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We must encourage people to see that they are the property of no earthly master, not even of the State; that they are answerable for what they do in a Higher Court than the courts of this world, and that every attempt to relieve them of the burden of responsibility and to treat them like cattle in a comfortable collective farm is an act of spiritual insolence.

🇦🇺 An older couple had their home invaded in NSW by a man who attacked them with a knife The husband shot the intruder Police will not charge him, citing reasonable defense Lucky for them that they kept their gun after the Albanese govt tried grabbing them all Well done mate!

Maturing is realizing European and American whites are the least racist people in human history.

Scientists just did something that was supposed to be impossible. A team at Japan's Mie University used CRISPR gene editing to remove the entire extra chromosome behind Down syndrome. Not manage the symptoms. Remove the cause. Down syndrome, or trisomy 21, happens when cells carry a third copy of chromosome 21. For over half a century, every treatment has focused on the effects, never the root. Led by Dr. Ryotaro Hashizume, the researchers designed their CRISPR-Cas9 system to target only the surplus chromosome and leave the healthy two untouched. A technique they call allele-specific multiple chromosome cleavage. It worked. In lab-grown stem cells and in skin cells taken from people with Down syndrome, the extra chromosome was snipped out. And the corrected cells didn't just survive. They grew faster, behaved more normally, and produced fewer of the harmful byproducts tied to cellular stress and aging. Here's the honest part most headlines skip. This happened in cells, in a dish. Not in a living person. Some of the CRISPR cuts still hit healthy chromosomes, so the team is refining their targeting before any of this comes close to a clinic. It's a first step, not a finish line. But it's the first time anyone has reached the actual source of the most common chromosomal condition on Earth and pulled it out. The thing science said couldn't be undone just got undone in a petri dish. Source: Hashizume et al., "Trisomic rescue via allele-specific multiple chromosome cleavage using CRISPR-Cas9 in trisomy 21 cells," PNAS Nexus (2025), Mie University

In 1995, doctors gave an 8-month-old baby a second heart. For the next 10 years, two hearts beat inside her chest. Then something happened that changed medical history. Her original heart healed itself. Her name was Hannah Clark. As a baby, she developed a severe form of cardiomyopathy — a disease that left her heart dangerously enlarged and too weak to pump blood properly. Without surgery, she was going to die. But there was a problem: Her lungs had also been damaged by the strain on her failing heart, making a standard heart transplant extremely risky. So legendary heart surgeon Sir Magdi Yacoub proposed something radical. Instead of removing Hannah’s failing heart, he would leave it inside her chest and add a second donor heart beside it. The donor heart would do the heavy work. Hannah’s own exhausted heart would finally get a chance to rest. In 1995, surgeons performed the operation successfully. Hannah woke up with two hearts beating inside her body. And for the next decade, she lived that way. She went to school. Played with friends. Grew up carrying two hearts inside her chest. But survival came at a cost. To prevent rejection of the donor heart, Hannah had to take powerful immunosuppressant drugs every day. Those drugs weakened her immune system so severely that she later developed cancer. She also battled pneumonia, kidney failure, and rounds of chemotherapy during her childhood. Then, in 2005, doctors discovered another problem: Her body had started rejecting the donor heart. The situation looked impossible. Increasing the drugs could worsen the cancer. Reducing them could destroy the donor heart. And then came the shock. After ten years of rest, Hannah’s original heart had recovered enough to function on its own. The heart doctors once believed would never sustain her life again had quietly healed itself. In 2006, surgeons removed the donor heart completely. For the first time in medical history, a child survived after having a transplanted “piggyback” heart removed because their original heart had recovered. As the donor heart was disconnected, everyone waited. Then Hannah’s own heart took over. Steady. Strong. Working normally. Without the donor heart, she no longer needed the immunosuppressant drugs. Her immune system recovered. And eventually, so did she. Today, Hannah Clark lives with the same heart she was born with the heart that once seemed too damaged to save her. Her story changed how doctors think about heart failure in children. Because sometimes healing doesn’t come from replacing what’s broken. Sometimes it comes from giving it enough time, support, and rest to recover on its own.

I verified this and it’s true “Germany can no longer raise an army, simply because of how many Muslims are now German citizens” “Now, allegedly, and I will say allegedly here, Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz has privately admitted that he's worried about the country's ability to raise an army, simply because Germany doesn't want to put weapons in the hands of hundreds of thousands of Muslim Germans. And he'd be right in worrying, because a recent study of young Muslim Germans showed that nearly half expressed latent Islamist attitudes, which are, you know, the kind of attitudes that turn Muslims into terrorists, and more than half said that their religious commandments were more important to them than even German democracy. And if you ask me, these don't sound like the attitudes of Germans. These sound like the attitudes of Germany's enemies” Let’s get into the facts A 2025–2026 German government-backed study by MOTRA, Radicalization Monitoring System, involving the Federal Criminal Police Office, found that 45.1% of Muslims under 40 in Germany hold either “manifest” (11.5%) or “latent” (33.6%) Islamist attitudes. This includes preferences for Sharia over the constitution, antisemitic views, and Islamist leanings Tucker Carlson also reported on this When you have a significant population of Muslims who hold a pro-Sharia Law mindset, you can’t trust them in your military