While I personally find the evidence overall supports the safety of glyphosate (I feel a risk-based approach is better than a hazard-based approach, there is a wide margin of safety levels, and the best evidence is negative), there is a lot of data that legitimately can be seen as concerning. There is also the question of industry influence in the research. A study from 2000 showing glyphosate is safe was recently retracted because of undisclosed industry funding. It is therefore no wonder that the public remains confused and divided on the safety of glyphosate.
As it stands, I think the regulatory agencies are correct in continuing to approve glyphosate. It is likely safe and better than all the alternatives. However, more and better research is always welcome. This is definitely an area where we would benefit from highly rigorous large consensus studies designed to resolve continued scientific disagreement.
I encourage you to do your own research and draw your own conclusions. I’m busy with other things now.
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
There isn’t a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its “finger men” to point out enemies, its “muscle men” to destroy enemies, its “brain men” to plan war preparations, and a “Big Boss” Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
I’m increasingly distrustful of the mainstream (aka legacy) media. Ownership of it is in the hands of surprisingly few people. This makes reported news susceptible to manipulation by folks that have an agenda that may be at odds with your desire for “just the facts.”
In 1976, when the U.S had only three or four national over-the-air TV stations and no Internet, 72% of Americans trusted mass media. A Gallup poll found that in 2023, only 32% of Americans had a “great deal” or a “fair amount” of trust in the mass media. A larger percentage—39%—had “none at all.” In view of AI or CGI-generated imaging, it’s getting hard to believe anything you don’t see with your own eyes.
Most of the mainstream media (aka legacy media) consumed in the U.S. originates from a handful of companies. From a 2021 essay by Helen Johnson:
In 1983 there were 50 dominant media corporations. Today there are five. These five conglomerates own about 90 percent of the media in the United States, including newspapers, magazines, book publishers, motion picture studios and radio and television stations. As of 2020, the five media giants are AT&T (Time Warner, CNN, HBO), Comcast (NBC Universal, Telemundo, Universal Pictures), Disney (ABC, ESPN, Pixar, Marvel Studios), News Corp (Fox News, Wall Street Journal, New York Post) and ViacomCBS (CBS, Paramount Pictures).
Alternative Media for Your Consideration (not for local news, sports, weather)
By no means do I endorse or agree with everything you see or hear at these sites.
Tucker Carlson on X (news, opinion, politics, interviews)
RamzPaul on Rumble (news, cultural commentary, nationalism)
The Dan Bongino Show on Rumble (politics, news, opinion)
Michael Farris’ podcast “Coffee and a Mike” (interviews)
“Redacted” with Natali and Clayton Morris on Rumble (news, cultural commentary)
Jeffrey Prather’s “The Prather Point” on Rumble (preparedness, Deep State exposure, communitarianism)
The Epoch Times (U.S. and international news, lifestyle, health, Falun Gong)
The Unz Review (cultural commentary, economics, literature, politics, conspiracy)
Catherine Austin Fitts at Solari.com (for personal finance and investing, banking, government)
RT at RT.com (news and commentary from a Russian viewpoint)
O’Keefe Media Group (citizen journalism, expose wrongdoing)
Dr. John Campbell is “totally convinced” that high-dose vitamin D supplementation would prevent many cases of dementia, particularly Alzheimer dementia, which is 75% of all dementia cases. He takes 4,000 IU of vitamin D/day plus 100 mcg of vitamin K2. Unclear to me if that’s year-round or only in fall and winter, when there’s less sunshine in the northern hemisphere. I assume it’s oral vitamin D3 (there are several types of vitamin D). Dr. Campbell didn’t say why he takes the K2. Click for a brief review of K2. In contrast to his vitamin D dose of 4,000 IU/day, U.K. health authorities recommend a tenth of that — 400 IU — in autumn and winter.
Several observational studies link higher risk of dementia with blood levels of vitamin D that are deficient or insufficient. Blood levels of 25-hydroxy-vitamin D under 25 mg/ml are particularly linked to dementia. Dr. Campbell admits that it’s difficult to prove that adequate vitamin D supplementation would prevent Alzheimer dementia.
Diabetic Mediterranean Diet 