Michelle Kotarski

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Lough Neagh is the largest lake in the British Isles. It supplies more than two-fifths of Northern Ireland's drinking water. And for three summers running it has been too poisonous to touch.

The whole lake turns a livid, paint-thick green, smothered under toxic blue-green algae. Bathing signs line all seventy-eight miles of shore. Dogs that drank at the edge fell sick. Europe's largest eel fishery, worked for centuries, was shut down. Scientists pulled the scum apart and found it teeming with hazardous bacteria, E. coli and salmonella among them, plus a toxin never before recorded on the island of Ireland. And they are still drawing drinking water out of it.

The lake is now classed hypereutrophic, the worst grade of nutrient pollution there is. The poison is phosphorus, which feeds algae like rocket fuel, and the official figures lay around 62% of it at the door of agriculture, with roughly another quarter from sewage.

None of this was a mystery. A field grazed at a sensible rate hands its nutrients back to the soil that fed it. Cram in far more animals and far more chemical fertiliser than the ground can absorb, and the surplus pours off into the rivers and down into the lough. Northern Ireland runs that phosphorus surplus year after year, because a government growth strategy told farmers to expand and keep expanding. Campaigners warned for decades exactly where it would end. They were met with shrugs.

So the largest lake in these islands was knowingly fed to death to chase agri-food output, and a warming climate and an invasive mussel finished what the slurry started.

The cruelty is the timeline. Stop every drop of pollution tomorrow, and the phosphorus already buried in the sediment will keep the blooms coming for up to forty years.

A lake ten thousand years in the making, wrecked in a single generation, and the people who run it are still pulling the tap water out of the green.

[🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 @apocalypseos]

🇧🇫🍅 Burkina Faso is living the tomato revolution right now under President Ibrahim Traoré. This landlocked nation, where 80% of the people farm, still imported most of its rice while watching mountains of its own tomatoes—over 300,000 tons a year—rot by the roadside. No processing capacity meant raw commodity sold cheap or wasted, while the government paid out to import canned paste from Europe and China. That was the colonial trap working exactly as designed.

Traoré crushed it. In November 2024, the SOBTO facility fired up in Bobo-Dioulasso: six tons of fresh tomatoes per hour, nearly 100 tons daily. Then came the SOFATO plant in Yako. These aren’t aid projects or IMF loan deals. They were built through popular shareholding—ordinary Burkinabè at home and in the diaspora buying in, community capital, coordinated with the state. 100% Burkinabè-owned. Over 10,000 indirect jobs. They even banned fresh tomato exports to feed the processors first. Now rivers of Sahel-grown tomatoes move down local conveyor belts, crushed, canned under local brands, hitting domestic shelves and crossing into Ghana. Not aid. Trade. The beginning of real regional food power.

This is sovereignty in action: seeds in the ground, water systems engineered even near the Sahara, soldiers turned farmers, gold revenues redirected to the people instead of parked in Western banks. No begging. As Traoré put it, those who beg are always at the bottom. Burkina Faso stopped begging.

That fight is the exact same battle raging inside America’s soul since before 1776. No colony—whether the Americas or India—was ever meant to have industry. London’s system was brutally clear: the Navigation Acts, the Iron Act, and the deliberate smashing of India’s textiles. You grow the cash crops, dig the minerals, and ship raw materials out. We keep the factories, the machines, the profits, and the power. The center stays developed; the periphery stays dependent cash-crop colonies. Forever.

America’s Revolution wasn’t just about tea and stamps. It was a revolt against being locked into that raw-supplier role for eternity. Alexander Hamilton, Henry Carey, and the American System fought to build America’s own industry, protect America’s productive powers, and reject permanent colonial status. That argument never ended. It’s still the soul of America today: Hamiltonian nation-building that develops industry and sovereignty for Americans and others, versus the British imperial logic that keeps everyone else underdeveloped so the few can extract.

What Traoré is doing in Burkina Faso is a direct continuation of that revolutionary spirit. He’s asserting the right of any nation to process its own resources, climb the value ladder, and own its future. It’s a living repudiation of the neo-colonial dogma that tells the Global South to stay poor on purpose. When Burkina Faso builds its own plants with its own capital and turns tomatoes into national wealth, it proves the old imperial model is a lie.

This is why Burkina Faso’s tomato revolution matters to America. It forces the choice America has faced since the founding: Will Americans stand with the tradition that builds industry and sovereignty everywhere, or drift back into the British model of managed dependence? The most American revolution happening in the world today is unfolding in Ouagadougou. It shows exactly which side of America’s soul must be chosen—the one that builds, or the one that keeps colonies begging for scraps.

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

Shelter security footage from kennel 4. They call him Ghost he's been waiting for a home for 7 months. Honey arrived three days ago, too weak to stand, too scared to eat.
The volunteers put them together that night. The camera caught what happened next.

[Latest in Cosmos @latestincosmos]

JUST IN🚨: Native American smudging is a proving scientific reality. Burning a sage removed 94% of airborne bacteria.

It's time to stop calling it a "belief" and start calling it a "fact".

[Genghis Khan @GenghisMFKhan]

I’ve been instructing Military Wilderness Survival since the mid 90’s.

I’ve never heard or been shown this method of making fire in all those years.

I know dozens of ways.
But this one is a zinga.
File it away in the back of your brain.
You just never know.

Where’s my anvil?😘

[Dodge This Security @shotgunner101]

Anyone who can't see what is happening is blind.

1) Banning of the ability to have privacy with a cellphone
2) Banning of the ability to own a foreign router (which may not "comply" with future "required" legislation )
3) Identity checks at the OS, App Store and Service provider levels.
4) Ability to restrict individuals access to the internet, to given types of content, etc
5) Forced front and center "official" news media forced into online services.
6) Control over AI algorithms
7) Control over algorithms for visibility/sharing of content
8) Control over peoples cars (remote kill switches, embedded biometrics, automated reporting to LEO, inebriation checks).
9) Forced biometrics to login to computers, phones, etc
10) Digital ID to replace physical ID.
11) Digital cash to replace physical cash
12) Millions of biometrics and license place cameras + millions of "gun shot detection" systems
13) Banning of mobile applications and endpoint software the government deems wrong, dangerous, or incorrect, etc. (Tiktok, Kaspersky, etc)
14) AI being embedded in every processor, mobile device, desktop OS, etc.
15) Laws demanding "backdoored" encryption.
16) Laws demanding client side scanning.
17) Laws demanding control over speech deemed harmful, violent, dangerous, upsetting, etc
18) Charges and convictions against anyone releasing privacy focused software (tornado cash).
19) AI predictive policing and predictive dissent detection
20) Centralizing of all healthcare, psychological, financial, online, offline, travel and government records.
21) Forced biometrics collection to travel, attend public events, etc

[Hackable Animal @hackableanimal]

@mj196410 It was a simple psyop to get people to cheer on this

[Buksterlin @andy_buksterlin]

Whatever Trump used to accuse Biden of being jacked on, he was correct and is lit up on it here. Bro is jacked.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

The FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to verify every customer’s government ID.

Sold as “anti‑fraud,” but it kills anonymity.

Burner phones? Gone.
Anonymous calls? Gone.

Surveillance expands. Freedom shrinks.

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

For Tucker Carlson being so irrelevant, they panic alot every time he says something.

[Michelle Kotarski @MichelleKo3811]

@mcsquared34 Stazis are here.
Humanity learns nothing.
😞😢😡👹🤡🌎

[Michelle Kotarski @MichelleKo3811]

@Roger_Negan Have you found out that's Not true yet?
Neither is 3 branches of govt to balance/ check...
Neither is they're We the Peoples Servants...
Nor does " your vote COUNT"
time to Use the Grey matter in your head to come to your own realizations

Bon courage ♥️

[Michelle Kotarski @MichelleKo3811]

@MmisterNobody The hamsters do not like to think about it....I know I tell them daily and I'm a pariah 😀❤️☮️
Most live by
Ignorance is bliss

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

“Kids these days don’t know any practical skills.”

Somebody from the generation that decided to remove woodshop, auto shop, home economics, and personal finance from public school curriculums in exchange for more practical tests.

[middleclassparty @middle_class_us]

Every corporation in America is running the same experiment right now.

How much will we pay before they stop?

Bag of chips at $8. They found out.

$20 cocktails. Still paying.

$400 weekly grocery bills. Still paying.

$800 car payments. Still paying.

They will keep raising prices until enough people say no.

And because most Americans have no alternative.

The answer keeps being yes.

That is not a market.

That is captivity.

[Dawn Clancy @dawnmclancy]

"I have three questions today for Israeli people through this press conference. I want to speak to them directly," said Sidoti.

🔴What kind of people are your soldiers who would allow a 14 year old child to bleed to death over a 45 minute period?

🔴What kind of people are your military leaders that would inculcate a culture that soldiers feel free to do this, acting with total impunity?

🔴What kind of people are your leaders? When they give orders, they make statements that encourage this kind of conduct, not merely permit it, but encourage it?

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

JUST IN: TURKEY’S ERDOGAN ON ISRAEL:

“We know that Israel cannot tolerate even the slightest possibility of peace.

Looking at the statements they have made over the last ten days, it becomes clear that what we are facing is not the reasoning of a state, but rather a group of radicals that has lost its mind.

The situation is so dire that everyone both in government and in opposition is accusing one another of not killing enough people.

There is a constant race to outdo each other in genocidal rhetoric.”

[Michelle Kotarski @MichelleKo3811]

@UScrimeReview @Polymarket This
Is
Not
My world....
Never was but now even more so.
Maybe I'm an alien?