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How is this fair? That’s what small businesses across the country are asking about Labor’s toxic taxes.

@FetchStep So who were the bandits built the shitty website and basically stole the money. Why do these people never get fingered...we want our money back.

WOW. 750,000 complaints about BOM's new website. #BOM CEO Stuart Minchin told estimates the Website price was $4M then $32M and finished at $96 when "they received the final bill" Another $16M has been spent so far to fix some "issues" No one has been sacked for this failure

Labor’s two-day inquiry into their toxic taxes started today. It is a sham. These are toxic taxes on housing, small business, savings and aspiration. These toxic taxes deserve an axe.

@karlstefanovic Divisive maggot...now rolling out lobbyist tropes.

Labor wants to blame John Howard for Australia's housing crisis. But Howard isn't buying it. His message to Labor? Start building more houses. The former Prime Minister sits down with Karl tonight on the show, 5pm.

@MikeCarlton01 Thought we were over this years ago - Socceroos 1974 WC squad and country of birth:

The Hansonistas have been outstanding since the Socceroo win yesterday, gushing torrents of racist, fat-headed stupidity. This one is superb 🤣😅🤣 👇

I've seen posts where Americans are actually wetting the bed because they can't call the New York/New Jersey Stadium "Metlife"...it's like they are knowingly doing the bidding of the billionaire elites...meanwhile the rest of the world despise corporate stadium branding.

@SaulStaniforth I bet they are pumping peoples' social media handles into AI. A year ago it was random, but now there's no reason they can't check everyone.

Scotland fan Michael had his ESTA travel document allowing entry to the US for the World Cup approved in March. Just 1 hour before he was due to fly out it was revoked, & dozens of other people have similar stories.

@Reuters Gianni Simpfantino's theme song... youtu.be/AcMCzibqIPA?si…

FIFA President Gianni Infantino defended the way soccer's governing body had handled visa issues ahead of the World Cup, saying that it was working to find solutions but could not override government decisions reut.rs/4fE2AJC

@football360au GWS fan base is gonna be decimated when Jeff and Barry decide to go to Fed Square instead.

The AFL have scheduled a game DURING the Socceroos first World Cup match 🤯 Not even GWS captain Toby Greene wants to play in it 😅 🗣 "I think our game should have started at 11am on Sunday... they could have done a Socceroos watch party at Marvel after our game... I WOULD'VE ******* STAYED AND WATCHED IT!"

@TheHJbear @Craig_Foster "valid misgivings"...I never thought Qatar should have been awarded hosting rights...but against that (and compared to the US) they pulled it off. I also thought due to timing the standard of play was the best I've seen at a WC with players being early-season, fit and primed.

@Skinny_rhomb @Craig_Foster Listen, while what you said is true i think we need to remind ourselves that alot of the infrastructure for that world cup was built with slave labour, while the actual tournament went smoothly, that is still horrific

Chill. Unless you’re a fan whose visa was denied, losing your life savings. A referee whose participation was withdrawn after a lifetime of work. A player who couldn’t focus without certainty as to if, or when, you were going to be allowed to play in the biggest moment of your young life, and most precious memory as you will age. A country that had to change venues because you’re being bombed by the hosts. A staff member denied a World Cup after years of dedication in qualifying. A spectator who sold your house to pay for exorbitant tickets. Aside from that, relax.

@SkyNews Quite an achievement to be more despised than Blatter, but there you go...

"It's a moment of joy, it's a moment of celebration, it's a moment of happiness, and I am very, very happy to see this ball rolling in a few hours time." FlFA President Gianni Infantino speaks in Mexico City ahead of the 2026 World Cup ⬇️ Latest: trib.al/mCPproA

@M_Simonyan Never mind Russia, people seem to be forgetting the supreme irony that the last WC was held in an Islamic state and was was widely regarded as being successful, warm, friendly and welcoming despite the cultural dissonance. Now we're having a "free world" clown show.

In 2018 Western media screamed that Russia was too dangerous to visit — and everyone got a warm welcome. Now the US deports referees, exiles Iran's squad to Mexico, and bans fans outright, and FIFA tells people to "chill and relax". Funny how that works.

I thought we'd already fired the #LiarFromTheShire #Auspol

@FIFAcom @FIFAWorldCup Corrupt

One day to go… @FIFAWorldCup 2026 ⏳🤩

A timely reminder that an Islamic State successfully hosted the last #worldcup despite numerous cultural choke points that were apparently resolved for the greater global good.

@Craig_Foster @Pontifex I'd be giving the US a red card and a lifetime ban.

Let’s extend the @Pontifex’s timely metaphor: A World Cup makes the world look up — to see the whole field, as we say in football, instead of head down, focused only on ourselves. A player with head down kills team play, combinations, performance. Heads-down nations, of which there are many, kill the world. Life should be collective, like football. Nobody wins alone. But like a team, it depends how you define winning. If it’s exploitation, killing others, dehumanisation, extraction, crimes against humanity, we all lose. These are self-reinforcing patterns, and affect us all in the end. These messages land because so few see the whole field. They’re referees who only blow the whistle against one team. And a game where the rules apply to some but not others, isn’t football. We’re killing each other — spending trillions on ever more innovative machines to do so — while our teammates don’t have enough to eat. Destroying the only pitch we have. Hoarding possession. Playing the man, not the ball, scoring own goals against the planet. Pass the ball. Protect your teammates. Achieve as a collective. All messages direct from the beautiful game. A good time to be having these discussions. And that’s the beauty of a World Cup, and of football. They make us look up.

@TotalFootball The irony that an Islamic state held an open and friendly WC, and now we have descended to this clown show run by the alleged (otherwise self proclaimed) leaders of the free world. Civilizational decline in real time.

BBC journalist: “Are you embarrassed by what’s happening at this World Cup and have you lost control of the tournament?” Infantino: jdfskjfhajnfajfjDhfkjsdjshdjsbxmaxbja

Deuterium — a variable almost nobody tracks — regulates cell growth and mitochondrial function. It sits upstream of cancer and everything downstream. Your mitochondria maintain a lower deuterium concentration inside their inner membrane than outside. That gradient is not incidental. It's a feature of normal mitochondrial function. Roman Zubarev — professor of medical proteomics at the Karolinska Institute, trained at Moscow's elite physics institute — has spent years studying what happens when you disturb it. 1. Deuterium As A Cell Growth Regulator Deuterium — heavy hydrogen — regulates cell growth rate in the range of approximately 30–350 ppm. Earth's normal deuterium concentration is around 150 ppm. When cells are deprived of this normal amount, their growth slows down. To test this, Zubarev’s lab used A549 lung cancer cells — currently the most widely used cell line in biology — and exposed them to deuterium-depleted water at about 80 ppm. The result? Cancer cell growth rate dropped by 30%. Once deuterium concentrations step outside of that 30–350 ppm regulatory window, the effects stop being regulatory and start becoming highly detrimental. For example Mars carries approximately 750–1,050 ppm of deuterium—roughly 5 to 7 times Earth's natural concentration. When terrestrial organisms are exposed to Martian deuterium levels, they show significant survival decline. Zubarev’s team conducted a two-year experiment growing small shrimp in isolated environments where the water was modified to contain ~600 ppm of deuterium. They found that the survival rates of the shrimp significantly declined compared to those grown in normal water. 2. The Mitochondrial Mechanism — How Deuterium Depleted Water (DDW) Actually Works Alongside the well-known proton gradient, there is also a deuterium gradient across the inner mitochondrial membrane. Normally, the concentration of deuterium is lower inside the membrane than it is outside. Mitochondrial lipids are naturally deuterium-depleted. When cells are placed in 80 ppm deuterium-depleted water — lower than the normal ~150 ppm outside — the gradient reverses. More deuterium inside the membrane than outside. So how does this reversal suppress growth? This reversal upsets reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. To try and restore equilibrium, the mitochondria rapidly increase their production of ROS. This sudden spike in ROS induces oxidative stress within the cell, which the researchers identified as the primary molecular mechanism that ultimately suppresses the growth of the cells. This is the anti-cancer mechanism. Zubarev: "We have not invented this mechanism — it's very well known." To prove that DDW suppresses cancer cell growth by inducing oxidative stress they added NAC — N-acetylcysteine, a standard antioxidant — to DDW-treated cancer cells. If DDW works through ROS, an antioxidant should cancel the effect. The result? At approximately 2 millimolar NAC, the DDW anti-cancer effect was statistically eliminated. Then they tested the reverse. They combined DDW with auranofin — a drug that induces oxidative stress. If both work through ROS, combining them should produce synergistic effect. The result? At low to medium concentrations, adding the drug to the DDW created a "double whammy effect" where the cell count went down even further. However, at very high concentrations of the drug, the effect of the DDW diminished, which Zubarev explains makes sense because a cell does not need two overwhelming sources of reactive oxygen species to die. Three-layer validation. Published in Molecular and Cellular Proteomics — the top proteomics journal. 3. The Antioxidant Implication Standard health messaging treats ROS as purely bad. Antioxidants good. Oxidative stress bad. Zubarev's data complicates this directly. DDW works by increasing ROS in cancer cells. Antioxidants statistically cancelled the therapeutic effect. Auranofin — an oxidative stress inducer — synergized with DDW against cancer. Important caveat: this finding is in cancer cells, not in healthy humans. Zubarev notes that normal human cells react differently, stating that normal human cells are much less sensitive to DDW. Therefore, the induction of ROS to slow down growth is a therapeutic mechanism specifically observed in fast-growing cancer cells, not a general effect reported for healthy cells. But the blanket "antioxidants are good" narrative fails here. Context determines whether ROS is friend or enemy. 4. You Are Not What You Eat The standard model of nutrition assumes the body passively absorbs its dietary inputs — including isotopic composition. Zubarev's data shows the opposite. The body actively resists changes to its internal isotopic composition. It defends a specific ratio the way it defends pH or temperature. Isotopes modulate their own fractionation — the biological system selectively processes and separates heavy and light isotopes to maintain equilibrium. The isotopic quality of what you eat and drink is a regulated biological input — not a passive one. For example, the deuterium levels found in the proline, hydroxyproline, and collagen of seals are twice as high as the deuterium levels in the surrounding seawater. Because the isotopic concentration in the seals' biological building blocks is double that of their environment, there is no way to attribute this composition simply to their food. 5. Isotopic Resonance — The Order Underlying Life Plot the isotopic masses and abundances of the elements that make up biological molecules — hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen. You'd expect random scatter, a scattered "galaxy" of dots. Instead you find a precise line. Zubarev calls it isotopic resonance. At natural isotopic abundances, biological molecules cluster in a specific ratio that produces the simplest, most efficient molecular conformations. That ratio is the point at which life's chemistry runs fastest. The probability of this pattern appearing by chance is astronomically small. Zubarev — a physicist trained in probability — cannot dismiss it: "This is the line of God, if you want." Life doesn't exist here just because of liquid water and moderate temperature. It exists here because Earth's isotopic composition happens to hit the resonance at which life's machinery runs. Disturb that composition — and the system works to defend it. The isotopic quality of your water, your food, and your environment is not a background variable. It is the upstream input everything else depends on.

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Sky's @RobHarris asked FIFA president Gianni Infantino if he'd apologise to fans who've been priced out of the World Cup. Here's how he responded ⬇️