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[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

John D. Rockefeller called her “that poisonous woman.”

He had reason to fear her.

Because Ida Tarbell did something almost nobody had successfully done before:

She documented, piece by piece, how the richest corporation in America quietly built its empire by crushing everyone beneath it.

And she did it so carefully that even Standard Oil could not truly deny what she found.

Ida Tarbell did not approach the story as a detached outsider.

She grew up inside the Pennsylvania oil fields during the violent early years of the American petroleum boom. Her father, Franklin Tarbell, was one of thousands of independent oil producers trying to survive while Standard Oil steadily swallowed the industry.

At first, small oilmen believed competition would decide who survived.

Then Rockefeller changed the rules.

Standard Oil secretly negotiated railroad rebates that gave the company enormous shipping discounts unavailable to smaller competitors. Worse still, the railroads often charged independents extra fees and quietly funneled portions of those payments back to Standard Oil itself.

The result was devastating.

Independent producers could not compete with prices artificially manipulated against them.

Businesses collapsed.

Towns declined.

Families lost everything.

Tarbell watched it happen as a child.

Her father barely survived financially.

One of his business partners eventually killed himself under the crushing pressure surrounding the industry.

Ida never forgot any of it.

But instead of reacting with public fury, she became something far more dangerous:

A meticulous journalist.

By the time she joined McClure’s Magazine at the turn of the twentieth century, investigative reporting was beginning to transform American journalism. Tarbell believed the most powerful stories were not built from outrage alone, but from evidence so overwhelming nobody could dismantle it afterward.

So she began investigating Standard Oil.

And she worked like an accountant assembling a criminal case.

Court filings.

Railroad contracts.

Internal company memoranda.

Corporate records.

Testimony from former executives.

Government documents.

Thousands upon thousands of pages copied by hand because modern research tools did not yet exist.

She traveled constantly between Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Washington gathering material.

Then came one of the strangest parts of the entire story.

Henry Rogers — one of Standard Oil’s top executives and one of the most powerful businessmen in America — agreed to speak with her repeatedly over the course of nearly two years.

He genuinely seemed to believe he could manage her.

Charm her.

Control the narrative.

Perhaps he assumed a woman journalist would eventually soften the conclusions.

Instead, Tarbell simply kept gathering facts.

Then in November 1902, McClure’s began publishing The History of the Standard Oil Company.

Nineteen installments.

Running through May 1904.

The writing itself was not explosive in tone.

That was the brilliance of it.

Tarbell did not rant.

Did not exaggerate.

Did not perform outrage.

She simply laid out, calmly and methodically, how Standard Oil used predatory pricing, secret transportation deals, intimidation, and systematic market control to destroy competitors across the oil industry.

Readers were horrified precisely because the prose sounded so controlled.

The evidence spoke for itself.

And the impact was enormous.

Public anger toward monopolies suddenly crystallized into political momentum. President Theodore Roosevelt — already moving against powerful corporate trusts — drew heavily upon the climate Tarbell helped create.

Then came 1911.

The United States Supreme Court ruled in Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States that the company violated the Sherman Antitrust Act and ordered it broken apart into 34 separate companies.

Those fragments later became corporations like ExxonMobil, Chevron, Marathon, and ConocoPhillips — companies still among the most powerful in the world today.

And Rockefeller himself?

He publicly refused to engage with Tarbell.

“Not a word,” he reportedly instructed his associates. “Not a word about that misguided woman.”

He understood something important:

Arguing with her only gave her findings more oxygen.

Because nobody could truly disprove the documents.

So critics attacked her personally instead.

They called her bitter.

Vindictive.

Difficult.

Emotional.

Almost never inaccurate.

That distinction mattered.

Ida Tarbell spent the rest of her career carrying a strange reputation:

Deeply respected.

Rarely embraced.

She wrote sixteen more books and became one of the most influential journalists of her generation. Yet in private letters, she sometimes admitted feeling that admiration did not always translate into belonging.

Perhaps because she had exposed something many powerful people preferred to keep hidden:

How quietly enormous systems can be built through manipulation that looks almost invisible while it is happening.

And maybe that is why Ida Tarbell still matters more than a century later.

Because she proved journalism does not always require dramatic speeches or public theatrics.

Sometimes the most dangerous thing in the world is simply a patient person with enough evidence.

She did not write to be liked.

She wrote so the record would exist.

And once it existed, even Rockefeller could not erase it.

[𝐎𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐑𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐞 @opolot_ronnie]

Micheal Jordan makes $400M a year from Jordan Brand because he had originally turned down Nike to sign with Adidas but his mom disagreed with him and urged him to listen to her and sign with Nike.

Nike offered Jordan $500k per year and his own shoe line but his mom wanted him to have equity in the company instead.

Today Nike pays Michael Jordan over $250 million per year for his entire life. Jordan Brand is worth over $10 BN and Jordan’s net worth is approximately $4.3 BN

He has earned the majority of his net worth because he listened to his mom ❤️

[筋肉チューニング整体院UROOM【公式】 @uroom_jp]

テンセグリティは足から再生する

足は全身の張力を受け止める制御装置。

足趾を目覚めさせ流れを整える。
足－骨盤－背骨－頭と自然につながっていく。

「足が土台、骨盤が支点という身体知」
この基本原則を無視しては體は整いません。

[Jules Horn @juleshorn01]

Full video here

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[Notasami @SylviaMingus]

Atención:
Trabajar los músculos del cuello puede hacer por tu rostro más de lo que te imaginas.

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[Rodriramosdebrauwer @Rodriramosdb2]

McDonald's verliest de rechtszaak

tegen chef Jamie Oliver, die bewees dat het voedsel dat ze verkopen ongeschikt is voor menselijke consumptie omdat het zeer giftig is.

Dat was zo'n acht jaar geleden... maar niemand leek zich erom te bekommeren... Chef Jamie Oliver heeft een rechtszaak gewonnen tegen 's werelds grootste fastfoodketen.

Oliver demonstreert hoe hamburgers worden gemaakt.

Volgens Oliver worden de vette stukken vlees "gewassen" met waterstofammoniak en vervolgens gebruikt om de hamburger in de vleespasteiverpakking te vullen. Zelfs vóór dit proces, zegt de tv-presentator, was dit vlees ongeschikt voor menselijke consumptie.

Oliver, een radicale activistische chef-kok die de strijd aanbindt met de voedselindustrie, zegt:

"We hebben het over vlees dat als hondenvoer wordt verkocht en vervolgens aan mensen wordt geserveerd. Naast de kwaliteit van het vlees is ammoniumzuur schadelijk voor de gezondheid." Oliver noemt het "het roze mestproces".

Welk weldenkend mens zou een stuk vlees dat in waterstofammoniak is gedrenkt in de mond van een kind stoppen?

In een ander initiatief demonstreerde Oliver hoe kipnuggets worden gemaakt: Nadat de "beste delen" zijn geselecteerd, wordt de rest – vet, huid, kraakbeen, ogen, botten, kop, poten – onderworpen aan een Mec-Split-mengsel genaamd Canica – een eufemisme dat door voedselingenieurs wordt gebruikt. Deze bloedroze pasta, die wordt ontgeurd, gebleekt, opgefrist en opnieuw geverfd, wordt vervolgens door bloem gehaald en gefrituurd. Het blijft in normaal gesproken gedeeltelijk gehydrogeneerde oliën, oftewel giftige stoffen.

De voedselindustrie gebruikt ammoniumwaterstof als antimicrobieel middel, waardoor McDonald's vlees in zijn hamburgers kan gebruiken dat ongeschikt is voor menselijke consumptie.

Nog alarmerender is echter het feit dat deze op ammoniumwaterstof gebaseerde stoffen wereldwijd in de voedselindustrie worden beschouwd als "legale componenten van het productieproces", met de goedkeuring van de gezondheidsautoriteiten. Consumenten zullen dus nooit weten welke stoffen er in hun voedsel zitten.

STOP ALSJEBLIEFT MET HET GEVEN VAN DIT NEPPE VOEDSEL AAN UW KINDEREN, want NU WEET U HET.

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[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The “Lonely Man” theme from THE INCREDIBLE HULK (1978–1982) was composed by Joe Harnell for the Bill Bixby series. Producers loved the simplicity of the piano piece so much that they kept the arrangement largely untouched.

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[gekko.eth (🦇🔊)🎭 @gekko_eth]

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[Posture University @PostureUni]

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[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

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[Danny @DjokovicFan_]

6 years ago, the biggest robbery and injustice happened.

Novak Djokovic gently hits the ball and accidentally hit a lines judge.

No video replay was used. They assumed it was out of anger and disqualified him.

He was the big favorite to win the title.

[Muscle Forge @LearnLoopz]

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[仁木洸平🌲｜NIKI Kohei｜@MTR Method Lab®︎ @ninnikinene]

肋骨を動かすという行動と経験。

「呼吸が驚くほど入る」
「首肩が急にストンと落ちる」
「歩きで脚が楽に出る」

”行動が意識をつくる”
”行動で経験が生まれる”

行動した方にしか得れない感覚がこの動きにはある。

肋骨が再活性化され解放された時。
呼吸への効果だけではない様々な経験が生まれる。

[Kyle Chassé 🐸 @Kylechasse]

An AI just read 200,000 brain MRIs.

It learned every scan taken at the University of Michigan since radiology went digital.

It can now diagnose over 50 neurological conditions in seconds.

97.5% accuracy.

It knows which cases need urgent care. It knows which specialist to call. It does all of it before a doctor has even opened the file.

The AI is called Prima.

It just outperformed every other AI model tested against it.

Radiologists spend years learning to do what Prima does in seconds.

This is not the future of medicine.

It is already here.