Called an emergency vet clinic to treat a standard ear infection on my dog.

Quote came back at $940.

I asked the receptionist how long the procedure takes.

She goes: "about 10 minutes."

I said: "so I'm paying $5,600 an hour for labor?"

She looked around and whispered:

"I make $18 an hour. The private equity health conglomerate that bought out our local vet clinic last year sets mandatory revenue quotas on every single exam room."

Then she showed me her tablet.

If she doesn't hit $2,500 a day in diagnostic upsells, her clinic manager writes her up.

The original family vet ran that practice for 25 years charging $75 a visit and knew every animal by name.

Now Wall Street private equity owns veterinary clinics, dental chains, and optical stores across the country….. jacked up prices by 400%, and put animal caretakers on corporate sales commissions.

You aren't paying for veterinary care anymore.

You're funding a private equity fund's debt service on a basic ear drop that costs $4 to manufacture.

https://x.com/confrontfr/status/2111450703080182089

BREAKING: 🇮🇱 ISRAEL DISCOVERED HACKING MILLIONS OF PHONES

Israel has been caught running one of the largest spyware operations in history, even developing a new next-gen spyware.

They’ve hacked the phones of MILLIONS worldwide including Journalists, politicians, activists, courts, universities and defence organisations.

This should be headline news but but the media is IGNORING it.

Israeli ad company Discover-Tech used ordinary online ads to infect people’s devices with spyware WITHOUT them having to click on anything.

If the ad appeared on a website or app in front of you, you got infected.

So far, over 120,000 websites and 70,000 apps were found to be pushing Israeli spyware at least 10 million times a day…

And Discover-Tech was found accounting for 2%-10% of ALL digital ads in Palestine…

The company was working with an Israeli spyware vendor the U.S. blacklisted in 2021. Yet somehow it passed vendor review for SIX years by Google and other ad platforms. I wonder why….

The vendor was called Candiru and now goes by Integrity Labs (lol).

Always use an ad blocker and refuse personalised ads.

https://x.com/leahfiles/status/2111094612399960459

Here's what to do to protect yourself: (1) Use an ad blocker. Citizen Lab calls ad-blocking a cybersecurity best practice and says there is no consistently safe way to be exposed to targeted ads. On iPhone, add a Safari content blocker. On Android, use Brave or Firefox with uBlock Origin. Ad blockers only work in your browser, not inside apps, so it also helps to delete free ad-supported apps you don’t need. Kill your advertising ID.

(2) iPhone: Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking, and turn off “Allow Apps to Request to Track.” Then Settings > Privacy & Security > Apple Advertising, and turn Personalized Ads off.

(2) Android 12 or later: Settings > Privacy > Ads > Delete Advertising ID. Then in Settings > Google > All Services > Privacy & security > Ads > Ads privacy, turn off Ad topics and Ad measurement.

(3) Windows 11: Settings > Privacy & Security > General, and turn off personalized ads using your advertising ID.

(4) Update your phone and restart it often. Many zero-click exploits don’t survive a reboot, so a daily restart forces attackers to reinfect you.

Stay tuned!

Replacing physical door keys with smartphone apps in an independent living building isn't "modernization." It’s negligence masquerading as tech innovation.

My 84-year-old grandmother lives in an apartment complex where mostly retirees reside. Two months ago, corporate ownership bought the property and swapped every single deadbolt for a "smart access" digital lock system.

No more brass keys. You have to open an app, connect via Bluetooth, and swipe to unlock your front door.

Last Thursday, she walked down to the lobby at 7:30 PM to grab her mail in her slippers. Her phone died in her cardigan pocket.

She got back to her door and was locked out in the hallway.

She walked down to the front desk. The office closed at 5:00 PM. She picked up the emergency wall phone. The automated recording said: "To report a maintenance lockout, please submit a ticket through the Resident Connect portal or wait until regular business hours."

An 84-year-old woman sat on a carpeted hallway floor for three and a half hours until a neighbor coming home from a late shift spotted her.

Human civilization spent four thousand years perfecting the brass key a piece of notched metal that works in an ice storm, requires zero electricity, never needs a software update, and never runs out of battery.

We replaced it with a digital failure point so an out-of-state landlord could save thirty dollars on a locksmith.

Why are we allowing basic physical shelters to become dependent on apps?

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status/2111519108642537818

​https://press.un.org/en/2026/gaspd841.doc.htm

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status/2111503506125267325

A voice of reason and sanity during the hysteria of COVID, when mandates and censorship, cancelling and deplatforming, firings and fear mongering reigned.

European leaders and media are once again in lockstep, employing the same fear tactics as last time in order to build support for a nuclear standoff with Russia.

https://x.com/BowesChay/status/2111177939626733717

https://youtu.be/CraQKye2zdQ?si=A8XMyAOC_4TInDgn

Additionally, the United States has delivered at least 847 PAC3 interceptors to Ukraine

3314 - 1800 - 847 = 667

UHOH

https://x.com/tomek525/status/2110624411778785506

During the past 2 months, the ship was repaired at Novorossiysk Naval Base, and is now able to launch Kalibr cruise missiles again.

https://x.com/BowesChay/status/2111510911139696659

https://x.com/battleforeurope/status/2111037078590967827

Fazi's tweet reads:

Europe, a continent under occupation.

My speech at first edition of the East-West Forum in Istanbul on September 26.

“In the simplest terms, Europe — by which I mean virtually all EU countries and the entire Brussels establishment — has been hijacked by a transnationalised transatlantic elite that doesn’t care in the slightest about the concrete interests of their own countries and is in fact beholden to completely different interests: private interest, i.e., the interests of a narrow oligarchy — today, mainly the interests of transnational financial circles and military-industrial structures — and foreign interests, namely those of Washington’s imperial core (and, as a by-product, of Israel)”.

Burkina Faso's forgotten prison farm has undergone a remarkable transformation. Under Ibrahim Traoré, the Baporo Agricultural Penitentiary Centre increased its reported grain production from approximately 12 tonnes in 2023 to 240 tonnes in 2025. But the story goes far beyond agriculture. Founded under Thomas Sankara in 1986, the Baporo prison farm was designed to combine agricultural production, vocational training, and the rehabilitation of prisoners. After decades of neglect, the centre is being restored as part of Burkina Faso's efforts to improve food production and prepare detainees for life after prison. In this documentary, we examine Ibrahim Traoré's prison reform policies, the revival of Thomas Sankara's forgotten project, and the role of agricultural training in Burkina Faso's development. We explore the Baporo Agricultural Penitentiary Centre, Burkina Faso's agricultural production, prison rehabilitation, public-interest work under the TIG law, and the wider push for food security and national self-reliance. But there is a bigger question: Does producing more food inside a prison translate into successful rehabilitation after release? The harvest figures tell one part of the story. Employment, reintegration, and the prevention of reoffending will determine whether the model succeeds in the long term. Watch until the end to understand what Baporo reveals about Burkina Faso's ambitions—and the challenges that remain. Subscribe for documentaries on Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), African development, agricultural transformation, and the policies reshaping the Sahel.

American is 37 years old, she had a heart attack 2 weeks ago

She has Cigna for her health insurance and they just mailed her a letter saying “after carefully reviewing the information, we determined the service is not medically necessary.” Her bill is $110,000 for staying in the ER for 2 days

“They don't think that saving my life was medically necessary — My total bill so far is currently at $110,000, is how much it costs to save my life. I'm sure there's more bills coming still, but Cigna doesn't think that it was medically necessary”

We need health insurance reform and we need it right now in America. Our entire medical system has been turned into a for profit scam

Just know if something like this happens to you, there is Federal Law that essentially says it has to be covered

Federal law under the ACA and No Surprises Act rules requires coverage of emergency services based on the prudent layperson standard: whether a reasonable person with average knowledge of health and medicine, looking at the symptoms at the time, would believe immediate care was needed to avoid serious harm

This just shows that coverage for this woman should have never been denied

Health insurance companies are out of control