It’s Now Illegal To Criticize Israel!
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But now they're making it illegal to criticize Israel. That's what this is. Finally. Finally. That's what this is. Finally, this reign of terror on this campus. House approves anti-Semitism bill amid pro-Palestinian camp. So what they're doing is making protesting against the genocide in Israel illegal. That's what they're doing. Me just saying this is probably illegal. I'm just thinking of the pictures of Gaza of every single building knocked the fuck down from the smart targeted smart bombings.

which are carpet bombings yes smart and i just like oh you don't feel safe at the campus because somebody didn't like them pictures wow so uh the chamber approved so this was approved by bipartisan legislation of course it was which and you know what that means kurt what that means that democrats and republicans have both visited epstein island yeah i think it's pretty clear

I wonder if this bill is going to affect Trump University. I'm guessing not many Jews went to Trump University. I hope not. The House approved a bill on Wednesday that seeks to crack down on anti-Semitism on college campuses. Because that's the problem. Yeah, there was so many. That's the big problem. A measure that hit the floor as pro- You know what's going to cause more anti-Semitism? Passing laws like this.

How about, you know what else is going to cause more anti-Semitism? Conflating Zionism with Judaism. That's going to cause more anti-Semitism. That's going to hit a lot of Jews who are going to also study law and also, you know, get real stubborn about it. Like, it's a real self-defeating move to make. Don't doubt about it. This is, again, the unintended consequences of trying to shut down other people's speech. And so...

The chamber approved the bipartisan legislation titled the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act and was introduced by Mike Lawler, a Republican from New York, in a 320 to 91 vote, sending it to the Senate for consideration. 21 Republicans and 70 Democrats opposed the measure.

So there you go. Awareness. Shut up. I hate awareness of just the word. The bill. I'm not aware of that hate. The bill would require the Department of Education to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's, the IHRA's working definition of anti-Semitism when enforcing anti-discrimination laws. Who the fuck is the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance? I don't know.

I looked them up. They're from 1998. It's a Swedish group of...

But you see the working definition? So if I'm understanding this correctly. Go ahead. So a working definition means, you know, like what is a woman? We don't even have that yet. Yeah, it's all right. So that means whatever they decide to make the definition at any given time, I think the law is going to be that. That's right. So if they change what it is, the law will reflect their change. It will reflect their text rights. We're working. Yeah. That's a great idea.

It's a living document, is what I read. This is the worst thing that could ever happen to Jews. Them doing this. It's going to create such a backlash and an outpouring of anti-Semitism as defined by the International Holocaust. From Jews. From Jews.

So the group defines anti-Semitism as a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred towards Jews. Why am I not allowed to hate someone? Who was that black comedian who died recently?

That you... Hooper Trees? Yeah. Oh, he said, no, he said, Mel Gibson, how rich do you have to be to hate shoes? How much money do you have to make? But he said, he did a whole bit about why can't I hate something? Yeah, like why, well, because we can't take a risk on it, and it's really not...

You can't dislike the Likud party. That's what this is. It's way beyond just Israel. It's like you have to support Bibi. So they define it as a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred towards Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed towards Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and or their property.

toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities. Those are already against the law. It's already, again, already against the law. So hang on, let me go. The organization provides a number of examples for what qualifies as anti-Semitism.

including calling for the harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion and accusing Jewish individuals as inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust. Well, they left out examples like stopping someone from spitting on you. Is that anti-Semitic? How about defending yourself from a settler taking everything you worked hard for? That's also anti-Semitic. None of this covers what is going on at all. Nobody was saying the Holocaust didn't happen at these protests. No one is saying... In fact, the...

There's one going on right now in Gaza that, if not for understanding how bad the Holocaust is, I wouldn't know how awful what's happening in Gaza is. That's right. It's a crime. It's very similar. But that is going to be, by the way, illegal to do that. Well, I don't go to school. So here it is, the Holocaust. I went to their website, the Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. This is their, it literally says, working definition of anti-Semitism. I haven't quite nailed it down. We'll see how this goes.

Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such, or the power of Jews as collective, such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy, or of Jews controlling the media. Well, that certainly isn't true. The economy, government. So...

So isn't this bill proof that AIPAC and the Israel lobby has control of our government? Isn't this what this exactly proves? And they're not using the name AIPAC. They're using the name of Jew. They're saying, stop picking on all of us. Yeah. Talking to you, motherfucker. That's right. Not talking to everybody else. Not talking to all Jews.

But that's how they want. So that's why they conflate Zionism with Judaism. So it takes the bad ones to make it anti-Semitic and make everything anti-Semitic. So there it is. And I'm going to tell you what if you make if you call anti-Semitism someone accusing that AIPAC lobby, the Jewish lobby, the Israeli lobby of having control of our government. Well, this bill is proof that they do.

That's the irony here. But you're not allowed to say that. Look, I don't think they're the only ones that have control of our government. Clearly a vast coalition of things that are not in anyone's interest. Lots of different... Control our government. It was clear from Ukraine. It's clear from the Taiwan bullshit. Or China-Israel, as I call it. It's all the same fucking thing. A bunch of other hands...

Private equity and foreign investment control every single goddamn thing in this country. So I think this video could be considered under this new law. This would be illegal. What I'm saying. It's in colleges though, is it not? This is only in campuses. I thought this was a campus law. Is this just for campuses? Yeah, because that's where the levers of power are. The Ivy League system. So every college. And you know how they do that? Every college...

If you get a student loan that's backed by the government, which almost all students do at some point,

and you go to college, they consider that you taking federal funds. So now the feds can enforce this stuff. There's already anti-BDS. I don't even know you're not allowed to boycott Israel in most of the country. Not that I was going to. I don't think I should be compelled to jerk off to Gal Gadot. I'd like to choose to do that. Who was that woman who was on the show many times?

She had the baby. She's a specialist on Abby Martin. She had a lawsuit because they wanted her to sign a thing saying she wouldn't participate in BDS and or be just to go speak at a college. And so she got she wouldn't do it. So she got banned. And so she I she put a lawsuit. I wonder what happened to that lawsuit.

You should go to her Twitter, see if she's... I wouldn't even know how to go about boycotting Israel, so it's crazy you have a law just in case I ever want to... You don't use SodaStream. No, I don't. There you go, you're boycotting them.

Am I breaking the law? According to this, so they put Jews controlling the media, economy, government, or other societal institutions. I've heard so many Jewish comedians make jokes that say that that is happening.

Nobody, this is all, see what I'm looking for is. Okay, so what I found was Martin was challenging a state law that targets the boycott and divestment of Sanchez movement that seeks to economically protest Israeli policy towards the Palestinians. A federal court ruled against a plaintiff challenging a state law that requires significant state contracts to include a pledge. So I'm still looking. Okay, well, look, I want to know.

Whatever is in this law that they've said so far, none of it covers the argument. So I want to know how they're going to take this like old school thing that I'm not saying and make it into that. Well, here's more. Here's more of the definition. And where's this definition coming from? A working definition from the Holocaust Remembrance Association. Accusing Jews as people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoings committed by a single Jewish person or group.

or even for acts committed by non-Jews. Who are you talking to? I don't know. Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, for example, by claiming that the existence of a state of Israel is a racist endeavor. You're not allowed to say that. You're not allowed to have DNA tests there. They're saying it's an ethno-state. That's the whole point. That's why they won't let Palestinians become full citizens, because if they did, they would outnumber the Jews there, and it would no longer be an ethno-state.

That's everybody knows you look very similar. Everybody knows Israel's an ethno state. Yeah. Well, denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, drawing comparison. So of contemporary Israel policy to that of Nazis. I've been doing that left and right. I've been saying Zionism is Nazis. I've been saying that all over the place. Something similar, um,

Lost me an agent. For both of them, diversity is not their strength. For both Nazis and Zionism. And Zionism. Diversity is not an encouraged thing on any level. Well, I've heard people make the point that master race and chosen people sound very similar.

It sounds the same as America's joke. Look, I'm not even trying to judge because I think included in this law is a double standard. No, I think America's the devil too. Don't get me wrong. So you can't say what Israel's doing right now in Gaza is Nazi-like. Okay?

According to this law, this new law. You can't say Zionism is Nazism. But you can salute a Nazi in a Canadian House of Commons. But you can salute a Nazi. A real Nazi from the bullet holocaust. And you can fund Nazis with American taxpayer dollars. And the ADL guy will declare that Azov, they're not Nazism.

anymore they're cool they're cool and that's why we can pretend there's not a nazi thing there because adl they uh i found this the u.s district court judge mark cohen sided with martin and denied a motion to dismiss filed by the georgia southern administrators judge cohen ruled that we're

requiring Martin and the other parties who wish to enter into a contract with the state of Georgia to certify that they weren't boycotting Israel was unconstitutional, compelled speech. So, by the way, so this law, so you're going to pass this law, which is going to be overturned in court.

It's going to be overturned in court. Compelled speech. You hear that? Yes. That's what Jordan Peterson was protesting in Canada. Compelled speech. He's very quiet about this compelled speech. Isn't he? Yes, he is. I wonder why. Maybe $60 million from the Daily Caller or the Daily Wire. That's it. Daily Wire. So you can't draw comparisons between what Zionism and Netanyahu are doing. You can't do it. That's against the law, according to this new law. It's anti-Semitic.

Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel. So colleges are now banned from allowing any of that or creating an unsafe environment for Jewish students. Okay, so this is a college law to prove once and for all, no, we're not white. That's what that means.

we're officially not white we need protection stop trying to say we're white yeah that's what because i heard the same fight from each side can we is it is uh is it wrong to call for genocide rock tangay i don't know then then i'm watching the same thing at columbia where are palestinians humans

I can't say they all do the same fucking thing. Yeah, because so is some. Yeah. Isn't it interesting, Kurt, that I pointed this out, that these protests against the Israel genocide and Joe Biden funding it has now put people who support Israel and most most of those people are what can be considered on the right to

They now have to side with the administrations at colleges, which they've always decried colleges and those administrators as woke communists and Marxists. And now they're siding with those people squashing the free speech of actual Americans who are protesting those colleges.

They're protesting the college policies of supporting Israel's Zionism. So they're going against the college administrations, which those right-wingers have hated and called Marxists and communists. And so now right-wingers are siding with the Marxists and communists to squelch the free speech of American college students.

Bravo! And so this is why, and by the way, now the left, but it's both, so now the people who consider themselves on the left who are protesting this are having their freedom of speech taken away by law.

By their elected officials. Good job. And you know why this is allowed to happen? Because they didn't stand up for the free speech of the right-wingers who protested January 6th. And you let those be treated. You applauded those people for getting way longer sentences than they should have for simple trespassing. And you didn't stand up for their right to protest. You said it was an insurrection, a bunch of Second Amendment gun nuts who showed up to overthrow the government and none of them brought their guns.

That's how bullshit. So when the left didn't stand up for the right wing's free speech, and now the right wing is, you cheered it on. And now you're cheering on the take, now they're cheering on the taking away of your freedom of speech. So isn't this fantastic? What a great country we live in. They got us hating each other again and calling for the taking away of our freedoms and liberties. Jimmy, Joe, minimum wage is woke.

The woke minimum wage laws are ruining the country. These anti-Zionist protests are dangerous. What a fucking joke. I love how they say that those students don't know what they're protesting. Everybody I know who's protesting knows exactly what they're protesting. I didn't know what Zionism was until...

Israel started carpet bombing Gaza after October 10th, 7th, I mean. Now I do. Everybody I know knows exactly what they're... And that's how they dismiss every... And the fuck you call yourself a right-wing anti-America first and you're out there standing with another foreign country against your own citizens? What the fuck?

Well, it's not a principled thing, you know. Yeah, that's right. So the vote took place as a wave of pro-Palestinian protests, blah, blah, blah, blah. Demonstrators took over a building at Columbia University, prompting a police response. By the way, that's a totally normal thing that protesters do. They occupy a building. That's what unions do when they go on strike. They occupy buildings. Traditionally, historically, that's always happened.

Remember BLM when you could do whatever the hell you wanted? You could burn down a police station. Well, we've cleared. Yeah, you could burn down a police station with no Ripper Cut. No one's in jail.

Nobody's in jail. The protesters have used chants and slogans such as from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free and have demanded their institutions divest from companies with connections to Israel. That's that sounds all very reasonable. By the way, who gives a shit if they said that? How about they say from the river to the sea, Palestinians will be free.

I would change that to Palestinians will be free. But to me, that's just splitting hairs anyway. To even fight about it. But they'll never do that. So what they're saying. So that's why they'll never be a one state solution, because if there was a one state, Palestinians would outnumber the Jews and then it wouldn't be an ethno state anymore. And then they could vote out anybody they wanted. So now. So there's only going to be a two state solution. Lawmakers have waded into the fray with some defending the protesters, but many condemning them.

Speaker Mike Johnson led a group of GOP lawmakers to Columbia last week where the members slammed the protesters and called on them to go back to class. A group of Jewish House Democrats did the same days earlier. A handful of progressive Democrats and conservative Republicans opposed the legislation over concerns that it would chill free speech. Matt Gaetz.

He called it ridiculous hate speech, Bill, and that's exactly what it is. So hate speech, when they put it into law, that's going to be used to control you and shut you down because they can say anything you're saying is inciting hate. So that's there to control you. That's just like the mandates.

Just like digital currency, that's all going to be used to control you. That's what hate speech laws are there for, to shut you up and criminalize people who stand up against the establishment. Anti-Semitism is wrong, but this legislation is written without regard for the Constitution, common sense, or even the common understanding of the meaning of words. He wrote, Matt Gaetz wrote on Twitter,

Jerry Nadler. And you know why Jerry Nadler, who is a piece of garbage. Yeah. But Jerry Nadler, his lot of his constituents are Jews. What kind of Jews? Hasidic Jews. Hasidic Jews are against the state of Israel. Did you know that? So the most religious of Jews see Israel as a blaspheme.

Gerald Nadler said, despite having devoted much of my life to combating anti-Semitism, he was against the misguided bill because his constituents are Hasidic Jews and threatens to chill constitutionally protected speech. Even a guy like Jerry Nadler is going to say that that's because his constituents are Hasidic Jews.

Speech that is critical of Israel alone does not constitute unlawful discrimination. By encompassing purely political speech about Israel into the title six is gambit ambit. The bill sweeps too broadly. That's what Nadler said. And here's here's the.

Here's the asswipe Congressman Mike Lawler who introduced this bill. He said, I'm proud of my bill. The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act just passed the House of Representatives 320 to 91. The bill has broad bipartisan support, which means it's horrible and will begin the process of cracking down on the anti-Semitism we've seen run rampant. There's been no anti-Semitism that I can see.

And all the reports of it are fabricated. All the reports I've seen are hoaxes and fabrications. Those protesters beheaded 40 babies, Jimmy. They beheaded babies. Here's what Glenn Greenwald says. Here's what he says. Here are some of the things that you are now prohibited legally from doing in the United States. Number one, accusing Jewish students of being more loyal to Israel.

or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide than to the interests of their own nations. You can't accuse them of that. So if you look at AIPAC, or you look at the ADL, or you look at members of Congress who are Jewish or evangelical, if you look at Ben Shapiro, and you want to argue, you know what, it seems to me as though they're prioritizing the interests of this foreign country in Israel.

More than their loyalty to the United States, this is now illegal. You are illegally barred from saying it. You will be formally and officially accused of anti-Semitism if you make those claims against Barry Weiss or Ben Shapiro or Chuck Schumer or the ADL. That's not allowed. Also not allowed, quote, denying the Jewish people their right of self-determination, e.g. by claiming that the existence of a state of Israel is a racist endeavor. What if you think that the creation of the Israeli state was wrong?

and that the Israelis don't have the right to have an ethno-state led by and composed of a majority of Jews. What if you don't find that valid or just? You're no longer allowed to express that opinion because that is something that is now deemed anti-Semitic. Now, you can say it about the U.S. government. You can say, oh, the U.S. government was created by colonizing the land and genociding the Native Americans.

and therefore the creation of the United States was unjust. You're allowed to say that. That's perfectly legal. You can say that about any other country you want too. You can say it about Egypt or Saudi Arabia. I think the creation of those states were artificial and wrong. You can say it about Pakistan. Whatever country you want, just not Israel. Here's another thing you're not allowed to do. Quote, applying double standards by requiring of Israel a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation. So

If the Congress or the courts or prosecutors believe that you are making criticism of Israel, that you don't consistently apply to other countries, you can now be found to be in violation of federal law by being an anti-Semite. You're allowed to put burdens on China that you don't put on other countries. You're allowed to put them on Peru or South Korea or Norway or any other country you want. You're just not legally allowed to

to express criticism of Israel that the government might believe is unfair because you're imposing on them a burden that you don't apply equally to other democratic countries. Here's another thing you're not allowed to do under federal laws enacted by the House of Representatives today. Quote, drawn comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

Well, we already covered that. Now here's some Jews reacting to that. Here's a Jewish woman's criticism of Israel's actions that would now be labeled as anti-Semitic under the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act. Here's what an actual Jewish person thinks of this. I have never been so ashamed of Israel as I am at this moment. To me, it seems as if Hitler has won. He's changed us Jews from being compassionate Jews

and caring and do unto others as you would have them do unto you into this vicious, genocidal, nationalist nation pursuing and killing women and children. What we are doing, Jewish people, over in Israel is shocking, embarrassing and wicked. And in the name of humanity, I call upon all Jews to shout, beg, scream for a ceasefire.

It is not anti-Semitic to have a different opinion on the wartime actions now. So that's, you see that's on TikTok, and now you know why they want to ban TikTok. Yeah, she's from Black Adder, the show. Anyway, one little quibble, do unto others as a New Testament. That's not Judaism. Right. That's Christianity. That's Christianity. But I agree with the rest of her statements. Again, I will predict this bill, worst thing that can happen to Jews.

It's going to create an incredible... It's going to confirm every anti-Semitic person's conspiracy theories about Jews and the way they control things. It's going to confirm that.

You know why that's sad? That's hot off the heels of BB making a deal with Pfizer to test out the vaccine on Jews first. So after a great success, a safety success like that on you, to have this happen is a real blow. Hey, you know, here's another great way you can help support the show is you become a premium member. We give you a couple of hours of premium bonus content every week.

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No, you didn't tell me that. Sounds scary, right? Yeah, it sounds horrifying. It's very scary. Turns out it's not. Oh. Turns out it's not. I have what they call a basal cell carcinoma. Okay. So I'm going to tell you a scam. Dermatology is a scam. There's a big scam inside dermatology. Put it that way. It's good with a little tomato. Say it again. It's good with a little tomato. Yeah. The basal cell. The basal cell. Yeah. Okay.

And the scam now is that they've put everything under the banner of skin cancer, right? So there is a skin cancer that's deadly. It's called melanoma. Yeah. And you got to catch that early. If you catch it early, very high success rates. There's another kind called basal cell carcinoma, which is what most people get. Not scary at all, but they've put them under both under the same band banner to scare the shit out of people who,

And so now dermatologists went from one of the lowest paid professions to one of the highest because they've gotten everybody afraid of the sun. So when I looked into this, by the way, the other scam is that now private equity firms are now, it's become so profitable to run this skin cancer scam that Wall Street private equity firms are now running dermatology centers. I just went to one. And you don't want to go to one because you don't get to see a doctor anymore.

I went in to see... What do you see? I went in to see a nurse assistant or a nurse... What do they call them? A nurse practitioner. And so I go in and I'm like, whoa. Is that like a doula? Because I went in for just regular seborrheic dermatitis. Regular shit. And they say, this is right before I went to Europe. And they go, I'm a nurse practitioner. I'll be taking care of you. I go...

Am I not going to see a doctor? They said, no. And I'm like, what? I had to wait two weeks for an appointment to see a nurse? Nothing against nurses. I love nurses. Yeah, but that is very strange, a two-week appointment. So that's what they're doing now. And so that's how the... That's with insurance. That's with insurance. So that's when Wall Street takes over healthcare, that's what you get. You don't get to see a doctor. I'm surprised you're not self-doctoring at a kiosk. You have to, like, doctor yourself, like, at rate eight. No kidding. Yeah.

Like a self-checkout at the Ralph's? How many baths did you use for your... How many needles did you use to sew up that scar? So I complained. I said, hey, you know, I'd really rather see a doctor. No offense. And they're like, all right. So they leave. And then all of a sudden the office manager comes in and says, well, you know, we don't have a doctor available today. So if you want to come back. I'm like, what?

And we could make it. I go, hey, I didn't make this appointment. My primary physician doctor made this appointment. And I dropped her name. And I said, so I thought it was going to be with a doctor. That's not blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So she leaves. The nurse practitioner comes back in. Do you want me to take care of you? I'm like, well, I want somebody just to take a look at it. As long as I'm here. She takes a look at my face and she says, oh, you got to use this scrunchie.

cream and you got to use this ointment you got to do a special scrub on your face all this stuff and I'm like okay okay so just as she's done all of a sudden a doctor does walk in and I think it's because I mentioned I dropped my doctor's name and I said I was supposed to so she comes in just to kind of like smooth it over so I don't get so I don't so my doctor there so Mike there is so my so that my doctor doesn't get in trouble

And she goes, yeah. She goes, you know what? The nurse practitioner, everything I would have did, she did. So it's no difference. And then she goes, there's no difference. Everything. And she comes over and she starts looking at my face. And she goes, oh, that looks like a basal cell carcinoma. Oh, we better get a biopsy on you. We got to get. I'm like, oh, so it's not the same thing. So your nurse practitioner missed a cancer on my face. So it's not the same thing. She missed an upsell. She missed an upsell. Yeah.

So I start to look into it, and it turns out it's pretty much a scam. And hear me out on this. So I found this article by Midwestern Doctor. If you haven't followed Midwestern Doctor, you should on Substack. Unbelievable, all this stuff. This person, I don't know if it's a guy or a girl, says dermatology's disastrous war against the sun, the forgotten side of skin health, and the necessity of sunlight by the Midwestern Doctor. Okay, you ready?

Hold on to your, because here it comes. There's going to be several. Actually, I'm going to have to break this up into three different segments, which I will do on Monday. So I'm just going to do one segment today.

Skin cancers are by far the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States. So to prevent them, the public is constantly told, avoid the sun. You've heard that, avoid the sun, right? Yeah. However, while the relatively benign skin cancers are caused by sun exposure, benign skin cancers, which is what this is, is caused by sun exposure. The ones responsible for most skin cancer deaths are due to the lack of sunlight. Why? Lack of vitamin D or something? Yeah.

This is unfortunate because sunlight is arguably the most important nutrient for the human body, as avoiding it doubles one's rate of dying and significantly increases their risk of cancer. The exact opposite. How many shit is this not blowing your mind? I always thought it was like how Caucasian you are versus how, you know, I thought it was like a sliding scale. Well, I'm telling you right here, Kurt, the important thing we need to focus on here is

is that avoiding it doubles one's rate of dying. Avoiding the sun doubles your rate of dying and significantly increases your risk of cancer. I believe it because when I lived in New York, you live like a vampire. Yeah. And everybody has a deficiency. It's a common urban problem. That's right. Severe vitamin D deficiency. Well, like in the 1800s, it was rickets.

Yeah, right. And right. Both diseases. So a strong case can be made that this dynamic was a result of the dermatology profession with the help of the top PR firm rebranding themselves to skin cancer fighters, something which allowed them to become one of the highest paying medical specialty in existence. This happened in the 80s. Yeah. They hired a wall, a Wall Street advertising firm.

Unfortunately, despite the billions that is put into fighting each year skin cancer, there has been no substantial change in the number of skin cancer deaths. None. No substantial change.

So all the skin cancer awareness and all this guidance and where you're of sunblock. By the way, sunblock, a lot of sunblock toxic. Yeah, that's they don't tell you that either. Not good. There's two different kinds of sunblock. There's the toxic bad kind.

So I'm going to try to go through this as fast as I can because there's a lot to cover. So because of how successful the war against sunlight has been, many people are unaware of its benefits. For example, sunlight is critical for mental health. This is the most well appreciated. This is most well appreciated with depression.

For example, consider this study of Chinese operating room nurses, which found their mental health was significantly worse than the general population and that this decline was correlated to their lack of sunlight exposure. OK, so that's one. Number two, a large epidemiological study found women with higher solar UVB exposure had only half the incidence of breast cancer.

as those with lower solar exposure, and that men with higher residential solar exposure had only half the incidence of fatal prostate cancer. A 50% reduction in either of these cancers greatly exceeds what any of the approaches we use to treat or prevent them have accomplished. Sun, the sun, for fighting cancer.

Three, a 20-year prospective study evaluated 29,518 women in southern Sweden. I was just there. Oh, they're meatballs.

Not kidding. Where women from each age bracket with no significant health issues were randomly selected, essentially making it one of the best possible epidemiologic studies that could be done. It found that women who were sun avoidant compared to those who had regular exposure to sunlight were 60% more likely to die.

So if you avoid the sun, 60% more likely to die, being roughly 50% more likely to die than the moderate exposure group, and 130% more likely to die than the group with high sun exposure. You've been avoiding the sun, haven't you, Misha? Oh, okay. I'll just call her Mister. Rick over to said machete. Okay.

No, to be clear, there are very few interventions in medicine that do anything close to this, meaning the sun. The largest gain was seen in the risk of dying from heart disease, while the second gain was seen in the risk of all causes of death besides heart disease and cancer. And the third largest gain was seen in deaths from cancer. So it lowered your risk of death from all those things, including cancer.

The investigators concluded that the smaller benefit in reduced cancer death was in part an artifact of the subjects actually living longer and hence succumbing to a type of cancer that would have only affected them later in life. So even though they... So what they're saying is...

That because they got sun, they lived so much longer that a lot of them got cancer at the end, but they would have died much earlier had they not gotten sun exposure. Do you follow that? I hope so. The largest benefit, get this, Kurt, the largest benefit was seen in smokers. Yeah. To the point, non-smokers who avoided the sun, non-smokers who didn't get sun, had the same risk of dying as smokers who got sunlight. Yeah, that makes sense. Because you got to figure out just your mental state.

100% getting sun, it changes your mental state. It changes your mental state. Okay, and then it's easier to exercise, especially exercise out in the sun. And it's a radically different feeling than when I've done both things. And the vampire lifestyle, it makes your brain bad. It's bad. Yeah. So according to the American Academy of Dermatology, this is what the official dermatology academy says about skin cancer. You ready? Ready?

It says skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States. Current estimates are that one in five Americans will develop skin cancer. They just call it all skin cancer. So there's the kind of skin cancer that most people get, not scary at all. And then there's 1% of people die from skin cancer. That's the scary part. But they lump them together. So they're doing it here. One in five Americans will develop skin cancer, which makes you shit your pants.

And get afraid of the sun. Yeah. It is estimated that approximately 9,500 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with skin cancer every day. But did you know that most of those skin cancers diagnosed are benign? That's what I did think that. Basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas, the two most common forms of skin cancer, are highly treatable if detected early and treated properly. They even put these two together, which is incorrect for them to do.

Because exposure to UV light is the most preventable risk factor for all skin cancers, so they're lumping all skin cancers together. The kind of skin cancer that's caused by the sun, which is not as scary as the kind of skin cancer that is caused by not enough sun.

Yeah, I didn't know there was one. Which is actually very scary. I didn't know there was one caused by not enough. So they're doing that. That's the thing I didn't realize. The Academy of Dermatology encouraged everyone to stay out of indoor tanning beds and protect their skin outdoors by seeking shade, wearing protective clothing.

including a long-sleeved shirt, pants, a wide-brimmed hem like machete, and sunglasses with UV protection, and applying a broad-spectrum water-resistant sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher to kill off skin not covered by clothing. Likewise, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation, more than two people die of skin cancer in the U.S. every hour. That sounds pretty scary, right? Well, let's break that down to exactly what that means.

It is generally believed that around 2.64 million people get one cancer a year, skin cancer. The three primary risk factors for basal cell carcinoma cancer are excessive sun exposure, fair skin, which makes you more susceptible to excessive sunlight penetrating your skin, and family history of skin cancer. So that's the kind of cancer I got. I have light skin, blue eyes, and I get a lot of sun on my face.

Because of this, the widely varying incidence of basal cell carcinoma is largely due to how much sunlight exposure people have. And typically you find it in areas with frequent sunlight exposure, like on the face. Okay. The important thing to understand about basal cell carcinoma is that because it almost never, it almost never metastasizes, it's not very dangerous. And most sources say that it has a 0% fatality rate.

But they lump all those cancers together, even the one that has a 0% fatality rate. Instead, it's normally evaluated by how likely it is to recur once it's removed, which ranges from 65% to 95%, depending on the source. So it comes back.

The second most common type of skin cancer, cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, looks like that. That's what it looks like. So if you get that, that's what that looks like. Since it is also caused by sunlight, so there's basal cell and then there's the squamous cell. Squamous cell more serious than basal cell.

An estimated 1.8 million cases occur each year in the United States. Previously, basal cell was thought to occur around four times as often as the squamous cell, but now that gap has closed to it only being twice as common. Unlike basal cell, squamous cell can be dangerous as it does metastasize. In turn, it is removed prior to metastasizing, and it has a 99% survival rate.

But if removed after it metastasizes, this drops to 56%. A squamous cell is typically caught before this happens. They almost always catch it before it happens. The average survival rate for this cancer is around 95%. And around 2,000 people, although some estimates go as high as 8,000, are thought to die from squamous cell each year in the United States. Okay? Okay?

However, despite only compromising 1% of all skin cancer diagnoses, melanoma...

is responsible for most of the deaths from skin cancer. That's the skin cancer you've got to really be worried about, the melanoma. Since survival is greatly improved by early detection, many guides online exist to help one recognize the common signs of potential melanoma. And so you can forget that. If it looks like this, that's melanoma. If it looks like this, it's not. But if it looks like this, it is.

The five-year survival rate for melanoma depends on how far it has spread at the time of diagnosis, ranging from 99% to 35%, averaging out to a 94% survival rate, which again makes it important to correctly identify. But likewise, some cases are aggressive and metastasize quickly, so they often don't get caught in time. And those variants have between a 15% and 22.5% survival rate.

So in total, this works out to a bit over 8,000 deaths each year in the United States from melanoma. What's critically important to understand about melanoma is that while it's widely considered to be linked to sunlight exposure, it's not. So the death, the deadly kind of skin cancer, not linked to sun exposure. For example, a study of 528 patients with melanoma found that those who had solar radiation

Elastosis, a common change in the skin that follows excessive sun exposure, we're 60% less likely to die from melanoma. 87% of all squamous cell cases occur in regions of the body that have significant sunlight exposure such as the face.

while 82.5% of basal cells occur in those regions too. So you get basal cell and squamous cell in wherever the sun hits. Most 82% basal cell hands up on the face. Conversely, only 22% of melanomas occur in the places where you get sun. This indicates that squamous cell and basal cell are linked to sun exposure, but melanoma is not.

And this is congruent with the fact that we constantly find them in areas that get almost no sunlight exposure. They keep finding melanomas in parts of your body that get no sunlight exposure.

Outdoor workers get this. I used to be an outdoor worker. I was a brickler for like 15 years. Outdoor workers get three to 10 times the annual UV dose that indoor workers get, yet they have lower incidences of cutaneous malignant melanoma and an odds ratio or a risk that is half that of their outdoor colleagues.

1997 meta-analysis of the available literature found workers with significant occupational sunlight exposure were 14% less likely to get melanoma. Existing research has found using sunscreen either has no effect on the rates of malignant melanoma or, get this, increases it.

Which makes it quite frustrating that governments around the world always parrot the advice to wear more of it, especially whenever melanoma rates are rising. In other words, exactly what we also see with the COVID-19 vaccine drives. Wasn't AOC fighting to relax sunscreen standards? I forgot what she was fighting. Business killing sunscreen standards? Something.

A case can be made that the chemicals in sunscreen cause cancer. A case can be made that the chemicals in sunscreen cause skin cancer. And likewise, some evidence exists for this with certain cosmetic products on the market.

You know, they banned in certain parts of Hawaii, you can't go swimming with sunscreen on because it kills the plant life. And that's true. I'm going to get to that at the end of this article. There has been a significant increase in many areas from melanoma, something which argues against sunlight being the primary issue, as it has not significantly changed in the last few decades. So melanomas have been increasing, right?

But people's sun exposure hasn't, is what this article is saying. And here it comes, the great dermatology scam. By far the most common skin cancer is not dangerous. The skin cancers you actually need to worry about are a fairly small portion of the existing skin cancers. And sunlight exposure does not cause dangerous cancers, except for squamous cell, which is nowhere near as dangerous as the others.

In essence, there's no way to justify banning sunlight to prevent skin cancer as the benefit from the prescription is vastly outweighed by its harm.

However, a very clever linguistic trick bypasses this contradiction. A single label, skin cancer. So they label all this, the dangerous skin cancers and the not so dangerous skin cancer. They label them all as skin cancer to scare the shit out of you. The way more common, less threatening skin cancers and the very uncommon threatening skin cancer, melanoma. It's all called skin cancer.

which then selectively adopts the lethality of melanoma, the frequency of basal cell, and the sensitivity to sunlight that basal cell and squamous... So they're purposely conflating. A relatively unknown blog by dermatologist David J. Elpern, MD, at last explained how this happened. How did this happen? Well...

Over the past 40 years, he says, I have witnessed these changes in my specialty and I'm dismayed by the reluctance of my colleagues to address them. This trend began in the early 1980s when the Academy of Dermatology assessed its members over $2 million to hire a prominent New York advertising agency to raise the public's appreciation of our specialty, meaning dermatology. So they hired an ad agency to get the money up.

This trend began in the early... Oh, there it is. The madmen recommended educating the public to the fact that dermatologists are skin cancer experts, not just pimple poppers. And so the free National Skin Care Cancer Screening Day was established. Do you remember that Seinfeld episode where he was saying dermatologists aren't real doctors? He goes, hey, Dr. Pimple Pop.

or they got in a fight over it. Oh, really? Like a foot doctor was a real doctor or a dermatologist. So here we go. These screenings serve to inflate. So this National Skin Cancer Screening Day, these screenings serve to inflate, inflate the public's health anxiety.

about skin cancer and led to the performance of vast amounts of expensive, low-value procedures for skin cancer and asthenic keratosis. So they recommended me that I get a surgery for this. It's called a Mohs surgery, which is like an assembly line now. And Mohs, we'll get to it. At the same time, pathologists were expanding their definitions of what a melanoma is.

Leading to diagnostic drift that misleadingly increased the incidence of melanoma while the mortality rate has remained at 1980 levels. So now they're saying way more people are getting cancer, but the mortality rate has not gone up. Isn't that interesting? Okay. Concomitantly, I like that word.

Non-melanoma skin cancers are being over-treated by armies of micrographic surgeons who often treat innocuous skin cancers with unnecessarily aggressive, lucrative surgeries. The trick to most of most surgeries is the surgery I was supposed to get for this. This thing right here. They already did a biopsy where they cut a piece of it out.

And they send it to a lab and they go, yep, got to go. You got to go do a Mohs surgery, which is the specialty for basal, this kind of cancer.

The trick to Mohs surgery is that since one is both doing surgery and pathology in the same visit, it allows the doctor to bill for a variety of different things, which quite quickly adds up. So what they do is they cut out a little piece of your cancer, then they take it to a lab, which is right there, and then they treat it with a chemical. They put it underneath their microscope to see if they got all the cancer.

And so that's another treatment they can bill you for. And so if they didn't get all the cancer, they had to go back and cut out a little bit more. Then they got to do the same test again to make sure they got it all. So that's what they're talking about. You're doing surgery and pathology in the same visit. And so things add up quite quickly in that boom phase.

The going rate for a Mohs surgery varies widely, but it is typically at least a few thousand dollars. Unlike other surgeries, most of the money goes to the dermatologist since a hospital that provides the operating room and operating supplies or operating room staff and a recovery service doesn't take a significant amount of the reimbursement. You thus might be able to guess what happened. So what happened when all this... So when the advertising agency got involved and they started to do all these Mohs surgeries, what happened?

The rate of use of Mohs surgery among Medicare beneficiaries in the United States grew 700% between 1992 and 2009. Though there was little evidence to suggest in many cases that Mohs was superior to cheaper treatment options, which include scraping, snipping, or even applications of a cream to create a chemical burn. I'm going to use a thing called Curiderm.

They wanted me to get a surgery like that, and they rush you in. The big difference between these more pedestrian treatments and Moe's is the price tag, hundreds of dollars versus more than $10,000 or even $20,000 for Moe's.

For most benign skin tumors, the decision to utilize Mohs micrographic surgery is likely to reflect the economic advantage to the provider rather than a substantial clinical advantage for the patient, wrote Dr. Robert Stern, a Harvard dermatologist. Noting that in 2012, America spent more than an estimated $2 billion on Mohs surgery with wide variations in its use. Even for sensitive locations like the face and hands, get this,

It was used 53% of the time in Minnesota. So if you're in Minnesota and you get a basal cell carcinoma, 53% of the time they're going to give you a Mohs surgery. But if you're in New Mexico, you're only going to get a 12%. Huh? Dr. Stern estimated that nearly 2% of all Medicare recipients had a Mohs in that year. As you might guess, before long, this opportunity also attracted the attention of more unscrupulous parties seeking to cash in on the bonanza.

This, in turn, led to the New York Times to investigate the industry where they discovered. So the New York Times even caught on to this and the New York Times did a story. And what did they report? They reported that private equity firms from Wall Street had entered the market and were buying out dermatology practices and staffing them with nurses.

and physician assistants who were much cheaper to hire than doctors. That's why I couldn't see a fucking doctor because this dermatology center I went to in Pasadena was run by a private equity firm.

And they screwed up because they almost didn't try to give you the surgery. And they almost didn't upsell me. Because the physician's nurse assistant missed it. Now you get what you pay for. Despite advertising to the public that they would see a doctor. I thought I was going to see a doctor. Wow, everything's like nobody beats the whiz now. Like when I used to work at a...

We're a bait and switch. Every level of society is a goddamn bait and switch. So this was unfortunate since the pseudo dermatologist biopsied over twice. So if you go to one of these places like I did, one of these private equity run dermatology centers, they give you a nurse's... What is it called? A nurse practitioner or a physician's assistant. And they...

Biopsy over twice as many suspected skin cancers as actual doctors do. Hey, it's like getting your hair cut at the student salon. Yeah. It's your health. Likewise, they frequently missed actual cancers. They missed my fucking cancer. And misdiagnosed lesions every dermatologist could tell was not a cancer.

Something which has also happened to people I know who've gone to these types of clinics, like me, to the point that in 2017, even the New York Frickin' Times article actually was able to share an example of this happening. This is going to be self-diagnosed kiosks coming where you take a picture of you. You got cancer. And then you're like, click. Sign us up. Sign you up for your Mohs surgery. Yeah.

Note, many existing dermatologists have complained about this practice in their academic journals as they feel it's ruining the profession. But that has not stopped it, given how much money is on the line. And now many of them face the situation that if they try to open up their own practice in a major city, they are stuck competing with a private equity firm, which has numerous well-advertised mid-level practitioners staffing the place.

Man, that word private equity comes up every time something's working out great. Something's working out. Every time something's a resounding success, I hear private equity. There has been a big push, for example, by greedy doctors to expand this franchise into nursing homes. Yeah, well, give them- For example, they covered a mobile practice-

In Michigan, that sends clinicians to 72 nursing homes where they perform thousands of cryosurgeries along with many steroid injections and minor surgeries. What they do is they go, oh, this is precancerous to a person about to die in five minutes. And so they do a surgery on them. The investigation in turn found that 75% of those patients had Alzheimer's disease and most of their skin lesions were inconsequential.

Oh, that's who you really get your upsell. Yeah. Furthermore, they cited a healthcare analytics firm that looked at 17,820 done on patients over 65 in the last year of life and found that skin biopsies and the freezing of precancerous lesions were performed frequently, often weeks before death.

Well, you might as well make them productive. You might as well get something out of them, right? So here's the medicine. Here's a melanoma statistics for the National Cancer Institute. This one down here, the death rate. This is how many times it's being. So the diagnosis is going up. Death rate.

Almost exactly the same. Well, thank God they didn't do the vaccines this way. I know. It was just some bullshit to push it on you. Thank God they really took their time with that one. No, there are beginning to be pushes to stop the use of more time. So I'm going to cover this part more on Monday, but I just want to let you know

This is a teaser for Monday. There are now beginning to be pushes to stop the use of more toxic sunscreens in areas with abundant aquatic life because they poison coral reefs. What does the sunscreen? This raises the point that if a small amount of sunscreen diluted in the water is too toxic for an ecosystem to handle, why would you want to put it on your skin where it can be directly absorbed into your body at its full concentration?

So, boy, getting a basal cell, going to the dermatologist for regular dermatitis, and I went to one of these Wall Street-run, private equity-run dermatology centers where you don't get to see a doctor. I only got to see a doctor because I put my foot down. And then the doctor come in and say, oh, but now you got cancer. Ha ha ha!

It was almost hilarious, Kurt. It was almost hilarious because she had just got done giving me a speech. See, I would have done exactly everything. I would have prescribed the same things. I would have done the same. So she's trying to make sure that I'll keep coming back there and being taken care of by someone who's not a doctor. And then she goes, I would have done the same thing. And she comes over and she starts...

That looks like a basal cell. I go, you mean cancer? Yeah. Would her eyes go cha-ching? Yeah. Oh, good thing I came. Like, good thing she came out and stopped pretending not to be in the office. Yeah. Yeah. Or she'd have missed that. She'd have missed that. But I canceled the Mohs surgery after I read this article. I was all scheduled to go get a Mohs surgery right here on my frickin' face.

A surgery where they slice you open, sew you back up, and maybe slice you open a couple of times. Dude, okay, veterinarians. Here's like the most unscrupulous doctors I've seen over the course of my life. Veterinarians, I've seen, it's like robbery.

chiropractors, the one I went to at Beverly Center, this is like cancer shit, so it's weird. It sounds like you went to a bad chiropractor where they want you in a package deal for a huge amount of money. Yeah, yeah. You're going to need 10 treatments. Yeah, and I remember I was like, I had a mask on until I just couldn't believe what this lady was saying. She hadn't done anything to me. I couldn't walk. It's just like that Overton's guy fixed me like 40 bucks.

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