⚡🇮🇷 NEW - Iranian President Pezeshkian:
According to the Qur’an, if we fail to solve the people’s problems, we will end up in hell.
https://blossom.primal.net/5a53c89a1b5f08d42816aca0ff206ad569a0b49a4e4c41c6c800fdd323f319fc.mp4
Iran’s stagnation stems from prioritizing regime survival and military power over development, a pattern also seen in Pakistan. Isolation makes sustainable progress impossible. The Soviet Union followed the same path and lasted only 70 years.
#Iran
China is following the U.S. expansion strategy. First comes economic expansion, which is what China is doing now, followed by cultural influence, and only then military power. In our time, moving directly to military expansion is unrealistic, too late, and frankly unnecessary.
#China
⚡️👓 WATCH - Here is a first look at the navigation feature of Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses.
https://blossom.primal.net/22207075f3bf9d989d1263f3a675a64dcbcdd07df6a549a0164e6d6b41d712c2.mp4
nothing is happening, it looks stuck.
#meta
#rayban
⚡️🎙️ NEW - Telegram CEO says he thinks Bitcoin will go to $1,000,000
"The governments keeps printing money like no tomorrow. Nobody is printing bitcoin."
https://blossom.primal.net/8438eacb09f24335dbb87b00d4440108f3c3a938ca55eae41065659fcbf04d84.mp4
I just heard him speak for what’s likely the first time, and it seems evident he has a mild form of stutter, you can tell from the pauses as he searches for easier words to say, and from the way he doesn’t fully articulate even “telegram” which looks like a form of stuttering compensation. Is it known whether he has any type of speech fluency issue?
#durov
#telegram
#bitcoin
⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War is threatening with wars:
"From now on, the job of the U.S. military will be to create peace through war. No more identity politics, no more men in dresses. Our focus is on combat."
https://blossom.primal.net/98fadaaba3c7ce534c566cf347bffd3b90696e48f76254def47bdbb5ba8f12ee.mp4
Didn’t Bush already use that logic to justify the Iraq invasion? What’s new here?
⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Sen. Rand Paul: “Not one scientist in government reveals their royalties. Some of them are now getting millions of dollars … Pfizer paid $800M & Moderna paid $400M … There's an NIH foundation that has $1.2 TRILLION in it from Big Pharma for their share of the COVID vaccine.”
https://blossom.primal.net/84bb76fd4ddcef005820fc2e8e54aa999098a955fa5b0a8e9562cfa78661f667.mp4
$ 1.2 billion not $1.2 trillion. big difference.
⚡️🎙️ NEW - Psychiatrist Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring Says the ‘Chemical Imbalance’ Narrative For Depression Was a ‘White Lie’
“They have not found that there is any difference between depressed and un-depressed people […] That's why we don't use any biological markers in the diagnosis of any psychiatric conditions.”
https://blossom.primal.net/f15837cb944850e0bb4d8600f80e9fa0c4a67e7ca473442b4d672d9413f13013.mp4
not even dopamine?
⚡️🇪🇺🇺🇦 WATCH - Internet users noted that Zelensky looks burned out, done and desperate after talking to Trump
https://blossom.primal.net/99701a7b016987fbfa469f460f7d1e11fcc6cb81e18b282fdb41526dac872b39.mp4
looks like sleep deprived. very tough for him.
This book does a decent job of imagining what will go wrong if we give Russia what they want with a peace treaty. It takes place in 2033 and has the Ukraine war ending in 2025 with Russia keeping what it’s taken with no security guarantees for Ukraine. https://www.byteseu.com/1277413/ #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #UkraineConflict
unlike the Soviet Union, today’s Russia is governed by leaders who want the perks of the West, such as vacationing abroad, while exercising unchecked power domestically and in neighboring states. They are profoundly corrupt and possess no unifying ideology like the Soviets once had to challenge the West on political theory or practical governance.
#russia
maybe it’s not an exact rule, but as numbers get bigger, it tends to hold true just like in statistics.
before the last halving, Bitcoin's price was around $60,000. After the halving, it naturally needed to double to make mining worthwhile, bringing the expected price to around $120,000. Beyond that, there's no guarantee. It could go higher or lower, but it's likely to average around $120,000 until the next halving.
#bitcoin
⚡️👀 WATCH - This video of a streamer and Fortnite gameplay is entirely AI generated by Google’s Veo 3
How to tell the real from the fake? #asknostr
https://blossom.primal.net/39d80f09cc4ca6274ba4cb41842fc15d0de771d67ada5cea4f40684caa9d7bbc.mp4
Is it considered good quality?
Is there actually a particular reason why the Oghuz Turks voluntarily converted to Islam despite their military superiority ? https://www.byteseu.com/1019798/ #Azerbaijan #Azərbaycan #AzərbaycanRespublikası #RepublicOfAzerbaijan
mongols did the same. so, no.
⚡️🎥 WATCH - Full Documentary by nostr:nprofile1qqs0ulmtcmmn8zmkh0uqmdqz4hn9j5lzpvhj8enw3xpqfd3ucsjnngcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejszxthwden5te0dehhxarj9e3k2unrv968ymmkvyhx6eg2zzvu2: The Oils in your food are slowly killing you.
This documentary covers:
• How seed oils were invented for profit
• The corrupted science that sold them as healthy
• Why they’re now in nearly everything you eat
https://blossom.primal.net/6b0b2b7b41afafd4531e0b2374696d1e5fcc5a3dff4927d790a8d033e821753c.mp4
This video suggests that the key difference between the health of a 1950s truck driver and a modern one is the consumption of seed oils, implying they're the main culprit behind today’s health issues. While it's true that excessive omega-6 intake without balancing omega-3s can be harmful, it's questionable whether this is more damaging than high sugar consumption. A lot has changed since the 1950s, especially the dramatic rise in sugar intake. Framing seed oils as the primary issue feels like a deliberate attempt to divert attention from the real problem, the overwhelming amount of sugar in modern diets.
#seedoils
#sugar
⚡️📺 WATCH - Billionaire Kevin O’Leary just said #Bitcoin is the only crypto that billions of people will buy.
https://blossom.primal.net/adf88d7ec870d5e892ac301efdfde899573a53758f52cfdbb0ceb51f084c9493.mp4
there’s a lot of puffery in what he says, so take it with a grain of salt.
#bitcoin
#kevin
It’s unclear why the government is making such an effort to relocate Venezuelans to a third country like El Salvador, rather than returning them directly to Venezuela. Existing immigration laws already provide ways to remove undocumented immigrants without having to resort to some rarely used law from the 1700s.
Credit card skimmer found in Akron business https://www.byteseu.com/942642/ #AKRON #business #CREDITCARDSKIMMER #cvs
is there a way to recognize it? both images look similar.
He looks like he's on a strict calorie-deficient diet that's making him age faster instead of look younger.
this guy is channeling Chris Tucker from The Fifth Element.
Bitcoin is not truly independent of the dollar and is not commonly bought by regular individuals. Instead, it is dominated by wealthy investors, or "whales," who trade it using borrowed dollars from banks.
#bitcoin
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RFK Jr. Is Pushing Big Pharma Ad Ban - And Corporate Media Is Panicking
RFK Jr. Is Pushing Big Pharma Ad Ban - And Corporate Media Is Panicking
https://www.thekylebecker.com/p/rfk-jr-is-pushing-big-pharma-ad-ban
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary, is pushing a plan to ban pharmaceutical ads from television. He’s right to push for it—and not just because the U.S. is one of only two countries on earth that allows such advertising (the other being New Zealand).
America’s health system isn’t just flawed; it’s harming public health, distorting journalism, and fueling Big Pharma’s malignant influence over our daily lives.
Let’s start with the obvious: TV drug ads aren’t designed to inform—they’re designed to manipulate. The formula is always the same. Cue soft lighting and sappy piano music. A sad, listless person pops a pill and suddenly life is vibrant again. They’re running through fields, laughing with family, walking dogs across idyllic bridges.
Then, in a breathless voiceover, the side effects come tumbling out like a legal disclaimer roulette wheel—stroke, heart failure, suicidal thoughts. The goal? Make viewers want a drug before they even talk to their doctor. It’s emotional coercion dressed up as health education.
This completely inverts how medicine is supposed to work. Health care decisions should be made inside the exam room, not in a 60-second marketing spot. Patients should go to their doctors with symptoms, and those doctors—armed with clinical training and knowledge of the patient’s full health profile—should decide whether a drug is even necessary.
Many issues could be better addressed through lifestyle changes, diet, supplements, or preventative care. But instead, America has normalized a pill-for-everything culture, supercharged by the fact that doctors are often nudged by patients demanding whatever drug they saw advertised last night during a commercial break.
This isn’t just bad medicine—it’s dangerous. And it’s no accident.
Big Pharma isn’t spending billions on advertising because it cares about your health. It’s doing it because the return on investment is enormous. Studies estimate the ROI on direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug ads ranges from 100% to 500%, depending on the drug. In 2025 alone, pharmaceutical companies are projected to spend over $5 billion on national linear TV ads, according to iSpot.tv. That number balloons even higher when you include digital and streaming. Just a handful of blockbuster drugs—like Skyrizi, Jardiance, and Ozempic—are burning through tens of millions in TV ads every month.
This revenue isn’t just padding Big Pharma’s pockets—it’s quietly buying influence in the media. Nearly 31% of ad minutes on major nightly news broadcasts in 2024 came from pharmaceutical brands. That means a huge portion of media budgets depend on the very companies they should be holding accountable. And surprise, surprise: when Big Pharma misleads the public, many news outlets are either silent or hesitant to report critically. The financial conflict of interest is baked in.
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We saw the worst-case version of this during the COVID-19 pandemic. The novel mRNA shots—rushed to market under emergency use—were sold to the public as miracle solutions. Government officials and media outlets claimed these vaccines would "stop infection," "prevent death entirely," and "end the pandemic." Younger, healthy individuals were told they needed them for everyone’s safety, despite already low statistical risk. None of these claims held up. As the data evolved, we learned the vaccines offered some reduction in severe disease, but not sterilizing immunity. Yet the media rarely corrected course.
Why would they? Pharma ads were paying the bills. Meanwhile, federal workers were mandated—and many private sector employees coerced—into getting injections under false pretenses. Billions of dollars flowed to Big Pharma. The American public was misled.
This pattern of deception is not new. Pfizer alone has paid billions in legal penalties over the years for unethical marketing, off-label promotion, and other violations. The most infamous: a $2.3 billion settlement in 2009—the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history at the time. Yet companies like Pfizer, AbbVie, and Johnson & Johnson still enjoy a polished image on TV, thanks in part to relentless ad spending and regulatory leniency.
RFK Jr.’s plan, while legally uphill, is not without precedent. In 1970, President Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, which banned tobacco ads from TV and radio. Cigarettes were legal, yet too dangerous to promote on air. The same principle should apply here. Just because a drug is FDA-approved doesn’t mean it should be marketed like soda. Approval doesn’t equal infallibility—just ask anyone who took Vioxx or OxyContin.
Critics, including the Wall Street Journal, have framed RFK’s proposal as a personal vendetta. That’s both lazy and misleading. In reality, there’s wide bipartisan and public support for reining in pharma ads. The American Medical Association called for a ban back in 2015. A STAT/Harvard poll found that 57% of Americans support banning TV drug ads. Even hosts on CNBC—hardly anti-business—agreed the ads are unnecessary. “Don’t you think doctors should prescribe it if you need it?” asked Joe Kernen. Exactly.
The pharmaceutical industry’s defenders like to invoke the First Amendment, claiming that banning ads would be unconstitutional. But commercial speech does not enjoy absolute protection. Under the Central Hudson test, the government can regulate ads if it has a substantial interest, the regulation directly advances that interest, and the restriction is narrowly tailored. Protecting public health from misleading pharmaceutical marketing clears all three hurdles. Even if a full ban doesn’t survive, tighter restrictions—like banning ads for certain drug classes, or requiring full price transparency—could pass muster.
More importantly, even the threat of a ban could pressure drugmakers to change course voluntarily. They did it before in 2008, when criticism led to updated self-regulatory guidelines. If Kennedy’s push forces them to rethink their practices, that alone is a win.
Pharma companies will no doubt fight this tooth and nail. But that’s not a reason to back down—it’s a reason to press harder. We’ve allowed an industry with an immense profit motive to shape our health decisions for too long. The result? A country drowning in prescriptions, mired in chronic disease, and confused about who to trust.
Enough is enough. RFK Jr.’s proposal to kick drug ads off TV isn’t radical—it’s responsible. And it’s long overdue.
~~~ KB
https://cms.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden
Wed, 03/26/2025 - 15:40
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rfk-jr-pushing-big-pharma-ad-ban-and-corporate-media-panicking
as it is said even a broken clock is right twice a day.
before the internet and social media, things were different. Nowadays, unless one is highly disciplined, it’s challenging to express yourself in a way that satisfies everyone, especially when narratives shift so dramatically.