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Vietnam Red Night Vision and Demons Myth
You may have heard the urban legend of early or experimental “red” night vision goggles used in Vietnam allowing users to see interdimensional beings like ghosts or demons. The following is one account of the urban legend given by the Coast to Coast AM radio show of July 8, 2023 with guest Mark Anthony:
"…the United States designed and built red night vision goggles. The theory was red night vision goggles would allow soldiers' eyes to maintain daylight sensitivities and more easily switch from day to night vision because red light does not force the eye to adapt to low light conditions…. Red light also stimulates the brain's neurons to increase reflex time and spatial awareness, he added.
The new goggles were issued to mostly airborne troops in 1965, and the whole bizarre episode took place over about 60 days... A week after the soldiers were issued the red night vision goggles, their behavior began to change. ‘The men started acting strangely, they started talking about things that nobody else could see... they were fixated at staring at treetops, then they started having discipline problems and actually began fighting among themselves.’
According to Anthony, a pivotal incident happened during a helicopter patrol over a relatively peaceful area of Vietnam when a gunner wearing the red night vision goggles opened fire at something at the same altitude as the chopper. ‘The gunner cried out he was shooting at demons, he kept screaming demons,’ Anthony reported, noting the gunner described the beings as horrible-looking, with horns, and flying toward the chopper. Officers and pilots had been ordered not to wear the red night vision goggles, but an officer aboard the helicopter ordered the gunner to remove his goggles and then put them on himself. ‘He saw several grotesque winged humanoid creatures flying up from the treetops below toward the helicopter,’….
This was not an isolated event. ‘For weeks, reports kept coming in about flying monsters spotted by soldiers who wore the red night vision goggles,’… Officers who disobeyed their orders and wore the red night vision goggles described seeing gargoyles or demons, and anyone who wore them indicated the creatures would come after them as soon as they saw them, he noted. Use of the red night vision goggles was abruptly canceled after 60 days. Soldiers who had worn the goggles were mentally unstable for months after the experience, Anthony revealed, adding the military has since switched to green light night vision goggles."
Continued: donshift.com/blog/vietnam-re…
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Bought vials online marked "research use only"? There's a new route now.
Two weeks ago I asked the FDA, which is it? Now there's an answer. HHS says it won't go after state-licensed pharmacies that compound six of these products, as long as a licensed prescriber writes the prescription for one specific patient. The policy lands in the Federal Register today.
This isn't the FDA signing off on anything. It's a temporary, non-binding policy. HHS is choosing not to act against these pharmacies while the FDA works on a permanent rule for each product, and HHS can reverse course if safety problems turn up.
It comes with strings. The ingredient has to be made by a manufacturer registered with the FDA, with paperwork proving it was tested. One active ingredient per product, so no blends. The label has to say compounded and not for resale. Every serious side effect gets reported to the FDA.
So the path HHS is leaving open runs through a prescriber and a state-licensed pharmacy. Not an overseas package from a site that sells lab gear on the side.
It won't show up everywhere at once. Each pharmacy needs a supplier that clears those standards first.
Then keep an eye on price. When a hyped product moves to prescription and cash-pay, the hype tax shows up fast. Done right, you should be paying for the ingredient, the testing and the work of making it. Nobody in between adding their cut. That's how we price everything.
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For thirty-one years, the classified files of the Cold War hid what happened on June 29, 1987, when America's fastest spy plane blew an engine at Mach 3 over the Baltic Sea.
U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonels Duane Noll and Tom Veltri were flying a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird at seventy-five thousand feet near Soviet airspace when their right engine exploded.
In seconds, the crippled American reconnaissance jet decelerated and dropped down to twenty-two thousand feet on a single engine. An SR-71 carries zero weapons and relies entirely on speed to survive.
Now flying slow and low, the unarmed American crew was a sitting duck as Soviet fighter jets scrambled with orders to intercept or force the Blackbird down.
Then two Swedish Air Force JA 37 Viggen fighter jets piloted by Major Roger Moller and Major Krister Sjoberg thundered up beside the limping American plane, followed minutes later by two more armed Swedish Viggens.
Sweden was officially neutral, and those four pilots were only on a routine training flight. Yet without hesitation, they locked their own combat radars on and positioned their fighter jets as an armed shield right between the Soviet interceptors and the crippled U.S. aircraft, escorting the Americans all the way to safety.
In November 2018, the secret was finally declassified, and the United States Air Force awarded all four Swedish pilots the U.S. Air Medal.
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Son: Hey Dad, what was your favorite song when you were in high school?
Dad: Son, let me take you back to 1995 for a minute. This will give you goosebumps.
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Glycine + NAC for aging (fascinating study)
A placebo-controlled trial PMID: 35975308 showed:
16 weeks of glycine + NAC (100mg/kg of each a day, about 7g each for a 70kg person) pushed almost every aging marker measured back toward young adult levels. The placebo group didn't move.
oxidative stress (F2-isoprostanes) -> down 72%, back to the level of the young adults
IL-6 -> down 78%
TNF-alpha -> down 54%
hsCRP -> down 41%
insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) -> 10.8 to 3.9
walking speed -> 1.13 to 1.34 m/s, same as the young adults
grip strength -> up 4kg in both hands
systolic blood pressure -> 132 to 124
waist -> down 3cm
Why it works: glycine and NAC are the two raw materials for glutathione, the body's main antioxidant. Older adults can't make enough of it.
Give the body the parts and it makes its own.
No side effects reported.
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Wow.
“Six major employers sue UnitedHealth Group, alleging fraudulent claims, hidden fees, and misuse of employee health plan funds.
Six major corporations — Kraft Heinz, Ralph Lauren, Whirlpool, Aramark, W.W. Grainger, and Sterling Jewelers — have filed a