed.
The English chronicler Thomas Walsingham gave
the number of English men-at-arms who were killed as 700,[6] while
500 more men-at-arms were spared for ransom.[7] The
Scottish losses appear to have been comparatively light, with only two knights
among those killed
Following the markets on both sides of the Atlantic since 1968. A dinosaur, who evolved with the financial system as it was perverted from capitalism to banksterism after the great Nixonian error of abandoning the dollar's link to gold instead of simply revaluing gold. Our money is too important to be left to probity challenged central banksters and crooked politicians.
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