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Another key PRE-EPSTEIN story. Katherine Bolkovac is a former police detective from Nebraska who became a human rights investigator after uncovering credible evidence of human trafficking and sexual exploitation committed by private security contractors working for the U.S. government in post-invasion Iraq.
She worked as an investigator for DynCorp International, a private U.S. military contractor, and documented cases in which women and girls were trafficked and sexually abused by people working under contract to the U.S. government. When she reported what she found, she faced resistance and was eventually fired. She successfully sued DynCorp for wrongful termination.
Bolkovac’s work became the subject of the book “The Whistleblower” and later a major motion picture of the same name starring Rachel Weisz, which dramatizes her fight to expose the exploitation and seek justice.

Toyota vehicles are engineered to last well beyond 200,000 miles with proper maintenance, thanks to rigorous quality control at every stage of production and simplified powertrain designs that reduce potential failure points.
Finish reading: https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/toyota-remains-worlds-most-reliable-car-brand-rivian-least
I just added a couple of items to my book and in also doing some editing thought of a way I can illustrate the benefit of you having this book handy. So here are a dozen questions that illustrate the type of gems contained in my compilation of 17+ years of data collection.
What eating practice reduces your post-meal glucose spike by 73% despite eating the same type and amount of food? Page 332
What can you do to reduce the loss of anti-cancer nutrients in broccoli from 97% to just 11%? Page 348
The root extract of which herb kills 90% of colon cancer cells within 48 hours? Page 431
What test is regarded as the single best predictor of longevity? Page 937
What activity boosted the ability of NK (Natural Killer) cells to kill invading cells by 50 to 200 percent? Page 937
What can essentially stop cellular aging in its tracks and, in some cases, rejuvenate the cells that repair damage in the body? Page 939
What can you drink before and during your exercise routine that can increase your endurance by 23%? Page 949
What 6 exercises are claimed to fix 97% of body problems? Page 961
What anti-inflammatory is 350 times more powerful than evening primrose oil and is 97% effective in reducing the pain from all forms of arthritis? Page 1168
What is the actual success rate of chemotherapy? Page 1421
What anti-parasitic drug killed 78% of colon cancer cells within 48 hours? Page 1524
97% of terminal cancer patients have previously had what medical procedure? Page 1961
An unexpected benefit of doing the editing was that I felt more positive and happier, recognising how much of what I know I am applying.
My book ‘How To Live The Healthiest Life’ is available at https://howtolivethehealthiestlife.com/
The pdf of it is $77. If you prefer a hard copy for easier reading or to tag quotes or highlight sections or makes notes on, drop me a line.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately… The idea of “recycling” plastic is largely a scam designed to keep you buying plastic items.
Industry documents reveal there was never much hope for plastic recycling to be economically viable. Only about 9% of all plastics can even be recycled. The rest? It’s incinerated or sinks to the bottom of the ocean.
They knew if the public thought recycling was working, we wouldn’t be as concerned about it. This means the plastic industry intentionally misled us.
The real solution isn’t just about recycling, it’s about avoiding plastics altogether to protect the environment AND our health.
– Dr. Berg

For 10,000 years, they knew. It took DNA to make the world listen.
The Blackfoot people have always known their connection to the northern Plains runs deeper than memory. Their oral traditions speak of “time immemorial”—of ancestors who hunted bison across glacial valleys, who witnessed ice retreating from mountains, who survived the Great Flood when ancient waters receded.
But for nearly two centuries, Western anthropologists told a different story.
Based on linguistic similarities to Great Lakes tribes, scholars theorized the Blackfoot had migrated westward sometime in the last thousand years. Never mind that Blackfoot oral history contained no memory of such a journey. Never mind the archaeological evidence suggesting far older presence.
The theory became textbook fact. And it threatened something crucial: land and water rights that depend on proving ancestral connection to territory.
So the Blackfoot Confederacy did something remarkable. They partnered with geneticists to let science test what their ancestors had always known.
In April 2024, the results were published in Science Advances. And they didn’t just challenge the migration theory—they shattered it entirely.
DNA analysis revealed that modern Blackfoot people belong to a previously unknown genetic lineage that diverged from all other studied Indigenous groups approximately 18,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age.
Let that sink in. While most Native American populations studied share a common ancestral lineage, the Blackfoot split off into genetic isolation nearly 18 millennia ago—and remained in their homeland ever since.
The study was led by Blackfoot community members—Dorothy First Rider, Anna Wolf, and others—working alongside archaeologist Maria Zedeño and geneticist Ripan Malhi. They analyzed DNA from six living Blackfoot individuals and seven ancestral remains dating back 100-200 years.
The findings confirmed genetic continuity: today’s Blackfoot are directly descended from those who lived on this land at European contact, who descended from those who lived there through thousands of years before.
Even more striking: Blackfoot oral traditions contain memories that align with this deep Ice Age ancestry. Dreams and stories passed down describe standing in caves watching glaciers melt. Accounts of crossing ice to reach better lands. Knowledge of extinct megafauna like giant beavers and camels that disappeared 10,000 years ago.
“The Blackfoot can dream of the Ice Age,” explained Andy Blackwater. “Through dreams, people are able to recollect the deep past by bonding to ancestral spirits from long ago.”
This isn’t mysticism. It’s the transmission of ancestral knowledge across timescales Western science once deemed impossible.
Gheri Hall, archaeologist with the Blackfeet Tribal Historic Preservation Office, put it perfectly: “This really confirms what we already knew. Now we can use the new science to fight the old science.”
Because here’s the critical point: This wasn’t science finally admitting Indigenous people were right. This was Indigenous communities using scientific tools on their own terms to generate evidence for legal battles over land, water, and sovereignty.
The Blackfoot Confederacy has fought for decades to protect their ancestral territories from governments and energy companies. In 2023, they won a major victory when Solenex LLC relinquished drilling rights in the sacred Badger-Two Medicine area.
Studies like this provide additional legal evidence for treaty rights—but they also expose something uncomfortable: How often has Indigenous knowledge been dismissed as “myth” until Western methods confirmed it?
The question isn’t whether science should lead conversations about the past.
The question is: When will we start listening to the people who never forgot?
Fun Fact: Blackfoot oral traditions describe landscapes from the Ice Age with remarkable accuracy—glacial floods, retreating ice sheets, and extinct megafauna—thousands of years before archaeologists mapped these same events. Knowledge preserved through storytelling proved as reliable as sediment cores and carbon dating.
Dr. Peter Glidden: “A 12 year worldwide meta-analysis study revealed Chemotherapy has a 97% failure rate. So why is it still used? It’s one reason and one reason only, money.”
Watch video: https://x.com/joeroganhq/status/2022772836721443059?s=20
Hey Tom,
Today, I’m excited to introduce you to Zora Benhamou, a gerontologist who studies aging and has some unique ideas about menopause, based on research and her gerontology background.
In this episode, we discuss her take on menopause, including the fact that it’s technically a one-day event! 12 consecutive months without a period lead to your “meno birth date.” But perimenopause – the stage just before menopause – lasts 5 to 7 years on average (10-15 years for some women!), and that’s where the most difficult symptoms can happen.
The biggest menopause myth is that it’s a concern for older women, that it’s something you don’t need to worry about until you’re 50.
But research shows women start losing progesterone around age 35, the calming, relaxing hormone that makes you feel good. The reality is that women should ideally begin thinking about menopause decades earlier, in their 40s and 50s.
In this podcast, Zora and I discuss:
Women start losing progesterone around age 35—your calming, relaxing hormone. When it decreases, you may get sleep disruptions and anxiety, but doctors give antidepressants instead of considering hormones
There are 103 symptoms of menopause, but most people only think about five: joint pain/“frozen shoulder” is common but rarely related to menopause
30% of people over 65 who have a hip fracture die within a year, and this statistic increases as you get older
Before menopause, men’s cardiovascular disease risk is much higher than women’s, but after menopause, women lose their hormones and have a similar risk to men
The “timing window” for hormone therapy benefits is within 10 years of menopause and before age 60
Hormone therapy done right can completely change women’s lives, but it can also go wrong if the body’s not accepting it, not detoxing well, or the doctor didn’t get the right formula
Some women have “progesterone intolerance”—their receptors don’t take in progesterone—they expect good sleep and less anxiety, but get worse sleep and more anxiety
Dr. Felice Gersh believes oral progesterone may not be good for women, even though it makes them feel good. Zora offers a tip on the best way to use progesterone
Yours in health,
–Ari
Click to view the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esGQKBbOPss&list=UULFnQo6oCvS6YuvaablyMT_sw

In 1420, the most powerful armies in Europe marched into Bohemia to crush a rebellion of simple farmers. The Pope had declared a Crusade against these people for the crime of wanting to read the Bible in their own language.
Jan Zizka was a minor noble with one eye and a deep sense of justice. He was nearly 60 years old when he took command of a ragtag force armed with little more than converted farm tools.
But the invaders did not realize they were facing a man who would rewrite the rules of war. Zizka saw that his peasants could not match the armored knights of the Holy Roman Empire in an open field.
He decided to turn their own farm wagons into weapons. He reinforced them with heavy timber and mounted small cannons inside them, creating the world’s first mobile tanks.
When the knights charged, they were met with a wall of steel and fire that they could not penetrate. The elite cavalry of Europe was decimated by men who had spent their lives behind a plow.
Then, tragedy struck. During a siege in 1421, an arrow hit Zizka in his only good eye. The legendary general was now completely blind.
Most men would have retired to a quiet life. But Zizka refused to abandon his people or his faith.
He continued to lead from the front, relying on his subordinates to describe the terrain and the enemy’s position. He could visualize the battlefield in his mind with perfect clarity.
He saw their courage. He saw their sacrifice. He saw their ultimate victory.
In 1422, while totally blind, he led a brilliant night attack at the Battle of Kutna Hora. He managed to break through a massive encirclement, outmaneuvering the finest generals of the age.
He fought in over 100 engagements and never lost a single major battle. Even as the darkness closed in on his physical sight, his tactical vision remained sharper than any king’s.
Jan Zizka died of the plague in 1424, leaving behind a nation that had successfully defended its right to worship God freely. He remains one of only a handful of generals in history to remain undefeated.
His legacy proved that conviction and innovation can overcome the greatest of odds.
Sources: Britannica / Military History Magazine
