Tom Hain

God like being...and humble with it.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Glass is a true "permanent material"—it can be recycled indefinitely (100% closed-loop) without any loss in quality, purity, or performance. Unlike most materials, its chemical structure remains unchanged through repeated melting and reforming, allowing old bottles and jars to become brand-new high-quality containers forever.

This stands in stark contrast to plastic, which is far cheaper for companies to produce and transport (lighter weight means lower shipping costs, and raw material/energy inputs are generally lower). Yet this short-term savings comes at a steep environmental price: we're degrading ecosystems, landfills, and oceans to cut a few cents per unit.

Glass offers genuine sustainability advantages when recycled properly:

• Using cullet (recycled glass fragments) replaces virgin raw materials (sand, soda ash, limestone)—one tonne of cullet saves about 1.2 tonnes of new resources.

• It slashes energy use dramatically: every 10% increase in cullet reduces furnace energy needs by ~2.5–3%, and melting 100% cullet can cut energy by up to ~40% compared to virgin production.

• CO₂ emissions drop significantly—studies show ~580–670 kg saved per tonne of recycled glass (cradle-to-cradle), with up to 58–60% reduction when using high cullet percentages.

• Fewer raw material extractions mean less mining impact and habitat disruption.

The key to unlocking glass's full potential is clean, color-sorted collection. Mixed colors or contamination (from curbside debris, ceramics, or other recyclables) often downgrades glass to lower-value uses like fiberglass insulation or road aggregate instead of bottle-to-bottle recycling. Proper sorting—by color and purity—keeps it in the premium loop.

By improving recycling habits (rinsing containers, separating by color where possible, and supporting deposit-return systems), we can maximize glass's role in a true circular economy. It's one of the few packaging options that genuinely protects resources long-term—let's not sacrifice it for cheaper, disposable alternatives that harm the planet.

[Cat Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚜🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @MrsBr0wn_82]

🚨🇬🇧 The UK government has responded to the petition regarding folic acid in flour.

The UK Government is forcing synthetic folic acid into all non-wholemeal wheat flour from the end of 2026.

This affects 70 million people to supposedly prevent just 200 neural tube defect cases a year.

It’s not just bread it means almost every everyday product made with white or brown flour: pasta, pizza bases, cakes, biscuits, pastries, pies, crackers, and most processed baked goods. Men and children get zero benefit, yet studies have linked higher folic acid intake to increased prostate cancer risk in men.

They’re choosing mass medication of the entire population through our staple foods instead of targeted supplements for women who actually need it.

This is being forced on us without real choice. It will appear in the ingredients list, but there’ll be no clear warning on the front of the pack.

Natural folate from food is one thing this unnatural synthetic chemical is another.

Sign the petition in the comments we need to at least have a debate on this.

Please share with as many people as possible.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The phrase "Stone Age" in your post is not doing historical work.

It is doing psychological work.

It places African societies outside history, in a permanent, static, pre-modern condition that exists outside time and development, and therefore outside the kind of historical analysis we would apply to any other civilization.

We do not say Europe was "in the Stone Age" during the centuries when it had no universities, no printing press, no germ theory, when its cities regularly suffered plague mortality of 30-50% of the population, when its surgical practice consisted primarily of amputation without anesthesia, when its legal system included trial by ordeal.

We say Europe was at a particular stage of development at a particular historical moment, and we examine the conditions, internal and external, that produced change.

We apply the analytical framework of history:

Contingency. Causation. Specific events with specific consequences.

For Africa, you reach instead for a phrase that removes the continent from history entirely.

This is not a minor rhetorical choice.

It is the entire ideological operation.

Once a population is placed outside history, in a permanent natural state rather than a historical condition, nothing that happened to them historically needs to be examined.

The slave trade becomes irrelevant.

The colonial period becomes irrelevant.

The postcolonial resource extraction becomes irrelevant.

Because they were "always like this."

Before history started.

Before anyone did anything to them.

The "Stone Age" framing is not ignorance.

It is the deliberate removal of cause from its effect.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Running an ice cream cone under steaming hot water and it resists melting, eventually it washes away

Many ice creams in America will no longer melt because the ingredients have been changed, they are actually engineered to not melt. Modern ice creams have:

- Higher Levels of Stabilizers and Gums
- High percentages of Vegetable Oils and Fats instead of Dairy Fat
- More Air than standard ice cream, sometimes over 100%
- More sweeteners, maltodextrins and other solids adjust the freezing point

Many ice creams can’t even legally be called ice cream anymore in America

Our food is a science experiment

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

PARENTS: THIS IS WHAT GETS INJECTED INTO YOUR CHILD’S BODY IN THE FIRST 6 YEARS OF LIFE

If you follow the full childhood vaccine schedule, your baby receives all of this — cumulative amounts delivered straight into their bloodstream:

• 17,500 mcg 2-phenoxyethanol (antifreeze)
• 5,700 mcg aluminum (neurotoxin)
• Unknown amounts of fetal bovine serum (aborted cow blood)
• 801.6 mcg formaldehyde (carcinogen, embalming agent)
• 23,250 mcg gelatin (ground up animal carcass)
• 500 mcg human albumin (human blood)
• 760 mcg of monosodium L-glutamate (causes obesity & diabetes)
• Unknown amounts of MRC-5 cells (aborted human babies)
• Over 10 mcg neomycin (antibiotic)
• Over 0.075 mcg polymyxin B (antibiotic)
• Over 560 mcg polysorbate 80 (carcinogen)
• 116 mcg potassium chloride (used in a lethal injection)
• 188 mcg potassium phosphate (liquid fertilizer agent)
• 260 mcg sodium bicarbonate (baking soda)
• 70 mcg sodium borate (Borax, used for cockroach control)
• 54,100 mcg of sodium chloride (table salt)
• Unknown amounts of sodium citrate (food additive)
• Unknown amounts of sodium hydroxide (Danger! Corrosive)
• 2,800 mcg sodium phosphate (toxic to any organism)
• Unknown amounts of sodium phosphate monobasic monohydrate (toxic to any organism)
• 32,000 mcg sorbitol (Not to be injected)
• 0.6 mcg streptomycin (antibiotic)
• Over 40,000 mcg sucrose (cane sugar)
• 35,000 mcg yeast protein (fungus)
• 5,000 mcg urea (metabolic waste from human urine)
• Other chemical residuals

This is not speculation.
This is documented in Dr. Todd M. Elsner’s book:
“What The Pharmaceutical Companies Don’t Want You To Know About Vaccines.”

Your child’s developing brain, immune system, and organs are being flooded with this chemical soup before they can even speak.

Read it. Share it. Then ask yourself the only question that matters:
Would you ever allow this to be injected into your child if you knew what was really in it?

The choice is still yours — but only if you make it before the next appointment.

Protect them. Question everything.

[Tancredi Palmeri @tancredipalmeri]

Holy shit.

Maradona in 2018 on the day the World Cup 2026 was awarded to USA, Mexico and Canada, goes on saying:

“They will do 4 quarters of the game instead of two halves so to put commercials, you’ll see”

[REJOIN CAMPAIGN @sonofr]

IF OUR GOVERNMENT WON’T SANCTION ISRAEL YOU CAN DO YOUR BIT BY NOT BUYING ANYTHING MADE OR GROWN IN ISRAEL!

Check the barcode…729, remember it next time you shop.

Every little helps!

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

30 years ago Spitting Image dared to broadcast the truth about Israel.

Now no one dares.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The greatest trick coffee pod companies ever pulled was convincing people to pay more for cheap coffee wrapped in trash.

Tens of billions of single-use coffee pods and capsules are used every year. Many are made from mixed plastic, foil, aluminum, filters, lids, and wet coffee grounds, which makes them annoying or impossible to recycle through normal curbside systems. Even the 'recyclable' ones often require special collection programs most people don't have easy access to.

The pod gives you one cup of coffee, then leaves behind a tiny piece of manufactured garbage that may outlive you.

A French press, drip maker, moka pot, pour-over, percolator, or reusable pod can make coffee every morning without throwing away a plastic capsule every time you wake up. The grounds can go in your compost.

This is one of those environmental swaps that is not complicated. You don't need a lifestyle overhaul. You don't need to become a coffee snob. You just need to make the switch.

[Kat A 🌸 @SaiKate108]

‘It’s not fortification. It’s contamination.’

The UK is forcing folic acid, a synthetic drug into the entire flour supply - without anyone’s consent.

This is the same chemical the NIH warns cancer patients not to take.

@ClareCraigPath has shown it more than doubles the risk of prostate cancer.

They scream about rising cancer rates yet deliberately poison the food supply.

Make it make sense.

Here is the petition calling for a parliamentary debate.

https://t.co/63BxLuuUe1

[mass ave curmudgeon @mass_ave]

If this ain’t it in a nutshell

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Estas no son imágenes de Hiroshima del siglo pasado, es el sur del Líbano, donde el ejército genocida de "Israel" está haciendo desaparecer pueblos enteros, llenándolos de explosivos y volándolos por los aires.

No hay escándalo mediático en la prensa, "Israel" puede destruir pueblos enteros y ni siquiera lo hacen noticia.

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record that the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.

Lets make this viral again 👇

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Presidential longevity is easy when you just indefinitely cancel all elections and shut down opposition media. 🇺🇦

[Graham Hancock @Graham__Hancock]

Gratitude to the universe and to all friends everywhere for so many kind wishes. My cardiac surgery went well -- better than expected. I'll update properly next week. Meanwhile, I'm home, surrounded by love, am enjoying a great reawakening of energy and intend to dive into writing Chapter 21 of my new book tomorrow. Happy Summer Solstice!

[Tom Hain @tommihain]

@Graham__Hancock Fantastic news! Big love n hugs XXX

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A British physiologist named Brett Gooden published a paper in 1994 that quietly proved every human walking around on this planet has an emergency reset button hidden in the skin of their face, and almost nobody knows how to use it.

His name is mostly forgotten outside diving medicine. The paper is called "Mechanism of the Human Diving Response," and the body of research it kicked off has been replicated by neuroscientists, cardiologists, and physiologists in labs across the world for the last thirty years.

The mechanism it described is the single fastest way to lower a human heart rate that has ever been documented.

The discovery actually began long before Gooden formalized it. Physiologists had noticed for decades that seals, whales, dolphins, and otters could slow their heart rates dramatically the moment their faces touched water, allowing them to dive for long periods without running out of oxygen.

The question Gooden helped answer was whether the same reflex existed in humans, and what exactly triggered it.

The answer turned out to be a network of nerves almost nobody outside neurology had paid attention to.

The trigeminal nerve is one of the largest nerves in your head, and it covers the entire surface of your face, especially the area around your eyes, nose, forehead, and mouth. When cold water touches that skin, the trigeminal nerve fires a signal straight into the brainstem, which then routes a command through the vagus nerve directly to the heart.

The vagus nerve is the master switch of your parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part of the body responsible for calm, recovery, and the slowing of the heart.

The entire signal chain takes about a second to complete. Cold water hits the face. Trigeminal nerve fires. Vagus nerve responds. The heart slows.

Human heart rate has been documented to drop anywhere from 5 to over 50 percent during this response, depending on the temperature of the water, how much of the face is covered, and how strongly the person is holding their breath.

In infants the response is so powerful that it has been implicated in cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, because the same reflex that protects a baby underwater can be triggered accidentally by bedding pressed against the face during sleep.

The reflex is called the mammalian dive reflex, and the broader nerve circuit it sits inside is called the trigeminocardiac reflex.

Researchers who study it now consider it the single most powerful autonomic reflex in the human body, which means it is faster and stronger than almost any other automatic response your nervous system is capable of producing.

The detail Gooden zeroed in on is the part that should matter most to anyone who has ever had a panic attack, a racing heart at 3am, or a moment of overwhelming anxiety they could not breathe their way out of.

Two ingredients trigger the response. The water has to be cold, ideally under about 15 degrees Celsius, and it has to touch the area around the forehead, eyes, and nose. The skin of the cheeks and chin alone is not enough.

The receptors that fire the reflex are concentrated in the upper face, which is exactly the part of a seal that hits the water first when it dives. Evolution kept that wiring intact in humans even though we stopped diving for our food a long time ago.

This is why splashing cold water on your face during a moment of panic actually works. It is not psychological. It is not a placebo. You are activating a neurological circuit that has been sitting in your body since before your species walked upright, and the circuit does exactly what it was built to do.

A psychiatrist at Harvard named Marsha Linehan eventually wrote this exact protocol into a dialectical behavior therapy technique she called the cold water dive, which she taught to patients in acute emotional crisis. The instruction was simple.

Fill a bowl with cold water and ice. Hold your breath. Submerge your face from the forehead down to the chin for thirty seconds. Within the first ten seconds, the heart begins to slow. By the time the face comes out of the water, the body has shifted out of fight-or-flight and into the parasympathetic state that makes thinking clearly possible again.

Emergency room physicians have used the same trick to reset abnormal heart rhythms in patients with certain types of tachycardia for decades. They call it the diving reflex maneuver.

A bag of ice water held against the face for fifteen to thirty seconds can convert a runaway heart rhythm back to normal without a single drug being administered.

Same nerve. Same reflex. Same biology your ancestors used to hunt for fish underwater two hundred thousand years ago.

The strangest part of all of this is how few people know it exists. The cold plunge industry has built itself into a billion-dollar movement based on full-body cold exposure, ice baths, and dramatic protocols that require expensive equipment and serious commitment.

But the fastest, most underrated nervous system reset available to a human being requires a sink, a few seconds, and the upper half of your face.

Your nervous system has an emergency brake. You were born holding the handle.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel has dropped over 200 bombs on Lebanon in less than 24 hours — murdering more than 83 civilians.

This is an American-backed, American-funded genocide.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

Fauci CALLED RFK Jr. a LIAR for telling the truth about untested vaccines — then got SUED and FORCED to ADMIT RFK was RIGHT!

Fauci smeared RFK Jr. for exposing that NOT ONE of the 72 mandated CHILDHOOD VACCINES has ever been properly safety-tested. RFK sued. After a year of dodging, Fauci’s own lawyers caved: RFK was 100% correct.

No liability. No real testing. Just a government-mandated gold rush for Big Pharma — pumping billions into schoolkids while chronic disease, autism (1 in 31 now!), ADHD, and neurological disasters exploded in our children.

This isn’t “public health.” This is criminal negligence — a profit machine disguised as medicine, with our kids as the collateral damage.

Fauci lied. Kids suffered. RFK fought back.

How many more children have to be harmed before we demand accountability?

ENOUGH.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Healthcare tied to employment isn't a policy accident.

It's a leash.

You cannot organize, cannot strike, cannot quit, cannot risk the job, because the job is the only thing standing between your family and a medical bill that bankrupts you.

In countries with national healthcare, workers can walk away from a bad employer because their survival isn't contingent on that employer's goodwill.

In America, the calculation is different.

Quit, and you lose the thing keeping your kid's asthma medication affordable.

Strike, and you risk the coverage that's keeping your mother's chemo paid for.

This isn't a side effect of the system.

This is the system working exactly as designed.

A frightened workforce doesn't need a boot on its neck.

It needs a spreadsheet showing what happens if it loses the insurance.