Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "A few months ago, the dishonest, antisemitic, UN General Assembly voted to recognize a Paləstine state in violation of International law.
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You see, to be recognized as a state, there has to be recognized borders that that state controls, a unique nation and culture within those borders, and a legitimate government controlling that territory. None of which can be claimed as accurate for anything called Paləstine.
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But there are nations around the world that fit all those internally understood qualifications, that desaerve to be recognized as independent and sovereign national states.
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There is a behavior, predating even social media, called a crackpot. These are people who, despite their lack of information, or precisely because of it, believe they understand more than experts and scientists in the field. Many spend years trying to prove things like...
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"Einstein made a huge mistake in the Theory of Relativity, and I can prove it."
Their texts and "proofs" don't make sense, but they are unable to perceive it. When people laugh, don't respond, or even try to explain their mistake, they get angry and accuse them of a ...
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...conspiracy. Crackpots invented the World Conspiracies Against Me.
This pattern found fertile ground among anti-vaxxers, anti-science, anti-medicine advocates, and as a sales tool for the "dietary supplements, wellness and pseudoscience" industry.
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amazon.com/Quackery-20-Mi…

Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, “In the USA, three things need to be seriously investigated:

A. Who and what organizations, domestic or foreign, are funding protest demonstrations against ICE, are pro-Hamas, and pro Antifa.
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It appears to be that the funding is coming from a number of US-based organizations, plus Qatar, and plus China.

What we know is that in many cases, protesters are being organized and paid by professionals.
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B. When there is fraud, illegal use of federal grants and subsidies, that money is going to someone. It does not just disappear. There needs to be both an investigation and a serious effort to recoup that money.
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*** Ontario Virus & Variant Update | Jan 11 ***

Hospitalizations due to COVID increased from 176 to 241 in the last update. Influenza hospitalizations have start dropping from the peak of 1,400 to 1,095 with RSV increasing from 121 to 156. 🧵1/

Looking back over the past few years, new hospitalizations for RSV have remained pretty stable the last two years around 2,500 and a decrease from 2023, while COVID has been significantly dropping each year, 26,571 in 2023 to 15,739 in 2024 to 6,788 in 2025. 2/

Influenza has been doing the opposite, increasing significantly each year from 3,486, to 4,380 in 2024, to 12,818 in 2025. 3/

After looking up some of the leaked contacts from the head of Mossad in Iran, I've noticed that a very large proportion of the US-based contacts are Iranian--which means we have thousands of Mossad allies among us, apparently working hard to subvert US foreign policy.

https://twitter.com/icu_luci/status/2010112957834035692

After all this time after the deposition of the Shah, there are probably second and third generations among us--likely citizens by now. Which may help to explain this:

Surely many of them have been going back and forth between Iran and the USA to stir up trouble, at the Mossad's direction. So there's a good chance that those crowds are made up largely of American citizens...and Trump has a duty to protect them.

📝💡𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐃𝐑 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬💡📝

📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (05 January - 11 January 2026):

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Equitable Earth raised $14.6M to expand nature-based project certification.
eq-earth.com/blog/equitable…

Black Bull Biochar raised £4M to scale biochar for soil and carbon removal across NW England and northern Europe.
tspventures.co.uk/2026/01/07/tsp…

The Carbon Removers secured nearly $1.3 million in support from the South of Scotland Enterprise.
bbc.com/news/articles/…

Carbon Centric received $0.9M from Enova to deliver permanent CDR and produce sustainable, liquefied CO₂.
chemxplore.com/news/enova-gra…

Tamil Nadu Forest Dept launched ₹8.5 cr pyrolysis plant for biochar production & carbon credits generation.
biochartoday.com/news/south-ind…

Carmeuse Ventures invested in Planeteers’ rock weathering tech to store CO₂ long-term as bicarbonates.
linkedin.com/posts/carmeuse…

Salesforce pre-bought 12,492 tCO₂ removal from 19 suppliers via Milkywire.
milkywire.framer.website/articles/milky…

CO2 Energie AG and INEOS signed an agreement, facilitated by Airfix, to store captured Swiss biogenic CO₂ at Greensand Future in the Danish North Sea.
airfixcarbon.com/article/swiss-…

Carba installed world's first molten salt pyrolysis reactor for CO₂ removal via waste biomass.
start-midwest.com/news/minnesota…

@Isometric_HQ certified new IFM protocol, also unveiled the first supplier 'Renoster' under the new offering.
isometric.com/writing-articl…

NatureRe & Nestlé Nespresso partnered to restore 700 ha in Colombia for carbon credits.
linkedin.com/feed/update/ac…

Bigadan partnered with Isometric to certify and issue scientifically rigorous CDR credits from its Kalundborg Bioenergy project in Denmark.
linkedin.com/posts/isometri…

Idemitsu Americas invested in Carbonfuture’s digital MRV infrastructure for carbon removal.
carbonherald.com/carbonfuture-s…

Patch Cloverly partnered to connect enterprise-grade procurement processes directly to supply-side carbon credit infrastructure.
patch.io/patch-cloverly

Grassroots Carbon delivered 1.9 M tCO₂ removals via regenerative ranching.
finance.yahoo.com/news/grassroot…

Carbonsate issued 799 carbon credits from Namibia project under Puro.earth methodology.
linkedin.com/posts/puro-ear…

Greentown Labs, Shell & Technip launched Go Make 2026, supporting startups in low-carbon fuels, CDR, and alternative chemicals.
greentownlabs.com/greentown-labs…

Kita launched Non-Payment Insurance product to reduce financing risk for climate and nature projects.
kita.earth/non-payment-in…

Exomad Green doubled Riberalta biochar facility capacity to capture 120,000 tCO₂ annually.
linkedin.com/posts/exomadgr…

The fourth CEEZER Carbon Coalition Accelerator opened applications until 6 Feb 2026, supporting nature-based CO₂ removal.
go.ceezer.earth/CCC_NBs_cohort…

AlliedOffsets’ 2025 review showed the CDR deals surged, but demand remained concentrated among a limited number of buyers and regions.
alliedoffsets.com/wp-content/upl…

@BeZeroCarbon found high-quality credits (A+) doubled from 10% in 2022 to 23% in 2025.
bezerocarbon.com/insights/2025-…

Between 2021 and 2025, $3.6 billion was invested in carbon removal, per @cdr_fyi report.
cdr.fyi/blog/2026-inve…

A new study finds that oceans struggle to absorb Earth's CO2 as microplastics invade their waters.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Forest management delivers far higher carbon returns per dollar in China than afforestation, says new study.
nature.com/articles/s4324…

Sinking trees in Arctic Ocean could remove 1 billion tonnes of CO2, per new study.
nature.com/articles/s4416…

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I agree with this person.

@HillaryClinton and @KamalaHarris were perfect candidates.

@JasmineForUS is the perfect Texas statewide candidate.

https://twitter.com/rainbowmojo26/status/2010358459875856726

@threadreaderapp please unroll

This is my Long COVID story/routine. It's personal, a little controversial, and not a prescription.

Much of it is evidence-based, if you're curious use x.com/search-advanced on my account and you'll find the studies I've shared.

thread below 👇 x.com/atranscendedma…

1/ I’ve been managing Long COVID for 5 years now. You learn a lot about chronic illness in months, but years make it familiar in a way you never asked for.

I got COVID in January 2021. It was moderate-severe (probably hospital-worthy), and I was never quite the same afterward.

2/ I live with extreme stress. A high-conflict marriage (now divorcing), a demanding tech job, two kids I care for, graduate school, NIH involvement, and all of it while sick.

It's hard to heal when you never get a day off.

🔴 🧵 Dispatch of the last few days from inside Iran.

Please read and share. This is a detailed ground report from Tehran and Karaj.

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I am inside Iran.

I write this from a connection so weak it feels like breathing through a cracked wall. I am an IT expert, and it still took me three days to build a slow, unstable link. Most of my friends have nothing. No messages. Not even calls during the night. Absolutely no internet connection at all.

This is only a fraction of what happened across these nights. Even if an all seeing AI tried to translate every second into words, the result would be hundreds of pages, at least 300, because the whole country was fighting in the dark at the same time.

This is my diary of January 8 through January 10. It is built from what I witnessed and what trusted friends and family relayed to me through offline means and brief signal windows during the blackout. I am not guessing. I am recording.

Thursday, January 8, 2026

The call was for 8 pm. People started chanting before 4 pm.

By 6 pm the digital blackout began to clamp down. Connections dropped, returned, dropped again. I kept mine alive by switching through layered VPN methods. Most people could not. One by one, the city went silent online while getting louder in the streets.

By 8 pm, Tehran and Karaj were packed wall to wall. Protests do not look like that. This was the streets being taken back. We have not seen numbers or nerve like this in 2009, 2022, or November 2019.

From 8 pm to 11 pm, the streets were fire. Clashes with regime forces. People defending each other. Around 9 pm, in some areas, they moved to live rounds. People were shot.

Tehran, Haft Hoz, Narmak, Tehranpars

A friend in Narmak described a crowd that still sounds unreal. Elderly women and men. Youth. Children. Every kind of Iranian. It was not one group. It was the country in one place.

At about 7:10 pm, they saw roughly ten to twenty uniformed forces near the metro. Later, the uniforms faded. The plainclothes multiplied inside the crowd.

Before the main gathering fully peaked, my friends tried to use the restroom. They entered through the parking entrance of a commercial complex. The moment they stepped inside, the chant hit the building. Long live the Shah. Immediate. Then tear gas was released inside the mall. Panic. People rushing for any exit.

They took an elevator down to reach the restrooms. Suddenly people ran in telling them to get out now because the doors were going to be shut and they would be trapped and jailed inside. They ran out and hit a flood of people in the street. They stayed with the chant and moved toward the larger crowd.

Tear gas kept landing in the middle of people. Over and over. In one hour alone, more than twenty to thirty canisters were fired. One detail matters. The friend reporting this was near the back end of the crowd, and the crowd stretched for about a kilometer. From where they stood, it did not make sense for the gas to be coming from the direction of the Haft Hoz police station. Some canisters seemed to come from within the crowd or from above, from rooftops or higher points. That kind of attack makes you doubt everyone around you.

Over roughly four hours, that friend says they stopped seeing uniformed forces entirely. What they saw instead was plainclothes agents everywhere, breaking groups apart with speed and ease.

People fought back the way unarmed crowds can. They pulled down signs. They smashed surveillance cameras. They kept moving. The crowd did not shrink. It grew.

By around 10:30 to 11 pm, regime forces started dispersing the crowd again and again at intersections. The mass broke into smaller clusters. People got scared. Many started to leave.

But from the front came a different report. People were saying groups were moving toward the Haft Hoz police station to storm it. Then came shootings. My friend reported people were hit, including someone shot right next to their friend.

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"Near the metro, they reported people setting a police car on fire. At an intersection, they reported people burning street fixtures, including bus stop infrastructure.

Another detail matters because it shows how the regime uses rumors as a weapon. People kept warning that Basij and plainclothes were waiting at squares and corners. My friends could not move toward their car because they feared they would be grabbed. Later, they realized many warnings were part of the fog itself. In some places, there was nobody there.

Tehran, other districts reported to me that night

Yousef Abad had a major regime base in the neighborhood. People still held position all night under fire. At least three deaths were reported to me from that area.

Sadeghiyeh was worse. A friend reported at least eight shot dead. More than two hundred people went home with severe injuries. At least half were described as serious enough to need hospital care. Even with that, the crowd held until regime forces backed down. Then people held the area through the night.

Ekbatan took repeated waves and shootings. Regime forces still failed to disperse the crowd. They withdrew.

Karaj, where the night turned sharper

Mehrshahr saw direct fire into the front rows once forces realized they could not break the crowd. The intent was to kill and injure the first line so the rest would scatter. Deaths and injuries were reported.

Golshahr escalated step by step. First warning shots. Then grenades and heavy tear gas. When that failed, live fire. People still held the streets and did not go home until around 2 am.

Gohardasht had one detail that says everything about how they treat civilians. A car that was only honking was hit by direct rifle fire, described as AK47.

That was Thursday. Through it all, the blackout kept thickening. I stayed connected through layered workarounds. Most of my contacts went dark. The rest reached me through offline relays and tiny signal windows. Every update felt like a note passed through a prison wall.

Friday, January 9, 2026

Tehranpars again. The second night was not smaller. It was more violent and more tactical.

My friends reported around twenty to thirty motorbike units arriving. They hit crowds with gunfire and grenades like it was routine. The pattern repeated. People scattered. People regrouped. People returned.

One moment sticks out. During a hard charge, a friend looked right and saw guns aimed directly at them. The shooters fired above heads into doors, walls, and buildings. It was not harmless. Debris and fragments hit people in the head and body.

They took refuge inside a home because continuing to run meant being caught. In their words, it felt like a shoot to kill posture, not crowd control.

When the engine noise finally faded, they went back out toward Seyedol Shohada Square. They saw a large crowd still moving. Still present. Still flowing toward Flakeh Aval. The regime did not get to decide when the night ended.

Karaj, Golshahr, Friday night

Golshahr became sustained street control. People effectively closed streets and pushed regime forces back for five straight hours.

Around 11:30 pm, my network reported a huge explosion sound described as coming from above. Minutes later the sky turned orange.

They reported the Shahrdari building on Hadadi Street burning. Flames shifting colors. Red. Orange. Blue. Even green at one point. The building was described as destroyed. At least two people were reportedly shot, based on eyewitness accounts from my friends.

Saturday, January 10, 2026

Tehran, Saadat Abad and Sattar Khan. The surge was bigger than expected. The crackdown was harsher than expected. The crowd still did not fold.

At least eleven deaths were reported in my network across those areas that night. There were also reports of casualties on the regime side, but we do not have a reliable count."

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"What stayed consistent across all three nights

The regime climbed the same ladder everywhere. Warning shots. Tear gas. Grenades. Live fire.

Motorbike strike units were used for fast intimidation and dispersal. Plainclothes agents operated inside crowds, creating fear, confusion, and sudden fragmentation. In at least one place, the front rows were targeted directly to force retreat.

And still people held ground. They regrouped. They came back. Again and again.

Lion and Sun flags were visible in the open. Drafsh Kaviani flags were visible too. The street was not only angry. It was declaring identity.

The chants were not random. They were directional. They said what we reject and what we are moving toward.

Iran shode amade, farman bede Shahzadeh
Iran is ready, give the order, Prince

In akharin nabarde, Pahlavi barmigarde
This is the final battle, Pahlavi returns

Javid Shah
Long live the Shah

Jomhouri Eslami nemikhaym
We do not want the Islamic Republic

Marg bar dictator
Death to the dictator

Marg bar Khamenei
Death to Khamenei

Khamenei ghatel e, hokoomatesh batel e
Khamenei is a killer, his rule is illegitimate

Emsal saal, khune Seyed Ali sarangoone
This year is the year Seyed Ali’s house falls

Zooze bekesh Mooshali, dare miad Pahlavi
Howl, Moosh Ali, Pahlavi is coming

And another line I kept hearing in different forms, the simplest one
Do not be afraid, we are together

The blackout became its own battlefield. Internet blackout everywhere. Phone lines cut during call out hours. No normal text messages for ordinary people. Rare access only through Starlink or complicated, slow workarounds. This is how they try to shoot in the dark, isolate neighborhoods from each other, and keep the world blind.

But even blind, the nation moves.

This does not feel like scattered protest. It feels like repeated attempts to take and hold streets, with people returning after each dispersal and staying late into the night in multiple districts.

And something else keeps showing through the cracks. Stress inside their forces. Fear. Confusion. Less willingness to fight for the terrorist Islamic Regime occupying Iran in many places. You can feel it in how fast they reach for bullets, and how often they still fail to fully clear the streets.

Final note

Iran will be free because we are willing to pay whatever it costs. We are not going home, because going home is just a slower death, more decay, more silence.

We are putting our lives on the line for a tomorrow that belongs to all of us. One nation. One flag. One leader. Together, we are the revolution. And we are coming for them.

🇮🇷 "

1).
„Operation Hawkeye Strike”, named after two U.S. soldiers killed on Dec. 13, 2025, by an ISIS terrorist in Syria, was so named because they were from the state of Iowa known as the „Hawkeye State” [1].

https://twitter.com/CENTCOM/status/2010089772120002721

2).
„The soldiers were identified as 25-year-old Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres Tovar of Des Moines, Iowa, and 29-year-old Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard of Marshalltown, Iowa [2] [3].

3).
Both were members of the Iowa National Guard, which began deploying roughly 1,800 troops to the Middle East earlier this year as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, the US mission to defeat ISIS. Three other Iowa National Guard members were injured in the attack.”

Contrary to many EU-doomsayers, I predict the EU will rapidly reemerge over the next decades as the most advanced and powerful regional power on the planet. On one condition: that we defend it.
Here’s why. Very long thread:
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INSTITUTIONAL ROBUSTNESS.
US global financial and tech hegemony is soon to dramatically contract, if not collapse, once the current Trumpian geopolitical seppuku fully plays out, under the pressure of the very same forces that conspire for the destruction of the EU. Our apparently weak and fragmented institutions are proving more distributed, balanced, resilient, and capable of adaptation, than the monolithic US federalist infra. The MAGA takeover just proves how frail that system is. Contrast that with the capability of the EU institutions over the past 15 years to creatively adapt and solve all major challenges that were supposed to be fatal for the Union (sovereign debts, covid, war in Ukraine, Trumpian geopolitics and tariffs). The process may look messy, fractured, slow, but it always delivers. And it always delivers relatively well (in terms of the broadest interests of EU citizens).
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ECONOMIC POTENTIAL
Forget about current US growth (it's just AI slop). The EU is already embarked on a massive transition to digital, tech, military, and industrial autonomy which is going to pay massive dividends over the next years. The fact that you don’t see it now is only because exponential phenomena are always invisible until they’re everywhere. The truth is that we just started rebuilding all of the strategic infrastructure that we’ve outsourced so far to others. That’s something that both the US and China cannot do, because they already have it. For Europe it’s just an immense area of economic development that we just must go and grab. All we need is to set our own European animal spirits a little bit freer (and we are learning here). With the added bonus of having the opportunity of making things better.
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NEW

An initially-secret report for Customs and Border Patrol in 2013 found:

In many cases, the “driver was attempting to flee from the agents who intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby … creating justification for the use of deadly force.”
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2/ I discuss this report at greater length on my YouTube channel and Substack

Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-18…
YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=izontt…

3/ Customs and Border Patrol tried to keep the report’s findings secret from Congress.

Excerpt from LA Times Feb. 2014 (by @ByBrianBennett) ⬇️

latimes.com/nation/la-na-b…