kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

> The people that are now spreading COVID misinformation have, for a decade, been spreading false cancer cures, then selling false cures for everything from psoriasis to HIV. Health misinformation is a super profitable business. We look at people who are at the top of the game, like Joseph Mercola, like Mike Adams, so-called “Health Ranger.” These people live in palaces and make millions of dollars

https://slate.com/technology/2021/09/ivermectin-covid-misinformation-social-media-grift.html

> Poles weren't easy guests in Italian towns. Drinking, fighting between themselves, prostitution, camping in parks, forced "windscreen washing services" on junctions.

Generally tons of very interesting memories, some of them I share to the extent as a ~13 years old can see what his parents are doing. Very humbling, and very teaching in the context of today's debates on immigration.

> Italy was another popular destination because Vatican, Pope etc. It wasn't easy to travel as you had to have contacts to buy a foreign trip and pay in dollars, whose possession was technically illegal. Then, people didn't keep their passports at home - they were kept at police stations and each time you had to present papers why you are allowed to receive it.

> In Vienna we met a Polish saleswoman trading towels on Mexicoplatz. She was a director of a store in Poland, who took all store's supply to Vienna to sell it for profit.

> Camps were overcrowded by Eastern European refugees. Austrian authorities were furious when US and other countries were sending them rice and flour, when the only thing they needed was to accept some refugees to off-load the camps.

Some memories from communist Poland 🇵🇱 in 80's, when over 500'000 Poles desperately used *any* means available to escape the country. Many of them escaped through Austria, where they requested asylum and waited for months:

> I was with my husband, our kid had to stay in Poland with my parents as a hostage. In #communism families were not allowed to spend holidays abroad together. When Security Service saw we're not returning, they took away food coupons from my parents

https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/amnezja-narodu-emigrantow-polacy-nie-uwazaja-ze-sa-komus-cos-winni/2mv78fn

"60% renewable" Germany 🇩🇪 right now #Energiewende you're doing it wrong 🤦‍♂️

No, it's not a child abuse or some other violent crime or even drug trading - just protests in France:

> Protonmail responded to this request by providing the IP address and the fingerprint of the browser used by the collective

https://secoursrouge.org/france-suisse-securite-it-protonmail-a-communique-a-la-police-ladresse-ip-de-militant%c2%b7es-anti-gentrification/

I kind of predicted this already in 2014... by merely reading #ProtonMail privacy policy:

https://ipsec.pl/protonmail-security-promise.html

About fossil gas a replacement fuel for #nuclear power:

You need 20 giant LNG tankers, to produce the 10 TWh of electricity that one German nuclear plant produces anually.

The nuclear power plant needs only 60 tons of fuel rods, which fits in 3-4 trucks.

Also, the gas will release ~40x more greenhouse gases per each kWh produced.

Note to all who read it - it has been allegedly debunked by the hospital

For updates follow professor Channa Prakash

https://twitter.com/AgBioWorld

This has been predicted already in June 2021 (!)

https://scientist.lk/2021/06/08/sri-lanka-going-organic-rethink-the-strategy-agriculturists-write-to-president/

Sri Lanka hired organic & natural advisors such as Vandana Shiva to reform its agricultural sector... and ended up banning "chemical fertilisers" and pesticides.

As result, it saw a tragically low harvest which results in food shortages and threatens whole branches of Sri Lankan industry.

Protests of farming and scientific community who predicted this failure were ignored.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/1/organic-food-revolution-sri-lanka-tea-industry

#gmo #organic #natural

The official plan for Belgium #Energiewende transitions from 12 gCO2eq/kWh fuel to... 400 gCO2eq/kWh fuel. Just as in Germany, someone has completely missed the point - it was reduction of CO2 that was the primary goal of Energiewende!!!

As we talk about people drinking bleach and ivermectin, 🇺🇸 Representative Ro Khanna and 24 others have just sent a letter to FDA to request guidelines on protection of "genuine homeopathic products".

Let that phrase sink in:

> genuine homeopathic products

😂

As I read it, "genuine homeopathic product" is a product made by one of the manufacturers designated as "genuine", thus saving them the hurdle of competing on the difficult snake oil market.

#homeopathy