Margaret Thatcher On Statism

Margaret Thatcher On Statism

“When the state does everything for you, it will soon take everything from you. You will then have no basis for personal freedom, political freedom, or economic freedom.”

The ‘Pindia Challenge’: A Stark Warning To The West

Pindia Challenge

A viral game on Google Maps has laid bare one of the most glaring cultural realities of the modern world.

Drop a Street View pin anywhere in India and try to find a spot free of garbage, rubble, plastic waste or worse. The “Pindia Challenge” has taken off precisely because it is almost impossible to win. Mountains of trash, rivers of sludge, and streets buried under filth appear with depressing consistency.

But what was once dismissed as a problem isolated to ’over there’ is now increasingly visible on Western doorsteps through mass migration, turning once-tidy, well maintained neighbourhoods into open-air dumps.

The ’Pindia challenge’ is a game on Google Maps where you drop a street view anywhere in India. The goal is to find an area completely free of trash or rubble.

It’s almost impossible to win on the first try. pic.twitter.com/UFvRt7kfs7

— Memes (@Basedgoymemes) August 14, 2026

The challenge itself is simple and brutal. Players zoom into random Indian locations on Google Maps Street View and screenshot the result. Trash piles, discarded packaging, construction rubble and human waste dominate the frames.

Participants report failure after failure, even in mountainous areas where refuse somehow still appears.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pindia-challenge-stark-warning-west

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Elisabeth Bik

(Tom: Gosh I love people with talent, courage and integrity!)

Elisabeth Bik

Elisabeth Bik is a Dutch microbiologist. PhD from Utrecht in 1996. Fifteen years at Stanford medical school working on microbiomes.

An ordinary scientific career. Right up until 2013.

That year she found out somebody had plagiarised a piece of her own published work.

So she started hunting plagiarism. Nine months of it. Then she opened a PhD thesis that had lifted text from somewhere else, and her eye caught something different.

A duplicated image.

She sat there thinking, wait. That happens?

That same evening she opened a handful of papers in PLOS One. She found more before bed.

She had discovered something about herself. She can see things in images other people cannot.

A duplicated patch. The same cell photograph appearing twice in one paper under two different labels. A band on a gel copied, flipped, and pasted back in.

January 2014. She found duplicated and altered images across a set of papers from an American medical school.

So she started doing it in her spare time. Evenings. Weekends.

Then she decided to find out how common it actually was.

She sat down and went through 20,621 published biomedical papers. Forty journals. Twenty years of the literature.

By eye. There were no tools for this. She just looked.

She found inappropriate image duplication in 782 of them.

One in 25.

And 196 of those were not honest mistakes. Those were figures that had been altered. Rotated. Flipped. Shifted. Somebody sat down and did it on purpose.

Her own reaction was flat. One in 25 papers I looked at had image problems. I thought that is a lot.

Now the part that says the most about the system.

She wrote to the researchers. She wrote to the journal editors.

Mostly nothing came back.

So in 2016 she published the whole thing herself, with Arturo Casadevall and Ferric Fang, in the journal mBio.

Understand who was not doing this work.

Scientific publishing is an industry worth billions. There are editors. There are peer reviewers. There are universities with entire research integrity offices.

Nobody had been looking at the pictures.

One woman with good eyes was doing it unpaid, after dinner.

And these are the papers medicine is built on. Every drug your doctor reaches for sits on top of this literature.

2018 she left her job in industry and made it her full time work.

Nobody employs her. She is funded by strangers donating through a subscription page.

Since then she has raised concerns about more than 7,600 papers. By late 2024 that had fed into more than 1,300 retractions. Over 1,000 corrections. Hundreds of formal notices of concern.

Papers by senior figures. University presidents. Institute directors. Drug company research.

Then in 2020 she looked at hydroxychloroquine.

The Marseille professor Didier Raoult had published a study reporting success using it against Covid. The claim went around the world. Governments moved on it. Millions of people took it.

Bik went through the paper and raised problems with the methodology and the missing patient data. Then she raised concerns about dozens more papers from him and his institute.

29 April 2021. A lawyer acting for Raoult and his colleague Eric Chabrière filed a criminal complaint with a prosecutor in Marseille.

Aggravated moral harassment. Attempted blackmail. Attempted extortion.

She denies all of it. The payment remark they pointed to was a joke, she said, and her donation page is public.

Her inbox filled with threats. Anonymous accounts went after her appearance. Somebody promised her justice in a real prison in France.

She posts under her own name. Almost nobody else in this field does.

Then more than a thousand researchers signed an open letter standing behind her.

2021 she was given the John Maddox Prize. 2024 the Einstein Foundation Award. She gave that prize money away. It funds other people doing the same work.

Now the honest caveat, because she would want it there.

Her method has real critics. The digital forensics expert Hany Farid has argued that eye-based analysis cannot be audited. You can’t audit her brain, is how he put it. A validation exercise put her accuracy at around 90 percent, which means roughly one call in ten needs another look.

Fair. And it does not touch the number underneath.

One in 25.

Because here is what has not been fixed.

Ten years on, many of those original 782 papers are still sitting in the journals. Uncorrected. Some of them well past anything you could blame on an innocent error.

She is still going. Still unpaid.

An industry worth billions had nobody looking at the pictures.

She did it in the evenings, for free, and they tried to have her charged for it.

Old vs Younger Muscles

Old vs Younger Muscles

Eggs are the best source of protein but they are inadequate to maintain or build muscle mass in older muscles.

As you age this ratio of protein intake to body weight needs to be increased. The older your body, the more protein is required to maintain muscle mass. It is now commonly recognised that people over 70 need closer to 2 grams of protein a day per kilo of body weight.

And because older bodies have a protein response ceiling, they do need the protein intake spaced over the day – .4 grams of protein per meal per kilo of body weight, 30 grams of protein per meal, rather than loaded at one meal.

Inside our muscle cells the signal to grow new muscle is controlled by what scientists have labeled mTORC1 (mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1). If switched off, no new muscle tissue is built from the available protein. When switched on, the body grows new muscle.

As we age the same amount of protein does not produce the same muscle building response it did in our youth. The switch is not inactive, it just takes more protein the activate the switch. Specifically the amino acid Leucine.

In our youth, only 1.7 grams of Leucine was needed to flip the mTORC1 switch to ON. After age 70, 2.8 to 3 grams of Leucine per meal is required to flip the switch.

To flip that switch and counter anabolic resistance we need more leucine than is available from a regular serving of two or three eggs for breakfast. We need to supplement with 35-40 grams of whey protein or with 3 grams of the specific amino acid Leucine.

The optimum window for protein ingestion after resistance training narrows as we age. To realise maximum benefit from protein post resistance exercise, have it within 30 minutes of your workout.

Vitamin D upregulates protein synthesis pathways and supports satellite cell proliferation, new muscle fiber creation and regeneration. 70% of people tested have less than the optimal blood level of Vitamin D (75-125 nmol/L). This helps explain why two people with the same diet and exercise will experience vastly different muscle mass gains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDt9-pS7rI0

Chickenpox vs Shingles

Dr Suzanne Humphries On Joe Rogan

There’s a hidden truth beneath the story of the chickenpox and shingles vaccines that no vaccine “expert” will ever tell you.

Dr. Suzanne Humphries: “In the old days, we would all get chickenpox.”

It was never a big deal.

Then came the vaccine.

By preventing chickenpox in kids, it created more of a much worse disease.

Dr. Humphries: “Chickenpox, we used to get continuously.”

“It was very rare for adults to get shingles before the chickenpox vaccine came out, extremely rare.”

“But since then, the rate of shingles in adults and children has skyrocketed.”

Why?

Because adults who were exposed to children with chickenpox received a natural immune boost that kept shingles in check.

There’s further evidence that childhood chickenpox prevented other future illnesses, including cancer.

Scientists knew that licensing a chickenpox vaccine carried significant risks of worsening other diseases.

Before it came out, one of the world’s leading varicella experts also noted that chickenpox was long considered too mild to justify a vaccine.

Big Pharma was well aware of all these concerns.

But they marched ahead with the chickenpox vaccine anyway.

As a result, they’ve reduced a disease that was never even a problem, and worsened other, far more serious, illnesses.

These are the kinds of things that you’ll never hear from vaccine “experts,” pharmaceutical companies, or the media.

Which is why we launched Shot Week.

This week, we have gone through and exposed the lies used to justify Big Pharma’s vaccines, from measles shots to mRNA Covid shots.

But the full web of lies that has been spun to justify vaccines is far too much to unravel in a few posts on X.

So we’re promoting one book that breaks down the entire decades-long propaganda and censorship campaign.

This book is a must-read for every new parent.

Click to view the video:  https://x.com/standforhealth1/status/2088676693972017511?s=20