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The American medical establishment didn't discover a mental health crisis: It created one

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The American medical establishment has been working for over 100 years to fabricate a mental health crisis, but with contemporary perceptions of depression and sadness at all-time highs, coupled with prescription drug use run rampant, they may have created a real one.

An enormous amount of Americans are diagnosed with some form of mental illness, invariably leading them to be prescribed intense regimens of drugs that manufacturers and doctors claim will resolve the issues.

However, as many experts at the MAHA Institute's Mental Health and Overmedicalization Summit on Monday noted, outcomes for long-term use of common medications like Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) or benzodiazepines, are often more negative than the underlying reason patients were given them in the first place: increased suicidal ideation, more intense depression, a strong correlation with tendency toward violence (e.g. school shooters), and much more.

Life Preserver

What is hantavirus, suspected in deaths of three people on cruise ship?

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© UnknownCruise ship becomes incubator for Hantavirus
World Health Organization says risk to the general public remains low despite suspected outbreak on the MV Hondius.

Three people who were on board a Netherlands-based cruise ship in the Atlantic have died during a suspected outbreak of the hantavirus, authorities say. The virus is a rare infection transmitted to humans by rodents.

On Monday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said the risk posed by the hantavirus to the wider public remained low despite the deaths on the MV Hondius cruise ship.

So what is the hantavirus, how does it spread and should people be worried?

Who caught the hantavirus on the MV Hondius?

The MV Hondius was sailing from Ushuaia, Argentina, to Cape Verde. Currently anchored off Cape Verde, the ship was considering sailing to Las Palmas or Tenerife for disembarkation, Reuters reported on Monday.

Safe

Flashback Hidden CIA document detailing potential cure for cancer declassified after 60 years

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Visualization of a cancer tumor
Agency faces furious backlash

A newly surfaced CIA document suggests US intelligence once reviewed research that hinted at a possible cancer treatment more than 60 years ago.

The document, produced in February 1951 and declassified in 2014, summarizes a Soviet scientific paper that examined striking similarities between parasitic worms and cancerous tumors.

The report describes how researchers believed both organisms thrived under nearly identical metabolic conditions and accumulated large reserves of glycogen, a form of stored energy.

The research also highlighted experiments showing that certain chemical compounds were capable of targeting both parasitic infections and malignant tumors.

Comment: Although cancer probably has a variety of causes, parasites are certainly one of them. The research on ketogenic diets, ivermectin and fenbendazole have shown great promise. The CIA's arrogance set medical research back decades because 'commies'.


Syringe

Flu vaccine no longer mandated for US troops, Hegseth says

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© AP Photo/Kevin WolfDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to members of the media during a press briefing at the Pentagon, Thursday, April 16, 2026 in Washington.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday that the U.S. military will no longer require all American troops to get the flu vaccine, citing "medical autonomy" and religious freedom.
"The notion that a flu vaccine must be mandatory for every service member, everywhere, in every circumstance at all times is just overly broad and not rational," Hegseth said in a video posted on social media.
He said American service members are free to get the flu vaccine but will not be forced to "because your body, your faith and your convictions are not negotiable."

Hegseth's directive does allow for the military services to request to keep the vaccine requirement in place, according to a memo enacting the policy posted online. It says the services have 15 days to make those requests.

Vaccination programs in the U.S. military date back to the American Revolution. But they became a contentious political issue during the coronavirus pandemic, when more than 8,400 troops were forced out of the military for refusing to obey the 2021 mandate for the COVID-19 vaccine. Thousands of others sought religious and medical exemptions.

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A reckoning is underway at the FDA after report is made on child deaths due to Covid vax

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For months, a quiet battle has been unfolding inside the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

It began with an analysis of child deaths after Covid vaccination, followed by strategic leaks to major media outlets, and has now erupted into the open with a memo from the regulator's own vaccine chief.

In September, it was reported that FDA officials had privately investigated 25 paediatric deaths following Covid vaccination — the first systematic review of such cases since the rollout began.

The findings were meant to be presented to the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). But the presentation never came. The meeting passed without a word. Something had happened behind closed doors.

Now we know what.

Health

Ditch the sanitizer and start exercising your immune system

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Bugs, viruses, and sickness — these maladies creep into countless conversations as people wrestle with the question: How do I strengthen my immune system?

The overriding answer from the conventional pharmaceutical and vaccine industry is that functional wellness comes from a pill, a needle, or some kind of medical treatment. As a farmer with thousands of animals and no vet bills, I can attest that the overriding conventional notion in the livestock industry is that a sick animal is apparently pharmaceutically disadvantaged.

I have a completely opposite paradigm: A sick animal testifies to my own mistakes. Maybe I chose weak seedstock. Over many decades of livestock farming, I've had half a dozen economically significant sickness outbreaks across various species. Every single time, the problem was my fault. Hygiene, diet, stress, discomfort, and toxins. An animal can get sick for many reasons, none of which is because it was medically deprived.

That brings me to people.

Cloud Precipitation

From debris to acid rain: The environmental cost of US-Israeli 'ecocidal war' on Iran

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© Press TVIran War: The effects on environment
Following the launch of the war imposed by Israel and the United States against Iran on February 28, numerous civilian targets across the country were struck, causing extensive environmental damage, condemned as ecocide in many cases.

Among these attacks, the targeting of oil storage facilities in various parts of Tehran on the ninth day of the war stands out as one of the most blatant examples of this approach.

The aggressive strikes not only caused significant material destruction but also triggered the widespread release of environmental pollutants across urban areas, leaving serious consequences for public health and environmental quality.

According to available reports, on March 8, several fuel-related and oil storage targets in Tehran and Alborz provinces were hit.

Accounts point to multiple storage depots and at least one oil transfer and logistics center being targeted, including sites in the northern, southern, and western parts of Tehran, as well as a facility in Karaj.

A review of local media reports suggests that four primary targets were struck: oil facilities in Kouhak, Fardis, Shahran, and Shahr-e Rey.

The powerful explosions of fuel tanks caused widespread destruction in the surrounding areas. One of the most striking cases was the destruction of a dialysis treatment center in Fardis on the outskirts of Tehran.

Officials also reported damage to two schools and approximately 100 residential units.

Comment: A horrific tally of environmental and health issues awaits Iran as the 'perpetrators' turn heel and walk away. Residuals, rescue and restoration in 'the after war'.


Syringe

Less Than Half Of Health Care Workers Received An Updated COVID-19 Vaccine: CDC

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A minority of health care workers received an updated COVID-19 vaccine, according to a newly reported survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Just 40.2 percent of health care personnel who responded to the survey said they received a COVID-19 shot between the fall of 2024 and early 2025, CDC researchers said on April 2.

The rate of vaccination was higher, 76.3 percent, for influenza.

The survey was conducted online from March 26 to April 17 in 2025, following the 2024-2025 respiratory virus season. The season begins in the fall of each year and runs into the next year.

Some 2,650 health care workers responded to the survey.

Light Saber

Largest Real-World Analysis of Ivermectin + Mebendazole in Cancer Patients Shows 84.4% Clinical Benefit — Nearly HALF Report Cancer Disappearance or Regression

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We have completed the largest real-world human analysis to date evaluating ivermectin and mebendazole in cancer patients — and the results represent one of the most compelling clinical signals ever documented for repurposed anti-parasitic therapies in oncology.

The manuscript is now available as a preprint on the Zenodo research repository, operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, while undergoing peer review at leading oncology journals: "Real-World Clinical Outcomes of Ivermectin and Mebendazole in Cancer Patients: Results from a Prospective Observational Cohort."

In this real-world prospective clinical program evaluation, a diverse population of cancer patients (n=197) were prescribed compounded ivermectin-mebendazole, with each capsule containing 25 mg ivermectin and 250 mg mebendazole.

At approximately six months post-treatment initiation, we observed an 84.4% Clinical Benefit Ratio (CBR), with nearly half of cancer patients (48.4%) reporting either no evidence of disease (32.8%) or tumor regression (15.6%). An additional 36.1% reported disease stabilization. This means more than four out of five patients reported either improvement or stabilization of their cancer.

Life Preserver

Beware of Pseudo-Science: In Defense of Melatonin

Against cardiovascular disease, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and other conjunctive tissue anomalies (and for multiple other conditions too!)
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© makauleMolecular structure of melatonin
Whenever the American Heart Association publishes an abstract that is not peer-reviewed for a study that is not even published, you have to turn on your BS meter and apply some good old common sense.

In "Long-term use of melatonin supplements to support sleep may have negative health effects", they took electronic records and highlighted those who were taking melatonin, correlating with heart failure. Mind you, if you're in heart failure, you'll have insomnia because you can't sleep due to your symptoms. So you'll need to take something. If you don't have heart failure, you sleep better and hence don't require anything. Correlation doesn't equal causation, making this another case of the firefighters getting blamed for the fire.

Melatonin doesn't require a prescription in the U.S., hence it is over-the-counter, and this alone could bias the results significantly. This is called cherry-picking data to create your own reality in discordance with objective reality.
If people want to stop taking melatonin based on this abstract, so be it. As is so often the case these days, it's easier to blame everything except the COVID-19 era (i.e. the vaccine).

From actual peer reviewed and published studies, here are some of the benefits people would be missing: