The governor of Oklahoma raises a glass of raw milk to a camera in 2026, takes a swig, and tells the state it tastes like freedom.
He had just signed a law lifting the cap on how much unpasteurised milk a farm can sell directly to the public, from a hundred gallons a month to fifteen hundred, and making it legal to advertise the stuff. Oklahoma is one of a run of states pulling raw milk back out of the shadows. And every time one does, the same warning goes up: this was banned for a reason, have you forgotten why.
So it is worth remembering exactly why. The real reason has been quietly mislaid.
In the growing American cities of the mid-1800s, milk became a genuine killer, and the reason was an industry. Distilleries producing whiskey had a hot, sour waste left over called swill, and someone worked out you could feed it to cows packed into sheds right next to the still. The animals lived in filth, diseased and dying on their feet, and gave a thin bluish milk so poor it was doctored with chalk, plaster and molasses just to pass for milk. This swill milk poured into the cities and killed infants by the thousand. That was the scandal that built the case for pasteurising milk and regulating dairies, and it was a fair case against that milk.
Here is the part that got quietly folded in. The same wave of law that rightly killed off the distillery-slop dairies also swept up the clean stuff: milk from healthy cows on grass, on small farms, drawn into clean pails. All of it got tarred with the swill-dairy brush and pushed toward the same ban. And once the big pasteurising plants and the consolidated dairies were built, keeping the small raw producer locked out stopped being about disease at all. It became about who was allowed to sell milk.
The filthy urban swill dairy vanished a century ago. The suspicion it earned got pinned, permanently, onto a farmer selling clean milk from healthy cows at his own gate.
They banned the milk of dying cows fed on distillery waste, which was right, and then kept the ban aimed at the farm down the lane, which was never the problem.
@ImtiazMadmood It's an eerie place, to be sure! I always remember the way everyone was sardined into the bunks, all pushed together, 2 or 3 to a bunk, in filthy conditions. Can't imagine having to survive like that!!!!
Der Ablehnungsantrag unserer @ESNgroup_EU gegen die Verlängerung der #Chatkontrolle erhielt zwar eine Mehrheit, verfehlte aber die erforderliche absolute. Dass darüber überhaupt erneut abgestimmt wurde, ist ein demokratischer Skandal – es hätte niemals auf die Tagesordnung gesetzt werden dürfen.
Danke, @Mary_Khan94 – Du hast gekämpft wie eine Löwin.
#chatcontrol
Chatkontrolle beschlossen!
Zwar waren nur 276 Abgeordnete für die Totalüberwachung und 314 dagegen. Aber es hätten kurz vor den Sommerferien mehr ablehnen müssen. Teuflisch. #DEXIT
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The FDA Approved These Deadly Drugs… Then Left Them on the Market for YEARS While People Died
"Every Drug Recalled By The FDA... Was Approved By The FDA."
Here’s the disturbing proof with real blockbuster drugs:
• Vioxx (Rofecoxib) – Pain & arthritis
Approved 1999 → Pulled 2004 (5+ years)
Linked to 88,000–140,000 heart attacks & strokes. Many fatal.
• Bextra (Valdecoxib)
Approved 2001 → Pulled 2005 (~3.5 years)
Heart attacks, strokes & deadly skin reactions.
• Rezulin (Troglitazone) – Diabetes
Approved 1997 → Withdrawn 2000 (~3 years)
Caused liver failure & dozens of deaths.
• Baycol (Cerivastatin) – Cholesterol
Approved 1997 → Pulled 2001 (~4 years)
Severe muscle destruction, kidney failure & deaths.
• Propulsid (Cisapride) – Heartburn
Approved 1993 → Withdrawn 2000 (~7 years)
Fatal heart rhythm problems.
• Seldane (Terfenadine) – Allergies
Approved 1985 → Pulled 1998 (13 years)
Dangerous heart arrhythmias.
• Darvon/Darvocet (Propoxyphene) – Painkiller
Approved 1955 → Finally banned 2010 (55+ years!)
Serious heart problems for over half a century.
These were massively prescribed drugs taken by millions. The FDA approved them… then took years to act while harm mounted.
Always profits before people...
This is why trust in “FDA Approved” has completely collapsed. Always research risks yourself.
🔥 If this alarms you — SHARE this post with someone you know who takes prescriptions.
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Long live the resistance! 🫡
Erin Brockovich is now tracking more than 5,000 community concerns about AI data centers across the United States.
The renowned environmental activist has created a nationwide map that tracks AI data centers that are operating, under construction, proposed, or facing local opposition.
Reports have surged in recent weeks. On June 2, the tracker showed just over 3,000 community submissions. By June 9, that number had climbed past 5,000.
The worries are very real. Residents are raising alarms about skyrocketing electricity demand, massive water consumption, constant noise, strain on local infrastructure, electronic waste, flooding risks, and the overall burden these industrial-scale facilities place on small towns and rural areas.
Data centers serve as the physical foundation of artificial intelligence, powering everything from chatbots and image generators to cloud services and video models. But keeping the servers running 24/7 requires enormous resources.
A single large data center can consume up to 5 million gallons of water per day, equivalent to the daily water usage of a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people. They also used about 4.4% of total U.S. electricity in 2023, a figure the Department of Energy projects could rise to 6.7–12% by 2028.
This rapid growth has sparked growing local backlash. Several cities and counties have already imposed moratoriums or restrictions on new data centers to assess their impact on water supplies, power grids, and household utility bills. Seattle, for example, approved a one-year pause, with similar measures taken in parts of Kentucky, California, and Georgia.
The television licence enforcement officers do not have a right to enter your property.They are only allowed entry if you give it them by ‘inviting’ them in.
I would never let them in and I don’t even have a television.
Do you still watch the propaganda and pay the Tv tax ?