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  • But unlike the Americans, who have gone decades without tracking their gold supplies, the Canadians have known that they were getting it from a country where cocaine trafficking, paramilitary violence and the gold trade are intertwined.

    Yet they continued to call it North American gold.

    They did so, officials explained, because before the Colombian gold arrives in Canada, a Texas intermediary mixes it with American gold. In the Mint’s eyes, the resulting mix is entirely North American.

    This fiction, and the fact that perpetuating it is completely legal, is an example of how even the world’s most credible dealers allow tainted gold into the mainstream market.

    Jfc. When did the idea of lying become the government-approved way of things??

    Nevermind … I know.














  • This is how it works (from the article) …

    The search began to find the best bone marrow match. The ideal donor would also have a CCR5 gene mutation resistant to HIV.

    CCR5 is a protein on the surface of an immune cell that acts as the door that HIV enters to infect the body, but about one per cent of the population, primarily of northern European descent, are deficient of this gene.

    That means there is no door for the virus to enter, “and so the virus can’t get into the cells,” said Dr. Mario Ostrowski, a clinician-scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital who co-led the case with Walmsley. The new donor cells could also attack and eliminate the reservoir of virus-infected cells.
























  • It’s insuffient because …

    " … the prime minister, as a reporting public office holder, is fully divested from their controlled assets through sale, since placement in a blind trust does not constitute true divestment."

    The committe is also advising revisions that will affect other officials and cabinet ministers …

    The committee also wants the law amended to require public disclosure of “high-level holdings categories placed in a blind trust by reporting public office holders (sector/asset class, and whether the holdings are Canadian-market concentrated),” a recommendation that could shed new light on the financial interests of a number of top officials and cabinet ministers.

    It’s all in the very short article link.