Chan Yeow

Anaesthesiologist, Intensivist with interest in Home Ventilation

[Hüseyin Dogru @hussedogru]

Today, murals cover the walls of Llallagua. One reads: "For those who, with sweat and blood, opened the path for change."

They knew which side they were on. They paid for it.

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[Hüseyin Dogru @hussedogru]

This wasn't a rogue act. The same Bolivian Rangers who'd kill Che that October were trained by 16 US Green Berets, with the CIA's Félix Rodríguez in the field.

June's massacre and October's murder were the same campaign, run on the same logic.

[Hüseyin Dogru @hussedogru]

They cut the electricity first, so the miners' own radio couldn't warn anyone.

Rosendo García, 32, a communist union leader, was shot defending the station with an old rifle in his hands.

Official count: ~20 dead. The real number runs past 50, maybe 200 counting the disappeared

[Hüseyin Dogru @hussedogru]

The miners of Siglo XX voted to send Che's guerrilla two days' pay each, plus food and medicine.

President Barrientos heard about it. So on the festival of San Juan, as families slept off the bonfires, the army surrounded the camp and opened fire with machine guns and dynamite.

[Karin Arcuschin @KarinArcus_ok]

⭕ “EUROPA HA HECHO UN PACTO DE SUICIDIO Y HA DECIDIDO MORIR”

... afirma el analista de temas de seguridad Stanislav Krapivnik.

Fue un comandante en las fuerzas armadas de EEUU.

“Alemania es un caso increíble. Comenzaron dos guerras mundiales. Perdieron ambas. Y ahora quieren ir a la guerra contra Rusia, que destruiria completamente a Alemania si hay una guerra. Es incomprensible. Los lideres alemanes se han vuelto dementes. No aprenden de la historia”, dice.

“Ustedes creen que EEUU va a ir a la guerra con un poder nuclear como Rusia? El que piense eso es un verdadero ignorante o su coeficiente intelectual no da para mas. EEUU jamas ira a una guerra directa contra Rusia igual que Rusia jamas ira a una guerra directa con EEUU porque entienden que eso seria el fin de ambos paises. Sin embargo, los actuales lideres de la Union Europea parecen empenados en destruir Europa”, anade.

“Una cosa es que apoyen a Ucrania en territorio de Ucrania y otra es que den a Ucrania misiles de largo alcance que golpean dentro de Rusia. Pero es que se han vuelto completamente locos? Como vas a atacar el territorio de un pais que tiene casi siete mil cabezas nucleares y que podria convertir en polvo cosmico a toda Europa en quince minutos?”, se pregunta.

“Realmente se me escapa el tema. No entiendo como los lideres de la UE pueden ser tan estupidos e irresponsables", asevera.

“Ustedes saben que EEUU invadio varias veces Mexico. Ustedes se imaginan que la UE estuviera financiando a Mexico tras una invasion y que le diera misiles de largo alcance que llegaran a Washington? Se imaginan eso? Que piensan que pasaria despues de que el primer misil impactara en Washington? No hace falta que piensen. Ya se lo digo yo. Lo que pasaria es que Mexico dejaria de existir. EEUU arrasaria con Mexico, ya sea de forma convencional o nuclear. Lo que si les digo con absoluta certeza es que no habria un segundo misil que llegase a Washington”, apunta.

“Pero que hacen los lideres de la UE? Dan misiles y drones de largo alcance a Zelensky para que ataque Rusia y en especial Moscu. Es de locos. Putin ha tenido una paciencia de santo con Europa, pero esa paciencia se puede acabar cualquier dia y ese dia ya pueden borrar a paises como Alemania del mapa de Europa”, prosigue.

“Y en caso de guerra, no habra ninguna invasion. Ningun soldado ruso pondra su pie en Europa. Rusia simplemente destrozaria toda la infraestructura de Europa y acabaria con el continente sin poner un solo pie ahi. Y si a Gran Bretana o Francia se les ocurre lanzar un arma nuclear contra Rusia, Moscu destruiria completamente Europa. Toda Europa seria un deshecho radiactivo”, dice.

“La Union Europea no solo esta en manos de politicos corruptos e ineptos sino que no tienen ningun tipo de sentido comun. Es realmente dificil de creer lo estupidos que son”, afirma.

La UE declara que apoya a Ucrania porque ha sido invadida y debe defenderse la democracia.

"El gobierno de Ucrania son neonazis. Es un gobierno de nacionalistas radicales y absolutamente corrupto y criminal. Zelensky no es ningun democrata. Es un dictador, pero dejemos eso de lado. No importa si esta a favor o en contra de lo que sucede en Ucrania o si es justo o no. Lo que lo que hace la UE es una verdadera locura. La UE esta en manos de ineptos y lunaticos que la llevaran a su destruccion", afirma.

"Europa ha decidido morir", insiste.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Former US Ambassador Chas Freeman exposes a terrifying coverup.

He confirms the actual death toll in Gaza is a staggering 680,000 people.

He reveals the Zionist regime intentionally hides these massive casualties to avoid genocide charges.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

I'm Jewish, British & 64

All my life, I wondered how the Holocaust could have happened. I understood that Hitler & others were EVIL, but how did millions of ordinary people go along with it?

NOW, seeing how so many in the West rationalise & defend the Gaza Genocide, I feel I have an answer and it is profoundly disturbing

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Some guy broke into my house and set up residence in the study room. He says his grandparents used to live in this house and now he won't leave.

My family and I tried to kick him out but he got very violent. He brings in his friends and they help beat us up if we ever try to make him leave.

They keep saying I hate the guy because of his religion. I don't even care about his religion, I just don't like sharing my house with some random outsider who broke in here out of nowhere and took my stuff.

"The poor guy just wants one room to call his own," his friends say in his defense. "You and your family have all the surrounding rooms in the house, and yet you have a problem with the guy having sovereignty over ONE room? That's kind of bigoted and evil."

He keeps throwing stuff at me and my family if we get too close to his door, saying we make him feel afraid. His friends say it's understandable because his room is surrounded by enemies who hate him just for existing, but we don't hate him for existing, we hate him because he forcibly inserted himself into our home and keeps throwing stuff at us.

And what's weird is whenever I explain my situation to normal people they completely understand where I'm coming from and agree the guy is being a dick, but if I talk to the police or the local paper they always side with the guy. Almost everyone in town hates this guy now because of how he's been acting, but everyone in power does everything they can to protect him. It's like there's a total disconnect between the authorities and the will of the public on this particular issue.

It's having a nastier and nastier effect on the community at large all across town. The police have been showing up to arrest anyone who says they think the guy's being an asshole. The paper keeps printing these obnoxious lies telling everyone that me and my family are the real criminals and the guy is actually sweet and awesome. It's really unfair.

Things have been so tense and hostile ever since this guy showed up. I honestly think it would be better if he'd never moved in here at all, but whenever I say that his friends claim I'm saying the guy should be exterminated and try to get me in trouble.

It's a real mess, man.

That guy sucks.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.

His name is Qing Li.

He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.

The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.

Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.

He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.

Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.

The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.

The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.

Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.

Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.

Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.

The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.

The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.

When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.

Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.

This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.

A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.

The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.

Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.

They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.

The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.

After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.

What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.

But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.

The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.

Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.

Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

They raped a man.
They gang-raped him.
They raped him so brutally that he had to be hospitalized.
Doctors documented the injuries.
The video of the assault was leaked.

Now the rapists are free.

This is not just unlawful and immoral. It is sick!

#ThisIsIsrael

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Remember those horrific pictures of Jews liberated from Auschwitz?

This isn't one.

This is a Palestinian man released after 26 months of Israeli "administrative detention." No charge. No trial. No legal rights.

"Never again" sounds noble. It just turns out it was never meant to apply to everyone.

The Israeli government currently holds roughly 3,500 Palestinians under this system, and has issued more than 100,000 such detention orders since 1967.

October 7th wasn't the start of this. It was a reaction to it.

Why don't we hear anything about this?

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

A very dangerous new nightmare we are living in Gaza City, and no one in the world is paying attention to it.

Days ago, the Israeli army installed huge military cranes, each about 30 meters tall, on the eastern areas it controls. These cranes are equipped with machine guns and cameras, and they fire randomly and almost continuously at tents, streets, and exposed neighborhoods.

Gaza City is extremely narrow, only 10 kilometers wide. A single crane at that height is enough to expose the entire city from east to west. Every street, every square, every tent, every house has become completely exposed. There is no place to hide, and not a single moment of safety.

In just the past two days, three people were killed by fire from these cranes. One of them was sitting quietly with his father in a small café, trying to breathe for a few minutes. Hours later, a 5year old girl was killed while playing near her home.

These cranes have turned the entire city into an open field. The latest military technologies are directed at civilians. We have become an open testing ground for their new weapons. The horror is not just in the sound… it is the constant feeling of being an exposed target at all times, where even children cannot run in the street without fear.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Fascinating argument by Bloomberg's top energy analyst Javier Blas 👇: he argues that China effectively saved the world economy during the Iran war by absorbing the brunt of the global oil supply shock on its own, without visible economic damage.

According to his calculations, China "cut its average daily waterborne oil imports by the same amount as the combined oil consumption of Germany, France and the UK."

And, still according to Blas, they "did so without suffering economic harm" because they could rely on many levers: their huge strategic petroleum reserve, a massive surge in EV usage, their remaining coal-fired electricity capacity, and coal-to-chemicals replacing lost feedstocks.

Had China not been ready to absorb that blow, a good argument can be made that the economic damage to the West, and the world at large, would have spiraled far beyond what we saw.

Effectively, China's energy strategy at all levels (petroleum reserves, EVs, etc.) and its ability to withstand huge supply shocks paid off for everyone, not just for them.

It sounds awfully familiar: in 2008 too it was China's stimulus package and continuous buying of US Treasuries that averted a complete breakdown of the global financial system.

So twice in 20 years the country the West loves to present as a "threat" to the global economy effectively saved it from a US-made global economic disaster 🤷

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 WOW! JD Vance is DIRECTLY calling out Israeli cabinet members for their personal attacks on President Trump

"Donald J. Trump is the ONLY head of state in the ENTIRE WORLD who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time, and he happens to be the head of state of the world superpower.

If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have ANYWHERE left in the entire world."

"The other thing that I would say is that over the last 3 months, TWO-THIRDS of the defensive weapons that have protected your homeland have been built by AMERICAN HANDS and paid for by AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS.

The problem for Israel is not Donald J. Trump, and anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the President of the United States needs to WAKE UP and smell the reality of the situation that country is in."

[Ashley Miller @icmteaching]

I used to teach that venous congestion reduces organ blood flow because it reduces the pressure gradient across the capillary bed.

Higher venous pressure.
Lower driving pressure.
Less flow.
Simple.
But I don’t think that explanation survives first principles.

The next article on my Substack will be: venous congestion, back-pressure, and why MAP − CVP does not explain organ perfusion. Stay tuned!

https://t.co/54f9IPVCXf

@ThinkingCC @NephroP @ArgaizR

[Ashley Miller @icmteaching]

Blood Doesn't Flow Because of Pressure
On misreading equations as mechanisms

We are taught that blood flows because of a pressure gradient.

It is one of those statements that is true enough to be useful and simple enough to be dangerous. It gives us a clean mental model: the heart generates pressure, pressure is higher in the arteries than the veins, and blood flows down the gradient.

The equation seems to confirm it:

Q = ΔP / R

Flow equals pressure difference divided by resistance. Pressure difference sits on the right-hand side. Flow is the output. The story almost writes itself.

But the equation does not say what we often make it say.

It describes a relationship between variables in a solved system state. It tells us that, for a given flow through a given resistance, there must be a corresponding pressure difference. It does not tell us that the pressure difference is the independent cause of the flow.

That causal interpretation has to come from somewhere else. It has to come from the physics.

And the physics is more interesting than the shorthand...

Read on for free on my Substack. https://t.co/h3kYWfcVdC

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

BREAKING: Stanford University graduates staged a walkout during Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s keynote address at commencement Sunday.

The walkout was organized by Students for Justice in Palestine and No Tech for Apartheid as a protest against Google’s contracts with the IDF, Dept. of Homeland Security, and ICE.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

10 MOST EMBARRASSING HEADLINES IN THE BIOLABS SCANDAL
The world was told repeatedly that no US biolabs existed in Ukraine—such claims were “disinformation” from Russia, China, and from right-leaning people in the US.

That's what NBC, BBC, AFP, AP and others told the planet repeatedly.

But this week, US spy chief Tulsi Gabbard admitted that there WERE biolabs in Ukraine and elsewhere, they WERE US-funded, and they WERE experimenting with deadly viruses like ebola and sars.

Russia, China, and the US rightwingers had been right all along.

Also, as it became apparent that they existed, many media companies switched to a highly imaginative narrative saying that the Pentagon was funding overseas biolabs experimenting on killer viruses for “peace and health” reasons.

Because everyone knows that the Pentagon is all about peace and health, right? (sarcasm alert)

Check out these 10 headlines that media companies are surely praying have been forgotten!

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

Israel is running a network of torture camps for Palestinians. Our reports, Welcome to Hell and Living Hell, extensively documented a reality of extreme violence, starvation, and torture.

Palestinian prisoners are subjected to severe violence, deliberate humiliation, starvation, sleep deprivation, denial of medical care, and abuse in every facility where they are held. 

These abusive practices are fully backed by the political leadership, which openly boasts about the harsh prison conditions. Some inmates are subjected to severe sexual assaults. 

At least 89 Palestinians have died in Israeli detention facilities since October 2023 as a result of inhumane conditions, violence, starvation, and the denial of medical treatment. 

Despite the extensive evidence, media investigations, and reports issued by Israeli and international organizations documenting torture in Israeli prisons, the international community continues to stand by and allow Israel to commit crimes against the Palestinian people. 

Link to the full report >>
Welcome to Hell: https://t.co/41rgbvFjCx

Living Hell: https://t.co/vHSdH4GFsG