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[clicks n' whistles @oceanCRIES]

We're being played folks!
👀
WAKE
THE
FUCK
UP!!!!
#PLANdemic #silentNOmore

[“Sudden And Unexpected” @toobaffled]

They only wanted relief.
Pregnant women everywhere were searching for a medicine gentle enough to calm their nausea… something to help them rest in a world that never stopped moving.

Then came the “miracle”: Thalidomide.

A white, elegant pill.
Prescribed freely.
Marketed boldly.
Sold without hesitation.

Doctors were told it was perfectly safe.
So safe, they claimed, “even children can take it.”
No one mentioned that it had never been properly tested.
No one questioned the confidence of the smiling pharmaceutical ads.

And so the dream began…

A woman in London finally sleeps after nights of vomiting.
Another in Munich feels peace for the first time in months.
Thousands of pregnant women worldwide swallow the little white pill—
unaware that something unthinkable is unfolding inside them.

Then the due dates came.

But instead of the first cry of life… there was silence.

A baby born without arms.
Another without legs.
A tiny girl with fingers like unfinished buds.
Dozens. Hundreds. Thousands.

Doctors stood in shock.
Mothers collapsed in grief.
Whispers rose everywhere:

“Bad luck?”
“Genes?”
“Nature’s mistake?”

No.
The truth was colder, crueler, and wrapped in glossy packaging.

Behind the neat little pill stood companies who chose profit over proof,
marketing over medicine,
confidence over conscience.

By 1961, Thalidomide was finally linked to the epidemic of deformities and pulled from shelves.
But it was too late.
More than 10,000 children in 46 countries had already been born with catastrophic abnormalities—
and their mothers left carrying a guilt that never belonged to them.

Today, Thalidomide is taught in medical schools as one of history’s greatest pharmaceutical crimes—
a devastating lesson in what happens when science is silenced,
and trust is betrayed.

Some survivors are still alive.
They move with prosthetic limbs and unimaginable strength—
living reminders that medicine can heal…
but it can also harm
when conscience is lost.

[Chris Boettcher @chrisboettcher9]

A friend told me recently that his wife whose an MD at a major local hospital is seriously considering leaving medicine.

Not because she stopped caring about patients or long hours but because of the pressure from above.

In her system, every diagnosis comes with the expectation of prescribing the drug that matches the code.

If she doesn’t? She gets questioned. Evaluated. Sometimes even financially penalized through performance metrics tied to “quality measures." This sounds noble but really just means “Did you give the patient the medication the system expects?”

He said she's been dealing with it for a while and it seems to get worse every year.

She didn’t go into medicine to be a cog in a pharmaceutical machine. She went in to actually help people.

But the hospital’s incentives don’t reward lifestyle coaching, nutrition conversations, movement prescriptions, or digging into root causes.

There’s no bonus for helping a patient reverse insulin resistance.

But there's plenty tied to metrics on prescribing statins, GLP-1s, antihypertensives, SSRIs, and anything else that fits neatly into a billing code.

And the saddest part? This isn’t rare.

Between pay-for-performance systems, pharma influence, and hospital revenue structures tied to drug utilization, the entire system nudges doctors away from thinking and toward prescribing.

Many MDs feel trapped: If they want to practice slow, thoughtful medicine there’s no time. Or if they want to focus on root causes there’s no billing code.

If they want to avoid unnecessary meds they risk being flagged for “not meeting standards.” So many of the good doctors are quietly slipping away.

And we wonder why chronic disease keeps rising.

A system that incentivizes prescriptions will always produce more prescriptions.

A system that rewards dependency will always create more dependent patients.

And a system that punishes critical thinkers will eventually lose all of them.

My friend’s wife isn’t leaving medicine. She’s being pushed out of it.

And until we fix the incentives, she won’t be the last.

[wastedcanadian @melissacare01]

I am a licensed Canadian Veterinarian with 30 years of relevant knowledge, skill set and experience.
In my professional opinion, there is no humane way to cull these birds due to their inherent behaviour:
Heavy mass.
Spindly legs that fracture easily. Prone to running without self preservation.
Very resistant to ammunition. Almost impossible to herd. Highly sensitive.
Poor target zones- size and location.
Easily triggered by noise and movement.
So, to humanely cull them in group numbers is virtually impossible. Meaning it would take high level skill to euthanize one humanely, let alone 396!
Again, in my opinion, there is no reason to cull at this point and every reason not to. Really good reasons not to.
Furthermore, the types of folks they have brought in to perform the cull are not animal welfare trained.
From an outside perspective, the current situation seems to be a case of injured ego at the individual management level (can’t back down mindset) and governmental loss of control to a non-Canadian oversight organization. Little to no sovereignty. (Zero SOE reason at present). Literally the CFIA should not be governed by a non-sovereign organization, who truly does not care about these birds’ welfare.
Those who could speak out are fearful to do so bc of potential loss of employ, licensure, livelihood and personal security- with good reason considering the unfairness we have seen and experienced throughout the past few years. Namely, severe penalties and incarceration for peaceful assembly and free speech rallying.
Canada is not the free and dependable country it once proudly was.
At some point someone has to point this out despite the personal risk. (There shouldn’t be any risk to do so, in a democracy.)

I, personally, am appalled and deeply negatively affected by these proceedings and can see the clear necessity to stop this unnecessary, traumatic cull from an ethical animal welfare perspective.

Public safety can be achieved through individual testing, observation for symptomology, isolation of any unwell individuals and possibly euthanasia of those that develop symptoms.
Certainly a widespread cull is only going to cause mass injury, mass panic, massive suffering.
The challenge is the species and its inherent behaviour. There are very few humane options for culling a large number of ratites at once.
Therefore management and individual testing is only humane option.
I would use a humane chute or gated graduated channel system to move them safely and calmly. Collect sample and release to sorting pens. The process should be as quick as possible.
My personal professional opinion is:
Humane treatment is paramount.
The cull is unnecessary at this point.
The governance needs to reconsider their position and see current shift away from necessity to cull. To understand that it is more beneficial to work with the natural immminity and preserve it for future use from a global health benefit perspective. The urgency to cull has long gone as the herd has self maintained its health.

“Transmission without symptoms is largely a fallacy”-Dr. Byram Bridle.

The birds are now geographically well contained and asymptomatic.
They contain recovered natural immunity antibodies -the best and most robustly protective type.
They could be an important reservoir of genetics and immunity for the prevention of an avian influenza pandemic. It is in the public protection interest to preserve this reservoir of antibodies.

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[Old Man Bleeding Blue @ari_shapiro]

MarineLand is a stain on this country's history and should be criminally prosecuted at every level of its existence for their abuse and exploitation of these majestic creatures.

These misanthropic cretins have spent a lifetime taking our childhood wonderment and joy of aquatic discovery and converting it into nothing but slave pens for innocent wildlife who swim around in circles all day like broken souls in a carnival freak show.

Young children applaud with glee while mommy and daddy sit around blinking like zombified consumers not understanding the ramifications of what using animals for amusement does to a developing mind, giving their hard-earned disposable income to a business model that hasn't turned a profit in years but somehow continues to exist off the backs of unscrupulous financeers and shadow investors.

If my friend @walruswhisperer has taught me anything, it's that shrugging your shoulders and doing nothing will always result in pain, suffering and misery.

So get off your ass, write and call your local politician, send your outrage to Olivia Chow, Doug Ford and Mark Carney and end this horrific saga once and for all.

These whales are highly intelligent, benevolent cetaceans; warm-blooded, they breathe air and suckle their young, deserving a better fate than this hellish, brutal shit show of human profiteering and endless greed.

This is an affront to everything we hold dear as Canadians. If you claim to love animals, this is your call to action.

[clicks n' whistles @oceanCRIES]

"In 200 years people will look back
on this particular period
and say to themselves
'how did those people at that time
just allow
all these amazing creatures
to vanish'"
~ Jane Goodall
#RacingExtinction
@JaneGoodallInst @RacingXtinction https://t.co/sqwBI8Y8ew

[Camille Labchuk @CamilleLabchuk]

As an aside, I suspect the export permit request wasn't a serious one. Could be that Marineland was setting the feds up to say no, so they could cast blame elsewhere and try to just kill the belugas. But who knows.

[Camille Labchuk @CamilleLabchuk]

The whales should go to sanctuaries, and one is being developed in NS. Keep them in place until sanctuaries are ready, and give them individual health assessments to determine who is healthy enough to be transported. Find appropriate homes for the rest—where they don't be bred.

[Camille Labchuk @CamilleLabchuk]

Marineland may not longer have cashflow, but the property is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. They have a moral obligation to fund the future care of the whales, dolphins, and other animals they've abused for so long.

[Camille Labchuk @CamilleLabchuk]

So what should happen? Ontario has enormous powers under the PAWS Act to intervene, seize the whales, & ensure their care. Cost is not an issue—the province can recover their costs from Marineland after it's sold.

[Camille Labchuk @CamilleLabchuk]

For decades, these whales have been held as prisoners, used to make fat stacks of cash for Marineland. To now threaten them with euthanasia—just because the park won't take responsibility—is a gut-wrenching betrayal. The public won't stand for it.

[Camille Labchuk @CamilleLabchuk]

The federal government did the right thing by blocking Marineland from selling whales to China. Predictably, Marineland is now threatening to kill the whales instead of doing the right thing and helping them get to a sanctuary. THREAD. 👇

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

I never actually processed how big blue whales actually are

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

I honestly believe this is one of the biggest mysteries there is, Orcas are the most efficient predators on earth, yet they have never attacked us in the wild. They know something we don’t.

[Dr Aseem Malhotra @DrAseemMalhotra]

Extraordinary. The Telegraph Newspaper have changed their headline in online piece for News from

‘ Trust in Doctors is at an all time low. Medicine has been hijacked by Big Pharma’

To

‘The harm caused by the covid vaccine has been catastrophic’

WE ARE WINNING 👊

[David J Speicher PhD DTM @DJSpeicher]

Another great story covering vaccine-injured Michael Oesch and @RaineyMedia's documentary Why Can't We Talk About This?
Here's another great story about Michael Oesch and our documentary. Time for the world to learn the truth about what's going on.
https://t.co/P9Th5xEsPg

[clicks n' whistles @oceanCRIES]

THIS!!!!!!!

https://t.co/NsNF6wrbbo

[Jules Horn @juleshorn01]

If you feel off and disconnected, hug a tree & your nervous system will thank you.

Ever hugged one?

[Jules Horn @juleshorn01]

When you hug a tree, you’re not just grounding, You’re discharging static, stress, survival energy that’s built up over years.

What therapists can’t reach, the Earth will.

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

Dolphin saves a dog that fell into the sea from the boat

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Two orcas and 12 dolphins are currently stranded in algae-infested, abandoned pools after a park closed down in France.

Horrible.

Activists are calling on the French authorities to take action before the animals get sick, or worse.

French authorities are currently blocking efforts to have the animals transferred to a Zoo in Japan.

Some activists are trying to get the orcas, 23-year-old Wikie and her son, Keijo, 11, transferred to Nova Scotia, Canada.

"The orcas need to be removed from dangerous conditions that are posing significant risks to their health and safety," said Marketa Schusterova of TideBreakers.

Video: TideBreakers. / TT