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In December 1960 the most famous writer in the world was checked into the Mayo Clinic under his own doctor's name, officially for his blood pressure, and given up to fifteen rounds of electric shock to the brain, and when he came out he could no longer write a sentence, and six months later he was dead. Ernest Hemingway was 61. He had the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer, the houses in Cuba and Idaho, and a head that had been battered more times than anyone could count. He had been blown up by a mortar in Italy in 1918, split his skull open in a London car crash in 1944, been thrown from a motorcycle by a shell in France the same year, and walked away from two plane crashes in Africa on consecutive days in 1954, the second leaving fluid leaking from his skull. He drank enormously. By 1960 he was paranoid, convinced the FBI was following him, unable to finish the Paris memoir he had nearly completed. The Mayo psychiatrist, Howard Rome, treated it as depression and gave him the treatment of the day. Electroconvulsive therapy was the modern answer in 1960, quicker than analysis and tidier than the lobotomy it had replaced. Hemingway went home to Ketchum in January. He was worse. Asked to write a single line for a presentation volume for the new President Kennedy, he sat at his desk for a week, could not do it, and wept that it just won't come anymore. In April his wife Mary found him in a state that terrified her, and he was flown back to Rochester for another course of shocks. At the Mayo he told his friend A.E. Hotchner what the treatment had done. His memory was his capital, he said, the thing his whole trade was built on, and they had wiped it and put him out of business. "It was a brilliant cure but we lost the patient." The clinic discharged him at the end of June as improved. On the morning of 2 July 1961, at home in Ketchum, he took his own life. The psychiatrist who has studied his head injuries most closely, Andrew Farah, argues that the man in Rome's office was not simply depressed but living in a brain wrecked by a lifetime of concussions and drink, and that electricity was the last thing it needed. The FBI files released in the 1980s showed he really had been watched for years, which is a hard way to learn that a patient's paranoia was partly a report. None of that got a hearing in 1960. The diagnosis was in the textbook, the treatment was in the textbook, and the patient's complaint that it was taking his mind was in the textbook too, listed as a side effect, expected and temporary. They treated the most observant man in American letters for being wrong about what he was seeing, and the last thing he saw clearly was what they had done to him.
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Let me tell you something absolutely BONKERS from last night’s midterms… Democrat Ericka Lomick just “won” Texas House District 93 despite being a convicted felon who suspended her campaign months ago. She pleaded guilty in 2011 to federal charges including mortgage-fraud conspiracy, bank fraud, and money laundering. Her sentence? 63 months in federal prison. On her candidate paperwork, she checked the box claiming she had not been finally convicted of a felony. After her criminal record surfaced in September, she suspended her campaign and stopped running. But Texas election deadlines had already passed, so her name remained on the ballot for both the regular general election and the special election. And voters still elected her by roughly 51–49%. Here’s the kicker: Under Texas law, a final felony conviction generally makes someone ineligible to hold office unless they’ve been pardoned or had their disabilities released. Meaning she can’t actually serve. Her “victory” simply creates a vacancy and triggers yet another special election. A convicted federal fraudster who quit campaigning still got elected to the Texas House. Let that absolutely sink in.
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Canadian police spent the 1950s and 60s shooting the sled dogs of the Inuit, and a people who had fed themselves off the sea ice for a thousand years ended up queuing at a government store. An Inuit family's dog team was its truck, its tractor and its larder. The dogs pulled the sled out to the seal holes and the caribou grounds and brought the meat home. They could smell a seal's breathing hole under the snow before the hunter could see it. A family without dogs could not reach the animals that fed it. The government wanted the Inuit in settlements, where they could be counted, schooled and housed. Parents were told the family allowance would stop if the children were not in school. And across the Arctic, Mounties and other officials shot the dogs, often in front of their owners. Between 1950 and 1975 the number of Inuit sled dogs fell from more than 10,000 to fewer than 1,000. In 2006 the RCMP investigated itself and concluded it had only been protecting public safety. A judge's inquiry in Quebec found the dogs had been killed to force the Inuit into the settlements. In November 2024 the Canadian government apologised to the Inuit of northern Quebec, conceded that the killings had left families hungry and cut off from the land, and paid C$45 million. The settlements had a store, and the store sold flour, sugar, lard and tea. Nunavut now has the highest rate of household food insecurity in Canada. Nobody ever passed a law telling an Inuk he could not hunt. They shot his dogs, put his children in a school and opened a shop, and let the rest follow. It is never the hunting they ban. It is whatever the hunting depends on.
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Go to hell Deep State traitor!
Over the last two years, Senate Republicans have put up a strong record of accomplishment that’s created safer streets, more money in Americans’ pockets, and new opportunities for families and businesses to get ahead. After fighting Democrat obstruction at every turn, we prevented the largest tax hike in American history, secured our border in an unprecedented way, confirmed the president’s Cabinet at the fastest pace in two decades, and put strong conservative judges on benches across the country faster than we have since the Reagan administration. I’m proud of our team and everything we’ve done for the American people, and I’m looking forward to the important work we have in front of us over the next few months. As we head into 2027, Senate Republicans will not stand idly by as the far-left, socialist wing of the Democrat Party attempts to unwind everything we’ve done. Thankfully, we still have President Trump in the White House, and we’ll work with him to stop the worst impulses of Democrat extremism. We cannot let their fringe positions become the mainstream.
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This man was handed a once-in-a-generation GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY to change the country for the better... ...instead he blocked Trump at every turn, sent the Senate on WEEKS OF VACATION and refused to pass the SAVE Act. What a vile human being.
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Except you didn’t.
Over the last two years, Senate Republicans have put up a strong record of accomplishment that’s created safer streets, more money in Americans’ pockets, and new opportunities for families and businesses to get ahead. After fighting Democrat obstruction at every turn, we prevented the largest tax hike in American history, secured our border in an unprecedented way, confirmed the president’s Cabinet at the fastest pace in two decades, and put strong conservative judges on benches across the country faster than we have since the Reagan administration. I’m proud of our team and everything we’ve done for the American people, and I’m looking forward to the important work we have in front of us over the next few months. As we head into 2027, Senate Republicans will not stand idly by as the far-left, socialist wing of the Democrat Party attempts to unwind everything we’ve done. Thankfully, we still have President Trump in the White House, and we’ll work with him to stop the worst impulses of Democrat extremism. We cannot let their fringe positions become the mainstream.
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What has President Trump done for our country since beginning his second term? Glad you asked 👇 - Signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law on July 4, 2025 - Made the 2017 tax cut rates and brackets permanent - No tax on tips, up to $25K a year through 2028 - No tax on overtime, up to $12.5K ($25K for couples) - Deduction for interest on loans for American-assembled cars - Raised the SALT deduction cap from $10K to $40K - Expanded the child tax credit - Created "Trump Accounts," which give kids a $1,000 starter deposit - Median household income hit a record $87,460 in 2025 - Poverty fell to 10.2%, and child poverty hit a record low of 13.4% - The S&P 500 is up 28.6% and the Nasdaq up 34.6% since the inauguration - GDP grew 2.5% in Q1 2026 and 2.2% in Q2 - The trade deficit is down 10.4% from 2024 - The private sector added more than 1 million jobs - 72,000 manufacturing jobs added in 2026 - Investment pledges include $600B from Apple and $340B from Amazon - "Most Favored Nation" drug-pricing deals and the launch of TrumpRx - Price-cut commitments from major grocery chains - Southern border apprehensions down about 91% - 17 straight months with zero releases of border crossers - Signed the Laken Riley Act, which requires detaining illegal immigrants charged with certain crimes - Signed the HALT Fentanyl Act, which permanently classifies fentanyl-related drugs as Schedule I - Designated Tren de Aragua and MS-13 as terrorist organizations - Net migration was negative for the first time in 50+ years - More than 175,000 visas revoked - About 250 more miles of border barrier completed - Violent crime fell 9.7% in 2025 - Murder fell 18.5%, the biggest one-year drop on record - The 2025 murder rate was the lowest since 1900 - More than 17,000 arrests in the DC crime crackdown - DOJ health care fraud takedowns charged nearly 800 people in more than $21B of alleged fraud in 2025 and 2026 - Nine fugitives from the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list captured - All 20 living Israeli hostages freed under a US-brokered ceasefire - Created a Board of Peace to oversee Gaza's reconstruction - NATO allies committed to spending 5% of GDP on defense by 2035 - Nicolás Maduro captured and now facing charges in New York - Struck Iran's nuclear enrichment sites - Brokered a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan - Brokered a peace deal between the DRC and Rwanda - Brokered a peace deal between Cambodia and Thailand - Brought home more than 100 Americans held abroad - Reached more than 20 new trade deals - The military hit 103% of its 2025 recruiting goals, the best in 15 years - Gave nine military bases back their original names - Record US crude production of more than 13.8M barrels a day - Record LNG exports of more than 100 million metric tons in 2025 - Crude oil imports down about 5.5% - Revoked the EPA's 2009 "endangerment finding" on greenhouse gases - Confirmed 56 federal judges, leaving no appeals court seats vacant - Cut the federal workforce by 328,000 (10.9%) - Signed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, bringing whole milk back to school cafeterias On top of all that, he took a bullet for you and has worked his ass off every single day, including holding 30 rallies in one month ahead of the midterms. Do one thing for him: VOTE TOMORROW AND VOTE RED. 🇺🇸
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I don’t even want their women here. They would impose sharia law on all of us. Deport them all.
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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.
‼️ATTENTION ‼️ OPEN THE FILES!!! This is one of the most powerful videos I've seen, and due to what is happening right now, I am launching it. The people of the Republic of Korea NEED THE USA RIGHT NOW. Get this video in to the 10+M view count. Now is the time we all must come together for each other, regardless of distance, or Nation, to stand against our COMMON ENEMY of Election Fraud. This is life and death for millions...tens of millions...possibly hundreds of millions around this planet. There is NOTHING more important right now than to stamp this fraud out once and for all for ALL OF US. Make our collective voices heard right now by making sure everyone you know sees this. I will also post a vimeo link below for you to share on other platforms.
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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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This is one of the best roasts I've seen in awhile.
Dammmmmmmmmmmmmm Greg destroys one trick pony Barry Soreto
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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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