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<p>Conservative John Jordan was handily re-elected in Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston, leading his Liberal challenger by nearly 7,000 votes with 90 per cent of the polls reported.</p>
<p>Jordan garnered nearly one of every two votes cast in the riding, which stretches from the western outskirts of Ottawa nearly all the way to the St. Lawrence River. Liberal Rob Rainer placed second, followed by John MacRae of the New Democratic Party.</p>
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<p>Voter turnout topped 46 per cent in the riding of some 90,000 electors.</p>
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<p><span>The Liberals last held the seat in 2003, when it was known as Hastings-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington.</span></p>
<p><span>Before Jordan, the riding was held for 15 years by Randy Hillier, the fiery and outspoken MPP who made his name with his populist “back off our land” campaign for landowner rights. Hillier was elected as a Conservative, but later sat as an Independent after being booted out of the Conservative caucus by Premier Doug Ford. Hillier was a fixture at rallies opposing government measures during the COVID-19 pandemic and vociferously supported the 2022 truckers’ occupation of downtown Ottawa.</span></p>
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<p><span>Rainer is a former reeve of Tay Valley Township, having previously served as a councillor. His background is in the non-profit sector and as a consultant, letter carrier and outdoor education instructor.</span></p>
<p><span>The NDP’s John MacRae is a federal public servant with Health Canada and first sought the riding’s NDP nomination in 2022.</span></p>
<p><span>Green Party candidate Marlene Spruyt is a retired family doctor and public health executive. </span></p>
<p><span>David Motton was the candidate for the New Blue Party, a party dedicated to ending “woke” activism, much like the Trump administration in the United States, through the elimination of critical race theory, gender identity theory and all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives by government. The party wants to take down wind turbines and cancel all electrical vehicle subsidies.</span></p>
<p><span>Shane O’Neill, freelance researcher and writer, ran as an Independent candidate, while</span> <span>Wendy Dillistone-Whitaker ran for the Ontario Party, whose slogan is “freedom, family and faith.”</span></p>
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<p>As a tiny, yet animated crowd donning every hue of green congregated in Gloucester’s Big Rig Kitchen and Brewery Thursday for election night, every Ottawa-area Green candidate placed fourth in their individual races, and garnered a smaller percentage of the vote compared to 2022.</p>
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<p>“The Greens lost support this election and I think our support went to the Liberals due to fear,” said Christian Proulx, the Green Party candidate for Ottawa-Vanier. “Fear of Trump and fear of Ford.”</p>
<p>But the mood was nonetheless upbeat at the event co-hosted by Proulx and fellow Ottawa Green candidates Michelle Petersen (Orléans), Nira Dookeran (Ottawa South), and Simon Beckett (Ottawa Centre).</p>
<p>“It’s a bigger reflection of the Green Party spirit. We’re a party that really promotes collaboration,” said Petersen, a registered psychotherapist who ran for a third time.</p>
<p>Despite these results, Petersen said she intends to continue advocating for her Ottawa community.</p>
<p>“There’s still something to be said about the influence I can have just having been a candidate and having stuck around in my community engagement.”</p>
<p>For attendees, the re-election of Green Party of Ontario leader Mike Schreiner in his Guelph riding and Kitchener Centre representative Aislinn Clancy were cause for emphatic celebration.</p>
<p>Just after 10 p.m., attendees erupted in applause as Schreiner delivered his election night speech over the TV.</p>
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<p>“He’s always consistently inspiring and solid as a leader, which we need,” Dookeran said.</p>
<p>Dookeran added the most “heartbreaking” moment of the night was Matt Richter’s second-place finish in the Parry-Sound Muskoka riding. The Green candidate secured 41.7 per cent of the vote, falling 2,371 votes shy of PC candidate Graydon Smith.</p>
<p>Back in Ottawa, local candidates said a goal was to increase voter turnout.</p>
<p>“I would love to see people get more engaged in their civic duties,” Petersen said. “There’s so much political jadedness right now … But if you can find someone you respect, values that resonate with you, it allows us to humanize these roles.”</p>
<p>While the Orléans, Ottawa-Vanier and Glengarry-Prescott-Russell ridings saw a slight increase in turnout compared to 2022, the other eight ridings saw a slight decrease.</p>
<p>Another goal for the Greens was to garner at least two per cent of votes across the province, in order to qualify for a quarterly allowance in funding from the government.</p>
<p>“The votes do matter, even if the Greens don’t win,” said Gillian Walker, a volunteer with the Ottawa Centre campaign. “Your vote shows up in those percentages.”</p>
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<p>The Greens succeeded in that regard, garnering 4.83 per cent of votes across the province. “For a party like us, that’s a big deal,” Dookeran said.</p>
<p>Looking to the future, Beckett said he wants the Greens to be an alternative for any voters “really disenfranchised with the status quo.”</p>
<p>Proulx said he aims “to show people that there is hope for something different,” adding he believes Greens have comprehensive visions to address the housing, health care and affordability crises.</p>
<p>While no Green candidates were elected in the Ottawa area, all candidates indicated their grassroots efforts will persist.</p>
<p>“We know what we stand for: holding the government accountable and working with the other parties is what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna keep building our local capacity,” Dookeran said.</p>
<h3>How Ottawa Greens performed in the 2025 Ontario Election</h3>
<p>– Michelle Petersen received 2.48 per cent of the Orléans vote, down from 4.55 per cent in 2022<br>– Christian Proulx received 5.17 per cent of the Ottawa-Vanier vote, down from 7.81 per cent in 2022<br>– Simon Beckett received 2.66 per cent of the Ottawa Centre vote, down from 4.87 per cent (Shelby Bertrand) in 2022<br>– Nira Dookeran received 2.89 per cent of the Ottawa South vote, down from 4.65 per cent in 2022<br>– Sheilagh McLean received 1.9 per cent of the Nepean vote, down from 3.89 per cent (Kaitlyn Tremblay) in 2022<br>– Jennifer Purdy received 2.53 per cent of the Kanata-Carleton vote, down from 5.59 per cent (Pat Freel) in 2022<br>– Sophia Andrew-Joiner received 2.39 per cent of the Ottawa West-Nepean vote, down from 3.53 per cent (Steve Warren) in 2022<br>– Thaila Riden received 2.28 per cent of the Glengarry-Prescott-Russell vote, down from 3.76 per cent in 2022<br>– Mystic Plaunt received 1.82 per cent of the Carleton vote, down from 5.48 per cent (Cody Zulinski) in 2022</p>
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title: Pedestrian critically injured after being struck by truck near U of O
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<p>Ottawa firefighters rescued a man Saturday morning who had become pinned and trapped under a vehicle near the University of Ottawa.</p>
<p>The Ottawa Police Service said the man in his 20s had been walking at the intersection of Laurier Avenue East and Cumberland Street when he was struck by the vehicle.</p>
<p>Police alerted firefighters at about 6:45 a.m. that the man was pinned under the vehicle.</p>
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<p>Firefighters arrived at the scene at the intersection of Laurier Avenue East and Cumberland Street two minutes after the call and confirmed the man was pinned “with their arm entangled into the axle.”</p>
<p>Firefighters called for a “heavy rescue vehicle.”</p>
<p>They used cribbing to stabilize the vehicle truck to begin the extrication process, then used lift bags and a jack to raise the vehicle and specialized tools to remove parts of the vehicle, including a rear tire.</p>
<p>At 07:21 a.m., the victim’s arm was removed from the axle and he was extricated.</p>
<p>Ottawa paramedics confirmed they had treated a man in his 20s with serious injuries. He was taken to hospital in what police said was “life-threatening condition.”</p>
<p>Investigators would like to speak with anyone who witnessed the collision or may have dashcam video of the collision and has not yet spoken to police. Anyone with information should contact the Ottawa Police Service Fatal Collision Investigation Unit at 613-236-1222, extension 2345. Anonymous tips can be submitted by calling Crime Stoppers toll-free at 1-800-222-8477 or online at crimestoppers.ca.</p>
<p><span>Ottawa police reopened the street to traffic in mid-afternoon.</span></p>
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title: Polar Plunge: More than 70,000 reasons to smile
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<p>The 2025 Polar Plunge at Lansdowne Park was a resounding success despite frigid temperatures and a snowstorm that swept across Ottawa.</p>
<p>Local heroes, including members of the Ottawa Police Service led by Chief Eric Stubbs, plunged into an icy pool to raise more than $70,000 for Special Olympics Ontario to support the 2025 school championships in Ottawa in June.</p>
<p>With 36 agencies participating across the province, this year’s fundraising total more than doubled last year’s, showcasing incredible support for 23,000 Special Olympics athletes across Ontario.</p>
<p>Here’s an array of photos by Postmedia’s Ashley Fraser.</p>
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Sebastien Lemay, of the Ottawa Police Service’s community policing central district team, took the plunge Saturday rocking his police issued winter hat even though that didn’t seem to help in keeping him warm in the frigid water.</span> <span data-sanitized-class="credit">Photo by Ashley Fraser</span> /<span data-sanitized-class="distributor">POSTMEDIA</span></figcaption></figure><figure data-aqa="embed-image" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image"><picture data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__ratio"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-02-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=rfGkQe460f6RO_intpddDw, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-02-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=HrdffOnUzWzlJAIaaIsVQA 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/webp"><source 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data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-02-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=tZvV7w5NwWB1W_If67RpxQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-02-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=-D22vEyUUARZOjkOSkkW3A 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-02-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=NHXjrD4e2tqGtf-Bafh45w, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-02-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=q2lsyKI7YDRXxCLCIy4paw 2x" media="(max-width: 767px)" type="image/webp"><img alt="Polar Plunge Special Olympics Ontario, 2025 School Championships" data-src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-02-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=FNQtuC6vA5J5CcgOmDCTcQ" data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-02-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=FNQtuC6vA5J5CcgOmDCTcQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-02-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;sig=kjF5N0GpuiDSfeCHGTZwEg 2x" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-02-ot.jpg?quality=5&amp;strip=all&amp;w=100&amp;sig=Vnoq-EdYa7afXEm3kDeTug" height="750" loading="lazy" width="1000" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__image lazyload"></picture><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span data-sanitized-class="caption">Ottawa Police Service Chief Eric Stubbs was the first to take the plunge, making a real splash.</span> <span data-sanitized-class="credit">Photo by Ashley Fraser</span> /<span data-sanitized-class="distributor">POSTMEDIA</span></figcaption></figure><figure data-aqa="embed-image" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image"><picture data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__ratio"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-09-ot-e1740869001575.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=JxDj71wC4cUU1I3tiTHolg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-09-ot-e1740869001575.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=Qa6lV65f26KNMXKDL-uhVw 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-09-ot-e1740869001575.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=RmBbwkf7Nok2_lPuEdsdjQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-09-ot-e1740869001575.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=udJNpQ5PJ7KXmShnuDDqSA 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-09-ot-e1740869001575.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=uNcyIiu08_M84wc1OBVa9A, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-09-ot-e1740869001575.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=NU0KV_J54ibncJjmkfdCXQ 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-09-ot-e1740869001575.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=JTdvRoBQlujZOKicJIQyZg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-09-ot-e1740869001575.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=SOpPCifhLxMh7O2Jr4HgIA 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-09-ot-e1740869001575.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=uu8vxqCbHveDBraokpyoig, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-09-ot-e1740869001575.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=yr0OZ5dfY4eqOg8E5YM0pw 2x" media="(max-width: 767px)" type="image/webp"><img alt="Polar Plunge Special Olympics Ontario, 2025 School Championships" data-src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-09-ot-e1740869001575.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=ljrvEkcLxtFvNO4ua-GcDQ" data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-09-ot-e1740869001575.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=ljrvEkcLxtFvNO4ua-GcDQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-09-ot-e1740869001575.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;sig=pUZ__bDLzEPlSxFVUEvuWA 2x" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-09-ot-e1740869001575.jpg?quality=5&amp;strip=all&amp;w=100&amp;sig=k4cipEeE-e1B-UEe-n7tXQ" height="650" loading="lazy" width="995" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__image lazyload"></picture><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span data-sanitized-class="caption">Ottawa Police Service Acting Insp Cory Robertson is a veteran plunger, returning year after year to raise funds for Special Olympics Ontario.</span> <span data-sanitized-class="credit">Photo by Ashley Fraser</span> /<span data-sanitized-class="distributor">POSTMEDIA</span></figcaption></figure><figure data-aqa="embed-image" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image"><picture data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__ratio"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-08-ot-e1740869042927.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=QaZtmUc-Q_XdUV_48RKgjg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-08-ot-e1740869042927.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=nfLhtK1KIh0OduOqZ8KDVg 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-08-ot-e1740869042927.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=8_rRF3cEBLbM11DjvA_2tw, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-08-ot-e1740869042927.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=c9twJeeLnAKmgWGCx-2h0Q 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-08-ot-e1740869042927.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=-hyV6Tif_8-4XBhXYVN2Jg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-08-ot-e1740869042927.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=kv7eGVBwK8jwZUcyYwezbQ 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-08-ot-e1740869042927.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=OskuZbZlg5fPm6O1W4gWKw, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-08-ot-e1740869042927.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=IBOozn8ELOyevFk_w3zeCQ 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-08-ot-e1740869042927.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=nIk1vjYsXqB4gsQAsMpfpg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-08-ot-e1740869042927.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=KW9gOIT-9jADn5py8-n9uQ 2x" media="(max-width: 767px)" type="image/webp"><img alt="Polar Plunge Special Olympics Ontario, 2025 School Championships" data-src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-08-ot-e1740869042927.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=CiYeUkxR8I6dc_LJuPQNzw" data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-08-ot-e1740869042927.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=CiYeUkxR8I6dc_LJuPQNzw, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-08-ot-e1740869042927.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;sig=Qv4R9hoNghL6BncEGIbU3Q 2x" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-08-ot-e1740869042927.jpg?quality=5&amp;strip=all&amp;w=100&amp;sig=0KOGRTGGONZa7pTYlsfigg" height="710" loading="lazy" width="1000" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__image lazyload"></picture><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span data-sanitized-class="caption">From costumes to inflatable pool toys, everyone who jumped brought a little flavour to make entertaining for the spectators.</span> <span data-sanitized-class="credit">Photo by Ashley Fraser</span> /<span data-sanitized-class="distributor">POSTMEDIA</span></figcaption></figure><figure data-aqa="embed-image" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image"><picture data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__ratio"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-14-ot-e1740869164640.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=sSkAR-QtVU2D-Z6kylXuGQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-14-ot-e1740869164640.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=E1RMSFG_73OWKpb0te6JOA 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-14-ot-e1740869164640.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=UrT3hFbSeaDmUyETbUUkyA, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-14-ot-e1740869164640.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=3wVFLo_B9nFEnm04dA2FmQ 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-14-ot-e1740869164640.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=ywiZeeHZW-6kAje9QBiGAw, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-14-ot-e1740869164640.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=qcw2774zuM7pMZjLmpm2iQ 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-14-ot-e1740869164640.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=ynFf74gVWzzC2n-pv425tw, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-14-ot-e1740869164640.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=OW1YbBm_cJ1e38yk17kwWw 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-14-ot-e1740869164640.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=Td-cY5tUWx9DpdKMif0yFQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-14-ot-e1740869164640.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=yln5cw94vHS0_GhCaar7LQ 2x" media="(max-width: 767px)" type="image/webp"><img alt="Polar Plunge Special Olympics Ontario, 2025 School Championships" data-src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-14-ot-e1740869164640.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=aCjkacn58evC7SSuzEe3ow" data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-14-ot-e1740869164640.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=aCjkacn58evC7SSuzEe3ow, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-14-ot-e1740869164640.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;sig=u2wRgohaKrggzuDTTJ2YaA 2x" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-14-ot-e1740869164640.jpg?quality=5&amp;strip=all&amp;w=100&amp;sig=Nk92DbTFNwe4FX-SmPXSSA" height="660" loading="lazy" width="997" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__image lazyload"></picture><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span data-sanitized-class="caption">From costumes to inflatable pool toys, everyone who jumped brought a little flavour to the event.</span> <span data-sanitized-class="credit">Photo by Ashley Fraser</span> /<span data-sanitized-class="distributor">POSTMEDIA</span></figcaption></figure><figure data-aqa="embed-image" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image"><picture data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__ratio"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-07-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=6afz7FrrCDPgmiaRZJNCBg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-07-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=dNunkXtZlqDdGOpFLCxd2Q 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-07-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=Ely0XcSvcXgNXD1uT1zGXg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-07-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=i58vGA8BAa2_8_Zxg0nWSg 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-07-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=zNPRsFGRDhMHzi8iRfxwFQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-07-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=RvFM_fQ71ITshChc6_D3Bg 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-07-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=Te73Nt1_BQM9P3RJRfb_dA, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-07-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=AA83kchdQO9BPT5PzAUemw 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-07-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=AEZGAtWn57A--4O3kDBS1A, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-07-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=SuyvuW7opMWErUCOAYVcqA 2x" media="(max-width: 767px)" type="image/webp"><img alt="Polar Plunge Special Olympics Ontario, 2025 School Championships" data-src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-07-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=j24L6qu6bqYW9TTd5jvMwQ" data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-07-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=j24L6qu6bqYW9TTd5jvMwQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-07-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;sig=oeiQ19WRL-prm0Vi2bHomA 2x" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-07-ot.jpg?quality=5&amp;strip=all&amp;w=100&amp;sig=ZCjExLiXMEQbW9PXcuUSqA" height="750" loading="lazy" width="1000" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__image lazyload"></picture><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span data-sanitized-class="caption">The diversity of footwear among the crowd gathered around the pool, watching and waiting for their turns to plunge, was, well, varied.</span> <span data-sanitized-class="credit">Photo by Ashley Fraser</span> /<span data-sanitized-class="distributor">POSTMEDIA</span></figcaption></figure><figure data-aqa="embed-image" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image"><picture data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__ratio"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-13-ot-e1740869497968.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=YayE90Ntn9yy3DRoN92Y4A, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-13-ot-e1740869497968.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=00e7eeZZUKeOE-u-L2361A 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-13-ot-e1740869497968.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=hVqgHd6oKmeyManKcCQwGg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-13-ot-e1740869497968.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=dGxyWyvMqiWe39uHqrQNHQ 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-13-ot-e1740869497968.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=coGu63HVUX0CTkbHSfv68Q, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-13-ot-e1740869497968.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=n8AMuyFvtWdyvOytdGf2LQ 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-13-ot-e1740869497968.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=F80OLV8Pia-dJAVfMj5ihQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-13-ot-e1740869497968.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=WQajNQydHvNww9ziHrMohA 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-13-ot-e1740869497968.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=KcYdwz6jBjBTu2-9SQs2QQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-13-ot-e1740869497968.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=duujlHObanlobPJWSFzv1A 2x" media="(max-width: 767px)" type="image/webp"><img alt="Polar Plunge Special Olympics Ontario, 2025 School Championships" data-src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-13-ot-e1740869497968.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=0fO4M7CGznKz2EQSqYSi2g" data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-13-ot-e1740869497968.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=0fO4M7CGznKz2EQSqYSi2g, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-13-ot-e1740869497968.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;sig=zo5VIm1JoNGG3-bVe9pe_g 2x" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-13-ot-e1740869497968.jpg?quality=5&amp;strip=all&amp;w=100&amp;sig=fW2LF6ZgWyD4bKlUdv7E9A" height="625" loading="lazy" width="997" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__image lazyload"></picture><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span data-sanitized-class="caption">The wind whipping across Lansdowne Park on Saturday added an extra bite to the chill as plungers prepared to take their dips in the frigid pool.</span> <span data-sanitized-class="credit">Photo by Ashley Fraser</span> /<span data-sanitized-class="distributor">POSTMEDIA</span></figcaption></figure><figure data-aqa="embed-image" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image"><picture data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__ratio"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-11-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=S-6Lmbqw018WdfGLDGQEGA, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-11-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=d77WnYZ1Vz-0lU0laBbihQ 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-11-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=B1iJvv3liOT4iUp_1D-5fg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-11-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=7UoJwqZ84ZM8mH_Y-OIHaw 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-11-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=UKhLjU6gNERHtQuE8ji3Cg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-11-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=2Y1T2_gG8pgbCLtvl75A3w 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-11-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=WEkWuhu-egzctNUfVp6Bcw, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-11-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=Ab7wqsfiww0YxnXbufGI0A 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-11-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=WieWto4_F8AfVHMifrZhsA, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-11-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=-8Il1ubX1FtlpKrwDUXlAA 2x" media="(max-width: 767px)" type="image/webp"><img alt="Polar Plunge Special Olympics Ontario, 2025 School Championships" data-src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-11-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=5nA4vkMrNGk8WNoPWOxT6w" data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-11-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=5nA4vkMrNGk8WNoPWOxT6w, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-11-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;sig=x86dSgur7FnruzAdglic0A 2x" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-11-ot.jpg?quality=5&amp;strip=all&amp;w=100&amp;sig=I_a4C61_Tmbbs0EdMAzm2A" height="750" loading="lazy" width="1000" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__image lazyload"></picture><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span data-sanitized-class="caption">Special Olympics athlete Kate Brubacher, left, and Ottawa Police Service Acting Staff Sgt. Cathy Wood take the plunge hand in hand.</span> <span data-sanitized-class="credit">Photo by Ashley Fraser</span> /<span data-sanitized-class="distributor">POSTMEDIA</span></figcaption></figure><figure data-aqa="embed-image" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image"><picture data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__ratio"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-17-ot-e1740869280202.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=XrSVPijl0KrNRQn7cs_Mfg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-17-ot-e1740869280202.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=YejYH90I32xlEd1aZ7dpuQ 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-17-ot-e1740869280202.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=nzD_1LHBqaPJOd_NyaQe_g, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-17-ot-e1740869280202.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=NjNQPThZU45VgJYglT_PYw 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-17-ot-e1740869280202.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=npUjNHDVqVNuDPpU2AeZAA, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-17-ot-e1740869280202.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=k12huRRKSMjAnYBRy8_c1g 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-17-ot-e1740869280202.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=vmZ1K3TJIt5LfjI3bLX9oQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-17-ot-e1740869280202.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=HpvERE69fn13uymWSEU5dQ 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-17-ot-e1740869280202.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=w6MjPBF0UnUf6rt9-GswAQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-17-ot-e1740869280202.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=F_2QyZVPdxsAdbLORPtjXA 2x" media="(max-width: 767px)" type="image/webp"><img alt="Polar Plunge Special Olympics Ontario, 2025 School Championships" data-src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-17-ot-e1740869280202.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=ovp-m_YZAxtDn_YSHTbiKQ" data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-17-ot-e1740869280202.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=ovp-m_YZAxtDn_YSHTbiKQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-17-ot-e1740869280202.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;sig=Oa6BfHwNitQoUXHUnigRqw 2x" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-17-ot-e1740869280202.jpg?quality=5&amp;strip=all&amp;w=100&amp;sig=zw9CkbO6CmT5KR1Yly1NvA" height="655" loading="lazy" width="992" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__image lazyload"></picture><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span data-sanitized-class="caption">From costumes to inflatable pool toys, everyone who jumped brought a little flavour to make the event entertaining for spectators.</span> <span data-sanitized-class="credit">Photo by Ashley Fraser</span> /<span data-sanitized-class="distributor">POSTMEDIA</span></figcaption></figure><figure data-aqa="embed-image" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image"><picture data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__ratio"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-04-ot-e1740868737786.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=kNPHCTGB1V_OJ60v3K60ig, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-04-ot-e1740868737786.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=LGOnL3KldW58sHhPQMnGYQ 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/webp"><source 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data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-04-ot-e1740868737786.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=FuyNrbPE3ljIqzA5z7PV0g, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-04-ot-e1740868737786.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=Gyp_WkrQMMemGWghrPzbDQ 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-04-ot-e1740868737786.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=7IQIGkJ9qLAhYIazINXz8Q, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-04-ot-e1740868737786.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=y_d4PHjD1053i201sDmP6A 2x" media="(max-width: 767px)" type="image/webp"><img alt="Polar Plunge Special Olympics Ontario, 2025 School Championships" data-src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-04-ot-e1740868737786.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=vdLWXO0DXfpkcNsZYgMpgQ" data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-04-ot-e1740868737786.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=vdLWXO0DXfpkcNsZYgMpgQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-04-ot-e1740868737786.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;sig=YIo-4cdmT3J6TZN-00NWUw 2x" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-04-ot-e1740868737786.jpg?quality=5&amp;strip=all&amp;w=100&amp;sig=IGgjxH1gDF5HKP1j9Rc9Fg" height="555" loading="lazy" width="992" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__image lazyload"></picture><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span data-sanitized-class="caption">John Legate, a retired Ontario Provincial Police member with 31 years of service who retired 30 years ago, didn’t let his age hold him back from participating in the fundraising event.</span> <span data-sanitized-class="credit">Photo by Ashley Fraser</span> /<span data-sanitized-class="distributor">POSTMEDIA</span></figcaption></figure><figure data-aqa="embed-image" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image"><picture data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__ratio"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-05-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=OxJjjAdAjMafJGEnCoBBQA, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-05-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=uBfmw54IJK8xflSyS4jMAw 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/webp"><source 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data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-05-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=Mgv7idIMHAca8GBnPwlLjg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-05-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=JKb-JEYTAEqX6j5Fc9yxCg 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-05-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=zRR1rX9Pdlk9Y-IPIXkUyg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-05-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=lu-ESboVaD8ZAJWxkj6DlA 2x" media="(max-width: 767px)" type="image/webp"><img alt="Polar Plunge Special Olympics Ontario, 2025 School Championships" data-src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-05-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=KbV6V07zviKOF-bvQy3ZEQ" data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-05-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=KbV6V07zviKOF-bvQy3ZEQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-05-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;sig=kw5idMfi17WoB-sW0mvJGw 2x" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-05-ot.jpg?quality=5&amp;strip=all&amp;w=100&amp;sig=RYYSJyMlq1IDMnhFJbTVGg" height="750" loading="lazy" width="1000" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__image lazyload"></picture><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span data-sanitized-class="caption">John Legate, a retired Ontario Provincial Police member with 31 years of service who retired 30 years ago, was congratulated by Ottawa Police Service Chief Eric Stubbs after bravely emerging from the freezing cold pool.</span> <span data-sanitized-class="credit">Photo by Ashley Fraser</span> /<span data-sanitized-class="distributor">POSTMEDIA</span></figcaption></figure><figure data-aqa="embed-image" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image"><picture data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__ratio"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-16-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=Pghxzr-8jKpQZDz72xoi4g, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-16-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=b2tzuz4BifkSuD6i-b9ysw 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-16-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=wAPpG_48pFgwUQmszEdeSg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-16-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=8IYtzXvbLJ8AVALMBzFl4g 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-16-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=Q7ZnEXycyiHg5HFXnfgrlw, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-16-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=y-vNNjFhySPICHsXs-AD4Q 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-16-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=v6ZfqdISEIyBfh1IUTTfXg, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-16-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=6ESsFsm-hxfm8Uzb-P4TaQ 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-16-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=Bn-jxX_Lnr2q_LTTSKBL0A, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-16-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=xmUop8OFQR0WgUCLYTG5ww 2x" media="(max-width: 767px)" type="image/webp"><img alt="Polar Plunge Special Olympics Ontario, 2025 School Championships" data-src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-16-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=4sbhETKgjIBnGlJ2wZZmrQ" data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-16-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=4sbhETKgjIBnGlJ2wZZmrQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-16-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;sig=sUXLeSwT0DMoYS7PdX-2kQ 2x" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-16-ot.jpg?quality=5&amp;strip=all&amp;w=100&amp;sig=7R4bVZCEp-AKWWYNVK6XOw" height="750" loading="lazy" width="1000" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__image lazyload"></picture><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span data-sanitized-class="caption">John Legate, a retired Ontario Provincial Police member with 31 years of service who retired 30 years ago, waves to the crowd at Saturday’s event.</span> <span data-sanitized-class="credit">Photo by Ashley Fraser</span> /<span data-sanitized-class="distributor">POSTMEDIA</span></figcaption></figure><figure data-aqa="embed-image" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image"><picture data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__ratio"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-15-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=oyEOT6MQnnS_9yDeJ6Wkug, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-15-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=KSHNfU8JLBw6b438SmrsiA 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-15-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=D_9zeARenQTznDTgDfCadQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-15-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=zJjzTHmP8NY7YzueIP4voQ 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-15-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=34-e-vgO1tRaxQ-iAPeIlw, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-15-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=Q7WV0OQZKi0l8zJHAkQyVw 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/webp"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-15-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=472&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=PB3oliOhTyPEHkWfRVVOiw, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-15-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=944&amp;type=jpg&amp;sig=l3pZAEsReQRsoioymTM-mg 2x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/jpeg"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-15-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=r2pArh928DbUPDHE5CLbDQ, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-15-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=bM5zxuUvEspEG7aBNAGCtA 2x" media="(max-width: 767px)" type="image/webp"><img alt="Polar Plunge Special Olympics Ontario, 2025 School Championships" data-src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-15-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=BtIbdSqDKDOafuWzW0Tm4Q" data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-15-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=BtIbdSqDKDOafuWzW0Tm4Q, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-15-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;sig=vts1svaGFlAKVFdp-xHneA 2x" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-15-ot.jpg?quality=5&amp;strip=all&amp;w=100&amp;sig=V53qHStRzZmUBB0fjOkenw" height="750" loading="lazy" width="1000" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__image lazyload"></picture><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span data-sanitized-class="caption">“I am just astounded that not only do people keep coming back to jump into freezing cold water, but we expand every year,” said acting Sgt. Megan Arbuthnot of the Ottawa Police Service, the driving force behind Saturday’s fundraising event.</span> <span data-sanitized-class="credit">Photo by Ashley Fraser</span> /<span data-sanitized-class="distributor">POSTMEDIA</span></figcaption></figure><figure data-aqa="embed-image" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image"><picture data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__ratio"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-18-ot-e1740869406916.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=hyh0CfQIKZsPXP0hQgn5zw, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-18-ot-e1740869406916.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=yHTT0J9ieGIOWWuzk4bo7A 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/webp"><source 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Championships" data-src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-18-ot-e1740869406916.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=9qV9QLGtpqoKWzIyvwAn6g" data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-18-ot-e1740869406916.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=9qV9QLGtpqoKWzIyvwAn6g, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-18-ot-e1740869406916.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;sig=-toX_rOhaq114C9zTC5pVQ 2x" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-18-ot-e1740869406916.jpg?quality=5&amp;strip=all&amp;w=100&amp;sig=cH0I6NmjMIbdaKVzJdX1MA" height="622" loading="lazy" width="992" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__image lazyload"></picture><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span data-sanitized-class="caption">Mathieu Couture Lauzon of the Ottawa Police Service flashes a peace sign as he takes the plunge.</span> <span data-sanitized-class="credit">Photo by Ashley Fraser</span> /<span data-sanitized-class="distributor">POSTMEDIA</span></figcaption></figure><figure data-aqa="embed-image" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image"><picture data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__ratio"><source data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-10-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=564&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=YgN-HmRI3hwlzdUOzCZk_g, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-10-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1128&amp;type=webp&amp;sig=3Qya6rH1vCePJ6W51afgvg 2x" media="(min-width: 1200px)" type="image/webp"><source 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data-src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-10-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=A_yewwK7I9PdFpk-VLyqcw" data-srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-10-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;sig=A_yewwK7I9PdFpk-VLyqcw, https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-10-ot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=576&amp;sig=xwep87HIeXV0wFR3-LDX0g 2x" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/ottawacitizen/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0302-plunge-10-ot.jpg?quality=5&amp;strip=all&amp;w=100&amp;sig=m1jnKQSEKQOu-haCg-zHBw" height="750" loading="lazy" width="1000" data-sanitized-class="embedded-image__image lazyload"></picture><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span data-sanitized-class="caption">Two members of the Ottawa Police Service marine, dive and trails unit, along with a member of 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<p data-sanitized-class="article-subtitle">Built in 1925, the property’s original English cottage-style home sat across the road from Rideau Hall and within the Rockcliffe Park Heritage Conservation District.</p>
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<p>The Ontario Land Tribunal has given a developer the green light to build two semi-detached homes — larger than the original building — on a property where a century-old heritage home once stood in Rockcliffe Park.</p>
<p>The land tribunal’s recent decision ends a years-long battle over the property, which has two addresses: 1 Maple Lane and 112 Lisgar Rd.</p>
<p>It sits across the road from Rideau Hall, official residence of Canada’s governor general, and within the Rockcliffe Park Heritage Conservation District.</p>
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<p>The Rockcliffe Park Residents Association opposed the variance sought by the developer, Roca Investment Holdings, to enlarge the building’s footprint.</p>
<p>Granting such a variance, the association said, would reward the property owner for allowing “one of the most important heritage buildings in Rockcliffe Park” to fall into such a state of disrepair that it had to be demolished.</p>
<p>“Approving a significantly larger building creates a precedent which amounts to an assault on the heritage of this national historic site,” the RRRA argued in a written submission.</p>
<p>The tribunal, however, rejected the association’s argument, calling it a criticism of the property owner’s past conduct rather than a valid argument about the development plan.</p>
<p>What happens elsewhere in Rockcliffe Park, the tribunal noted, “has no bearing on the present application.”</p>
<p>The RRRA also complained that the proposed development meant local residents “will be staring at a much larger building buffered by correspondingly less greenspace.”</p>
<p>The side-yard and rear-yard setbacks are significantly reduced because of the new building’s enlarged footprint, the association argued, while the overall mass is increased.</p>
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<p>But the tribunal also rejected those concerns, saying the new, enlarged design closely resembled that of the previous building and would have a similar impact on the neighbourhood.</p>
<p>It concluded: “The tribunal finds that the scale of the proposed enlargement falls well short of causing unacceptably adverse impacts on the surrounding properties and neighbourhood.”</p>
<p>The property’s original English cottage-style home was built it 1925. The two-and-a-half-storey building was designed to look like a single detached house, with one half of the duplex facing Maple Lane and the other facing Lisgar Road.</p>
<p>The property was legally non-conforming because semi-detached dwellings are not permitted in the area.</p>
<p>Among other things, the land tribunal also had to decide if the property maintained its status as legally non-conforming since it had been uninhabited and unused for so long.</p>
<p>The tribunal ruled the building, since it was structurally intact and looked from the outside much like it had for 100 years, should maintain its legally non-conforming status.</p>
<p>“The proposal to rebuild the same type of dwellings on the subject lands will not be unacceptably jarring or otherwise abruptly reintroduce a non-conforming building within the community,” the tribunal said, adding: “The tribunal finds that the proposal will not unacceptably disrupt the community’s sense of character in terms of fit and compatibility.”</p>
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<p>Now a national historic site, Rockcliffe Park was designated a heritage conservation district under the Ontario Heritage Act in 1997.</p>
<p>The accompanying Rockcliffe Park Heritage Plan imposes restrictions on homeowners and requires city approval to demolish a house, change its exterior, sever a property, build a new house or add new outbuildings.</p>
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<p>The City of Ottawa approved the Maple Lane building’s demolition in November 2023 because of its advanced state of disrepair, which included foundation cracks, collapsed ceilings, buckled floors, rotten roof timbers, mould and asbestos.</p>
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<p>From offensive graffiti to discriminatory language, hate crimes have been committed against minority groups for years, and many victims are unable to receive the support they need. Ottawa Victim Services wants to change that with the launch of an online hate crime reporting tool.</p>
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<p>“This initiative is crucial for community members affected by hate crimes and incidents,” said Heidi Illingworth, the executive director of OVS.</p>
<p>“We recognize that not everyone is comfortable engaging with law enforcement. Now, Ottawa residents can report their experiences, seek support and access services in a way that prioritizes their safety and comfort, especially since hate crimes are rising everywhere,” she continued.</p>
<p>The Ottawa Police Service defines a hate crime as “a criminal offence committed against a person or property motivated by hate/bias or prejudice based on race, national or ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, or other similar factors”</p>
<p>In January, police presented 2024 hate-crime statistics showing a total of 467 reported incidents. From 2015 to 2020, there were more than 900 confirmed hate-crime incidents, according to City of Ottawa data, and another 300 incidents were suspected to be hate crimes.</p>
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<p>The types of “reportable incidents” using the new online tool include:</p>
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<p>While there have been other projects similar to this one, such as the Islamophobia-Motivated Incident Reporting Tool app that OVS launched in 2024, this is the first third-party reporting tool specific to Ottawa, and it is open to people from all religious, racial and sexual identities, Illingworth says.</p>
<p>It was soft-launched before Christmas and as of late February had received six reports. “We just wanted to officially announce it to the community,” Illingworth said.</p>
<p>The project was funded by the Province of Ontario through the anti-racism and anti-hate initiative announced in September and designed to close the gap between survivors of hate crimes and the services they need.</p>
<p>“We know there’s hesitation among especially racialized folks, among immigrants, people from religious minorities who have maybe had negative experiences with police in the past, so they can be very hesitant to come forward,” Illingworth said.</p>
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title: Cigarette toss followed by crash, charges on Highway 417
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<p>A motorist faces a charge of careless driving – and a fine for littering – after tossing a cigarette out a passenger side window and crashing through the guardrail of Highway 417’s median.</p>
<p>Officers from the Ottawa detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police responded to the scene on Highway 417, between Eagleson Road and Moodie Drive, just after 9 a.m.</p>
<p>The OPP said the eastbound driver crashed into the median after losing control of the vehicle while trying to flick a cigarette out the passenger-side window. The car, a four-door white sedan, smashed against the westbound lanes’ guardrail.</p>
<p>The driver was taken to hospital by the Ottawa Paramedic Service with minor injuries.</p>
<p>Littering carries a $110 fine, while careless driving carries a $490 fine and six demerit points upon conviction.</p>
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<p>In the heart of the ByWard Market, the Irving Rivers store has always been well-stocked with clothing and uniforms for tourists and locals alike. But in recent weeks, one particular item has had trouble staying on its shelves: the Canada Flag.</p>
<p data-async><span data-contrast="auto">Michael Osterer, manager of</span> <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "Irving Rivers", "target_url": "https://irvingrivers.com/", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://irvingrivers.com/"><span data-contrast="none">Irving Rivers</span></a><span data-contrast="auto">, says the red-and-white flag is typically a popular item, but sales have doubled since the threat of a U.S.-Canada trade war. He sold out of Canada flags on Flag Day last month.</span></p>
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<p><span data-contrast="auto">“I’m ordering more flags in as we speak. I just got an order this morning for some and shipping more out later today, so it’s going good,” he said last week.</span> <span data-contrast="auto">“Because of the tariffs, and Trump, (we are) definitely seeing an increase (in sales).”</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p data-async><span data-contrast="auto">A</span> <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "recent poll", "target_url": "https://angusreid.org/shopping-shift-tariff-threat-buy-canada/", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://angusreid.org/shopping-shift-tariff-threat-buy-canada/"><span data-contrast="none">recent poll</span></a> <span data-contrast="auto">conducted by the Angus Reid Group found that 85 per cent of Canadians have, or are planning to, replace their American products with Canadian, which could explain why Osterer has seen an increase in customers.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> And he’s not the only one.</span></p>
<p data-async><span data-contrast="auto">“Canada flags sell all the time, but never really quite like this,” said Brad Green, co-owner of</span> <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "World of Maps", "target_url": "https://www.worldofmaps.com/", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://www.worldofmaps.com/"><span data-contrast="none">World of Maps</span></a><span data-contrast="auto">. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">While the store sells a range of items from maps to globes, it’s the flags that are getting the most attention these days. </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">“(Sales) are higher than even during Canada Day,” he adds, something unseen in the 30 years the store has been open.</span> <span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">While many of these sales have come from regular customers, Green has noticed that “many of the (customers) just walk in, sometimes just off the street and buy the flag and are on their way.”</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p data-async><span data-contrast="auto">Cecilia Burke, CEO of</span> <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "Flag Networks", "target_url": "http://www.flagnetworks.com/www.flagnetworks.com/index.html", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="http://www.flagnetworks.com/www.flagnetworks.com/index.html"><span data-contrast="none">Flag Networks</span></a><span data-contrast="auto">, says the response has been overwhelming.</span></p>
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<p><span data-contrast="auto">“We’re always surprised every morning when our controller gives us the internet orders and customer requests, but especially the Canadian flagpole and bracket that we’ve been selling a lot of,” she said. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">“We also have been selling a lot of our balcony flags, which surprised us, because it’s very cold right now to be digging a flagpole in the ground, but people still want to show their pride,” she added.</span> <span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Part of this increase comes from Flag Day, which is observed on Feb. 15 to celebrate the inauguration of Canada’s flag.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Minister of Canadian Heritage Pascale St-Onge said in a statement how “public displays of national pride have become more prominent following external economic pressures.”</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">She encouraged Canadians to “remind ourselves what (the flag) represents: our values, our resilience and our sovereignty.”</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">But it’s not just Canadian flags people are buying more of. Green points to how the store also sold out of pins, patches and decals with the Maple Leaf on them.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Green has also noticed an increase in Ukrainian flags being sold. “Ukraine flag sales are up, not as much as the Canadian flag, but it’s up,” he said, pointing to Canadians being tuned into the news around the world. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Green says that amidst the political tension, it’s “good that people are proud of the flag.”</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">“We are overwhelmed with the sentiment, with the people that are coming and telling us their stories, wanting to show their pride,” Burke said of her customers. </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">“It’s been moving to see such a response, and everybody’s keen to (show their pride) they’re sticking a flag in a snowbank, just to be able to show something red.”</span></p>
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<p><strong>Did you know that NAD+/NADH in cytochrome 1 is a fluorophore protein complex that transfers electrons in the electron transport chain of the inner mitochondrial membrane?</strong></p>
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<p><u><strong>Alchemist &amp; Metaphysician</strong></u> = ancestral dogmatic beliefs are that biochemistry is definitive science.  Biochemistry is really a solid state story of how light alters valence electrons within hydrated semiconductive proteins. This light is capable of changing their physiologic ability as the electromagnetic signals on the surfaces of them changes geometry in their lattice.  This is why electromagnetic charge changes always involve shape shifting of proteins made by DNA surrounded by water made by mitochondria. Life runs on being able to harness the energy of an excited electron to the ground state. Life cannot do this well when pseudohypoxia exists at cytochrome one with lowered NAD+. Technology’s nnEMF and blue light cause this quickest today.</p>
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<p>Influenza does not follow the predicted patterns for infectious diseases. In fact, there are several conundrums associated with influenza epidemics, such as:</p>
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<p>Jeremy and I sat on the beach at Destin and began a discussion about happiness and wisdom as it pertains to a mitochondriac.   The audio file of the beginning of our discussion as it occurred is above.  It is pretty raw.  You can hear the surf and wind in the back round along with the music of the moment.</p>
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<p>What if I told you that your breath may get stolen under the guise of progress?  Would you believe me?</p>
<p>Today it is time to show how the Patriot Act, IoT, and the DOD/NSA/CIA and SpaceX are really linked.  Most people have no idea/hypothesis I have is a direct violation of the 4th amendment right in the Constitution.  Our privacy rights are now under seige now by the DOD and FCC and it is being done in plain sight using an old game plan……….bait and Switch.  It worked before in the Warren Commission Report and now I believe it will be used again by selling the promise of progress and keeping ahead in the intel race with the Chinese Communist Party.</p>
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<p>When you watch the video above what thoughts are you left with?</p>
<p>Do you believe the narrative that is pushed with words, or did you pay close attention to the results you saw about particle spread in the computer test?</p>
<p>Do you believe they were equivalent?</p>
<p>Are Public Health experts now using the wearing of masks as a con man would use on the public playing three card monte?</p>
<p>Just being a master of public health expert, with a degree, (MPH) does not imply you are wise.  Intellect does not equal wisdom.</p>
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<p>Edward Snowden figured out how the overall global plan for unifying operation Mockingbird and MKUltra would be deployed using new software programs that updates to these 1950s programs.  He leaked them during the Obama administration and became Obama’s enemy number one of the industrial military complex.</p>
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<p><span data-offset-key="eda07-0-0">Several of my members went to a bio-hacking conference in California sponsored by Dave Apsrey and were told blue light exposure during the day was NOT harmful at all in 2016, and quite helpful for the human eye.  In fact, blue light had benefits of alerting people and improving cognition.  When they returned and told me about the event, I responded that this advice was probably the most damaging advice ever given at any event I’ve reviewed. </span></p>
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<p><span data-offset-key="563va-0-0">Then two years later, in 2018 the study from the University of Toledo proved my response to Asprey’s claims were fraudulent.  See the  we have many PEER reviewed article pointing out just how bad man-made blue light from screens are for the human retina.</span></p>
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title: The Government needs to tell us more about Ireland’s future defence strategy
author: ;William Stephens
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title: Seachtain na Gaeilge: An Míosach
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title: The answer to the question of falling Irish standards is not to abandon the language
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title: ON THIS DAY: 2 MARCH 1979: Death of legendary hurler Christy Ring
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title: Briain Ó hUiginn: Scríbhneoir, file, saighdiúir agus polaiteoir
author: ;Pól Ó Meadhra
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]<p>Scríbhneoir, file, saighdiúir agus polaiteoir  ab ea Brian Ó hUiginn ar a dtugtar Brian na Banban freisin, a bhí ina bhall bunaitheach de Shinn Féin agus a bhí mar Uachtarán ar an eagraíocht ó 1931 go 1933. Rugadh Brian  i 1882, an duine ab óige de cheithre leanbh dhéag d’fheirmeoirí beaga i gCill Scíre, Contae […]</p>
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title: Undoing Defence Forces Triple-lock Could Undermine Irish Neutrality
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]<p>Tánaiste Simon Harris has fast-tracked a draft law ready for cabinet, to repeal Ireland’s triple-lock deployment of the Defence Forces. The triple-lock mechanism currently requires any overseas deployments of more than 12 Defence Forces members and requires the approval of the Government, Dáil Éireann, and the UN Security Council.  Pitched as a move to shore […]</p>
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title: MYERS: At the SF graveside, all sins against Irish people are forgiven
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<p>It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a media outlet that blames everything on the “far right” in Ireland, then you don’t have to go far to find one. If, by contrast, you are looking for a media outlet that looks beyond that cheap sloganeering, and tries to understand and report on the real concerns held by ordinary people – and a good few prominent people, albeit privately – then that is what we try to do here.</p>
<p>But we cannot do it without your support, and your subscription.</p>
<p>We reject Government funding, because, in our view, that would be the end of our independence. The moment we did so, we would begin looking over our shoulder, and wondering if our coverage of a particular issue might lead to that money being taken away. In time – not all at once, but slowly and inexorably – we would become just another safe, consensus, state-funded voice.</p>
<p>But there’s a bargain to be struck here: If you value our independence, then you must support it. If you want us to be answerable to you, then you must take a stake in our work.</p>
<p>What we try to do here is to be open, honest, and brave. That does not mean that you will always agree with us. It does mean that there will be times when we will annoy you, and publish things you disagree with: That’s part of the deal. We are independent, not servants of one cause, or another.</p>
<p>That is what media is supposed to be, but too often in Ireland no longer is. We are trying to change that, and we need your help. I am, therefore, asking for it, and would deeply appreciate a subscription at the level you can afford.</p>
<p>With gratitude,</p>
<p><strong>John</strong></p>

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<div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891098742603780460" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_1" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Mitochondrial transplantation could revolutionize aging and disease treatment.<p>In older rodents, transplantation enhances:<br>🏃‍♂️ Speed by 45% &amp; endurance by 48%<br>⚡ATP by 51%<br>🏋️‍♂️Mitochondrial enzyme activity by up to 65%</p><p>Human trials are already underway 🧵1/12<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj6HJeXXMAEKW21.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj6HJeXXMAEKW21.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891098745393000872" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_2" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">As we age, our muscle mitochondria decline in function, leading to fatigue and reduced mobility. The question: Could injecting mitochondria directly into muscle offset these aging-driven deficits? A study tested that idea specifically in older rodents. /2 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj6HMYzWkAAhyPl.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj6HMYzWkAAhyPl.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891098748144476517" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_3" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Researchers used 15 female mice (24 months old, equivalent to 70yo humans). They isolated mitochondria from two donor mice of the same age and strain, then injected these mitochondria into key hindlimb muscles (quadriceps, tibialis anterior, gastrocnemius). A separate group got a placebo injection. /3<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj6HOclWEAA3_Jg.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj6HOclWEAA3_Jg.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891098750308782552" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_4" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">They tested endurance on a treadmill at baseline, 3 weeks, and 6 weeks post-injection. By 3 weeks, mice receiving mitochondrial transplants ran ~48% farther and ~45% faster than placebo controls. These gains persisted at the 6-week mark. /4 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj6HQXTXAAAhfVD.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj6HQXTXAAAhfVD.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891098751990681719" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_5" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) activity rose up to ~65% in transplanted muscles (vs. placebo). CcO is crucial for the final steps of energy production.<br>ATP levels were ~51% higher in transplanted muscles—directly reflecting better energy output. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/5</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891098753341280434" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_6" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">They also found a ~37% boost in citrate synthase activity, an important enzyme in the mitochondrial energy pathway. Plus, markers of mitochondrial quality control (Parkin, TFAM, BNIP3, Drp1) increased up to two-fold, indicating enhanced turnover and maintenance of healthy mitochondria. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/6</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891098754574406024" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_7" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Interestingly, donor mitochondria came from mice of the same age. You might think younger donors would help more, but this study suggests that even “age-matched” mitochondria can significantly bolster muscle bioenergetics—at least in this rodent model. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/7</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891098755849388537" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_8" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">How long do the benefits last? This study only tracked improvements through week 6, and the performance gains remained. Whether these enhancements persist beyond 6 weeks—or whether booster injections help—remains to be determined. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/8</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891098757254545563" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_9" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Though promising, there are important limitations:<br>These results are in rodents, not humans.<br>No significant epigenetic changes were seen at 6 weeks.<br>The best donor age, optimal doses, safety, or frequencies for human therapy are still unknown. Yet the concept of mitochondrial transplantation is an intriguing new frontier, especially for those with mitochondrial disorders. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/9</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891098758743461923" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_10" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Concerns are growing over the potential use of this technology to gain an unfair edge in sports. Reports state that “human trials have already been conducted in Iran, China, and other countries worldwide”. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/10</span><br><a data-preview="true" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/14/new-doping-trick-why-scientists-fear-athletes-already-using/" data-sanitized-class="entity-url">telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/1…</a><span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj6Hh8yWcAAtemx.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj6Hh8yWcAAtemx.png"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891098761524330634" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_11" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">If successfully translated, mitochondrial transplantation could revolutionize disease treatment and enhance strength and endurance—especially for older adults. But it also raises ethical concerns about its use for enhancing already healthy individuals. /11 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj6Hr1XWsAA-7XO.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj6Hr1XWsAA-7XO.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891098764074455425" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_12" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Sources:<br><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/14/4/493" data-sanitized-class="entity-url multilink">mdpi.com/2218-273X/14/4…</a><br><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10547968/" data-sanitized-class="entity-url multilink">pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10…</a></div>


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<div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891470072725602512" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_1" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Just hearing a phone notification—without even checking it—disrupts focus.<p>A study found the effect was comparable to the cognitive impact of distracted driving.</p><p>Want to stay sharp? Silence your phone and put it away 🧵 1/10<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj_YNPxWgAA-fFU.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj_YNPxWgAA-fFU.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891470075275743686" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_2" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Researchers recruited 166 college students and divided them into three groups: 📞 Call notification, 📩 Text notification, and 🚫 No-notification (control). Participants completed a high-focus task to measure how phone notifications affected attention. /2 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj_YTcTWEAA826h.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj_YTcTWEAA826h.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891470077460984155" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_3" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">The task was the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART). Numbers flashed on a screen, and participants had to press a key for every number except 3. This tested their ability to stay focused and avoid mistakes. The task lasted for hundreds of trials. /3 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj_YVZUXsAAtOUK.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj_YVZUXsAAtOUK.png"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891470079742615715" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_4" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">During the second half of the task, the call and text groups received four notifications at fixed intervals. These messages were sent to participants’ own phones to make them feel real. But they weren’t allowed to check or respond. /4 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj_YXHSXEAA3QNb.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj_YXHSXEAA3QNb.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891470081839730701" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_5" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Even without interaction, notifications significantly increased errors in both groups. The distraction was comparable to actively using a phone, meaning even a quick buzz or ring is enough to derail focus. /5 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj_YY1kXIAAcYeB.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj_YY1kXIAAcYeB.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891470084016615687" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_6" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Calls were more distracting than texts. Participants in the call group showed the largest increase in errors. Texts also impaired focus, but less severely. Calls may create a stronger urge to respond, making them harder to ignore. /6 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj_Yav8XcAASSQQ.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj_Yav8XcAASSQQ.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891470085824426237" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_7" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Surprisingly, errors happened even when the phone wasn’t actively ringing. The issue wasn’t just the sound—it was mind-wandering. Once a notification arrived, people might have been thinking: "Who is it? Is it urgent? Should I check later?" <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/7</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891470087112007917" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_8" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">This aligns with prospective memory research, showing that simply remembering a future task divides attention. Even if ignored, notifications leave mental residue, pulling focus away long after they appear. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/8</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891470088399692253" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_9" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Why this matters:<br>🚘 Even hands-free phone use may be dangerous.<br>📚 Notifications can disrupt learning &amp; productivity.<br>🧠 Digital distractions weaken deep focus.<br>📵 Ignoring a notification isn’t enough—your brain keeps processing it. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/9</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891470089729224878" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_10" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">If you need deep focus, put your phone on silent, face down, and out of sight. Even a brief notification—without interaction—can impair attention. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/10</span><p><a data-preview="true" href="https://psycnet.apa.org/buy/2015-28923-001" data-sanitized-class="entity-url">psycnet.apa.org/buy/2015-28923…</a></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891470091239264765" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_11" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">More on how distracting phones can be (even when you aren't using them) here:
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<div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891818453327282537" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_1" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Eating at night causes circadian misalignment—harming metabolic health.<p>A study found it led to a 19% higher morning blood sugar spike.</p><p>Here’s why when you eat may be just as important as what you eat 🧵1/9<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkEUZ8PWUAEjzPW.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkEUZ8PWUAEjzPW.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891818456179249599" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_2" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">This study had 19 healthy adults undergo simulated night shifts for 14 days. One group ate during the night, the other during the day. Researchers measured core body temperature, glucose, and insulin to track circadian rhythms and metabolism <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/2</span><br><a data-preview="true" href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8641939/" data-sanitized-class="entity-url">pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC86…</a><span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkEUcjFWgAAbkVI.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkEUcjFWgAAbkVI.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891818458624479498" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_3" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Eating at night caused misalignment between the brain’s central clock and the body's metabolic rhythms. This led to higher blood sugar levels and poorer glucose control—hallmarks of diabetes risk /3 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkEUfCCXYAA8CBF.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkEUfCCXYAA8CBF.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891818460683866556" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_4" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">📉 The night-eating group had 19% higher post-meal blood sugar. Their glucose rhythms were out of sync with their brain’s circadian clock. Their insulin response was 52% lower after breakfast, making it harder to regulate blood sugar /4 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkEUhCIWcAA9P99.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkEUhCIWcAA9P99.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891818462550311319" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_5" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">✅ The solution?<br>The daytime eating group had no significant blood sugar spikes and maintained normal glucose rhythms. Despite working night shifts, their metabolism stayed aligned with their internal clock, preventing the negative effects seen in the night-eating group <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/5</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891818464068677817" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_6" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Why does this matter? Shift work is linked to a higher risk of diabetes, and this study suggests meal timing plays a major role.<br>Eat at night → Circadian misalignment → Glucose intolerance.<br>Eat during the day → Circadian alignment → Stable glucose levels. /6 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkEUj7yWYAAb2Pw.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkEUj7yWYAAb2Pw.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891818465985483081" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_7" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Overall, your brain's central clock (regulated by light) and your body’s metabolic clock (regulated by food) must be in sync for optimal health. Eating at night confuses the system, sending mixed signals that disrupt metabolism, increasing diabetes risk <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/7</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891818467440926888" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_8" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">This study suggests people should avoid eating at night if you want to protect your metabolic health. Whether you're a shift worker or just up late, nighttime eating disrupts your body's natural rhythms, raises blood sugar, and increases diabetes risk. There are exceptions to every rule of course, and some people’s alignment may vary, but the results were quite significant (and the reason I never eat during overnight shifts) <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/8</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1891818469349274008" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_9" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">In summary, this study highlights that meal timing matters just as much as meal content—especially for shift workers.<p>Eating at night disrupts circadian rhythms and impairs glucose tolerance, increasing diabetes risk. Align your meals with your body’s clock. /9 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkEUoRrXcAAAZFm.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkEUoRrXcAAAZFm.png"></a></span></p></div>


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<div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1892181677947904369" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_1" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Why do we crave sugar even when we're full? A new study just found a key mechanism.<p>Satiety (being full) triggers a specific opioid circuit that drives sugar cravings after a meal.</p><p>Blocking this circuit reduced sugar intake, pointing to a potential target for intervention🧵1/9<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkJhIfbWIAAc8Yt.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkJhIfbWIAAc8Yt.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1892181680594592161" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_2" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Researchers examined pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons, known for signaling fullness.<br>They discovered these neurons also enhance sugar appetite in the fed state—helping explain why we often want dessert after meals. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/2</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1892181681882198362" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_3" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">POMC neurons project to the paraventricular thalamus (PVT), a brain region involved in motivated behaviors.<br>When activated, these neurons release β-endorphin, which inhibits PVT neurons via mu-opioid receptors—driving sugar consumption even in a sated state. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/3</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1892181683195015209" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_4" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">📊 Findings in mice:<br>✔️ Sugar intake strongly activated this opioid circuit in fed mice.<br>✔️ Blocking the circuit reduced sugar consumption in sated mice.<br>✔️ This effect was specific to sugar, not fats. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/4</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1892181684549722282" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_5" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Why does this happen?<br>This circuit may have evolved to promote sugar intake even when caloric needs are met, ensuring quick-access energy storage.<br>However, in an environment with constant sugar availability, it may contribute to overconsumption. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/5</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1892181685841678747" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_6" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Human relevance:<br>A similar brain region in humans showed reduced activity after sugar consumption, suggesting a conserved mechanism.<br>More research is needed, but this could help explain persistent sugar cravings. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/6</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1892181687104069767" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_7" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">This study highlights the role of endogenous opioids in sugar-driven eating. Targeting this circuit could provide insights into reducing excessive sugar intake. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/7</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1892181688341418258" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_8" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Satiety doesn’t eliminate sugar cravings—it can enhance them via β-endorphin-driven opioid signaling.<br>This could explain why desserts feel irresistible after a meal! <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/8</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1892181689654219076" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_9" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Overall, this is an exciting new study that adds to growing research on how brain circuits regulate eating behavior. Blocking this opioid transmission could thus reduce sugar intake and possibly binge eating and metabolic disease.<p><a data-preview="true" href="https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.adp1510" data-sanitized-class="entity-url">science.org/doi/abs/10.112…</a></p></div>


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<div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1892541437004157098" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_1" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Focus and memory are trainable skills.<p>In a 2-week randomized study, mindfulness training improved:<br>🧠 Working memory<br>🤯 Mind-wandering<br>📖 Reading comprehension — ~16 percentile boost on a standardized exam (GRE)</p><p>Here’s how to sharpen your mind in just 10 minutes a day 🧵1/10<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkOlSF6XUAEMAQG.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkOlSF6XUAEMAQG.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1892541439147418041" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_2" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Researchers randomly assigned 48 students to either a mindfulness group or a nutrition control group.<br>Both met four times a week for two weeks. The mindfulness group practiced attention control, while the nutrition group learned about healthy eating but made no dietary changes. /2<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkOlXrWXwAAYgzx.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkOlXrWXwAAYgzx.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1892541441320132854" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_3" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">The mindfulness training included:<br>🧘 Meditation<br>🌬️ Breath awareness<br>🎯 Attention exercises to reduce distractions<br>Participants also practiced daily outside of class. The goal was to train the mind to focus and minimize mind-wandering. /3 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkOlak-W4AEVRzI.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkOlak-W4AEVRzI.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1892541442976862665" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_4" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Before and after training, participants completed:<br>📖 A modified GRE reading comprehension test (vocabulary removed)<br>🧠 A working memory task (OSPAN)<br>💭 Thought probes measuring mind-wandering during the tests <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/4</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1892541444667129874" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_5" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">After two weeks, the mindfulness group showed significant improvements:<br>✅ GRE reading comprehension improved by the equivalent of 16 percentile points<br>✅ Working memory capacity increased<br>✅ Mind-wandering significantly decreased<br>The nutrition group showed no changes. /5 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkOl3NsWQAAAHHj.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkOl3NsWQAAAHHj.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1892541446793667017" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_6" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Mind-wandering reduces focus and limits cognitive performance.<br>In this study, reducing mind-wandering was directly linked to improved GRE and working memory scores.<br>For those who were most distracted before training, the effect was strongest. /6 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkOl6x1WwAAW-O1.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkOl6x1WwAAW-O1.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1892541448865612268" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_7" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Previous research supports these findings.<br>Mindfulness has been shown to protect memory under stress, enhance attention, and improve processing efficiency.<br>This study suggests even short-term training can improve cognitive function in real-world settings. /7 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkOl9K8XkAAOcho.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkOl9K8XkAAOcho.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1892541450434355468" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_8" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">The study was well-controlled. Participants were unaware of the true hypothesis, and both groups had equal class time, professional instruction, and structured engagement. This reduces the likelihood that placebo effects explain the results. However, the sample size was small <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/8</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1892541451851936114" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_9" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Mindfulness Meditation Protocol:<br>1️⃣ Set a timer for 10 min<br>2️⃣ Sit upright with legs crossed and gaze lowered<br>3️⃣ Focus on your breath—inhale, exhale<br>4️⃣ Count each exhale up to 21—restart if distracted<br>5️⃣ Notice thoughts without suppressing them; gently return to breathing<br>6️⃣ Reframe past and future thoughts as mental projections occurring in the present<br>7️⃣ Let the mind rest naturally rather than forcing concentration <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/9</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1892541453206790208" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_10" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">In summary, if you struggle with focus, mindfulness might be an effective tool. 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<div><img src="https://threadreaderapp.com/images/screenshots/thread/1892613981426102465.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div>Unfortunately, @CommunityNotes is increasingly being gamed by governments &amp; legacy media.<p>Working to fix this …</p><p>It should be utterly obvious that a Zelensky-controlled poll about his OWN approval is not credible!!</p><p>If Zelensky was actually loved by the people of Ukraine, he would hold an election. He knows he would lose in a landslide, despite having seized control of ALL Ukrainian media, so he canceled the election.</p><p>In reality, he is despised by the people of Ukraine, which is why he has refused to hold an election. I challenge Zelensky to hold an election and refute this. He will not.</p><p>President Trump is right to ignore him and solve for peace independent of the disgusting, massive graft machine feeding off the dead bodies of Ukrainian soldiers.</p>


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<div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893270873307541569" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_1" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">New research has challenged “normal” B12 levels.<p>Even within the “normal” range, lower B12 was linked to:<br>⚡ Slower cognitive processing<br>🧠 Delayed brain signal transmission (visual evoked potential latency)<br>🔬 Structural brain changes</p><p>Let’s break it down 🧵1/10 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkY_D3HXEAAtfJ-.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkY_D3HXEAAtfJ-.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893270876327383069" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_2" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Researchers at UCSF studied 231 healthy older adults (avg. age: 71). All had B12 levels in the “normal” range (median 414.8 pmol/L). But when they looked at brain function &amp; structure, a surprising pattern emerged <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">2/</span><br><a data-preview="true" href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ana.27200" data-sanitized-class="entity-url">onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…</a><span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkY97z2W0AAn0hX.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkY97z2W0AAn0hX.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893270878810485081" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_3" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Participants with lower active B12 (holo-transcobalamin) had:<br>📉 Slower processing speeds (reaction time tasks)<br>👁️ Delayed visual evoked potentials (a marker of brain conductivity)<br>🧠 More white matter hyperintensities on MRI<br>All signs of subtle neurological dysfunction. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">3/</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893270880513368120" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_4" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Low active B12 = less available to brain cells. This wasn’t a deficiency by traditional lab cutoffs—these people had “normal” B12.<br>But they still had signs of impaired brain function with lower values, suggesting that our definition of normal may be too low. 4/ <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkY-_qyWYAArVlZ.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkY-_qyWYAArVlZ.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893270883474583934" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_5" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">It gets more interesting…<br>🔹 Low holo-transcobalamin (active B12) was linked to slower brain processing<br>🔹 High holo-haptocorrin (inactive B12) was linked to higher Tau levels—a biomarker of neurodegeneration<br>This means BOTH low &amp; high B12 could be problematic. 5/ <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkY-2zUXQAApFSp.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkY-2zUXQAApFSp.png"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893270886393803090" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_6" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Current B12 cutoffs are based on population averages—not functional brain health.<br>The U.S. deficiency threshold is 148 pmol/L, but this study suggests neurological impairment starts well above that.<br>The researchers suggest re-evaluating B12 guidelines. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">6/</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893270887895376137" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_7" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">B12 is essential for:<br>✅ Myelin integrity (protecting nerve fibers)<br>✅ DNA &amp; red blood cell production<br>✅ Energy metabolism<br>But many older adults struggle to absorb it due to a variety of factors such as medications (e.g., PPIs, metformin) or gut issues. As a reminder, it's always a good idea to check with your doctor if you have concerns about deficiency and are considering supplementation, especially if you have pre-existing medical conditions <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">7/</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893270889245954132" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_8" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">This study raises big questions:<br>🔬 Are we missing early signs of B12-related brain decline?<br>📉 Should we redefine what’s considered low B12?<br>🧠 Could supplementing prevent cognitive decline?<br>More studies are certainly needed <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">8/</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893270891196199317" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_9" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">B12 plays a crucial role in brain health, but both low and high levels may have consequences. 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<div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893652348003647642" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_1" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">🎧 Binaural beats are a powerful tool for focus—but not all frequencies work.<p>When I need to concentrate, I use the exact 15Hz frequency proven to enhance working memory and brain connectivity.</p><p>I’ve recreated and posted them for you to try 👇 🧵 1/11<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkeY5_eXwAAtbAr.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkeY5_eXwAAtbAr.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893652349924651352" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_2" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">For those ready to start listening, here’s the video.<br>Want to know the science behind how these binaural beats enhance focus and how to best use them? Keep reading. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/2</span><br><span data-sanitized-class="entity-embed"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HAZuZaP31VM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" data-sanitized-class="youtube-player keep-ratio-4-3" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin">[embedded content]</iframe></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893652351782695030" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_3" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Binaural beats use two slightly different tones in each ear. Your brain detects the difference which can influence brainwave patterns.<br>🎯 At 15Hz, this process has been shown to enhance working memory by optimizing brain connectivity in a recent study. /3 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkeZAVuWQAA0c3h.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkeZAVuWQAA0c3h.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893652353644954095" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_4" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Study participants completed a working memory task while listening to different sounds:<br>🎵 Classical music<br>🎧 Pure tones<br>⚡ 5Hz, 10Hz, or 15Hz binaural beats<br>Only 15Hz significantly improved accuracy and altered brain networks. /4 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkeZH08WgAAQnlD.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkeZH08WgAAQnlD.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893652355683422571" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_5" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">🧠 15Hz binaural beats strengthened bilateral frontoparietal network and left hemispheric connectivity, a network essential for working memory. It also increased theta-band activity and enhanced brain network synchronization. /5 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkeZKYSXQAA_MnN.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkeZKYSXQAA_MnN.png"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893652357734441437" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_6" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">EEG scans showed stronger connections between key attention regions while listening to 15Hz beats. More efficient information transfer across brain regions = better focus and mental clarity. These changes improved accuracy and information transfer during a working memory task. /6 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkeZMQ-W4AA-pMS.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkeZMQ-W4AA-pMS.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893652359961587781" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_7" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">I recreated the exact 15Hz binaural beats from this study<br>🎶 Left ear: 240 Hz<br>🎶 Right ear: 255 Hz<br>Most binaural beats online don’t use these evidence-based frequencies. I made sure mine match the research, especially since similar but slightly different tones show no significant results. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/7</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893652361605714035" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_8" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">How to use them for peak performance:<br>Research suggests binaural beats work better when:<br>⏳ You listen for longer durations<br>🔄 You play them before &amp; during deep work or study sessions /8 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkeZSzUXEAAL2w1.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkeZSzUXEAAL2w1.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893652363321221326" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_9" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">🎧 How to choose the right binaural beats for your goal.<br>I use 15Hz for focus &amp; working memory—perfect for tasks that require attention.<br>For long-term memory, I’ve shared 20Hz beats, backed by evidence—ideal for studying.<br>Try them here: /9<span data-sanitized-class="entity-embed"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/21dRQnjqghk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" data-sanitized-class="youtube-player keep-ratio-4-3" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin">[embedded content]</iframe></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893652365128974367" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_10" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Binaural beats aren’t just for focus. Studies suggest they may also help with:<br>📈 Memory<br>✨ Anxiety and pain reduction<br>💤 Sleep improvement<br>But different frequencies serve different purposes—so using the right one is key. /10 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkeZf1eWQAA_3eL.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkeZf1eWQAA_3eL.png"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1893652367914004972" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_11" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">In summary: I recreated this evidence-based binaural beat track specifically to enhance focus and attention during deep work. Give it a try and let me know what you think! <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/11</span><br><span data-sanitized-class="entity-embed"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HAZuZaP31VM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" data-sanitized-class="youtube-player keep-ratio-4-3" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin">[embedded content]</iframe></span></div>


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<div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894161084837171564" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_1" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Tylenol use during pregnancy has been linked to childhood ADHD in a new study:<br>📊 3x higher odds of ADHD diagnosis<br>💊 5x more likely to be prescribed ADHD meds<br>🧬 In females, 5.22% higher odds, mediated by placental gene expression<p>Let’s break it down 🧵👇 1/9 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GklpNLFXAAAn7R4.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GklpNLFXAAAn7R4.png"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894161087592886713" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_2" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Researchers analyzed 307 African American mother–child pairs, measuring APAP (Tylenol) metabolites in maternal blood during pregnancy and tracking ADHD outcomes in children at ages 8–10.<br>The key question: Does prenatal APAP exposure impact neurodevelopment? /2 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GklpPSFWIAAi240.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GklpPSFWIAAi240.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894161090193289635" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_3" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">🧠 Children exposed to APAP in the womb had 3.15x higher odds of an ADHD diagnosis.<br>💊 They were also 5.2x more likely to be prescribed ADHD medications.<br>This adds to growing concerns about APAP’s effects on fetal brain development. /3 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GklpRn_XkAAsw36.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GklpRn_XkAAsw36.png"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894161092001067211" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_4" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Sex differences emerged:<br>♀️ In girls, the risk appeared higher:<br>🔹 6.16x higher odds of ADHD diagnosis<br>🔹 10.26x higher odds of ADHD medication use<br>♂️ In boys, there was a positive trend but not statistically significant. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/4</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894161093531992559" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_5" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">To uncover how APAP might influence brain development, researchers analyzed placental gene expression.<br>🧬 Prenatal APAP exposure altered immune system pathways in girls and energy metabolism (oxidative phosphorylation) in both sexes. These biological changes may contribute to ADHD risk. /5<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GklpVCxXEAA13Yb.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GklpVCxXEAA13Yb.png"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894161096413495350" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_6" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">A key link: Higher expression of IGHG1 (an immune-related gene) in the placenta was associated with higher ADHD risk in girls.Statistical mediation analysis suggests that prenatal APAP exposure increased ADHD risk by 5.22% through IGHG1 expression. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/6</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894161097583665289" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_7" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">This study aligns with prior research linking prenatal APAP to ADHD but strengthens the evidence by using biomarkers instead of self-reported use. It also highlights potential molecular mechanisms, particularly immune activation and disrupted energy metabolism in the placenta. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/7</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894161099034910820" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_8" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Limitations to consider:<br>🔹 The study focused on African American mothers in the urban South, limiting generalizability.<br>🔹 Small sample size for placental RNA analysis.<br>🔹 APAP exposure was measured at one time point, though effects may vary across pregnancy.<br>Further research is needed. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/8</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894161100301598932" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_9" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Tylenol is widely used in pregnancy, but emerging evidence suggests possible neurodevelopmental risks. For now, medical agencies still consider it safe, but more research is needed. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/9</span><br><a data-preview="true" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-025-00387-6" data-sanitized-class="entity-url">nature.com/articles/s4422…</a></div>


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<div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894356699051434230" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_1" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Lifestyle is a stronger predictor of aging and mortality than genetics.<p>A new Nature study of ~500,000 people found:<br>🎯 17% of mortality variation was linked to lifestyle (exposome).<br>🧬 &lt;2% of was explained by genetics.</p><p>Here’s what you need to know 👇🧵 1/10<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkoYzuKXgAAV7OP.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkoYzuKXgAAV7OP.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894356701039522179" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_2" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">The study examined 164 environmental exposures, genetic risk scores for 22 diseases, and a proteomic “aging clock” to track biological aging. This allowed researchers to quantify the relative contributions of environment and genetics to aging and mortality. /2 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkoY1yzXAAE20TZ.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkoY1yzXAAE20TZ.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894356703434482087" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_3" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">For premature death, the exposome explained 17% of variation, while genetics explained less than 2%. Environment, lifestyle, and living conditions seem to have a far greater impact than DNA. /3 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkoY39sWEAAYO8v.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkoY39sWEAAYO8v.png"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894356707557388681" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_4" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">When it comes to major diseases, genetics played a larger role in conditions like dementia and certain cancers. However, for diseases of the heart, lung, and liver, environmental factors were far more influential. /4 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkoY6lIWwAABIM5.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkoY6lIWwAABIM5.png"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894356710745084264" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_5" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">The four biggest factors affecting aging and mortality were smoking, socioeconomic status, physical activity, and living conditions. Smoking was associated with 21 diseases, while income, home ownership, and employment were linked to 19 diseases. Physical activity was associated with 17 diseases, and renters had worse health outcomes than homeowners. /5<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkoY-06W8AEOeY5.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkoY-06W8AEOeY5.png"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894356713479848007" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_6" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Early-life exposures also had lasting effects. Body weight at 10 years old influenced aging decades later, and maternal smoking during pregnancy increased the risk of premature death. Environmental factors set the trajectory for health long before adulthood. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/6</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894356715627254137" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_7" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Most importantly, 23 of the 25 key risk factors identified in the study are modifiable. This means that improving lifestyle and environmental conditions might slow aging and prevent disease. /7 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkoZE2pXYAAB0rp.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkoZE2pXYAAB0rp.png"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894356718336848310" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_8" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">The researchers used blood protein markers to track biological aging in real time. Major drivers of premature death and accelerated aging included smoking, lack of physical activity, socioeconomic status and deprivation, living alone, poor sleep, fatigue, and overall mental and physical wellness. Early life exposures also played a role, with factors like height and body size at age 10 and maternal smoking around birth influencing long-term health outcomes. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/8</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894356720207462641" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_9" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">This study has some limitations. It’s observational, meaning it identifies associations but not direct causation. Exposures were measured at a single time point, not tracked over time. The genetic data also has limits, as polygenic risk scores don’t capture rare variants or complex gene-environment interactions. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/9</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894356721767715265" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_10" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">This study reinforces a key point: your environment and daily habits shape aging and disease risk potentially more than your genes. While genetic predisposition matters, it is not deterministic. The right lifestyle choices can mitigate many risks. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/10</span><br><a data-preview="true" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03483-9" data-sanitized-class="entity-url">nature.com/articles/s4159…</a></div>


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<div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894880673510363187" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_1" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">A study found that wearing blue-blocking glasses before bed led to:<br>🩸 Lower fasting glucose<br>📉 Better insulin sensitivity<br>🌙 Improved sleep quality<p>Suggesting that reducing blue light exposure at night might protect metabolic health by preserving circadian rhythms 🧵1/9 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gkv3my1WMAAwoCo.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gkv3my1WMAAwoCo.png"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894880675594965173" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_2" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">The study involved both mice and humans. In mice, researchers tested the effects of white vs. blue-light filtered LEDs on circadian rhythms, metabolic markers, and gene expression. In humans, participants wore blue-light blocking glasses before bed for a month. /2 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gkv3pjAWYAAM_MK.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gkv3pjAWYAAM_MK.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894880677687931206" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_3" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">In mice, blue light exposure disrupted circadian gene expression and increased blood glucose levels within 48 hours. Mice exposed to blue light had lower insulin receptor substrate-2 (Irs2) expression in the liver—a key marker for insulin resistance. /3 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gkv3rX9XsAApMbA.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gkv3rX9XsAApMbA.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894880679701147776" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_4" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">After wearing blue-light blocking glasses for 1 month, human participants saw significant reductions in fasting blood glucose (↓3.9%) and insulin resistance (HOMA-IR ↓25%). Sleep quality also improved significantly, but there were no major effects on lipid markers. /4 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gkv3tgpWUAAKu6r.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gkv3tgpWUAAKu6r.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894880682293567602" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_5" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">The mechanism behind these effects appears to be circadian alignment. Blue light at night delays the expression of clock genes in the brain’s suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), disrupting metabolism. Filtering blue light restored normal metabolic function in both animals and humans. /5<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gkv3vbvXsAAuInf.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gkv3vbvXsAAuInf.png"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894880684721762436" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_6" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">This study highlights how light exposure at night impacts metabolic health. Given the rise of social jet lag and screen use before bed, blocking blue light may be an easy, low-cost strategy to improve glucose control and sleep without medication. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/6</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894880686248731120" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_7" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">These results are limited and should be interpreted with caution. The human trial had only six participants, and the study lasted only one month. While results were promising the reduction in glucose was quite small despite being statistically significant, so larger and longer studies are needed to confirm whether blue light filtering has lasting metabolic benefits in other populations. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/7</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894880687812968481" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_8" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">This study raises some important questions for future research:<br>🔹 How do blue-blocking glasses affect people with diabetes or metabolic syndrome?<br>🔹 Are they as effective as avoiding light entirely before bed?<br>🔹 Do different lens tints or levels of blue light filtering matter?<br>🔹 How long do these metabolic benefits last with continued use? <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/8</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1894880689100640257" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_9" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Reducing blue light exposure at night may be a simple strategy to support circadian health. While data on metabolic effects is still limited, this study shows promise and highlights the need for more research to uncover its full potential. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/9</span><br><a data-preview="true" href="https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2751275" data-sanitized-class="entity-url">iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?a…</a></div>


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<div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895088530491351078" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_1" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">A ketogenic diet outperformed DASH for fatty liver disease (MASLD) in key metabolic measures:<br>⚖️ Weight: -6.16 vs. -2.14 kg<br>🩸 Blood Pressure: -9.4 vs. +4.4 mmHg<br>📏 Waist: -9.6 vs. -4.2 cm<p>Yet no change in liver fat or stiffness after 8 weeks—longer studies may be needed 🧵1/10 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gky0stwXsAAHQp_.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gky0stwXsAAHQp_.png"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895088536929321290" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_2" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">MASLD affects ~25% of the world's population and is strongly linked to obesity and metabolic syndrome. While weight loss is beneficial, the impact of a ketogenic diet—popular for blood sugar control in diabetes—on MASLD remains unclear but several beneficial mechanisms have been proposed (). 2/<a data-preview="true" href="https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/13/16/4857" data-sanitized-class="entity-url">mdpi.com/2077-0383/13/1…</a></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895088538363850823" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_3" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Researchers randomized 24 patients with MASLD to either:<br>🥑 A ketogenic diet (home-delivered, 5% carbs, 70% fat, 25% protein)<br>🥦 A DASH diet (nutrition education, low-fat, rich in vegetables/ fruits, and whole grains)<br>They followed the diets for 8 weeks while tracking liver health, body composition, and metabolic markers. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">3/</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895088539978678329" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_4" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">After 8 weeks, the ketogenic diet group lost ~4 kg (9 lbs) more than the DASH group. They also had:<br>📉 Greater reductions in waist circumference &amp; visceral fat<br>💪 Lower fat mass<br>⬇️ Improved blood pressure &amp; triglycerides<br>But what about liver health? 4/ <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkyzIZYXMAAX-lA.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkyzIZYXMAAX-lA.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895088542617116948" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_5" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Despite weight loss and metabolic improvements, liver stiffness and steatosis (fat content) remained unchanged in both groups.<br>This suggests that while keto helps with metabolic markers, it may not reverse liver fat accumulation in just 8 weeks. 5/ <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkyzL-HWkAAsdX7.png" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkyzL-HWkAAsdX7.png"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895088545250910301" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_6" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">One reason? MASLD is a chronic condition, and it may take longer to see liver changes. Another factor is that participants only reached mild ketosis, which might not have been enough to drive significant liver improvements. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">6/</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895088546463027219" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_7" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">While the ketogenic diet improved triglycerides &amp; blood pressure, it also lowered HDL ("good cholesterol"), raising concerns about its long-term effects on cardiovascular health.<br>More research is needed to understand its safety &amp; sustainability over time. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">7/</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895088547905831035" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_8" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Key takeaways:<br>✅ A ketogenic diet led to more weight loss &amp; metabolic improvements than standard lifestyle advice.<br>❌ But it did not significantly reduce liver fat or stiffness in 8 weeks.<br>⚠️ Long-term effects on heart health &amp; liver function remain unclear. If you have pre-existing medical conditions, it's always a good idea to speak to your healthcare team before trying a new diet, especially if it is significantly different from what you usually have <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">8/</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895088549382496684" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_9" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">What’s next?<br>🔎 How does keto compare to other diets over longer periods?<br>🔎 Would a stricter ketogenic approach lead to better liver outcomes?<br>🔎 How does keto affect MASLD patients with diabetes?<br>🔎 Can a ketogenic diet play a role in preventing MASLD in at-risk individuals? <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">9/</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895088551416512975" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_10" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">A ketogenic diet reduced weight, waist size, blood pressure, fat mass, and visceral fat more than DASH. But larger studies are needed to assess its long-term impact on liver fat, stiffness, and overall health. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">10/</span><br><a data-preview="true" href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11743996/" data-sanitized-class="entity-url">pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…</a><span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gky0z0sWEAAE6FY.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gky0z0sWEAAE6FY.jpg"></a></span></div>


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<div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895442621272621560" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_1" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">🧠 Exercise enhances learning—but timing is key.<p>In this study, exercising 4 hours after learning improved retention by 8.3% and enhanced hippocampal activation. But exercising immediately after? No effect.</p><p>Here’s how to optimize learning with exercise 🧵 1/11<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk32Qf3WYAA8Qq2.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk32Qf3WYAA8Qq2.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895442623655194970" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_2" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Researchers tested whether exercise after learning could improve memory consolidation.<br>They compared:<br>1️⃣ No exercise<br>2️⃣ Exercise immediately after learning<br>3️⃣ Exercise 4 hours later<br>Who would remember best after 48 hours? /2 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk32SwtXAAAJPUO.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk32SwtXAAAJPUO.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895442626708652251" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_3" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Participants learned 90 picture-location associations and took an initial memory test.<br>48 hours later, they were tested again inside an MRI scanner.<br>Memory retention = Test 2 performance / Test 1 performance. /3 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk32VH4XQAA4mSO.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk32VH4XQAA4mSO.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895442630135476387" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_4" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">✅ Exercising 4 hours later led to 8.3% better memory retention vs. no exercise or immediate exercise.<br>✅ MRI scans showed better hippocampal pattern similarity, meaning stronger, more stable recall. /4 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk32XZhXwAAoKZX.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk32XZhXwAAoKZX.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895442634032005627" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_5" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">❌ Immediate Exercise? No Effect<br>Exercising right after learning did not improve memory suggesting the physiological response to exercise did not benefit memory consolidation at this stage /5 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk32ZmcXEAA81v2.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk32ZmcXEAA81v2.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895442636724727809" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_6" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Why Does This Work?<br>Exercise releases dopamine, noradrenaline, and BDNF, which support memory consolidation.<br>The key? Waiting 4 hours may align exercise with a critical memory stabilization phase, maximizing retention, but the answer is still unclear. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/6</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895442638364610792" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_7" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Key Takeaways<br>1️⃣ Exercising immediately after learning? No effect on this memory task.<br>2️⃣ Exercising 4 hours later? Improves memory significantly.<br>3️⃣ Exercise 4 hours later also changed hippocampal activity during recall <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/7</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895442640004321383" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_8" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">This study tested visual memory—it’s unclear if timing matters for other types of learning. The optimal delay for exercise isn’t known, and longer-term effects beyond 48 hours weren’t tested. This paves the way for new research to be conducted on these topics to explore these questions. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/8</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895442641933983927" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_9" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Another study found that cold exposure immediately after learning boosted long-term memory—but only for emotionally charged events. This suggests a potential way to enhance retention of impactful experiences. I covered this in a previous thread <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/9</span><br><blockquote data-conversation="none" data-align="center" data-dnt="true" data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p><span data-sanitized-class="entity-embed"><a href="https://twitter.com/BrandonLuuMD/status/1890372346545926475">https://x.com/BrandonLuuMD/status/1890372346545926475</a></span></p>
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</div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895442643813126187" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_10" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">I also use exercise as a tool to optimize cognitive performance when sleep deprived. More on that here <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/10</span><br><blockquote data-conversation="none" data-align="center" data-dnt="true" data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p><span data-sanitized-class="entity-embed"><a href="https://twitter.com/BrandonLuuMD/status/1888215714168733697">https://x.com/BrandonLuuMD/status/1888215714168733697</a></span></p>
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</div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895442645671141536" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_11" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">In summary, exercising 4 hours after learning can significantly enhance memory retention and hippocampal activity. Timing your workouts strategically might be a powerful tool for learning and cognitive performance <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/11</span><br><a data-preview="true" href="https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30465-1" data-sanitized-class="entity-url">cell.com/current-biolog…</a></div>


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<div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895802386674757917" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_1" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">🧠 Parenting may protect the brain from aging.<p>A study of 37,500+ men and women found that having more children was linked to stronger brain connectivity—in the same regions that typically weaken with age.</p><p>Does parenthood slow brain aging? Let’s dive in 🧵1/8<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk89gE_XgAE5MS0.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk89gE_XgAE5MS0.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895802389401305167" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_2" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Researchers analyzed brain scans from the UK Biobank and found a surprising link:<br>👶 More children = stronger connectivity in brain networks<br>🧓 Aging = weaker connectivity in the same regions<br>This suggests parenthood may counteract some brain aging effects. 2/ <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk89iOMWwAANko1.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk89iOMWwAANko1.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895802392358371738" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_3" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Key brain region affected? The somato/motor network—which helps with movement, coordination, and sensory processing.<br>This region declines with age, but parents showed stronger connectivity here, suggesting a protective effect. 3/ <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk89mIJXsAAvS6Y.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk89mIJXsAAvS6Y.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895802395445354584" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_4" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Parenting is a multifaceted experience that often includes increased physical activity, higher cognitive demands, and greater social engagement. These factors may enhance brain plasticity, which could help explain the observed effects. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/4</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895802397441864064" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_5" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Researchers found similar benefits for both mothers and fathers.<br>This suggests the parenting experience itself, rather than pregnancy or childbirth, could play a major role in shaping long-term brain function. 5/ <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk8925JX0AAEk8z.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk8925JX0AAEk8z.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895802399836512530" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_6" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">So, why does parenting impact brain aging?<br>The study suggests three possible explanations:<br>1️⃣ Direct caregiving effects (constant sensory, motor, and cognitive engagement)<br>2️⃣ Indirect lifestyle factors (higher activity, social bonding, enriched environment)<br>3️⃣ Covarying sociocultural factors (education, socioeconomic status, life experiences) <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">6/</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895802401463914641" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_7" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Limitations: The study only looked at correlations, not causation. For example, those with less likelihood of aging with healthier lifestyle factors to begin with may be more likely to have more children. It focused on biological parents—other forms of caregiving (e.g., adoption) weren’t analyzed. Other life factors (e.g., stress, socioeconomic status) could also play a role. 7/<span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk8-AJUWwAAa0Eh.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk8-AJUWwAAa0Eh.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1895802403863347358" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_8" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">In summary, parenthood may offer lasting protective brain benefits, acting as a form of cognitive enrichment that helps counter age-related decline. 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<div><img src="https://threadreaderapp.com/images/screenshots/thread/1895844665599148136.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div>Very important to understand the corruption machine<br><span data-sanitized-class="entity-video"><video controls="controls" poster="https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1894780566735593472/pu/img/FvZj5gO7n1qXSco2.jpg" preload="none"><span data-sanitized-class="entity-video"><source src="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1894780566735593472/pu/pl/w4NMweTMtTfcxeUY.m3u8?tag=12&amp;v=aa6&amp;container=fmp4" type="application/x-mpegURL"><br><source src="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1894780566735593472/pu/vid/avc1/320x568/_LibDA1a_R6sei9W.mp4?tag=12" type="video/mp4"><br><source src="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1894780566735593472/pu/vid/avc1/480x852/QTxMIcpnQX-yTeuQ.mp4?tag=12" type="video/mp4"><br><source src="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1894780566735593472/pu/vid/avc1/720x1280/XTK1LtHhLxVf79hu.mp4?tag=12" type="video/mp4"></span></video></span>


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<div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1896174469288517880" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_1" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">🧠 Cognitive function changes with the seasons.<p>A study found that sustained attention peaks in summer, but in winter, the brain has to work harder to maintain the same level of focus.</p><p>How does this impact learning, productivity, and performance? Let’s dive in 🧵1/9 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GlCO8pjX0AI13rN.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GlCO8pjX0AI13rN.jpg"></a></span></p></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1896174472295526726" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_2" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Researchers studied 28 people, isolating them from seasonal cues for 4.5 days. They measured brain activity during two tasks: one testing reaction speed and focus (PVT) and another assessing working memory (n-back). Surprisingly, brain activity varied across the seasons. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/2</span><br><a data-preview="true" href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1518129113" data-sanitized-class="entity-url">pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…</a><span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GlCPCISXQAA02b0.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GlCPCISXQAA02b0.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1896174474803945814" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_3" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Brain regions linked to alertness and executive control were most active in June and least active in December. This suggests that attention and focus peak in the summer, while winter may come with a natural dip in cognitive alertness. /3 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GlCPEE2WcAADYHk.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GlCPEE2WcAADYHk.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1896174477744148601" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_4" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">For working memory, the pattern was different. Brain regions responsible for executive function showed the highest activity in autumn and the lowest in spring. /4 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GlCPHgmXgAAaMDW.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GlCPHgmXgAAaMDW.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1896174480453439791" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_5" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Why does this happen? One possibility is that seasonal light exposure affects brain circuits, even after days without natural light. Another is that neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine fluctuate seasonally—serotonin seems to peak in summer, while dopamine rises in fall—potentially shaping cognitive performance. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/5</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1896174481875554487" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_6" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">Interestingly, despite these shifts in brain activity, participants performed equally well on tasks year-round. This suggests that the brain adjusts its effort depending on the season, working harder at certain times of the year to maintain the same level of function. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/6</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1896174483532382385" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_7" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">The researchers note that while photoperiod is likely important, other seasonal factors like temperature and humidity could also contribute to these variations, as they naturally covary with seasonal light patterns. <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/7</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1896174485016854696" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_8" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">These findings raise interesting questions about productivity and learning. If attention peaks in summer and working memory in fall, should we align work and study habits with these seasonal rhythms? Could optimizing schedules around these natural cycles improve focus and retention? Are there interventions like light therapy that can mitigate the winter slump? Do other cognitive domains have a seasonal pattern? <span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-end">/8</span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="BrandonLuuMD" data-tweet="1896174486724178380" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_9" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">In summary, the brain’s effort fluctuates with the seasons, even when performance stays consistent. In this study, attention was sharpest in summer, working memory peaked in fall. Understanding these shifts could help us optimize productivity and learning year-round. /9 <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GlCPcNyXUAAPFhR.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GlCPcNyXUAAPFhR.jpg"></a></span></div>


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<div><img src="https://exsurgedomine.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/miniatura-250216-puttaneggiar-ita.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><em>Di voi pastor s’accorse il Vangelista,<br></em><em>quando colei che siede sopra l’acque<br></em><em>puttaneggiar coi regi a lui fu vista;<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></p>
<p><em>quella che con le sette teste nacque,<br></em><em>e da le diece corna ebbe argomento,<br></em><em>fin che virtute al suo marito piacque.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></p>
<p><em>Fatto v’avete dio d’oro e d’argento;<br></em><em>e che altro è da voi a l’idolatre,<br></em><em>se non ch’elli uno, e voi ne orate cento?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></p>
<p><em>Inf</em>. XIX, 106-114</p>

<p><strong>Duc in Altum:</strong> Eccellenza, la decisione dell’Amministrazione Trump di porre un freno alle politiche migratorie della Sinistra <em>woke</em> faceva parte del programma elettorale che ha portato Donald Trump alla vittoria. Insieme alla chiusura delle frontiere con il Messico, il Presidente ha tagliato i fondi che le agenzie governative destinavano a privati, organizzazioni ed enti in cambio della loro azione a sostegno del globalismo. Alle voci di condanna per queste decisioni politiche – peraltro del tutto legittime – si aggiunge anche quella di Jorge Mario Bergoglio, che nella sua Lettera ai Vescovi degli Stati Uniti d’America si esprime duramente sulla “deportazione di massa” decisa dal governo.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>Carlo Maria Viganò:</strong> Come tutto quello che esce dalla bocca di Bergoglio, anche queste sue accuse al governo Trump sono false e deliranti. Non c’è nessuna deportazione di massa. Piuttosto, c’è la precisa volontà di porre fine ai flussi migratori, che le Amministrazioni precedenti avevano programmato, favorito e incoraggiato. La <em>deportazione</em> infatti c’è stata in senso contrario, durante le Amministrazioni Clinton, Obama e Biden, escludendo a priori progetti mirati di cooperazione internazionale per aiutare le popolazioni bisognose nei rispettivi Paesi d’origine, focalizzando invece ogni sforzo – anche contro la legge – per incrementare il <em>piano di sostituzione etnica</em>. Su questa <em>migrazione forzata</em>, resa possibile dalla complicità di organizzazioni internazionali e dalla criminalità organizzata che gestisce la tratta di esseri umani, hanno lucrato vergognosamente tutti coloro che oggi si stracciano le vesti perché il loro business è finito.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>La lettera di Bergoglio è un coacervo di falsità e di inganni e tradisce il panico dei <em>mercenari</em> e la rabbia dei loro finanziatori. Bergoglio è arrivato a inventarsi una nuova dottrina per imporre come <em>dovere morale</em> “l’accoglienza degli immigrati”, dalla cui gestione ottiene miliardi di finanziamenti pubblici e mediante la quale egli si accredita come principale interlocutore dell’élite globalista ed esecutore dell’agenda <em>woke</em>. Egli strumentalizza il magistero di Pio XII – decontestualizzando e stravolgendo le sue parole – perché citando un Papa non sospetto di contaminazioni moderniste o conciliari, spera di ottenere l’ascolto di quei fedeli che non ascoltano <em>lui</em>.</p>
<p>Occorre comprendere l’operazione fraudolenta di Bergoglio: egli vuole portare lo scontro che oppone la <em>deep church</em> immigrazionista e <em>woke</em> all’Amministrazione Trump su un altro piano, “dogmatizzando” – per così dire – l’accoglienza dei clandestini e forzando così i Cattolici americani a vedere in Trump un nemico della Chiesa Cattolica. Cerca insomma, secondo il <em>modus operandi</em> che lo contraddistingue, di creare un avversario per togliere al Presidente Trump il sostegno dell’elettorato cattolico. Questa operazione disonesta serve anche per rimettere al centro del dibattito politico e sociale americano un Episcopato ampiamente screditato a causa degli scandali sessuali ed finanziari che sinora lo hanno visto totalmente asservito all’establishment del partito democratico. Il vero scontro è tra il conservatorismo politico – <em>trumpiano</em> – in cui si identifica la maggioranza degli Americani, Cattolici compresi, e l’ultra-progressismo della <em>deep church</em> bergogliana.</p>
<p>I Cattolici americani hanno però compreso la frode! Mentre Bergoglio per obbedire ai suoi padroni globalisti scaglia anatemi contro chi “costruisce muri”, il Presidente Trump ha annunciato – tra le altre misure che salutiamo con profonda soddisfazione – il rientro degli Stati Uniti nella <em>Geneva Consensus Declaration</em>, che difende il diritto alla vita di tutti, ribadisce l’importanza della famiglia e afferma che non esiste alcun “diritto” internazionale all’aborto.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>DiA:</strong> Grazie a Trump si sta anche risolvendo la crisi ucraina…</p>
<p><strong>CMV:</strong> Gli accordi di pace che il Presidente Trump ha intrapreso con il Presidente Putin per sanare il conflitto in Ucraina – iniziato con il <em>regime change</em> imposto dal <em>deep state</em> angloamericano sin dal 2014 – metternno fine ad una strage che per appagare la sete di potere dell’élite globalista ha mandato al massacro migliaia e migliaia di innocenti, distrutto un intero Paese, alimentato il mercato della predazione degli organi (come riportano le agenzie internazionali) e causato un depauperamento disastroso delle nazioni europee a causa delle folli sanzioni contro la Federazione Russa.</p>
<p><strong>DiA:</strong> Su certi temi Francesco Bergoglio non sembra sensibile come sull’accoglienza…</p>
<p><strong>CMV:</strong> Suscita sgomento come gli appelli di Bergoglio sulla “dignità infinita di tutti” escludano ostinatamente i bambini indifesi massacrati con l’aborto, le vittime della predazione degli organi e delle mutilazioni per la cosiddetta transizione di genere, le madri usate come merce per la maternità surrogata, i giovani corrotti dalle perversioni <em>woke</em>, le masse di minori che alimentano il racket della prostituzione o finiscono in una villa di Beverly Hills per soddisfare le depravazioni esecrande dell’élite pedofila.</p>
<p><strong>DiA:</strong> Bergoglio dovrebbe elogiare le politiche sociali di Trump, invece di condannarle ideologicamente.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CMV:</strong> Il vescovo appena nominato a Detroit propone sanzioni canoniche – dal divieto di ricevere la Comunione alla scomunica – per le guardie di frontiera che non lasciano violare i confini ai clandestini. Questo delirio <em>woke</em> tipico della chiesa bergogliana è ancora più grave davanti al silenzio dei Vescovi sullo scandalo di un corrottissimo Presidente sedicente “cattolico” come Joe Biden che promuove l’aborto fino all’istante della nascita e nonostante ciò viene ammesso sacrilegamente alla Comunione.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>DiA:</strong> In che cosa la Costituzione Apostolica di Pio XII <em>Exsul Familia</em> è citata a sproposito da Bergoglio?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CMV:</strong> Il “magistero” della chiesa bergogliana è totalmente autoreferenziale: Bergoglio cita praticamente solo se stesso, e quando cita documenti del Vaticano II e dei Papi postconciliari è per superarli. Vedere citato Pio XII da Bergoglio dovrebbe dunque suscitare un più che legittimo sospetto, confermato nei fatti anche da una rapida lettura di <em>Exsul familia</em>. Lo zelo apostolico di Papa Pio XII – così come dei suoi Predecessori – non si limita ad una mera indicazione della necessità di accogliere i flussi migratori, ma si concentra anzitutto sulla cura d’anime dei Cattolici costretti a migrare a causa di carestie, conflitti, persecuzioni religiose. Anche se le grandi migrazioni economiche dell’Ottocento e del Novecento erano mosse dalle stesse lobby internazionali, spostando popolazioni dal Sud dell’Europa al Nord, o dall’Europa alle Americhe, non possiamo dimenticare che il contesto storico del dopoguerra era ben diverso da quello attuale, anzitutto perché la Chiesa Cattolica non era – né avrebbe mai potuto essere – alleata e complice della Massoneria, ma ferma e coraggiosa protettrice dei poveri e dei deboli; e in secondo luogo perché oggi l’attacco alla nostra civiltà è molto più violento e scoperto di quanto non fosse alla fine del secondo conflitto mondiale.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Scriveva Pio XII:<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><em>La Santa Madre Chiesa, spinta dal suo immenso amore per le anime ed impaziente di adempiere agli impegni dell’universale salvifico mandato affidatole da Cristo, non tardò a prendersi la cura specialmente spirituale anche dei pellegrini, dei forestieri, degli esuli, di tutti gli emigranti, senza risparmio di forze e valendosi principalmente di sacerdoti, i quali, mediante l’amministrazione dei carismi della grazia e la predicazione della parola divina, lavorassero con ogni sollecitudine a confermare quei cristiani nella fede ed a stringerne i vincoli di carità.</em> (Const. Ap. <em>Exsul Familia</em>, 1 Agosto 1952, n. 5).</p>
<p><strong>DiA:</strong> La cura <em>specialmente spirituale</em>…<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CMV:</strong> L’ultima cosa che Bergoglio persegue è la difesa dell’integrità della Fede o la salvezza delle anime. Né ha veramente a cuore i poveri: basta vedere quanti <em>clochards</em> sono accampati attorno al Vaticano e sotto il Colonnato del Bernini; all’epoca del Covid per ottenere un pasto dovevano mostrare di aver ricevuto il vaccino. Quell’orribile barcone in bronzo eretto in Piazza San Pietro è un monumento all’ipocrisia di Bergoglio. Per lui i poveri e gli emarginati <em>sono un mero strumento</em> per “meticciare” il tessuto sociale e ecclesiale, cioè per dissolverlo ed ottenere così la definitiva cancellazione di ciò che resta della Società Cristiana dopo decenni di secolarizzazione. Bergoglio “pensa in grande”: vuole creare le premesse alla Nuova Religione dell’Umanità, illudendosi di poterla presiedere e di ricavarsi così un ruolo nel Nuovo Ordine Mondiale. Come profeta del globalismo sincretista, <em>green</em> ed inclusivo, Bergoglio è arrivato a fare la sua comparsa al festival di Sanremo, lanciando il brano di John Lennon <em>Imagine</em>, manifesto massonico del Nuovo Ordine.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>La Costituzione Apostolica di Papa Pio XII è di tenore totalmente opposto a questa visione orizzontale, come lo è tutto il Magistero cattolico rispetto a quello bergogliano. In <em>Exsul Familia</em> Pio XII ricorda la tratta degli schiavi per mano degli usurai in terra americana (n. 11); accenna ai pericoli cui erano stati esposti i Messicani in fuga dalla rivoluzione anticlericale e massonica (1926-1929), <em>fatti preda dei nemici di Cristo</em> (ibid. 54). Ben altro è l’atteggiamento di Bergoglio verso i cristiani perseguitati: con l’Accordo segreto stipulato con il regime comunista di Pechino egli ha consegnato i Cattolici cinesi al massacro e tace sulle violazioni dei diritti fondamentali.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Nella visione distopica – antiumana, anticristiana ed anticristica – di Bergoglio, le nostre nazioni <em>sono terre di conquista maomettana</em>: a questo serve l’<em>ecumenismo conciliare</em>. Per il Corano, dove risuona il richiamo del <em>muezzìn</em> e dove viene steso “il tappeto di preghiera”, lì è territorio islamico. La connivenza del clero bergogliano, che ospita gli <em>imam</em> nelle nostre chiese e concede alla preghiera i sagrati delle nostre Cattedrali, costituisce un tradimento di Cristo e dei fedeli. Un’immigrazione regolata, nella quale vige una reale integrazione e in cui la Chiesa Cattolica si impegna per la conversione alla vera Fede dei pagani, <em>è l’ultima cosa che vuole Bergoglio</em>: lo scopo dell’invasione non è aiutare i diseredati e i poveri, ma importare povertà, caos sociale e guerra civile nelle nostre città. E se il globalismo appoggia Bergoglio, è perché questi è un suo emissario, obbediente agli ordini che gli sono stati impartiti.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Quella cui assistiamo è di fatto una <em>migrazione forzata</em>, che depaupera gli Stati d’origine di tanti uomini e giovani che potrebbero renderne saldi i governi e prospera la Nazione, per fare di essi criminali, schiavi, vittime dei turpi traffici di pervertiti o del mercato della predazione degli organi. Centinaia di migliaia di minori scompaiono ogni anno nel nulla, con la complicità di chi perverte la carità cristiana nella colpevole contraffazione di un’accoglienza per trarne profitto.</p>
<p><strong>DiA:</strong> Senza parlare del problema della denatalità nei Paesi occidentali…<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CMV:</strong> Il decremento demografico, pianificato da politiche che disincentivano la natalità e penalizzano la famiglia naturale, costituisce lo scopo principale dell’azione dell’élite globalista, per cui essa propone come soluzione la <em>sostituzione etnica</em> con masse di stranieri. Nel 2015 (<a href="https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2015/01/19/news/papa-francesco-essere-cattolici-non-significa-fare-figli-come-conigli-1.35305640/#:~:text=Ha%252520parlato%252520di%252520contraccezione%252520e,cattolici%252520dobbiamo%252520essere%252520come%252520conigli%2525C2%2525BB.">qui</a>) Bergoglio ha detto: «C’è chi crede che per essere buoni cattolici dobbiamo essere come conigli». Oggi (<a href="https://www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/terra-promessa/41398229/papa-francesco-che-tempo-che-fa-italia-fate-entrare-migranti.html">qui</a>) sostiene che il calo demografico dei Paesi occidentali deve essere combattuto non con sagge politiche di tutela della famiglia naturale e dignitose condizioni di lavoro, ma con le frontiere aperte e l’istituzionalizzazione di quel <em>meticciato</em> tanto caro all’emerito Arcivescovo di Milano card. Scola e teorizzato dal massone eugenista neomalthusiano Kalergi sin dalla metà del secolo scorso. Non più figli cattolici in terra cattolica, ma figli meticci, senza storia, senza tradizione, senza educazione né cultura, senza identità, senza Patria né senza Fede, sfruttati per alimentare il Moloch globalista e la tirannide del World Economic Forum.</p>
<p>La distopia globalista di Bergoglio mira alla cancellazione delle identità nazionali ed etniche, specialmente laddove esse siano fondate sulla civiltà cristiana; e al contrario promuove ciò che è legato a credenze pagane ed idolatriche. La cancellazione di ogni differenza e l’omologazione esteriore delle culture dovrebbe essere considerata dalla Chiesa Cattolica come una sciagura, mentre la chiesa bergogliana se ne fa sconsiderata promotrice.</p>
<p><strong>DiA:</strong> Oggi scopriamo che l’intero sistema mediatico globale era finanziato da USAID e da altre agenzie governative. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CMV:</strong> Quello che emerge negli Stati Uniti dopo l’insediamento del Presidente Trump è solo la punta dell’iceberg di un sistema eversivo vastissimo e che coinvolge tutti gli Stati occidentali. Non si tratta di casi isolati di corruzione, ma di un’occupazione che la Sinistra globalista considera indispensabile per arrivare al potere e, una volta appropriatosene, usarlo per l’instaurazione di un regime totalitario. E quello che è paradossale e allo stesso tempo inaudito è che il <em>deep state</em> pretende addirittura di far pagare i costi di questo progetto infernale alle sue vittime, a noi tutti, usando il denaro dei contribuenti per confinarci, per privarci della libertà, per sterminarci con guerre, carestie, pandemie e vaccini. Allo stesso modo la <em>deep church</em> usa le offerte dei fedeli per diffondere eresie, normalizzare il vizio e la perversione, islamizzare le Nazioni cristiane, profanare le nostre chiese e i nostri altari, perseguitare le voci dissenzienti con sospensioni e scomuniche.</p>
<p><strong>DiA:</strong> Come può l’élite ottenere gli obiettivi che si prefigge?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CMV:</strong> Attraverso situazioni di <em>crisi permanente</em> che legittimino l’autorità a derogare alle leggi ordinarie. Se si vuole creare un’emergenza come <em>pretesto</em> per legittimare la cessione della sovranità a <em>lobby</em> private, è necessario che quanti fanno funzionare la macchina istituzionale e mediatica abbiano un interesse diretto nel promuovere la crisi, anche se sanno perfettamente che si tratta di una frode. Governanti, politici, giornalisti, magistrati, medici, insegnanti, forze dell’ordine, attori e cantanti, intellettuali e <em>influencer</em>, vescovi, sacerdoti e perfino “il papa”: tutti costoro dipendono da come collaborano con il <em>deep state</em>. Sono pagati come mercenari, e come mercenari non hanno altro padrone che il denaro, il successo, il potere; e chi quel denaro, quel potere gli permette di averlo. Ai vertici dell’infernale piramide globalista che si avvale di questi mercenari troviamo il delirio luciferino di chi vuole compiere il Male, contro Dio e contro l’uomo, per sostituire Dio con Satana e l’uomo con l’umanoide androgino.</p>
<p>Questa rete globale di corruzione è servita – e in parte serve tutt’ora, specialmente in Europa – ad alterare le dinamiche sociali in modo criminale e fraudolento. Una tale interferenza indebita e inaudita non può essere semplicemente constatata: essa va estirpata e punita, perché è alla radice di <em>una crisi indotta e pianificata</em> da cui diversamente è impossibile uscire. E quando dico “estirpata e punita” mi riferisco principalmente ai responsabili, a quanti si sono resi colpevoli di un tradimento all’origine del decadimento morale, sociale, economico che ci viene imposto a forza. Non è più possibile tollerare che Soros, Gate, Schwab, Obama, i Clinton, i Biden, Bergoglio e i suoi accoliti, e altri cospiratori continuino a imperversare sull’umanità intera, ignara di essere oggetto di un diabolico esperimento di ingegneria sociale volto al suo sterminio fisico e morale. Se il Presidente Trump taglierà la testa del Leviatano, come già sta facendo, non potremo che esserne felici e tirare finalmente un sospiro di sollievo.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>DiA:</strong> In che cosa ritiene che Donald Trump possa contribuire alla demolizione del <em>deep state</em>? Crede possa avere successo?</p>
<p><strong>CMV:</strong> L’Amministrazione Trump è ben cosciente di due cose. La prima: vi è un potere sovranazionale eversivo che costituisce una minaccia concreta alla sovranità delle Nazioni e a tutta l’umanità. La seconda: vi è una fascia di persone e di aziende che sostiene questo potere perché ne trae un vantaggio in termini di potere e di denaro. Tagliare i fondi ai complici del sistema criminale globalista e al suo <em>potere profondo</em> significa togliere all’élite lo strumento di controllo e di propaganda. Nemmeno Giuda avrebbe tradito Cristo senza averne dal Sinedrio i trenta denari: senza il <em>pretium sanguinis</em>, viene meno anche l’incentivo al crimine, e con esso la ricattabilità di chi avrebbe dovuto compierlo. Un’ottima mossa, dunque, che sta già avendo ripercussioni significative a livello mondiale, con l’interruzione dei finanziamenti di USAID e le grottesche geremiadi di chi ne è stato doverosamente privato (penso a quelle dell’attivista James Martin s.j.).<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>DiA:</strong> A proposito di geremiadi: non si contano le parole di condanna dell’Episcopato ultraprogressista americano e di tutti i loro sostenitori.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CMV</strong>: Le parole di cardinali e vescovi americani contro il taglio delle erogazioni agli enti sedicenti assistenziali della Chiesa Cattolica sono intrise di ipocrisia e falsità. Vengono da personaggi che non hanno speso una parola, una sillaba contro le politiche in materia di aborto, <em>gender</em>, maternità surrogata, eutanasia, omosessualità delle precedenti Amministrazioni in mano ai Democratici, mentre si svegliano dal loro vile torpore solo quando viene posto un freno all’immigrazione irregolare, per propagandare la quale la <em>deep church</em> riceve miliardi dall’erario.</p>
<p><strong>DiA:</strong> Come giudica la dipendenza economica di Conferenze Episcopali, Diocesi, Ordini religiosi, enti ecclesiastici e ONG “cattoliche” dai finanziamenti dell’Agenzia degli Stati Uniti per lo sviluppo internazionale (USAID)?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CMV:</strong> Bergoglio predica a parole una “chiesa povera per i poveri”, ben sapendo che la libertà cui la Chiesa Cattolica ha diritto – e che è alla base della necessità di un’indipendenza <em>anche finanziaria</em> dei suoi organi – è del tutto incompatibile con la sua dipendenza economica dallo Stato.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Una ONG è appunto un’organizzazione non governativa: non può essere indipendente, se dipende dai finanziamenti che il governo le assicura. Se è buono e doveroso che lo Stato aiuti e incoraggi l’azione sociale della Chiesa Cattolica, è altrettanto vero che nel momento in cui gli enti ecclesiastici – centrali o periferici – non sono più sostenuti dalle offerte dei fedeli, ma dalle sponsorizzazioni di agenzie governative e di entità private, la Chiesa è costretta a seguire le linee dettate da chi le permette di esistere e di operare.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>La dipendenza economica dell’istituzione è resa possibile dalla corruzione e dalla ricattabilità dei suoi vertici, perché se la Chiesa Cattolica fosse governata da buoni Pastori incorruttibili e non ricattabili, essi non accetterebbero mai di asservirla agli interessi di un potere che è dichiaratamente nemico di Cristo, né si lascerebbero comprare per sete di denaro o per ambizioni di carriera. Ecco perché è indispensabile che l’istituzione da corrompere sia governata a sua volta da corrotti; e questo vale indifferentemente per la sfera civile e per quella ecclesiale.</p>
<p>A conferma di ciò, basti ricordare l’effetto dissuasivo che ebbe la minaccia di revocare un miliardo di dollari di finanziamenti all’Ucraina – riferita dallo stesso Joe Biden – per fermare le indagini del Procuratore Generale sul figlio Hunter.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>DiA:</strong> Stiamo parlando di una rete istituzionale – manovrata dal <em>deep state</em> angloamericano – che per decenni ha pagato segretamente migliaia e migliaia di organizzazioni, associazioni, giornalisti, politici e altri personaggi pubblici per mentire spudoratamente a miliardi di persone, creando una narrazione falsata in modo da indurre la popolazione ad accettare, sotto minaccia di catastrofi ed emergenze incombenti, ciò che non avrebbe mai accettato in condizioni normali. Lei ha parlato del legame di interessi e di complicità tra <em>deep state</em> e <em>deep church</em> sin dal 2020, ed oggi le notizie sulle interferenze di USAID e di altre agenzie governative nella politica dell’intero mondo occidentale confermano la veridicità delle Sue parole. Quali sono le implicazioni che possiamo trarre da tutto ciò?</p>
<p><strong>CMV:</strong> La prima realtà innegabile, per quanto tremenda e sconvolgente, è la complicità della chiesa bergogliana con il sistema criminale organizzato dall’élite globalista: dobbiamo prendere atto che il tradimento dei governanti nei confronti dei propri concittadini è speculare al tradimento dei Pastori verso il proprio gregge. Ciò pone l’intera classe dirigente asservita all’élite in una condizione di illegittimità – direi anzi: di <em>alto tradimento</em> – su cui deve essere fatta giustizia.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>DiA:</strong> Il <em>Jesuit Refugee Service</em> (JRS) riceve ogni anno per la sola sede americana oltre 35 milioni di dollari dall’USAID e da altre agenzie federali.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CMV:</strong> Se i tagli decisi dall’Amministrazione Trump comportano effettivamente l’interruzione <em>totale</em> degli aiuti umanitari di queste entità pseudo-caritative, ciò significa anche che i fedeli non le approvano né sostengono che in minima parte. Se ciò è vero, mi pare che la linea ideologica imposta ai cittadini dal <em>deep state</em> e ai fedeli dalla <em>deep church</em> abbia ampiamente dimostrato la propria indole tirannica.</p>
<p>L’attuale Presidente della CEI, Matteo Zuppi, capirà presto che questa ostinazione dei vescovi nel sostenere le frange estreme del progressismo <em>woke</em> – ad iniziare dalla Comunità Sant’Egidio – li ha totalmente allontanati dai Cattolici normali, suscitando in loro un comprensibile disgusto. Così come delegittima ulteriormente il Papato lo spot di Bergoglio all’Angelus domenicale per <em>Che tempo che fa</em>, dove un prezzolato Fabio Fazio ha appena celebrato il criminale Bill Gates presentandolo come un benefattore dell’umanità.</p>
<p><strong>DiA:</strong> Ci sono anche centinaia di milioni di dollari per le “chiese evangeliche”, sempre con le stesse finalità.</p>
<p><strong>CMV:</strong> Prelati bergogliani e vescovesse, come l’episcopaliana Marian Budde della Washington National Cathedral, si mostrano tra loro d’accordo su due punti: l’apostasia nelle cose della Fede e la brama di denaro e potere. Il loro <em>ecumenismo</em> è alla fine motivato solo dalla volontà di spartirsi il bottino, e dinanzi a questo tutti i dogmi della Fede possono essere cambiati. Ci parlano di povertà anche dai pulpiti – rielaborando in chiave pauperista il <em>Non avrai niente e sarai felice</em> di Klaus Schwab – e si rendono complici di chi ci rende poveri con speculazioni e frodi scandalose; nel frattempo lucrano spudoratamente sulla miseria e sulle crisi che provocano. Così, mentre i fedeli venivano terrorizzati dalla propaganda psicopandemica e non potevano andare a Messa se non erano vaccinati, la Santa Sede riceveva generose donazioni da BigPharma per ospitarne i convegni in Vaticano, e Bergoglio si improvvisava piazzista di vaccini nocivi e mortali, prodotti con feti umani abortiti, col placet dell’ex-Sant’Uffizio diretto allora dal Gesuita Ladaria. <em>Un atto d’amore</em>, diceva Bergoglio, mentre Melinda Gates apriva un conto presso lo IOR. Intanto Bergoglio parlava già di “Madre Terra” – guarda caso, la <em>Pachamama</em> – di “peccati contro l’ambiente”, dell’urgenza di passare alle energie rinnovabili.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>La prostituzione morale di questi personaggi non indietreggia dinanzi a nulla, se ci sono soldi in ballo: negli Stati Uniti ci sono oltre 150 cliniche “cattoliche” che eseguono interventi di transizione di genere (mutilazioni genitali) finanziati dal governo, e Dio solo sa quanti soldi hanno preso gli ospedali cattolici durante la farsa psicopandemica, per uccidere i pazienti con terapie letali, o per inoculare un siero genico mortale o gravemente invalidante. D’altra parte, per ogni “vaccino” somministrato c’era un <em>bonus</em> che incoraggiava e legittimava qualsiasi aberrazione: ed è stato così ovunque, con un unico copione sotto un’unica regia.</p>
<p><strong>DiA:</strong> Inutile dire che queste attività non hanno nulla di cattolico, e che l’apostolato, la predicazione, l’istruzione religiosa, la cura d’anime e la celebrazione dei Sacramenti sono l’ultima preoccupazione di questi mercanti del tempio.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CMV:</strong> I finanziamenti per l’attuazione dell’<em>Agenda 2030</em>, per la propaganda <em>woke</em> o per la sostituzione etnica sono i nuovi <em>trenta denari</em> con cui il nuovo Sinedrio globalista paga questi nuovi Giuda perché consegnino non più il Signore, ma i Suoi fedeli, i Suoi ministri, il Suo Corpo Mistico. E come l’Iscariota – che significativamente Bergoglio propone a modello – sono anch’essi <em>apostoli</em>, ancorché rinnegati, ma sempre in un’ideale “successione apostolica” con il <em>mercator pessimus</em>.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Un fatto è comunque palese: tutti i punti programmatici che le mail del consigliere di Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, auspicavano come riforme di una “primavera della Chiesa” trovano pedissequa esecuzione nell’azione di Bergoglio e dei suoi accoliti. Spero tanto che il nuovo Direttore della CIA vorrà verificare l’esistenza di un piano del <em>deep state</em> per l’eliminazione di Benedetto XVI per avere un emissario dell’élite di Davos sul Soglio di Pietro.</p>
<p><strong>DiA:</strong> Eccellenza, come si può uscire da questo vicolo cieco di corruzione e di conflitti di interesse?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CMV:</strong> È difficile, umanamente, pensare ad una via d’uscita pacifica e soprattutto a breve termine. Mi pare evidente che la società occidentale abbia ormai raggiunto quel livello di decadenza che solitamente prelude al tramonto di una civiltà. È già successo in passato, ad esempio con Roma, il cui impero si è dissolto a causa della corruzione e dei vizi dei suoi vertici. Si direbbe che il ruolo dell’Occidente sia esaurito, quantomeno di <em>questo</em> Occidente apostata e ribelle. Ma la Chiesa Cattolica non segue le dinamiche di un regno umano e ha una missione divina – e una divina assistenza – che le permettono di affrontare anche la <em>passio Ecclesiæ</em> già iniziata.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Questa consapevolezza non ci deve indurre né a considerare la Chiesa come una società meramente umana, né ad attribuire alla Chiesa, che è santa, i peccati di cui si macchiano i suoi indegni Ministri. Il male che vediamo intorno a noi va denunciato e combattuto, ma sempre nella persuasione che la Sposa dell’Agnello, per quanto umiliata, per quanto sfigurata dai suoi aguzzini, rimane l’unica Arca di salvezza in questo mondo.</p>

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<div><img src="https://exsurgedomine.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/miniatura-250216-puttaneggiar-fra2.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><em>Di voi pastor s’accorse il Vangelista,<br></em><em>quando colei che siede sopra l’acque<br></em><em>puttaneggiar coi regi a lui fu vista;<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></p>
<p><em>quella che con le sette teste nacque,<br></em><em>e da le diece corna ebbe argomento,<br></em><em>fin che virtute al suo marito piacque.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></p>
<p><em>Fatto v’avete dio d’oro e d’argento;<br></em><em>e che altro è da voi a l’idolatre,<br></em><em>se non ch’elli uno, e voi ne orate cento?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></p>
<p>L’évangéliste Jean pensait à vous, pasteurs,<br>quand il vit forniquer avec les rois du monde<br>celle qui sur les eaux lève sa face immonde;</p>
<p>celle qui présenta sept têtes en naissant,<br>et dix cornes portant chacune un beau croissant,<br>au temps où la vert plaisait à son époux.</p>
<p>Vous vous êtes fait un dieu d’or et d’argent;<br>en quoi différez-vous de l’idolâtre<br>sauf qu’il en adore un, et vous en adorez cent?</p>
<p><em>Inf</em>. XIX, 106-114</p>

<p><strong>Duc in Altum :</strong> Votre Excellence, la décision de l’Administration Trump de freiner les politiques migratoires de la Gauche <em>woke</em> faisait partie du programme électoral qui a conduit Donald Trump à la victoire. Parallèlement à la fermeture des frontières avec le Mexique, le Président a coupé les fonds que les agences gouvernementales allouaient aux individus, aux organisations et aux entités en échange de leur action en faveur du mondialisme. Aux voix de condamnation de ces décisions politiques – d’ailleurs tout à fait légitimes – s’ajoute celle de Jorge Mario Bergoglio, qui, dans sa Lettre aux Évêques des États-Unis d’Amérique, s’exprime durement sur la « déportation de masse » décidée par le gouvernement.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>Carlo Maria Viganò :</strong> Comme tout ce qui sort de la bouche de Bergoglio, ses accusations contre le gouvernement Trump sont fausses et délirantes. Il n’y a pas de déportation de masse. Il s’agit plutôt d’une volonté claire de mettre fin aux flux migratoires, que les Administrations précédentes avaient planifiés, favorisés et encouragés. En réalité, <em>la déportation</em> s’est déroulée dans la direction opposée, sous les Administrations Clinton, Obama et Biden, excluant a priori les projets ciblés de coopération internationale pour aider les populations nécessiteuses dans leurs pays d’origine respectifs, concentrant plutôt tous les efforts – même contre la loi – en vue de la réalisation du <em>plan de substitution ethnique</em>. De cette <em>migration forcée,</em> rendue possible par la complicité des organisations internationales et par le crime organisé qui gère la traite des êtres humains, ont honteusement profité tous ceux qui aujourd’hui déchirent leurs vêtements parce que leurs affaires sont terminées.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>La lettre de Bergoglio est un fouillis de mensonges et de tromperies et trahit la panique des <em>mercenaires</em> et la colère de leurs financiers. Bergoglio en est venu à inventer une nouvelle doctrine pour imposer comme <em>devoir moral</em> « l’accueil des immigrés », de la gestion duquel il obtient des milliards de financement public et à travers laquelle il s’accrédite comme le principal interlocuteur de l’élite mondialiste et l’exécuteur de l’agenda <em>woke</em>. Il exploite le magistère de Pie XII – en décontextualisant et en déformant ses paroles – parce qu’en citant un Pape qui n’est pas soupçonné de contamination moderniste ou conciliaire, Bergoglio espère obtenir l’écoute des fidèles qui ne l’écoutent plus.</p>
<p>Il est nécessaire de comprendre l’opération frauduleuse de Bergoglio : il veut porter à un autre niveau l’affrontement qui oppose l<em>’église profonde</em> immigrationniste et <em>woke</em> à l’Administration Trump, en “dogmatisant” – pour ainsi dire – l’accueil des clandestins et forçant ainsi les Catholiques américains à considérer Trump comme un ennemi de l’Église Catholique. Bref, selon le <em>modus operandi</em> qui le distingue, Bergoglio tente de se créer un adversaire pour priver le Président Trump du soutien de l’électorat catholique. Cette opération malhonnête sert aussi à remettre au centre du débat politique et social américain un Épiscopat largement discrédité en raison des scandales sexuels et financiers qui l’ont jusqu’à présent vu totalement inféodé à l’establishment du parti démocrate. Le véritable affrontement se situe entre le conservatisme politique – <em>trumpien</em> – auquel la majorité des Américains, y compris les Catholiques, s’identifient et l’ultra-progressisme de l’<em>église profonde</em> bergoglienne.</p>
<p>Les Catholiques américains, cependant, ont compris la supercherie !! Alors que Bergoglio, pour obéir à ses maîtres mondialistes, lance des anathèmes à ceux qui “construisent des murs”, le Président Trump a annoncé – entre autres mesures que nous saluons avec une profonde satisfaction – le retour des États-Unis dans la <em>Déclaration de consensus de Genève</em> qui défend le droit à la vie de tous, réaffirme l’importance de la famille et affirme qu’il n’y a pas de “droit” international à l’avortement.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>DiA :</strong> Grâce à Trump, la crise ukrainienne est également en train d’être résolue…</p>
<p><strong>CMV :</strong> Les accords de paix que le Président Trump a commencé avec le Président Poutine pour apaiser le conflit en Ukraine – qui a commencé avec le <em>changement de</em> <em>régime</em> (<em>regime change</em>) imposé par l’<em>état profond</em> anglo-américain depuis 2014 – mettront fin à un massacre qui, pour satisfaire la soif de pouvoir de l’élite mondialiste, a envoyé des milliers et des milliers d’innocents au carnage, détruit un pays entier, alimenté le marché de la prédation d’organes (comme l’ont rapporté les agences internationales) et provoqué un appauvrissement désastreux des nations européennes en raison des sanctions insensées contre la Fédération de Russie.</p>
<p><strong>DiA :</strong> Sur certains sujets, Francesco Bergoglio ne semble pas aussi sensible que sur l’accueil…</p>
<p><strong>CMV :</strong> Il est consternant de voir comment les appels de Bergoglio sur la « dignité infinie de tous » excluent obstinément les enfants sans défense, massacrés par l’avortement, les victimes de prédation d’organes et de mutilations pour la soi-disant transition de genre, les mères utilisées comme marchandises pour la maternité de substitution, les jeunes corrompus par les perversions <em>woke</em>, les masses de mineurs qui alimentent le racket de la prostitution ou finissent dans un manoir de Beverly Hills pour satisfaire les exécrables dépravations de l’élite pédophile.</p>
<p><strong>DiA :</strong> Bergoglio devrait faire l’éloge des politiques sociales de Trump, au lieu de les condamner idéologiquement…<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CMV :</strong> L’évêque récemment nommé à Détroit propose des sanctions canoniques – de l’interdiction de recevoir la Communion à l’excommunication – pour les gardes-frontières qui ne permettent pas aux clandestins de violer les frontières. Ce délire <em>woke</em> typique de l’église bergoglienne est encore plus grave face au silence des Évêques sur le scandale d’un Président comme Joe Biden, très corrompu, autoproclamé “catholique”, qui promeut l’avortement jusqu’au moment de la naissance et qui malgré cela est sacrilégement admis à la Communion.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>DiA :</strong> En quoi la Constitution Apostolique de Pie XII <em>Exsul Familia</em> est-elle citée de manière inappropriée par Bergoglio ? <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CMV :</strong> Le “magistère” de l’église bergoglienne est totalement autoréférentiel :: Bergoglio ne cite pratiquement que lui-même, et lorsqu’il cite des documents de Vatican II et des papes postconciliaires, c’est pour les surpasser. La citation de Pie XII par Bergoglio devrait donc susciter un soupçon plus que légitime, confirmé en fait également par une lecture rapide d’<em>Exsul familia</em>. Le zèle apostolique du Pape Pie XII – ainsi que de ses Prédécesseurs – ne se limite pas à une simple indication de la nécessité d’accueillir les flux migratoires, mais se concentre avant tout sur le soin des âmes des Catholiques contraints de migrer à cause des famines, des conflits, des persécutions religieuses. Même si les grandes migrations économiques des XIX<sup>e</sup> et XX<sup>e</sup> siècles ont été mues par les mêmes lobbies internationaux, déplaçant les populations du Sud de l’Europe vers le Nord, ou de l’Europe vers les Amériques, nous ne pouvons pas oublier que le contexte historique de l’après-guerre était très différent de celui d’aujourd’hui, tout d’abord parce que l’Église Catholique n’était pas – et n’aurait jamais pu être – alliée et complice de la Franc-Maçonnerie, mais protectrice ferme et courageuse des pauvres et des faibles ; et deuxièmement, parce qu’aujourd’hui, l’attaque contre notre civilisation est beaucoup plus violente et ouverte qu’elle ne l’était à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Pie XII écrivait :<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><em>La Sainte Mère Église, poussée par son immense amour pour les âmes et impatiente de remplir les engagements du mandat salvifique universel qui lui a été confié par le Christ, n’a pas tardé à prendre</em> <strong><em>un soin spécialement spirituel</em></strong> <em>des pèlerins, des étrangers, des exilés et de tous les émigrés, ne ménageant aucun effort et recourant principalement aux prêtres qui, à travers l’administration des charismes de la grâce et la prédication de la parole divine, travailleront avec toute la sollicitude à confirmer ces chrétiens dans la foi et à resserrer leurs liens de charité.</em> (Const. Ap. <em>Exsul Familia</em>, 1<sup>er</sup> août 1952, n. 5).</p>
<p><strong>DiA :</strong> Un soin <em>spécialement spirituel</em>…<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CMV :</strong> La dernière chose que Bergoglio poursuit est la défense de l’intégrité de la Foi ou le salut des âmes. Il ne se soucie pas non plus vraiment des pauvres : il suffit de regarder combien de clochards campent autour du Vatican et sous la Colonnade du Bernin ; à l’époque du Covid, pour obtenir un repas, ils devaient montrer qu’ils avaient reçu le vaccin. Cet horrible bateau chargé de migrants de bronze érigé sur la place Saint-Pierre est un monument à l’hypocrisie de Bergoglio. Pour lui, les pauvres et les marginalisés <em>ne sont qu’un instrument</em> pour “métisser” le tissu social et ecclésial, c’est-à-dire pour le dissoudre et obtenir ainsi l’annulation définitive de ce qui reste de la Société Chrétienne après des décennies de sécularisation. Bergoglio “voit grand” : il veut créer les prémisses de la Nouvelle Religion de l’Humanité, se faisant illusion qu’il peut la présider et ainsi se tailler un rôle dans le Nouvel Ordre Mondial. En tant que prophète du mondialisme syncrétiste, <em>vert</em> et inclusif, Bergoglio a réussi à faire une apparition au festival de Sanremo, lançant le refrain de la chanson <em>Imagine</em> de John Lennon, manifeste maçonnique du Nouvel Ordre.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>La Constitution Apostolique du Pape Pie XII est totalement opposée à cette vision horizontale, comme l’est l’ensemble du Magistère Catholique par rapport à la vision bergoglienne. Dans <em>Exsul Familia,</em> Pie XII rappelle la traite négrière des usuriers sur le sol américain (n° 11) ; il mentionne les dangers auxquels avaient été exposés les Mexicains fuyant la révolution anticléricale et maçonnique (1926-1929), <em>devenus la proie des ennemis du Christ</em> (ibid. 54). L’attitude de Bergoglio à l’égard des chrétiens persécutés est tout à fait différente : avec l’Accord secret conclu avec le régime communiste de Pékin, il a condamné les Catholiques chinois au massacre et il reste silencieux sur les violations des droits fondamentaux.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Dans la vision dystopique de Bergoglio – anti-humaine, anti-chrétienne et antichristique – nos nations <em>sont des terres de conquête mahométane</em> : c’est à cela que sert l’<em>œcuménisme conciliaire</em>. Pour le Coran, où résonne l’appel du <em>muezzìn</em> et où “le tapis de prière” est déployé, c’est territoire islamique. La connivence du clergé bergoglien, qui accueille les <em>imams</em> dans nos églises et leur concède les parvis de nos cathédrales pour leur prière, constitue une trahison du Christ et des fidèles. Une immigration régulée, dans laquelle s’applique une véritable intégration et dans laquelle l’Église Catholique s’engage pour la conversion à la vraie Foi des païens, <em>est la dernière chose que Bergoglio souhaite</em> : le but de l’invasion n’est pas d’aider les dépossédés et les pauvres, mais d’importer la pauvreté, le chaos social et la guerre civile dans nos villes. Et si le mondialisme soutient Bergoglio, c’est parce qu’il est l’un de ses émissaires, obéissant aux ordres qui lui sont donnés.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Ce à quoi nous assistons est en fait une <em>migration forcée</em>, qui appauvrit les États d’origine de tant d’hommes et de jeunes qui pourrait rendre leurs gouvernements fermes et faire prospérer la Nation, pour en faire des criminels, des esclaves, des victimes du trafic ignoble de pervers ou du marché de la prédation d’organes. Des centaines de milliers de mineurs disparaissent chaque année, avec la complicité de qui pervertit la charité chrétienne dans la contrefaçon coupable d’un accueil à but lucratif.</p>
<p><strong>DiA :</strong> Sans parler du problème de la faible natalité dans les Pays occidentaux…<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CMV :</strong> La baisse démographique, planifiée par des politiques qui découragent la natalité et pénalisent la famille naturelle, constitue le but principal de l’action de l’élite mondialiste, pour laquelle elle propose comme solution le <em>remplacement ethnique</em> par des masses d’étrangers. En 2015 (<a href="https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2015/01/19/news/papa-francesco-essere-cattolici-non-significa-fare-figli-come-conigli-1.35305640/#:~:text=Ha%252520parlato%252520di%252520contraccezione%252520e,cattolici%252520dobbiamo%252520essere%252520come%252520conigli%2525C2%2525BB.">ici</a>), Bergoglio a déclaré : «  Il y a ceux qui croient que pour être de bons Catholiques, nous devons être comme des lapins. » Aujourd’hui (<a href="https://www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/terra-promessa/41398229/papa-francesco-che-tempo-che-fa-italia-fate-entrare-migranti.html">ici</a>), il soutient que le déclin démographique des Pays occidentaux doit être combattu non pas par des politiques sages de protection de la famille naturelle et de conditions de travail dignes, mais par l’ouverture des frontières et l’institutionnalisation de ce <em>métissage</em> si cher à l’Archevêque émérite de Milan, le Cardinal Scola et théorisé par le néo-malthusien eugéniste Franc-Maçon Kalergi depuis le milieu du siècle dernier. Non plus des enfants catholiques en terre catholique, mais des enfants métis, sans histoire, sans tradition, sans éducation ni culture, sans identité, sans patrie ni Foi, exploités pour nourrir le Moloch mondialiste et la tyrannie du Forum Économique Mondial.</p>
<p>La dystopie mondialiste de Bergoglio vise à l’effacement des identités nationales et ethniques, en particulier lorsqu’elles sont fondées sur la civilisation chrétienne ; et au contraire, elle promeut ce qui est lié aux croyances païennes et idolâtres. L’annulation de toutes les différences et l’homologation externe des cultures devraient être considérées par l’Église Catholique comme un désastre, tandis que l’église bergoglienne la promeut impunément.</p>
<p><strong>DiA :</strong> Aujourd’hui, nous découvrons que l’ensemble du système médiatique mondial était financé par l’USAID et d’autres agences gouvernementales. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CMV :</strong> Ce qui émerge aux États-Unis après l’investiture du Président Trump n’est que la partie émergée de l’iceberg d’un vaste système subversif qui implique tous les États occidentaux. Il ne s’agit pas de cas isolés de corruption, mais d’une occupation que la Gauche mondialiste considère indispensable pour accéder au pouvoir et, une fois approprié, l’utiliser pour l’établissement d’un régime totalitaire. Et ce qui est paradoxal et en même temps inouï, c’est que l’<em>état profond</em> prétend même faire payer à ses victimes, à nous tous, les coûts de ce projet infernal, en utilisant l’argent des contribuables pour nous confiner, nous priver de liberté, nous exterminer avec des guerres, des famines, des pandémies et des vaccins. De la même manière, l’<em>église profonde</em> utilise les offrandes des fidèles pour répandre des hérésies, normaliser le vice et la perversion, islamiser les Nations chrétiennes, profaner nos églises et nos autels, persécuter les voix dissidentes par des suspensions et des excommunications.</p>
<p><strong>DiA :</strong> Comment l’élite peut-elle atteindre les objectifs qu’elle s’est fixés ?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CMV :</strong> À travers des situations de <em>crise permanente</em> qui légitiment le pouvoir de déroger aux lois de droit commun. Si l’on veut créer une urgence comme <em>prétexte</em> pour légitimer la cession de souveraineté aux <em>lobbies</em> privés, il faut que ceux qui font fonctionner la machine institutionnelle et médiatique aient un intérêt direct à promouvoir la crise, même s’ils savent parfaitement qu’il s’agit d’une fraude. Gouvernements, politiciens, journalistes, magistrats, médecins, enseignants, forces de l’ordre, acteurs et chanteurs, intellectuels et <em>influencer</em>, évêques, prêtres et même « le pape » : tous dépendent de la façon dont ils collaborent avec l’<em>état profond</em>. Ils sont payés comme mercenaires, et comme mercenaires, ils n’ont d’autre maître que l’argent, le succès, le pouvoir ; et ceux qui leur permettent d’avoir cet argent, ce pouvoir. Au sommet de la pyramide mondialiste infernale qui fait usage de ces mercenaires, on trouve le délire luciférien de ceux qui veulent faire le Mal, contre Dieu et contre l’homme, pour remplacer Dieu par Satan et l’homme par l’humanoïde androgyne.</p>
<p>Ce réseau mondial de corruption a servi – et sert encore en partie, en particulier en Europe – à modifier la dynamique sociale de manière criminelle et frauduleuse. Une telle ingérence indue et sans précédent ne peut pas être simplement constatée : elle doit être éradiquée et punie, car elle est à l’origine d’<em>une crise provoquée et planifiée</em> à laquelle il est autrement impossible d’échapper. Et quand je dis « éradiquée et punie », je me réfère principalement aux responsables, à ceux qui se sont rendus coupables d’une trahison à l’origine de la décadence morale, sociale, économique qui nous est imposée par la force. Il n’est plus possible de tolérer que Soros, Gate, Schwab, Obama, les Clinton, les Biden, Bergoglio et ses acolytes, et d’autres conspirateurs continuent de faire rage contre l’humanité entière qui ne sait pas qu’elle est l’objet d’une expérience diabolique d’ingénierie sociale visant à son extermination physique et morale. Si le Président Trump coupe la tête du Léviathan, comme il est déjà en train de faire, nous ne pourrons qu’être heureux et enfin pousser un soupir de soulagement.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>DiA :</strong> Comment pensez-vous que Donald Trump peut contribuer à la démolition de l’<em>état profond ?</em> Pensez-vous que cela puisse réussir ?</p>
<p><strong>CMV :</strong> L’Administration Trump est bien consciente de deux choses. La première : il existe un pouvoir supranational subversif qui constitue une menace concrète pour la souveraineté des Nations et pour toute l’humanité. La seconde : il y a un groupe de personnes et d’entreprises qui soutiennent ce pouvoir parce qu’il en tire un avantage en termes de pouvoir et d’argent. Couper les fonds aux complices du système criminel mondialiste et de son <em>pouvoir profond</em> signifie priver l’élite de l’instrument de contrôle et de propagande. Même Judas n’aurait pas trahi le Christ sans avoir reçu les trente deniers du Sanhédrin : sans le <em>pretium sanguinis</em>, l’incitation au crime est également perdue, et avec elle le chantage de ceux qui auraient dû le commettre. Une excellente manœuvre, donc, qui a déjà des répercussions importantes dans le monde entier, avec l’interruption du financement de l’USAID et les jérémiades grotesques de ceux qui en ont été consciencieusement privés (je pense à celles de l’activiste James Martin s.j.).<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>DiA :</strong> En parlant de jérémiade, les paroles de condamnation de l’Épiscopat américain ultra-progressiste et de tous ses partisans sont innombrables.<strong><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong></p>
<p><strong>CMV :</strong> Les paroles des cardinaux et des évêques américains contre la réduction des dons aux soi-disant agences d’aide sociale de l’Église Catholique sont imprégnées d’hypocrisie et de mensonge. Ils viennent de personnages qui n’ont pas dit un mot, une syllabe contre les politiques sur l’avortement, le genre, la maternité de substitution, l’euthanasie, l’homosexualité, des Administrations précédentes entre les mains des Démocrates, alors qu’ils ne se réveillent de leur vile torpeur que lorsqu’un frein est mis à l’immigration illégale, pour laquelle l’<em>église profonde</em> reçoit des milliards.</p>
<p><strong>DiA :</strong> Comment jugez-vous la dépendance économique des Conférences Épiscopales, des Diocèses, des Ordres religieux, des organismes ecclésiastiques et des ONG “catholiques” vis-à-vis du financement de l’Agence des États-Unis pour le développement international (USAID) ? <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CMV :</strong> Bergoglio prêche en paroles une “église pauvre pour les pauvres”, sachant très bien que la liberté à laquelle l’Église Catholique a droit – et qui est à la base de la nécessité d’une indépendance, <em>y compris financière</em>, de ses organes – est totalement incompatible avec sa dépendance économique vis-à-vis de l’État.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Une ONG est précisément une organisation non gouvernementale : elle ne peut pas être indépendante, si elle dépend du financement que le gouvernement lui fournit. S’il est bon et opportun que l’État aide et encourage l’action sociale de l’Église Catholique, il est tout aussi vrai que lorsque les entités ecclésiastiques – centrales ou périphériques – ne sont plus soutenues par les offrandes des fidèles, mais par le parrainage d’organismes gouvernementaux et d’entités privées, l’Église est obligée de suivre les lignes dictées par ceux qui lui permettent d’exister et d’agir.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>La dépendance économique de l’institution est rendue possible par la corruption et le chantage de ses dirigeants, car si l’Église Catholique était gouvernée par de bons pasteurs incorruptibles et non soumis au chantage, ils n’accepteraient jamais de l’asservir aux intérêts d’un pouvoir ouvertement hostile au Christ, ni ne se laisseraient acheter par soif d’argent ou par ambition de carrière. C’est pourquoi il est indispensable que l’institution à corrompre soit à son tour gouvernée par des gens corrompus ; et cela s’applique indifféremment aux domaines civil et ecclésial.</p>
<p>Pour le confirmer, il suffit de rappeler l’effet dissuasif qu’a eu la menace de révoquer un milliard de dollars de financement de l’Ukraine – rapportée par Joe Biden lui-même – pour stopper l’enquête du procureur général sur son fils Hunter.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>DiA :</strong> Il s’agit d’un réseau institutionnel – manœuvré par l’<em>état profond</em> anglo-américain – qui, pendant des décennies, a secrètement payé des milliers et des milliers d’organisations, d’associations, de journalistes, de politiciens et d’autres personnalités publiques pour mentir sans vergogne à des milliards de personnes, créant un récit déformé afin d’inciter la population à accepter, sous la menace de catastrophes et d’urgences imminentes, ce qu’elle n’aurait jamais accepté dans des conditions normales. Vous avez parlé du lien d’intérêts et de la complicité entre l’<em>état profond</em> et l’<em>église profonde</em> depuis 2020, et aujourd’hui, les nouvelles sur l’ingérence de l’USAID et d’autres agences gouvernementales dans la politique de l’ensemble du monde occidental confirment la véracité de vos paroles. Quelles sont les implications que l’on peut tirer de tout cela ?</p>
<p><strong>CMV :</strong> La première réalité indéniable, aussi terrible et choquante soit-elle, est la complicité de l’église bergoglienne avec le système criminel organisé par l’élite mondialiste : il faut noter que la trahison des dirigeants envers leurs concitoyens se reflète dans la trahison des pasteurs envers leurs ouailles. Cela place l’ensemble de la classe dirigeante asservie à l’élite dans une condition d’illégitimité – je dirais même : de <em>haute trahison</em> – sur laquelle justice doit être faite.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>DiA :</strong> Le <em>Service Jésuite des Réfugiés</em> (JRS) reçoit plus de 35 millions de dollars par an de l’USAID et d’autres agences fédérales pour le seul siège américain. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CM :</strong> Si les coupes décidées par l’Administration Trump impliquent en réalité l’interruption <em>totale</em> de l’aide humanitaire de ces entités pseudo-caritatives, cela signifie aussi que les fidèles ne les approuvent pas ou ne les soutiennent que dans une moindre mesure. Si cela est vrai, il me semble que la ligne idéologique imposée aux citoyens par l’<em>état profond</em> et aux fidèles par l’<em>église profonde</em> a amplement démontré sa nature tyrannique.</p>
<p>L’actuel Président de la Conférence Épiscopale Italienne, Matteo Zuppi, comprendra vite que cette obstination des évêques à soutenir les franges extrêmes du progressisme <em>woke</em> – à commencer par la Communauté de Sant’Egidio – les a totalement éloignés des Catholiques normaux, suscitant en eux un dégoût compréhensible. De même que la publicité de Bergoglio à l’Angélus dominical pour le spectacle télévisé <em>Che tempo che fa</em>, où un Fabio Fazio à la solde des mêmes patrons célèbre le criminel Bill Gates en le présentant comme un bienfaiteur de l’humanité, délégitime encore et encore la papauté.</p>
<p><strong>DiA :</strong> Il y a aussi des centaines de millions de dollars pour les « églises évangéliques », toujours avec les mêmes objectifs.</p>
<p><strong>CMV :</strong> Les prélats bergogliens et les évêquesses, comme l’épiscopalienne Marian Budde de la Cathédrale Nationale de Washington, sont d’accord les uns avec les autres sur deux points : l’apostasie dans les choses de la Foi et la soif d’argent et de pouvoir. Leur <em>œcuménisme</em> n’est finalement motivé que par le désir de partager le butin, et face à cela, tous les dogmes de Foi peuvent être changés. Ils nous parlent de pauvreté même en chaire – élaborant en clé paupériste le <em>Vous n’aurez rien et vous serez heureux</em> de Klaus Schwab– et ils deviennent complices de ceux qui nous appauvrissent par des spéculations scandaleuses et des fraudes ; en attendant, ils profitent sans vergogne de la misère et des crises qu’ils provoquent. Ainsi, alors que les fidèles étaient terrifiés par la propagande psychopandémique et ne pouvaient pas aller à la Messe s’ils n’étaient pas vaccinés, le Saint-Siège a reçu de généreuses donations de BigPharma et organisé ses conférences au Vatican, et Bergoglio s’est improvisé vendeur de vaccins, nocifs et mortels, produits avec des fœtus humains avortés, avec le placet de l’ancien Saint-Office alors dirigé par le Jésuite Ladaria. <em>Un acte d’amour,</em> disait Bergoglio, tandis que Melinda Gates ouvrait un compte auprès de l’IOR. Entre-temps, Bergoglio parlait déjà de la “Terre Mère”– par coïncidence, la <em>Pachamama</em> – de “péchés contre l’environnement”, de l’urgence de passer aux énergies renouvelables.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>La prostitution morale de ces personnages ne recule devant rien, s’il y a de l’argent en jeu : aux États-Unis, il y a plus de 150 cliniques “catholiques” qui pratiquent des chirurgies de transition de genre (mutilations génitales) financées par le gouvernement, et Dieu seul sait combien d’argent les hôpitaux catholiques ont pris pendant la farce psychopandémique, pour tuer des patients avec des thérapies létales, ou pour inoculer un sérum génique mortel ou gravement invalidant. En revanche, pour chaque “vaccin” administré, il y avait une <em>prime</em> qui encourageait et légitimait toute aberration : et c’était le cas partout, avec un seul script sous une seule direction.</p>
<p><strong>DiA :</strong> Inutile de dire que ces activités n’ont rien de catholique, et que l’apostolat, la prédication, l’instruction religieuse, le soin des âmes et la célébration des Sacrements sont les moindres préoccupations de ces marchands du temple.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><strong>CMV :</strong> Les financements pour la mise en œuvre de l’<em>Agenda 2030</em>, pour la propagande <em>woke</em> ou pour le remplacement ethnique sont les nouveaux <em>trente deniers</em> avec lesquels le nouveau Sanhédrin mondialiste paie ces nouveaux Judas pour livrer non pas le Seigneur, mais Ses fidèles, Ses ministres, Son Corps mystique. Et comme Iscariote – que Bergoglio propose de manière significative comme modèle – ils sont aussi des <em>apôtres</em>, bien que renégats, mais toujours dans une “succession apostolique” idéale avec le <em>mercator pessimus</em>.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Un fait est cependant clair : tous les points programmatiques que les courriels du conseiller d’Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, souhaitaient comme réformes d’un “printemps de l’Église” sont servilement exécutés dans l’action de Bergoglio et de ses acolytes. J’espère vraiment que le nouveau directeur de la CIA voudra vérifier l’existence d’un plan de l’<em>état profond</em> pour l’élimination de Benoît XVI afin d’avoir un émissaire de l’élite de Davos sur le trône de Pierre.</p>
<p><strong>DiA :</strong> Votre Excellence, comment sortir de cette impasse de corruption et de conflits d’intérêts ?</p>
<p><strong>CMV :</strong> Il est difficile, humainement, de penser à une issue pacifique et surtout à court terme. Il me semble clair que la société occidentale a maintenant atteint ce niveau de décadence qui prélude généralement au déclin d’une civilisation. Cela s’est déjà produit dans le passé, par exemple avec Rome, dont l’empire s’est dissous à cause de la corruption et des vices de ses dirigeants. Il semble que le rôle de l’Occident soit épuisé, du moins de <em>cet</em> Occident apostat et rebelle. Mais l’Église Catholique ne suit pas la dynamique d’un règne humain et a une mission divine – et aussi une assistance divine – qui lui permet d’affronter même la <em>passio Ecclesiæ</em> qui a déjà commencé.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Cette prise de conscience ne doit pas nous conduire ni à considérer l’Église comme une société purement humaine, ni à attribuer à l’Église, qui est sainte, les péchés dont ses ministres indignes sont entachés. Le mal que nous voyons autour de nous doit être dénoncé et combattu, mais toujours dans la conviction que l’Épouse de l’Agneau, bien qu’humiliée, bien que défigurée par ses bourreaux, reste l’unique Arche de salut en ce monde.</p>

<p>©Traduction de F. de Villasmundo</p>

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<div><img src="https://exsurgedomine.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/miniatura-250216-puttaneggiar-ucr.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><em>Di voi pastor s’accorse il Vangelista,<br></em><em>quando colei che siede sopra l’acque<br></em><em>puttaneggiar coi regi a lui fu vista;<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></p>
<p><em>quella che con le sette teste nacque,<br></em><em>e da le diece corna ebbe argomento,<br></em><em>fin che virtute al suo marito piacque.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></p>
<p><em>Fatto v’avete dio d’oro e d’argento;<br></em><em>e che altro è da voi a l’idolatre,<br></em><em>se non ch’elli uno, e voi ne orate cento?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></p>
<p><em>Inf</em>. XIX, 106-114</p>

<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>Вас, пастирі, вже знав євангелист<br></em></span><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>В тій, що на водах возсіда, байдужа,<br></em></span><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>Лиш блудствує з царями з різних міст.</em></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>А в ній, семиголовій, сила дужа</em></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p1"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>На десять рогів сяяла свята<br></em></span><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>Аж поки шлюбного любила мужа.<br></em></span><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>Тепер в вас віра срібна й золота;<br></em></span><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>Відміна та в вас од ідоловіра,<br></em></span><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>Що в нього Бог один, а в вас — до ста…</em></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p3"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Данте Аліг’єрі <em>«Божественна комедія», Пекло</em>, XIX, 106-114</span></p>

<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><strong>DUC IN ALTUM:</strong> – <strong><em>Ваше Преосвященство, рішення адміністрації Трампа припинити міграційну політику лівих woke, було частиною виборчої програми, яка принесла Дональду Трампу перемогу. Разом із закриттям кордону з Мексикою президент призупинив фінансування, які державні установи надавали окремим особам, організаціям та юридичним особам в обмін на їхні дії на підтримку глобалізму. До голосів засудження цих політичних рішень, які є цілком законними, додається голос Хорхе Маріо Бергольйо, який у своєму Листі до єпископів Сполучених Штатів Америки різко висловлюється щодо «масової депортації», ухваленої урядом. </em></strong></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><strong>КАРЛО МАРІЯ ВІГАНО:</strong> – Як і все, що виходить з уст Бергольйо, ці звинувачення проти уряду Трампа є фальшивими та оманливими. Масової депортації немає. Швидше, існує чітке бажання покласти край міграційним потокам, які попередні адміністрації планували, підтримували та заохочували. Насправді <em>депортація</em> відбувалася в протилежному значенні, під час адміністрування Клінтона, Обами та Байдена, апріорі виключаючи спрямовані міжнародні проекти, співпраці, допомоги потребуючому населенню у відповідних країнах, натомість зосереджуючи всі зусилля – навіть, якщо це суперечило закону – на посиленні <em>плану етнічної заміни</em>. Ті, хто зараз роздирають свою одежу, роблять це лише тому, що їхній прибутковій справі покладено край. Вони ганебно нажилися на цій <em>вимушеній міграції</em>, яка стала можливою завдяки мережі міжнародних організацій та організованої злочинності, які керують торгівлею людьми.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Лист Бергольйо — це суміш брехні та обману. Він викриває паніку <em>найманців</em> і гнів їхніх спонсорів. Бергольйо зайшов так далеко, що винайшов нову доктрину, щоб нав’язати «прийняття мігрантів» як <em>моральний обов’язок</em>, керуючись яким, він отримує мільярди державного фінансування і завдяки тому, він заслуговує на довіру як головний речник глобалістичної еліти та виконавець <em>woke agenda</em>. Він використовує вчення Пія XII – деконтекстуалізуючи та спотворюючи його слова. Цитуючи Папу, якого не підозрюють у модерністських чи соборових впливах, він сподівається привернути увагу тих вірних, які <em>його</em> не слухають .</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Нам потрібно зрозуміти шахрайську операцію Бергольйо: він хоче вивести на інший рівень зіткнення між міграційною і <em>woke deep church</em> [<em>глибинною церквою</em>] та адміністрацією Трампа. «Догматизуючи», так би мовити, прийняття нелегальних мігрантів він, таким чином, «змушує» американських католиків бачити в Трампі ворога Католицької Церкви. Насправді, Бергольйо намагається, відповідно до, притаманного йому, <em>способу дій</em>, перетворити президента Трампа на супротивника, щоб позбавити його підтримки католицького електорату. Ці нечесні дії також слугують тому, щоб повернути в центр американських політичних і соціальних дебатів католицький єпископат, який був досить дискредитований через сексуальні та фінансові скандали; і громадськість, досі бачили його повне підпорядкування правлячим політичним колам Демократичної партії. Справжнє зіткнення відбувається між політичним консерватизмом – <em>трампівським</em> – з яким ототожнюють себе більшість американців, у тому числі католики, і ультрапрогресивізмом <em>Берголіанської deep church</em>.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Але американські католики зрозуміли шахрайство! У той час як Бергольйо, підкоряючись своїм господарям-глобалістам, піддає анатемі тих, хто «будує стіни», президент Трамп оголосив (серед інших заходів, які ми вітаємо з глибоким задоволенням) повернення Сполучених Штатів до <em>Женевської декларації консенсусу</em>, яка захищає право на життя для всіх, підтверджує важливість сім’ї та підтверджує відсутність міжнародного «права» на аборт.</span></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="ul1"><li data-sanitized-class="li5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><strong><em>Завдяки Трампу вирішується і українська криза…</em></strong></span></li>
</ul><p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Мирні угоди, які президент Трамп розпочав із президентом Путіним, щоб врегулювати конфлікт в Україні, який розпочався зі <em>зміною режиму,</em> нав’язаного англо-американською <em>deep state</em> [глибинною державою] з 2014 року, покладуть кінець кровопролиттю, яка, щоб задовольнити жадобу влади глобалістичної еліти, відправила на бійню тисячі й тисячі невинних людей, знищила цілу країну, підживила ринок використання людських органів (як повідомляють міжнародні агентства) і<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> спричинила катастрофічне зубожіння європейських народів через абсурдні санкції проти Російської Федерації.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><strong><em>– У деяких питаннях Франциск Бергольйо не здається таким чутливим, як у прийнятті …</em></strong></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Шокує те, як заклики Бергольйо до «безмежної гідності всіх» уперто виключають беззахисних дітей убитих через аборти, жертв видалення органів і каліцтва для так званого гендерного переходу, матерів, яких використовують як товар для сурогатного материнства, молодь – деморалізовану збоченнями <em>woke</em>, маси неповнолітніх, які підживлюють проституцію або закінчують у віллі Беверлі-Хіллз, щоб задовольнити огидну розбещеність педофільної еліти.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><strong><em>– Бергольйо мав би хвалити соціальну політику Трампа, а не ідеологічно її засуджувати?</em></strong></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Новопризначений єпископ Детройта запропонував канонічні санкції для прикордонників (від заборони Причастя до екскомуніки), які відмовляються пропускати нелегальних мігрантів через кордон. Ця манія <em>woke</em>, типічна для Берголіанської церкви стає ще більшою через мовчання єпископів щодо скандалу з дуже корумпованим т. зв. «католицьким» президентом, таким як Джо Байден, який пропагує аборти до моменту народження і, незважаючи на це, святотатське допускається до Причастя.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><strong><em>– Яким чином Бергольйо недоречно процитував Апостольську конституцію Пія XII «Exsul Familia»?</em></strong></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">«Магістеріум» Берголіанської церкви є повністю саморекомендаційним: Бергольйо практично цитує лише самого себе, і коли він цитує документи Другого Ватиканського собору та пост-соборових Пап – це лиш для того, щоб перевершити їх. Тому цитування Бергольйо Пія XII, мало б викликати у нас більш ніж законну підозру – підтверджену фактами, а також поверхове прочитання <em>Exsul familia</em>. Апостольська ревність Папи Пія ХІІ – як і його попередників – не обмежується лише вказівкою на необхідність приймати міграційні потоки, але зосереджується передусім на піклуванні про душі католиків, змушених мігрувати через голод, конфлікти, релігійні переслідування. Навіть якщо великі економічні міграції 19 та 20 століть були спричинені тими ж самими міжнародними лобі, переміщуючи населення з півдня Європи на північ або з Європи до Америки, ми не можемо забувати, що історичний контекст післявоєнного періоду дуже відрізнявся від нинішнього, перш за все тому, що Католицька Церква не була – і не могла ніколи бути – союзником і спільником масонства, але міцною і відважною захисницею бідних і слабких; а по-друге, тому що сьогодні напад на нашу культуру є набагато жорстокішим і відкритішим, ніж це було наприкінці Другої світової війни.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Пій XII писав:</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><em>«Свята Мати-Церква, спонукана своєю величезною любов’ю до душ, і з нетерпінням виконати обов’язки універсального спасительного мандату, довіреного їй Христом. Вона особливо дбала про те, щоб надати </em><strong><em>всю можливу духовну опіку</em></strong><em> над паломниками, іноземцями, вигнанцями та всіма мігрантами, не шкодуючи зусиль і користуючись головним чином священниками, які, уділяючи Таїнства та проповідуючи Боже слово, працювали з усією дбайливістю, щоб утвердити цих християн у вірі та зміцнити узи милосердя»</em> (Const. Ap. <em>Exsul Familia</em>, 1 серпня 1952 року, п. 5).</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><strong><em>– Особливо «духовна опіка» …</em></strong></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Останнє, чого домагається<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> Бергольйо –<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> це захист цілісності віри або спасіння душ. Він також не дбає про бідних: тільки подивіться, скільки <em>бездомних</em> отаборилися навколо Ватикану та під колонадою Берніні. В епоху Ковіду, щоб отримати їжу, їм потрібно було пред’явити документ, що вони вакциновані. Той жахливий бронзовий човен, встановлений на площі Святого Петра, є монументом лицемірства Бергольйо. Для нього бідні та маргіналізовані <em>є</em> лише <em>знаряддям</em> для «гібридного схрещування» соціальної та церковної тканини, тобто для її розпаду і таким чином досягнення остаточного знищення того, що залишилося від християнського суспільства після десятиліть секуляризації. Бергольйо «думає масштабно»: він хоче створити передумови для Нової Релігії Людства, обманюючи себе тим, що він зможе її очолити і таким чином забезпечити собі місце у Новому Світовому Порядку. Як пророк синкретичного, екологічного та інклюзивного глобалізму, Бергольйо навіть з’явився на фестивалі в Санремо, щоб представити пісню Джона Леннона <em>Imagine</em>, масонський маніфест Нового Порядку.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Апостольська конституція Папи Пія XII має цілковито протилежний тон цьому горизонтальному баченню, як і весь католицький Учительський Уряд відносно цього Берголіанського. У <em>Exsul Familia</em> Пій XII згадує про работоргівлю в руках лихварів в Америці (п. 11); він згадує про небезпеку, на яку наражалися мексиканці, які тікали від антиклерикальної та масонської революції (1926-1929), <em>ставши здобиччю ворогів Христа</em> (<em>там само,</em> 54). Зовсім іншим є ставлення Бергольйо до переслідуваних християн: таємною Угодою, укладеною з комуністичним режимом Пекіна, він віддав китайських католиків на знищення і мовчить щодо порушеня їх основних людських прав.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">В антиутопічному баченні Бергольйо (антилюдському, антихристиянському та антихристовому) наші нації <em>є землями магометанського завоювання</em>: ось для чого призначений <em>соборовий екуменізм</em>. Відповідно до Корану, скрізь, де лунає заклик <em>муедзина</em> і де розстелений «молитовний килимок», там є ісламська територія. Потурання берголіанського духовенства, яке приймає <em>імамів</em> у наших церквах і дає можливість проводити молитви в прибудовах наших соборів, є зрадою Христа та вірних. Регульована міграція, в якій відбувається справжня інтеграція і в якій Католицька Церква зобов’язана займатися наверненням поган до істинної віри, <em>— це остання річ, яку хоче Бергольйо!</em> Мета інвазії – не допомога знедоленим і бідним, а впровадження бідності, соціального хаосу і громадянської війни в наші міста. І якщо глобалізм підтримує Бергольйо, то це тому, що він є одним з його послів, слухняний наказам, які йому віддають.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Те, що ми спостерігаємо, насправді є <em>насильницькою міграцією</em>, яка зводить до зубожіння місцеві країни без багатьох чоловіків і молодих людей, які могли б зробити свої уряди стабільними, а націю процвітаючою. Натомість вони перетворюються на злочинців, рабів, жертв збоченців і ринку торгівлі людськими органами. Щороку сотні тисяч неповнолітніх зникають безслідно за співучастю тих, хто спотворює християнське милосердя на злочинну підробку «прийняття» з метою отримання прибутків.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><strong><em>– Не кажучи вже про проблему низької народжуваності в західних країнах …</em></strong></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Демографічний спад, спланований політикою, яка перешкоджає народжуваності та карає природну сім’ю, становить головну мету дій глобалістичної еліти, для якої вона пропонує як рішення <em>етнічне заміщення</em> масами іноземців. У 2015 році ( <a href="https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2015/01/19/news/papa-francesco-essere-cattolici-non-significa-fare-figli-come-conigli-1.35305640/#:~:text=Ha%25252520parlato%25252520di%25252520contraccezione%25252520e,cattolici%25252520dobbiamo%25252520essere%25252520come%25252520conigli%252525C2%252525BB."><span data-sanitized-class="s2"><strong>тут</strong></span></a> ) Бергольйо сказав: «Є ті, хто вважає, що, щоб бути добрими католиками, ми повинні бути як кролики». Сьогодні ( <a href="https://www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/terra-promessa/41398229/papa-francesco-che-tempo-che-fa-italia-fate-entrare-migranti.html"><span data-sanitized-class="s2"><strong>тут</strong> </span></a>) він стверджує, що проти демографічного занепаду західних країн потрібно боротися не мудрою політикою захисту природної сім’ї та гідних умов праці, а відкритими кордонами та інституціоналізацією цієї <em>змішаної раси,</em>  такої дорогої емеритному архиєпископу Мілану, кардиналу Скола та, яку теоретизував неомальтузіанський євгенік – масон Калергі, з середини минулого століття. Більше не католицькі діти на католицькій землі, а діти змішаної раси [метиси]: без історії, без традицій, без освіти чи культури, без ідентичності, без Батьківщини чи віри; яких експлуатують, щоб годувати глобалістського Молоха та тиранію Всесвітнього Економічного Форуму.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Глобалістська антиутопія Бергольйо спрямована на стирання національних та етнічних ідентичностей, особливо там, де вони засновані на християнській культурі; і, навпаки, пропагує те, що пов’язане з язичницькими та ідолопоклонницькими віруваннями. Скасування всіх відмінностей і зовнішню омологацію культур Католицька Церква має розглядати як катастрофу, тоді як Берголіанська церква<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> стала її необачним пропагандистом.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><strong><em>– Сьогодні ми виявили, що вся глобальна медіасистема фінансувалася USAID та іншими урядовими установами. </em></strong></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Те, що відбувається в Сполучених Штатах після інавгурації президента Трампа, є лише верхівкою айсберга великої підривної системи, яка охоплює всі західні держави. Це не поодинокі випадки корупції, а спланована окупація, яку ліві глобалісти вважають необхідною для отримання влади та використання її для встановлення тоталітарного режиму. І що парадоксально і водночас безпрецедентно, так це те, що <em>глибинна держава</em> навіть вимагає змусити своїх жертв – тобто усіх нас – оплатити витрати на цей пекельний проект, використовуючи гроші платників податків, щоб утримувати нас у своїх домах, позбавляти свободи, винищувати нас війнами, голодом, пандеміями та вакцинами. Подібним чином <em>глибинна церква</em> використовує пожертви віруючих для поширення єресей, нормалізації пороків і збочень, ісламізації християнських націй, осквернення наших церков і престолів, переслідування незгідних голосів санкціями і екскомуніками.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><strong>– Як еліта може досягти своїх цілей?</strong></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Через ситуації <em>постійної кризи</em>, які легітимізують повноваження відступати від звичайних законів. Якщо ми хочемо створити надзвичайну ситуацію як <em>привід</em> для легітимізації передачі суверенітету приватним <em>лобі</em>, необхідно, щоб ті, хто керує інституційною та медійною машиною, були безпосередньо зацікавлені в просуванні кризи, навіть якщо вони чудово знають, що це шахрайство. Урядовці, політики, журналісти, судді, лікарі, вчителі, правоохоронці, актори та співаки, інтелектуали та <em>впливові особи</em>, єпископи, священники та навіть «Папа»: усі ці люди залежать від того, як вони співпрацюють із <em>глибинною державою</em>. Їм платять, як найманцям, і як у найманців у них немає іншого господаря, крім грошей, успіху, влади; а також тих, хто дозволяє їм мати ці гроші, цю владу. На вершині пекельної глобалістичної піраміди, яка використовує цих найманців, ми знаходимо люциферіанське марення тих, хто хоче чинити зло проти Бога і проти людей, щоб замінити Бога сатаною, а людину андрогенним гуманоїдом.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Ця глобальна корупційна мережа служила – і певною мірою, все ще служить, особливо в Європі – для зміни соціальної динаміки злочинним та шахрайським способом. Таке неправомірне та безпрецедентне втручання не можна просто ідентифікувати та визнати: воно також має бути викорінене та покаране, оскільки воно лежить в основі <em>спровокованої та спланованої кризи</em>, з якої інакше вийти неможливо. І коли я кажу «викорінені та покарані», я маю на увазі, головним чином відповідальних, тих, хто винен у зраді, яка є джерелом морального, соціального та економічного занепаду, який нам нав’язують. Більше неможливо терпіти, щоб Сорос, Гейтс, Шваб, Обама, Клінтон, Байден, Бергольйо та їх адепти, та інші змовники продовжували лютувати над усім людством, яке не підозрює, що воно є об’єктом диявольського експерименту соціальної інженерії, спрямованої на його фізичне та моральне винищення. Якщо президент Трамп відріже голову Левіатана, як він це вже робить, ми можемо тільки радіти і нарешті зітхнути з полегшенням. </span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><strong>– Як, на Вашу думку, Дональд Трамп може сприяти руйнуванню <em>глибинної</em> <em>держави</em>? Як Ви думаєте, чи зможе він досягти успіху?</strong></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Адміністрація Трампа добре усвідомлює дві речі. <em>По-перше:</em> існує підривна наднаціональна сила, яка становить конкретну загрозу суверенітету націй і всьому людству. <em>По-друге</em>: є група людей і агенств, які підтримують цю силу, оскільки отримують від неї вигоду у владі та грошах. Призупинити фінансування спільників глобалістичної злочинної системи та її <em>глибинної влади</em> означає позбавити еліт інструменту контролю та пропаганди. Навіть Юда не зрадив би Христа, не отримавши тридцять срібняків від синедріону: без <em>pretium sanguinis</em> також втрачається стимул до вчинення злочину, а разом з тим і можливість шантажу тих, хто мав би його вчинити. Таким чином, чудовим кроком, який уже має значні наслідки на глобальному рівні, стало припинення фінансування USAID, що супроводжувалося гротескними наріканнями тих, хто був сумлінно позбавлений цього (я маю на увазі активіста Джеймса Мартіна, ТІ).</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><strong>– Говорячи про нарікання: є незліченна кількість слів засудження від ультрапрогресивного американського єпископату та всіх його прихильників. </strong></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Слова американських кардиналів і єпископів проти скорочення фінансування так званих організацій соціального забезпечення Католицької Церкви сповнені лицемірства та брехні. Вони походять від людей, які не сказали ні слова – ні навіть жодного складу – проти політики абортів, гендерної ідеології, сурогатного материнства, евтаназії, гомосексуалізму попередніх адміністрацій, які були в руках демократів; і вони прокидаються від свого мерзенного заціпеніння лише тоді, коли припиняється нелегальна міграція, за пропаганду якої <em>глибинна церква</em> отримує мільярди з казни.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><strong>–<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> Як ви оцінюєте економічну залежність єпископських конференцій, єпархій, релігійних орденів, церковних органів і «католицьких» НУО від фінансування Агентства США з міжнародного розвитку (USAID)? </strong></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Бергольйо проповідує своїми словами «бідну церкву для бідних», добре знаючи, що свобода, на яку має право Католицька Церква, і яка лежить в основі її незалежності, <em>включаючи фінансову незалежність</em> її органів, абсолютно несумісна з її економічною залежністю від держави.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">НУО – це неурядова організація: вона не може бути незалежною, якщо залежить від фінансування, яке надає держава. Це, звичайно, добре і доречно, щоб держава допомагала і заохочувала соціальну діяльність Католицької Церкви, але так само вірно, що коли церковні організації – центральні чи периферійні – більше не підтримуються пожертвуваннями вірних, а спонсоруються державними установами та приватними структурами, Церква змушена слідувати лінії, продиктованій тими, хто дозволяє їй існувати та діяти.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Економічна залежність інституції стала можливою завдяки корупції та шантажу її лідерів, тому що якби Католицькою Церквою керували добрі, непідкупні та непіддатливі шантажу пастирі, вони б ніколи не погодилися на її поневолення інтересами влади, яка є відвертим ворогом Христа, а також не дозволили б бути підкупленими через жадобу грошей чи кар’єрні амбіції. Ось чому важливо, щоб корумпована установа була керована корумпованими людьми; і це стосується як цивільної, так і церковної сфери.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Щоб підтвердити це, достатньо згадати стримуючий ефект, викликаний загрозою відкликати мільярд доларів фінансування України, про яку повідомив сам Джо Байден, щоб припинити розслідування генпрокурора щодо його сина Хантера.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><strong>– Ми говоримо про інституційну мережу, якою маніпулює англо-американська <em>глибинна держава</em>, яка десятиліттями таємно платила тисячам і тисячам організацій, асоціацій, журналістів, політиків та інших громадських діячів, щоб вони безсоромно брехали мільярдам людей, подаючи неправдиву інформацію, щоб спонукати населення прийняти, під загрозою катастроф і надзвичайних ситуацій, те, на що вони ніколи б не погодилися за нормальних умов. Ви говорите про зв’язок інтересів і співучасть <em>deep state</em> і <em>deep church</em> з 2020 року, і сьогодні новини про втручання USAID та інших державних структур у політику всього західного світу підтверджують правдивість ваших слів. Які висновки ми можемо зробити з усього цього?</strong></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Першою незаперечною реальністю, якою б вона не була жахливою та шокуючою, є співучасть Берголіанської церкви зі злочинною системою, організованою глобальною елітою: ми повинні взяти до відома, що зрада правителів щодо своїх співгромадян – відзеркалюється зрадою пастирів щодо своєї пастви. Це ставить увесь правлячий клас, який підпорядкований еліті, у стан нелегітимності, я б навіть сказав –<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> стан <em>державної зради</em>, над якою має відбутися справедливість.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><strong>– <em>Єзуїтська</em> <em>служба у справах біженців</em> (Jesuit Refugee Service) отримує понад 35 мільйонів доларів щорічно від USAID та інших федеральних агенцій тільки для свого американського центру.</strong></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Якщо скорочення, прийняті адміністрацією Трампа, фактично передбачають <em>повне</em> припинення гуманітарної допомоги від цих псевдоблагодійних організацій, це також означає, що віруючі жодною мірою не схвалюють і не підтримують їх. Якщо це правда, то мені здається, що ідеологічна лінія, нав’язана громадянам <strong><em>deep state</em></strong> і віруючим <strong><em>deep church</em></strong><em>,</em> достатньо продемонструвала свою тиранічну природу.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Нинішній президент Єпископської конференції Італії, Маттео Зуппі, незабаром зрозуміє, що ця впертість єпископів у підтримці крайніх ідей прогресизму woke – починаючи з Спільноти Святого Егідія – повністю віддалила їх від нормальних католиків, викликаючи в них зрозумілу огиду. Подібно до того, як реклама Бергольйо в недільному Angelus для італійського телешоу <em>Che tempo che fa</em> ще більше делегітимізує Папство, де найнятий Фабіо Фаціо відзначив злочинця Білла Гейтса, представивши його як доброчинця людства.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1"><strong>– Відомо також про сотні мільйонів доларів для «євангельських церков», які використовують в одних і тих самих цілями.</strong></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Берголіанські прелати та єпископки, такі як єпископеса Маріан Бадде з Вашингтонського національного собору, погоджуються один з одним у двох питаннях: відступництво в питаннях віри та жадоба грошей і влади. Їхній <em>екуменізм</em> зрештою мотивований лише бажанням поділити здобич, і перед лицем цього всі догмати віри можуть бути змінені. Вони говорять нам про бідність навіть з кафедри – перефразовуючи девіз Клауса Шваба: <em>«Нічого не матимеш і будеш щасливим»</em> у жебрацькому значенні, і стають спільниками тих, хто робить нас бідними скандальними спекуляціями та шахрайством; тим часом вони безсоромно наживаються на стражданнях і кризах, які вони викликають. Таким чином, у той час як вірні були тероризовані пропагандою психопандемії та не могли ходити на Месу, якщо не були вакциновані, Святий Престол отримував щедрі пожертви від BigPharma для проведення своїх конференцій у Ватикані, а Бергольйо імпровізувався як продавець шкідливих і смертельних вакцин, виготовлених з абортованих людських ембріонів, зі схвалення Декастерії у справах віри, яким тоді керував єзуїт Ладарія. Це був «<em>акт любові»</em>, – сказав Бергольйо, тоді як Мелінда Гейтс відкрила рахунок у Ватиканському Банку. Тим часом Бергольйо вже, не випадково, говорив про «матір-Землю» – <em>Пачамаму</em>, про «гріхи проти навколишнього середовища», про терміновість переходу на відновлювані джерела енергії.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="p5"><span data-sanitized-class="s1">Моральна проституція цих героїв не цурається нічого, якщо на кону гроші: у Сполучених Штатах є понад 150 «католицьких» клінік фінансованих урядом, які проводять операції по зміні статі (калічення статевих органів), і одному Богові відомо, скільки грошей взяли католицькі лікарні під час психопандемічного фарсу, щоб убивати пацієнтів смертельними методами лікування або за щеплення генної сироватки, що викликала смерть або важкі побічні дії. Крім того, за кожну введену «вакцину» був <em>бонус</em> , який заохочував і узаконював будь-які відхилення. І так було скрізь, усе діяло за одним сценарієм, під єдиним керівництвом.</span></p>

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#2025 #Interviste #aldo maria valli #deep church #deep state #donald #dug in altum #USAID #USBCC #wef


