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My New Year’s resolution: I’m quitting YouTube

by Senator Rand Paul via Washington Examiner   Every year, people resolve to do things that are better for their health — quitting alcohol, processed food, toxic relationships. I have come to the realization that my relationship with YouTube is dysfunctional. Sure, I can get millions of views. But why should I allow anonymous “fact-checkers” […]

Seeking a Spirit Of Benevolence

by Jeff Thomas via International Man The “welcome mat” is different in each country. As the First World devolves, we will see a steady increase in people seeking asylum in countries other than their birth country. Those doing the seeking may be looking at criteria such as job opportunities, low taxation, minimal governmental interference, minimal […]

22 Top Tips for a Healthier 2022

by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE The start of a new year is often a good time to take stock and plan out beneficial lifestyle changes. Included are 22 tips for making 2022 your healthiest year yet Top tips include optimizing your vitamin D, targeting your immune system with immune-boosting nutraceuticals, treating COVID symptoms early, improving […]

2022: A Challenging Year

by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy I remember when 1984 was in the distant future. We wondered if our destiny was going to be Big Brother’s police state. But 1984 turned out to be the middle of the Reagan years. Liberals didn’t like Reagan’s rhetoric, but his policies worked. Supply-side economics cured […]

Mammography: The War on Women’s Breasts

by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE The documentary “Boobs: The War on Women’s Breasts” explores how mammography is causing more harm than good for many women One of the harms of using mammography as a screening tool is that it can often lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment, including false-positive tests and unnecessary biopsies Due to the […]

9 Reasons to Include Ashwagandha in Your Health Regimen

by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE Known as Rasayana in Ayurveda, ashwagandha is an adaptogenic herb that enhances your body’s ability to withstand stress and is considered to be a rejuvenator Ashwagandha contains compounds known as withanolides, which have not only antioxidant and anti-stress activities but also enhance immunity, protect the heart and offer neuroprotective, hypoglycemic […]

They Said They Would Slow the Spread

by Jeffrey A. Tucker via Brownstone Institute It’s been the most astonishing two weeks for American public life, with so many prescient changes, from new censorships, admissions, backtracks, experts speaking out, public outrage, and what strikes me as a progressive unraveling of every orthodoxy imposed nearly two years ago.  Not even the influential and powerful […]

David Stockman on the Prospect of World War III

by David Stockman via International Man Are these people so abysmally ignorant of history, geography, economics and the wherewithal of a true national security threat that they think the map below is worth WWIII? Ukraine has never had stable borders, nor has it been a longstanding independent nation state. In fact, for hundreds of years […]

How to Break Free of Fear Addiction

by Dr. Joseph Mercola Breaking Free of Fear Addiction- Interview with Dr. Mark McDonald STORY-AT-A-GLANCE In his book “United States of Fear,” psychiatrist Mark McDonald diagnoses the U.S. as suffering from mass delusional psychosis, driven by an irrational fear of what is now a rather innocuous virus The fearful overreaction didn’t have its origin in […]

The First Economics Lesson

by Henry Hazlitt via Mises Institute Lee esto en Español Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, […]

How We Will Win

by Jeff Deist via Mises Institute You do not defend a world that is already lost. When was it lost? That you cannot say precisely. It is a point for the revolutionary historian to ponder. We know only that it was surrendered peacefully, without a struggle, almost unawares. There was no day, no hour, no […]

COVID-19 Vaccine Passport Arm Implants

by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE In a short video that quickly went viral across social media, the Swedish company Epicenter promoted the company’s biochip technology to monitor vaccine status. Swedish government is heavily invested in technology, which drives Sweden’s economy One study found mandating a vaccine passport leveraged an uptick in accepting COVID-19 genetic therapy […]

Pfizer Whistleblower Exposes Vaccine Data Cover-Up

by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE According to Brook Jackson, a whistleblower who worked on Pfizer’s Phase 3 COVID jab trial, data were falsified, patients were unblinded, the company hired poorly trained people to administer the injections, and follow-up on reported side effects lagged way behind The FDA did not follow up on Jackson’s complaint or […]

Male & Female Athletic Performance: Worlds Apart

by Jon Pike, Emma Hilton, and Leslie A. Howe via Quillette.com In line with the biology of sexual reproduction and evolutionary pressure on reproductive fitness, males and females are physically different. Physical divergence begins with primary sex development at around seven weeks in utero when, triggered by genetic information inherited at fertilization, bipotential gonads differentiate as either testes in […]

Ultraprocessed Food Makes You Vulnerable to COVID-19

by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE A diet of ultraprocessed food makes people more susceptible to COVID-19 by causing metabolic dysfunction and harm to the immune system Ultraprocessed food increases the risk of obesity, cancer, Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and gallstones and compromises the gut microbiome Ultraprocessed food increases how fast people eat and delays […]

Week 54: CDC/VAERS Reports Over 1 Million Covid-19 Vaccine Adverse Events and 22,600 Deaths

Enough is enough! As of December 24, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) report a staggering 1,000,229 Covid-19 vaccine adverse events (all locations). Think about that for a moment. Over 1 million people are reported to have been negatively impacted (including death) by the […]