Story at a Glance:
•There is a widespread belief that elevated cholesterol is the “cause” of cardiovascular disease. However, a large body of evidence shows that there is no association between the two and that lower cholesterol significantly increases one’s risk of death.
•An alternative model (which the medical industry buried) proposes that the blood clots the body uses to heal arterial damage, once healed, create the characteristic atherosclerotic lesions associated with heart disease. The evidence for this model, in turn, is much stronger than the cholesterol hypothesis and provides many important insights for treating heart disease.
•The primary approach to treating heart disease is to prescribe cholesterol lowering statin drugs (to the point, over a trillion dollars have now been spent on them). Unfortunately, the benefits of these highly toxic drugs are minuscule (e.g., at best taking them for years extends your life by a few days) and the harms are vast (statins are one of the most common pharmaceuticals that severely injure patients).
•In this article we will explore the specific injuries caused by statin drugs, the forgotten causes of cardiovascular disease, and our preferred treatments for heart and vascular diseases.
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano Refuses Vatican Summons
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano has refused to obey a summons to the Vatican, and has restated that he does not recognize Pope Francis as the head of the Catholic Church, the Catholic News Agency reported on Friday.
“As I stated in my Communiqué of June 20, I do not recognize the authority of the tribunal that claims to judge me, nor of its Prefect, nor of the one who appointed him. This decision of mine, which is certainly painful, is not the result of haste or a spirit of rebellion; but rather is dictated by the moral necessity which, as Bishop and Successor of the Apostles, obliges me in conscience to bear witness to the Truth, that is, to God Himself, to Our Lord Jesus Christ,” Vigano’s statement begins.
Vigano is facing charges of schism due to his denial of the legitimacy of Francis as the Pontiff and rejection of the doctrines set forth during the Second Vatican Council.
Schism is a crime within the church. The Code of Canon Law defines “schism” as “the withdrawal of submission to the supreme Pontiff or from communion with the members of the church subject to him.”
The archbishop has accused the Pope of “heresy and schism” over his endorsement of COVID-19 vaccines, the “promotion of sodomy and gender ideology,” and the “climate fraud,” which Vigano describes as “a mad neo-Malthusian superstition engendered by those who, hating the Creator, cannot help but also detest creation, and man along with it, who is made in the image and likeness of God.”
Joe Biden’s dementia, as seen from 10,000 miles away
Ontario school board resource demands teachers believe Canada is founded on white supremacy, racism
One Ontario school board wants educators to indoctrinate kids with gender ideology, to “decentre whiteness,” and vilify Canadian culture.
Thames Valley District School Board staff training materials for last year’s Pride Month were released to the public through a freedom of information request obtained by podcaster and host of the Weekly Canadian Gender Wars Report podcast Melanie Bennett.
The ideological material included self-assessments designed to shame teachers who do not conform to woke world views and links to activist organizations educating staff on the proper use of neo-pronouns and the importance of gender-neutral parenting.
The educational resources were prefaced with the statement that the school board does not necessarily endorse the material from external websites that they link to. At the same time, the board directs staff to learn from and use resources from those organizations for themselves and in their classrooms.
TVDSB encouraged staff to use a self-assessment tool developed by School Mental Health Ontario to reflect on their own “cultural humility,” or an admission of ignorance about other cultures and a willingness to learn from them. It said cultural humility incorporates “redressing” or correcting power dynamics and involves a continuous commitment to “reflection and critique of race, ethnicity, culture, language, sexual orientation and class.”
The assessment initially asked school staff to reflect on their own biases but presented a series of ideological positions as facts that teachers either “know” or are ignorant of, rather than being a matter of personal belief.
If you allow your enemies to educate your children, you will be destroyed. ABN
A practical outline on how to save the West from becoming an ‘ant farm’ — a talk with Ivor Cummins
UPDATE: This is a very good talk by Cummins. He provides a basic overview that many people will be able to understand and agree with because they can see it with their own eyes. He skillfully and deliberately avoids going too deep into the weeds or into subjects which can be divisive. It is this kind of overview that we need today because this kind of thinking is most able to unite large numbers of people to resist what our ruling elites are doing. I have not heard anyone else provide such a clear summary. Those of us who understand the Western world is facing annihilation can most effectively unite behind this basic outline provided by Cummins. Is it Jews at the top or the USIC or the British royal family or European nobles and old money who are trying to seize control of the West and through that the world are not matters we all need to spend all of our time on. We will be much more effective if we encourage uniting around a general recognition of the disasters that have happened and why we must prevent them from continuing. ABN
Survey finds public perception of scientists’ credibility has slipped
Presidential Debate: President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump
Biden’s trans HHS assistant sec Dr Rachel Levine pressured WPATH to eliminate age guidelines for child sex changes
…researcher Dr. James Cantor said that the internal communications of WPATH show that Levine “strongly pressured WPATH leadership to rush the development and issuance of SOC-8,” their latest standards of care for trans persons, “in order to assist with Administration political strategy.” Levine has said that “trans kids” are an “inspiration.“
This means that Levine pressured a group of medical professionals to hurry up and issue guidance on how to treat children with gender dysphoria in order to aid her boss’ political aims. Joe Biden, Levine’s top boss, instructed all federal agencies to be more trans-inclusive on his first day in office in 2021.
The previous guidelines had said that sex change drugs could be administered as young as 14, surgeries to remove healthy breasts could be done at 15, and genital surgeries, other than phalloplasty for females, could be done at 17. Phalloplasty was not recommended until age 18 due to complexity of the process of removing tissue from one part of the body, reconstructing it to resemble a phallus, and surgically grafting it onto the pubic area.
Yen falls to 37-year low of 160 against U.S. dollar
June 26 (UPI) — The Japanese yen fell below 160 against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday, its lowest point in more than 37 years as Tokyo scrambled to determine what appropriate intervention measures to take.
The record fall of the yen follows Japanese and South Korean national forecasters expressing alarm on Tuesday after the depreciation of their currencies. The United States had placed Japan on its watch list of currency manipulators last week.
The yen fell to 160.39 during London trading hours at one period, its lowest point since 1986. On April 29, the yen fell to 160.24 against the U.S. dollar, leading to intervention by Japan’s central bank.
AI Started a New Storm in Geopolitics
As the AI market matures, there is a stark realization in public sectors elsewhere that this is America’s AI world.
You can just picture Sam, Elon, Satya, and Jensen in a Silicon Valley karaoke joint somewhere belting out that ‘80s classic: We are the world.
While governments try to wrap their heads around how to legislate for the Brave New World the US tech industry has thrust upon them, they’re also jostling to grow domestic AI industries. As the AI market matures, there is a stark realization in public sectors elsewhere that this is America’s AI world — the rest of us just live here.
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Incentivize ‘Em
Reining in Big Tech means different things in different countries, of course. In China, the Great Firewall is being maintained, more or less. Starting July 9, developer access to ChatGPT will be cut off in China, and domestic rivals are flocking to fill the Sam Altman vacuum. Slightly further down the sliding scale of governmental control is the European Union, which passed the AI Act in March and recently told Meta to stop scraping people’s Facebook data (oh, Meta!) to train its large language models. But EU member states are keen to set themselves up as an AI hub — especially France, which CNBC reports is vying with ex-EU member the UK to attract AI investment.
North Korea ‘will send military personnel to Ukraine within a month’ to boost Putin’s forces – as Pyongyang warns of a ‘new world war’ after US aircraft carrier’s arrival in the South
North Korea has pledged to send military personnel to Ukraine within a month to support Putin‘s war-weary forces as both sides struggle to make a decisive breakthrough.
Pyongyang will take an unprecedented step in sending construction and engineering forces to occupied territories of Ukraine as early as July to assist in rebuilding work, South Korea‘s TV Chosun reported earlier, citing a government official.
The rare vow of foreign support follows president Vladimir Putin’s official state visit to North Korea earlier this month – the first in almost a quarter of a century – which culminated in the signing of a so-called defence pact on June 19.
The treaty binds its signatories to providing ‘military and other assistance with all means in its possession without delay’ should either find itself ‘put in a state of war by an armed invasion’.
North Korea is believed to have already supplied Russia with about 1.6mn artillery shells between August and January as Moscow continues to hammer populated areas of Ukraine and tries to make decisive gains in the north.
As polarisation hardens, Pyongyang officials criticised the United States on Monday for its expanding military assistance to Ukraine and dispatch of an aircraft carrier to South Korea, warning it could provoke a ‘new world war’, according to state media.
Tucker Carlson Responds to Julian Assange’s Release During Australia Speech
His takedown to Big Media is quite good. ABN
Supreme Court Allows Government Control Over Speech on Social Media Platforms, Rejects Standing in Murthy vs Missouri
The Supreme Court rejected the standing of the State of Missouri and five individuals in the censorship and free speech case surrounding social media. The court came down with a 6-3 decision, Justice Amy Coney-Barrett writing the majority opinion. Justices Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas dissented in the minority.
The background of the case was very familiar to this audience, as the Biden administration was previously blocked by lower courts from telling social media platforms to remove content against their interests. Today, the Supreme Court rejected the standing of the plaintiffs, essentially giving a green light to the USA government to begin controlling social media platforms again.
If you read the opinion [FULL PDF HERE], I would strongly urge readers to focus beginning on page #11 of the Justice Barrett opinion. It is obvious in the three or four pages that follow, the court was looking for an exit from the free speech issue. Denying the case on “standing” grounds became their justification for the cop-out.
Barrett goes out of her way to make the standing issue the crux of the majority opinion. Comey-Barrett dismisses all the instances of censorship and coerced removal under the auspices that the relief sought by the plaintiffs was for future harm, not past injury. The lower courts had ruled the government could not interfere with speech in the future, without establishing that each individual plaintiff was harmed specifically by each action of the government.
Social media platforms did some censorship and content removal on their own, without government direction. Therefore, it becomes impossible for the court to determine which censorship decisions were made by government coercion, and which were made by the social media platform with ordinary moderation rules being applied. {pdf page #11}
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