There is a legend about how the world found coffee, and it begins with a goat.
Picture a hillside in the Ethiopian highlands, somewhere around the ninth century, dawn coming up over the forest where the wild coffee shrub had been quietly growing since long before anyone thought to give it a name. A goatherd, remembered as Kaldi, watches his flock wander in among the glossy green bushes and start working through the little red cherries. And then his goats, ordinarily content to chew and doze, refuse point blank to settle. They skip. They butt. They dance about the slope at an hour when every sensible animal should be drowsing, lit up with the unmistakable glow of something that has just changed its mind about the morning.
Kaldi, the story goes, tried the cherries himself, felt the same bright lift rise through him, and somewhere in that moment the most consequential beverage in human history opened one eye.
It is almost certainly a tidy tale. Nobody wrote it down until 1671, a thousand years too late to check, and the goatherd may never have drawn breath. But it has outlasted a dozen drier accounts for one simple reason. It sounds exactly right. A goat is the most fearless investigator of the edible world that nature ever produced. If there was a bush of stimulant berries glowing red on an Ethiopian hillside, a goat absolutely found it first, ate it without a flicker of hesitation, and stood there gently vibrating on the slope until somebody wandered over to ask what in the world had got into the goats.
And what the goat found, humans took and carried to the ends of the earth. The first people to use it crushed the berries and bound them with animal fat into a dense little ball of fuel, food for a long walk before it was ever a drink. Then the Sufi mystics of Yemen learned to roast and steep it, and drank it through the long nights to hold themselves awake and clear at their prayers, and from those quiet monastery cups it spread. To Mocha and Cairo and Damascus. To the coffee houses of Constantinople and London where empires were argued into being over the rim of a cup. To the espresso bar, the campfire tin, the chipped office mug, the flask carried out into the cold. Billions of cups a day, every one of them descended from a curious animal on a hill who simply could not be told.
Half of what our species knows about which plants will heal us, feed us, or wake us up, we learned by watching the animals get there first and taking notes. The goat has been our scout for ten thousand years, eating the untested world on our behalf and reporting back through sheer enthusiasm.
So tomorrow morning, before the day takes you, lift the first cup an inch off the table toward a hillside in Ethiopia and the small, greedy, fearless creature standing on it.
It found this for you. It very probably found it first.
Keith the Apocalypse Bringer received a visitor this week. A young woman with a clipboard, a fleece bearing the logo of a national rewilding charity, and the kind of clear-eyed certainty that comes from having read three books about ecosystems and never having stood in a wet field in February.
She had come to assess the farm for what she described as "rewilding potential."
Keith was eating a bramble at the time.
Visitor: Hello. I'm here to talk about transitioning the land away from livestock.
Farmer: Keith does most of the talking.
Visitor: I think we could really restore this landscape if we removed the grazing pressure.
Farmer: Have you noticed Keith.
Visitor: The goat? Yes. He'd be moved.
Farmer: Where to.
Visitor: A sanctuary, ideally.
Farmer: Keith was at a sanctuary. They asked us to take him back.
Visitor: Right. Well. Without the grazing, the natural succession would take over. Scrub, then woodland.
Farmer: That's bramble.
Visitor: Yes. Scrub is part of the natural process.
Farmer: Bramble is what Keith eats.
Visitor: The whole point is to let nature take its course without human interference.
Farmer: Keith is a goat. Goats are nature. Goats have been on this hill for several thousand years. The hill is the way it is because of goats.
Visitor: Domesticated goats aren't really wild.
Farmer: Neither are the trees you'd plant. Neither are you. What's your point.
Visitor: I think we could see the return of some really exciting species without the grazing.
Farmer: Like what.
Visitor: Well, eventually, lynx. Wolves.
Farmer: To eat Keith.
Visitor: ...
Farmer: You want to remove the goat to bring back the predator to eat the goat.
Visitor: When you put it like that.
Farmer: When you put it any way at all. Keith is doing the job. Keith is doing it for free. Keith has been doing it since the Neolithic. The bramble eats the field if Keith doesn't eat the bramble. You can hire a contractor to come up here once a year with a strimmer and do half as good a job for several thousand pounds, or you can have Keith, who works seven days a week for cheese.
Keith, at this point, kicked over the clipboard.
The visitor packed up. She left a leaflet.
Keith ate the leaflet.
The leaflet said "Wild By Nature."
So is Keith. Nobody at head office had thought about it for quite that long.
There is a dose of spinach that will kill you. We just rarely reach it in a single sitting.
Oxalate is the plant defence compound packed into spinach, chard and rhubarb. In concentrated form its lethal oral dose for an adult sits around 15 to 30 grams, with deaths recorded from as little as 5.
Raw spinach carries roughly 1,000 mg per 100g, so hitting that range in one go means eating one and a half to three kilograms at once. Nobody is dropping dead at the salad bar. Fine.
The part that should bother you more: you do not need the lethal dose to be harmed. The damage starts a long way below it.
Once absorbed, oxalate pulls calcium straight out of your blood and forms hard crystals, and those crystals feel no obligation to stay in the kidneys. They can settle in the heart, the blood vessels, the joints, the eyes.
Kidney stones are just the loudest way oxalate hurts you. They scream loudly enough to land you in A&E. The quieter deposits, building in tissue you cannot feel, send no warning at all.
You will never reach the dose that kills you in an afternoon. You can comfortably reach the one that wears you down over a decade.
E por falar em perfis, os próprios perfis de apoio ao Nikolas expõem qual é o objetivo de todo esse trabalho.
No fim do dia o bolsonarismo é o único movimento verdadeiramente orgânico.
Bolsonaro é o único político que tem o verdadeiro engajamento orgânico e não sabor orgânico.
🚨🚨 Dos veces al mes, mezcla 3 mililitros en un vaso de jugo de naranja y tómalo. ¿Recuerdas cuando los medios se rieron y dijeron que la ivermectina era solo para caballos y vacas? Sabían que estaba hecha para humanos desde 1987.
Esto es lo que no te dijeron
1 – Previene el daño causado por medicamentos creados con tecnología de ARNm, bloquea la entrada de la Proteína Spike a las células y, si la persona fue vacunada, puede tratarse los daños ya producidos a través de la Ivermectina.
2 – Solo tiene efectos beneficiosos y ningún efecto perjudicial en el tratamiento del virus C. De hecho, incluso antes de entrar en la célula, ya ha destruido el virus en la sangre.
3 – Tiene una acción antiinflamatoria muy potente y tiene un potente impacto sobre lesiones traumáticas y ortopédicas, fortalece los músculos y no tiene efectos secundarios como los corticosteroides.
4 –Trata enfermedades autoinmunes como: artritis reumatoide, espondilitis anquilosante, fibromialgia, psoriasis, enfermedad de Crohn, rinitis alérgica.
5 – Mejora los niveles de inmunidad en pacientes con cáncer y trata el Herpes Simple y el Herpes Zoster, además reduce la frecuencia de sinusitis y diverticulitis.
6 – Protege el corazón en caso de sobrecarga cardíaca. En una embolia, por ejemplo, previene la hipoxia cardíaca, ya que estimula la producción de energía básica para evitar la destrucción del tejido y, por lo tanto, mejora la función cardíaca.
7 – Es antiparasitario y antineoplásico (anticancerígeno). Supuestamente, suprime la proliferación y la metástasis de las células cancerosas, preservando las células sanas y mejorando la eficacia del tratamiento de quimioterapia.
8 - Puede matar células cancerosas resistentes a la quimioterapia, venciendo la resistencia a múltiples quimioterapéuticos que desarrollan los tumores, y combinado con quimioterapia y/o agentes anticancerígenos, proporciona un aumento en la efectividad de estos tratamientos.
9 – Es antimicrobiano (bacterias y virus) y aumenta la inmunidad.
10 – Llega al Sistema Nervioso Central y regenera los nervios.
11 – Ayuda a regular la glucosa, el metabolismo de la insulina, los niveles de colesterol y reduce la grasa hepática en esteatosa.
12 - Puede utilizarse como agente profiláctico y se ha asociado con una reducción significativa en las tasas de infección, hospitalización y mortalidad por C-19.
A nossa caminhada está apenas no começo. Ainda temos um longo percurso pela frente. E o resgate do Brasil só será possível porque temos vocês ao nosso lado. Obrigado pela confiança!
ABSURDO: Seu Jonas, 64 anos, Parkinson, dois AVCs, Diabético, perdeu a visão de um dos olhos — E o INSS diz que ele está apto para trabalhar⁉️
Se isso não te causa indignação, sinceramente, eu não sei mais o que causa‼️
Sério o bilhete?
“Um dos magistrados do TJ-MG que participou do julgamento e votou pela absolvição no caso envolvendo uma garota de 12 anos é pastor na evangélica Igreja Cristã Maranata.”
Obrigado pela consideração, Presidente!
São 25 anos construindo a formação de uma direita no Brasil, cumprindo uma missão e servindo a uma causa maior, sempre coloquei o trabalho acima de qualquer vaidade. Nunca busquei holofotes, nunca pleiteei atalhos ou “voos maiores”. Minha prioridade sempre foi ajudar, construir e fazer a diferença onde Deus me colocou.
Foram dois recordes históricos de votação sendo vereador para dar continuidade ao nosso propósito - agora surge um capítulo, alinhado com os anseios do Brasil que acreditamos e defendemos. Se Deus permitir, seguiremos aprendendo, crescendo e fortalecendo o movimento que ajudamos a erguer.
Como meu Pai sempre disse: “Santa Catarina é o Brasil que deu certo!”
Contem comigo - com minha experiência, meu coração e minha vontade incansável de transformar nosso país.
Se for da vontade de Deus e do povo, vamos ocupar espaços maiores para representar com ainda mais força os verdadeiros interesses do Brasil.
A célula familiar e a fé cristã têm sido atacadas de forma sistemática e isso não é por acaso. Sem ela, a sociedade se fragiliza, perde referências e fica à deriva. Essa sempre foi uma das estratégias da esquerda: enfraquecer os pilares para dominar o todo.
Valorizar a família e os princípios que moldaram nossa sociedade é respeitar nossos pais, nossa história e, acima de tudo, projetar um futuro mais digno para nossos filhos. Não se trata de ideologia, mas de responsabilidade com o amanhã.
Nós, brasileiros de bem, temos a obrigação moral de nos posicionar, de nos movimentar e de não aceitar passivamente a desconstrução do que nos sustenta como nação. Só assim poderemos, de fato, almejar um Brasil melhor.
Conte sempre comigo nessa batalha.
Um forte abraço a todos!