3.7โ3.9 million tonnes of pesticide active ingredients are used worldwide every year โ more than double the amount in 1990.
Most of us never see the fields. But this invisible flood is saturating soil, water, pollen, and nectar. Our food system is being quietly poisoned.
India's Gulabi Gang, all female vigilante group created in response to a lack of state action against male violence, corruption & human rights violations. Aged 18-60 yrs, members are trained in self defence & are known for their #pink attire #WomensArt#PinkWeek
๐ง๐ซ|Burkina Faso Has Taken Back the Keys to Its Own Gold. France Is Furious.
Captain Ibrahim Traorรฉ just did what no Burkinabรจ leader has done since independence.
He built a gold refinery.
Not in Paris. Not in London. Not in Toronto. In Ouagadougou.
For decades, France and its mining companies dug up Burkina Fasoโs gold, shipped it out raw, and sent the profits to Europe. The Burkinabรจ people got nothing. The children who worked in the tunnels got nothing. The villages with poisoned water got nothing.
50% of everything Burkina Faso exported went straight into the French treasury. That was the deal. That was the colonial tax. That was the price of using the CFA franc.
They took $500 billion in gold. They left $10 billion behind. And they called it โdevelopment.โ
Captain Traorรฉ said: Enough.
The new refinery RAFFINOR-BF cost $19 million. It can process 164 tonnes of gold a year. It will scale up to 515 tonnes. It will process gold for the entire region. It will keep the value chain in Burkina Faso.
Traorรฉ said: โOur ambition is no longer to be a country that digs and ships. We will refine here. We will certify here. We will control here.โ
The mine minister said: โThis is the day we take back the keys to our own house.โ
France cut diplomatic ties with Burkina Faso in June 2026. Traorรฉ didnโt blink. He built a refinery instead.
Mali is building its own refinery with Russia. Niger nationalized French uranium. Guinea and Ghana are restricting raw gold exports. The whole Sahel is waking up.
The colonialists are losing Africa. One refinery at a time.
Captain Ibrahim Traorรฉ is not a โleader.โ He is a liberator. He is not โpro-Westernโ or โpro-Russian.โ He is pro-Burkina Faso. And that is exactly why France hates him.
Burkina Fasoโs gold belongs to the Burkinabรจ people. Today, for the first time, that is not just a slogan. It is a fact..
Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.
But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.
A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said
We are at our best when we serve others.โ
BREAKING: ๐จ๐ณ๐บ๐ธ China Just Crossed 1,000 Gigawatts of Solar Power - The largest amount any country has ever installed
Equal to the entire electricity capacity of the United States
Two Sudanese children sobbing over their mother's grave, one whispering through tears: "Mama, I'm so tired... why won't you answer me? I'm hungry... you left us all alone."
Let the world witness the horrific crimes committed by the RSF against these innocent children.
A 17-YEAR-OLD BUILT A $300 NEUROPROSTHETIC IN HIS BEDROOM.
Medical conglomerates insist brain-controlled bionics require invasive cranial surgery and $450,000 in clinical hardware.
A solo high school engineer bypassed decades of institutional inertia with a consumer EEG headband and 23,000 lines of custom code.
The limb is fabricated from laser-forged resin driven by an artificial tendon architecture with four independent degrees of freedom.
Non-invasive surface electrodes capture microvolt forehead potentials, feeding raw electrical noise into proprietary signal-processing algorithms.
The system translates frontal lobe intent directly into motor actuation, gripping and sorting objects without surgical implants or proprietary hospital calibration rigs.
Healthcare monopolies manufacture regulatory complexity to protect their margins while independent builders commoditize human mobility with off-the-shelf silicon.
Hindu Brahmins do sex magic with girls at goddess temples. What I mean by that is they tell the child that she is being possessed by a goddess and then she is sexually assaulted by the Brahmin priest who claims he is possessed by a Hindu god. This is tantric sex magic. Itโs also an occult practice.
๐ณ๐ช Niger at the UN:
"Ladies and Gentlemen, as I speak to you, at our northeast borders stand the proxies led by France, backed by Ukraine and 2 other countries."
"And you know full well which countries I mean."
"These proxies are armed, guided, directed, about to attack our military positions and our oil installations. But they will get what they deserve, inshallah."
"Our Sahel is at war. A war of liberation against a conspiracy aimed at its recolonization."
"What some call terrorism in our region is a cynical scheme of recolonization dressed in extremist rags."
"Niger's uranium, the gold of Mali and Burkina, lithium, gas, oil and so many other riches keep the old powers salivating."
"This perfidious destabilization of the central Sahel, led by France with Ukraine's active complicity -- documented, very documented."
"Niger's uranium lit up Europe's cities while ours stayed in darkness. This injustice has now ended. It is over."
"A people that has decided to be free cannot be recolonized, not by fear, nor by cunning, nor even by savage violence."
The man who invented the operation that saves babies born with blue-baby syndrome had no medical degree, no college degree, and was listed on the payroll as a JANITOR.
He guided the first operation from a stool behind the surgeon's shoulder, telling him where to cut.
Vivien Thomas. He had been saving to study medicine when the 1929 crash wiped out his savings and the bank holding them.
He took a job as a lab assistant at Vanderbilt for a janitor's wage, because that was the classification available.
Within a couple of years he was running experimental surgery โ developing techniques, performing operations on his own, training surgeons.
He moved to Johns Hopkins with Alfred Blalock in 1941, where he was still paid as a janitor and had to enter through a back door.
He was the only Black man in that building not carrying a mop.
He worked out the surgical fix for tetralogy of Fallot โ the condition killing infants who turned blue and died โ and built the instruments for it.
The first operation on a child was in 1944. Blalock, who had never done the procedure, asked Thomas to stand behind him and talk him through it.
The surgeons on the paper became world famous. Thomas was not credited.
Hopkins hung his portrait in 1971 and gave him an honorary doctorate in 1976. Generations of surgeons he personally trained insisted on it.
He was paid as a cleaner while inventing heart surgery.
โNot acting on climate change means a certain World War in the lifetime of anybody born from now on.โ
Scientists explain that climate change is a far bigger threat than governments are telling you:
Let's be honest about what the United States came to Vietnam to do.
Not to "save" anyone. Not to "stop communism." Not to "protect democracy."
Those were the slogans they sold to their own people so the boys from Ohio and Georgia would climb onto the planes without asking too many questions.
What they actually came to do was make an example.
The "Third World" was getting ideas.
Countries were looking at their own land, their own oil, their own rubber, their own rice, and thinking "dangerous thoughts."
Thoughts like: this belongs to us.
Thoughts like: we don't need to ask permission.
Thoughts like: maybe we can choose our own way.
That could not be allowed.
So they chose Vietnam.
A small country. A poor country. A country of farmers and fishermen and people who had already spent a century being told they were too primitive to govern themselves.
The perfect candidate for an example.
The plan was simple: destroy Vietnam so completely, so publicly, so mercilessly, that every other poor country on earth would see it and go quiet.
Would swallow their dignity.
Would open their resources to the right corporations and smile while doing it.
They dropped more bombs on Vietnam than were dropped by all sides in all of World War II combined.
Let that land on you.
More bombs. Than all of World War Two. On one small country.
On its villages. On its hospitals. On its rice fields. On its children.
And they still lost.
Not only did they lose.
They lost to people in sandals.
They lost to people moving supplies on bicycles through jungle paths.
They lost to a people so committed to their own liberation that they built an entire city underground and kept fighting.
The example was made. Just not the one they intended.
The lesson the "Third World" learned from Vietnam was not don't resist.
The lesson was: they can be beaten.
The lesson was: their technology is not destiny.
The lesson was: if you are willing to pay the price of dignity, they will eventually run out of the stomach for the bill.
Every sanction today. Every coup. Every engineered "color revolution." Every "civil society" organization funded from Langley.
These are the tactics of an empire that learned in Vietnam that it cannot always use the full weight of its military without consequences it can't control.
They are not acting from confidence.
They are acting from the memory of Vietnam.
And Vietnam said no.
๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ต๐ธ They smash medical equipment inside Gaza hospitals.
They film themselves doing it.
Then they post it for amusement.
Israeli soldiers, in their own footage.