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Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring with breast cancer eating through her, hid it from everyone but her closest friends so the chemical industry could not use it against the book, and testified to the Senate in a wig because the radiation had taken her hair.
She was a government biologist who wrote pamphlets about fish for the Fish and Wildlife Service and sat up at night writing about the sea. Her first book came out a few weeks before Pearl Harbor and sold almost nothing. Her second, in 1951, sat on the bestseller list for 86 weeks and bought her out of the civil service. She never married. She buried her father, her sister and then her mother, and at 50 she adopted her orphaned great-nephew, Roger, aged five, and raised him alone.
In 1958 a friend wrote to her about the birds dropping dead in her garden after the mosquito spraying. Carson had been collecting the evidence on DDT since 1945, when the magazines turned her down. She started the book that winter.
In the spring of 1960, with the manuscript half written, the surgeon took her left breast off and told her it was benign. It was not. The tumour had spread, and she found out months later, from another doctor, that the first one had decided not to tell her. She wrote the rest of Silent Spring between radiation sessions, through nausea and a crumbling spine, with her hair falling out and an arthritic grip on the pen, and she told almost nobody. If the industry learned the author had cancer, the book would be read as a dying woman's grievance rather than a case.
The book came out in September 1962. The industry spent an estimated quarter of a million dollars answering it. Velsicol, which made two of the pesticides she named, wrote to her publisher threatening to sue and suggesting sinister influences wanted American farming reduced to Soviet levels. Monsanto printed a parody called The Desolate Year, in which the insects inherit the earth, and sent out 5,000 copies. A former Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson, was reported to have asked why a spinster with no children was so worried about genetics, and to have concluded she was probably a communist.
In April 1963 she went on CBS to face the industry's man, Robert White-Stevens of American Cyanamid, who told 10 million viewers that if mankind followed Miss Carson it would return to the Dark Ages. Two of the programme's sponsors had pulled out. Carson, upright in a wig, quietly took him apart. A month later President Kennedy's own science advisers reported that she had been right.
In June she sat before a Senate committee, barely able to walk to the chair, and the chairman greeted her with the line Lincoln is supposed to have given Harriet Beecher Stowe. "Miss Carson, you are the lady who started all this."
She died on 14 April 1964, aged 56, of the cancer she had hidden for four years so that it could not be used to discredit her work. America banned DDT in 1972.
In 2015 the daughters of the women sprayed in her lifetime turned out to carry 3.7 times the breast cancer risk when their mothers had carried the most DDT. Rachel Carson spent her last four years proving the chemical killed birds, and died of the disease it would later be found to have passed down through the daughters of the women who stood in the fog.
The industry called her hysterical. She never once mentioned her own body in the argument. She did not need to.
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A restaurant makes more on the pasta than the steak, and the entire food system worked that out before you did.
The ribeye is £42 on the menu. It cost the kitchen about £14 to put on the plate.
The pasta is £18. It cost about £2.50, most of which was the parmesan.
The salad is £14. It cost about £2, and the lettuce was the expensive bit.
The risotto is £19. It is rice, stock and a knob of butter, and the stock was free.
The steak returns twice what it cost. The pasta returns six times. The salad returns six times.
So the chef's special is the pasta, the salad gets a paragraph on the menu, and the steak sits at the bottom with no adjectives.
Now scale the restaurant up to a country.
A box of cereal is 20p of grain and £3.50 on the shelf.
A plant-based burger is pea flour, rapeseed oil and a red dye, and it sells for more than the beef one it is pretending to be.
An oat drink is oats and water and sells at twice the price of the milk it replaced.
Every tier of the trade makes its margin on the plant, because a plant is nearly free and an animal takes two years of grass.
Bill Gates owns more farmland than any other man in America, holds stakes in the fake meat firms, and told the rich world to switch to synthetic beef.
The pattern in the restaurant and the pattern in the policy are the same pattern. Talk down the expensive ingredient. Sell the cheap one at the expensive price. Keep the difference.
The advice you were given about meat was written by people who make eight times more when you order the pasta.
Nobody is giving you a diet. They are giving you the menu with the margins folded over.
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Mike Gallagher, the 8th most recognized talk radio personality, in the U.S.A., is heard by over 2.25 million listeners weekly. He compiled and wrote the following essay entitled,
"Obama: It was You."
* It was you who spoke these words at an Islamic dinner - "I am one of you."
* It was you who on ABC News referenced - "My Muslim faith."
* It was you who gave $100 million in U.S. taxpayer funds to rebuild foreign mosques.
* It was you who wrote that in the event of a conflict- "I will stand with the Muslims."
* It was you who assured the Egyptian Foreign Minister that - "I am a Muslim."
* It was you who bowed in submission before the Saudi King.
* It was you who sat for 20 years in a Liberation Theology Church condemning America and professing Marxism.
* It was you who exempted Muslims from penalties under Obamacare that the rest of us have to pay.
* It was you who purposefully omitted - "endowed by our Creator " - from your recitation of The Declaration Of Independence.
* It was you who mocked the Bible and Jesus Christ's Sermon On The Mount while repeatedly referring to the 'HOLY' Qur'an.
* It was you who traveled the Islamic world denigrating the United States Of America.
* It was you who instantly threw the support of your administration behind the building of the Ground Zero Victory mosque overlooking the hallowed crater of the World Trade Center.
* It was you who refused to attend the National Prayer Breakfast, but hastened to host an Islamic prayer breakfast at the White House
* It was you who ordered Georgetown Univ. and Notre Dame to shroud all vestiges of Jesus Christ BEFORE you would agree to go there to speak, but in contrast, you have NEVER requested the mosques you have visited to adjust their decor.
* It was you who appointed anti-Christian fanatics to your Czar Corps.
* It was you who appointed rabid Islamists to Homeland Security.
* It was you who said that NASA's "foremost mission" was an outreach to Muslim communities.
* It was you who as an Illinois Senator was the ONLY individual who would speak in favor of infanticide.
* It was you who was the first President not to give a Christmas Greeting from the White House, and went so far as to hang
photos of Chairman Mao on the White House tree.
* It was you who curtailed the military tribunals of all Islamic terrorists.
* It was you who refused to condemn the Ft. Hood killer as an Islamic terrorist.
* It is you who has refused to speak-out concerning the horrific executions of women throughout the Muslim culture,
but yet, have submitted Arizona to the UN for investigation of hypothetical human-rights abuses.
* It was you who when queried in India refused to acknowledge the true extent of radical global Jihadists, and instead
profusely praised Islam in a country that is 82% Hindu and the victim of numerous Islamic terrorists assaults.
* It was you who funneled $900 Million in U.S. taxpayer dollars to Hamas.
* It was you who ordered the United States Postal Service to honor the MUSLIM holiday with a new commemorative stamp.
* It was you who directed our UK Embassy to conduct outreach to help "empower" the British Muslim community.
* It was you who funded mandatory Arabic language and culture studies in Grammar schools across our country.
* It is you who follows the Muslim custom of not wearing any form of jewelry during Ramadan.
* It is you who departs for Hawaii over the Christmas season so as to avoid past criticism for NOT participating in seasonal
White House religious events.
* It was you who was uncharacteristically quick to join the chorus of the Muslim Brotherhood to depose Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, formerly America's strongest ally in North Africa; but, remain muted in your non-response to the Brotherhood
led slaughter of Egyptian Christians.
* It was you who appointed your chief adviser, Valerie Jarrett, an Iranian, who is a member of the Muslim Sisterhood, an off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. It was you the whole time who ushered in this mess were in
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We are a world at war but many fail to recognize the threat ‘cos instead of B2 bombers, tanks & nukes, they’re fighting w stolen elections, mass migration & information warfare - the most lethal weapons on the battlefield of today. Korea may seem far but the real issue here is that America’s allies are falling one by one - which leaves the U.S. increasingly isolated.
Traditional allies like the U.K., France, Italy etc are being eaten alive by mass immigration as the globalists salivate.
Israel has been demonized by the left & increasingly on the right, yet it is America’s most reliable ally in the Middle East.
New Zealand is effectively a Marxist state. Australia is under Islamic-leftist-globalist invasion. South Africa is under Marxist-Muslim-globalist assault. Mozambique, Congo, Nigeria - all battling Islamic terrorist attacks to differing degrees. And of course the U.S. is not allowed to be close to Russia or the traitors yell “collusion”. What you see when you step back is America being more & more isolated in the world.
You can stand up. Or submit. Your choice. But remember this: they’re not using B2 bombers, tanks & nukes - yet. But they will. Instead of leading with the bloodshed we recognize as war, it will come in the end to help deliver absolute power.
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At 13 Judy Garland signed with MGM, and the studio decided she was too fat, put her on chicken soup, black coffee and cigarettes, and handed her pills to keep her going and more pills to knock her out, and by the time she finished The Wizard of Oz she was hooked on both.
She had been on stage since she was two, as Frances Gumm, the youngest of the Gumm Sisters. Her mother, Ethel, managed her, and according to her biographer first gave her pills, for energy and for sleep, before she was ten. Judy later called her mother the real Wicked Witch of the West.
MGM signed her in 1935. Louis B. Mayer and the studio bosses reportedly called her a fat little pig with pigtails. Mayer insisted on the diet himself: chicken soup, black coffee and cigarettes, with pills to take her appetite away. The studio supplied the pep pills, and when they left her too wired to sleep after the long days on set, it supplied sleeping pills for that. She and Mickey Rooney, she said later, were worked "days and nights on end", once for 72 hours straight, and kept going on pills.
She was 16 when filming began on The Wizard of Oz, and by the time it ended she was addicted to amphetamines and barbiturates. The girl in the gingham dress singing about somewhere over the rainbow was being starved by the studio and dosed by it.
The rest of her life was pills, husbands, comebacks and collapses. "At times," she said, "I have been pretty much of a walking advertisement for sleeping pills." She died in London on 22 June 1969, aged 47, of an accidental overdose of barbiturates.
At MGM a growing girl's hunger was treated as the problem, and the studio had a chemical for it.
Hollywood has never stopped thinking that way. It has only changed the delivery, from a bottle of pills to a weekly injection.
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In the last couple of days, Muslims:
1. Slaughtered 9 Christians in Jordan
2. Beheaded 40+ Christians in Nigeria
3. Massacred 60+ Christians in Ethiopia
4. Raped countless Christian girls in Europe
We cannot coexist with people whose religious scriptures call for our deaths.
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Polyester has been about to replace wool since 1941, and every decade has announced the victory before finding the catch.
1941: Two chemists in a Lancashire calico works invent Terylene. The future of clothing, they say. It is a plastic bottle in the shape of a shirt.
1951: DuPont launches Dacron in America. Wash and wear, never needs ironing. It also never breathes, which America discovers in July.
1960s: Crimplene. A suit that never creases and can be heard approaching. Static electricity joins the British dance floor.
1973: Children's polyester pyjamas go up like paper, so they are soaked in a flame retardant called Tris.
1977: Tris is banned for causing cancer. The treated pyjamas are shipped abroad and sold to other people's children.
1979: A Manchester Woolworths burns. Ten dead. Foam and polyester furniture turns a room that used to take seventeen minutes to burn into one that takes three.
1982: HMS Sheffield. Sailors in synthetic uniforms are treated for the fabric melted into their skin. The Navy goes back to cotton and wool.
1993: Fleece is relaunched as the eco fabric, made from recycled bottles. The jumper is now proud of being a bottle.
2006: The US Marines ban polyester shirts in Iraq, because a burning man teaches faster than a brochure.
2016: Scientists put a fleece through a washing machine and count what comes out. Seven hundred thousand fibres, one wash, into the sea.
2020: Polyester fibres found in the human placenta.
2022: Found in human blood and deep in living lungs.
2024: Found in every testicle sampled, and in the plaque of arteries.
2025: Found in the brain. About a spoonful.
2026: Still "the future of clothing". Still melting, still smelling after one wear, still shedding, still sold on the hanger next to a sheep that solved all of it before the pyramids.
Eighty-five years of upgrades, and the only fabric in the shop that has never needed a recall is the one standing in a field.
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Nine in ten American strawberries come from a few valleys in California where the soil is killed with a First World War gas before every planting, and the fields are visible from the road because they are wrapped in plastic to keep the gas in.
Chloropicrin was made for the trenches. It was a lung and eye agent, a vomiting gas, fired in shells to force men out of their masks. Now it is injected into the ground at Watsonville and Oxnard every year, under tarps that hold the fumes down for a week, and it does to the soil what it did to a trench: everything in it dies, the fungi, the bacteria, the worms, the insects, until the dirt is as sterile as a hospital tray. Then the strawberries go in, on raised beds of plastic, fed by drip line with everything a living soil would have given them, and the plastic and the gas go in again next year, because a dead soil has no defence against the one disease that gets through.
For forty years the gas was methyl bromide, which eats the ozone layer, and when the world banned it in 2005 California's strawberry growers got themselves an exemption and kept using it for another decade, the last major crop on earth to do so. Chloropicrin was the replacement, and the state's own pesticide regulator lists it among the commonest causes of farmworker poisoning in California. The men who apply it are mostly undocumented, the drift has emptied a school in Monterey County, and the strawberry has topped the list of the most pesticide-contaminated produce in America for most of the last decade.
Every year the industry calls it a heart-healthy antioxidant superfood, and every year the field it came from is gassed.
The cow in the pasture next door has never once needed the soil under her sterilised. The strawberry cannot be grown at that scale without it, and the war gas is the price of a punnet in January.
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American strawberry fields are being DRENCHED in cancer-linked pesticides — while workers are in full-head-to-toe hazmat suits, respirators, and gloves!
Two workmen, spraying poison directly onto the berries that will soon hit grocery stores nationwide. These are the “fresh” strawberries your family eats.
If the chemicals are so toxic that the *applicators* need full-body protection… what exactly are we feeding our kids?
This isn’t “farming.” This is chemical warfare on our food supply.
It’s time to Make America Healthy Again. Boycott the poison. Grow your own. Demand clean food. Seek out local 'pick your own' strawberry venders and farmer's markets.
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Vet: Morning. I'm here to vaccinate the whole herd.
Farmer: Against what? Nothing's ill.
Vet: Their stomachs.
Farmer: What's wrong with their stomachs?
Vet: Nothing. They're working perfectly, which is the problem. There's a microbe in there that eats the hydrogen the other microbes make from the grass, and turns it into methane.
Farmer: And the jab kills it?
Vet: It trains her immune system to make antibodies. They go into her saliva, she swallows them, and they go after it.
Farmer: So she's being immunised against her own breakfast.
Vet: Against part of it.
Farmer: And all that hydrogen it was eating?
Vet: Has to go somewhere.
Farmer: Where?
Vet: That's what the trials are for.
Farmer: So my cows are the trial. Who's paying for it?
Vet: The New Zealand government, the big dairy companies, some banks, and a fund set up by Bill Gates.
Farmer: Bill Gates is worried about my cows.
Vet: He's worried about everybody's cows. He's not keen on the beef either.
Farmer: They've been burping on this land since before it had a name, and nobody ever needed a jab for it. Not my father's cows, not his father's. What's changed?
Vet: The paperwork.
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Founder: "The fibre is temperature-regulating. Warm when it's cold, cool when it's hot, on its own."
Investor 1: "Battery?"
Founder: "None. The structure traps air and lets moisture out as vapour."
Investor 2: "Flame rating."
Founder: "Won't ignite below about 570 degrees. No treatment. It puts itself out and leaves no melt."
Investor 1: "Odour."
Founder: "Antibacterial. Wear it for a week, hang it up, it's fine."
Investor 3: "Wet performance."
Founder: "Holds a third of its weight in water before it feels damp, and keeps you warm while it does."
Investor 2: "End of life."
Founder: "Bury it. Soil in a year or two. It's nitrogen."
Investor 1: "Production."
Founder: "The unit grows the fibre on its own body over twelve months, outdoors, on grass. We harvest it in about two minutes. The unit walks off and starts again."
Investor 3: "Walks."
Founder: "Also lambs."
Investor 2: "Raw material cost?"
Founder: "Rain."
Investor 1: "Who's the competitor?"
Founder: "Polyester. Made from crude oil, melts at about 250 degrees, sheds plastic into the sea every wash, and lasts centuries in a hole."
Investor 2: "And yours is cheaper?"
Founder: "British farmers currently get about the cost of the shearing for it. Some burn it in the yard."
Investor 3: "This is wool."
Founder: "This is wool."
Investor 1: "Why are we only hearing about it now?"
Founder: "You've been wearing the competitor for forty years. It had a better marketing budget and no sheep."
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Seed oils were sold as paint for a century before they were sold as food, and they do in you what they do on a window frame.
Linseed oil hardens on a fence post in a few days. Chemists call it a drying oil.
Soybean oil hardens too. So does sunflower, so does safflower. They were sold to the paint trade before they were sold to the kitchen.
Linoleum was invented in 1860 and it is named after linseed oil, because that is what it is, oxidised and pressed into a floor.
The oil does not dry by evaporating. It dries by oxygen attacking the double bonds in its fats and welding them into a hard skin.
The oil in your chip pan and the oil in your body carry the same double bonds, so the same attack runs there, with aldehydes thrown off as it goes.
A painter calls that curing. A biochemist calls it lipid peroxidation. A doctor calls it inflammation and prescribes something for it.
Once the oil is in your fat, it stays about two years, drying from the inside, every time it meets oxygen or sunlight.
Butter never dried a fence post. Tallow never varnished a boat. Saturated fat has no double bond for oxygen to attack, which is why it sits in the pan for a week and why it sat in your great-grandmother's cells for a lifetime.
A fat that sets hard in the air was never a candidate for the inside of an artery.
The flooring industry understood the chemistry in 1860. The heart charity recommended it in April.
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الست الفرنسية المزهولة دي .. عضوة في حزب اليسار الفرنسي وناشطة من اكبر دعاة فتح الهجرة لشعوب شمال افريقيا وبتدافع عنهم كل مايعملوا مصيبة وكارثة وتتهم الأخرين اللي عايزين يوقفوا طوفان الهمج دول بالعنصرية ...
هي عندها محل شيك صغير في مكان راقي وقفت في محلها تحاول تنقذه من النهب والسرقة وعشان هي ناشطة مشهورة
بتقولهم انا فلانة الناشطة بتاعة اللجوء انا معاكوا انا دافعت عنكم وعن دخولكم و بقائكم في فرنسا زقوها وقعوها وداسوا عليها بأقدامهم كويس انها لسه حية
ونهبوا المحل كله الست بقت علي الحديدة خسرت كل كفاح وشغل عمرها في لحظة ..
واقفة مذهولة مش مصدقة ان اللصوص الغوغاء المجرمين البرابرة دول هما اللي طول عمرها بتدافع عنهم وعن انهم يغزوا بلدها ويخربوه
عشان شهرتها في الدفاع عن لاجئين شمال افريقيا كل الميديا الفرنسية امبارح جايبة قصتها وصورتها قدام محلها المنهوب شقي عمرها كله وهي مش مصدقة مدي غبائها اللي وصل فرنسا للخراب والدمار ده كله 😢
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The heart attack was first described in a medical journal in 1912, and the man who described it had trouble finding a second case.
Doctors had been opening chests for 300 years. They had dissected kings, paupers, drunks and the obese, and the blocked coronary artery was a rarity you wrote up.
A young Boston cardiologist started practising in 1911. He later said he did not see his first heart attack patient until 1921, and then they came in a flood.
By 1950 it was the biggest killer in the United States. By 1960, in Britain.
Victorian England ate butter, dripping, suet, bacon and cream, and smoked like a chimney, and the coronary ward did not exist.
The Masai lived on milk, meat and blood, and the doctors who went looking in the 1960s could not find heart disease among them.
So what arrived between the dissecting rooms of 1900 and the coronary care units of 1960?
Crisco launched in 1911. Cottonseed oil hardened into a block that looked like lard.
Margarine followed it into every kitchen.
By 1960 a quarter of American fat came out of a seed press that had not existed in 1900.
The seed oil goes into your blood on the LDL particle. It is the part of the particle that oxidises. The oxidised particle is what the artery wall takes in.
The cholesterol was in the butter for a thousand years and the artery stayed open.
Then the fat changed, and a disease nobody had heard of became the way most people die.
The guideline blames the butter. The butter has an alibi going back to the Bronze Age.
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People ask me why I'm so obsessed with ruminants. I've given it some thought, and my conclusion is that I'm not obsessed enough.
A cow walks onto a wet hillside that grows nothing a human can eat, puts her head down, and comes back with steak, butter, cream and a pair of boots.
She does it with a 150 litre fermentation tank she carries inside her, stocked with more bacteria than there have ever been people, which she feeds, waters and keeps at blood heat herself. Grass goes in. The bacteria take apart the one thing no animal can digest, and she lives on what they make. Then she digests the bacteria as well. Nothing is wasted. Even the fat comes out the far side rebuilt into something stable enough to fry in.
Fuel: rain and sunlight. Emissions: next year's grass. She repairs herself, builds her own replacement every spring, and improves the ground she is standing on while she works. The finest engineers alive have spent billions trying to copy one chamber of her stomach in a steel shed, and so far they have made a paste.
We have leaned on that machine for everything. The word capital comes from cattle, because a herd was the first bank. Domesday Book is written on sheep, and so was every deed in England for 500 years. Ruminants clothed our armies, lit our houses and carried our laws. Civilisation is a thing that happened to people who kept them.
And they are such good company about it.
A sheep remembers fifty faces for two years, which is forty-six more than I manage. A cow has a best friend, and her heart rate drops when that friend is beside her. A goat that cannot solve a problem will turn and look to you for help, as a dog does, and then ignore your advice. Let a herd out onto spring grass after a winter indoors and half a tonne of animal will skip.
They ask for grass, rain, and to be left to get on with it.
After ten thousand years of feeding, dressing and housing us, they will still walk over to the gate to see who you are.
So no, I will not be calming down.
