What follows has been largely excerpted and edited from a originally published in early September of 2015.
Much ado has been made that the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines are delivering messenger RNA directly into the genetic transcription process. Transcription is the synthesis of RNA from DNA. The Genetic information then flows from DNA into a protein, the substance that gives an organism its form.
Messenger RNA (mRNA) is fragile and “would be chopped to pieces by our natural enzymes if it were injected directly into the body. To protect the vaccine, Moderna wraps the mRNA in oily bubbles made of lipid nanoparticles.” Upon injection into their human host “the vaccine particles bump into cells and fuse to them, releasing mRNA. The cell’s molecules read its sequence and build spike proteins.” Moderna calls these “so-called spike proteins,” also naturally produced by the COVID virus, “a tempting target for potential vaccines and treatments.” (1)
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Military leaders say ‘extremism’ won’t be tolerated and they are weeding out offenders
As service members are identified as participants in the deadly riot in Washington, the military has begun vetting the troops deployed to D.C. for the inauguration.
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J. Scott Applewhite, Associated Press
Senior military leaders, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff, condemned last week’s deadly riot by supporters of President Donald Trump as a “direct assault on the U.S. Congress” in statements issued this week and warned service members that participating in acts against the Constitution is against the law.
Kill Zone
Donnie Yen December: Week 3
Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to the internets movie review column that has never been in a brutal, alleyway knife fight with, well, anyone, The Gratuitous B-Movie Column, and I am your host Bryan Kristopowitz. In this issue, issue number five hundred and eighty-one, Donnie Yen December continues with the crime flick
Kill Zone, which, as far as I can tell, hit home video in the United States in earlyish September 2006.
Kill Zone
Kill Zone, also known as
SPL: Kill Zone and directed and co-written by Yip Wai Shun/Wilson Yip, is an oddly compelling crime movie that, I guess, has some serious badass action scenes in it because it stars Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, Simon Yam, and Jing Wu. If those guys weren’t in the movie (well, Simon Yam doesn’t engage in the same kind of action as the other three in the movie so maybe I shouldn’t include him in this),