A new paper in @PNASNews refutes a natural origin of the Furin Cleavage Site in SARS-CoV-2 at least as far as similarity to MERS-CoV strain MERS-MA30.
“Lisewski in 2024, argues that the artificial mouse-adapted MERS-CoV strain, MERS-MA30, described by Li et al. [in 2017] contains an amino acid sequence (RRVR) closely resembling the SARS-CoV-2 S1/S2 motif. The hypothesis suggests that RRVR might have been artificially introduced into a SARS-CoV-2 precursor virus, later mutating to the extant RRAR motif.”
“no close analogue to the SARS-CoV-2 sequence has been found in bat sarbecoviruses. This gap has led to hypotheses of nonnatural origins.”
“Using reverse genetics, we generated
RRVR-containing SARS-CoV-2, and found that RRVR consistently reduced entry efficiency in both D614G and the early 614D backgrounds and had inferior replication fitness. RRVR viruses did not revert toward RRAR but instead accumulated alternative substitutions, such as RRGR. Collectively, these findings do not support any evolutionary links between MERS-MA30 and SARS-CoV-2.”
“In conclusion, our results do not support early circulation of RRVR or MERS-MA30-derived nucleotide sequences in the FCS-encoding region of SARS-CoV-2. They also refute direct evolution of RRAR from RRVR in SARS-CoV-2.”
https://t.co/ATDPuSy7xp
It's déjà vu all over again. 🧵
I spent quite a lot of time in late 2024 / early 2025 trying to find alternate sources of milk and dairy products after Arla ran their little trial with Morrisons, Aldi and Tesco adding an unnecessary chemical (Bovaer) to dairy cattle feed to prevent the world from *checks notes* burning up in a cow burp driven methane inferno.
And here we are again with folic acid in flour. From December 2026 by order of the Unelected Globalist Bureaucrats and their Westminster puppets, most non-wholemeal flour sold in the UK must have folic acid added to it to reduce the risk of women giving birth to babies with spina bifida.
The more observant amongst you will have noticed that men are not going to give birth to babies, with or without spina bifida, nor are children or women beyond child-bearing age. Not only that, but folic acid (which is a synthetic version of folate, a vitamin which occurs naturally in some foods) is known to be harmful to people in a number of different categories: people with heart stents; people with kidney or liver disease; people who are vitamin B12 deficient, people with cancer; and there is also evidence that it doubles risk of prostate cancer for men.
It's hard to know how to fight against this kind of top-downism but I came to the conclusion during the Bovaer fight (which is by no means won, by the way) that the best approach is twofold:
1. Don't feed the globalist beast. Stop spending money with the companies which support this kind of thing, and call then out for it.
2. Instead, spend your money with smaller, local companies.
Government isn't listening to us, big companies aren't listening to us, so using the money in our pockets to try to influence things is really the only avenue open to us.
With folic acid, the rules on supplementation exclude small mills which produce relatively small volumes of flour. They are still allowed to sell unfortified products to the public.
This webpage by the Real Bread Campaign, highlights small local mills and producers of additive-free bread and flour. Obviously these are small independent businesses or sole traders so you are unlikely to find their products in supermarkets but the map should help you find a vendor near you who you could visit, and local farm shops and farmers' markets may stock their products.
https://t.co/MBs0Zn5pgV
There are some mills which sell unfortified flour direct to the public online - I'll add a couple I know of into the comments. Postage costs mean this isn't a cheap option but you could club together with friends / family / neighbours to order in bulk and reduce the impact of the postage.
Feel free to add any mills you know of or use in the comments. Let's Make Flour Great Again!
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@BigBrotherWatch You'd think those who set up @sainsburys supermarket would not be using THE SAME TACTICS as Adolf Hitler used in WW2 against Jews in tracking them and giving them numbers to stop them shopping - which is what #FacialRecognition does. I will refuse to shop anymore in Sainsburys.
🗣️ "When we told our farm liaison contact that 27ppl simply isn't sustainable, his response was: 'Take out a loan or sell the cows'."
Becky Fenton says too many dairy farmers are carrying all the risk, while milk contracts favour the buyer. ��
Do contracts need to fundamentally change to support British farmers?
READ MORE: https://t.co/VdMspw78IW
🔴Social media ban is FAILING in Australia
According to new research by leading medical journal, The BMJ:
🔹Over 85% of under-16s are still on social media sites despite a ban
🔹66% of children using social media have been exposed to ID checks including intrusive methods like uploading selfies
The evidence is on the table - a social media ban will fail to keep children safer online. Instead it would force Orwellian ID gateways to the internet, population-wide surveillance and a chokehold on everyone’s internet access.
Read⤵️
https://t.co/p7TgQACfdz
When five people were injured in Edinburgh on 19 June, Keir Starmer responded the very next day:
“No one should face violence on our streets.”
He also said the suspect “appears to be motivated by anti Muslim hatred.”
Fast forward a week.
Five pedestrians are run over by Timir Ahmed Mohamed, who has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
Where is the Prime Minister now?
What was the motivation behind this alleged attempted murder of 5 people?
It's these obvious double standards in public messaging that have fuelled division over the last two years.
People notice when some incidents get an immediate response while others are met with silence.
❗ Should an 850-acre rural site be used for a huge AI data centre — or should projects like this go on brownfield land first? Plans in north Devon have sparked concerns over pressure on land needed for food production
READ MORE: https://t.co/dYmhdYWfL7
Labour's Farming Roadmap is facing fierce criticism from opposition MPs, who say it falls short of giving farmers the confidence to invest and produce more food.
Tim Farron warned England risks being left behind the rest of Europe, while Conservative MP Charlie Dewhirst described the plan as "shockingly bad", claiming it will increase bureaucracy, costs and take more farmland out of production.
Do you think the roadmap gives farmers the long-term direction the industry needs?
READ MORE: https://t.co/PWRd8EElkx
Most smart TVs watch you back. A technology called ACR takes a snapshot of what is on your screen every few seconds and sends it to the company. 📺
They use it to track everything you watch, including from your console and HDMI, and they sell that data to advertisers. 💰
If we did this 👇🏼 AND didn’t buy a single thing from China I’d partly understand BUT we’re not, we buy more & more, & ship it half way around the world to boot! We are literally committing economic suicide, with our energy bills in particular.
Starmer's proposals to prioritise so-called 'trusted' news outlets, like the BBC, are policies that China would be proud of.
The pandemic exposed the danger of this approach, as the state weaponised the label of 'misinformation' to suppress legitimate debate on vaccine efficacy and the lab-leak hypothesis.
The Government must tread carefully here and shouldn't play arbiter of truth.
Otherwise, the only result will be a devastating chilling effect on free speech.
The Government should remember that free speech is only free if you extend it to your opponents as well as your supporters.
https://t.co/q8CdKYJZdF
For 30 years Britain has been warned about climate change
The authorities response has been to try to cut emissions. Because our 1/120th of the world's emissions will make a huge difference. Not
About as effective as daily climate prayers would have been.
We should have been strengthening our pathetically inadequate infrastructure. Trains that break down when its warm. Reservoirs that haven't enough water for June..let alone September. Power supplies that fail when the sun shines.
Our 'leaders' haven't been leading at all. Unless in their own fantasy world of Climate Saviours. But in reality they didn't have a clue.
Labour’s green levies on energy bills are holding back Britain’s net zero push, government advisers have warned. Extra charges on energy bills to subsidise the growth of wind and solar plants championed by Ed Miliband have made power too expensive, the Climate Change Committee said, causing consumers to turn away from heat pumps and electric vehicles.
#CostOfNetZero