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Así lo asegura Jaime Arteaga, director del Observatorio Colombiano de la Industria del Cannabis. 

Después de las polémicas declaraciones que entregó en una entrevista, el hermano del presidente aseguró en 10 AM que la información “fue manipulada” y que lo que contó fue una anécdota

La exministra de Agricultura se refirió en 10AM al nombramiento del nuevo jefe de la cartera del Interior, de la Constituyente y de sus reparos al Gobierno del que hizo parte

On Wednesday, May 8, I debuted a performance piece titled Rhodonea at the Radical Futures conference at University College Cork, Ireland. At the concert I had the privilege of sharing the bill with Brian Bridges, Cárthach Ó Nuanáin, Robin Parmar, … Continue reading →

The spread of COVID19 put a lot of extra work on emergency doctors, due to increased visits as a result of respiratory failure and other consequences caused by the infection. .

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Debatimos por la llegada de Hernán Darío Gómez al Junior de Barranquilla, en reemplazo de Arturo Reyes.

En 6AM Hoy por Hoy de Caracol Radio estuvo el doctor Jorge García, director de la Fundación Retorno Vital, entidad que apoya a pacientes con énfasis en pacientes renales y trasplantados, para hablar sobre la preocupación de estos con los medicamentos que necesitan para mantener su trasplante.

Saray Robayo Bechara, representante a la Cámara explicó en 6AM en qué consiste la iniciativa que busca garantizar la seguridad alimentaria para más de 14 millones de colombianos que no consumen sus tres comidas al día

El doctor Mauricio Castaño Ramírez, presidente Junta Directiva de la Asociación Colombiana de Psiquiatría, reiteró que es un problema que se viene presentando desde el 2023, y podría afectar a niños, adolescentes y otros pacientes con conductas agresivas

El doctor Jorge Ramírez Molina, miembro de La Fundación Liga Central Contra la Epilepsia, explicó la problemática y la respuesta del gobierno

En 6AM Hoy por Hoy de Caracol Radio estuvo Germán Córdoba, director del partido político Cambio Radical, para hablar sobre la acción del Gobierno de intervenir a la EPS Sánitas.

En Caracol Radio estuvo el doctor Rubén Luna, presidente Asociación Colombiana de Trasplantes.

En Caracol Radio estuvo el doctor Rubén Luna, presidente Asociación Colombiana de Trasplantes.

En Caracol Radio estuvo la doctora Tatiana Villarreal, médica internista, aclarando porqué el gremio de la salud cuestiona el borrador tarifario del sistema

En Caracol Radio estuvo Rafa Narvaez, director de Tropicana en Barranquilla.

Mariana Castañeda compartió algunos recuerdos en 6AM de su padre, el reconocido productor de Caracol Radio que trabajó de la mano de históricos como Yamid Amat y Darío Arizmendi

El expresidente de la CUT Diógenes Orjuela recalcó la "falta de atención y negociación con los sindicatos" por parte del gobierno. 

En el programa 6AM Hoy por Hoy, habló Maritza Manrique, presidenta de Sinprotecol, de las razones por la cual suspenderán la huelga laboral 

En 6AM Hoy por Hoy de Caracol Radio estuvo Angélica Lizcano, Neuróloga y presidenta de la liga contra la Epilepsia, para hablar sobre los riesgos del cambio del medicamento en pacientes con Epilepsia, teniendo en cuenta la escasez y cambios de fórmulas por parte de las EPS en el país.

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The Sermon on the Mount is one of the greatest gifts of scripture to humanity; just ask Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Leo Tolstoy. In a time when an eye for an eye still seems to hold sway, IDEAS producer Sean Foley explores the logic of Christian non-violence, beginning with Jesus' counsel to 'turn the other cheek.'

 On March 11, 2024, Donald Trump claimed that cutting Social Security and Medicare could help him cut the national debt tremendously. (See video above). On March 22, 2024, the House GOP announced cuts including a plan to raise the retirement age. This was the second straight year that the House GOP proposed a budget with deep Social Security and Medicare cuts. Trump started promising cuts to Social Security and Medicare in his second term before some audiences as early as January of 2020.  At a Fox News Town Hall in March of 2020, again promised to cut Social Security and Medicare.

All of this talk of cuts forms the prelude to last Thursday's debate which included a question about cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Biden gave a straight-forward answer saying that no cuts are necessary if we raise the Social Security tax to the same level for all. Currently, those making high incomes pay much lower rates than those making low incomes. As President Biden explained at the debate:

Right now, everybody making under $170,000 pays 6 percent of their income, of their paycheck, every single time they get a paycheck, [But] millionaires pay 1 percent – 1 percent. So . . . I would not raise the cost of Social Security for anybody under $400,000. After that, I begin to make the wealthy begin to pay their fair share, by increasing from 1 percent beyond, to be able to guarantee the program for life.

That provides a sensible and efficient means of securing Social Security. And, Biden never varies from that position.

Trump on the other hand, takes different positions with different audiences and covers the full spectrum of options. According to NBC News:

An NBC News examination found that Trump's views have zigzagged over the years — from calling Social Security a “Ponzi scheme” in 2000 to endorsing then-Rep. Paul Ryan’s plans to restructure Medicare in 2012 to positioning himself as the protector of those programs in 2016 to taking aim at some retirement spending in his White House budgets (which never became law).

Essentially we know Trump is lying because of his radically divergent positions over time. In fact, in 2016 he promised to preserve Social Security and Medicare, and then in his budgets he proposed cuts.

 In recent months, Trump opened the way for Social Security and Medicare cuts and refuses to disclaim the GOP plan to cut those programs as, shown above. Which brings us to the his debate comments in response to a question about entitlement cuts. While Biden gave a simple and clear statement of how he intends to save Social Security and Medicare, Trump attacked Biden's honesty and switched the topic to immigration, Russia, Ukraine, a mysterious laptop, the VA, and luxury hotels. Trump was incoherent. Remarkably, he never addressed his recent comments about Social Security and Medicare cuts, nor the GOP plan to cut Social Security and Medicare. Trump provided no explanation of his prior budget proposals including Social Security and Medicare cuts.  As stated in the Washington Post: "Protecting Social Security . . . was also a major theme of Trump’s 2016 campaign. His avowed stance, however, is at odds with Trump’s own record as president: Each of his White House budget proposals included cuts to Social Security and Medicare programs."

Trump has staked out so many positions on Social Security that no matter what he says he lies. The only thing we know for sure about Trump and entitlements is that despite campaign promises to the contrary he included Social Security and Medicare cuts in each of his annual budget proposals as President. Given the GOP commitment to cutting Social Security and Medicare a vote for any GOP candidate is a vote to slash your Social Security and Medicare benefits by about 30 percent. If Trump gets elected the GOP will have a clear path to gutting Social Security and Medicare as he promised to do in a second term in 2020, and regardless of any lies or gibberish he feeds the voters today. 

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President-elect Donald Trump is poised to reshape the US government’s approach to crypto, actively seeking candidates with industry-friendly views for key regulatory positions. According to the Washington Post, as part of his strategy to establish the United States as the “crypto capital of the…

When Trump descended the escalator at Trump Tower in 2015 to announce his presidential campaign, he tapped into something that had been brewing in online spaces for years. What made Trump unique wasn’t just his message, but his ability to speak the language of internet culture – his unfiltered tweets, his willingness to be politically […]

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Jerusalemite of the week: India Abraham is a practitioner of medical tattooing who had already helped scores of people before Oct. 7, but her work has taken on even greater significance since then.

(Oct. 17) When Vice President Kamala Harris repeated on Oct. 15 that she thinks the idea of racial “reparations” should be studied further, she evinced a radicalism she just can’t […]

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Islamic radicalisation in Central Asia 18 September 2024 — 10:00AM TO 11:30AM Anonymous (not verified) 20 August 2024 Chatham House and Online

Experts analyse rising foreign recruitment, current counter-radicalisation efforts and challenge past Chatham House predictions made of the Central Asia region.

In 2014, Chatham House released a report titled The Myth of Post-Soviet Muslim Radicalisation in the Central Asian Republics. At that time, a significant, Western-funded counter-radicalisation industry was addressing what was believed to be a major issue of Islamic violent extremism in the region.

Over the past decade, two key developments have occurred. First, Western interest in the region has declined in favour of traditional geopolitical concerns. Second, while violent extremism incidents within Central Asia remain rare, there has been a notable recruitment of Central Asians by foreign groups, with several attacks carried out by Central Asians overseas.

In this event, the original report’s authors, John Heathershaw and David Montgomery, will discuss whether the report’s arguments are still valid and how we might answer these questions today.

This raises several questions:

• What did the report accurately predict, and where did it fall short?
• How can we explain the lack of violent extremist organisations (VEOs) within Central Asia but the presence of Central Asians in VEOs abroad?
• Could repression by Central Asian states both domestically and transnationally have contributed to this issue?
• What, if anything, can the counter-radicalisation industry do today to address this problem more effectively?

Please note that in-person places are limited. Please wait for confirmation before participating. 

Despite its major importance in human health, the metabolic potential of the human gut microbiota is still poorly understood. We have recently shown that biosynthesis of Ruminococcin C (RumC), a novel ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptide (RiPP) produced by the commensal bacterium Ruminococcus gnavus, requires two radical SAM enzymes (RumMC1 and RumMC2) catalyzing the formation of four Cα-thioether bridges. These bridges, which are essential for RumC's antibiotic properties against human pathogens such as Clostridium perfringens, define two hairpin domains giving this sactipeptide (sulfur-to-α-carbon thioether–containing peptide) an unusual architecture among natural products. We report here the biochemical and spectroscopic characterizations of RumMC2. EPR spectroscopy and mutagenesis data support that RumMC2 is a member of the large family of SPASM domain radical SAM enzymes characterized by the presence of three [4Fe-4S] clusters. We also demonstrate that this enzyme initiates its reaction by Cα H-atom abstraction and is able to catalyze the formation of nonnatural thioether bonds in engineered peptide substrates. Unexpectedly, our data support the formation of a ketoimine rather than an α,β-dehydro-amino acid intermediate during Cα-thioether bridge LC–MS/MS fragmentation. Finally, we explored the roles of the leader peptide and of the RiPP precursor peptide recognition element, present in myriad RiPP-modifying enzymes. Collectively, our data support a more complex role for the peptide recognition element and the core peptide for the installation of posttranslational modifications in RiPPs than previously anticipated and suggest a possible reaction intermediate for thioether bond formation.

Lasse L. Wolf and Hong-Wei Zhang
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 152 (), 5445-5453.
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