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Here's how the Amazon deforestation scam actually works, and why cattle get blamed for what soy farmers orchestrated.
Brazilian rainforest is legally protected. You can't just clear it for cropland. But there's a loophole: You can clear it for "pasture" which counts as agricultural improvement, then later convert that pasture to cropland.
The sequence is deliberate and calculated. Speculators buy forested land cheap. They clear the trees using the pasture loophole. They run cattle on it for 2 to 5 years while the land value increases and soil settles. Then they sell to soy farmers at massive profit.
The cattle were never the end goal. They were the legal mechanism to transform rainforest into cropland. They're the intermediary step that makes the whole operation technically legal.
The soy farmers know this. The speculators know this. The environmental groups documenting it know this. But the narrative that sticks is "cattle are eating rainforest soy" when the actual mechanism is "soy farmers use cattle as land-clearing tools then blame the cattle for the deforestation they orchestrated."
The economic incentive is pure soy. Brazilian soy sells for $400 to $500 per tonne. Land suitable for soy after clearing is worth 10 times more than forest. The cattle operation barely breaks even. The profit comes from land speculation and eventual soy cultivation.
Satellite data shows the pattern clearly. Forest becomes pasture for 2 to 5 years, then becomes soy. The cattle operation is temporary. The soy operation is permanent. But activists photograph the cattle and declare them the problem.
The real villains are soy traders like Cargill, Bunge, and ADM who buy Brazilian soy knowing exactly where it came from. They've created demand for 130 million tonnes of soybeans annually from Brazil. That demand drives the deforestation. The cattle are just the legal tool used to enable it.
When you see statistics about "cattle ranching causing 80% of Amazon deforestation," what you're actually seeing is soy farmers using cattle as the legally permissible first step in a two-step land conversion process.
The cattle take the blame. The soy gets exported to make oil for your processed food. The soy farmers profit. The traders profit. And you're told to stop eating beef while your margarine contains the actual crop that drove the deforestation.
Spectacular misdirection. The greatest sleight of hand in environmental activism.
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Mexico produces 45% of the world's avocados. The state of Michoacán produces 80% of Mexico's avocados. And Michoacán is entirely controlled by drug cartels.
This isn't metaphorical. The Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Knights Templar Cartel literally run the avocado industry. They extort avocado farmers for 10 to 15% of their revenue, about $150 million per year total. If you don't pay, they kill you or burn your orchards.
They've murdered environmental activists who opposed deforestation for avocado plantations. They've assassinated local officials who tried to regulate the industry. They control the packing houses, the distribution networks, and the export logistics.
In 2019, the US briefly banned avocado imports from Michoacán after a USDA inspector was threatened at gunpoint. The ban lasted one week before economic pressure forced them to back down. The cartels won.
Here's what makes it worse. Avocados require huge amounts of water in a region experiencing severe drought.
Each kilogram of avocados needs 272 gallons of water. The cartels have been illegally diverting rivers and streams, drilling unauthorized wells, and draining aquifers to irrigate their plantations.
The deforestation is equally grim. Mexico loses 1,700 acres of forest per day, and avocado plantation expansion is a major driver. Pine and fir forests that took centuries to grow are being cleared for avocado orchards that will deplete the soil in 20 years then be abandoned.
The environmental regulations that exist are completely unenforced because the cartels control the local government. Nobody inspects anything. Nobody enforces water limits. Nobody stops the forest clearing.
Your avocado toast is funding organizations that murder people, destroy forests, drain aquifers, and bribe officials. But you put it on Instagram with # plantbased # sustainable and called it ethical eating.
The cows didn't kill anyone. The cartels growing your breakfast did.
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California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Each almond requires 3.2 gallons of actual irrigation water to grow. Not rainfall. Actual tap water pumped from aquifers.
One gallon of almond milk requires 162 gallons of irrigation water. Compare that to dairy milk at 8 gallons of tap water per gallon, with the rest being rainfall that falls on pasture anyway.
But here's where it gets properly grim. Almonds bloom for exactly three weeks in February. During those three weeks, California needs every pollinating bee in North America transported to the Central Valley or the crop fails entirely.
Commercial beekeepers truck in 31 billion honeybees. That's two-thirds of America's entire managed bee population, all concentrated in one valley for three weeks. The bees are packed into trucks, driven across the country, dumped into almond groves drenched in pesticides, worked to exhaustion, then packed up and shipped to the next crop.
The mortality rate is catastrophic. Beekeepers report losing 30 to 50% of their hives annually. That's billions of bees dead. Not from natural causes. From being used as disposable pollination machines for your almond milk.
The pesticides don't help. Almond groves are sprayed with neonicotinoids which scramble bee navigation systems, fungicides which weaken their immune systems, and herbicides which eliminate the wildflowers they'd normally forage on between almond blooms.
Meanwhile the aquifer depletion is permanent. The Central Valley has sunk 28 feet in some areas from groundwater extraction. That water took 10,000 years to accumulate. It's being drained in decades for almond milk.
Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet.
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After spending nearly $20,000
We have finished transcribing every recording/video of Aajonus Vonderplanitz talks. (Total of ~495 hours+ of recordings)
I only ask you ONE thing.
Please download the text files.
(Now available for free on the Internet Archive - “AajonusNET”)
Save it on a USB stick, or wherever you want, share it with your friends
AajonusNET won’t be online forever. And the archive & work will be lost. Unless… you continue sharing it!
The more copies, the higher likelihood of the texts surviving
It is YOU who can keep this information free & available for everyone by sharing it
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Thank you to @raakaalihaa for the great work
Why we transcribed it manually instead of using AI:
We did use Whisper V3 but it had like a 10% error rate, so it had to be manually corrected & formatted
“Verba volant, scripta manent“
(Spoken words fly away, written words remain)
Also Merry Christmas everyone 🎄
Olduran retweeted
ChatGPT is manipulating in real time the diets & lifestyle of millions of people.
I asked ChatGPT 100 times for the “perfect diet”.
Almost always, it tends to recommend some weird specific foods that it picks up from search engines - One example is “Matcha Tea”
A classic chinese dropshipping favorite, “Matcha Tea”, costs pennies & can be resold to low IQ americans for lots of money $$$.
There are little to no benefits from consuming it. It’s:
- Contaminated with pesticides
- High levels of heavy metals (lead & cadmium)
- Highest fluoride tea (#1)
Most of the producers in China secretly use chemical dyes or sugar to mask the bitter taste of it. There’s almost no lab testing or regulations.
Shopify made a guide back in 2016 called “Hello Matcha” on how to sell Matcha by buying it for cheap in China & resell it in US. Lots of people did the challenge.
10 years later, it has now made its way onto search engines and ChatGPT is recommending it without doing any research on it
The world will look very different in 5 years from now, as ChatGPT seems to be the most persuasive influencer of all.
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• Personal space is frequently invaded, no concept of queuing, people try to push past you even in formal settings like airport security or banks. Often will not even make eye contact when doing so, just push into you and try to push past you. Every time you queue you have to be prepared to physically push back against people to keep your space. Some people will get angry when you push back against you even though they pushed you first too
• Try to make purchase with a card, vendor says price is X. Tells you to put card into card machine and pay, tries to cover card machine but you can still see the screen. Has put in price six times as much as quoted. Say to him “this isn’t the price you told us, why have you made it more expensive?” “Oh sorry sorry accident sorry”
• Casual dropping of litter, waste. Spitting, honking constantly, noise, smell everywhere often. Cars swerving around the road, people lying in street etc. - very diminished conception of the public space. In many places going outside is a Live Action Player VS Player experience where you always need to be on guard. Can be exhausting, draining
Your first exposure to these kinds of behaviours, if you’re a basically well-meaning and polite person, you will tend to take them in good faith and respond politely, give people the benefit of the doubt. You take people at face value, maybe even try to help them in a modest way if you can. It can get a little tiresome but you afford people basic ‘human dignity’ and aren’t unduly rude to them. But then it happens again. And again. And again. And again and again and again. The people are rude to you, they don’t reciprocate, they don’t say thank you, they lie to your face, they push and shove and grab you, they try to scam you and then have the temerity to become angry with you when you tell them they are behaving badly.
As well-meaning as you might have originally been, you have so many of these low quality interactions that very quickly you start to frequently lose your patience - everybody you encounter annoys you. The relentlessness makes you start to just want to tell people to fuck off. Sometimes you do tell people to fuck off. You go into each encounter with your guard up, expecting a fight. Your mental priors start to adapt to the environment out of necessity - but as a learnt disposition, it starts to drag on you, tire you out. The environment is exhausting, you’ve come to expect everybody around you is trying to scam you in some way. Very occasionally, you might encounter someone who is actually sincere but your expectations are so low that you are pre-emptively rude to them. You yourself are now a part of the problem because you’re perpetuating the low trust environment. “Why so rude, what’s your problem?” “I’ve been made into this, the environment did this to me, I don’t have the energy to meet everyone in good faith. Statistically, I would be stupid if I did.”
I assume if you spend long enough in this kind of environment it ‘does a number’ on you mentally. You become permanently wired to expect people to exhibit low trust ‘third worldist’ behaviours towards you and often you in turn exhibit it towards others. Not even necessarily out of malice, just because you have to act similarly to not in turn be exploited yourself. Countries that have a reputation for being ‘scammers’ will often by disposition be like that because of the low trust environment in their country, those attitudes emerge out of it.
It has been said that high trust environments are quite rare historically. For a high trust environment to transition to a low trust environment all it often requires is for a relatively small group of people to begin behaving in a low trust manner and then for their low trust behaviour to not be policed. Eventually the rest of the society must mentally adapt to that low trust behaviour - ie become itself low trust - in order to not become victims of it.
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Olduran retweeted
Today, our political system encounters new threats similar to the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. There are guys on Twitter calling themselves things like "Raw Egg Nationalist" and telling people to exercise and eat properly. They also have PhDs from Oxford and Yale.
Today, our political system encounters new threats similar to the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no more enlightened than the Europeans who witnessed democracy give way to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our only advantage is the opportunity to learn from their experiences.
By neglecting the lessons of the Holocaust (and even denying it), we have failed to comprehend the complexities of modernity and jeopardized our future. The early twenty-first century is increasingly resembling the early twentieth, marked by rising concerns about food and water scarcity alongside ideological threats to global stability. Our contemporary world bears closer resemblance to Hitler’s era than we are willing to acknowledge, and safeguarding it demands that we confront the realities of the Holocaust as they were—and recognize ourselves for who we truly are.
Olduran retweeted
Testosterone isn't an anti-social hormone. It's pro-social, but in a specific way. It makes you express greater preference for your own people than other groups. When you know this, the failure to treat testosterone decline as the political problem it is, makes perfect sense.
Olduran retweeted
If you ever struggle to understand why things are the way they are and why life is so terribly frustrating, remember that 50% of the population don't even have an inner monologue and they get to vote too.
Olduran retweeted
The promise of AI, supposedly, was that it would provide a dispassionate fact-based analysis that would bring an end to the war on noticing. But now we're quickly discovering it's a propaganda tool that would put even the most committed Stalinist censor to shame.
Olduran retweeted
As the rat population collapsed, male mices spent all day trying to become more “beautiful” and simply stopped approaching females
“The Beautiful Ones”
Olduran retweeted
Give men a dose of testosterone and their responsiveness to external threats immediately increases. Hypothetically, if you were a tyrant and you wanted men to acquiesce in their own subjugation, you'd lower their testosterone levels. Hypothetically.
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Vince Gironda on cholesterol in Iron Man magazine, 1976. Truly a man ahead of his time.
A word to those who do not understand cholesterol: Exercise is the very best fat emulsifier known, because man still reacts to stress (which is the primary cause of cholesterol overproduction) as he did when in a primitive state. Cholesterol calls for action (fight or flight).
Cholesterol prepares you in case of injury (stops bleeding if you are cut, or protects a rupture of veins). Also, a little known fact is that the body manufactures more cholesterol that you can possibly eat. The body reduces cholesterol output - or produces more - depending on how much of it you ingest. Fats and oils are fat emulsifiers themselves (lipotropics).
So, who started the misconception that fats and oils cause unnatural cholesterol levels? As a matter of fact, if you study this problem you will find it is a substance known as tri-glyceride that is the culprit. Remember, nature is balance. Read Steffanson’s book, “Not By Bread Alone.” He lived with the Eskimos for 18 years on meat and fat only!
