Ep. 94 The social media app Telegram has over 900 million users around the world. Its founder Pavel Durov sat down with us at his offices in Dubai for his first on-camera interview in almost a decade. pic.twitter.com/NEb3KzWOg8
Iodine deficiency is the most common cause of hypothyroidism worldwide. Once researchers realized this, health authorities around the world began adding iodine to table salt.
This strategy was effective in correcting iodine deficiency. But it had an unanticipated—and undesired—effect. In countries where iodine has been added to table salt, the rates of autoimmune thyroid disease have risen. The following is just a sample of studies around the world demonstrating this effect:
Why does this happen? Because increased iodine intake, especially in supplement form, can increase the autoimmune attack on the thyroid. Iodine reduces the activity of an enzyme called thyroid peroxidase (TPO). TPO is required for proper thyroid hormone production.
One of the best overviews on this topic I have seen. Whether to supplement with iodine or not is the most day-and-night health topic I can think of. Some people love the supplements, others warn against them. Some of this is due to the wide variety of problems affecting the thyroid, but even with that in mind it is very hard to get a handle on this topic. Add well-deserved mistrust of official medical doctrine and traditionally low established doses for micronutrients. Supplementing kelp and other sea vegetables is probably the best way to go. ABN
America’s low-technology Amish sect has doubled in size since 2000 and will hit 1 million members this century as it spreads far beyond its Pennsylvania heartland, new research shows.
Steven Nolt, an expert on the Amish, told DailyMail.com that its 378,000-strong US population was doubling every 20 years, thanks to families with lots of children who most often stick to the faith.
Amish communities have spread beyond their traditional areas of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, with fledgling outposts as far afield as Maine, Florida, New Mexico, Texas, and Idaho, said Nolt.
The expansion underscores the tightness of a group that eschews technology to focus on family time, even as modern America grapples with cell phones and social media that may harm kids’ mental health
Lawmakers are demanding answers after it was revealed the US is sending taxpayer dollars to a Chinese army lab to make bird flu viruses more dangerous to people.
It is part of a $1million collaboration between the USDA and the CCP-run Chinese Academy of Sciences – the institution that oversees the Wuhan lab at the center of the Covid lab-leak theory.
In a scathing letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack last week, the bipartisan group said: ‘This research, funded by American taxpayers, could potentially generate dangerous new lab-created virus strains that threaten our national security and public health.
This looks like mind-control preprogramming, prepping us for the next plandemic. Stuff like this is like another arrow in their quiver. It will be used when and if helpful to the mind-controllers, a branch of the comitatus that controls the West. WW3 is also being preprogrammed, as is economic collapse, cyberwar, aliens, climate disaster, etc. You might think it foolish for them to use yet another plandemic; after all, monkeypox failed. Yes and no. It is also true that absurdity is used to their advantage. Notice how much of our world today is absurd. The more of it we accept at face value, the less able we are to reason clearly about other things. That is a very effective form of mind-control. ABN
Silicon Valley’s move-fast-and-break-things mindset now extends to leases.
Big Tech companies — some of the more reliable office building tenants— are reversing course by letting leases expire or subleasing space across major cities, leaving commercial landlords with empty square footage and growing losses, The Wall Street Journalreported.
Downsizing
Everybody remembers the ghost towns that bustling cities like New York and San Francisco turned into after COVID-19 left streets, shops, restaurants, and office buildings empty for months on end. For companies that could make the transition, especially tech firms, employees easily switched to remote work. The hope was that those workers would eventually return to the office and downtowns would thrive.
And while that happened to a degree — New York City’s return-to-office rate is at 80% of pre-pandemic levels thanks to its banking and finance sectors, Bloomberg reported — Big Tech is headed in the opposite direction. Amazon, Meta, Google, and more are seeing less need for office real estate as they hold on to remote work practices and decreased headcounts:
In the fourth quarter of last year, US tech companies were leasing roughly 7.4 million square feet of office space, the WSJ reported. That’s nearly double what the sector held a year earlier, but it’s still a dropoff from the 10.5 million square feet rented in 2021. That empty space is causing headaches for commercial real estate owners. As of December, offices accounted for 41% of the value of distressed commercial properties in the US, which stood at roughly $86 billion, MSCI reported.
Salesforce occupied 900 million square feet of office in San Francisco as of January, not even half of what it owned or leased a year earlier. Amazon paused construction on a new headquarters in Virginia after a massive round of layoffs. CoStar reported that once Meta’s lease at a building on Manhattan’s Broadway ends in June, it plans to give up 275,000 square feet of space.
After seriously considering the possibility, 2024 presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, Jr has declared he will not seek the Libertarian Party nomination, saying he’s confident he’ll achieve ballot access across the country on his own. Meanwhile, in a social media skirmish with Team Trump, Kennedy said Trump associates asked him to consider becoming the former president’s running mate.
In a political system with formidable ballot-access barriers that protect the Democrat-Republican duopoly, outsider presidential candidates are frequently attracted to the idea of running as a Libertarian — if only to access the party’s hard-earned, 50-state ballot qualification.
“We’re not gonna have any problems getting on the ballot ourselves so we won’t be running Libertarian,” Kennedy tells ABC News. That declaration came as his team was celebrating their exploitation of a quirk in Iowa ballot-access law: Rather than gathering 3,500 signatures, the Kennedy team held a convention in West Des Moines. Consistent with state requirements, it included at least 500 voters who represented at least 25 of the Hawkeye State’s 99 counties.
Israel, Gaza and West Bank should be seen as an opening of the New Cold War.
In what can be considered the most crucial podcast of 2024 so far, Professor Michael Hudson – the author of seminal works such as Super-Imperialism and the recent The Collapse of Antiquity , among others – clinically lays down the essential background to understand the unthinkable: a 21st century genocide broadcast live 24/7 to the whole planet.
In an email exchange, Prof. Hudson detailed he’s now essentially “spilling the beans” about how, “50 years ago when I worked at the Hudson Institute with Herman Kahn [the model for Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove], Israeli Mossad members were being trained, including Uzi Arad. I made two international trips with him, and he outlined to me pretty much what has happened today. He became head of Mossad and is now Netanhayu’s advisor.”
Prof. Hudson shows how “the basic Gaza plan is how Kahn designed the Vietnam War’s division into sectors, with canals cutting off each village, as the Israelis are doing to Palestinians. Also already at time, Kahn pinpointed Balochistan as the area to foment disruption in Iran and the rest of the region.”
It’s not by accident that Balochistan has been CIA jewel territory for decades, and recently with the added incentive of the disruption by any means necessary of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) – a key connectivity node of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Prof. Hudson then connects the major dots: “As I understand it, what the U.S. is doing with Israel is a dress rehearsal for it to move on to Iran and the South China Sea. As you know, there is no Plan B in American strategy for a very good reason: If anyone criticize Plan A, they’re considered not to be a team player (or even Putin’s Puppet), so critics have to leave when they see that they won’t be promoted. That’s why U.S. strategists won’t stop and re-think what they’re doing.”
Wray is working for the secret comitatus that runs this country. He is a public front man like all other prominent members of this admin. Members of a comitatus swear a secret oath to each other. To break it is to die. Members of a comitatus consider it an honor above all others to swear fealty to each other and their leader.
The comitatus system is an ancient political/ warrior system that began in the Bronze Age, some 4,000 years ago. It has continued to this day and is still conspicuous in many current and recent political systems. Examples are North Korea, China under Xi, Stalin, Mao and more. The less conspicuous comitatuses operating today are the ones controlling USA, Europe, and the rest of the West. We do not know who the central figures are but their existence is proved without doubt by the policies they enact. It is reasonable to suspect secret organizations like Skull & Bones or CIA black ops are comitatuses with histories dating back centuries if not millennia.
To those who want to return to autocracy because our government of the people no longer works, the comitatuses running the West are exactly that. They are the true power behind the throne. TBH, in some respects I am OK with that. What bothers me most of all is they are doing such a terrible job. ABN
Many are waking up to this crime against humanity, but many remain in the dark because the government and Lying Legacy Media (LLM) continue to cover up the worst murder and disability fraud in world history. Dowd says:
“At this point, it’s overwhelming and has become almost comical…
This is asymmetric information. So, we have governments and media continuing to pretend a massive health crisis with chronic illness, deaths and disabilities is not going on. The data would suggest otherwise…
The data we have made public is free, but some people want projections and decision-making ideas. These are things we might end up starting a business from. I would have never thought we could. This is what asymmetric information does, and the government and the media are suppressing this information.”
A quick look at the overall casualties from the CV19 vax reveal an unparalleled medical disaster. Dowd explains:
“I went before Senator Ron Johnson in February to talk about the ‘pandemic scorecard,’ which is abysmal.
Ever since the CV19 vaccine came on, we have had 1.1 million Americans die excessively, 4 million permanently disabled and another 28 million injured. It’s 33 million people who have been negatively affected now.
The question you have to ask is why are these institutions not screaming from the rooftops? I think the reason why is, it’s all because of the (deadly) vaccine. It’s all circular, and I think it’s a joke at this point.”
To me, it seems almost everybody with any ‘influence’ is part of the overall psyop now controlling the Western world. Dowd is a possible exception as is The Ethical Skeptic, maybe a few others. Both Dowd and TES, working from different data sets and with different analytical paradigms, agree very closely on the manifest reality and seriousness of covid vaxxes harm. ABN
Here’s what we know so far about the latest mass stabbing in Sydney.
A bishop and several worshippers were reportedly attacked during a mass stabbing at The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, located in Sydney’s western suburbs.
The attack occurred on Monday evening while Bishop Mari Emmanuel was delivering a sermon, and the horrifying incident was captured on the church’s live social media broadcast.
– Bishop Mari Emmanuel was preaching at The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, Sydney’s west, when the attack took place. – An attacker approached the altar and stabbed the bishop multiple times, targeting his face and head. – Several worshippers were also reportedly attacked during the incident. – The shocking attack was captured on the church’s live social media broadcast, which showed Bishop Emmanuel’s astonishment as the attacker unleashed a series of blows.
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