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An Antibody from Single Human VH-rearranging Mouse Neutralizes All SARS-CoV-2 Variants Through BA.5 by Inhibiting Membrane Fusion.

An antibody that neutralizes SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 by binding to a conserved spike epitope outside the receptor binding motif

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An exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky, "JamJam":

Democrats are just as crazy as Republicans

The visit of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, to Taiwan and the escalation of tensions between Beijing and Washington over this issue is considered a revealing point of the lack of rationality in the US foreign policy.

This irrationality is not specific to the ruling party in the White House and has become a kind of governance and structural characteristic in Washington. In this regard, Jam Jam newspaper has talked with Professor Noam Chomsky, a famous American philosopher, linguist and theoretician. Chomsky is a professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy and Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan despite China's warnings. Why is America trying to provoke China at this point in time?

I have to say that the Pentagon and the White House - and every establishment and politician with even a modicum of rationality - warned Pelosi and strongly discouraged her. Pelosi apparently did it for personal reasons: to show that she can be just as tough as any madman. In fact, the Democrats, like the Republicans, took an irrational and costly action towards Taiwan, which is a symbol of the lack of rationality.

It seems that this trip indicates a new chapter in US-China relations and even shows a picture of the future of the world order. That is, the order in which America is trying to contain China and bring Beijing into geopolitical conflicts. what is your opinion?

I have to say that if there is a war, all bets are off and it could be a final war. The same irrational doctrines that America followed in the past are still ruling today. Currently, the United States is defending itself against Eurasian threats. On the western border of Eurasia, the United States defends itself by extending its aggressive military alliance, NATO, to the Russian border. On the eastern border, the United States claims self-defense by creating a ring of "guardian states" to "encircle" China, armed with precision weapons aimed at China, supported by massive naval exercises (RIMPAC). One reason may be China's increased motivation to attack Taiwan in order to get out of the blockade and gain free access to the oceans.

This lack of rationality and effective decision-making (in America) stems from deep racist currents that have poisoned American society since its inception. In the 19th century, Chinese people were kidnapped and brought to work as slaves to build railways. Because this country expanded to its "natural limits". At one level in the last century, Lyndon Johnson warned that without a superior air force, until we stopped "them" in Vietnam, "they" would overrun us and take all of "us." On another level, when Congress passed legislation to rebuild its crumbling infrastructure and vital chip industry, it broke Republican-imposed restrictions, not because the United States needed them, but to overcome the challenge of China's expansion.

American officials have repeatedly turned to open interventionism towards Russia, China and other countries. What is your opinion about this?

From Washington's perspective, there are others who pose an imminent threat to our survival. Currently, Russia has this role. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, is tapping into deep-rooted cultural ills when he warns that if we don't stop them in Ukraine, they will attack our shores. As for the enemy, America has never lacked. Similarly, although magnified much further, the United States and its Western Hemisphere domains can be seen as an "island" off the coast of the Eurasian landmass—which, according to Mackinder's Heartland Theory, is the basis for world control; The founder of modern geopolitics, whose ideas are now being revived by global strategists.

The dispute over the unification of the heartland has been an important issue in post-World War II history. During the Cold War years, there were some European initiatives to create a unified Europe with Russia as an independent force in world affairs. Such ideas were especially proposed by Charles de Gaulle and reflected in Germany. They were defeated in favor of the NATO-based Atlantic system, which is largely run from Washington.

Since when did the Heartland Alliance, which you mentioned in the answer to the above question, become relevant in the calculation of American foreign policy?

It is good to have a realistic account of the story in this regard. The Heartland alliance gained new importance with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The idea of a "common European home" from Lisbon to Vladivostok was floated by Mikhail Gorbachev, who was eager to transition to social democracy in Russia and its former territories and hoped for an equal partnership with the United States in creating a cooperative world order. Predictably, the United States—an island off the coast of Eurasia—vehemently opposed these initiatives. During the Cold War, they had little problem with power relations and the prevailing doctrine of a Kremlin plot to take over the world. This task took new forms with the collapse of the Soviet Union. With some wavering on the sidelines, the United States quickly adopted a policy of enlarging the Atlantic power system, with Russia participating only on subliminal terms. Proposals for equal participation were raised during the Putin years until recently. Currently, Russia, with its vast natural resources, is likely to continue its massive Eurasian development project based on China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which is now expanding to Africa and even Latin America.

Iran has sent its response to a European Union proposal to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, state news agency IRNA reported, as the country's chief adviser to negotiations tweeted that an agreement was closer than ever, but not yet done.

IRNA reported that Iran returned the draft Vienna Agreement to the EU Tuesday, but the agency didn't publish Iran's response.

On Twitter, Iran's negotiating team adviser Mohammad Marandi said Iran had "expressed its concerns" about the draft, but the "remaining issues are not very difficult to resolve."

Faramarz jAn,

My expertise is not the medical realm other than limited scientific knowledge; however, as recommendation and a unique and innovative way to deal with COVID, its early detection and diagnostics, have you or your team considered the possibility of making use of living micro-organisms, such as bacteria? A while back, I had read an article that suggested that bacterial cells can autonomously sense their environment, process information and act accordingly, and it may be combined with synthetic systems to deal with various infections such as COVID!

Or your team can consider Nanotechnology. Nanotechnology can offer remarkably sensitive and specific techniques to measure biomarkers as a technique of early detection, diagnostics, and possibly eradication of affected COVID cells using onboard laser/bio-photonics technologies. To enable the early detection of multiple types of diseases, DARPA and a few other highly specialized teams of scientists have been working on developing nanoparticles that can precisely measure key cell biomarkers at low concentration levels, especially oncogenic/tumorous cells. Interestingly, their research data shows the efficacy of biosensors can be enhanced with the addition of nanoparticles. The tiny devices can also be more efficient and effective as targeting delivery system of drugs/medication, and repair of damaged cells and tissues. 

As you may already know, a collection of approximately 2500 of these nano-sized devices together is about the size of a single (blood) cell allowing them to navigate in the body’s complex vein system without any concerns. No teams have reported of any side-affects especially medical scientists who have been investigating the efficacy of DNA robots at destroying cancer cells by successfully programming strands of DNA to move through the blood system to deliver blood-clotting drugs to the site of the tumor, cutting off their blood supply and preventing growth. In an interesting and recent development, a team of researchers recently carried out in vitro experiments with nanobots, foreseeing their movements with a combination of optical microscopy and Positron Emission Tomography (PET). Worth looking into in your expert field.

Heck! Now that I think of it, one can program them to eat up cholesterol/lipid and convert that to useful nutrition, vitamins, and fibers and feed it back to the body in return!  This should get rid of cholesterol once and for all! Fascinating, eh?

Time to get some rest,

Best,

DM…