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[Patrick Gregory @Patrick35510287]

@LostMyHats I heard the gospel, what's not to like. Thank you 🙏

[Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋 @SharylAttkisson]

When the dermatologist was just on Fox News debunking the idea that some chemicals in sunscreen aren't good for us, it sounded illogically dismissive of the studies and research.

I took a quick look.

I didn’t hear her disclose her paid relationships with big sunscreen makers. ☀️

This is part of a trend that I discovered decades ago. It permeates our news media landscape.

I learned that nearly every member of the national board of experts that lowered cholesterol guidelines and basically recommended that people should take more statins, worked for the statin makers.

I learned that many members of the board set up during Covid that restricted hydroxychloroquine... were paid by the companies that made other controversial treatments for Covid like remdesivir that were then prioritized over hydroxychloroquine.

It doesn’t stop there.

When the government and the cosmetics industry tried to falsely debunk the scientific studies linking antiperspirants and breast cancer, they referred me to the American Cancer Society for an interview. I learned that the expert at the American Cancer Society hadn’t even read the relevant studies, and yet was claiming the link was a myth. I asked and found out that the American Cancer Society takes money from the antiperspirant industry and other allegedly cancer, causing industries. However, they wouldn’t tell me how much.

When the nonprofit “every child by" was illogically denying the proven vaccine autism link, I dug in and found out the nonprofit was actually started by a vaccine maker in order to defend vaccine companies, and to controversialist those of us exposing the risks.

I was the first journalist to ask and report that the expert the government kept referring us to in order to debunk the vaccine autism link, Dr. Paul Offit, was not an independent expert at all, but was a vaccine inventor and vaccine industry insider… though that was never disclosed in the media at the time. He was always presented falsely as if he were an independent expert.

When I saw a lead dietary group giving questionable advice about nutrition, I learned that the group takes money from the sugar, cola, fast food, and preservative snack industry.

In short, whenever I’ve looked for a tie between experts defending a chemical or risk that could impact an industry's bottom line... I’ve always found one. Food for thought.

"Dr. Jody Levine has financial and professional relationships with several prominent consumer product companies that manufacture and market sunscreens.
Because sunscreen is legally regulated as an over-the-counter drug and is a core component of commercial skincare lines, her consulting roles inherently create potential conflicts of interest when she recommends sun protection or reviews skincare products in the media. 

Her specific ties to major corporate sunscreen manufacturers include:

1. Johnson & Johnson / Kenvue

Dr. Levine has served on the Medical Advisory Board for Johnson & Johnson. Johnson & Johnson’s consumer health spin-off, Kenvue, owns Neutrogena and Aveeno, two of the largest and most widely distributed sunscreen brands in the United States. In her media and print features, she has regularly recommended product categories or specific options overlapping with these brands, such as recommending Neutrogena Sport Face in broad consumer media interviews. 

2. Galderma (Cetaphil)

She has acted as a consultant and advisor for Cetaphil, a brand owned by Galderma. Cetaphil produces a substantial line of daily facial moisturizers with SPF, mineral sunscreens, and broad-spectrum sun protection lotions marketed heavily toward sensitive skin and pediatric care. 

3. Beiersdorf (Eucerin)

Dr. Levine has maintained consulting arrangements with Eucerin, a brand under the Beiersdorf corporate umbrella. Eucerin manufactures a wide range of daily anti-aging lotions with SPF, sensitive skin sunscreens, and body sun protection products. 

Impact on Media Appearances

When Dr. Levine appears on networks like Fox News or in print publications to deliver general public health messages—such as advising viewers to apply sunscreen 15 minutes before going outside or warning against the dangers of tanning beds—she is providing standard medical advice aligned with the American Academy of Dermatology. However, because she does not routinely issue on-screen financial disclosures listing her corporate partners during short news segments, viewers are generally unaware that she is paid by the parent companies of the very products sitting on drugstore shelves."

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The myth: Dr Atkins, the steak-and-butter man, dropped dead of a heart attack. His own diet got him in the end.

What actually happened: he slipped on an icy pavement outside his Manhattan clinic, cracked his head, and died nine days later of the brain injury. The thing that killed him was a frozen pavement.

Then came the cleanup. A leaked medical examiner's note, handed to the press by a vegetarian campaign group, said he weighed 258 pounds at death. Proof of obesity, they crowed. He had weighed 195 on admission. The other sixty-odd pounds were fluid, pumped into a man who had spent nine days comatose in intensive care. They photographed a balloon and called it a lifestyle.

He did have a weak heart, as it happens, a cardiomyopathy left by a viral infection. His arteries, on the angiogram, ran clean. Even his heart trouble was the opposite of the clogged-artery disease they wanted to blame on his dinner.

None of it touched the diet, in either direction. He fell on some ice. That is the whole story.

But "the meat doctor's heart gave out" travels a great deal faster than "he slipped over in February," which is the only reason you ever heard the first one.

[Martin Sonneborn @MartinSonneborn]

„Es gibt keine Gesellschaft mehr. Was es gibt, ist eine transnationale Sicherheitselite, die damit beschäftigt ist, die Welt mit Ihren Steuergeldern unter sich (und ihresgleichen) aufzuteilen. Die Kriegstreiber in diesem Land und anderen Ländern haben ein Bündnis geschlossen, um Geld aus den USA, der EU, aus jedem NATO-Staat heraus- und zu den eigenen (Finanz-)Eliten zurückzuschleusen, indem sie es im Blut der Menschen waschen, das in den Kriegen in Afghanistan, dem Irak, Somalia, dem Jemen, Pakistan vergossen wird.“

Jüngere werden vielleicht erschrecken, und vielleicht auch Vergessliche unter den Älteren, weil die Sätze, die Julian Assange 2011 auf der Antikriegsdemonstration in London gesagt hat, Sätze sind, die er gestern gesagt haben könnte. Sie beschreiben nämlich ein Muster: das Muster westlicher Wertekriege und ihrer drei wiederkehrenden Wesensmerkmale: Die Werte, mit denen sie legitimiert werden, gibt es nämlich nicht - jedenfalls nicht bei denen, die vorgeben, sie mit vorgehaltener Waffe zu vertreten. Und: Sie - ausnahmslos Angriffs- & Profitkriege - werden von der als „Verteidigungsbündnis“ vermarkteten NATO „antizipiert“, orchestriert & exekutiert und ziehen die weitere Vermögenskonzentration in den Händen Weniger nach sich, womit sie - ausnahmslos, aber nicht ausschließlich - der Profitmehrung professioneller Kriegsprofiteure dienen.

Immer dasselbe - in zeitlichen Schleifen, auratischen Wellen, historischen Episoden. Dasselbe eine Muster, wieder und wieder: dieselben knarzenden Argumentationsschemata & Narrationsabsolutismen. Dieselben Behauptungen, Tatsachenverdrehungen, Selbstvergewisserungen.

Dazu der immer selbe Raub an der Gesellschaft und den Menschen, die sie tragen. Dieselbe soziale Verarmung, dieselbe geistige Leere und dieselbe ethische Verelendung. Und immer dasselbe Elitenbereicherungs-, „Sicherheits“-, „Feindes“- & Tötungsmuster. Wieder und wieder und wieder.

Wir, die wir alt genug sind, uns (mit Assange) an die letzte Welle westlicher Wertekriege zu erinnern, können den erinnerungslosen Jüngeren heute nur eines sagen, nämlich: dass sie sich einmal erinnern werden. Wenn sie, nachdem (in 15 Jahren) die nächste Welle westlicher Wertekriege losgebrochen sein wird, ihrerseits auf erinnerungslose Junge treffen.

Assange hatte schon damals und hat noch heute recht. Wir müssen eigene Netzwerke und Bündnisse schließen, um unsere Werte gegen den eigennützigen Zynismus der Kriegstreiber zu behaupten. In diesem Land und anderen Ländern.

Heute vor 2 Jahren war Julian Assange nach 14jähriger politischer Verfolgung & Haft endlich wieder frei.

[Christian Emergency Alliance @ChristianEmerg1]

Brazil: For the first time ever, a Brazilian husband and wife were sentenced to prison for the “crime” of homeschooling their daughters.

The judge held that the children needed more diversity, gender and sex education.

Keep in mind, the mother holds degrees in mathematics and pedagogy and the children perform well.

The sentence is suspended, pending appeal.

Pray for this precious family.

[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

I do not care what you call it.

Keto. Carnivore. Paleo. Ancestral. Mediterranean. Low-carb. Animal-based. Whole food.

The food wars on this platform are exhausting. Everyone fighting over a label while missing the point entirely.

Your great-grandmother did not follow a diet. She did not count macros. She did not read a nutrition label. She did not subscribe to a food tribe.

She ate meat. She ate eggs. She ate fish. She ate vegetables that grew in soil. She cooked with butter and lard and tallow. She ate whole-fat dairy. She ate fruit when it was in season. She ate nuts and seeds.

She did not eat bread from a factory. She did not eat pasta made from refined wheat. She did not eat sugar from a bag. She did not cook with canola oil extracted using a petroleum solvent. She did not eat protein bars with 47 ingredients. She did not drink soda.

There was no obesity epidemic. There was no type 2 diabetes epidemic. There was no Alzheimer’s epidemic.

The base of your plate should be protein. Beef. Poultry. Eggs. Fish. Shellfish. Whole-fat dairy. Cheese. Plain yogurt. Olive oil. Butter. Cream. Lard. Tallow.

The middle should be vegetables. Green leafy. Non-starchy. Lemons. Limes. Avocados. Olives.

The top, if anything, should be low-sugar fruits. Berries. Nuts. Seeds. Small amounts of starchy vegetables.

What does not belong anywhere on the plate: bread, pasta, corn, sugar, rice in excess, high-sugar fruits in excess, beans in excess, and anything that comes in a box with a barcode.

This is not a diet. This is the way humans ate for hundreds of thousands of years before the food industry arrived and convinced us we needed their products to survive.

Stop arguing about labels. Start eating real food. The science does not care what you call it. Your body knows the difference.

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

IRANIAN PRESIDENT: “If we did not have our defensive missiles, Israel and America would have plowed through Iran the way Gaza was plowed through, showing no mercy to the old or the young. They speak of human rights. It is a great lie.”

It’s a hard truth to hear, but it’s true.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

For over twenty years, an engineer named Richard Bernstein did precisely what his doctors ordered.

He ate the diet the American Diabetes Association blessed, close to half of it carbohydrate, and chased the resulting flood of sugar with large doses of insulin. It was killing him. By his mid-thirties his body was breaking down: failing kidneys, nerve damage, the early wreckage of a Type 1 diabetic who had been told in 1946 he would be lucky to reach forty.

The treatment was textbook. The patient was dying on it.

In 1969 he got hold of a machine that blew the whole thing open. It was a blood glucose meter, a three-pound box sold only to hospitals to tell an unconscious diabetic from a drunk. Bernstein could get one at all only because his wife was a doctor and it was bought in her name.

He began measuring his own blood sugar several times a day, the first patient in the world known to do it. What the numbers showed was damning. His levels were swinging violently outside any safe range, on the exact diet the experts had sworn by.

So he ran the experiment they never bothered to run. He cut the carbohydrate hard and swapped the big insulin doses for small, precise ones. His blood sugars flattened to near normal. His complications began to reverse.

He had cracked tight control for Type 1, the type the profession insisted diet could never touch, and the very same approach worked for Type 2.

Then came the most telling part of all. When he tried to publish what had just saved his life, the journals turned him away, not on the evidence, but because he was an engineer and not a physician. So at the age of 45 he enrolled in medical school, for the sole purpose of earning the right to be heard. He qualified, opened his own practice, and spent the next several decades proving the establishment wrong one patient at a time.

The profession never really thanked him for it. It had spent years handing a high-carbohydrate diet to people whose defining problem is that they cannot handle carbohydrate, and then blaming those same people when they fell apart.

Bernstein lived with Type 1 diabetes for 78 years and died last year at 90. He outlived a great many of the experts who swore it could not be done, and a great many more of the patients who were simply given the official advice and told to trust it.

[Shannon Joy @ShannonJoyRadio]

This blew my mind …

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Pork takes a kicking in carnivore circles. It isn't beef, it carries PUFAs, and it drags two thousand years of religious taboo behind it. So let's be fair about what it actually is.

Pork is genuinely nutrient-dense, in the old sense of the word rather than the one printed on bags of goji berries. It's the richest common source of thiamine there is, well ahead of beef or lamb, the very vitamin whose absence gave rice-eating populations beriberi. Then selenium, zinc, choline, carnosine, complete protein and B vitamins across the board.

Now the PUFA question, straight. Pork fat does carry more linoleic acid than beef, because a pig has a simple stomach and can't convert dietary fat into saturated fat the way a cow's rumen can. What the pig eats, the pig becomes. Feed it grain and soy and its fat shows it.

But look at what you've already done. Cut seed oils, soy and nuts and you've stripped out nearly all the linoleic acid in a normal diet. Against that, the trace in your pork is a rounding error. The real problem was always the bottle on the counter, and the bottle is gone.

And remember who built their kitchens on pork. China, Vietnam, Korea, Thailand. Belly, shoulder, trotters, offal. Those were not the populations dying of metabolic disease. That arrived later, riding in on refined carbs and vegetable oil. The pig had nothing to do with it.

The old religious ban belongs to another world. The carnivore one is aesthetic, recent, and entirely optional.

Eat the belly. Render the lard. Cook the rest of the pig in it. Beef is exceptional, and pork sits right beside it. Both animal, both complete, both doing what no bag of seeds ever could.

[Christine Drazan @ChristineDrazan]

Tina Kotek’s allies are pushing to get IP 28 on the ballot, threatening 130 dairy farms and over 40,000 jobs in the dairy industry alone.

Oregon farmers - the economic lifeblood of our state - are under attack by a radical fringe that doesn’t care about the cost of their reckless agenda.

We can’t let them destroy our state.

https://t.co/FpwoDLbP9d

[Patrick Gregory @Patrick35510287]

@WorkElizab Yes

[Patrick Gregory @Patrick35510287]

@masuzafi She needs to shut up and never be listened to again

[Joe Rogan Recaps @JoeRoganRecaps]

Joe Rogan gets so excited when sunlight expert Rowan Jacobsen tells him coffee is the best supplement that exists today:

ROGAN: “Is coffee actually good for you?”

JACOBSEN: “Coffee is SHOCKINGLY good for you. It’s crazy how powerful the evidence is.”

ROGAN: “I’ve read that it’s bad for you, but I dismissed it because I’m biased. I love coffee. It tastes too good and feels too good.”

JACOBSEN: “It’s the best supplement in the world.”

ROGAN: “Really? What makes it so good?”

JACOBSEN: “It improves mitochondrial function. I think caffeine is a major part of it, but coffee contains other compounds too. Tea doesn’t seem to deliver the same benefits.”

ROGAN: “That’s interesting.”

JACOBSEN: “Plants actually produce caffeine to kill insects. It makes their mitochondria run completely out of control until they basically blow up.

Humans have systems that slow down that reaction, so we get the energy boost without the explosion. It helps us produce energy more efficiently with less wear and tear.”

ROGAN: “That’s all I needed to hear. I’m in. I love coffee and I’m never giving it up.”

[Christine Drazan @ChristineDrazan]

🎓📚As another school year comes to a close, I want to congratulate Oregon’s students, especially this year’s graduates!

Every student deserves an excellent school that helps them learn, grow and achieve their biggest dreams. As governor, I will restore graduation requirements so that a diploma means something again, support great teachers, help students read by third grade, increase classroom time and ensure Oregon schools are focused on student success.

Oregon's future is in today's classrooms and our kids are capable of incredible things. Let’s build an education system we can be proud of, that prepares every child for a bright future and helps them achieve the Oregon Dream!

[RyanMatta 🇺🇸 🦅 @Ryanmatta]

Owen Shroyer just shared a tweet saying that he wasn’t able to fill of his gas tank in Texas because the government has set gas allowances per customer. For the first time in our lifetime Americans can’t fill up their gas tanks because our government is compromised and occupied by the terrorist state of Israel. Welcome to the golden ages.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

There is no good cholesterol and no bad cholesterol.

There is one cholesterol. A single molecule your body cannot live without.

HDL and LDL are not two types of it. They are delivery vans carrying the same cargo in opposite directions. We called one van good and one van bad, then built a forty-year industry on the difference.

The cargo never changed.

We just learned to fear the lorry going one way.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

How does C. S. Lewis do that, every paragraph is a book

[Richard @ricwe123]

Let's be honest,the Iranian delegation's performance in Switzerland was a masterclass in psychological and diplomatic leverage.
They arrived on their own terms, made the Americans wait, refused even the symbolic gesture of a handshake, held firm to their demands, and walked away the moment they usual threats from Donald Trump entered the conversation.
In doing so, they projected confidence while exposing the American desperation and weakness.

What stands out is the Persians' sophisticated understanding of symbolism and strategy.
Every move is calculated, every gesture deliberate, as though they are several moves ahead in a chess match while their counterparts is struggling to keep up.

The result is a striking contrast: Iran is composed, disciplined, and in control, while the United States is reactive and outmaneuvered.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny the fact that Iran has now emerged as one of the most influential and formidable powers in the Middle East......

[Classicist. ✝️ @Classicist9999]

✡️🕎🇮🇱 So here I am, browsing through an obscure Wisconsin newspaper from August 12, 1919, and, lo and behold,
I come across a sad story of 𝟔 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣 jews are dying in Europe. Hmm... 🤔 If I’m not mistaken, the same number of jews — 𝟔 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣 — were dying before World War I, then during World War I, and after World War I. But I also know that 𝟔 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣 jews died during the 'Holocaust' of World War II. It must be a pure cohen-cidence.

Then I noticed that their suffering was — pay close attention — "unbelievable." See, now I believe them — the entire thing is unbelievable.🤡

🛎️Turn on your notification bell so you don't miss my posts @Classicist9999 because X suppresses my account.