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How Modern Medicine Made Your Bones Brittle

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•A gradual weakening of the bones which predisposes one to fractures is one of the most common and significant consequences of aging. Presently, to address it, we wisely try to head off bone loss in our younger years and routinely scan the density of aging bones so that a large volume of patients can be sold drugs to increase bone density.



•This approach is misguided because the data from those scans often does not correlate to the actual strength of the bones and because simply increasing bone density often creates brittle bones that fracture under stress. Additionally, the most commonly used drugs to address bone density are notorious for their side effects.

•Remarkably, medicine’s own data now shows that two-thirds of fractures happen to people who do not have osteoporosis, which means the number we have built this entire industry around is not the number that actually breaks bones.



•Anytime a large drug market exists (e.g., presently osteoporosis affects around 20% of women over 50), the medical industry will dismiss any approach to the condition which does not result in it being able to sell large amounts of lucrative medical services.

•Because of this, there is relatively little knowledge of the actual causes of osteoporosis or the most effective ways to restore the strength of the bones. The causes and treatments of osteoporosis, along with the specific things we use to restore the resilience (rather than merely the density) of bone, will be the focus of this article.

The years I have spent studying the medical industry have made me appreciate how often economic principles can allow one to understand its complex and contradictory behavior. For example, I believe many of the inconsistencies in medical ethics (e.g., “mothers have an absolute right to abort their children” and “mothers cannot refuse to vaccinate their children because it endangers their child’s life”) can be explained by simply acknowledging that whatever makes money is deemed “ethical.”

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Vatican Rejects US Claim That Pope Leo Speaks as a Politician, Insists That Leo XIV’s Opinions on War and Migrants Are Official ‘Proclamations of the Gospel’

The Globalist playbook of ideas does not equate to the teaching of the Gospels.

We have been reporting here on TGP about the most disturbing behavior by leftist Pope Leo XIV, who lets his ideological bias fly in the defense of ideas that are popular with the Globalist-Liberal establishment of our planet.

It’s the war, it’s the migrants, it’s global warming: Leo opens his mouth, and predictable leftist talking points fill the air.

Most conservative Catholics are disgusted by his relentless political statements, but the US ambassador to the Holy See went above and beyond, playing down Leo XIV’s criticism of the U.S. war in Iran, saying he spoke as a politician, not a religious leader.

The Vatican issued an angry public rebuttal, arguing that when Leo’s talks about war, migrants and other topics, he is ‘officially proclaiming the Gospel’.

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South Carolina Gov. Appoints Darline Graham Nordone to Finish Lindsey Graham’s Term

Gov. Henry McMaster (R-SC) picked Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) sister, Darline Graham Nordone, to serve as interim senator, and complete the remainder of her brother’s term.

During a press conference on Monday, McMaster expressed that it was his duty and “honor to name someone to serve in the place” of Graham, whose term runs through the end of the 119th Congress on January 3, 2027. McMaster’s selection of Graham Nordone to take her brother’s seat in the Senate comes after Graham’s office announced on Sunday that he had died at the age of 71 after “a brief and sudden illness.”

“Today, under the law, it’s my duty to and honor to name someone to serve in the place of this irresistible man, this irreplaceable man, this extraordinary man for the remainder of his term,” McMaster said. “Lindsey took care of his little sister in years long departed. It’s my honor to ask his little sister, Darline Graham to finish his work for him now.”

McMaster continued to talk about how prior to having a phone conservation with Graham Nordone regarding her serving out the remainder of her brother’s term, he “had wondered” what she would say and was humbled by her “quickness to see the duty” for her to serve.

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DOJ Warns Election Officials In All 50 States They Can Face Criminal Charges For Allowing Non-Citizens To Vote

The election officials of all 50 states received a letter last week from the Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division informing them they may be prosecuted if non-citizens are permitted to vote in an election and their ballots are counted.

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon confirmed Thursday that the letters were sent out to the officials of all 50 states.

“I saw some, you know, hyperventilating from some, including the, I think, lieutenant governor in Utah – who’s also the election official – and she seemed to think she was being persecuted because Utah is refusing to hand over their voter rolls in our civil litigation,” Dhillon remarked to John Solomon on Just the News’ show “No Noise.”

“No, Deirdre, this is not aimed at you,” Dhillon said. “It is for everybody, and you know, in fact, many election officials are lawyers. They know this, but no one has been enforcing these parts of our laws, and we’re enforcing them. We’re enforcing them against people who voted illegally. There are criminal prosecutions ongoing in that regard, and we’re going to enforce them against the people whose responsibility is to ensure that doesn’t happen if they look the other way.”

According to the report, within just the past several months, the DOJ has achieved some two dozen voting arrests, prosecutions, or convictions on non-citizens. With about 90 more cases under investigation, Dhillon underscored that the letters sent to state election officials informs those individuals that they can face criminal charges as well for allowing non-citizens to remain on voter rolls and cast ballots in elections.

About a dozen states that have agreed to hand over their voter rolls to the DOJ have already identified 20,000 to 30,000 non-citizens on their lists, DOJ officials told Just the News, adding that they cite three primary problem areas in states’ voter rolls prior to the 2026 midterm election: 1) hundreds of thousands of dead people still on the rolls and listed as eligible to vote; 2) tens of thousands of illegal aliens on the rolls; and 3) many foreigners registering and voting in a federal election.

Dhillon stressed the importance of the election integrity issue to Greg Kelly of Newsmax’s “Greg Kelly Reports.”

“[I]f we’re going to have a country, we have to enforce its laws,” she said. “And for too long, these laws that criminalize not only non-citizen voting but also election officials and others willingly allowing it, going looking the other way, conspiring to do it, enabling it – that’s a crime too. But you know, we’ve seen very few, if any, prosecutions under those laws. So, I wanted to spell it out for the election officials, make sure that they’re on notice.”

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New Heavily Redacted FBI Records Obtained by Judicial Watch Reveal Hillary’s Late Brother Tony Rodham Was Under Federal Investigation for Wire and Mail Fraud While Hillary Clinton was First Lady

Judicial Watch has dropped another bombshell.

After years of stonewalling and a FOIA lawsuit, the conservative watchdog obtained 77 pages of heavily redacted FBI records confirming that the late Tony Rodham, Hillary Clinton’s brother, was the subject of a 1996 FBI criminal investigation into potential wire and mail fraud.

The probe, opened by the FBI’s Miami Field Office under case number 196D-MM-79121 (the “196” designation is reserved for wire fraud cases), focused on Rodham’s involvement with East European Imports, Inc. (EEI) in Coral Gables, Florida.

According to the documents, associates operating through East European Imports, Inc. (EEI) in Coral Gables, Florida, claimed exclusive U.S. rights to import Romanian ARO four-wheel-drive vehicles. They aggressively solicited $30,000+ deposits from auto dealers across the country for “exclusive franchises” and “Parts, Special Tools and Sign Packages,” with the balance due upon acceptance.

No vehicles were ever imported. The FBI concluded there was “very little likelihood” any ARO vehicles would ever arrive in America from EEI.

Worse, the subjects had already run a nearly identical scam years earlier (1986–1987) under the name Roman Motors Corporation. This was happening while Hillary Clinton was First Lady of the United States.

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Zelensky’s Latest Government Reshuffle Was Triggered by New Incoming Corruption Scandal – Ukrainian Ambassador to the US Olga Stefanishyna Will Reportedly Be Charged

Endless corruption scandals, Kiev style.

We have reported here on TGP about Kiev regime leader Volodymyr Zelensky’s new shakeup in his government, which will see him appointing his fourth Ukrainian Prime Minister shortly.

What wasn’t so clear before was that this restructuring of the administration was triggered by the imminent very bad developments in the corruption investigations that have been whipping Zelensky’s rule for the last year.

Politico reported:

“Looming embezzlement charges against Ukraine’s Ambassador to the U.S. Olga Stefanishyna appear to have sped up a decision to shake up the government just a year after the last regrouping.

‘Stefanishyna has to come back to Ukraine, and we need a strong ambassador in America; that’s why changes started now’, a senior Ukrainian official, who was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive political issues, told POLITICO.

‘Olga has to deal with the anti-corruption watchdogs’ allegations, even though they are not totally fair against her, and the case overall is stupid’, added the official, who has direct knowledge of the moves.”

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ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Whose Criminal Record Dates Back 35 Years

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested an illegal alien in Miami-Dade County, Florida, whose criminal record dates back to 1991, Breitbart News has learned.

On June 11, ICE agents in Miami arrested 58-year-old illegal alien Elias Cardoza-Torres of Cuba, who has been convicted of selling heroin, burglary, and vehicle theft, among other crimes.

“ICE works closely with our law enforcement partners to remove criminal illegal aliens from our communities,” Acting ICE Director David Venturella said in a statement.

According to Venturella, Cardoza-Torres entered the United States in 1989 as a parolee and never adjusted his status to secure a green card. In November 1991, he was convicted of felony cocaine possession and in August 1997, he was convicted of burglary.

In October 1999, Cardoza-Torres was convicted of selling heroin. The following year, in April 2000, a federal immigration judge ordered him deported from the United States but he remained in the country for more than 26 years.

“We’re talking about an individual who completely disregarded our immigration laws and went on to ignore our criminal laws, as well,” Venturella said. “Fortunately, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office has turned him over to ICE custody, where he’ll remain pending removal.”

In more recent years, Cardoza-Torres was convicted of vehicle theft, drug possession, cocaine possession, and felony weapons offenses.

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Rubio launches campaign to ‘dismantle’ International Criminal Court

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a new push by the Trump administration against the International Criminal Court (ICC), including efforts to weaken and ultimately dismantle the global tribunal.

On Monday, Rubio (R-Fla.) warned that “powerful people in faraway places” are trying to control the lives of Americans, in an opinion piece published in The Wall Street Journal and a video message shared on X.

“The U.S. is launching a diplomatic campaign with a simple message — sovereign states over globalism,” Rubio wrote in the opinion piece. “Using all the tools at our government’s disposal, working beside every ally with whom we can make common cause, we will dismantle the ICC — brick by brick, if necessary.”

America’s diplomatic toolkit features travel bans, canceled visas, harsher sanctions on the ICC and its affiliates and pressure on allied nations to leave the court, a State Department official told Reuters.

In 1998, the foundational treaty for the court known as the Rome Statute was adopted with operations officially beginning in 2002. The court is headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands. Although 125 countries are members, the United States has never officially joined.

“They believe that they should be in charge of your laws, of your country, your life, and they don’t care whether or not you agree,” Rubio said in the X clip.

“When the ICC was born 24 years ago, they told us that it was nearly a narrow backstop: a global court that would step in to prosecute only the gravest offense — things like genocide and war crimes — and only when a nation’s courts were unable to prosecute them on their own,” he continued. “But the truth is, it was something far more radical and extreme: it was a global tribunal staffed by unelected globalist bureaucrats who claim their power is almost unlimited.”

Because the U.S. is not a member of the court, its relationship with the ICC has shifted depending on which administration is in power. Generally, Democrat presidents have been more open to cooperation, while Republican administrations have taken a more critical approach.

“If we stand idle, all of them would be at the mercy of foreign judges thousands of miles away facing the constant risk of prosecution and even imprisonment for the so-called ‘crime’ of defending their own country.”

“The American people never agreed to any of this. And they never will,” Rubio declared.

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The Latest Model Cars: Big Brother Is Watching You

Big Brother is a character in George Orwell’s novel 1984, the entity that governs Oceania, through the tyrannical single party – the Ingsoc. No one knows about it, but it is omnipresent through telescreens with strong propaganda and controlling everything.

An article written by Steve Watson in Modernity.news, gives an account of how the surveillance state has found its new frontier: the dashboard of your car. What was once a symbol of American freedom and independence, automobiles are rapidly transforming into a high-tech cage that watches their every move and can override their decisions at will.

In a post shared on X, users detailed the multiple complaints about Subaru’s improved “EyeSight” AI system, which is present in the latest models. According to drivers, the system gets quick glimpses beyond their intentions to plan their route. At the same time, Biden-era federal mandates were put in place to make this level of surveillance mandatory on every new vehicle by 2027.

They even catch a momentary glance to change a song or admire the landscape and activate constant alerts. Thus, its new Emergency Stop Assist with Safe Lane Selection function can detect an “unresponsive” driver and issue increasing alerts through sounds and vibrations at the steering wheel, and then take full control: automatically brake, reduce the vehicle’s speed, direct it to the side of the road, and activate hazard lights.

This is not an optional trick but would be imposed by the state. It’s being rolled out as standard “safety” technology, but drivers call it a domineering electronic babysitter who treats competent adults like children. It serves as a chilling preview of where the entire auto industry is headed under government pressure.

This type of intrusive surveillance is precisely the tool that a police state would dream of to exert total control over personal movements. If authorities achieve deeper integration with these systems, they could effectively decide when, where, and who can drive.

The launch of Subaru is just the latest sticking point in a broader push toward vehicle surveillance that goes far beyond basic security. A federal mandate – included in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 – requires all new passenger vehicles sold in the US to include advanced drunk or drug-impaired driving prevention technology, starting with 2027 model years.

As detailed in the New York Post report, this means infrared cameras and sensors that constantly monitor eyes, faces, head position, and behavior for distractions, drowsiness, or deterioration, with the power to prevent the car from starting or limit its operation. It seems very appropriate, but it implies a great deal of arbitrariness if it comes into the hands of bureaucrats.

Manufacturers are already patenting and deploying even more aggressive systems, including biometric scans that analyze everything from gait to heart rate to AI face scanning, lip reading, and emotional monitoring. The problem is that the data won’t stay in the car: it could make its way to insurers for risk scoring, law enforcement, or worse, to the knowledge of Big Brother: as cross-checks of drivers with police databases, before the vehicle is even allowed to move.

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The Secret Race To Produce the First AI-Generated Blockbuster Movie

Movie-making is an artifice, so will creators embrace AI?

While many actors and filmmakers go out of their way to bash AI image-generating technology as hard as they can, there’s a secret undercurrent in which Hollywood is all-in on Artificial Intelligence, and the race is on to generate the first AI blockbuster.

Some sectors of the film industry are slow to accept change, with some still refusing to change 35mm film for digital.

The fact is: when creators shun utilizing new tech developments, they are just marrying themselves to an earlier-age’s technological solutions – after all, there’s nothing natural about film-making.

The New York Post reported:

“AI has officially been met with extreme skepticism by more entrenched filmmakers. However — as is always the way in two-faced, back-biting, cutthroat Hollywood — that also means behind the scenes, every studio, filmmaker, and screenwriter worth their salt are desperately trying to harness its power to push the boundaries and create something new to wow audiences with.

‘The space race was about being first, but it was also about inspiring the world that we should keep competing and keep investing [in the technology]. Bigger than being first, which is fleeting, is inspiring the world’, Bryn Mooser, who has two Academy Award nominations for documentary shorts, told The Post.”

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