In 1991 eight people were sealed inside three acres of glass in the Arizona desert to prove that a carefully designed farm could feed humans without the outside world, and the design had almost no room in it for animals. Two years later the only thing inside that had reliably fed them was a handful of goats. Biosphere 2 cost a hundred and fifty million dollars. A rainforest, an ocean, a savannah and a farm under one roof, with the door welded shut for two years and nothing allowed in or out. The farm was the heart of it, and the farm was built on the modern idea: crops first, grown intensively, with livestock as an afterthought at the edges. A few African pygmy goats for milk, a flock of chickens, and four small feral pigs chosen because they could live on scraps. The pigs did not last the year. In a sealed box short of calories a pig is a competitor, and the crew killed and ate them. The chickens barely laid, because the glass cut the light and there was nothing to feed them that would make an egg. That left the goats, and for two years the goats were the only source of fat in a world designed around vegetables. The accounts the crew wrote afterwards return to them again and again. The half glass of milk a day was the thing people lived for. When a kid was born it was eaten and the meal was written up like a feast. The men lost nearly a fifth of their body weight, the women a tenth, and the food they dreamed of was never the sweet potatoes they had in abundance. It was the animal they had been given too few of. The plants were also taking the air. To make the crops grow the soil had been enriched with compost, and the microbes in that soil breathed oxygen faster than anyone had calculated. The level fell from twenty-one per cent to fourteen, the air of a high mountain, until the crew could not climb a staircase without resting and oxygen had to be trucked in from outside. The design that put plants first had removed the thing everyone needed most. Nobody has ever run the experiment the other way, with a herd at the centre and the crops at the edge. It would not have needed a doctor to explain the results. They were given three acres and told to feed themselves on plants. They ate the pigs, worshipped the goats, and suffocated.

Watch when your body raises its own cholesterol, and you will see what it is for. It goes up in pregnancy. By the third trimester a woman's cholesterol has risen 30 to 50%, because she is building a brain, a liver and a set of glands out of it, and the body does not wait for permission. It goes up in a breastfed baby. Higher than in a formula-fed one, on purpose, because the milk is loaded with it and the brain is doubling in a year. It goes up at puberty, when the testes and ovaries open for business and need the raw material for everything they make. It goes up in winter, every year, in every population measured, because the sun is gone and the skin needs more of it on hand to make what vitamin D it can. It goes up after the menopause, when the ovaries stop using it, and the body keeps the shelf stocked. It goes up when you are injured, at the wound, to close it. And it goes down when you are dying. In sepsis, in cancer, in the starving and the frail, cholesterol falls, and the lower it falls the sooner the end. Up when building. Up when defending. Up when the light goes. Down when the body has given up. The guideline reads the number and calls up a disease and down a success. Your body has been raising it, on purpose, at every important moment of your life, and the tablet is a vote against all of them.

Expected fuel prices after next week’s increase. First time in history it has hit R30+. Diesel might be even more expensive and probably up to R35 per litre (?). And the government still wants their over R6 per litre tax… Just a reminder of what the ANC said in 1993 when the previous government increased fuel prices…

"Nothing sugary for 24 hours before the scan. No bread, no pasta, no fruit, no juice. Then nothing at all for six hours." Why? "We inject you with radioactive glucose. We need the tumour to be hungry for it." The tumour gets hungry? "Cancer cells take up sugar far faster than healthy tissue. That's how we find them. They light up." So if I ate a bowl of cereal first? "It would spoil the picture. The tumour would already be fed." Right. And after the scan? "You can eat normally." Normally being? "We've a trolley coming round. Tea, biscuits, a bit of cake." So for one day you'd like the tumour kept hungry. "For the scan, yes." And for the rest of the year? "A balanced diet. Plenty of starchy carbohydrates." Is it the same tumour on the other days? "...It is." Does it lose interest in sugar once the photo's been taken? "I only do the scans." Two sugars, then, is it?

13 years in government school and an 18-year-old can’t build a house, work on a car, grow food, read a budget, or tell you how their own body works. But they can tell you their pronouns and why they’re depressed. That’s not education. That’s a factory for dependents. Bring back shop class. Home economics. Personal finance. Nutrition. Farming. Welding. Cooking. Changing a tire. Balancing a checkbook. A kid who can feed themselves, fix something, and keep a roof over their head is a lot harder to control than a kid who only knows how to fill out a form and wait for the next program. The system doesn’t want independent adults. It wants obedient slaves. Parents if the school won’t teach it, you will. You need to. Our children deserve self sufficiency and knowledge.

VAT on electricity must be scrapped immediately in order to provide essential relief to beleaguered consumers !!

I am uncertain what the South African government is trying to achieve. Every single price is going up. The price of petrol, the price of electricity, taxes, everything is becoming more and more expensive. We have a 1% growth rate for the past 15 years, so everyone is much poorer now than they were 15 years ago. They choose policies that actively kill jobs and discriminate on race. And yet they're still wondering why this government is becoming extremely unpopular. I was cautiously optimistic about the GNU. But it seems to be a Mexican standoff between people who don't know how to do anything.

Working from home in Cape Town has its own strange quirks… 🤣

This isn’t an interview, it’s a masterclass. This explosive discussion lead by Reiner Fuellmich and Dr. Zelenko must be preserved. Screen record it on your own devices please. The information they bring to you here cost them both very dearly. Honor them by listening and learning.

A message to President Ramaphosa.