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Parts of Spain/Portugal will approach 40°C next week, and we are still only in MAY. This is not “just summer arriving early”. Europe is heating faster than almost any continent on Earth. European agriculture, ecosystems & infrastructure were not built for these extended extremes.

The carnivore hierarchy isn't ribeye at the top. It's ground beef. You're getting amino acids from the muscle, collagen and glycine from the connective tissue, and a fat ratio that actually fuels you rather than leaving you starving an hour later. It's the trim from every cut, blended into one. The cheapest thing in the meat aisle is also the most complete. Aldi. Tesco. Whichever pack is on offer. That's the diet. The boutique steak crowd are paying a premium to eat less of the cow.

1900: The egg is described in nutrition texts as nature's most complete food. Doctors recommend it for invalids, infants, and the elderly. A growing child is given one or two a day. A working man eats four for breakfast. 1950: The egg is implicated in a hypothesis about cholesterol and heart disease. The hypothesis is unproven. The egg is told it must wait. 1968: The American Heart Association issues an official recommendation to limit egg consumption to three per week. The recommendation is based on a single observational study and the personal opinion of Ancel Keys. 1973: The first egg-substitute product is launched. It is composed of egg whites with added preservatives, gums, and synthetic colour. It is sold as the heart-healthy alternative to the egg, which has been on the human breakfast table for ten thousand years. 1980 to 2010: The British and American populations consume billions of fewer eggs per year than they did in 1950. Cardiovascular disease continues to rise. Obesity rises sharply. Type 2 diabetes triples. 2015: The United States Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, after reviewing the entirety of the available evidence, removes the recommendation to limit dietary cholesterol. The egg is, the committee states, no longer a nutrient of concern. 2025: The egg is back in fashion. The egg is on the breakfast menu of the trendy restaurant. The egg is in the protein-focused cookbook. The egg is in the influencer's morning routine. During the fifty-five years the egg was banned, the egg did not change. The egg has been the egg the entire time. The advice has changed. The egg has not. The advice was wrong. Nobody has apologised. The grandmothers who kept feeding their grandchildren eggs through the entire 1980s, against the explicit advice of every health authority in the Western world, were correct. The grandmothers should be on the committee.

What was happening on the Eastern Front between April 21 to 23, 1945? The Polish 2nd Army and the Red Army go on the house to house hunting of the last remnant of the Wehrmacht and the SS! 🇵🇱✊ April 21, 1945 The Red Army arrived at the outskirts of Berlin and began entering the city limits. Soviet troops under Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Konev also captured the German military headquarters at Zossen, south of Berlin, disrupting command structures. From his Führerbunker, Adolf Hitler ordered a final, all-out counterattack by forces in the Berlin area, to be led by SS-Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner. He demanded every available man, tank, and aircraft be committed. One of the last major engagements on the Eastern Front erupted around Bautzen (in present-day Saxony, east of Dresden). This was part of Konev’s 1st Ukrainian Front’s southern flank operations during the broader Berlin Offensive. German Army Group Center (remnants of the 4th Panzer Army and 17th Army, roughly 50,000 troops with armor) launched a counteroffensive against the Polish 2nd Army and supporting Soviet units. Fierce house-to-house fighting saw Germans recapture Bautzen and exploit gaps in Polish lines, creating chaos but achieving no strategic breakthrough toward relieving Berlin. April 22, 1945 The 1st Belorussian Front advanced into the northern and eastern suburbs of Berlin. Street fighting intensified as The Red Army pushed deeper into the city. During an afternoon situation conference, Hitler learned that the Steiner attack had failed to occur and that The Red Army was already entering Berlin’s northern suburbs. He erupted in a tirade, denouncing his generals and the army as cowards and traitors, declared that " everything is lost," and announced he would remain in Berlin until the end and then commit suicide. He permitted others in the bunker to leave if they wished. This marked a pivotal psychological collapse. German forces pressed their local counterattack, driving deeper into Polish-Soviet lines (reaching areas like the Schwarzer Schöps River by the next day) and inflicting heavy losses on Polish units, including the near-destruction of some formations. Soviet reinforcements began arriving to stabilize the front. April 23, 1945 The Red Army ground forces began penetrating the outer suburbs and moving into central Berlin districts, with house-to-house combat escalating. The city was increasingly isolated. German radio broadcast that Hitler was personally in the " main fighting line " in Berlin and would stay there. (This was largely false, he remained in the bunker.) Meanwhile, Hermann Göring sent a telegram from southern Germany offering to assume leadership of the Reich if Hitler was incapacitated. Hitler viewed it as treason, stripped Göring of all titles, and ordered his arrest. The German tactical push continued, recapturing territory and linking up isolated units, though it had no impact on the encirclement of Berlin. The battle would drag on until late April with heavy casualties on both sides but ultimately failed strategically. In summary, these three days represented the death throes of Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front. The Red Army had effectively encircled Berlin (full encirclement was completed by April 25), while Hitler’s regime disintegrated amid delusional orders and betrayals. The Battle of Bautzen was a brief German tactical success on the southern flank but changed nothing about the overall Soviet victory. Fighting in Berlin would continue street-by-street until early May, with the German surrender following shortly after.