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[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

In 2012, Australian scientists sailed to an island shown on Google Earth and numerous world maps.

When they reached its coordinates, they found nothing. No beach. No reef. No land at all.

The ocean beneath them was about 1,400 metres (4,600 ft) deep.

Where’d it go?

1/n

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Cottonseed was a disposal problem.

Gins dumped it in rivers, until Procter & Gamble hardened the oil, called it Crisco and sold it as the modern answer to lard.

Whey was a disposal problem.

Cheesemakers poured it down drains and fed it to pigs, until somebody dried it, put it in a tub and sold it to gym members.

Skimmed milk was a disposal problem.

It was what remained when the cream went for butter.

It went to the pigs too, until it got a red top and a health claim.

Bran was a disposal problem.

Millers bagged it as animal feed, until Kellogg's boxed it in 1916 and sold it as regularity.

Rapeseed oil was a disposal problem.

Its market was lubricating ships' engines, and that died in 1945.

Canada bred out the worst of it, renamed it canola and called it heart-healthy.

Defatted soya was a disposal problem.

It was what the oil mills had left over, until it was textured, flavoured and sold as a burger.

Beet pulp, citrus peel and oat hulls were disposal problems.

They are now listed on the pack as added fibre.

Every item on that list has been sold to you as a health food.

Every item on that list began as something a factory was paying to get rid of.

Your great-grandmother knew exactly what to do with all of it.

She fed it to the pig and ate the pig.

It made the pig fat, incidentally. Nobody thought that needed a study.

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

MASTERS IN DIVIDE AND CONQUER

The US empire has perfected the oldest imperial trick in the book:
•Make Arabs/Muslims slaughter Arabs/Muslims.
•Make Slavs butcher Slavs.
•Make Asians bleed Asians.

Pit brothers against brothers, cousins against cousins, neighbours against neighbours. Fund both sides when convenient, arm them to the teeth, then sit back and watch the blood flow.

Once they are exhausted, bankrupt and broken, step in as the “indispensable nation.” Seize their resources, dictate their trade, capture their central banks.

Then come the NGOs, the foundations, the cultural exports and the media pipelines to hollow out their identity, rewrite their history and replace their values with imported ones.

Divide. Weaken. Control the economy. Colonise the mind. Erase the soul. Enslave what remains.

It is not chaos. It is strategy.

And it has worked for decades — until the rest of the world started noticing the pattern.

[Zlatti71 @Zlatti_71]

To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia (2000) was written by Michael Parenti, an American political scientist and author.

It's a critical account arguing against the Western/NATO narrative of the breakup of Yugoslavia and the 1999 intervention.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Every fibre a human being wore before 1935 came off an animal or out of a field.

Wool, linen, silk, leather, cotton, fur, hemp. Ten thousand years of it and nothing else.

Nylon arrived in 1935, from a DuPont laboratory, made out of coal and air.

Polyester followed in 1941, out of oil.

The fleece jacket arrived in 1979, spun from the same plastic as a fizzy drink bottle.

Polyester is now more than half of every fibre made on earth.

Every wash sends a few hundred thousand fragments of it down the drain.

In 2020 they found plastic in the human placenta.

In 2022 they found it in blood.

In 2024 they found it in the testicles of every man they tested.

In 2025 they weighed it in the brain and found the equivalent of a plastic spoon.

Meanwhile, in 2023, a Swaledale fleece off a Yorkshire hill fetched 5p a kilo.

Shearing her cost the farmer close to £2. He paid to have her wool taken away.

This year is the best wool year in a decade, and a fleece will just about cover the man who took it off.

The only fibre on earth that grows back every summer, insulates when wet, refuses to burn and rots quietly in a field when you are finished with it, is worth less than the labour of removing it.

The one they found in your blood is £200 a jacket.

The sheep has not been informed.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Blood pressure has never once changed. The line on it has moved 6 times, and every time it moved, it moved towards you.

1931: a British physician writes in the BMJ that the greatest danger to a man with high blood pressure is its discovery, because some fool will then try to reduce it.

1937: America's most famous heart doctor calls hypertension a compensatory mechanism that should not be tampered with.

1944: the President's physician reads 186 over 108 and calls it normal for a man of his age. The President is dead within the year.

1950s: the rule of thumb in every surgery is 100 plus your age. At 60, 160 is fine.

1959: the first people to put a number on it are not doctors. They are life insurers, pricing the policy.

1977: the first national committee sits. Treat the bottom number at 105. Below that, use judgement.

1993: the line is redrawn at 140 over 90.

1997: a new shelf appears above normal, called high-normal, and a new floor below it, called optimal, at 120 over 80.

2003: high-normal is renamed prehypertension. 120 over 80 is now a condition. The report says in the same paragraph that it is not a disease and needs no drugs. The disclosures at the foot of the paper list the companies that make the drugs it does not need yet.

2014: the same committee's successor raises the line for the over-60s to 150 over 90. Too many old people on too many pills, it says.

2015: a trial called SPRINT measures blood pressure with an automated cuff in an empty room, a method that reads lower than any nurse in any clinic, and finds lower is better.

2017: on the strength of it, the line drops to 130 over 80 for everyone, including the over-60s the 2014 line had just let off. 31 million Americans go to bed healthy and wake up hypertensive. Prevalence goes from 32% to 46% overnight, and under 45 it doubles.

2019: Britain reads the same trial and keeps 140 over 90, 150 for the over-80s, on the grounds that the lower lines had not been shown to prevent a single event.

2026: the same arm, the same cuff, the same reading of 132 over 84. A patient in Ohio. A well woman in Chester. The Atlantic is the diagnosis.

31 million customers, created in one afternoon, by a vote, and not one of them was measured. Their arteries did not move. The committee did.

A President was healthy at 186. You are a patient at 130. The only organ that changed in 80 years is the one that holds the meeting.

[Ace Makes Cents @AceMakesCents]

My neighbor finished paying off her house in 2024.

She bought it in 1994 for $78,000. Thirty years of payments at $593 a month.

She's 74 now. Social Security pays her $1,910 a month. That's $22,920 a year.

The place two doors down sold for $615,000 last spring, so the county reassessed hers to match.

Her tax bill this year: $8,100. That's $675 a month.

She paid $593 a month to buy the house.

She pays $675 a month to keep it.

Thirty years of payments ended and the bill went up.

The deed says she owns it. The county bills her like she's renting.

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

Let me tell you something.

Most journalists at mainstream media are leftist activists disguised as news reporters.

They don't give you the actual news.

They give you stories tainted by their worldview.

Because people believe they are neutral, it's an effective way to get people to trust their propaganda.

Mainstream media functions as a well oiled propaganda machine.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

I couldn’t agree more.

[Kateri Seraphina @KateriSeraphina]

📷 LE NEUROLOGUE QUI A DÉMONTRÉ QU’UN MOT PEUT SOULAGER… OU PROVOQUER LA DOULEUR 📷
Pendant des années, on a pensé que l’effet placebo consistait simplement à « tromper le patient ».
Une illusion.
Un tour psychologique.
Jusqu’au jour où un scientifique a décidé de le mesurer dans le corps.
Son nom : Fabrizio Benedetti, l’un des plus grands experts mondiaux du placebo, du nocebo et de la douleur.
Ce qu’il a découvert a profondément dérangé la médecine traditionnelle :
📷 Le cerveau peut produire de véritables substances qui soulagent la douleur…
ou de véritables substances qui l’aggravent.
Pas des métaphores.
De la chimie réelle.
Benedetti a démontré que lorsqu’une personne attend un soulagement,
le cerveau libère des endorphines, de la dopamine et d’autres analgésiques naturels.
Mais lorsqu’elle attend un danger…
📷 La douleur augmente.
📷 Les symptômes s’aggravent.
📷 Même des effets secondaires apparaissent,
alors que le traitement est factice.
C’est ce qu’on appelle l’effet nocebo.
Et voici ce qui dérange vraiment :
• Un diagnostic mal expliqué peut augmenter la douleur
• Un avertissement alarmiste peut aggraver les symptômes
• La peur peut rendre certaines maladies chroniques
Non pas parce que le patient « se l’imagine ».
Mais parce que le système nerveux réagit à la menace.
Benedetti l’a dit sans détour :
📷 « L’attente du patient peut modifier l’évolution de la maladie. »
Cela a déjà été observé dans : • La douleur chronique
• La maladie de Parkinson
• La migraine
• L’anxiété
• Les troubles fonctionnels
Cela ne signifie pas que tout se guérit par la pensée.
Cela ne signifie pas que les maladies ne sont pas réelles.
Cela signifie quelque chose de plus difficile à accepter :
📷 Le cerveau ne se contente pas de ressentir la douleur.
Il participe activement à sa création… ou à son soulagement.
Voilà pourquoi les mots comptent.
Les diagnostics comptent.
La manière d’expliquer compte.
Parfois, sans le vouloir,
la médecine ne fait pas que soigner…
Elle blesse aussi.
Une science qui dérange.
Mais qui change notre manière de guérir.
#fblifestyle

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A road in Pompeii, built before AD 79, the small white stones reflected moonlight, making it easier to see at night.

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE 2022
SIGNS CLIMATE DECLARATION:
"THERE IS NO CLIMATE EMERGENCY"

CLAUSER & a global network of over 2,000 scientists and professionals have prepared this urgent message:

Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming

The geological archive reveals that Earth’s climate has varied as long as the planet has existed, with natural cold and warm phases. The Little Ice Age ended as recently as 1850. Therefore, it is no surprise that we now are experiencing a period of warming.

Warming is far slower than predicted

The world has warmed significantly less than predicted by IPCC on the basis of modeled anthropogenic forcing. The gap between the real world and the modeled world tells us that we are far from understanding climate change.

Climate policy relies on inadequate models

Climate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as global policy tools. They blow up the effect of greenhouse gases such as CO2. In addition, they ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial.

CO2 is plant food, the basis of all life on Earth

CO2 is not a pollutant. It is essential to all life on Earth. Photosynthesis is a blessing. More CO2 is beneficial for nature, greening the Earth: additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also good for agriculture, increasing the yields of crops worldwide.

Global warming has not increased natural disasters

There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent. However, there is ample evidence that CO2-mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly.

Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realities

There is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm. We strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy proposed for 2050. If better approaches emerge, and they certainly will, we have ample time to reflect and re-adapt. The aim of global policy should be ‘prosperity for all’ by providing reliable and affordable energy at all times. In a prosperous society men and women are well educated, birthrates are low and people care about their environment."

[Jonathan Cohler @cohler]

AI Claude Agrees
IPCC HUMAN CO₂ ATTRIBUTION PROVEN MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE

“fossil carbon contributes essentially nothing to the net atmospheric CO2 increase. The claim that fossil fuels drive essentially all of the observed rise is not merely empirically wrong. It is arithmetically excluded by the very datasets and endmember values its proponents endorse.”

https://t.co/HqYNhZl124

[Anonymous Joe @JoeJ45665]

@jonatanpallesen It’s actually not complicated. At some point you bankrupt the country.

[Mario ZNA @MarioBojic]

🚨🇩🇪Video of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaking out against mass migration in Germany has just resurfaced.

20 years ago, Merz argued that mass migration was Germany's biggest problem.

Today, this same man arrests people for expressing the same views he once held.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

should be obvious by now, but OpenAI and Anthropic are just gonna keep cannibalizing all their biggest customers.

it’s simply too profitable for them to resist. and it’s already happening:

1. Figma partnered with Anthropic on AI design tools. then Anthropic’s product chief quit Figma’s board, and 3 days later Anthropic launched Claude Design to compete with Figma. CEO Dylan Field said Anthropic was “not consistently candid.”

2. Novo Nordisk uses Claude to help develop drugs. now Anthropic is developing drugs of its own.

3. Microsoft poured billions into OpenAI. now OpenAI is building a Jobs Platform to compete with LinkedIn, and reportedly a code repository to compete with GitHub. Microsoft owns both.

4. Harvey uses Claude to sell AI contract analysis, due diligence, and litigation tools. now Anthropic sells those same workflows through Claude for Legal.

5. Intercom used OpenAI’s Realtime API to build Fin Voice. now OpenAI sells its own voice-and-chat support agent through Presence.

6. Abridge and Ambience build clinical documentation products on OpenAI. now OpenAI sells ChatGPT for Healthcare directly to hospitals with clinical documentation built in.

7. Benchling uses Claude to power its biotech R&D platform. now Anthropic sells its own scientific workbench through Claude Science.

the frontier lab playbook is simple:

1. sell their models to the world’s most valuable businesses
2. help wire them into those companies’ most valuable and sensitive work
3. map the business from the inside and find where AI can take over
4. turn those capabilities into their own products and become the customer’s competitor

[Shadow Intel @TheShadowIntelX]

Graham Hancock just dropped a devastating blow to mainstream archaeology with the Great Pyramid of Giza.

“It’s a 6 million ton monument… more than 2 million individual blocks of stone.”

“The Great Pyramid is aligned within 3/60ths of a single degree to true north… on a 6 million ton monument.”

“It sits almost exactly on latitude 30 which is 1/3rd of the way between the north pole and the equator.”

“And it incorporates the dimensions of the earth on a scale of 1 to 43,200 in its own dimensions.”

“So if you take the height of the Great Pyramid and multiply it by 43,200… you get the polar radius of the earth. Measure the base perimeter of the Great Pyramid… multiply it by the same factor, 43,200, and you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth.”

“Archaeologists know this. They say it’s a coincidence, total coincidence, just by chance.”

“However, I could agree with them actually if the scale was not 1 to 43,200. But the fact that it’s 1 to 43,200 changes everything because that belongs to a sequence of numbers that is found in ancient mythology all around the world… multiples of the number 72… derive from… the precession of the equinoxes.”

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Highest percentage of female professional judges in Europe:

🇸🇮 Slovenia - 81.4%
🇱🇻 Latvia - 79.7%
🇬🇷 Greece - 75.%

Ireland is the only EU country in which female judges don't form the majority.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

At ninety-eight, Fred Kummerow sued the Food and Drug Administration.

He was a biochemist at the University of Illinois, born in Germany, and he had been trying to get someone to listen for a very long time.

In 1957 he took samples from the arteries of people who had died of heart attacks and identified what was clogging them: trans fat, the artificial kind made by pumping hydrogen through cheap vegetable oil to turn it solid. The margarine and shortening the new dietary advice was busy recommending in place of butter and lard were full of it. He published the finding in Science. He fed the stuff to pigs and watched the lesions form in their arteries too. And he said so, plainly, for decades, while the food pyramid pointed the other way and the money stayed with the cheap solid fat that never went off on a shelf.

The scale of it is worth stating plainly. By the time the ban finally arrived, artificial trans fats were being linked to something on the order of tens of thousands of American deaths a year. Kummerow was heckled by industry men at scientific conferences for daring to say so. Here was one biochemist, armed with a hospital's worth of diseased arteries and a lab full of pigs, up against an entire manufacturing sector whose cheapest and most convenient fat he was trying to condemn, and the sector had the ear of the regulator while he did not.

They did not listen. The oil was profitable and convenient and the story had already been sold. So in 2009, aged ninety-four, he filed a formal petition asking the FDA to act. Three years passed and they did not answer it. So in 2013, a few weeks short of ninety-nine, he took the federal government to court for ignoring him.

Two years later the FDA finally moved to ban artificial trans fats from the American food supply. Kummerow lived to see it. He died in 2017 at the age of a hundred and two, of the arteriosclerosis he had spent sixty years warning the country about.

The fat he identified stayed in the food for another half century after he found it, because taking it out cost money and leaving it in did not.

He was right in 1957. They agreed with him in 2015. Nobody has ever explained the years in between.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

1918: they sold radioactive water as a health tonic. It was radium, and it dissolved men's jaws.

1898: they sold heroin as a children's cough syrup. It was heroin.

1863: they sold cocaine wine as a daily pick-me-up. Popes and presidents put their names to it.

1946: they sold cigarettes on a doctor's recommendation. Whole campaigns ran on which brand physicians preferred.

1960s: they sold margarine as the heart-healthy fat. It was loaded with the trans fat that actually stops hearts.

Every one of these came with an expert's blessing and total confidence.

The people telling you today which fat to fear are the institutional descendants of the ones who put radium in your water and a doctor's face on a cigarette packet.

"The experts recommend it" has a body count going back a century.