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Reminder: the Crusades were a response to over 400 years of Islamic aggression against Christians and Europe.
632: Muhammad dies.
635: Muslims conquer the Christian city of Damascus.
636: Muslims conquer the Christian city of Antioch.
637: Muslims conquer the Holy Land.
639: Muslims conquer the first Christian country Armenia.
641: Muslims conquer the Coptic Christian country of Egypt.
650: Muslim armies reach southern Italy and Cyprus, taking thousands of captives as "slaves" and "concubines."
711: Muslims invade Spain, and by 715, they have overrun most of it.
717: Muslims besiege Constantinople but are repelled.
730: Muslims invade France, only to be stopped by Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours.
792: The ruler of Al-Andalus calls for the invasion of France, and Muslim armies are assembled to attack it again, but they are repelled.
827: Muslims invade Sicily and Italy, persecuting monks. Sicily remains under Islamic rule until 1092.
846: Muslims invade Rome and force the Pope to pay tribute.
848: A third invasion of France occurs, and they are repelled for the third time.
909: Muslims occupy Sardinia.
937: The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is burned down by Muslims, and more churches in Jerusalem are destroyed.
1009: Destruction of the Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem.
1012: Beginning of al-Hakim’s oppressive decrees against Christians.
1071: Turkish Muslims attack the Byzantines and occupy much of Anatolia.
1094: Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos asks Western Christendom for help against Muslim Turkish invasions.
1095: Pope Urban II finally declares the First Crusade.
@reduxx If a criminal is found to be mentally retarded, the sentence should double on the assumption that they'll require extra time to learn their lesson.
In 1967 India ran one of the most inconvenient heart studies of the century, almost by accident, and the field has been quietly looking away from it ever since.
Dr S.L. Malhotra had a researcher's dream sitting in front of him: the Indian railway workforce, well over a million people. Same employer. Same medical cover. Comparable pay and hours. Scattered the length of a subcontinent. Strip all of that out and one great variable remained. Diet, which in India meant geography.
In the north, in Punjab and Rajasthan and UP, the railwaymen ate the way their grandparents had. Ghee. Milk fat. Curd. As much as nineteen times more fat than their southern colleagues, and nearly all of it the saturated animal fat that Ancel Keys was at that very moment teaching the West to dread.
In the south the plate was rice, sambar, and seed oils, groundnut and sesame, with far less fat overall. By the brand-new rules being drafted in America, the southerners were the ones doing everything right.
Then Malhotra counted the bodies.
Heart disease deaths in the south: 135 per hundred thousand. In the ghee-soaked north: 20. Seven times the disease in the men eating the wholesome seed oils. Among the railway sweepers, the leanest and hardest-working of the lot, the gap yawned open to fifteenfold.
He chased down every other explanation within reach. Smoking ran the wrong way, the north smoked more. Activity gave no clean signal. Wealth made things worse if anything, executives dropping dead while the sweepers carried on. The one thing that tracked the dying was the fat in the pan.
It was published. Peer-reviewed. British Heart Journal, 1967.
It landed in the exact decade the West was pouring concrete around the opposite belief. Heart associations were prescribing vegetable oils. Factories were tooling up to turn them out by the tanker. A study showing the seed-oil eaters dying seven times faster was not a study anyone with a budget wished to repeat.
So nobody did. Almost sixty years on, the finding still stands, unrefuted and unloved.
It has never once troubled a dietary guideline.
DANGER: "Fresh" Bagged Lettuce Is Drowning In Chemicals & Biosolid Sewage
Grocery Store "triple-washed" or "ready-to-eat" bagged lettuce is dumped through heavy chlorine baths (the same chemical used in toilets and pools, but at industrial levels), then sealed in plastic with special gases to stay "fresh" for weeks.
These greens frequently start in fields fertilized with biosolids (treated human sewage), sprayed with multiple pesticides, and processed with aggressive chemicals that are banned or restricted in many countries. Even "organic" bags aren’t always spared from the harsh washing or contamination risks.
The scary part?
- Bagged salads are linked to far more E. coli, Salmonella, and Listeria outbreaks than whole heads of lettuce.
- Bacteria can hide inside the leaves — rinsing at home doesn’t fully remove it and can sometimes spread contamination.
- All that convenience means more processing, more chemical residues, and less actual nutrition.
Don't risk your family’s health for a few minutes of “easy salad.” Buy whole heads of lettuce, wash them thoroughly yourself, buy from local farm markets or grow your own if possible.
Your gut and immune system will thank you.
Before the 1950s, clover was a STANDARD component of American lawns.
Seed mixes included it on purpose.
Then broadleaf herbicides were invented.
They killed clover along with "weeds." So the chemical companies rebranded clover as a weed — to sell more herbicide.
That's it. That's the whole story.
Clover is not a weed. It's the future of your lawn.
White Dutch clover (Trifolium repens):
Self-fertilizing — fixes nitrogen from the air into the soil. No fertilizer needed. EVER.
…and it feeds the grass around it for free.
Drought-resistant — stays green when grass goes brown.
Bee paradise — constant blooms from May to frost.
Chokes out weeds — dense growth shades out weed seeds.
No mowing needed (stays 4-6 inches) — or mow monthly.
Soft underfoot — kids love it.
Costs $5-10 to overseed 1,000 sq ft.
How to add clover to your existing lawn:
Overseed in spring or fall.
Scatter seed (2 oz per 1,000 sq ft).
Water lightly for 2 weeks. Done.
Stop using broadleaf herbicides (they kill clover).
Stop fertilizing (clover makes its own).
Mow at 3-4 inches.
The lawn industry told you clover was a weed so they could sell you chemicals.
Take your lawn back.