Subvert the dominant paradigm

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šŸ”„firekistšŸ”„ aka šŸ”„TheRealFireKistšŸ”„ retweeted
For three glorious years at the end of the 1980s, an entire continent believed it could outrun a heart attack by eating a muffin the size of a baby's head. The oat bran craze took hold in 1987, when a man named Robert Kowalski sold millions of copies of a book promising you could cure your cholesterol in eight weeks, oat bran foremost among the weapons. The nation went under. Quaker's oat bran sales leapt from a million pounds a year to twenty million in the space of two. One New York baker was shifting a hundred and twenty thousand muffins a week. Picture the believers. Office workers queuing for a vast, dense, savoury dome and eating it at their desks with the solemn faith of a man taking communion, genuinely convinced each one was scouring the grease from his own arteries on the way down. They were, in their minds, dredging their own bloodstream before nine in the morning. Then in January 1990 the New England Journal of Medicine set oat bran against plain refined white flour. The bran was barely any better. Almost all of the cholesterol drop had come from one boring fact, that a man eating a muffin for breakfast was no longer eating his fried breakfast. The magic was never the bran. The magic was the muffin shoving the bacon off the plate. Within weeks it collapsed, and the nation moved on to its next salvation. And let nobody tell you the grain was the innocent party. Oats are a starchy cereal carrying their own quiet baggage, phytic acid that clamps onto the iron, zinc and calcium in your gut, lectins, and avenin, the oat's own cousin of gluten. The establishment waved all of it away and crowned the grain a cure, while the one honest thing in the whole craze was the bacon they had shamed you into binning.
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Beware of a new privacy company called Cape. Its founder, John Doyle, spent 9 years running the national security business at Palantir. Now he's trying to sell you privacy. The company is a phone carrier that promises to hide your name, your number, and your location, all the things the ordinary carriers hand over to anyone who asks. The pitch is sharp. The technology may even be real. But the man who built it spent the better part of a decade inside the firm that taught the American security state how to see. Doyle ran Palantir's national security arm and served in Army special forces before that. His co-founder Nicholas Espinoza was an embedded analyst inside Palantir, with a career to match: Booz Allen, Recorded Future, the intelligence-contractor world top to bottom. Among the people Cape brought in to advise and vet the product is the former Chief Operating Officer of the CIA, Andy Makridis. The money is a16z, Point72, and Bain Capital, near $200 million of it, the same investor class that bankrolls the defense and surveillance industry. That crowd does not fund tools built to make the state see less. Cape built the network that reached the USS Abraham Lincoln 130 miles off the coast. It runs research with the Air Force Research Laboratory. It built sensors for the Marines and ran the network for a joint US military exercise. It was built, in Cape's own words, "from the ground up to protect U.S. government agencies, businesses, and privacy-conscious individuals." Notice the order they put that in. The military was its very first customer. Where have we seen that before. Palantir was seeded by the CIA's own venture fund, built for the state first and sold to the rest later. Doyle is running the same play, in the same order. Cape says it protects you from foreign hackers, Chinese spy outfits, the Russians who went after NATO, Salt Typhoon, ordinary criminals. Every enemy it names lives outside the borders of the United States, and in all of it the name of a single American agency never once appears. The carrier built by the head of Palantir's national security business will guard you against every government on earth except the one Palantir serves. The guns never point at the king who signed the papers. A normal carrier that leases its towers controls almost nothing about how you're treated on the network. Cape built its own core, the brain that authenticates your phone, routes everything it sends, and decides what gets logged about you. That is the exact layer where a person is identified and tracked, and Cape owns it outright, inside American jurisdiction, in a closed system you cannot audit. What it sees, you will never know. By law it cannot stay out of it. Every carrier in America, Cape included, is bound by CALEA, the statute that requires the network to be built so the government can tap it on command. Cape says it complies. So the only thing standing between you and that tap is how much Cape chose to keep, and you are taking their word for what that is. You do not read its code. You do not audit its core. You hand your trust to Doyle and his Palantir men and you take their word, which is the same word the security state has been offering you for 20 years while it built the machine you are now paying Cape to escape. Verify everything. Trust no one selling you privacy who came from the people who sell governments the opposite.
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šŸ”„firekistšŸ”„ aka šŸ”„TheRealFireKistšŸ”„ retweeted
There is a band called 'I Am the World Trade Center' that released an album a few months before 9/11. The 11th song on the album is called 'September,' and their next album is called 'The Cover Up.' You are watching a scripted movie
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šŸ”„firekistšŸ”„ aka šŸ”„TheRealFireKistšŸ”„ retweeted
Ice cube talks about how alphabet agencies influenced hip hop and rap culture. Because the same people who own the music industry own private prisons.
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Red Cross Secrets Exposed - Adrenochrome - Child Trafficking - Organ Trafficking - Human Trafficking - Drug Trafficking - Money Laundering
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šŸ”„firekistšŸ”„ aka šŸ”„TheRealFireKistšŸ”„ retweeted
Your liver makes about 1,000mg of cholesterol every day. You eat, on a generous day, about 300mg. If you eat more, the liver makes less. If you eat less, the liver makes more. The body has a target. It defends the target. It does not negotiate. The pharmaceutical industry has built a 40 billion dollar product category around interfering with that target. The drug is a statin. The mechanism is straightforward. It blocks an enzyme called HMG-CoA reductase. This is the same enzyme that builds cholesterol. It is also the same enzyme that builds CoQ10, which every mitochondrion in your body requires to produce energy. The drug doesn't know the difference. The drug doesn't care. You take the drug. The cholesterol goes down. So does the CoQ10. So does the testosterone, because testosterone is made from cholesterol. So does the vitamin D, because vitamin D is made from cholesterol. So does the bile, the brain function, the muscle integrity. You get tired. You get foggy. Your legs ache. Your libido disappears. You go back to the doctor. The doctor prescribes something for the fatigue. The doctor prescribes something for the libido. The doctor prescribes something for the muscle pain. The doctor does not prescribe taking you off the original drug. The original drug is working as designed. That is the design.
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šŸ”„firekistšŸ”„ aka šŸ”„TheRealFireKistšŸ”„ retweeted
This is a sketch by comedian Trevor Moore. Trevor also posted this tweet two months before he died by ā€œfallingā€ off a balcony in LA.
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šŸ”„firekistšŸ”„ aka šŸ”„TheRealFireKistšŸ”„ retweeted
Stop putting this poison on your children
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šŸ”„firekistšŸ”„ aka šŸ”„TheRealFireKistšŸ”„ retweeted
Meanwhile in America: ā€œWe don’t know who these people are, or what they’re doing, but they’re in our top field.ā€ A landowner accuses an unknown helicopter operator of dropping boxes of ticks on their farm. This comes after a string of videos showing people finding boxes of ticks on farms across America. Absolutely wild.
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šŸ”„firekistšŸ”„ aka šŸ”„TheRealFireKistšŸ”„ retweeted
They’re installing kill switches in all new cars via the HALT Drunk Driving Act named after a tragic crash to dodge scrutiny… Sensors track your eyes, breath, steering, and heart rate, shutting you down for fatigue, medicine, or a bad day… We already have DUI laws… This blanket system grabs your data and can be flipped for anything… It’s not safety, it’s control… Buy used while you can..!!
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šŸ”„firekistšŸ”„ aka šŸ”„TheRealFireKistšŸ”„ retweeted
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They are cheaping out on their batteries. It probably won't be good for anyone nearby or involved. I've been warning people that the jump to nuclear for big tech was coming. They will promise it will ease the burden on the grid, when all it will do is exacerbate the overall energy output for a select few, while claims of need for energy rationing for everyone else slowly get lobbied by different local governments. These local governments are getting kickbacks from all the same players at the federal level, through proxies and shell companies, to act directly against the express interests that are voiced rather vocally by their contituents. The resolutions get passed, and then there is backlash, but the damage is done. Voting them out won't undo the contracts, unbuild the data centers, undo the nuclear plants. The wheel will keep on turning for another few years, and suddenly it'll all be normal. x.com/7SEES_/status/18977146…
At the Department of Energy, Trump officials have been making the case to loosen radiation safety standards, in part to *save* Valar Atomics money on its new reactors, as I reported last month. Meanwhile, Valar keeps raising piles of cash. propublica.org/article/trump…
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šŸ”„firekistšŸ”„ aka šŸ”„TheRealFireKistšŸ”„ retweeted
Guy accidentally walks onto the scene while they are filming the hantavirus hoax.
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šŸ”„firekistšŸ”„ aka šŸ”„TheRealFireKistšŸ”„ retweeted
A very interesting article from Vanity Fair in 2003 Titled "The Talented Mr. Epstein." It lists a lot of people associated with him, his mysterious money, and references "young girls" multiple times. Everyone knew for years and did nothing. archive.ph/7lwNZ
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The Pentagon admits using direct energy weapons
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Epstein Files Confirm Pizzagate is Real: 'Hillary Clinton Killed Child Trafficking Investigators'
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šŸ”„firekistšŸ”„ aka šŸ”„TheRealFireKistšŸ”„ retweeted
Vegans: "Drinking cow's milk is unnatural!" Great point. So instead of pulling on some teats for thirty seconds, we've developed a twelve-step industrial alternative. Step one: grow almonds in California, a drought-afflicted state currently depleting an aquifer that took twenty thousand years to fill. Step two: ship them to a processing facility. Step three: soak them in water. California water, specifically, because almonds need 15 gallons per ounce and California is already rationing. Step four: pulverise them into a slurry. Step five: filter the slurry through fine mesh, discarding most of the actual almond in the process. That was the bit with the nutrition in it. Gone now. Step six: add more water, because the resulting liquid isn't watery enough. Step seven: add sweeteners, because it tastes of nothing. Step eight: add emulsifiers, because it separates in six minutes otherwise. Step nine: add synthetic vitamins, because all the natural ones left in step five. Step ten: add seed oils, because we apparently learned nothing. Step eleven: homogenise, degas, pasteurise, and sterilise the mixture until it resembles no food that has ever existed in nature. Step twelve: put it in a carton with a picture of a field on it. The cow: stands in a field. Makes milk. Has done this for ten thousand years. No factory. No steps. No aquifer. Unnatural, though. Very unnatural.
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šŸ”„firekistšŸ”„ aka šŸ”„TheRealFireKistšŸ”„ retweeted
WATCH: You’re the Product
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