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Two weeks from now, the DST mandate to set alarms an hour early every morning (in place since mid-March) will end for this year.
ALT Two photos from San Francisco, California, on October 18. At 6:30am Pacific Daylight Time, the sky is dark. At 6:30am Pacific Standard Time, the sky is bright. Caption asks “How would you rather start your day?”
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Vegans: "Oat milk is better for you and better for the planet."
Great point.
So instead of a cow turning grass into milk in a field down the road, we've developed a twelve-step industrial alternative.
Step one: plough a field. Pasture is never ploughed; an oat field is turned over, sprayed and emptied of everything living in it every single year.
Step two: spray the standing crop with glyphosate a fortnight before harvest so it dries on schedule.
Step three: ship the oats from wherever the contract was cheapest this year, Scandinavia, Canada, the Baltic, to a factory that is almost never in the country drinking the result.
Step four: mill the oats, stir them into water, and add enzymes to pre-digest the starch into sugar, which is why it tastes sweet and why a glass carries about 7g of carbohydrate and 1g of protein. Milk is the other way round.
Step five: spin out the bran and fibre, which is most of the oat, and sell it as pig feed.
Step six: look at what's left. 10% oat, 90% water, tastes of nothing.
Step seven: pour in rapeseed oil, from a crushing plant, because the oat has no fat and the coffee needs something to foam.
Step eight: add dipotassium phosphate so it doesn't curdle the moment it meets a hot drink.
Step nine: add calcium carbonate from a quarry, potassium iodide from a mine, vitamin D2 grown on irradiated fungus, and B12 brewed in a bacterial vat, most likely in China. Four continents, to put back what the cow put in for free.
Step ten: heat it to 140 degrees, homogenise it, and seal it in a six-layer carton of card, plastic and aluminium.
Step eleven: load the cartons onto lorries and drive 90% water up and down the motorway network.
Step twelve: print a picture of a field on the carton. Not the ploughed one.
The cow: stands in a field that has never seen a plough, eats grass no human can digest, and makes milk that already contains the fat, the protein, the calcium, the iodine and the B12 in the proportions a mammal is built for. The herd is inside 30 miles of your fridge. The bottle came in a van.
Better for the planet, though. Says so on the carton. Next to the field.
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“Winter sunrises would happen after 8am, in some places closer to 9am… We already tried this and hated it so much Congress reversed course within a year…”
ALT New Jersey Monitor Part of States Newsroom Making daylight saving time permanent is a bad idea Terrence T. McDonald October 16, 2026 11:16 am A measure state lawmakers advanced on Thursday is an example of what I’m calling the Trenton Trifecta. It’s dumb. It’s bad. And it’s pointless. We very often get bills that are one of those, but it’s rare for them to qualify for all three. I’m talking about the bill to make daylight saving time permanent if Congress authorizes states to do so. Look, I get it. Changing clocks twice a year can be annoying. But there are more annoying chores I have to do far more often; it would not occur to me to seek a change in state law so I can avoid doing them. Dark afternoons are also a bummer. But we would not gain any sunlight by making daylight saving time permanent, because we cannot command the sun to give us more daylight. Yes, our afternoons would stay brighter longer but our mornings would stay darker later. Winter sunrises would largely…
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Imagine following nearly 13 million real people for more than 10 years just to see what cholesterol level helps them live the longest. That is exactly what Korean scientists did in a giant 2019 study. They tracked 12.8 million adults who had check-ups between 2001 and 2004, and they kept watching until 2013. More than 694,000 people died during that long stretch.
The results were clear and surprising. Cholesterol and death formed a U-shape. Very low cholesterol was linked to higher death rates. So was very high cholesterol. The sweet spot for the longest life was 210 to 249 mg/dL for most adults. That is higher than many doctors call “ideal.” Younger people had a slightly lower best range, but still not the super-low numbers often pushed today.
Because the study lasted so many years, reverse causality is less likely to explain the low-cholesterol danger. Reverse causality means a hidden illness might lower your cholesterol right before it kills you. With more than a decade of follow-up, early sickness cannot easily account for the extra deaths seen in people who started with low cholesterol. The pattern held across ages and for both men and women.
The huge number of people—almost the entire adult population of a country—makes the findings hard to ignore. Smaller studies can be wrong by chance. This one is massive. It shows that moderately higher total cholesterol, not the lowest possible number, went with the best chance of living longer in this large group.
In short, the biggest study of its kind found that cholesterol levels in the low-to-mid 200s were tied to the longest lives, and the long tracking time makes it tougher to blame the higher death rates at low levels on reverse causality alone.
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Crohn's, colitis, and IBS are treated as franchises for drugs that manage symptoms but never cure the underlying causes.
DMSO doesn't manage. It heals.
And the literature supporting that has sat in plain sight for decades while patients were cycled through increasingly toxic medications.
I've gathered the studies and the reader reports here:
midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-d…
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“Permanent DST in 1973 was highly regarded at first, with a nearly 80% approval. Two months later, that dropped to 42%.” Only permanent Standard Time can last! #DitchDST wtnh.com/news/national/perma…
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The mRNA flu vaccine is not authorized for use by any @DeptofWar or military entity, to include TRICARE.
Per @SECWAR memo, the flu vaccine is optional for all Service members except where a Military Department has requested an exception for instances like basic training and operational deployments.
There is no place for misinformed rumors when considering the health of our Warfighters.
Secretary Hegseth,
I have close friends who have been reinstated after refusing the mandated COVID vaccines. You stated how they were treated was wrong and allowed them back with back pay, some with additional rank. That’s why I’m writing you.
I’m being told that military members are still facing vaccine requirements, and the new mRNA flu shot is part of the schedule some commands are treating as mandatory. I implore you to stand up for our volunteer warfighters. They are willing to stand against our enemies. They should not be forced to stand against mandated medical products in the name of ideology or “greater good” science.
Throw these products out, or at minimum halt any mandate that regresses basic rights. As a service member I took every shot when I was young because I believed it was for the greater good. As an adult paramedic who has seen the damage firsthand, I’ve grown enough to write this request.
Please stand with and for our soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors, Space Force, and Coast Guard. They already carry enough without being forced into decisions that can affect their health for the rest of their lives.
Sincerely,
Harry Fisher
Paramedic
God bless
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Mother: "Is raw milk really all right for children? My health visitor went white when I asked."
Farmer: "What did you feed them first?"
Mother: "Breast milk."
Farmer: "Did you heat it?"
Mother: "No."
Farmer: "That was raw milk. Full of antibodies and live proteins that teach a baby's immune system what to ignore. Cow's milk carries the same sort of thing, until it's heated."
Mother: "And heating does what?"
Farmer: "The legal test for pasteurised milk is that one of its enzymes is dead. That's how they know it's done."
Mother: "But does any of it matter?"
Farmer: "Germany, Austria and Switzerland wanted to know why farm children get so little asthma and hay fever. They followed over 8,000 of them."
Mother: "I'd have guessed the fresh air."
Farmer: "So did they. It was the milk. Children on raw farm milk had about 40% less asthma, whether they lived on a farm or not."
Mother: "Could be it's just fresher."
Farmer: "They checked. Boil the same milk and the benefit goes. It tracked with the whey proteins the heat destroys."
Mother: "Mine have had a cold since September."
Farmer: "They followed babies as well. A third fewer colds and ear infections in the ones on raw milk."
Mother: "So I'm not being reckless."
Farmer: "You're asking for what every child got until about 80 years ago. From a herd that's tested every quarter and inspected twice a year."
Mother: "Why did nobody tell me any of this?"
Farmer: "There's no rep for it. I've a cow and an honesty box."
Mother: "Four litres."
Farmer: "There's two children. I'd make it six."
Jen S. retweeted
Doctors really want parents to believe they can’t give their baby honey until they’re 1 years old but they can get injected with 10 vaccines full of industrially manufactured chemicals.
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To the Department of War, and everyone following the open communication today,
Oct 13 2026
I wrote to Secretary Hegseth about the vaccine requirements still hitting service members. General Flynn saw it and said he’d assist in reaching the Secretary. A few hours later the Under Secretary posted the official word:
“The mRNA flu vaccine is not authorized for any Department of War or military use, including TRICARE. The regular flu shot is optional for service members except where a Military Department has asked for an exception, like basic training or operational deployments.”
I appreciate the reply and the memos being posted. I’m thankful that mRNA flu vaccines are not being utilized. Thank you. That said, my request is still the same. Please give us a clear, standing exemption that works at entry, including basic training, and when people are deploying. If a vaccine is still required in those places with no real way out, it’s a mandate. Those are the times service members have the least ability to say no. They shouldn’t be forced into medical products that come with liability shields.
Close that gap so the policy actually respects religious freedom and body autonomy for every service member.
Respectfully,
Harry Fisher
Paramedic
God bless
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University debate: "There is no such thing as a vegan animal."
Vegan: "Of course there is. Cows, sheep, deer, elephants, gorillas. Most of the animal kingdom eats plants and does perfectly well."
Anthropologist: "Name one that would turn meat down."
Vegan: "A cow."
Anthropologist: "Cows eat the afterbirth. Deer eat songbird chicks out of the nest. Hippos have been filmed eating other hippos. Nobody told them."
Vegan: "Those are exceptions."
Anthropologist: "Sheep eat the heads off ground-nesting birds and keep walking. Horses eat baby chicks. Give a squirrel a nest of eggs and watch what it does with the nest."
Vegan: "Gorillas, then. Almost entirely plants."
Anthropologist: "Plus about 25 grams of insects a day, which is a plateful of ants, and they'll pull apart a termite mound with real enthusiasm. There is no true vegan. There is only an animal with limited access to meat."
Vegan: "It's a dietary category, not a moral one."
Anthropologist: "Then let's do the moral one. A cow drinks from a trough. Count what's living in it."
Vegan: "Insects don't count."
Anthropologist: "Says the only species on earth that has ever thought about it. Every blade of grass she eats comes with aphids, beetles, snails and larvae, and she chews the lot without a flicker. Her rumen is a vat of bacteria she kills by the trillion to extract the protein. The 'plant-based' cow is a bioreactor that eats its own staff."
Vegan: "So what? Animals can't choose."
Anthropologist: "That's my motion. Nothing alive has ever been vegan. Not the cow, not the gorilla, not the butterfly drinking from a carcass. The idea has never once appeared in nature, and you've built a philosophy on it being the natural state."
Vegan: "Humans can choose."
Anthropologist: "You can. And every choice you've made had a tablet in it. Four billion years of life on earth and the first vegan appeared in 1944 with a vitamin deficiency and a leaflet."
Moderator: "Time."
Vegan: "Deer eat birds?"
Anthropologist: "Look up the footage. Bring a cushion."
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Ignore all polls and predictions. Just vote like your liberty, country, and property are on the line.
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“A new report echoes a chorus of scientific research saying that permanent Standard Time is the best solution for eliminating twice-yearly clock change.”
ALT USA Today A clock change dilemma pits science vs. politics Some politicians want permanent daylight saving time, but a chorus of scientists say that's the wrong way to fix the seasonal time change problem. Doyle Rice & Jeanine Santucci Updated Oct. 10, 2026, 11:35 a.m. ET Daylight is already fading, and soon Americans will set back the clocks too. But this year political support is building for doing away with seasonal time changes by switching to permanent daylight saving time. That would be a mistake, scientists say. A new report echoes a chorus of scientific research saying that permanent standard time is the best solution for eliminating the dreaded twice-yearly clock change. You might enjoy daylight saving time for its later sunsets throughout the year. But standard time's earlier sunrises are more in line with our body clocks, leading to better sleep and mood, authors of the report say. For now, most of the nation is scheduled to set the clocks back Nov. 1, ending…
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A fever is not the enemy. In most kids, it’s part of the immune response.
Parents often focus on the number.
Pediatricians focus more on the child.
A child with 103°F who is drinking, breathing comfortably, and interacting can be less concerning than a child with 100.5°F who is lethargic, dehydrated, or struggling to breathe.
The goal of fever medicine is comfort — not forcing the temperature back to normal.
Treat the child, not just the thermometer.
