Almonty Industries restarting U.S. tungsten mining in Montana

Good news!

New legislation in Montana allows any adult to access drugs that have completed Phase I clinical trials

Good news! Broadening the access to experimental treatments.

"The bill, signed into law by Governor Greg Gianforte this week, will permit clinics and doctors to sell and provide nearly any experimental drug to potential patients, so long as it has undergone at least one Phase I clinical trial. Advocates argue that the law will allow Montana to be a hub for medical tourism, especially for potentially life-extending medicine.”"

Weekly Progress Roundup - by Malcolm Cochran - Doomslayer

Montana allows for experimental medical treatments

Good news! Go to Montana for treatment!

"The news: A bill that allows clinics to sell unproven treatments has been passed in Montana. Under the legislation, doctors can apply for a license to open an experimental treatment clinic and recommend and sell therapies not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to their patients.

Why it matters: Once it’s signed by the governor, the law will be the most expansive in the country in allowing access to drugs that have not been fully tested. The bill allows for any drug produced in the state to be sold in it, providing it has been through phase I clinical trials—but these trials do not determine if the drug is effective. ..."

The first US hub for experimental medical treatments is coming

Montana Becomes the Right to Try Anything State, Expanding Access to Experimental Drugs "SB 535 formally paves the way for health care clinics to become 'experimental treatment centers' that can provide drugs still in development to willing patients."

Mammoth and camel was on the menu for ancient Americans like the saber-toothed cat

Tastes change with time! 😊

Obviously, one of the study authors is tainted by ideology and serious myopia!

"In 1968, construction workers in Montana stumbled upon the ochre-covered skull of an 18-month-old boy surrounded by stone, bone, and antler artifacts. The child, who lived roughly 12,800 years ago, is the only known representative of the prehistoric Clovis people. Genomic sequencing has since revealed that these highly mobile hunter-gatherers, famous for their distinctive spearheads, are the ancestors of modern Native Americans.

Now, by analyzing carbon and nitrogen isotopes present in the boy’s bone collagen, scientists have determined that his mother derived about 40% of her diet from mammoth meat. Other common meals included elk, bison, and a now-extinct genus of camel, while smaller animals and plants rarely appeared on the menu. Mammoth featured so heavily, in fact, that the boy’s so-called isotopic “fingerprint” closely resembled that of a carnivorous saber-toothed cat.

The findings support the idea that the Clovis people were specialized big-mammal hunters, not generalist foragers, and could help explain how they spread so rapidly across the Americas. Because mammoths were rich in protein and fat and migrated long distances, they would have been a reliable food source for ancient humans on the move. The new analysis also lends some credence to the theory that humans eventually hunted mammoths and other North American megafauna to extinction. As lead study author James Chatters tells New Scientist, “We’re the ultimate invasive species.” [Really!!!]"

From the abstract:
"Ancient Native American ancestors (Clovis) have been interpreted as either specialized megafauna hunters or generalist foragers. Supporting data are typically indirect (toolkits, associated fauna) or speculative (models, actualistic experiments). Here, we present stable isotope analyses of the only known Clovis individual, the 18-month-old Anzick child, to directly infer maternal protein diet. Using comparative fauna from this region and period, we find that mammoth was the largest contributor to Clovis diet, followed by elk and bison/camel, while the contribution of small mammals was negligible, broadly consistent with the Clovis zooarchaeological record. When compared with second-order consumers, the Anzick-1 maternal diet is closest to that of scimitar cat, a mammoth specialist. Our findings are consistent with the Clovis megafaunal specialist model, using sophisticated technology and high residential mobility to subsist on the highest ranked prey, an adaptation allowing them to rapidly expand across the Americas south of the Pleistocene ice sheets."

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Mammoth featured heavily in Western Clovis diet

Fig. 1. Location of Anzick site, faunal samples (circles) used in this study, and major Clovis sites (triangles).

Fig. 2. Isospace plot showing mean faunal collagen δ13C and δ15N values for Anzick-1 and regional fauna. [The clovis mother is the black square almost at the top]

Israel Defense Force veterans find healing in the wilderness of a Montana ranch

Recommendable! Great idea! Remarkable, to what extra length the IDF typically goes to help veterans!

"... It was the inaugural cohort of Healing in Nature, an Israel-based nonprofit devoted to the wellbeing of IDF combat veteran teams. ..."

IDF vets find healing in the wilderness of a Montana ranch - ISRAEL21c "Therapeutic program lets combat veterans disconnect from the world and regain their equilibrium through outdoor activities and mental-health sessions."

Healing in Nature "Providing a special environment  for IDF combat veterans"

One Montana county hopes safer gun storage will change its grim suicide statistics. Really!

Safe gun storage? What a fantasy to prevent suicides!

When the parents, family, and friends of an individual at risk of suicide can not convince this individual not to own his or her guns, then what?

The article cites an example of a young man with mental illness and substance use. Would not have better medical treatment helped him more?

"...  a culture of safe firearm storage means including safes ...

The firearms should be in a completely different spot from the ammunition, with two different safes with two different codes and locked down. ..."

This Montana county works to turn around its grim suicide statistics

Mexican drug cartel targets six Native American reservations in Montana

Recommendable! A sad story!

The Uncommon Ella Knowles Haskell by Lawrence Reed

Recommendable!

"... the first woman to be licensed as a lawyer, the first female notary public, the first woman to run for Montana State Attorney General, and the 26th woman to be admitted to practice before the US Supreme Court. She served as the President of the Montana Equal Suffrage Association ..." (Wikipedia)

The Uncommon Ella Knowles Haskell - Foundation for Economic Education Ella Knowles Haskell passed away at the age of 50, but not before she successfully crashed numerous gender barriers of her time.

Montana governor signs bill banning state agencies from analyzing climate impacts of major projects such as e.g. mining or power plants

Good news! Bravo Montana! A win for common sense!

I am afraid, the federal government will interfere especially with the senile and demented and corrupt 46th President.

Global Warming hoax and Climate Change religion in a nutshell

"Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte has signed into law a bill that bars the state from considering climate impacts in its analysis of large projects such as coal mines and power plants. ..."

Montana governor signs climate change analysis-ban into law House Bill 971 comes as Montana courts are poised to consider how “clean and healthful environment” protections intersect with energy regulations.

Credits: The Heartland Institute Climate Change Weekly

Greg Gianforte, Governor of Montana

Why is China seemingly infiltrating U.S. telecommunications systems in Montana?

Huawei equipment on cell towers next to intercontinental ballistic missile silos in Montana? What an embarrassment!