Scarlyle

The Jimmy Dore of the Art world living in Montana and Yellow Star Parent, aka a parent that lost a child to cancer and the most shadowbanned account IMHO.

[Scarlyle @scarlyle]

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[Clandestine @WarClandestine]

If you are criticizing POTUS, you do not understand the severity of our situation.

The Deep State’s plan was to arm Iran and their proxies with nuclear weapons, and they were going to strike Israel from Syria to initiate WW3.

If Hillary had won 2016, this was their plan. This plan was derailed when Trump won 2016, and Trump has been cleaning up this network of rogue WMDs ever since. North Korea, Syria, Iran.

If you truly knew the evil we are dealing with, you wouldn’t be complaining. You would be thanking Trump for quite literally saving the world and preventing WW3.

This is about securing the uranium, neutralizing the Deep State’s network of WMDs, and administering justice so this never happens again.

Uranium One.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.

His name is Qing Li.

He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.

The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.

Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.

He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.

Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.

The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.

The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.

Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.

Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.

Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.

The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.

The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.

When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.

Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.

This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.

A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.

The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.

Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.

They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.

The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.

After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.

What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.

But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.

The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.

Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.

Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

[Vesper @vesperdigital]

The Great Scam

After what @GadSaad posted yesterday, something I had no idea existed... an "Exit Tax" I did some digging.
This is what I found.

Canada's departure tax is one of the biggest scam taxes on the books. Apparently when you leave the country, the government treats you as if you sold every investment you own, even if you sold nothing.

You get hit with a tax bill on money you never touched, never withdrew, never spent. They literally invented a fake sale to justify taking your money.

Here's what makes it even worse. The stocks they're taxing? Those are foreign companies. Apple, Samsung, whatever you hold, those grew because of what those businesses did in their own countries, their own markets, with their own workers.

Canada had absolutely nothing to do with it. Zero. But they still want a cut just because you happened to live here while you owned them. They did nothing and still want to be paid like they did.

And before 1996 this didn't even exist the way it does now. Chrétien's government expanded it that year and buried it in section 128.1(4)(b) of the Income Tax Act like they hoped nobody would notice. Italy doesn't do this. Portugal doesn't. Belgium, Switzerland, the UK, none of them pull this shit.

You paid income tax every year. You paid sales tax. Property tax. You held up your end of the deal the whole damn time. And when you decide to go live somewhere else, they hit you with a bill for money that was never real to begin with.

Canada under any Liberal is a Scam!

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

@RabbiPoupko Syria literally isn't attacking Israel at all, yet Israeli forces are invading Syria and conducting raids there all the time.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Israelis Invaded Lebanon And Then Cried Victim When Their Soldiers Got Killed

From all this melodramatic garment-rending and victim-LARPing you’d assume the four Israelis were killed in their beds in Tel Aviv, not traveling by tank through a foreign country they’d invaded.

Reading by Tim Foley.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Bidets are gentle and hygienic. And according to a study, the hands of people who use bidets have fewer microbes than those who wipe.

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

Manufacturing a deadly virus only to turn around and play the hero who saves the world from it — that's what supervillains do in movies and comics.

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

The BBC has said nothing.

A streamer is doing more for the people of England than their own media.

People need to see this.

[Ben Swann @BenSwann_]

“The Israeli intelligence service had foreknowledge of 9/11, according to the FBI. How is that an ally?” -@TuckerCarlson

“You know it’s coming and you don’t tell us?

And that’s not an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, that’s a provable fact, because there are photographs from September 10th of Mossad operatives mocking the burning of the World Trade Centers. And Fox News, at one point right after 9/11, ran that package. Wouldn’t do that now.”

[Syrian Girl @Partisangirl]

Please god let this be true.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Now I feel bad complaining about the departure tax. The money that is stolen from me is being put to good use in Lebanon by Canadian authorities.

[tim anderson @timand2037]

When the chosen people, like Gollum, discover that nobody likes them.

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

Past time for Israel to stand alone as they said they would.

Pull all foreign aid from them. They are not our allies. They have zero respect for this country.

[RT @RT_com]

Israel artillery lights up south Lebanon sky with intense bombardment amid ‘ceasefire’

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

They were killed while invading a foreign country. They were killed while occupying foreign soil.

Stop with the gaslighting!

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

As NATO backed Ukraine escalated the war & bombs Moscow today, it’s a good time to remind everyone of who the aggressors are, who started the Ukraine war, who wants war escalation & who wants peace.

The same people who lied about Iraq, are lying about Ukraine & Russia:

[Syrian Girl @Partisangirl]

This is Israel’s national security minister. Israel is nothing but a terrorist organisation.

[Ian Carroll @IanCarrollShow]

If anything explodes in America in the next 60 days- it was Israel.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is dropping white phosphorus bombs on civilian areas in Nabatieh, South Lebanon, in the middle of the night.

These are internationally banned munitions, and Israel is using them against civilians.

[Ian Carroll @IanCarrollShow]

@larryelder @AIPAC Whining about how you took 4 casualties while invading someone else’s country is peak Israeli victimhood.