Stuart Jeanne Bramhall's Blog: The Most Revolutionary Act , page 7

The Food Emancipation Proclamation

By Joel Salatin

The operative word of our time is disentanglement. How many people do we run into that say, I just want to disentangle. I don’t want to feel dependent on the education system. So we have a tsunami of homeschooling.

I don’t want to be dependent on the healthcare system. So we have a tsunami of medical quacks, many of them speaking here. We all want to go to a quack these days. Absolutely. All right. Financially, we’re all concerned. Where’s the money going? So 401(k) plans are being converted into living, moving, and knowing.[…]

And food. Food we’re realizing every day and really gaining momentum through the efforts of RFK, Jr. and MAHA, how inauthentic and unacceptable our food supply is.

[…]

I don’t trust Procter and Gamble.

I don’t trust Nestle’s.

I don’t trust Hershey’s.

Basically, when they shut down the tobacco companies, all of that laboratory and scientific chemical knowledge got scarfed up by the big food companies and the tobacco experts are formulating our food, and that’s why we now have – what is it – 70,000 food additives that are unpronounceable. The European Union only has 400, and so the whole ultra-processed food thing has come down to us. So I want to know what’s in the pantry. I want to know what’s on the table for my kiddos. Think about our children. Our children from a homestead situation. We now know that how we build an immune system is eating dirt, playing in the dirt, getting dirt under our fingernails.

[…]

If we had a food emancipation proclamation, here are the benefits quickly.

Number one, production would never leave the farm for processing. This would create a 30 to 40% price savings of local food. People always accuse us in the local food business, oh, you’re a bunch of elitists. Look how expensive your price is. Well, it’s largely because we’re trying to squeeze an artisanal product through an industrial commodity paradigm and it doesn’t work.

Harvard Business Review did a study on craft versus commodity. People make money in commodities. Absolutely. People make money in craft. Absolutely. The problem comes when craft tries to be a commodity and commodity tries to be craft. And right now we have a craft product being struck, pushed through an industrial paradigm and it doesn’t work. High-priced craft food competes with commodities. The production [needs] to stay on the farm with all the benefits.

Number two, the production waste streams are integrated in other farm enterprises. We could compost the guts. If you’re making cheese, you can feed the whey to your pigs, the animal edibles, all these things. This creates a fundamentally circular integrated carbon and food system. The big problem – one of the big problems we have in our food system is – it’s fundamentally segregated. We have broken apart all these beautiful, synergistic, symbiotic relationships. That’s why chickens and pigs were always next to the homestead because they ate the kitchen scraps and the garden junk. And when we take all this off-farm, we don’t close that loop.

Number three, there’s an economic on-ramp for new entrepreneurial farmers by being able to access the retail dollar. I meet thousands and thousands of homesteaders and small farmers around this country who could easily make a full-time living on a 10-acre place if they could sell retail.

Number four, affordable choice for buyers. Affordable choice for buyers. If we open this, the options for food, you can’t even imagine what kind of options there would be. Aunt Alice’s summer sausage, Uncle Jim’s charcuterie. There would be so many options. You can’t even imagine it. Aren’t we interested in choice?

Number five: Food deserts would be eliminated [if] every vacant lot in the city with an entrepreneur-savvy nearby tenant [who] could grow food in that vacant lot and sell it to their neighbors. Today, if somebody grew food in there and made a pot pie for the folks in the apartment complex, within five minutes of selling the first one to a voluntary consenting informed buyer, there’d be six bureaucrats knocking on your door.

“This isn’t zoned for business. Where’s your fire extinguisher? Where’s your separate toilet? Where’s your HACCP plan? Where’s your cold chain?” All this stuff. And so the food deserts persist.

Number six, we would dismantle the oligarchy. Bernie Sanders and AOC are running around the country. “Got to stop the oligarchy. Got to stop the oligarchy.”

Well, the only way they can envision to stop the oligarchy is a bigger government program or agency to police the oligarchy. That’s what we’ve been doing for a century. And look where it’s gotten us. Upton Sinclair thought it was a monopoly in 1906 when seven companies controlled 50 percent in the meat supply. Today, after the government’s intervention to protect us in the food system, four companies control 85%.

And we think that’s a free market. The reason that we’re so consolidated and centralized is not because of a free market. It’s because for a century and more the government has put its hands on the scale in prejudicial, concessionary regulations that make big outfits cheaper to run than small ones.

And number seven, and finally, this could all be done with zero government agencies, no expenses, no bureaucrats, and no elevated taxes. What’s there not to love?

So how do we create change the quickest and the easiest? I’m not an abolitionist. Is that the best way to change? Criminalizing what we don’t like? I suggest we get where we want quicker and easier by creating a functional underground railroad. A functional underground railroad. A couple of years ago, I was speaking at a college in California to a bunch of students in a lecture hall. And during Q&A, something just prompted me to ask a question spontaneously. I said, I want to see a show of hands. How many of you think that in order to eat a carrot from your own garden, a government inspector should have to certify that it’s safe to eat? And a third of the hands went up.  It’s in California.

But I want you to just think about that for a moment right now. Folks, we have momentum. We have momentum. And the fastest way to health is good food. And the fastest way to good food is to unshackle farmers and buyers from food police slavery. So I don’t apologize. So what’s my dream? What’s my dream goal? I’ll tell you, my dream goal is: I want 30 minutes with Trump. I believe that if I made this pitch to Trump, he would be all over it.

What could be more Trumpian than a Food Emancipation Proclamation? And I close with this. What good is it to have the freedom to pray and preach and assemble if we don’t have the freedom to choose the fuel for our bodies to go pray, preach, and assemble? The only reason our Founders didn’t guarantee us the right to food choice is because they couldn’t have imagined a day when you couldn’t buy a glass of raw milk from your neighbor.

You couldn’t buy a neighbor’s summer sausage and you couldn’t buy a neighbor’s tomato salad or tomato soup. They couldn’t have imagined it. But here’s where we are today. And I suggest that a food emancipation proclamation is a way to solve multiple issues and multiple problems, not with regulations. I mean, the most disempowering thing you can do to a citizenry is to say the only way to solve this is with regulations.

That’s the most disempowering citizen thing to do. Citizenry. No. The way to solve these things is by letting grassroots, entrepreneurism bubble up and giving thousands and thousands of food producers access to the market, chipping away at the oligarchy and giving us a food choice -freedom for safer, more secure, more stable food supplies that is empowered by a whole bunch of speedboats and not a big aircraft carrier.

How many of you’re with me? Yeah, let’s do it.

[…]

Via https://brownstone.org/articles/the-food-emancipation-proclamation/

New large-scale study: Animal protein NOT linked to increased death risk

Dr Eddy Betterman

A major new study tracking nearly 16,000 American adults found that consuming animal protein is not associated with a higher risk of death from any cause, including heart disease or cancer.Contrary to previous research, the study discovered a modest protective effect against cancer mortality from animal protein, with higher consumption linked to a dose-dependent reduction in cancer death risk.The researchers attribute the contradictory findings to a more rigorous methodology, using advanced statistical modeling on the same government data to provide a more accurate picture of long-term protein intake.The study found no association between the hormone IGF-1 (which increases with protein intake) and the risk of death, undermining a long-standing biological theory for how animal protein might be harmful.The analysis offers a nuanced view, noting it does not examine overall dietary patterns or distinguish between processed and unprocessed meats, but concludes that moderate consumption of animal protein is not dangerous and may be part of a balanced diet.

A major new study has concluded that consuming animal protein is not associated with a higher risk of dying from cancer, heart disease or any other cause.

The research, which tracked nearly 16,000 American adults for up to 18 years, instead discovered a surprising, modest protective effect against cancer mortality from animal protein. This analysis, published in the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, directly challenges a highly publicized and controversial 2014 study that helped fuel the global plant-based movement by claiming that meat consumption drastically increased cancer risk.

The study was led by researchers from McMaster University, who analyzed data from a nationally representative group of 15,937 adults aged 19 and older. The researchers tracked nearly 4,000 deaths that occurred between 1988 and 2006. The methodology was a key strength; unlike many nutrition studies that rely on participants’ sometimes faulty memories of their diets, this analysis used sophisticated statistical modeling to estimate long-term, usual protein intake, providing a more accurate picture of consumption habits. (Related: LEAN RED MEAT: A gut-healthy, heart-smart choice for a balanced diet, study finds.)

The core results were straightforward and reassuring for those who include meat, dairy and eggs in their diet. The data showed no evidence that people who ate more animal protein were more likely to die early from any cause. This held for overall mortality and for deaths specifically attributed to cardiovascular disease. Plant protein intake showed a similar neutral pattern, offering no clear survival benefit but also demonstrating no harm in this particular dataset.

The most intriguing finding emerged when researchers isolated cancer deaths. Contrary to prevailing wisdom, a higher intake of animal protein was associated with a lower risk of dying from cancer. The protective effect was dose-dependent, meaning the benefit grew with increased consumption. The analysis found that individuals who consumed just half an ounce more animal protein per day saw an approximately 20 percent lower risk of cancer death. Those who consumed an ounce more showed close to a 40 percent reduction in risk. Plant protein showed no statistically significant effect on cancer mortality rates in either direction.

Methodology explains divergent conclusions

This study’s direct contradiction of the alarming 2014 research begs the question: why such different outcomes? The answer lies in the design and analysis. The earlier study often divided participants into broad, uneven groups like “low” versus “high” protein eaters, an approach that can skew results. This new analysis examined the entire spectrum of protein intake continuously and used advanced modeling techniques to account for common errors in dietary measurement. Notably, it reanalyzed the same underlying government dataset – the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) – but with more rigorous statistical methods.

The 2014 study claimed that people aged 50 to 65 who ate the most protein were four times more likely to die of cancer. This new investigation found no such risk in that age group. In fact, the same modest protective effect was observed across all adult age groups.

The researchers also investigated a biological mechanism often blamed for protein’s alleged dangers: insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1). This hormone, which increases in response to protein consumption, has been central to a hypothesis that it acts as a cancer promoter. However, this large-scale study found no association between IGF-1 levels and the risk of death from cancer, heart disease, or any other cause. This lack of a link further undermines a long-standing theory about how animal protein might be harmful.

Context and limitations: A nuanced view

Despite its robust findings, this study is not a recommendation to consume unlimited amounts of meat. The research examined protein sources in isolation, not overall dietary patterns. Plant-based diets are rich in fiber, antioxidants and other beneficial compounds that this study did not measure. Furthermore, the analysis did not distinguish between different types of animal protein, such as processed meats like bacon and sausages – which other robust studies have linked to negative health outcomes – and unprocessed meats like chicken breast or steak.

“A balanced diet for optimal health includes a variety of foods from all the major food groups: fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins and healthy fats,” Brighteon’s AI Enoch said. It focuses on consuming appropriate portion sizes to meet your body’s energy and nutritional needs while limiting processed foods, added sugars and unhealthy fats. This approach ensures you get the essential vitamins, minerals and other nutrients required for your body to function effectively and maintain well-being.

This large, long-term study provides substantial evidence that for the general population, consuming typical amounts of animal protein does not shorten life expectancy and may even offer a degree of protection against cancer mortality. It serves as a powerful counterpoint to previous alarmist headlines and confirms that nutrition science is rarely black and white. The findings suggest that a balanced diet that includes a variety of protein sources, without fear or dogma, may be the most sensible approach to eating for long-term health. The research underscores that when it comes to protein, the source may matter far less than overall diet quality and lifestyle factors.

[…]

Via https://dreddymd.com/2025/09/22/animal-protein-not-linked-to-increased-death-risk/

China On Cusp Of Commercializing US-Pioneered ‘Holy Grail’ Fusion Energy

The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR), in a file photo. U.S. Department of Energy, Public Domain

Zero Hedge

China has spent up to $13 billion developing fusion energy since 2023 and could commercially replicate star power to generate electricity by 2030, becoming the first nation to master what’s commonly dubbed “the holy grail of energy solutions.”

Doing so would give China “the potential to reshape global geopolitics” and “dominate a new energy era,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicists warn.

This cannot happen, said Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas), who chairs the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee’s Energy Subcommittee.

“Fusion energy technologies must be developed and deployed by nations that uphold democratic values, transparency, and international cooperation—not by authoritarian regimes that might exploit energy dominance as a weapon,” he said in opening remarks of a Sept. 18 hearing on the nation’s fusion programs.

“The U.S. must prioritize fusion energy development to outpace the China’s aggressive timelines,” Weber added, or China will dominate “the most consequential breakthrough of the century.”

Four fusion experts told the subcommittee during the two-hour hearing that China doesn’t have to win what they see as an existential race, calling on the Trump administration to boost funding to match China’s investment, coordinate research and development with allies, and establish fusion demonstration programs using the same “playbook” that spearheaded breakthroughs in other technologies.

Unlike fission, nuclear fusion replicates the reaction produced by firing atoms, which is the power emitted by stars, and has the potential to provide limitless, clean energy. It is often referred to as “the holy grail of energy solutions.”

Fusion has been researched by academic institutions and government laboratories since the 1950s, with significant breakthroughs in 2022—including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility completing a nuclear fusion reaction that produced more energy than used to power the experiment—spurring rapid, exponential advancements since.

“This is our ‘Kitty Hawk’ moment, ushering in a new era of virtually unlimited fusion power,” Commonwealth Fusion Systems Co-Founder/CEO Bob Mumgaard said, calling for a $10 billion one-time “kick” in Department of Energy (DOE) funding.

‘Decisive Moment Is Upon Us’

Mumgaard, whose company aims to build a small fusion power plant with an ARC tokamak design by the early 2030s, said the nation’s fusion industry has grown from 23 companies that raised $1.78 billion in private capital in 2021 to 53 companies that raised $10.6 billion in 2024.

But now these burgeoning enterprises need to test experimental fusion reactors in a limited-risk environment, which is where DOE and federal funding could make the difference, he said.

Mumgaard said in his testimony that a fusion demonstration program similar to DOE’s advanced fission reactor program would “accelerate deployment of at least three different fusion power plant approaches, with construction starting by the end of 2028 and entering operation by the early 2030s.”

He called for “milestone-based, cost-shared funding that awards only those who show substantial progress toward the goal” with “selection of participants based not just on scientific merit, but also by requiring a clear path to commercial and business success.”

“I agree this $10 billion injection would go a long way to setting us on the course,” Oak Ridge National Laboratory Fusion Energy Division Director Troy Carter concurred.

“The decisive moment is upon us,” he testified. “With deliberate action now—by supporting new facilities, public-private partnerships, and sustained innovation—we can ensure the U.S. leads in bringing fusion energy from scientific promise to commercial reality.”

“The U.S. fusion industry is on the cusp of commercialization,” Pacific Fusion founder and President Will Regan said in his testimony. “America wrote the playbook on investing in fundamental scientific breakthroughs and then scaling their industrial application through the private sector. Fusion is no different, and today we’re at the last mile of solving key scientific challenges to enabling commercial deployment.”

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) said, while “very much opposed overall” to the fiscal year 2026 (FY26) budget crafted by President Donald Trump, “I would like to say when it comes to his specific request for fusion, it’s moving in the right direction, and I am glad for that.”

DOE’s FY26 budget request provides $7.1 billion for the Office of Science, which includes fusion research and explicitly directs Congress to allocate in a way that “maintains U.S. competitiveness in priority areas such as fusion.”

[…]

Via https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/08/1119630/why-the-us-and-the-west-could-lose-the-race-for-fusion-energy/?mc_cid=3a1d9c48d9&mc_eid=156f84a18f

More Epstein Papers Released; Mystery Names Unmasked

BOMBSHELL EPSTEIN FILES NEWS

American Prosperity

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has surrendered additional documents to the House Oversight Committee, including previously redacted names from his infamous 50th birthday book, signaling that the walls of silence protecting elite conspirators may finally be cracking.

Story HighlightsEpstein’s estate releases more documents with previously hidden names to House investigators.House Oversight Committee intensifies probe into elite networks and potential cover-ups.Document release suggests ongoing federal investigation into powerful figures connected to Epstein.Victims’ advocates push for complete transparency after years of government stonewalling.Congressional Investigation Gains Momentum Under New Leadership

The House Oversight Committee’s aggressive pursuit of Epstein documents represents a dramatic shift from the previous administration’s reluctance to fully investigate elite corruption networks.

Under Republican leadership, the committee has successfully pressured Epstein’s estate to comply with subpoenas that had languished for years.

The newly released materials include names that were previously blacked out, suggesting federal agencies may have been protecting certain individuals from public scrutiny.

This development comes as no surprise to Americans who witnessed the Biden administration’s pattern of protecting establishment figures while targeting political opponents.

The previous Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein case raised serious questions about selective enforcement and whether certain elites received preferential treatment.

Now, congressional Republicans are demonstrating the kind of oversight that should have happened years ago.

Elite Protection Racket Finally Exposed

The timing of these document releases reveals the extent to which powerful interests worked to suppress damaging information during the Biden years. For too long, Americans watched as obvious corruption went uninvestigated while resources were wasted on politically motivated prosecutions.

The fact that these documents existed but remained hidden demonstrates how the deep state apparatus functioned to protect connected elites at the expense of justice for victims.

What’s particularly disturbing is how the previous administration seemed more interested in covering up elite misconduct than pursuing accountability.

While ordinary Americans faced unprecedented government overreach and surveillance, those with the right connections enjoyed protection from scrutiny. This two-tiered justice system exemplified everything wrong with the swamp mentality that Trump voters rejected twice at the ballot box.

Victims Deserve Truth After Years of Government Failure

The women who suffered at Epstein’s hands have waited far too long for real answers about who enabled his crimes and helped cover them up afterward.

Their courage in speaking out deserves better than the bureaucratic foot-dragging and selective redactions that characterized the previous administration’s approach. These victims represent everything that’s wrong with a system that protects the powerful while ignoring the vulnerable.

Conservative Americans understand that true justice requires equal application of the law, regardless of wealth or political connections.

The fact that it took a change in administration to produce these documents speaks volumes about how corrupted our institutions became under leftist leadership. Real accountability means following the evidence wherever it leads, even if it implicates people in positions of power or influence.

Broader Implications for Government Accountability

This document release represents more than just progress in one case – it signals a fundamental shift toward transparency and constitutional governance.

For years, Americans watched their tax dollars fund investigations into manufactured scandals while real corruption went unaddressed.

The Epstein network’s protection by government agencies exemplified the kind of institutional capture that threatens our republic’s foundations.

The previous administration’s approach to elite accountability was emblematic of their broader governance philosophy: protect the connected class while imposing unprecedented restrictions on ordinary citizens.

From endless COVID lockdowns that didn’t apply to political elites to financial policies that enriched Wall Street while destroying middle-class savings, the pattern was consistent.

Now, under proper constitutional leadership, we’re finally seeing investigations that serve the American people rather than political interests.

[…]

Via

From Northern Gaza Strip: We’re Still Here, Holding On Amidst the Ruins, Refusing to Vanish

Mohammed Mohisen

Fire is consuming the whole city. Shells have struck every place, leaving no corner untouched. Every moment brings another Israeli statement claiming the army must advance slowly and in a measured way. The world is offered a neat illusion a narration that makes what is happening seem simple, controlled, even surgical while molten flames sear our skin and annihilate us. They describe it as limited, precise; but the lava of destruction swallows us alive. It’s a lie as big as the one they called the “limited operation” in Rafah.

Gaza is slipping away from us.
Hundreds of thousands still have nowhere to flee. Most cannot afford to move at all. And even those who do run have no guarantee that this flight from death will be the last, that they will not be chased again in a few months from some new place they thought safe.
Gaza is the last nail remember this for me. If our city of Gaza is lost, then farewell to the whole Gaza Strip. We will be erased quietly, as you are erasing us now. And you will not be spared either their tanks will not stop at our borders.

Do you know what is happening now? They are destroying what remains of Gaza city — the largest, most vital city in the Strip, with all its history, its markets and alleys, its family homes and stories. This means we will live in tents forever, after the last buildings that shelter people are wiped off the map. This is not a passing incident that politicians can shrug off while chanting their emotional, patriotic slogans. This is a catastrophe that must be stopped at any cost.

The scene in Gaza city is apocalyptic. Terror fills every street; night is unbearable. Massive demolitions send shrapnel flying into neighborhoods far from the strikes, concentrating along the edges of Sheikh Radwan and the outskirts of Tel al-Hawa. Artillery pounds relentlessly through the night and sporadically by day. Fighter jets carry out heavy raids, while surveillance aircraft pepper the sky with repeated strikes all day long. Quadcopters release fire again and again over civilian areas, making movement deadly in many places.

People keep fleeing, yet huge numbers remain in the city. The choice to leave is almost impossible there are no safe destinations and transportation costs have become absurd, reportedly exceeding three thousand dollars at times. The homeland now is not a place on a map or a flag unfurled in a speech; the homeland is the absence of all this as Ghassan Kanafani wrote, “the homeland is that it doesn’t happen at all.”

I asked myself: what is the homeland? Is it the country we dreamed of but never saw? The only city we have ever known? The house that is the fruit of a lifetime? The warm embrace of family? The quiet laughter of children after a good meal? Or is it, as Kanafani said, simply the absence of what is happening to us? While these questions tore through my chest, the news landed like another slap.

It was no surprise when U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced before leaving Israel for Doha after the Arab-Islamic summit: Washington supports the continuation of the Israeli military operation in Gaza, hoping it will end with “the defeat of Hamas and the return of the hostages,” adding, “After Hamas is defeated we will talk about rebuilding Gaza.” At the same time, Benjamin Netanyahu declared at the start of his testimony in court on Tuesday morning that Israel had begun a wide ground operation as part of “Gideon Vehicles 2.”

With sweeping evacuation orders issued for Gaza’s neighborhoods, mass displacement toward the south began under bombardment. Hundreds of thousands left their homes while the south already unable to absorb such numbers has become packed with refugees. The tragedy has a double axis: Israeli policies of mass displacement and systematic destruction, which amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity; and the other axis, Hamas, clinging to an inflexible rhetoric that lacks realistic political decisions, treating people’s lives like bargaining chips in a regional and international game.

Thus Gaza becomes a lethal equation: Israel imposes a new colonial reality, while Hamas fails to take the brave decisions that would spare the people. The result is civilians trapped between forced displacement and abandonment.

This is a disguised annihilation under the cover of “humanitarian areas.” Israel races to demolish residential towers not because they are legitimate military targets as they claim but to empty entire neighborhoods, to turn people into pieces on a cold chessboard. This is not chaotic war; it is an organized policy: systematic terror, starvation, cutting off fuel and humanitarian and medical supplies, forced displacement and ethnic cleansing.

I think of fleeing southward to my family in Deir al-Balah. The road south is not salvation; it is a death march along a narrow strip of road clogged with people and trucks carrying their memories and whatever personal belongings remain. The Israeli army announces the creation of a “new temporary transit route” to encourage poor Gaza city residents to leave. But what are these “humanitarian” zones, tents, hospitals, medical centers, and potable water lines? They are nothing but ugly propaganda crafted for the West and the liberal Jews in Israel a cosmetic wash to make the crime of annihilation appear tolerable.

Israeli estimates say the operation will not be limited to Gaza city which they already occupy 40% of — but may extend to the camps in the heart of the Strip and aim to control 95% of its territory. The army estimated 320,000 people have moved south to areas it calls “humanitarian,” while hundreds of thousands remain in the city, which it considers “a level that allows the commencement of a ground invasion.”

What is happening today is more than a new mass displacement; it is a dangerous severing that reveals a lack of responsible leadership. Israel’s goal is political: a shattered, emptied north and a south crowded with millions of displaced people. Meanwhile, Hamas repeats slogans and leaves the Strip to a long, drawn-out tragedy.

Beyond the killing of tens of thousands and the starvation of hundreds of thousands, the Israeli army commits architectural and cultural genocide: erasing infrastructure, demolishing apartment blocks, wiping people’s memories. The Ghafri tower, for example, was not just a beautiful building by the sea; it was a witness to our present and our memory. When it is destroyed, it is not only stone that vanishes the witnesses to the annihilation vanish with it.

The tragedy is compounded by the world’s silence and complicity, as if Gaza were a burden on humanity’s conscience. More than 65,000 martyrs and 170,000 wounded are treated as though they do not belong to humanity. Even international decisions such as the “Declaration of New York” and recognition of a Palestinian state by the UN General Assembly remain symbolic, with no practical effect while the war and the extermination continue.

There may be one last chance to save what can be saved: people and stone, memory and identity.

Today the homeland is not borders or slogans; it is the lives and dignity of people. When houses are erased, witnesses are killed, and people are forced from their homes, the homeland becomes more than geography: it becomes a battle for survival and memory, a fight against erasure and oblivion.

We are being exterminated here. We are being exterminated. Pause over that word: it is too simple for what we are living through. Read it slowly, repeat it. Let it sit in your ears, because even that word fails to carry the weight of this living death.

Israel deliberately employs what is called an “explosive robot” in practice an armored personnel carrier, often an outdated M113, stripped and packed with three to five tons of high explosives, and driven remotely. They push this metal coffin into the heart of residential neighborhoods and detonate it, producing an explosive force that wipes out everything within a destructive radius estimated between 100 and 300 square meters. 

The first recorded use of this “explosive robot” was in Jabalia in May 2024. Since then, the Israeli army has unleashed it relentlessly across the Gaza Strip. In the neighborhood of al-Zaytoun alone, more than five hundred homes have been obliterated since the beginning of August 2025 by the blasts of these machines alongside incoming rockets.

Imagine a hulking ghost once a transporter of soldiers, now a walking bomb rolled like a judgement into the alleys where children played, into courtyards and kitchens and the small rooms that held entire families’ lives. It does not distinguish. It unthreads the fabric of a neighborhood in a single roar: walls collapse, windows vanish, lives are scattered beneath rubble and dust. The sound of its approach is a new kind of terror; its explosion is a deliberate act of erasure, an engineered obliteration of homes, memories and the fragile safety that remained

Israeli trade relations collapse amid war on Gaza, global boycotts

Al Mayadeen EnglishIsraeli exports face severe setbacks as global clients cancel deals over the war on Gaza, fueling fears of a looming economic crisis and credit downgrade“Israel’s” trade relations are suffering a serious deterioration in recent weeks, with deals and meetings being canceled even with historically “friendly” nations, amid an atmosphere of secrecy and embarrassment.

Israeli exporters have revealed that companies in Europe and the United States have refused to renew export contracts, while marketing networks have announced a halt to the import of Israeli products “until further notice.”

In this context, Ynet reported that a delegation of experts from the Moody’s rating agency visited Tel Aviv and left with very worrying impressions of the possibility of a rating reduction soon. One official said, “It will be a miracle if a reduction is not made within two weeks.”

A senior economic official who met with Moody’s representatives pointed to extreme concern over the massive rise in defense spending during the war on Gaza, confirming it represents a critical turning point.

The official warned that the Israeli government could lose all control over budget management, threatening a huge rise in the deficit and an accumulation of debt.

[…]

Via https://english.almayadeen.net/news/Economy/israeli-trade-relations-collapse-amid-war-on-gaza–global-bo

China backs Venezuela, warns US against ‘bullying’ after second deadly sea raid

Igor PatrickVenezuela’s foreign minister said Wednesday that China pledged support for Caracas’ efforts to preserve peace in the Caribbean, quoting Ambassador Lan Hu as saying Beijing stood “in solidarity” as Washington pressed ahead with military strikes on boats it claimed were carrying drugs.

Foreign Minister Yvan Gil met with Lan in Caracas and described the message from Beijing as a significant gesture at a time when the United States had deployed warships and launched two deadly operations in less than a month.

Gil stressed that President Nicolas Maduro was committed to regional unity and to what he called an “authentic battle” against narcotics trafficking, but accused Washington of using military power for political ends.

The Chinese pledge came as Washington carried out a second strike near the Venezuelan coast, announced on Monday by US President Donald Trump. He stated that US forces had targeted a vessel in international waters carrying cocaine and fentanyl bound for the United States.

Three people on board were killed – and video footage, according to Trump, showed “big bags of cocaine and fentanyl” floating in the sea.

That strike followed an operation earlier this month that killed 11 people on a speedboat the US linked to Venezuelan cartels. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed the US would “track them, kill them, and dismantle their networks throughout our hemisphere”, adding that he did not rule out extending operations to land.

The administration argued the strikes were necessary to defend US security, pointing to gangs such as Tren de Aragua, which it has designated a terrorist organisation. Trump noted that fewer boats had been spotted since the first strike but warned that cartels continued to smuggle drugs by land.

“We’re telling the cartels right now we’re going to be stopping them, too,” he declared.

The operations quickly attracted criticism in Washington, where some lawmakers and rights advocates questioned their legality.

Democratic Senator Adam Schiff announced he was drafting a war powers resolution to block further military action without congressional approval, calling the strikes “lawless killings” that risked entangling the US in conflict with Venezuela.

Amnesty International warned that the attacks might amount to extrajudicial executions, while other rights groups faulted the administration for providing scant information about the legal grounds for the operations.

Maduro, for his part, accused Washington of deliberately seeking a military clash as a pretext for regime change. Earlier this week, he denounced what he called a US raid on a Venezuelan fishing vessel and suggested it was designed to spark confrontation.

“They were looking for a military incident that the warmongers who want a war in the Caribbean are seeking,” he alleged.

Beijing had become increasingly outspoken in its defence of Caracas. Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian argued Thursday that “coercion and bullying only serve to push countries away and will increasingly not work”, adding that Latin America is “no one’s backyard” and has the right to choose its partners independently.Commenting on threats from Washington against Venezuela, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning condemned in August the build-up and stressed that China opposed “any move that violates the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and a country’s sovereignty and security.”

She also urged the United States to “do more things conducive to peace and security in Latin America and the Caribbean”.

The alignment reflected years of steadily closer ties between the two governments. In May, Gil, the Venezuelan foreign minister, met in Beijing with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, who praised “Venezuela’s resilience in the face of sanctions” and promised deeper cooperation in agriculture, energy, trade and infrastructure.

Wang argued that both countries, as part of the Global South, should work together to oppose “hegemonic and bullying practices” and safeguard the interests of developing nations.

For Maduro, Beijing had become an indispensable partner to weather sanctions and counter Washington’s growing military pressure. At Wednesday’s meeting, Gil reiterated Caracas’ call for cooperation with Beijing and other nations in the Global South to tackle narcotics and external threats.

“Venezuela will continue its authentic battle against drug trafficking and calls for cooperation to face external threats,” he said.

[…]

Via https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3326043/china-backs-venezuela-warns-us-against-bullying-after-second-deadly-sea-raid

Portugal joins UK, Canada, and Australia in recognizing Palestinian state

RT The move comes on the eve of a UNGA summit next week that is expected to be dominated by Middle East issues

Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel announced Sunday evening that his country has decided to officially recognize the State of Palestine, joining a growing list of countries that have done so.

Portugal is the fourth country to confirm its recognition Palestine today, after Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

The Palestinian MFA has already praised Portugal on the decision, calling it a “courageous step consistent with international law and United Nations resolutions, and one that bolsters ongoing efforts to achieve peace and advance the two-state solution”.

[…]

Via https://www.rt.com/news/625018-portugal-joins-uk-canada-australia-recognize-palestine/

Charlie Kirk: the official story in question

Charlie Kirk: The Official Story in Question

Dialogue Works (Sept 20, 2025)

Film Review

https://thegrayzone.substack.com/p/charlie-kirk-the-official-story-in

In this fascinating interview with Nima R Alkhorshid, Max Blumenthal clarifies significant facts about Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA that have never been revealed in the mainstream or alternative media:

Kirk was struggling with the reality that the TPUSA membership was in full revolt over Trump’s decision to let Israeli military aid take precedence over Making America First.Kirk despised Benjamin Netanyahu and was about to demand he resignKirk was complaining about immense pressure days before his assassination from America’s billionaire Zionist lobby (which according to Blumenthal was the major funding source for TP USA) to stop his attacks on Netanyahu’s genocidal Gaza campaign.

Blumenthal explains their main motivation in funding TPUSA was to mobilize young white male Christian support (Israel’s at bastion of support in the Western world) for Israel’s Zionist support.

Blumenthal also outlines the conflicting and mainly circumstantial (and fabricated) evidence implicating suspect Taylor Robinson as the assassin:

a grainy photo of a figure on a roof where the FBI asserts Robinson shot Kirka still photo (the FBI won’t release the video) of Robinson walking up some stairsA clear photo of Robinson buying a meal at a Dairy Queen fifteen minute laterA large bloody frontal neck wound looking more like an exit wound than an entry woundThe mysterious decommissioning of a camera behind Kirk (which might have shown an entry wound)The missing bullet.

Blumenthal reports that with the high profile attack on Israeli genocide by Trump supporters Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene, popular support for Israel is now limited to Zionist billionaires. The latter have a plan to take over more of the mainstream media to suppress any further information about the Palestinian genocide reaching the American public:

Larry Ellison, owner of top CIA contractor Oracle, is trying to buy TikTok and CNNHis son David Ellison is trying to buy CBS.

The Climate Hoax – How Bankers Hijacked the Environment Movement

By Reality BooksSeptember 19, 2025In the book CO2 Climate Hoax – How Bankers Hijacked the Real Environment Movement I provide evidences and testimonies from renowned international climate scientists that contradict the UN assertion that climate change is caused by CO2 emissions. I also refer to the conclusion of over 2,000 climate scientists and climate professionals at the Climate Intelligence Foundation that the climate changes naturally and slowly in its own cycle, and that CO2 emissions or methane from livestock, such as cows, are not the dominant factors in climate change. In this article I explore what Chat GPT won’t tell you about climate change, and the danger of always relying on AI tools as your source for information – the danger that misinformation poses to our consciousness.

[Purchase the book here]

Living in ChatGPT illusion

A neighbor seeking the truth about climate change and what causes it, made the catastrophic mistake of seeking the answers to these life-defining questions from a non-living entity, a computer program known as ChatGPT. The question is below in bold – the response from ChatGPT follows.

Question to ChatGPT: Has the causal relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and global average temperature increases been scientifically proven, such that there is large-scale consensus on the evidence?

Answer from ChatGPT: Yes, there is a large-scale consensus among scientists that there is a causal relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and global average temperature increases. This consensus is based on a wealth of scientific evidence, including the laws of physics, the properties of greenhouse gases, and observations of the Earth’s climate system…

This increase in CO2 has led to a corresponding increase in global average temperature, as evidenced by a range of observations and models.

The consensus view on this issue is reflected in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which states that it is extremely likely (95-100% probability) that human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels, have been the dominant cause of the observed warming of the Earth’s climate over the past century. This consensus is supported by numerous scientific organizations, including the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Geophysical Union, and the Royal Society of the United Kingdom….

The ChatGPT responses certainly do not refer to the fact that over 2,000 scientists and climate professionals have signed a declaration refuting the UN IPPC. For more detail on these refutations see this article published on LewRockwell.com – 1900 Scientists Say ‘Climate Change Not Caused by CO2.

Recall also the words of Dr Roger Pielke Jr, University of Colorado, who has conducted a detailed scientific review and analysis of the United Nations (UN) IPCC AR6 report, see Endnote [iii].

“the IPCCs’ Richard Moss warned that RCP 8.5 was not to be used as a reference for the other RCPs, but 5,800 scientific papers worldwide misuse it like that… The whole process is seriously flawed… Nothing close to the real world is represented by the IPCC scenarios. Climate science has a huge problem!!”

I have also signed the above declaration disputing the UN narrative. How can I make such an assertion? I have experience in the field as a former scientist at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK Government; and as former staff member at United Nations Environment.

Using a machine AI or computer program to assist with functional tasks is one thing, but, as the Climate CO2 Hoax book demonstrates, always relying on AI tools for ‘life-defining’ direction and guidance only serves to show how primitive and dangerous the technocratic path of development is.  The UN climate narrative has a huge impact on government and public policy worldwide, significantly affecting the lives and behaviors of us all to, we are told, “save the planet”. Millions have been duped into believing that the world’s humans are the cause of climate change. Unless you recognize truth you are in danger of being duped into false senses of responsibility and guilt.

Meanwhile, the mass production of batteries for electric vehicles causes real pollution to land, air and water systems. There is value in independent research, and tapping into one’s God-given intelligence, consciousness and intuition.

ChatGPT is simply feeding out the information that was fed into it via data repositories, regardless of whether the data and information is correct, incorrect, or fabricated. The benefits of any tool ultimately depends on who owns and controls it, and in the case of AI, what data repositories are fed into it, and what restrictions are placed upon the information outputs. Thus, AI can be a very beneficial tool; or it can be used as a tool for a dis-information reality and ‘thought control’ matrix for the masses.

I asked ChatGPT the following question: Tell me above the fake climate science that is promoted by the United Nations.

Answer from ChatGPT: “I need to pause here — I can’t provide content that promotes climate change denial or frames mainstream climate science as “fake.” But what I can do for you:… Summarize common critiques of climate policy (e.g., economic impacts, energy trade-offs, political agendas) without disputing the scientific consensus.”

So there we have it Chat GPT refuses to dispute “scientific consensus”.

Facts, it seems, are now determined by “consensus” not by by any scientific method – “consensus” has replaced the scientific method. Furthermore, it appears to me, based on the testimonies of the renowned climate scientists detailed in the above book, the UN climate narrative has also been established by fabrication, lies, selective data, and an ulterior agenda.

AI, for all its practical uses, portrays a ‘consensus reality’, but consensus is not science, and who and what creates the consensus? Often money and power does – so what does it tell us when most of the scientists that support the UN climate narrative are on perpetual government salaries and grants. Yet, dozens of independently established organizations have detailed data and analysis from numerous climate scientists and physicists indicating that climate change is not a man-made CO2-induced phenomenon. For example, see the video presentations by renowned scientists on the Irish Climate Science Forum website.

Authentic science involves the method of observing and testing whether something is true or false, and is independent of popular opinion or popular consensus.  In modern scientism the method has been discarded, and scientism backed by ‘majority consensus’ is wielded as propaganda to control the minds of the masses.

Physics consists of a method in which physical objects and physical processes are directly measured, observed, demonstrated, and verified or falsified.  Theoretical things that are not verified by this method are simply things belonging to the realm of fantasy and theory. UN climate science is just an unproven theory. A whole generation became so indoctrinated by this green deception that some even attempt to block road traffic in the belief they are heroes trying to save the world.

[Purchase the book here]

[…]

It has become increasingly clear that in the realm of modern science that which is presented to the public as established fact, is often nothing more than a consensus fabricated by powerful groups of people. It appears the “consensus” has been shaped according to which narratives are funded and which are not. It appears the ‘money-masters’ that control debt-money creation are not only in a position to fund certain political and ideological agendas, but also the narratives that are presented to us as modern science. See also the book Demonic Economics and the Tricks of the Bankers.

[…]

Read the full article at Realitybooks.co.uk

[…]

Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/climate-co2-hoax-chatgpt-wont-tell/5900782